Early Assurance Program
The Early Assurance Prorgam (EAP) is an opportunity for academically
strong students who have entered Georgetown University as First Year
Pre-Meds
to have
an
assurance
of admission to the Georgetown University School of Medicine prior
to beginning their Junior year. The goal of the program is to relieve
undue concern about competition for admission to medical school and
encourage this group of students to enlarge their educational horizons
by undertaking ambitious and adventuresome programs with less concern
about grades as may otherwise be experienced by Pre-Meds in their
Junior and Senior years. Students in the program are not
required to take the MCAT for the EAP but are advised that if they wish to
apply to a medical school other than Georgetown they must take the
MCAT.
The program involves the following steps:
- Interested Sophomores
should meet with their Pre-Med advisor well before the
March deadline for submitting the Early Assurance Program
Application. The applicant will be assigned an interview
with one of the other members of the Pre-Med Committee
as assigned by the Pre-Med advisor. Students should bring copies
of their
transcripts to the interview as well as a draft of their
essay, part of which
should be devoted to a description of academic plans
for Junior and Senior years. Final versions of the essay must be
submitted
before the April deadline. The Pre-Med Committee will
review all applications and forward initial recommendations to
the
School of Medicine before May 1.
- During the month of May,
the School of Medicine will interview students. When the semester
grades are available in late-May,
the Pre-Med
Committee will give a final recommendation to the School of Medicine,
and shortly thereafter students will be notified by the
Medical School if they
have been accepted into the program.
- Each student admitted
to the program will be given a letter indicating the conditions
and expectations for his or her participation
in the program. At the end of Junior year and again after Senior year,
a review of each student's progress will be made by the Pre-Med
Committee and the School of Medicine admissions committee. Students meeting
the conditions of the program will receive admission
to the School of Medicine following Senior year. Students must decide at the
time
of Early Decision Program applications (August 1 before
their Senior year) if they want to stay with the EAP or apply again while applying
to other medical schools. In short, the EAP becomes
binding
to the student only at the beginning of Senior year with the usual schedule
as one would follow for EDP.
- The program has given participating
students opportunities they may not otherwise have had. Many
have studied abroad in
Junior year or pursued a double major. Some have taken a semester studying
oceanography or other non-medical activity. Others have pursued
an intensive
research
project in their Junior and Senior years.
- Eligibility:
To be considered for the program, students must be in their fourth
semester at Georgetown, Sophomores,
have good grades and be in progress to complete four of the five required Pre-Med
science courses by the end of their Sophomore year.
Because the evaluation is based on the performance across four semesters
at Georgetown,
but by no later than the end of the Sophomore year,
transfer
students
are not eligible for the EAP.
- Eligible students
will be selected for the program based on: 1) general suitability
for a medical career (both academic
excellence and personal character will be considered), and 2) the appropriateness
of the EAP for the applicant's proposed plan of studies (here the
evaluation
of the faculty is important in determining if
the program
will be an aid to the student's education). This program is not intended
for all Sophomore Pre-Meds; nor does a student
denied admission to the EAP thereby have his or her chances for admission to
medical
school reduced.
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