A U.S. Medical Degree, obtained through a Combined BS/MD program, is a definitive path to becoming a medical doctor.
What are the advantages/benefits of being accepted into a BS/MD program?
Accelerated Timeline: Many of BS/MD programs accelerate the process of becoming a medical doctor.
No Medical School Application Process.
Many have no MCAT (or lower requirement).
Lower pressure/stress because of a GUARANTEED route to medical school.
For H4 visa or international students: direct path to becoming a licensed U.S. doctor.
HAPPY parents! Parents are extremely happy when they know that their (high school senior) son or daughter is technically accepted to medical school.
For over 28 years, Dr. Paul Lowe has been helping his clients gain admissions to Combined BS/MD programs. His unique and focused admissions advisory strategies remove the uncertainty of the medical school application process.
Therefore, when Dr. Lowe’s clients are accepted into BS/MD programs they are GUARANTEED becoming medical doctors.
Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who choose to use his services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are still seniors in high school.
Unlike other educational consulting firms, where students are assigned to different employees or consultants (and are unaware of their track records), Dr. Lowe, as lead consultant/admissions advisor, personally works with each of his clients so that they directly benefit from his expertise, experience, contacts and the collective knowledge of his educational team.
Dr. Lowe’s exclusivity allows him to provide individualized attention and commitment to ENHANCE the characteristics of each client beyond just grades and SATs.
OUR TOTAL RESULTS ARE HERE! We are proud to tell you about our Class of 2024 Results! It was a tough year! And we expect next year for seniors, Class of 2025, to be even tougher.
This year was an amazing year! 97% BS/MD Admissions clients including international students were accepted to BS/MD programs! This year, several of our clients were accepted to MULTIPLE BS/MD programs!!!!!
Parents of the below students are happy, overjoyed and excited that they can now call their sons and daughters “Doctors”!
Our 2024 BS/MD Program Acceptance Results:
Brown University PLME – 12
Drexel University – 2
Case Western PPSP – 3
Penn State/Jefferson Medical College – 2
NJIT/Albert Dorman Honors College – 5
RPI/Albany Medical College – 6
Rutgers – New Jersey Medical – 5
Siena College/Albany Medical College – 3
Temple University – 3
TCNJ/New Jersey Medical – 4
Union College/Albany Medical College – 2
University of Connecticut – 3
University of Pittsburgh – 3
University of Rochester – 4
Syracuse UAS – 3
Texas Tech – 1
Virginia Commonwealth University – 4
UMKC – 6
You may ask how we achieve these acceptance numbers? What’s our secret?
Dr. Lowe and his team do their homework! We spend UNLIMITED time with our clients! We know programs and what they are looking for in applicants! We have long-standing professional relationships with and communicate with admissions officers at BS/MD programs! Parents hire us before their children become high school seniors and start their applications so that we have more time to develop their children’s’ personalized BS/MD admissions strategies, profiles and applications! We assess and review our clients’ credentials, reviewing transcripts, test, scores, recommendations and course load. We focus on each of our client’s “applicant voice” by reviewing and developing meaningful and compelling essays. We also prepare our clients for interviews by providing multiple in-depth interviews.
We frame, develop and polish our clients’ student profiles. We prepare our clients so that they will stand out amongst other applicants when presented before a BS/MD admissions committee. That’s why we have bi-weekly or sometimes weekly Skypes and continuous email correspondences. Most importantly, you work directly with Dr. Paul Lowe via bi-weekly or sometimes weekly Skype sessions! As a physician-scientist and admissions expert, Dr. Lowe develops customized winning strategies for each of his BS/MD program clients! As BS/MD admissions experts we are well connected with alumni doctors, medical educators, and admissions officers so we know how our clients will be compared to other applicants in any given year!
Do you want to retain the admissions advisory service of an expert who helps your child become admitted to BS/MD programs that GUARANTEE that they become a medical doctor, or do you want to take chances with child’s future?
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.
