Tough decision

Go to that DO school

There are a lot of If's in the first and the later you will know after your interview.
You don't want to push back, and also you will be paying a lot of money for the masters.
Make the decision based on what's best for you.

Go to the DO school

The REAL Doc McStuffins said:

Hey everyone. So I need help making a tough decision. I recently got accepted into a masters program with an unofficial linkage with an MD program in my home state. With this 2-year program, I would be taking med school classes as well as a Kaplan course to improve my MCAT score. As long as I do well in the program, I would get an interview and hopefully start med school. But I’m torn because I just got an interview invite for a DO school that ghosted me for months lol so idk what to do. If everything goes well and I end up getting into the DO school, should I do that instead of the MD linkage? I’m already 26 and I don’t really want to keep pushing this back.

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Do you want to be a doctor or do you want to potentially be a doctor? If you turn down the DO offer then youre showing poor decision making skills.

I get the temptation of "Oh well maybe I could get into this MD school after my linkage" but what is the matriculation of this linkage program? If it isnt 100% then you need to take what is with the DO route.

You might pay for a useless masters if you don't matriculate to the MD school. I recommended a student from our local Pre Med mill, star lacrosse player,3.7 Chem major to our post back and they didn't make rhe cut for admission. Go to the interview, take the A if it comes. It it doesn't go to masters and make it happen.

The REAL Doc McStuffins said:

I agree. I’m on the waitlist for the DO school now. My concern is that I’m interested in anesthesia and I’m not sure how difficult that would be to match as a DO

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Matching into anesthesia as a DO is more difficult, but to be frank, it's difficult as an MD as well. Do you want to be a doctor or do you just want to do anesthesia? If you wouldn't be happy in another area of medicine, don't go to medical school. Look into becoming an AA or a CRNA if that's your interest. You mentioned in a post last year that you were fine with either MD or DO, has something changed?

I hope this comes off with the level of respect that is intended, but from what I can gather about your stat range (~3.5, ~500), it will be very challenging for you to match into anesthesia without some significant improvements to your academic ability and skill on standardized exams. Do some reflection and really think about whether this is right for you.