2012-2013 University of Texas - San Antonio Application Thread

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Tomahawk when did you interview? Congrats!
 
new user. Accepted yesterday. here are my stats, maybe they can help some of you figure out where you stand.

32O 3.79 interviewed 8/6
 
Congrats to everyone who's been accepted- what an awesome feeling! I'm a little discouraged because I'm OOS and interviewed on 8/6, but I haven't heard a peep. I loved the school.. Does anyone have any advice/ is anyone else in the same situation?
 
BoomerSooner39 said:
Congrats to everyone who's been accepted- what an awesome feeling! I'm a little discouraged because I'm OOS and interviewed on 8/6, but I haven't heard a peep. I loved the school.. Does anyone have any advice/ is anyone else in the same situation?
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No advice, same boat, interviewed 8/13.
 
I wouldn't count us out just yet. Give it til after the match, rolling admissions (even for OOS) make us relevant applicants at least until then.
 
AtlasCarraway said:
I wouldn't count us out just yet. Give it til after the match, rolling admissions (even for OOS) make us relevant applicants at least until then.
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Also, I had a friend call them last week and they're just incredibly busy. I would wait until this Friday to officially start worrying about having to wait until March :luck:
 
coyotelime said:
Also, I had a friend call them last week and they're just incredibly busy. I would wait until this Friday to officially start worrying about having to wait until March :luck:
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that's good to know. i was just wondering if they send out all 22 acceptances and wait for people to decline before sending more, or if they send them out in batches from the get go...anyone have any idea?
 
I emailed yesterday, and she was very helpful. She said that if an OOS declines an acceptance, then that spot goes to another OOS.

BUT, they are also sending out acceptances "on a rolling basis over the next several weeks."

I took this as good news haha
 
Thanks for the info Boomer- good to know.

I noticed all of the acceptances on here were from August, so maybe they are going in order of interview dates in terms of batching/rolling admits... who knows.

Good luck everyone.
 
Yes, I was referring to OOS. I don't believe that TX residents can find out anything til 11/15 at the earliest!
 
I also emailed the admissions office, here's what they said:

Dear Ms. Gonzalez,

I am an out of state applicant and had a wonderful time interviewing at your school in August. As I understand it, UTHSCSA sent out acceptance offers to out of state students last Friday. Unfortunately I was not one of the students selected. I have two quick questions on how things proceed from here:

1-If for example 10 of the accepted students end up going somewhere else, then will you send out 10 more out of state offers? Or will those spots be filled by in state students? I would assume that you have the applicants ranked and would just go down the order.

2-For out of state students, do the Texas schools communicate with each other on who they are going to accept? I was accepted to TCOM, so does this mean that I will not get any other offers from Texas schools or is that completely irrelevant?

Thanks so much,

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Thank you for your email. That is correct that one batch of acceptances went out last Friday, however, we have yet to fill our nonTX resident seats in the class. Typically if a non TX resident declines the position, then it will be offered to another non TX resident. No, your acceptance to TCOM will have no impact on a future acceptance here. We simply ask applicants to inform the schools of their decisions early on.

Please be in touch if you have additional questions.

Best wishes.
 
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That's encouraging that they haven't filled the OOS seats yet. Maybe everybody that got accepted so far is an SDN'er.
 
Magician- good info, thanks for sharing for all of us still waiting!
 
I was wondering if there were any MS1's that could give some insight into the first year. I'm primarily curious about how much time you spend in class and how many courses do you take each semester? I'm hoping for a pre-match at this school.
 
cstolky said:
I was wondering if there were any MS1's that could give some insight into the first year. I'm primarily curious about how much time you spend in class and how many courses do you take each semester? I'm hoping for a pre-match at this school.
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This should get you started: http://som.uthscsa.edu/ume/preclinical.asp

Right now we are about to start the 4th week of immunology (Attack & Defense), alongside anatomy and clinical skills. Before that we had what they called "molecules to med" which is basically genetics/biochem etc all rolled into one. In between each module they have a week of ethics which they call "Medicine, Behavior and Society".

Typically Mon/Thurs are the dissection days, so class goes from 8am-2pm and the dissection is from 2-whenever you finish. Tuesday/Wednesday we finish class by noon. Friday we finish by 11-12. But clinical skills labs/classes are sprinkled throughout so it can vary a little bit week-by-week.

