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deleted975161
Wondering this too. I did not get any notification.
Using the school's portal will do it.
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deleted880375
By trust the portal, did you mean where it says "Your application status is: ACCEPTED" at the top?
marauders98
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For A&M, is there a separate application for scholarships? Also, when filling out FAFSA do you need to include your parent's info? And do you have to wait until you're accepted to fill out FAFSA?
No I mean when you submit your acceptance form for “will attend”, there is no notification that they in fact received this.
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deleted880375
I did not receive any notification (I think as long as we do not have any "outstanding assignment" we should be good). And to be clear, my previous comment was not meant in jest, genuinely was wondering what part of the portal you were referring to.
Brownkid95
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Got a congratulations email from the professor I interviewed with, but they called me the wrong name. LMAO
SubjectTranquil
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Anyone else prematched and just super excited for July??
I am looking forward to the adventure!
The school just seems full of quality people, too. They have been kind enough to try to help me find some accommodations for my SO, even though they are very busy and could have respectfully declined.
MissDoctaDocta
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Have they sent out any more IIs since prematch?
Yes and interviews will continue to go out for some time.
SubjectTranquil
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Yes, I think most of us actually
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SubjectTranquil
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When you find out a good source for this info, let us know!
It's all about what location/environment and hospital you want to primarily be around.
Dallas: Baylor Medical Center (#4 in TX) and Cook Children's (a very good pediatric hospital)
Houston: Methodist (#1 in TX)
Temple: BSW (#6 in TX)
BCS: St. Joseph's (lower than the others, but still a decent hospital)
Keep in mind, that you can do rotations at any of those locations, without setting it up as an away rotation, regardless of which campus you go to.
I plan on going to Temple--it fits the bill for the location and environment I wish to practice in, while getting exposure to every specialty and a quality health system and I like the student clinic setup best there--but I may also try to go to Dallas, where my family is.
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Every place will have equivalent volunteering opportunities (each location has a student run clinic or, in the case of BCS, a student-friendly clinic) and there will be stuff to do around each community. BCS will also have many opportunities for volunteering with A&M student organizations which may be more limited in other locations.
BCS and Houston have plenty of research going on and are where the bulk (if not all) of research faculty associated with the COM are located.
Dallas and Temple will certainly have clinical research going on, but not to the same extent and facility access as BCS and Houston. BCS also benefits from non-COM research, if you wanted to do other research and organized it with a mentor from another A&M college.
non-college-of-medicine. For example, if you wanted to go do biochemistry/chemistry research, with or without clinical applications, under a mentor in the College of Science, then you may be able to set that up with the PI.
How much of a role do you think the location of your clinical rotations will play in matching into a competitive specialty? Or is it "school name" that matters more (since STEP is now P/F)?
No one knows how STEP's transition will impact things.
I do not think anyone from A&M will be more or disadvantaged for going to one campus vs another. More important than the location is how well you do in your rotations and passing your shelf exams. The impact it will have will be in the connections made and networking done where you are. However, you can always take rotations at other locations to do this same thing (like an audition rotation) and each location should see you as an in-house applicant for residency, since they are all affiliated with A&M.
I honestly cannot figure out if A&M provides scholarships to IS (OOS obtain a scholarship that is just enough to bump them down to in-state tuition).
Also, the financial aid package from A&M will not be awarded to accepted applicants until May/June.
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deleted880375
I'm leaning towards Dallas. Large city + Baylor University Medical Center is a pretty academic environment so both of those fit well with my career goals. Temple is A&M's OG clinical campus site so just based off that I bet the clinical training you get there is excellent since they have been training med students for 40+ years. Honestly, I don't think you can go wrong with any of the campuses. The interview handbook had a lot of info on each of the campuses.
So everyone is at Bryan/College Station (BCS) the first two years and then you get to pick your regional campus for clinical rotations for years 3 and 4? As a person who's spouse will be attending grad school in BCS, what is the likelihood of me not getting assigned the BCS campus? or is it pretty easy to obtain your campus of choice?
From what I've heard, the only regional tracks that are competitive are Houston and Dallas. If BCS is your first choice, then I'm pretty sure you will get it.
Per current students, they are also extremely accommodating for circumstances, like family and SO’s that have needs. You write about your justification for what you chose and can even apply for reconsideration if you happen to not get where you need to be. If your spouse is anchored to an area, I’m sure you will get first dibs on that location (not to mention many people get their top choices anyway).
Also, you apply for locations before MS1 (to give time for any problems to be fixed) and preclinical time is only 1.5 years, then you move. It used to be you would move after 12 months and finish the last 6 months of preclinicals at your clinical location, but I think they changed that so everyone stays together at BCS for 1.5 years (I bring this up because I could be wrong and would appreciate verification since the curriculum breakdown is no where to be found online or on the handouts).
I wouldn’t say they had malicious intent. Med schools mess up too apparently. Just look at Mayo from last ut
marauders98
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Why, what's happening in July??
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marauders98
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Oh haha. Does anyone know when the white coat ceremony is?
I (current M3) was also OOS and got news of a scholarship in December. Best of luck!
Hey, would you mind sharing whether the preclinical exams are in-house or NBME and if you know about any anki decks which are better at covering the material tested on (if the exams are in-house)?
Did you need to do anything or are we all just considered automatically for the scholarships?
We had in house exams for preclinical, but that might have changed now. An M1 or M2 would know better than me. For most of preclinical I made my own anki cards, but in hindsight I probably could have saved some time by just doing the Anking cards.
Automatic consideration
FunGuyKawhi
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Does anyone know what criteria has been used in the past to select students for scholarships?
what was your complete date?
OBGYNKenoby
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Hey guys! I just received an II. Thing is, I'm super low on PTO at my job. The email says that the SPE is just two 5 minute interactions, but it also says I have to be available for the full three hours. What else happens during that time and would I be able to get away with logging in for the 3 hours, but not paying attention until my turn?
MissDoctaDocta
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congrats! Would you mind sharing your stats, complete date, and interview dates available?
You log in for the training and for your 2 SPEs. After you are done with your SPEs you can log out and go about your day.
primary submitted on 5/5, secondary submitted on 6/14, i dont remember seeing a complete email
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OBGYNKenoby
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Sure thing!
OOS, 3.86 GPA, 3.67 sGPA, 513 MCAT, secondary complete Sep 7, only date they offered me was Nov 5
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Are you or any of your classmates in the AIM program? I was wondering if anyone could speak about to positives/negatives of this program.
Does anyone know when we get to rank the regional campuses?
Spring semester of ms1
wannabebee
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Congrats! When was your interview?
