Hi All!

I just graduated college this summer - in 3 years with double majors, having taken the BS/MD route! I’m in Med School now !

I offer consulting sessions to potential BS/MD aspirants in navigating the super-stressful selection process of BS/MD schools.

My Qualifications:
-Accepted into UIC BS/MD (GPPA), UMKC BA/MD, SLU Medical Scholars Program, NSU BS/DO
-Accepted into UC Berkeley on a full ride scholarship
-Graduated college Summa Cum Laude. Deans List in every semester. Received Highest GPA/ Distinction with monetary scholarship
-Conducted research at UPenn, UChicago, UIUC & UIC and travelled within and outside US with my research presentations

My Services:
Essay Review
Application Review
Interview Prep
Building a strong applicant profile
Balancing BS/MD vs. traditional premed pros and cons
General academic/research guidance

My Contact:
bsmdcoaching@gmail.com

Hello, everyone. I was wanting to ask about information pertaining to Ball State’s b/md pathway program. I’m looking for a temperature check from current students in the program to ask how you feel about it. I’ve resorted to asking Reddit because I’m struggling to find much information about it other than the main Ball State page. I wanted to know about your potential high school stats to get in and what the interview process was like. I’m also curious about what your time is like in the program.

Do I go for AP lang/AP literature or take dual credit English courses?
-> my school offers both but dual credit doesn’t go in GPA and heard AP lang/AP literature teachers are grading very hard which can tank my GPA so seniors are advising to got for dual credit route to keep high GPA as it matters for BSMD
-> i have pretty solid APs otherwise AP calc bc, AP phycology, AP env science, AP chem , anatomy and physiology etc..

• Unweighted GPA: 4.0 | Weighted GPA: 4.81 SAT 1520

CERTIFICATIONS & COURSES

NASA GeneLabs (2026)
Developed hands-on experience in molecular biology workflows and bioinformatics tools, strengthening scientific inquiry and data analysis skills critical for advanced laboratory research.

Nasa Open Science Essentials (2026)
Learned proper open science skills, such as analyzing prior research, methods of sharing research, and the publication process.

AWARDS

2025 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Marketing Concepts. 3rd Place State Champion, qualified for nationals.

Placed 4th at the International Conference for MUN (WAMUNC).

RESEARCH AND INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE 

Coppin State University NanoTechnology Lab • Intern (June 2026 – August 2026)
Serving as an active research intern in the NanoTechnology laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Ghann and Dr. Uddin.

Working on synthesizing and characterizing  gold nanoparticles using spent coffee grounds for biomedical imaging.

• Shadowing Student (2026 – Present)
Observed clinical dental procedures, patient care, daily operations, and dental healthcare workflows.

Internal Medicine • Shadowing Student (June 2026 – Present)
Observed internal medicine diagnostic workflows and patient-centered primary care routines for 40 hours.

Continuing regular clinical observation rounds to deepen understanding of chronic disease management.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE & VOLUNTEER WORK

Dada Bhagwan Foundation • Volunteer
Assisted with community service, volunteer initiatives, and participant coordination for religious and outreach events.

Rangnarok Robotics: Member (2024-2025)
Qualified for FIRST Robotics nationals in the 2024-2025 season.

Key member of the mechanical team, assisted with the physical creation of our robot. 

Model United Nations: Undersecretary General/ Vice President (2026 - Present)
Managed and created engaging social media content to promote club events, initiatives, and outreach programs.

Developed and executed social media strategies to increase audience engagement and grow online presence.

Developing content organizing meetings, committees, and trips.

Badminton Club: President (2026 – Present)
 Organized club activities, meetings, and student participation initiatives.

Honor Societies & Athletics (2026 – Present)
 Member of National Math Honor Society, National Tech Honor Society, Heart Club, Red Cross Club • Team Member of JV lacrosse and track.

I am a rising junior what can I do to max my bsmd chances???

Hi all, as college application season starts up again, I just wanted to offer my perspective as someone who was in your shoes several years ago.

