Linking to Medical School

If, on the other hand, you would rather go right to medical school, there's a way to do that, too.  Goucher has linkage agreements with highly selective medical schools that enable you to apply early and go straight from our program to theirs. We currently have linkages with the following schools:

• University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
• The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Weill Cornell Medical College
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• New York University Grossman School of Medicine
• Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University   
• Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell 

Each year, these medical schools will accept a limited number of qualified students from the Goucher Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program into their schools. This eliminates the glide year between the completion of the Goucher program and the beginning of medical school. In a typical year, a little over half of the class will opt to apply to one of our linkage schools.

You should understand that an early application is regarded as a commitment to attend if accepted, so you can only apply to one of these schools—but the linkage program can be a great way to put your medical education and career on the fast track.