jackzack87 Wrote:I'm curious...

Any information please. Does anyone know of someone/plan to themselves/go into medical school with a degree from TESC/EC/

creationstory Wrote:first person here did it..


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cookderosa Wrote:>>


I've done a little investigating on my fellow alum, TESC actually mailed out postcards with her picture on them. When I went to the site link on the postcard, it led me to the foundation's alumni donation site .
Let's understand something, she did a formal post-bac at Hopkins AFTER she graduated from TESC. She, at the time, was an employee at Hopkins working in the research dept. I've no doubts that her references, post-bac grades from a BIG name school, and committee letters had everything to do with her admission. She has a good story to tell, I've read her acceptance letter for "client of the month" at her medadvisor's site. Yes, she hired a paid medical school advisor/consultant. There are such people, and for a few thousand, they'll help you build an application. She was their STAR of the month. (read: underdog)

My point, is that TESC didn't get her into medical school. They were a brick wall if anything. In fact, TESC doesn't even offer ONE premed class. Not one. Her degee in her bio is too vague, but she may have had a prior medical cert or clinical science education that she was buiding on (she had PLAs and earned the BSAST- an odd degree choice unless you have a lot of prior credit). I was unable to find where her unused pre-TESC credit came from, but it was Ivy.

All that being said, I'm applying to med school next fall without any of that.

jackzack87 Wrote:Thanks for that info...if you don't mind sharing, can you tell me what you did for your prereqs? How much of your TESC degree will (or won't) go towards your platform for med school?

Jack

1MP4Life Wrote:Hi Jennifer, did I read that correctly? Are you working on becoming a physician? Wow, that is extraordinary!!! I thought you were working becoming a nurse, which is awesome also, but medical school is even more cool. Best of luck with medical school, I work at a hospital right now and enjoy seeing all the med students rotating through and eventually coming back as docs.

BTW, don’t feel bad if you don’t know me, I am not a frequent poster but I read through this forum often, and you have always served as an inspiration to me while working on schooling (both mine and my children’s). Thanks to your help/answers to the few posts I have made, I was able to finish my BA at TESC in three months, and am now almost finished with my masters degree in forensic science.

I didn’t mean to highjack the thread, I was just very impressed when I read you are applying to med school.
Kelly

cookderosa Wrote:>>

There are specific requirements.
BA/BS degree - check. Met by holding a TESC degree
Science- check. Not met through TESC degree.

Where are you at in the process, I can help you get started on a path, but you won't be able to ONLY use TESC. You'll have to outsource your sciences at a minimum. Also, it's HIGHLY likely that you'll run into MD schools which won't accept distance sciences, so you'll either have to apply to DO programs or do sciences in person. I'm applying DO even with great stats (undergrad GPA 3.87, science GPA 3.67) and I'm working my a$$ off to get that science up another tenth.

A top notch source for sciences: University New England Dept of Med. google them and type in "online" you should get to the distance science page directly.

cheersmate



EDIT: I just looked at your siggy, so you are finishing up your degree real soon. So, if you can use any gen ed sciences, then take them now and transfer them back (cheapest) or wait until you earn your degree and do your sciences as a "postbac" formally or informally. I don't know what you know/don't know, so do you know what sciences you need? Sorry, I could help you more if I knew what you needed to know lol.

cookderosa Wrote:Shhhhhh. I haven't said anything really. LOL
Here's the quick story- I'm going to try. If I don't make it, so be it. I'm not afraid to fail. BUT, if I can get in, I'm going. As an OB-GYN, I can employ midwives and run a midwife practice which embodies the philosophies I hold very close to my heart. It would give me the ultimate authority over the way I practice. As the midwife, I'd be #2 forever. While I don't mind answering to a boss, at some point when I might actually be qualified to make a decision, then I want to be the one making the decisions.
So, I have been accepted to 2 nursing schools, I'm only enrolling if I get rejected from 27 DO schools.

I appreciate you telling me that I was helpful or instrumental or whatever...that means a lot. For what it's worth, I think forensic science is about as cool as it gets. Are you going to be a CSI? Does everyone ask you that lol? Sorry, it's probably nothing like that, but I love CSI!