NEW AGREEMENT — Bethany College President Jamie Caridi, left, and West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine President Jim Nemitz some motion a memorandum of knowing betwixt the schools for a caller aboriginal acceptance programme that guarantees students who conscionable the qualifications introduction into the aesculapian school. -- Shelley Hanson
BETHANY — Bethany College students who conscionable definite requirements volition present beryllium guaranteed introduction into the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine acknowledgment to a memorandum of knowing betwixt the institutions of higher learning.
The statement was signed Wednesday by the heads of some schools — Bethany College President Jamie Caridi and West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine President Jim Nemitz — during a ceremonial astatine Bethany College’s Phillips Hall.
The aboriginal acceptance program, aka pre-osteopathic medicine program, is for qualified juniors. The students indispensable gathering the pursuing requirements to beryllium eligible for the program:
— Have a subject GPA of 3.4 oregon higher;
— Be a United States nonmigratory oregon imperishable citizen; and
— Complete 8 hours of biology with labs and 8 hours of wide chemistry with labs.
Eligible students indispensable person a missive of proposal from their pre-osteopathic medicine programme adviser. Students indispensable besides spell done an interrogation process.
“Students who conscionable metrics and amusement imaginable volition person conditional acceptance to WVSOM. The last acceptance volition beryllium based connected the students maintaining a definite GPA, a 500 oregon amended connected the Medical College Admission Test and different criteria,” according to accusation provided by the schools.
“It’s a concern that volition guarantee that qualified Bethany College students are guaranteed a 100 percent acceptance complaint into the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine,” Nemitz said. “Let maine springiness you immoderate discourse — past twelvemonth successful America much than 62,000 undergraduates applied to aesculapian schools. Of those 62,000 graduates lone astir one-third were admitted.”
He added that astatine WVSOM, less than 10 percent of applicants were admitted. However, due to the fact that of the caller partnership, Bethany College students “will beryllium guaranteed a spot astatine 1 of the champion aesculapian schools successful the country,” helium said.
Caridi described the concern arsenic a triumph for some schools and for the students.
“Ultimately it’s astir helping students go what they privation to become,” helium said. “Ultimately it’s astir serving others.”
Caridi said the aesculapian schoolhouse is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
“We’re trying to marque it easier for you to get entree to a aesculapian education,” helium said. “You tin go thing you privation to be. … The constituent with this programme is that you bash your occupation of moving hard, you get accepted into our programme and past we springiness you the acquisition to beryllium what you privation to become.”
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