It doesn't seem like too much but as I type this I feel like I'm pretty far behind. Best of luck to you all, this is a great school. The curriculum has some wrinkles that we (current MS1's and faculty) are ironing out. It will only get better. Add to that a brand new hospital opening in a year and this is a great place to be. Plus the people are amazing; it is very cooperative and people seem to go out of their way to help you if you need it.
 
Tipsy McStagger said:
This should get you started: http://som.uthscsa.edu/ume/preclinical.asp

Right now we are about to start the 4th week of immunology (Attack & Defense), alongside anatomy and clinical skills. Before that we had what they called "molecules to med" which is basically genetics/biochem etc all rolled into one. In between each module they have a week of ethics which they call "Medicine, Behavior and Society".

Typically Mon/Thurs are the dissection days, so class goes from 8am-2pm and the dissection is from 2-whenever you finish. Tuesday/Wednesday we finish class by noon. Friday we finish by 11-12. But clinical skills labs/classes are sprinkled throughout so it can vary a little bit week-by-week.

It doesn't seem like too much but as I type this I feel like I'm pretty far behind. Best of luck to you all, this is a great school. The curriculum has some wrinkles that we (current MS1's and faculty) are ironing out. It will only get better. Add to that a brand new hospital opening in a year and this is a great place to be. Plus the people are amazing; it is very cooperative and people seem to go out of their way to help you if you need it.
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Not sure who you are, but I guaran-damn-tee-you that you are not alone in feeling waaay behind. This A&D module is killer. Plus with only one exam and OSCEs coming down the tracks... :scared:

I'll mostly second everything Tipsy said. The Molecules to Medicine module was very flexible in terms of you could stay home and just stream lectures if you wanted. Our second module is not as flexible since a lot more of the lecture hours are required, although even if you attend optional lectures you're still just looking at mornings only. Time will tell how the rest of the modules will play out.

Starting in January we are finished with anatomy (until we return to the dissection labs in Jan 2014 to do extremities), which should make things a bit easier. Basically we'll just have whatever our major module is plus clinical skills one day per week. To answer the original question, not counting anatomy and clinical skills we really only take 1 class at a time, but these "modules" are a bunch of different things combined together (one lecture will be a lot of biochem, the next a lot of genetics, the next a lot of pharm, etc...).

I definitely agree with what was said about the helpfulness of our classmates.
 
I have a question for current students as well. I was wait-listed here last year, reapplied, and interviewed mid-September, so I have visited the school a total of 3 times at this point. I am trying to decide how to rank schools, and my biggest concern with this school (as stupid as this may sound) is that it felt like a psych ward. What is with all the creepy tiled walls?! The classrooms we were shown were all underground (I think), and had no windows. Is this a true evaluation of the school or did I just see all the ugly parts? I am a very outdoorsy person and I really cannot survive without a daily dose of vitamin D...this is a serious concern. Thanks for the input!
 
DrBarbie08 said:
I have a question for current students as well. I was wait-listed here last year, reapplied, and interviewed mid-September, so I have visited the school a total of 3 times at this point. I am trying to decide how to rank schools, and my biggest concern with this school (as stupid as this may sound) is that it felt like a psych ward. What is with all the creepy tiled walls?! The classrooms we were shown were all underground (I think), and had no windows. Is this a true evaluation of the school or did I just see all the ugly parts? I am a very outdoorsy person and I really cannot survive without a daily dose of vitamin D...this is a serious concern. Thanks for the input!
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The school was built in the late-60s/70s I believe and while it's been renovated, there's no arguing the fact that it's dated. The tan brick look and tiled walls used to be popular I guess. The 5th floor of the library (where most med students go) was just barely renovated a month ago and is all modern-y now, and the library basement (where med students have 24/7 access) is new, too. You're correct that the lecture halls and most classrooms have no windows.

There's a large beautiful rec area with a gold's gym, sand volleyball courts, softball field, and jogging trail. They're a ton of active intramural sports (combined with dental/nursing/PA students), so you'll have more than enough opportunities to get sunlight exposure.

But if having classrooms with windows is seriously the most important thing to you then maybe you shouldn't come here.
 