For parents of my clients who immigrated to the US, higher education is a symbol of upward mobility, a life-altering path to meaningful careers and financial stability. A medical degree, specifically one obtained through a direct BS/MD program, is a definitive path to becoming a medical doctor.
“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
For many of my client-families, education is an important means to achieve the four aims of human life, namely dharma (virtue), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure) and moksha (liberation). Vidya or education is the means by which an individual can gain the right knowledge, control his desires and learn to perform his obligatory duties.
Dr. Paul Lowe and his team of admissions experts help many of his clients successfully attain this career track while in high school through BS/MD Admissions Advisors. This is one of the reasons why he has been in practice for 28 years with unmatched results!
For H-4 high school students, this means that they will be U.S. medical doctors – an immigration benefit, in addition to the job security.
“As an admissions expert, I am always cognizant of the unforeseen circumstances and unfavorable consequences that may adversely affect my clients’ positive outcomes. Because of our vigilance and comprehensive strategies, my clients are ACCEPTED into BS/MD programs as well as Ivy League and competitive colleges and universities with superior pre-med programs.” – Dr. Paul Lowe
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.
SUNY Albany has informed (2023) applicants that SUNY Upstate Medical University, its affiliated medical school with the BS/MD program “has made the decision to conclude the Upstate Accelerated Scholarship program to new applicants effective immediately.”
SUNY Upstate Medical University and Alnaby had an established partnership to form the Upstate Accelerated Scholars Program (UAS).
Since the SUNY Albany will no longer be accepting applicants, the competition to gain admissions into BS/MD programs will now increase because there will be fewer programs.
Now it has become even more competitive as more BS/MD programs have closed and the number slots are dwindling!
SUNY Polytechnic Institute has informed (2023) applicants that SUNY Upstate Medical University, its affiliated medical school with the BS/MD program “has made the decision to conclude the Upstate Accelerated Scholarship program to new applicants effective immediately.”
SUNY Upstate Medical University and SUNY Polytechnic had an established partnership to form the Upstate Accelerated Scholars Program (UAS).
Since the SUNY Polytechnic Institute will no longer be accepting applicants, the competition to gain admissions into BS/MD programs will now increase because there will be fewer programs.
Now it has become even more competitive as more BS/MD programs have closed and the number slots are dwindling!
At BS/MD Admissions, Dr. Paul Lowe and his team of advisors discern that many students and parents are clueless about what to do, when to do it, where to do it, who to contact, and why do it. They fail to discover what they are doing that’s wrong, or they discover what they’ve been doing is wrong when it’s too late!
If you are a high school junior or your son or daughter is a high school junior and you are thinking about applying to direct BS/MD programs, it’s time to get really serious about either planning or implementing your plans.
Most students (even with the help of their parents) read books, look at videos or visit college forum-type websites which they believe may provide personalized answers for them.
Many parents who call us (and whose children are performing the above and have the below profile profile) then believe that their child is a shoo-in for BS/MD programs and just need “some” advice.
Here is the typical BS/MD applicant-student profile of students when parents contact us:
GPA: 3.9 (UW) 4.6
ACT: 35
SAT: 1580
APs: usually 10 -14 classes
Honors/Awards: several
Teacher/Counselor Recommendations: Excellent
Resume: 2-3 pages
Volunteer: Several organizations
Shadowed Doctors: 2-3
Extracurricular Activities: Several
Published a paper: 1-2
Laboratory Research: Participated and/or possibly published
With all of the above you would believe that this student will definitely be accepted – WRONG! This is only half of the equation!
Here’s a list of factors by admissions expert, Dr. Paul Lowe that you should consider if you are a junior seriously thinking about applying to BS/MD programs.
Student CHARACTER – Personality counts! What’s your “je ne sais quoi”?
The HOOK – If you don’t have a hook, the admissions committee will not grab you!
The STORY – It’s all about the story and how it’s framed and presented! No good story, no acceptance! Certain rejection!
Common Application: PERSONAL STATEMENT – Meaningful, well-written and convincing personal statement needed. No flow, harmony, tone combined with gravitas – rejection!
