Thursday, November 2.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Deadline Nov.15 this year
So you want to go to Med school
When You're in Doubt—Try It Out, Kansan Classifieds.
About 700 college seniors will be worrying about that one bad semester, or the poor grade in freshman chemistry, and the results of the medical admissions test until January.
All are hoping for admission to the KU School of Medicine—but only 125 of them will be the freshman class of 1968.
If a profile of one of the lucky aspirants could be drawn, nine times out of ten he—or she—would be a Kansan with a "B" grade average. He probably would have attended a Kansas college or university, but may have done his undergraduate work out-of-state.
He would have made a reasonably good score on the medical admissions test given nationally last week, and he would have been rigorously interviewed by the KU Medical Center admissions committee.
"After serving for 17 years on the admissions committee. I have concluded that the faces of the applicants are different from one year to the next," said Dr. Dwight J. Mulford, professor of microbiology and committee chairman.
"But the problems of the applicants are essentially the same. All are concerned about their over-all grade point average and how it will stack up with those of other applicants. Another concern is how their medical college admission test scores will stack up."
Dr. Mulford explained that many students worry needlessly about a bad semester or year.
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"They have to be reassured that one robin does not make a spring, and that their over-all performance indicates that they are better than they think they are." Dr. Mulford said.
The deadline for applications this year is Nov.15.
The comparatively small size of the new class, as compared to the large number of applicants, is explained by the KUMC educational structure. The first two years, with large lectures and laboratory sessions, do not require a numbers limitation. However, during the final two clinical years each student is under a tutorial system and one full-time physician cannot handle more than five or six students.
During the time a student is being considered for acceptance to the KU School of Medicine, the members of the admissions committee examine not only the student's overall grade average, the premedical science average, and the medical college admission test scores, but also study the appraisal of the study by the premedical advisory group of his college.
This appraisal usually represents information and opinions that several faculty members at the students' college have about him.
After the interviews—two sessions are held in September and two in December—the admissions committee discusses each candidate in detail. The chairman gives the name of the person, his age, the college or university attended, his medical college admissions test scores, his over-all grade point average, his premedical science grade point average, and his deficiencies in course requirements.
He then gives the appraisal of the premedical advisory committee and the appraisal and recommendations of the interview team and representatives of the dean's office. All of the information is projected onto a movie screen for all of the committee members to see.
After reading the credentials and recommendations, and discussing the student, a majority vote decides whether the student will be accepted.
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