Morzh said:
The school was built in the late-60s/70s I believe and while it's been renovated, there's no arguing the fact that it's dated. The tan brick look and tiled walls used to be popular I guess. The 5th floor of the library (where most med students go) was just barely renovated a month ago and is all modern-y now, and the library basement (where med students have 24/7 access) is new, too. You're correct that the lecture halls and most classrooms have no windows.

There's a large beautiful rec area with a gold's gym, sand volleyball courts, softball field, and jogging trail. They're a ton of active intramural sports (combined with dental/nursing/PA students), so you'll have more than enough opportunities to get sunlight exposure.

But if having classrooms with windows is seriously the most important thing to you then maybe you shouldn't come here.
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Very true. The building is old but is in the process of a remodeling. The lecture halls do not have windows but not much of your time is spent there. The med center is quite large and as Morzh said it's only a 5 minute walk to our own Golds Gym, 2 large fields (soccer, cricket, baseball etc), several volleyball courts, and 2 running tracks. Walking through the building is not as nice as walking through an art gallery, but it's really not that bad. Honestly once you get busy with school you don't even notice. This school definitely isn't one of the prettiest around, but it's got it where it counts: education and people. I'll take that over aesthetics any day.

One thing I forgot to mention which I think is pretty cool (and for all I know every other school does this too), but there is a clinical preceptorship. It is sort of like the shadowing you did as an undergrad but much better. Basically ~200 physicians volunteer their time to a med student and you are paired at random. I can't speak for others, but my time with my preceptor so far has been nothing short of amazing. Surgeries, rounds, meetings, appointments....I'm getting much more exposure to clinical medicine than I did volunteering/shadowing. Your mileage may vary with this program but for me it has been incredible.
 
Morzh said:
The school was built in the late-60s/70s I believe and while it's been renovated, there's no arguing the fact that it's dated. The tan brick look and tiled walls used to be popular I guess. The 5th floor of the library (where most med students go) was just barely renovated a month ago and is all modern-y now, and the library basement (where med students have 24/7 access) is new, too. You're correct that the lecture halls and most classrooms have no windows.

There's a large beautiful rec area with a gold's gym, sand volleyball courts, softball field, and jogging trail. They're a ton of active intramural sports (combined with dental/nursing/PA students), so you'll have more than enough opportunities to get sunlight exposure.

But if having classrooms with windows is seriously the most important thing to you then maybe you shouldn't come here.
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Morzh, thank you for the information. Please note I didn't say windows was the most important aspect of the school, I said it was my biggest concern with the school. I liked everything else about it. They keep telling us we'll know where we fit, and that is why I asked. I don't care what the outside of the building looks like, what I was trying to ask, and perhaps I could have worded it clearer, was do current students feel like they're in a dungeon all day or not.

Tipsy McStagger said:
Very true. The building is old but is in the process of a remodeling. The lecture halls do not have windows but not much of your time is spent there. The med center is quite large and as Morzh said it's only a 5 minute walk to our own Golds Gym, 2 large fields (soccer, cricket, baseball etc), several volleyball courts, and 2 running tracks. Walking through the building is not as nice as walking through an art gallery, but it's really not that bad. Honestly once you get busy with school you don't even notice. This school definitely isn't one of the prettiest around, but it's got it where it counts: education and people. I'll take that over aesthetics any day.

One thing I forgot to mention which I think is pretty cool (and for all I know every other school does this too), but there is a clinical preceptorship. It is sort of like the shadowing you did as an undergrad but much better. Basically ~200 physicians volunteer their time to a med student and you are paired at random. I can't speak for others, but my time with my preceptor so far has been nothing short of amazing. Surgeries, rounds, meetings, appointments....I'm getting much more exposure to clinical medicine than I did volunteering/shadowing. Your mileage may vary with this program but for me it has been incredible.
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Thank you for the info. I really enjoyed the people I have met both years and feel I would get a wonderful education here. What I am trying to decide is if I would be happier here than at the other schools I interviewed with. Your input was very helpful.
 
Anyone know if this school has a second look? If so, do you know when?
 