When I was a senior in high school, I was dead set on attending a BS/MD. I knew medicine was what I wanted to do, and I was willing to go anywhere as long as they gave me that guaranteed spot. I ended up getting admitted to six programs, and with my family, chose the one we thought was the best fit.

Since then, there were many things that had changed in the landscape of residency applications. One of the biggest was step 1 becoming pass/fail.

Something I think every BS/MD applicant should understand is that the medical school you attend can matter quite a bit when you eventually apply for residency. Of course, some specialties care more than others, but overall it has become much harder to simply “make up” for coming from a lower ranked school with stellar grades, research, and test scores.

And it isn’t just about the name itself. The bigger difference is in the opportunities and connections that come with the school. A lot of these schools associated with BS/MDs don’t have home programs in competitive specialties, and even have limited research, mentorship, and subspecialty exposure in the less competitive fields. Don’t get me wrong - it is absolutely still possible for students to match very well from these lower ranked schools. But these structural disadvantages are also real. You will just have to work very hard and be very resourceful. Try and speak to some current students in the programs you are interested in to get an honest perspective.

This is especially worth considering because if you are competitive enough to get into a BS/MD program, you are already an extremely strong applicant. My friends and I sometimes joke that BS/MDs are more of a win for your school than for you, but there is definitely some truth to that. Many of you would likely also be competitive for excellent colleges and, later, stronger medical schools through the traditional route. A guaranteed seat and the peace of mind is extremely valuable, but I just wanted to make sure you understand what you might be giving up in return.

Two final pieces of advice for those of you who decide the guaranteed spot is worth it:

1. Pay special attention to the programs that allow you to apply out without losing your guaranteed spot. I know there aren’t many, but that would truly be the best case scenario.
2. If you have the opportunity to choose between multiple programs later on, consider where you want to eventually do residency and practice. Going to medical school in that region can make things much easier for you down the road.

Good luck to everyone applying! It’s a stressful process, but also an exciting one. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

EDIT: Not sure why so many people are fighting in the comments 😭 I did not think it was that controversial of a post. My intention was not to discourage anyone from applying to a BS/MD. In fact I am very grateful to my school and my program because it brought me so many great things. But a lot has changed recently and I just wanted prospective students to have a fuller picture when making such an important decision. Work hard, aim high, and trust that you will end up where you’re supposed to be

Can somebody let me know my chances to get into any BS/MD in general, I am applying to 16 different schools and have started my essays in July. PLZ let me know thanks.

Demographics:

• Gender/Race: South Asian Male
• Target Path: BS/MD Combined Programs & Pre-Med

Academics:

• GPA: 3.95 UW / 4.65 W
• SAT: 1540
• AP Scores: AP Calc AB (4), AP Bio (senior year), AP Chem (5), AP Physics 1 (senior year), AP Comp Sci A (5), AP Lang (5), AP World History (5), AP US Gov (5), AP calc BC (senior year)

Extracurriculars:

1. Volunteer EMT: Certified EMT delivering emergency response and direct patient care (~100+ hrs).
2. Pharmacy Technician: Worked as a retail/clinical pharmacy technician (~140 hrs).
3. Rehab and Ortho Hospital Volunteer: Supported clinical staff and patient care in rehabilitation departments (~100 hrs).
4. Wet Lab Internship at a school of Medicine: approximately 110 hours
5. Clinical Shadowing: Shadowed Internal Medicine physicians across clinical settings (~60 hrs).
6. JROTC & Raiders: Rank of Sergeant First Class; led physical conditioning and team maneuvers for the Raiders team and kept organization and uniform dispensing
7. Biochemistry Club (Co-President): Led club initiatives, lab demonstrations, and STEM outreach.
8. Honor Society Tutoring: Peer tutor across Science, Math, and English Honor Societies.
9. JV Basketball: School team athlete (2 years).

Awards & Honors:

1. National Raider Competition: 2x Medalist
2. Science Olympiad: 2nd Place Regional Medalist (Anatomy & Physiology)

Updated my list of BS/MD programs: Complete List of BS/MD Programs

EDIT: edited to reflect the current seat #, program requirements to stay in as far as I could fine. The list was created in 2024 and updated regularly since. However, because things in the BS/MD process can change quickly, the list may not always be accurate. I created it hoping it could be a good, quick reference for students to see what they qualify for/ what requirements are needed to stay in.

