A Forecast

For the Fall 2009 medical class, let’s assume that bribing quality students with free tuition and housing pulls them away from more established medical schools. What will the new students in the Fall 2010 class look like? They aren’t going to be getting a free ride, and at the time of their matriculation, UCF will still be a provisionally accredited medical school. My guess is that this second group will have much lower GPAs and MCAT scores than the inaugural class. Factor in UCF’s obsession with retaining every last student, even those who have shown themselves to be academically unqualified, and this will probably be a class of very dangerous doctors.