Do you know that you don’t have to take the MCAT to get into med school? Well, at least into Mount Sinai Medical School.
Just like University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mount Sinai has a special undergraduate program that allows select students to take an alternate pre-med route to med school. Mount Sinai accepts 35 undergraduates each year in their Humanities and Medicine Early Acceptance Program, which obligates the students to major in humanities or social sciences, maintain a high GPA, make sure they do not incur any disciplinary action, and complete the 8-week summer program at Mount Sinai, in order to automatically get in their med school WITHOUT taking the MCAT.
The program has shown that those from alternate pre-med programs do as well as student from traditional pre-med programs in terms of grades and class rankings. However, they do tend to specialize in fields like psychiatry and veer away from primary care fields and surgical sub-specialties.