I'm a little confused about everyone calling UTMB's cohorts "pre-match heavy". This might be cautious optimism because I don't have one, but I had the privilege of meeting a large number of current MS at UTMB after visiting three times last year and exchanging quite a few numbers, and of them, I might have met one or two that prematched there, whereas the rest got in on match day. On the campus visit after my interview, while I didn't ask around, I met one person who openly stated they prematched this cycle but every other person there had something to say like "I just hope I get accepted here on match day".
Of course some could be lying or modestly hiding the fact that they prematched, but I feel like the logical conclusion is that people just call this school "pre-match heavy" on SDN because they see the high volume of prematches on this site relative to other TMDSAS schools not named UTSW. But issuing a relatively high number of prematch offers is not the same thing as having a prematch heavy class. Of these prematches, I'm fairly certain UTMB loses a great many to the match, especially when you consider the high number of offers and high stats most of these prematches have. Again, that could just be biased optimism, but it's hard not to ignore the dramatic contrast between my experience talking to people on campus and interacting with them on here.