COLLEGE-SPECIFIC SUPPLEMENTALS – You must complement and synergize your supplementals with your personal statement. All the school-specific essays are important, even the 50 word-count answers! Students have been rejected because of mistakenly using one word or a sentence in 50 word-count essays!
COLLEGE-SPECIFIC-BS/MD ESSAYS – The “Why doctor essay?” “I want to help people”. Everyone in the service industry does that!
COLLEGE APPLICATION VIDEO ESSAY – Schools are seriously viewing these videos. Brown PLME application includes an optional video.
The effective and bold RESUME – It’s not just about a 2–3-page resume with lots of research and extracurricular activities which is just a list. It has to be framed correctly or it looks boring and generic!
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES – Are your extracurricular activities meaningless or meaningful? Do they really interconnect to your student profile in a meaningful way? Have you become the jack-of-all extracurricular activities? The master of none? Are you a drive-by extracurricular activities person?
VOLUNTEERISM – It’s not just about tutoring underprivileged children, participating in an ESVE (Expensive Summer Volunteer Activity) or starting your own nonprofit organization. There is more to volunteering than just volunteering!!!
WOW FACTOR – What’s your WOW Factor? How and when can you use it to WOW admissions? You want the admissions committee to say “WOW! We want this applicant on our campus.”
INTERVIEWS – You may seemingly be all that on paper; grades, SATs recommendations, volunteering to save the world, 1000 hours of shadowing, however, one incorrect word or statement in an interview results in a rejection – That’s right, just one!
ETIQUETTE – Think that doesn’t matter? Think that’s old-school? Think again! Are you mindful of how you present yourself and how people perceive you? It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it! Etiquette matters! We provide personalized etiquette strategies for our clients.
MANNERS– When you say something (or write something) what counts is not what you mean but how you are heard and perceived. Are you mindful of your manners? Manners matters! Do you know when or if you sound rude, pretentious, impolite, disrespectful, unrefined or uncultured?
WHO ARE YOU? – What are your values? What do you stand for? Can you define you? Why are you different?
DIVERSITY – What’s your diversity intelligence? What’s the meaning of diversity to you? It’s not just a word to be used throughout an essay. It’s not just about being a member of your school’s diversity club. Colleges seek students who truly understand the meaning of diversity. Diversity matters!
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS – It may occur at any time, at any level or at any stage during your admissions process. Can you identify it? How must you successfully deal with it? How do you overcome it for successful admissions decisions?
UNIVERSITY PRIORITIES – Colleges are not accepting applicants for just top grades and their perceived amazing resumes and achievements; they are continually adjusting and building diverse campus communities and future global networks based on geopolitics, geo-economics and their financials. School admissions policies and institutional priorities change year to year and region to region to match their goals. What makes you believe that you know these policies and priorities better than a boutique admissions firm that has superior access to current information and admissions trends?
The KNOW-HOW. So, you really believe it’s just (1-18)? You need the Know How: How do you do the right-things the right-way and with the right-people at the right-time? Our proprietary-knowledge, unmatched experience, admissions success and years of close working relationships with admissions professionals ensures that you do it right!
So, you really believe that factors 13-18 are unimportant? Think again!
If you know how to plan, develop and implement (1-19) and how they are used in BS/MD admissions – that’s wonderful!!! But if you don’t, there is an increased probability that you (and your child) will make irrevocable mistakes that will cause instant rejections to all schools. Would you want this to happen after your years of planning as a parent and your child’s hard work?
The parents who retain Dr. Paul Lowe and his team of consultants may take risks in business and investments, but not risks in their children’s educational future – to become a medical doctor. The ones who do take risks in their children’s education – 95% of them bet WRONG!
From time to time, I hear parents state that college acceptance to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities is a “crapshoot”.
My team and I know that our knowledge, insight, experience, forward-thinking and our ability to understand our clients, as well as the intricate expectations of each school and their admissions committees in real-time and forward-time contribute to “beating the odds”.
