2011-2012 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Application Thread

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Nymphicus said:
It appears to be a merit scholarship attempting to cover "full tuition" for 1 year OOS and 3 years IS.

I also have not yet received any other financial aid information.



Edit for clarification: I am OOS.
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😱 Dang. Congrats, man!
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Nymphicus said:
It appears to be a merit scholarship attempting to cover "full tuition" for 1 year OOS and 3 years IS.

I also have not yet received any other financial aid information.



Edit for clarification: I am OOS.
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👍 Congrats! I received the same email and was really surprised too, as my student hosts had said Baylor never gives out merit scholarships...
 
soccerboy90 said:
👍 Congrats! I received the same email and was really surprised too, as my student hosts had said Baylor never gives out merit scholarships...
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Dude, you have a 42/4.0 and you got 6 merit scholarships! 😱 Were you exposed to some sort of Marvel Comics-esque Gamma radiation in your infancy?

Congrats!
 
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Merit scholarships are very very rare from BCM. I only personally know of one student in my class with one.
 
I got a 7,000/yr scholarship for four years yesterday (In State). I love love BCM 😍
 
GoSpursGo said:
Congrats to scholarship winners! I was under the impression that they didn't give merit-based scholarships, but I'm happy I was wrong 🙂
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actually, i just found out today that this is something new they've done in the past 2 yrs
 
asrikrishnan said:
I wonder if the entire class has been filled now... anyone know if there are any spots left?
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yes. there are spots left

eilatan said:
I'm looking for convenience so could anyone give a listing of apartments on the rail? I heard about Greenbriar, Lanesborough, Valencia, and Esplanade...? Any comments on them?

Should we be looking for roommates now or do people find them in the lookback weekend? For applications for housing, can we change the types of rooms (ie 1/1 to 2/2 and vice versa) easily? believe it costs money to send an application right?

I would like to have a roommate but I don't know anyone yet and I'm not sure if I should sign up for a 2/2 (suppose my future roommate also sent an app, or I deicde on a single after all)

Thanks! Looking forward to April 28th 🙂
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I live at the Greenbriar. Lived here for two years. Super convenient. I like it more than the Lanesborough as the complex is a little smaller but much safer (Lanesborough has occasional theft issues). Greenbriar is slightly more expensive but is very convenient for getting to and from the medical center/school.

second look weekend is a good time to find roommates. so is the facebook group.
 
ndnyhs said:
Do you happen to know how many they give out and if any are left?
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I know the target incoming class size is in the mid 180s. I do not know how many they have given out, but I do know that there are still acceptances to be sent out....probably starting up next week sometime and then going through the end of May and possibly even parts of June depending on movement after everyone must choose their one spot on May 15th.
 
Hey y'all

Congrats on your BCM acceptance!

I'm a graduating MS4 from out of state. I purchased my condo in 2007 to establish Texas residency. It's now up for sale since I'm heading to the west coast after graduation.

If any of you is interested in buying a place quickly (particularly to get in-state tuition) this is a great opportunity. The unit is in tip-top shape and I pretty much just want to off-load it as quickly as possible before I leave Texas. Therefore, the price is heavily negotiable.

More info is here:
http://houston.craigslist.org/reo/2929963457.html

E-mail me at: cypher2185<at>gmail<dot>com if you're interested in the condo or have any questions about Baylor, Houston, or Med School in general.

Cheers

WT
 
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as an update, Second Look Weekend this year will be Friday, April 27th,and Saturday, April 28th! i encourage all accepted applicants to come!
 
jturkel said:
as an update, Second Look Weekend this year will be Friday, April 27th,and Saturday, April 28th! i encourage all accepted applicants to come!
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Attending! Rsvp'd a while back...are student hosts getting back at us out-of-staters soon?
 
Bro Dude said:
Attending! Rsvp'd a while back...are student hosts getting back at us out-of-staters soon?
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we were recently sent an email about hosting students. i'm not the coordinator of this, so i don't know when the prospective students will be notified about students hosts to contact. i would imagine the answer is sooner than later. probably within the next week or two.
 
jturkel said:
we were recently sent an email about hosting students. i'm not the coordinator of this, so i don't know when the prospective students will be notified about students hosts to contact. i would imagine the answer is sooner than later. probably within the next week or two.
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Right on. 👍
 
Baylor where'd you go?
I miss you so.
Sometimes it feels like forever,
Since you've made calls...
 
