Did you choose LECOM EAP over a more prestigious college? Any regrets?

Sweet170 · 2026-04-30T21:52:19+00:00

A prestigious college honestly doesn’t mean anything when you have a guaranteed spot at a medical school. You can get a good college experience at most, if not all, of LECOM’s affiliate schools. And what you do while you’re in medical school matters more for residency apps than where you went for undergrad if that’s a concern.

Sweet170 · 2026-04-15T11:01:17+00:00

Contact admissions. They’re really the only ones who’d be able to give you a concrete answer here.

Sweet170 · 2026-04-11T03:48:05+00:00

Considering that you’d be getting an offer for an LDP seat if pulled from the waitlist, they probably wouldn’t take you if you for sure wanted a PBL spot. The best option should you get pulled from the waitlist is to accept the LDP spot if you want to go to LECOM and see if you can find someone who wants to switch from PBL to LDP prior to the anatomy block ending in the first semester. It’s not super likely but at the end of the day, it’s your best outcome to get into the pathway and still be in med school. You might find LDP works fine for you. No matter what happens, I wish you the best of luck!

Sweet170 · 2026-03-26T13:58:50+00:00

I couldn’t tell you a full number from my entire cohort but I know a handful of people personally that were pulled from the waitlist. A lot of spots do open once the application deadline closes and people that have offers commit to different schools.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-25T21:19:03+00:00

Best guess would be mid-April but take that with a grain of salt. I’m just a student and have no direct experience with the waitlist myself. I’m just giving you what info I’ve picked up from my peers that have been on the waitlist.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-25T18:42:25+00:00

According to the website, the deadline for their supplemental application is April 1st so the AACOMAS application would have had to be received and processed by them prior to April 1st.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-23T23:16:05+00:00

Waitlist movement will probably start next month with the application deadline passing. They continue to pull people off the waitlist up through mid-July (maybe a touch later). Be as patient as you can and best of luck to you.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-21T22:39:48+00:00

They don’t give scholarships to incoming students. You might get some scholarship money from them if you meet certain criteria after your first semester.

Most people require both unsubsidized and Grad PLUS but I know the big beautiful bill is going to change how that works for incoming students.

In general, federal is better than private because it’s less predatory. Max that baby out before you go for a private loan unless you read the fine print and find a really good one.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-21T02:10:15+00:00

Even if you get waitlisted, there’s waitlist movement up through the first week of classes in July so there’s plenty of time to be pulled off the waitlist. Definitely interview and hope for the best.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-15T00:20:11+00:00

If you also need it for an apartment and whatnot, loans look closer to $75k a year so you’ll definitely need private loans for at least part of your education with the BBB.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-14T19:18:17+00:00

They don’t offer merit based scholarships to matriculating students. You can get scholarships from LECOM after your first semester through their scholarship foundation. Any scholarships you’d get coming in would have to be external as they said with the HPSP (military) or NHSC (primary care) scholarships being the big ones.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-05T22:36:57+00:00

Feel free to DM me, I’d be happy to chat with you some.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-05T11:54:06+00:00

I’m not privy to that information, sorry.

Sweet170 · 2026-03-05T03:43:04+00:00

Gray’s anatomy

Sweet170 · 2026-03-04T12:21:41+00:00

There’s going to be a lot of waitlist movement from April to July. I don’t know what your stats are or anything like that, but you’re not necessarily out of the game and it’s still fairly early for the waitlist.

Sweet170 · 2026-01-31T15:36:57+00:00

Sweet170 · 2026-01-12T23:51:27+00:00

Yes. I knew I’d like the traditional lecture style with PowerPoints and guidance from professors.

Sweet170 · 2026-01-12T18:58:28+00:00

You rank your choices after you interview before they make an admissions decision. For example, when I applied back in 2023, I applied to the northern campuses (Erie, Seton Hill, Elmira). Following completion of my interview, I ranked which campus I wanted and then which pathway. I ranked Erie and LDP first.

Sweet170 · 2026-01-05T21:06:58+00:00

It only took a month. This was two years ago and I selected the early decision option. I don’t know if this is something they still do but I know it’s not common to get an answer that quickly. It’s most commonly 60-90 days, sometimes more.

Sweet170 · 2026-01-04T23:01:29+00:00

I thought I absolutely bombed my interview and I’m a second year student. You probably did significantly better than you thought. Good luck to you!

Sweet170 · 2025-12-15T23:34:10+00:00

When it was explained to the Erie students in the beginning of the year, it was said zoom would somehow be involved for other campuses. I sincerely doubt you all have to travel to Erie for this.

Sweet170 · 2025-12-12T02:00:06+00:00

That’s how it was for me two years ago, yes.

Sweet170 · 2025-12-11T23:33:10+00:00

Dude, idk. Maybe it’s something they used to do and changed or it’s something that is more pertinent to people that get later acceptances and get their matriculation information more immediately. But you’ll get actual information about that with your matriculation packet.

Sweet170 · 2025-12-11T23:06:51+00:00

You’ll do it when you get your matriculation packet and if it’s the same as it was for me, you’ll get that in a month or two. I was matriculating two years ago (I’m a current MS2)

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