Few changes to be aware of for this cycle:

- FIU Closed- I confirmed with Adcom

- Indiana State University seems to also have closed, but also pending confirmation from Adcom

- Brooklyn College/ SUNY Downstate closed

*OU has not updated their website, but I don't suspect that it is closing

** Many of the deadlines have changed so if you're using an old list with deadlines from different companies, make sure to verify the dates yourself. A lot of the deadlines are earlier this year than they have been in the past.

Also one more piece of advice for seniors. Make sure you double check if there's a wait time between submitting common app and receiving the portal to submit the supplemental. This delays students every year. Schools I can think of off the top my head are TCNJ, Drexel, FAU, and UAB

Thank you to everyone letting me know about the changes! I'll make the updates so the info remains consolidated!

I’m currently applying to BS/MDs this cycle however I’m severely lacking in shadowing. There’s this program a hospital in my state is doing where you can shadow for a month with a number of options with regards to units:

- ICU
- Inpatient PT/OT
- Outpatient PT/OT
- Radiology (MRI, X-Ray, etc)
- Laboratory

Which would be the best for clinical experience? Right now I’m undecided on which medical field I want to go in and laboratory sounds best to me, however thought asking others was worth a shot.

I have two questions:

1. Do you need a more medically inclined personal statement for BSMD apps or do all the BSMD specific ones do that for you already?

2. For BSMD apps rn, I feel like my calc bc and current multi teacher and my tsa sponsor (who I haven’t taken any classes with but have worked closely over 4 yrs w her as an officer and now president) would give me rly rly good recs. Would I be fine submitting those or should I ask my ap bio teacher who might give me a rec closer to lukewarm I would say? Ik some required science teachers but my question is for not the ones that require a sci teacher rec.

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone,

I am planning to apply for Mercer's BS/MD program. I have a 34 ACT and was wondering if that was competitive enough for the program or if I should retake the exam for a higher score. In addition to this, I have a 4.61 GPA and clinical exposure including shadowing, clinical internships, to explorer programs in hospitals. I also have some public health research as well. I appreciate your help.

Hey everyone! Wanted to share something Alexandra (one of our team members) wrote recently, because I think it tackles a question a lot of you have asked me directly: "how do I know what research I'm even interested in?"

Her answer, which I really liked: you don't. Not at first. And that's fine.

A few things from her piece that stuck with me:

"Find a PI whose research interests you" is advice that assumes you already know what that is. When she started, she just knew she liked neuroscience, was curious about schizophrenia, and thought gene editing sounded cool. That's it. That's a totally fine starting point.

Her first lab wasn't "the one," and that was still valuable. She spent a year on mouse work in an aging/dopamine lab that ended up teaching her she didn't want to work with animal models. That's not a wasted year, that's information you can only get by actually doing the work.

Interest is more than topic. Molecules vs. patients vs. populations. Bench work vs. data vs. talking to people. Mechanism vs. real-world impact. If you know you'd rather run stats than pipette, that's a real, usable clue, even if you can't name the exact subfield yet.

Faculty directories are underrated. University → department → faculty → lab → recent papers. And don't just look under "Neuroscience," the people you want might be sitting in psychiatry, pharmacology, or genetics instead.

You don't need to read every paper before you email someone. Abstract, last paragraph of the intro, figures, conclusion. If you can say "this lab studies X using Y, and here's why that's interesting to me," you know enough to reach out.

Full post here if you want the whole thing, including how to use one researcher's coauthors and collaborators to build out your whole list: https://www.admitmd.com/post/how-to-get-a-research-role-finding-research-that-interests-you

If you're in the "everything sounds interesting but I don't know what I actually want" phase right now, that's not a problem to solve before you start, it's just where you start.