Yes it has been a long wait, almost 7 months since my interview. I sure hope it's worth the wait. 👍
 
For all of us OOS gals/guys fortunate enough to have a BCM acceptance, I'd like to know two things as May 15 approaches:

i) What other SINGLE contender did you skip over/will you be skipping over to come to Baylor?
ii) (Disregarding cost) What were the top 3 reasons you chose/will be choosing BCM?

I know close to 75% of the class is IS, so I hope for more OOS respondents who will be more reflective of my situation. Current BCM OOS students are also welcome to chime in!

Thanks in advance!
 
ResIpsaLoquitur said:
For all of us OOS gals/guys fortunate enough to have a BCM acceptance, I'd like to know two things as May 15 approaches:

i) What other SINGLE contender did you skip over/will you be skipping over to come to Baylor?
ii) (Disregarding cost) What were the top 3 reasons you chose/will be choosing BCM?

I know close to 75% of the class is IS, so I hope for more OOS respondents who will be more reflective of my situation. Current BCM OOS students are also welcome to chime in!

Thanks in advance!
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I'm an MS2 (second yr) and OOS. Here are my top 3 reasons:

1) Texas Medical Center
When I was interviewing here and later on deciding between schools, I was like "Wow, this medical center is amazing. It's huge and there are so many hospitals here. What an environment." However, I had not truly been able to appreciate how amazing this medical center is and how important it is to my education until I started doing rotations this January.

As a BCM student, you will rotate at many different hospitals and clinics with quite diverse patient populations. The main institutions you will get to rotate at include:
- Texas Children's Hospital: one of the top children's hospitals in the world
- Ben Taub General Hospital: the county hospital where you see the most interesting things that you usually only get to read about
- the Debakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- St. Lukes : one of the top private hospitals in the country, especially in cardiology and heart surgery (location of first successful heart transplant, etc)

These are the core ones, though you may also rotate at Methodist, MD Anderson, and a variety of outpatient clinics. In each hospital, you encounter different patient populations/demographics, which allows you to obtain comprehensive exposure to medicine and the many diseases/ailments you will or may encounter in your medical career. Other medical schools don't quite have the variety of patient demographics that you will encounter here at BCM (not to mention Houston is the most ethnically diverse city in the nation!)

2) The curriculum
....is awesome. Instead of 2 years of basic sciences/pre-clinical, we get 1.5 yrs and get to rotate for the second half of the second year. Baylor also doesn't require you to take the STEP 1 until the middle of your third year AFTER you have done rotations for a full year. For those of you who don't know what STEP 1 is, it's the equivalent of the MCAT, only for residency and definitely the most important test (way more than the mcat, which you can retake) you will probably take in your life up to that point and through med school. Almost every other school requires you to take STEP 1 BEFORE you start rotations. Because you get to rotate before taking the STEP 1, you get to see a lot of the diseases/ailments/treatments/etc that you will be tested upon as opposed to just reading/studying about it in class and then being tested on it. In my short time on rotations (4th month now), I've seen a ton. And while reading/studying about things is helpful, once you see it, you won't forget it. You'll remember features/diagnosis/treatment/etc and that'll be very helpful (so I am told) for the STEP 1.
I'm sure it also doesn't hurt that since we start rotations 6 months before everyone else, you end up getting 6 months of elective/free time somewhere...so many students end up doing a yr of rotations and then take two or so months off (aka no school or rotation or anything) to take the STEP 1.....most schools don't let you take all that time off or give you any time off. So a combination of getting to rotate before taking the STEP and getting a ton of time off results in high step scores (last year's average was 241...second highest in the country).

Oh, did I mention our pre-clinical curriculum is P/F?

3) Miscellaneous

-You said you didn't want to hear cost, so I won't focus on that too long. I'll just say that it is the same cost for me to go here as it was for me to go to my state school lol.

-Weather: I'm not a fan of the cold. It doesn't get too cold here which means I can go outside and do thingsl

- Houston: fourth largest city in the country, lots of things to do here (museums, sports, clubs/bars, zoo, the beach is an hour away (galveston), many types of foods, cultures), very academic (between the 2 medical schools and their medical/grad students/residents/attendings, dental school, nursing schools, Rice, UH)...it's amazing being in such an intellectual environment

- Normal: when i interviewed here, the students here seemed the most "normal." coming from a state/public school, the last thing i wanted was to go to a school where people lacked social skills. BCM does a fantastic job of selecting it's students and i love my classmates

- Happy: the bottom line is that you have to go where you will be happy. if you are happy, you are more likely to do well/succeed. i seemed to mesh best with the students here and knew I would be happy here. and i work very hard, but i'm loving school and am very happy with my decision. 🙂

BCM was simply the overall package deal that no other school seemed to be able to offer to me/provide me with
 
I withdrew from BCM a couple days ago, so hopefully someone will hear good news (and maybe even get a scholarship) soon!!
 
jturkel said:
(last year's average was 241...second highest in the country).
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I'm still in awe from the time they first told us that on interview day. 👍
Just curious, which school reports the highest Step 1 score? Is it Vanderbilt? I can't seem to find any sources....
 
