Friendly out of state DO schools

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GypsyHummus

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Just like the title says, what are the most friendly OOS osteopathic schools. I know most are private, but which ones tend to favor more diversity as far as different area's in the country? Also, which ones accept the most people?

Thanks!!!
 
It's really easier to ask which schools aren't OOS friendly in the case of DO schools. LECOM tends to accept a huge amount of applicants and is extremely OOS friendly.
 
serenade said:
It's really easier to ask which schools aren't OOS friendly in the case of DO schools. LECOM tends to accept a huge amount of applicants and is extremely OOS friendly.
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I agree with serenade, I remember the LECOM officials telling me during my interview that over 50% of the student body was OOS.
 
CCOM is fairly OOS friendly though there does seem to be a slight midwest bias, but we are well represented across the states 🙂
 
And for LECOM, the tuition for students starting this year is the same for in-state and out of state students.
 
Also remember that some schools are OOS friendly in terms of "regional" preference. But also schools like WVSOM accept a large amount of OOS but your gonna pay for it.
 
Poliscidoc said:
Also remember that some schools are OOS friendly in terms of "regional" preference. But also schools like WVSOM accept a large amount of OOS but your gonna pay for it.
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Would schools actually accept more OOS students if tuition at said medical school was ridiculously high? MSU for example. 70k a year is ridiculous. Would the school accept more if people were willing to pay for it?
 
GypsyHummus said:
Would schools actually accept more OOS students if tuition at said medical school was ridiculously high? MSU for example. 70k a year is ridiculous. Would the school accept more if people were willing to pay for it?
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MSU's tuition is high for OOS because it is the only public osteo school...so no, they wouldn't, because it's public. It is VERY michigan-biased, and midwest-biased. But it does reserve 25 spots for canadians.
 
SisterDisco08 said:
MSU's tuition is high for OOS because it is the only public osteo school...so no, they wouldn't, because it's public. It is VERY michigan-biased, and midwest-biased. But it does reserve 25 spots for canadians.
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What? It's tuition is not 68k because it is the only public DO school, as if that would be a selling content ( Which is wrong, as, OSU,OU,UMDNJ, are all public DO schools), but rather because it is the norm for public universities to charge higher rates for OOS students. Anyways many OOS students at MSU however are able to obtain a scholarship which reduces their tuition to In-state rates.
 
serenade said:
What? It's tuition is not 68k because it is the only public DO school, as if that would be a selling content ( Which is wrong, as, OSU,OU,UMDNJ, are all public DO schools), but rather because it is the norm for public universities to charge higher rates for OOS students. Anyways many OOS students at MSU however are able to obtain a scholarship which reduces their tuition to In-state rates.
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thaaaaaaaat's what I said. It's public, so OOSers pay more.

cool to know that there are now other public DO schools though! I know MSU was the first, wasn't aware that there are more now 🙂
 
serenade said:
What? It's tuition is not 68k because it is the only public DO school, as if that would be a selling content ( Which is wrong, as, OSU,OU,UMDNJ, are all public DO schools), but rather because it is the norm for public universities to charge higher rates for OOS students. Anyways many OOS students at MSU however are able to obtain a scholarship which reduces their tuition to In-state rates.
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I'm assuming MSU takes in slot of out of state applicants then because of the high tuition rate?
 
GypsyHummus said:
I'm assuming MSU takes in slot of out of state applicants then because of the high tuition rate?
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I believe less than 20% of the class is OOS, and of those 20% a decent amount are on a scholarship, which awards them in-state tuition. Anyways, the reason why the price is so high is because of state tax funding.
 
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