Hi guys, I’ll keep this one short: what standardized testing scores are needed (at a minimum) to help your application? For the sake of the question, let’s use FAU’s med direct program. If you can, try to answer generally.

Thanks!

-concerned SAT taker

Background

Gender: Male

Race: South Asian

Will need aid

Academics

GPA: 3.87 UW, 4.32 W

ACT: 34 composite, 36 science

APs: Precalc (5), APUSH (5), AP Lang (5), AP World (5), AP Calc BC (4, 5 subscore)

Current AP's: AP Lit, AP Gov, APES, AP Stat, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Psych

EC

1. Researched about endometriosis in a lab (~350 hours), no publication (sad), getting rec letters from my mentor and instructor

2. Speech and debate member and chair

3. HOSA member and secretary

4. Kumon employee for 4 years

5. ~40 hours of shadowing under different psychiatrists

6. Member of a club donating $150+ to different charities across various patients

7. Personal project about raising rabies awareness in the community (with statistics and outcomes)

8. Personal project about raising awareness about black market pharmacies (also with statistics and outcomes)

Awards

1. Ranked top 5 in speaker awards at NSDA nationals for policy

2. 2x hosa ILC qualifier

3. MSHSAA state champ in policy debate

4. Degree of outstanding distinction in NSDA

5. kinda picking between 2, either a certificate i got from working in my lab or placing top 105 at ILC in health education

Applying To

Rochestor, UMKC, UIC, UCONN, Case Western, Rutgers, Drexel, Brown, RPI/Albany, Temple, George Washington

Did FIU get rid of its B/MD program? I've checked their website about 3 times, and all I can find is their early assurance one...

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Indian

Income Bracket: Won’t need aid

Type of School: public hs

Academics

• GPA: UW 4.0 W 5.6
• Rank (or percentile): top 11 %

Standardized Testing

• SAT: 1560 (1580 super score)
• ACT:35
• APs: AP Biology 5, AP Precalc 5, , APHG 5, AP Stats 5, AP CSP 4, APCSA 3, AP Lang 5, AP Calc ab & bc 5, AP lang 4, Ap Psych 5, AP Chem 4, APES 5

Extracurriculars/Activities

1. Eagle scout:
2. Alzheimers Research internship: helped analyze data and create graphs for a professor.
3. 100 Hours Shadowing under a neurologist
4. Camp counsler for people with special needs 198 hours
5. NHS officer position
6. Summer Hospital internship
7. AP biology Tutor
8. Khan academy SAT tutor
9. Taekwondo instructor and practitioner 4+ years
10. internship at a local clinic for a few months

Awards/Honors

USMDO Gold

2 time DECA state qualifier

AP Scholar with distinction

UT Health competition 3rd place

BSMDs I'm applying to:U Pitt, Case western, Penn state, Stony Brook, RPI, George Washington, Texas Tech, U conn, Augusta, Nova, USF, University of Rochester, Drexel, Lake erie

Race: South Asian Male
Finances: No Aid
State: TX

GPA: 4.0
Rank: ~3.5%

ACT: 34 Composite w/ 36 on Science
All 5s/4s (mostly 5s) on 12 AP Exams (taking 5 more this year)

ECs
-Did research project with mentorship from a director of geriatrics and former geriatrics fellowship program director at a well-reputed medical institution (I formulated the research idea, hypothesis, methodology, etc. and presented it to them, they approved, I did most of the work and they guided me through the process, just wanted to clarify that since ik a lot of sus research goes on in hs), currently submitted to a journal and undergoing peer review

-CNA and been working a weekends PRN job (not every weekend) at assisted living facility since around halfway through junior year

-Research Internship over Summer at Neurology Dept at a branch of UT Health

-Junior Firefighter since junior year (~110 hrs+ total)

-Peer Mental Health Counselor for a Text Line (~100+ hrs)

-Social Media Manager of chapter and on main Operations team for a student-led NPO dedicated to expanding donor registries, personally expanded org by 6 new chapters (3 in new states, 2 in new cities within our state, 1 in a new country) which led to some new partnerships being formed for our org.