Bro Dude said:
I'm still in awe from the time they first told us that on interview day. 👍
Just curious, which school reports the highest Step 1 score? Is it Vanderbilt? I can't seem to find any sources....
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yes. it was vandy. i want to say there score was like 243 or something. both very impressive scores and unbelievable averages. if you (or anyone else) aren't sure really what those scores mean, the average score for someone matching into dermatology (either the most or second most field to match into besides plastics) is 244....so....lol

national average is 225 i think.

here is a link with residency and step1 numbers and stuff (good link)

http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf
 
jturkel said:
yes. it was vandy. i want to say there score was like 243 or something. both very impressive scores and unbelievable averages. if you (or anyone else) aren't sure really what those scores mean, the average score for someone matching into dermatology (either the most or second most field to match into besides plastics) is 244....so....lol

national average is 225 i think.

here is a link with residency and step1 numbers and stuff (good link)

http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf
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Saved. 👍
 
Have any more acceptances been given out recently? Judging by what posters said about the final interview day, approximately 2/3 of the acceptances had yet to be sent out, and since then only one or two more people posted about acceptances. Are all of the spots already filled?
 
I wonder if they mean 1/3 of acceptances in the context that it usually takes them ~500 acceptances to fill the class... total acceptances. Because it just seems silly to think that they have only offered 1/3 of available seats in the spring.
 
Yes, you're right. As of 2/24 "And he told us he's given out 1/3 of the total amount of acceptances they're going to offer." - SellerAl. Guessing they've given anywhere between 15-40 acceptances since then (any more and there would probably be more than 2 people posting about acceptances in this thread since then). I hope this means there are still a good number left to give.

Edit: I'm confused because Second Look weekend is coming up, which would suggest that a lot more than 1/3-1/2 have been given out by now 🙁
 
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RandomHero117 said:
I wonder if they mean 1/3 of acceptances in the context that it usually takes them ~500 acceptances to fill the class... total acceptances. Because it just seems silly to think that they have only offered 1/3 of available seats in the spring.
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I thought it's like 350 acceptances total out of ~750 interviews?
 
Thank you! :luck:
I am a Texas resident and BCM has been my top choice for years - this is the best day of my life 🙂
 
Can someone who got accepted PM me the phone number they called from? I have a missed 713 call from yesterday that won't pick up.
 
lol I got a missed call from BCM like 10 minutes ago - I called back and it was their main switchboard. 😕 No messages either.
 
nysw said:
lol I got a missed call from BCM like 10 minutes ago - I called back and it was their main switchboard. 😕 No messages either.
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i herd u liek mudkipz... :laugh:
 
Hellokapi said:
Thank you! :luck:
I am a Texas resident and BCM has been my top choice for years - this is the best day of my life 🙂
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Congrats and welcome aboard. I am sure I speak for all when I say we can all easily relate with how you feel😀 I'm having problems though because Miami has aggressively up-ed the ante and throw a full ride my way - My love for BCM is severely being tormented right now...lol. Hope BCM throws me a bone to make the pain of walking away from that deal in South Beach at least somewhat bearable..lol. Congrats again - we are all smitten by BCM for sure!
 
lol it was verizon wireless calling from Houston? This is the second time I've been trolled while waiting for a BCM call. Twice I've received calls from 713 when I have absolutely 0 connection to Houston.

So weird....and sad.
 
MusicalHenry said:
lol it was verizon wireless calling from Houston? This is the second time I've been trolled while waiting for a BCM call. Twice I've received calls from 713 when I have absolutely 0 connection to Houston.

So weird....and sad.
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I know the feeling my friend. I work in Baylor and any phone call you make on their land line comes out with the same caller ID. The other day I picked up my phone and it shows BCM as caller ID. My heart skipped a beat. But when I picked up, it was one of my friends calling from our lab... In 2 years no one has ever called me from that phone!
 
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