DrBarbie08 said:
Thank you for the info. I really enjoyed the people I have met both years and feel I would get a wonderful education here. What I am trying to decide is if I would be happier here than at the other schools I interviewed with. Your input was very helpful.
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Yeah in the end that's what you really should go with. Go where you think you'll do the best. Everybody has their own needs, I wish you the best of luck.
 
Tipsy - thank you for the information. That is exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate you and the other MS1's taking the time to respond.
 
Any more OOS getting interviews? Sounded like seats were still open in OP's post, but it's been quite.
 
I guess all other interview spots are gone by now, oh well i really liked this school but it did not reciprocate my love, however i am glad i had 4 MD interviews already
 
MD2017done said:
I guess all other interview spots are gone by now, oh well i really liked this school but it did not reciprocate my love, however i am glad i had 4 MD interviews already
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False. Good friend of mine got one this morning for 12/10.

I am still waiting as well, we're in this together (also have 4 MD interviews), don't lose hope and let's stay positive. Things will work out.

Best of luck to ya 👍
 
Man, this is my #1 dream school. I am a Texas resident, live in Dallas currently, have large family here, and I completed my undergrad in San Antonio (UTSA). I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Jones and going to visit UTHSCSA while I was in SA. All the medical students seem so HAPPY at this school. Your really get a sense of community among the students.

I have been complete since August and haven't heard anything from this school. Do they email you regarding rejections or is it just an assumed, silent rejection? Should I call or email somebody, and if so, who?

I have been accepted OOS and I have an interview at TCOM at the end of November, but I would drop both schools in a heartbeat if it meant going to this school as it ranks as my#1. Should I give them a letter of intent or update? Thanks for any advice guys!

Also, do they screen applicants? Maybe I just got screened out because of my low verbal score. I guess I should probably put my stats down to give you a better idea:

Bio major; lots of EC-clinical and nonclinical. Full time ER scribe x 2 years. 4.0 last 5 semesters of undergrad. cGPA=3.83 sGPA=3.91 MCAT= 9/5/R/10 😎 English was not my first language.
 
OOS peeps: my friend that interviewed there today said that Dr. Jones has sent acceptances to 15 OOS people.
 
AtlasCarraway said:
OOS peeps: my friend that interviewed there today said that Dr. Jones has sent acceptances to 15 OOS people.
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Hmm. Don't know if this makes me feel hopeful (yeah! OOS are getting in) or panicked (boo! OOS are getting in and I haven't been invited to interview yet).
 
What's this years class size predicted to be? Anyone know?
 
I don't think they screen unless your stats are totally unreasonable like no chance of succeeding. I heard it's very holistic here.

Edit: sorry didn't see the 5 in verbal. I don't think that will cut it at Md or do schools. At least a 7 and I'm sure you would have been fine n
 
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For everyone's information, I called to see when and if there was a second look weekend. I was told it will be in April but the exact date has not been decided.
 
rubisco88 said:
I don't think they screen unless your stats are totally unreasonable like no chance of succeeding. I heard it's very holistic here.

Edit: sorry didn't see the 5 in verbal. I don't think that will cut it at Md or do schools. At least a 7 and I'm sure you would have been fine n
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Just a note: Dr. Jones said on interview day that the range for last year was 2.9-4.0 gpa and 24-39 MCAT and that there is no hard cut-off for any one criterion. He also said that while sumbitting early has an effect on whether or not you interview, your interview date is completely unrelated to your level of competativeness. He has orchestrated it in such a way that, if you are there on interview then there are spots remaining (both IS and OOS). It's not like UT-houston and the like that will over-bid during prematch, making it to where subsequent interviews are contingent upon declinations.
 
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Would be nice coyote, but my guess is they won't over accept to get the final yield like most schools do. They can only have a max of 10% OOS, so I would guess they wouldn't have more than 22 outstanding OOS offers max, then would accept 1 for 1 if people decline.
 
Well, I have decided to send a letter of interest as this is my #1 school. I have been accepted OOS and have a TCOM interview at the end of the month. However, I am a Texas resident with strong ties to San Antonio and I would really LOVE to have the opportunity to interview here. I did my undergrad in SA and have had the opportunity to visit the school several times and visit with Dr. Jones.

I have decided to send a letter of interest. What's the worst that could happen? Should I send the letter directly to him or should I just email him? Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
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