June 25, 2008
Competition could be fierce to become a member of the inaugural class of 40 students at the University of Central Florida’s fledgling medical school if the first wave of applications is any indication. So far, 778 students have lined up to compete for the open slots, according to information UCF obtained from the American Medical College Application Service, the nonprofit, centralized application processing service for U.S. medical schools. It’s too soon to tell how many students are being lured by the promise of a free medical education worth $160,000 – a gift no other new U.S. medical school has ever offered its first class. Initial applications will continue to come in through Dec. 1, so the actual depth of the applicant pool will not be known until after that. Applicants include students from every large Florida university, school officials said. Among the other schools applicants attended: Harvard, Duke, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State and Brigham Young.
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