Mattie Derivaux accepted in UMMC Medical School Early Decision Program - The Vicksburg Post - Vicksburg Post

Mattie Derivaux, of Vicksburg, majoring successful biochemistry astatine the University of Mississippi, has been accepted to aesculapian schoolhouse astatine the University of Mississippi Medical Center done the Early Decision Program.

Students who use to the Early Decision Program for aesculapian schoolhouse perpetrate to lone applying to 1 schoolhouse until they perceive back. In instrumentality for this commitment, they person the accidental to unafraid a spot successful a aesculapian schoolhouse people earlier successful the process than is typical.

“It takes an incredibly well-rounded pupil who not lone excels academically but besides is simply a existent steward of their field and assemblage to beryllium admitted to aesculapian school,” said Kelli Hutchens, world advisor successful UM’s Health Professions Advising Office. “We consciousness incredibly fortunate to get to enactment with specified astonishing students each day, and to assistance them turn and make into the phenomenal doctors and wellness attraction professionals we cognize they volition be.”

To beryllium eligible to use for EDP, students often indispensable conscionable GPA and/or MCAT scores acceptable by the schoolhouse to which they are applying and beryllium exceptionally beardown successful their assemblage service, objective and/or enactment experiences, arsenic good arsenic during their interviews with aesculapian schoolhouse officials.

Derivaux is simply a postgraduate and erstwhile valedictorian of St. Aloysius High School successful Vicksburg.