The stars aligned and someone did that just this morning. Got the news while driving and almost crashed due to excessive celebration, but I would have had to interview at UTMB.
YAAAAY!!!🙂
Best of luck with both interviews.
The stars aligned and someone did that just this morning. Got the news while driving and almost crashed due to excessive celebration, but I would have had to interview at UTMB.
Hey,
So I have an interview on Jan 14th, yay! However I am flying from Jersey and that just makes travel a little complicated. The admissions lady told me the closest airport was the Hobby one, however the Bush airport, IAH, has cheaper flights at better times for me. How far away is it from UTMB? On mapquest Hobby was about 55mins away. I am having an MD/PhD interview which is stated to end around 530, however the latest flights I could find out of IAH were at 740pm. Will that be enough time?
Sorry I am bombarding with questions, but I had another. I have a friend I would like to visit in Waco TX, however the greyhound bus service takes a ridiculous 16 hours to get there because of layover. Are there any other reliable bus services from galveston to Waco?
Finally is anyone was Baylor interviewing on the 14th of Jan that I can hitch a ride with? We can split the gas money.
Okay PM me if you have responses please, or just post it here
Thanks
Does Galveston grade on a curve?
Hey,
So I have an interview on Jan 14th, yay! However I am flying from Jersey and that just makes travel a little complicated. The admissions lady told me the closest airport was the Hobby one, however the Bush airport, IAH, has cheaper flights at better times for me. How far away is it from UTMB? On mapquest Hobby was about 55mins away. I am having an MD/PhD interview which is stated to end around 530, however the latest flights I could find out of IAH were at 740pm. Will that be enough time?
Sorry I am bombarding with questions, but I had another. I have a friend I would like to visit in Waco TX, however the greyhound bus service takes a ridiculous 16 hours to get there because of layover. Are there any other reliable bus services from galveston to Waco?
Finally is anyone was Baylor interviewing on the 14th of Jan that I can hitch a ride with? We can split the gas money.
Okay PM me if you have responses please, or just post it here
Thanks
No is the short answer, but the long answer is that they run statistics on each test we take, and occasionally, if it turns out there is a bad question, statistically speaking (ie- lots of people missed it or the people getting the correct answer are in the bottom part of the class while the people getting it wrong are in the top of the class (read: guessing gave you the right answer instead of knowledge)), they will occasionally throw a question or two out, or double key a question (like, make 2 answers correct instead of just the 1 they intended to be right), but in general they don't really round, at least so far this semester.
Grading is Honors (top 10-15% of class), High Pass (normally grades of 88 or higher), Pass (70-88ish).
Sorry I should have clarified my question; I didn't mean if they adjust the grades, what I meant was do they normalize them by grading on a bell curve? For instance, say 15% of the class gets a 98 on the test, and the next highest grade is a 97. Then the person with a 97 gets a High Pass instead of Honors? Another extreme example: If the whole class got an A on a test, would some people merely get a Pass, simply because they were in the bottom percentage of the class?
For the second example, I think everyone would get High Pass or Honors, because at least for the first two blocks, I believe a numerical grade (~88-89 or higher) was set for High Pass. If you achieved that 88-89 or higher, you got at least high pass. However, I think this is something that varies from class to class so I wouldn't set your decision of UTMB vs. other school on the answer to this 😉
Hey guys I have a questions,
Each Texas schools interviews about 900-950 out of about 3000-4000 students every year. From these only 300-350 get accepted and 230 actually go. Do you think its the same 1000-1500 people getting most of the interviews to multiple school ?
I dont know if that makes any sense, but just wondering what my chances were....
Yes HE is!Accepted!!!!!
God is amazing!! This is my first choice school, I received my acceptance as I was at the airport getting ready for another interview!! I've waited my whole life for this email.
Thank you Jesus!!!
interviewed 12/10 - UTMB showed up on my TMDSAS match list this morning...How long does it take for UTMB to show up on the TMDSAS match list after the interview?
Yes HE is!
Sorry I wasn't going to post about this but given that their are 3 god-praising posts I couldn't help myself--would it have been god's doing if you didn't pre-match somewhere? Also, why is it that you are so important that god apparently micromanages your acceptance into med school, but appears to care so little about some other people that they receive fatal illnesses and starvation instead of graduate school offers?given God the glory -I like you guys already 🙂 my future classmates!
oh I interviewed on Nov 12th too! maybe we met? I was at the table near the speaker, the blonde chick with the frizzy hair cuz it was So humid haha
Sorry I wasn't going to post about this but given that their are 3 god-praising posts I couldn't help myself--would it have been god's doing if you didn't pre-match somewhere? Also, why is it that you are so important that god apparently micromanages your acceptance into med school, but appears to care so little about some other people that they receive fatal illnesses and starvation instead of graduate school offers?
(Not trying to start a religious debate, especially in a completely unrelated thread like this one, but I am genuinely curious how your mind can make this connection while ignoring other ones).
given God the glory -I like you guys already 🙂 my future classmates!
oh I interviewed on Nov 12th too! maybe we met? I was at the table near the speaker, the blonde chick with the frizzy hair cuz it was So humid haha
Sorry I wasn't going to post about this but given that their are 3 god-praising posts I couldn't help myself--would it have been god's doing if you didn't pre-match somewhere? Also, why is it that you are so important that god apparently micromanages your acceptance into med school, but appears to care so little about some other people that they receive fatal illnesses and starvation instead of graduate school offers?
(Not trying to start a religious debate, especially in a completely unrelated thread like this one, but I am genuinely curious how your mind can make this connection while ignoring other ones).
On to another subject..has anyone began to think about living arrangements? Anyone know where most med students live? I'm going to start looking for apartments soon, really don't want to stay in the dorms...
interviewed 12/10 - UTMB showed up on my TMDSAS match list this morning...
I interviewed 12/3 and it still hasn't shown up for me yet....I'm not sure when I should try and talk to UTMB about it
OK, well the normalization is the only downside I can find with this school, otherwise I loved it (half-days, the game y'all play every Friday, etc.). So you don't think it's too much of a problem? It just seems to me like it would encourage heightened competition.
Also, as far as research goes, do you know when a lot of people choose to do it? Summer after 1st year, or just dispersed throughout the academic year? Just asking cause I thought I remember Galveston having a shorter summer break between M1 and M2 than most other Texas schools.
Congrats to all accepted today!
have you heard anything? Mine finally showed up yesterday.
Does anyone know if UTMB Admissions will be in next week?
Does anyone know the specific hospitals UTMB students can do their clinicals in Houton...I couldn't find a list.
I want to know the same thing. I posted the question last week and never got a response. Anyone know?