Students (and their parents) who attempt to formulaically systematize the admissions process based on generic or ill advice generally end up among the 90% or more of applicants who areREJECTED.
With our Admissions Data Analytics software, our proprietary knowledge, 27 years of experience and our vast network and contacts, we provide an ADMISSIONS ADVANTAGE for our clients resulting in acceptance letters!
IS YOUR CURRENT COLLEGE JUST A “GOOD FIT” OR IS IT FABULOUS?
DO YOU WISH TO TRANSFER TO AN IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY?
As an experienced admissions advisor, I have successfully helped students transfer to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities.
Here are some of the main reasons I see why students decide to transfer:
They are unhappy: Why remain in an environment for four years where you will be unhappy and miserable – and pay tuition, room and board that will cost you (or your parents) $250,000 – $300,000.
Institutional prestige: You may be attending your safety school and you want a second shot or you were discouraged from applying to your dream school. In any case, you desire what we call an UPGRADE.
Pre-graduate school preparation: Your current college may not have a strong pre-law, pre-med or pre-business program needed for graduate school admissions preparation or employment.
Whatever reason you may have for transferring, the bottom line is that you need to develop an effective action plan to transfer. and have a second shot!
Our Admissions Data Analytic software (Admissions DA), proprietary knowledge, 27 years of experience, simulated admissions committee interview meetings, Continuous-weekly client sessions and our vast network and contacts provide an ADMISSIONS ADVANTAGE for our clients resulting in acceptance letters! Our clients, therefore successfully navigate the college transfer admissions process and have positive outcome and results!
No other educational consulting firm can provide this type of collective ADMISSION ADVANTAGE!
I am pleased to announce that one of my clients was accepted regular decision to Brown, Yale and Princeton.
“Because of our cautionary strategy and Continuous Weekly Student-Parent SkypeMeetings, my clients are ACCEPTED!” – Dr. Paul Lowe
Families who choose to retain me, recognize the value I will bring, then WANT to experience my unique perspective and advice that will undoubtedly increase the chances of positive admissions results for their children.
Over the last several months, we have been hearing about planned job cuts:
Google parent Alpha announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs.
Facebook parent Meta Platform announced plans to cut 11,000 jobs.
Amazon announced plans cut 18,000 jobs.
Salesforce announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs.
Disney announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs.
IBM announced plans to cut 3,900 jobs.
3M announced plans to cut 3,500 jobs.
SAP announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs.
Dow announced plans to cut 2,000 jobs.
News Corp. announced plans to cut 1250 jobs
BlackRock Inc. to cut 500 global jobs.
Banks including Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon have begun to cut more than 15,000 jobs in recent months.
The alarming increase in job losses across these sectors has caused uncertainty and unpredictability. What we are seeing is an increased in number of parents calling our offices regarding interest in BS/MD programs.
Why is there an increased interest and why do we expect an increase in applications to BS/MD programs? Here are several reasons:
Job Stability: In the case of job layoffs the pertinent reason to choose a career in Medicine is the job stability you will enjoy after graduation.
Doctors are high indemand: Doctors do not have to worry about a lack of demand for their expertise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for nurses and doctors/physicians is expected to grow between 7-12% by 2028.
Compensation: Physicians are among the most generously compensated members of the workforce. In fact, you’ll see quite a few physician specialists among the top 20 highest-paying occupations identified by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.
Citizenship: For international and H-4 visa students, it’s one of the fastest ways to attain U.S. citizenship because the high demand and need for doctors.
The increase in applications coupled with schools using intangible as well as tangible qualifiers for admissions decision makes it more difficult for applicants to be accepted. BS/MD programs accept students with diverse interests, backgrounds, unique experiences, WOW factors and convincing stellar essays NOT students with just top grades, high SATs and resumes filled with academic awards, generic research and volunteer work.
This is why it’s important to retain the services of a qualified admissions expert who has the insider’s knowledge of how to successfully navigate BS/MD admissions especially when there will be more applicants and increased competition!
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.
