2009-2010 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Application Thread
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Just the one.
I am "currently being reviewed by the committee"
Exciting...
Exciting...
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Like all TX schools, residency is very pertinent to your application, only a small percentage are out of state.
Same thing is going on with mine. I think they're just a little slow.
Yeah me too. It kinda worries me though. It says "Our records indicate that we have not received the letters of recommendation from ." From whom??? Did I miss something on the app?
Sounds good. 👍
I am "currently being reviewed by the committee"
Exciting...
Me too! It's says "we will let you know something as soon as we are able." I'm excited and nervous as hell.
Seriously?
The MSAR I'm looking at says ~25% of matriculants are from Texas. However, about 40% of interviewees are from OOS.
yeah, baylor is a private school and doesn't have that same in-state commitment as the other texas schools. but just like with UCSF and UCLA, by virtue of being in texas a large portion of its matriculants are TX residents
For Baylor, I'd guess that most of it is due to self-selection. While that might be somewhat true of SF and LA, those two are still public institutions.
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I'll join in. Complete except for my LOR packet (my UG institution is dragging their feet apparently). I assume BCM doesn't review my app until the LOR packet is received...? I know this varies by institution, anybody know BCM's policy for sure?
I'm thinking you mis-typed there? >75% are from TX. The LizzyM school selector says ~20% acceptees are OOS. The interview rate was listed at approx. 52/48 TX:OOS.
Complete. Woo.
They wait for the letters I'm pretty sure.
Yes sir, you're correct. 25% of matriculants were from OOS. The point was that while most of the matriculants are from Texas, the interviews are pretty much evenly split. So there's some bias toward TX applicants, but it's not huge like SF and LA.
ksmi, this is happening to me too and you said you are complete now....so I am assuming that it is because they need to download the LOR in batches or something. When did you submit your app and how long before they got rid of this "we have not received..." business? I know my LOR are in, it just freaks me out when a school says they haven't gotten something that they should have.
To the previous poster, I did wait for the invite but I don't think this is necessary.
I finally got my LORs into AMCAS like last Thursday and was marked complete today.
I didn't wait for the email. Just submit. 🙂
Holy crap! It says my application has been reviewed by the committee!
Well, I guess it's done now.
Hope I get an interview.
Well, I guess it's done now.
Hope I get an interview.
Holy crap! It says my application has been reviewed by the committee!
Well, I guess it's done now.
Hope I get an interview.
Damn. I hope you get one too.
They still don't have my letters. Kind of annoying, I hope there's not a problem.
So I decided to resubmit my AMCAS yesterday. Just to see if that would help since my letters were received after I submitted. Who knows if it helped, but Baylor downloaded them today. It definitely can't hurt to resubmit as long as you don't change anything else. Give it a shot.
I remember on last year's AMCAS, when I "attached" my LOR to BCM, I thought that was it. To my surprise, I received an e-mail a few weeks later saying that they hadn't received my LOR. I immediately resubmitted my application, and that fixed the mishap. 🙂
I'd like to point out that Baylor actually accepts some state funding. So while they're still technically private and don't HAVE to accept 90% of their matriculants from in-staters like the other schools, they CHOOSE to accept no less than 70% in-state. So you still have a MUCH better chance at Baylor than any other Texas school, but you're still at a disadvantage.
Good luck everyone!
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Hmm...I assigned my letter packet to BCM when I submitted last month. My app was verified, and I submitted the secondary before the letter packet was received by AMCAS.
At what point should I go ahead and resubmit? What does resubmitting entail...they don't put it back in line for a verifier do they?
So does Baylor wait until they get all your LORS from AMCAS before reviewing your app? My committee is not going to write my letter until the end of July.... sheesh.... it makes me feel like I'm falling behind...
For those of you who have the secondary... what do the essays look like? Anybody know what the cut off point is as to who gets a secondary and who doesn't?
For those of you who have the secondary... what do the essays look like? Anybody know what the cut off point is as to who gets a secondary and who doesn't?
I'd like to point out that Baylor actually accepts some state funding. So while they're still technically private and don't HAVE to accept 90% of their matriculants from in-staters like the other schools, they CHOOSE to accept no less than 70% in-state. So you still have a MUCH better chance at Baylor than any other Texas school, but you're still at a disadvantage.
Good luck everyone!
Thanks for the clarification Spurs.
The secondary is required of ALL applicants. BCM doesn't screen. They have a very open prompt for the essay. Basically you can expand upon any experience, hardship, job, etc.
I'd like to point out that Baylor actually accepts some state funding. So while they're still technically private and don't HAVE to accept 90% of their matriculants from in-staters like the other schools, they CHOOSE to accept no less than 70% in-state. So you still have a MUCH better chance at Baylor than any other Texas school, but you're still at a disadvantage.
Good luck everyone!
Texas gets one of these: 👎. Only because you live there.
Resubmit now. All it does is update your info. The verification is strictly for the grades and those can't be changed now. So like say you change your phone number. You should change it in contact info, resubmit, and all your schools would be notified that you have a different phone number.
Not screened. You can even fill it out before your AMCAS is verified. Link: .http://www.bcm.edu/admissions/?PMID=1776.
It could be worse; I could live in Louisiana, where everyone is missing teeth and they all believe in voodoo.
If you have too many characters in a row (i.e. don't put spaces between smileys), it adds a space wherever it feels like. This is why I space my smileys. 😀 😀 😀 😀
you've been on sdn too long lol
My bad. It's ten if you count the command script there in the middle! I'll have to start spacing my thumbs. If you think ksmi has been on sdn too long, check out my join date! Many of this year's MS1s were graduating high school then! Ouch. 😱
And this makes ten officially: 👍
Thank you that's really helpful!
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Holy crap! It says my application has been reviewed by the committee!
Well, I guess it's done now.
Hope I get an interview.
how is this possible? the girl i spoke to in the admissions office said the adcom haven't look at the apps yet.
I don't know, but that's what my status has said for the last 2 days now.
And it definitely changed, because it went from "is under review" to "has been reviewed". Very fine print.
They probably just wanted to review mine early so they could get my rejection out of the way.
don't say that. you're definitely getting in.
the girl probably told me that to calm people like me down. 🙂
My application has been reviewed.They'll let me know soon.My heart is pounding!
Download my letters already!
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