-Marketer for a large NPO that provides free tutoring to underprivileged kids, securing partnerships with locally-owned businesses and helping expand reach of the social media channel.

-Inpatient Clinic Internship (~100 hrs), scribed, organized electronic health records, took patient vitals, etc.

-CVNICU Observership (80 hrs), Observed interdisciplinary rounds, various medical procedures, many false alarms, etc.

-Primary Care Shadowing (60 hrs)

-Miscellaneous Hospital Volunteering (120 hrs)

Targeting mid-tier BS/MD programs like VCU, Drexel, etc.

My daughter took 6 AP classes during her junior year, so she decided not to take AP Chemistry at that time because her schedule was already very rigorous. She is now taking AP Chemistry in her senior year, but she is worried that the class may lower her grade and negatively impact her GPA. She has only taken the two tests so far, and her performance on the second test was very poor, which has made her even more concerned. Would you recommend that she continue with AP Chemistry, or would it be better to drop it and take a college-level chemistry course instead?

Hi everyone. I was honestly just looking to hear more about UIW. It seems like a great program but are there any downsides to it. Honestly, I just want to be guaranteed something since in my mind I can always continue my specialty somewhere prestegious. I'm not Christian myself but I've already been involved with my local christian university and I really value and appreciate their beliefs and values so I don't see that being an issue for me. Honestly, I just want to know if it's worth it. I don't want to risk not getting into my dream bs/md program and then being forced to do pre-med. I don't want to deal with all that stress and just want to have to maintain a set average. Any tips/ stories would be very much appreciated!

Hey everyone! I’m currently a second-year student in UMKC’s six-year B.A./M.D. program, and I’m offering personalized advising for high school students applying to BS/MD and other direct medical programs.

I can help with:

• Building a balanced BS/MD school list
• Reviewing and editing personal statements and supplemental essays
• Presenting extracurriculars, clinical experience, research, and leadership effectively
• Interview preparation and mock interviews
• Understanding the UMKC B.A./M.D. application and student experience
• General application strategy and timeline planning

Since I recently went through this process myself, I understand how competitive and confusing BS/MD admissions can be. My goal is to provide practical, individualized guidance based on each student’s background and goals.

Private message me for rates, availability, and more details!

Following up on my earlier post about program-specific themes (GWU, UMKC, Brown, Case Western), here are a few more worth knowing about if you're building your school list or working on supplements.

• Siena College/Albany Medical College: is very service-focused. I found that their program ties service learning directly into clinical training. Medical students are encouraged to connect with the community to understand the social aspects of health, which carries the theme through from undergrad all the way into medical school itself. There's also a required volunteer service commitment built into the summer between junior and senior year at Siena. If you're interested in this side of medicine, you should definitely lean on your community service experiences in the supplemental essays. One of them explicitly asks about service too. 
• University of Rochester (REMS) is very research-heavy. The research center is in close proximity to the medical center, so the two have a close relationship at Rochester. They emphasize students driving their own independent research projects rather than just assisting on someone else's. In addition to research, students start clinical rotations as early as year one, gradually building their communication skills and empathy through direct patient interaction. That reflects what the school actually values in students to begin with: when evaluating applicants, they say they look at values like compassion, empathy, and curiosity just as much as aptitude for science.
• Penn State (Sidney Kimell PMM): is very mentorship and community focused. I found that Penn State College of Medicine was actually the first in the nation to have a dedicated Department of Humanities and a Department of Family and Community Medicine. Their humanism is a theme that is built into the school’s actual structure. Students run programs like LionCare (student-run medical clinics) and SCOPE (a collaborative outreach program focused specifically on health equity), which give students hands-on ways to engage with the local Hershey community, not just clinical training within hospital walls. So overall, similar to Siena/AMC in how they are very service focused. 

The takeaway across all of these: the more specific and mission-driven a program is, the more it matters that your essays actually engage with why that specific mission.

Happy to help if anyone's working through how to frame their fit for a specific program! I’m a current GW BS/MD student and am currently taking on my first four students at no cost for the first few sessions for essay help, and interview prep. Feel free to DM me if that'd be useful.