Lander College for Women BS/DO Program
What does Touro's honors track at Lander require to reach the D.O. seat?
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New York · Integrated Osteopathic Medicine Honors Track (Lander College for Women)
At a glance
Cost and aid
Undergraduate cost and medical-school cost are separate, and a combined seat is not automatically cheaper. These are the published figures. Confirm the current year with the program before you rely on a number.
Undergraduate years
Medical school years
Program scholarship
Lander College for Women, part of Touro University, runs an Integrated Osteopathic Medicine Honors Track that reserves a spot at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine for a high schooler who earns it. The reservation is conditional and gated by an interview, not a seat handed over at seventeen. You hold it by carrying a strong college GPA and sitting the MCAT for a set score, then entering the D.O. phase within four years of starting undergrad. This page keeps the getting-in bar and the keeping-the-seat bar separate, and names what Lander does not publish.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”You enter the honors track from high school at Lander. The structure is built around a rule worth understanding: you must enter the professional, medical-school phase within 48 months of first matriculating as an undergraduate. There are two interviews across the path. Early on, a formal interview with the Office of the Dean of the undergraduate division yields a dean’s recommendation. Later, a TouroCOM admission interview, scheduled no later than six months before you would start medical school, decides the seat itself.
What gets you in
Section titled “What gets you in”The published floor is a 90 high-school average, an SAT of at least 1250 with a minimum of 600 in each section, or an ACT of 28. Those numbers, plus the dean’s interview, get you into the track. What Lander is really testing, in the essay and the interviews, is whether you understand osteopathic medicine and want it for reasons that are your own. A reviewer holding a medical seat for a teenager has every reason to look for that, and to be able to tell a borrowed motivation from a real one.
Keeping the seat
Section titled “Keeping the seat”To reach and hold the TouroCOM seat, you must maintain an overall GPA of 3.5 and a science GPA of 3.6 in your Touro coursework, and you must take the MCAT after at least four semesters of study and score 507 or higher. That is the whole promise made plain: a reserved place, held on the condition that you clear a real college GPA, a real MCAT, and a medical-school interview. The getting-in numbers and the keeping-the-seat numbers are different tests, and a student should know both before committing.
Where this leaves you
Section titled “Where this leaves you”This track fits a student who genuinely wants osteopathic medicine, can hold a 3.5 overall with a 3.6 in the sciences, and is ready to earn a 507 on the MCAT inside a combined program. The reward is a reserved D.O. seat and a clear runway toward it. The trade is a real continuation standard and a required exam.
It is not the right fit for a student drawn only by the security of a reserved place, or who has not looked closely at what a D.O. is. The honest question, for the student and the parent both, is not whether the seat is reachable. It is whether osteopathic medicine is the chosen path, held with open eyes.
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