Have you thought about a post-bacc or SMP to boost up your undergrad GPA? Grad school GPA doesn't affect your undergrad GPA.
2014-2015 Baylor College of Medicine Application Thread
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Have you thought about a post-bacc or SMP to boost up your undergrad GPA? Grad school GPA doesn't affect your undergrad GPA.
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my graduate program is an SMP/masters? does that help?
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Nah no confirmation, I wouldn't worry about it.
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I didn't get a confirmation either, so I think we are fine 🙂
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mind sharing your stats and IS or OOS?
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Complete silence since being complete 7/11. Is there no hope for love from Baylor?
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You have interviews at other really good schools. I think you still have a shot.
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GPA x 10 + MCAT.
So someone with a 3.6 and 30 has a LizzyM of 66. A possible breakdown for a 74 is 4.0 and 34.
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I also had my interview at Baylor yesterday. I went into it with nothing but great expectations and was not let down at all. They really sell themselves well and there's not much not to like about the school.
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I had one faculty interviewer and one student. Both were very laid back but the student one was more structured. The faculty member just had jotted notes down from my AMCAS app and essentially asked me to talk about the ones he brought up. The only question I remember him asking was "Why medicine?". On the other hand, the student interviewer had a list of pre-made questions that he chose from every time he asked a question. They were very general and had little to do with my specific application. Ones I remember are "How did you get interested in science", "Do you think the healthcare field is heading in a good direction", "What two things would you change about yourself if you could", "What's your greatest strength", "If you won the lottery, what would that change about your life course", "How did you get interested in medicine", and that's all I can think of for now.
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Also "Is there a book that has been influential in your life", "Did you ever consider a career other than medicine", and "Tell me about a time you had to use teamwork".
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People with invites, any general consensus on how long it was before the notorious status change back to "is being reviewed" online?
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Mine changed a little over 3 weeks after submitting the secondary. The actual II didn't come until a month before my assigned interview date. Hope that helps!
Haha. I have been waiting for this miracle to happen too.
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False. They accept around 40% oos and 44% IS
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well about 20% of the matriculated class is oos
40+44= 84, so that means 16% are international? that seems too high
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No no no. They're saying 40% of the OOS interviewees get in and 44% of the IS interviewees get in. Adding those numbers is absolutely meaningless.
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congrats to all that have interview invites and good luck to those still waiting! loved med school here and got me into my number 1 choice for residency. if you have any questions, please feel free to ask or send me a private msg.
Just FYI, Baylor enrolls 75% in-state and 25% out of state. The 75% number is part of a deal with the State of Texas because they subsidize our tuition.
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Any Baylor-specific interview advice?
Edit: Did anyone change after the interviews or did everyone keep their interview attire for the tours?
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Nobody changed after interviews. So be prepared for the heat if you take the outside tour.
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People did take their jackets off, but no one changed. You wouldn't really have time anyway.
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What days were the interviews? I'm going to send an in the area email to them since I have a talk at a conference in Houston next month and I'm going to see if they can accommodate it if they're at all interested in me. Looks like they do it on a friday?
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Yes. They interview on Fridays.
Hi there. Would you mind sharing your stats and complete date? and Congrats on the status change.
Sure. I'm in-state and my LizzyM is 74. I was complete on 8/14.
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Whenever you're not interviewing, you will either have a presentation (or two) from admissions, be receiving a basic sciences tour from current students, or just be hanging out with other interviewees and current students. You won't really have time to change and everyone else on the clinicals tour will be in the same boat as you. I highly recommend going on the longer version of the clinicals tour if possible so you can really get a feel for what makes being in the heart of TMC so awesome.
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I doesn't seem likely based on the experiences on this thread.
What date is your interview? Trying to see if I can reschedule another interview to get both done during the same weekend and save a $300 plane ticket.
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some data from 2 years ago that might be a little bit helpful to OOS applicants (from BCM published data):
From among the 4,027 OOS applicants, 47 actually matriculated, or just 1.17%.
About 7% of out-of-state applicants actually got to interview (279/4027), and about 3% (119/4027) of OOS applicants actually got accepted (43% of OOS interviewees), of which 40% (47/119) of the OOS acceptees actually chose to enroll.
A reason that number (40%) might seem a little low is that some superstars would also be accepted at places such as Washington U., Harvard, Hopkins, Penn, Stanford, UTSW, etc., or perhaps get a full free ride at home state medical schools.
If 4,000 OOS applicants seems like a high number, understand that word gets around that, "BCM is the most affordable private medical school in America."
OOS attendees comprise 25% of each class per BCM guidelines and agreement with the state of Texas, which does subsidize costs. That OOS percentage only seems to diminish with progressive classes as students of each class establish residency to save ~ $13k/year on tuition (e.g., 45 in MS1 will be shown as OOS, then ~30 in MS2, and so on).
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http://www.studentdoc.com/top-10-medical-schools.html
According to our proprietary ranking tool, the top 10 medical schools for 2012 are as follows (based on average MCAT/GPA--LizzyM of ACCEPTED students):
From among the 4,027 OOS applicants, 47 actually matriculated, or just 1.17%.
About 7% of out-of-state applicants actually got to interview (279/4027), and about 3% (119/4027) of OOS applicants actually got accepted (43% of OOS interviewees), of which 40% (47/119) of the OOS acceptees actually chose to enroll.
A reason that number (40%) might seem a little low is that some superstars would also be accepted at places such as Washington U., Harvard, Hopkins, Penn, Stanford, UTSW, etc., or perhaps get a full free ride at home state medical schools.
If 4,000 OOS applicants seems like a high number, understand that word gets around that, "BCM is the most affordable private medical school in America."
OOS attendees comprise 25% of each class per BCM guidelines and agreement with the state of Texas, which does subsidize costs. That OOS percentage only seems to diminish with progressive classes as students of each class establish residency to save ~ $13k/year on tuition (e.g., 45 in MS1 will be shown as OOS, then ~30 in MS2, and so on).
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http://www.studentdoc.com/top-10-medical-schools.html
According to our proprietary ranking tool, the top 10 medical schools for 2012 are as follows (based on average MCAT/GPA--LizzyM of ACCEPTED students):
- Johns Hopkins University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Stanford University
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Harvard University
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center--Dallas
- University of California--San Diego
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
- Duke University
Do you mind sharing stats and complete date? When did your application status change to "has been reviewed"?
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Mine says that App is complete and has been reviewed by the committee and that they'll let me know of a decision shortly. Sounds like a hold.
I wonder what's going to happen. I just sent them an 'in the area' email since I'm going to be there for a conference soon. Hopefully I'll hear from them by mid week next week or I'll have to buy a ticket before prices shoot up.
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I submitted the first day the secondary opened and was under "has been reviewed" probably two days later?
Ha I didn't even think to share stats because it's not technically an interview!
LizzyM 72 IS with ties to BCM.
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