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dubai0628 said:
same i was told they removed the cap and are admitting a lot more OOS. i interviewed october 16, probably won't hear back for another few weeks or so
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They definitely said at the tour last weekend that they removed the cap this year. The admissions person later said it was to give more OOS students a chance. It’s also why they increased the number of interviews.
 
ridikulus said:
They definitely said at the tour last weekend that they removed the cap this year. The admissions person later said it was to give more OOS students a chance. It’s also why they increased the number of interviews.
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I really don’t appreciate them not being transparent with the earlier interview groups about this. Most public universities favor their in state applicants , so this along with the fact Oklahoma has a super bad physician shortage , really is disappointing on OU’s behalf.
 
901shelby said:
Are there any other states that have just one MD school, but with no cap on OOS matriculants? The HSC is set to increase its seats to help with the physician shortage in Oklahoma but I feel like having no cap on OOS matriculants negates it completely.
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Another school I interviewed at said that most students will end up practicing in their home state near their family…so yeah out of state students generally will end up moving back to their home state to practice medicine.
 
I honestly can’t see them making too big of changes. In past years their interviewed mcat average is 515 and matriculated is 509. Which means a bunch of super competitive OOS are taking other offers. I think they are trying to capture a demographic of slightly less strong OOS applicants so they don’t have as big a discrepancy. I think chances are they only raise OOS by 5-10%. I don’t think they suddenly become 40-50% OOS.
 
fluppy said:
I honestly can’t see them making too big of changes. In past years their interviewed mcat average is 515 and matriculated is 509. Which means a bunch of super competitive OOS are taking other offers. I think they are trying to capture a demographic of slightly less strong OOS applicants so they don’t have as big a discrepancy. I think chances are they only raise OOS by 5-10%. I don’t think they suddenly become 40-50% OOS.
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I sure hope this is the case. I can't understand why they would remove the cap on OOS entirely if they wanted to raise OOS by 5-10%. MSAR shows that less than 10% of matriculants (16/176) were OOS last cycle, so HSC could just accept more OOS without removing the 25% cap. The fact that they removed the cap altogether makes me suspect that they will end up taking way more OOS.
 
901shelby said:
Are there any other states that have just one MD school, but with no cap on OOS matriculants? The HSC is set to increase its seats to help with the physician shortage in Oklahoma but I feel like having no cap on OOS matriculants negates it completely.
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Colorado - CU’s in state preference is negligible at best and it’s the only MD school. I’m sure there are other states where this also happens.
 
ridikulus said:
They definitely said at the tour last weekend that they removed the cap this year. The admissions person later said it was to give more OOS students a chance. It’s also why they increased the number of interviews.
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That's interesting..cause USnews said they accepted 20 out of 23 OOS who interviewed last cycle. So post II acceptance rate going down i'm guessing.
 
dubai0628 said:
When do you all think I'll hear back by if I interviewed last week? Some people on here interviewed in September and haven't heard anything while some people I know who also interviewed then already got offers. This wait is actually killing me.
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Read back through - depends on your score
 
iconicapp123 said:
does anyone know the MCAT scores of those getting offers?
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Read back through the thread - 60% is interview, everything else is 40%. One person on here got in with a 506. I know people with much higher MCATs who haven’t received an offer and interviewed before other people who have. MCAT clearly only gets you so far.
 
ridikulus said:
Colorado - CU’s in state preference is negligible at best and it’s the only MD school. I’m sure there are other states where this also happens.
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Really thought it was a state law in Oklahoma for the 25% cap thing, but it looks like I’m wrong. I thought most state schools had in-state bias haha
 
OOS A, Interviewed 9/12, accepted 10/16. I do think OU is looking at more OOS applicants bc there were quite a few at my early tour date
 
Macanononon said:
Really thought it was a state law in Oklahoma for the 25% cap thing, but it looks like I’m wrong. I thought most state schools had in-state bias haha
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Prior to the flyer that’s on the “Class of 2028 profile” section of the website, the “Class of 2027 profile” mentioned that the reagent has a mandatory 75% in-state entering class. So it is state law. For the class of 2027, they had 160 of the 176 students be in-state. I’m assuming they’re interviewing more OOS students to fill the additional 25 seats this year because not all of the in-state interviewees are good enough.
 
dagoat said:
That's interesting..cause USnews said they accepted 20 out of 23 OOS who interviewed last cycle. So post II acceptance rate going down i'm guessing.
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Someone should ask at the next tour bec at the last one, they specifically said that the 75% no longer applied starting this year. As did the admissions person speaking to people individually at the end who said OOS applicants had a better chance of getting in now.
 
Macanononon said:
Really thought it was a state law in Oklahoma for the 25% cap thing, but it looks like I’m wrong. I thought most state schools had in-state bias haha
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Yeah I'm also shocked the 25% cap wasn't an actual law. Also, I think most state schools do have in-state bias; Colorado is the only one that I know of that has more OOS people than in-state (103 OOS, 78 IS). Some of them are even more heavily biased than OU; MSAR shows that Arkansas has 171 IS and 4 OOS.
 
So we’re thinking maybe the end of this week they’ll call those with a 85+ score?
 
luckylucy132 said:
So we’re thinking maybe the end of this week they’ll call those with a 85+ score?
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I was guestimating next week because on Cycletrack, last year people said they were admitted the first week of November. However, I have no clue. I also don't even know what my score is.
 
901shelby said:
Admin was telling people their scores at the more recent tour dates. Other than that you can try emailing ([email protected]), calling, or going to their physical office, but there's no guarantee they'll tell you.
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has anyone tried emailing or calling admissions about their score? did they end up telling you or no?
 
We need someone who already had their interview and got in somewhere else to take one for the team and ask admin their score.
 
MythicalSims said:
I have not, I feel like it sounds unprofessional to do. I don’t want to falter my chances at all.
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I have not heard of them doing this. seems very weird to do so. must be a new thing. i def wouldn't email them
 
How late does OU do interviews? It seems that December is around the time they end? Feeling ANXIOUS as an in state applicant lmao.
 
Agentcross said:
I have not heard of them doing this. seems very weird to do so. must be a new thing. i def wouldn't email them
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I emailed an admissions faculty member and they definitely did not tell students their rankings on the tour day nor will they tell you if you ask them. There's misinformation being spread on this forum.
 
dubai0628 said:
has anyone heard anything that interviewed September or October yet?
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There was a student that was accepted that interviewed in October, they were a PhD student that was related to faculty at the OUHSC. Aside from that, I haven’t heard anyone else.
 
Der_Ubermensch1 said:
I emailed an admissions faculty member and they definitely did not tell students their rankings on the tour day nor will they tell you if you ask them. There's misinformation being spread on this forum.
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Not true. The admissions person specifically told me my score, as she did several others who were there. Said that she wanted to be “as transparent as possible.” She had the computer in her hand to look up people’s score and tell them. So, the misinformation is coming from admissions now, or maybe they’re just shocked anyone was doing that because most of us were. Though a glimmer of transparency in this process was a breath of fresh air.
 
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ridikulus said:
Not true. The admissions person specifically told me my score, as she did several others who were there. Said that she wanted to be “as transparent as possible.” She had the computer in her hand to look up people’s score and tell them. So, the misinformation is coming from admissions now, or maybe they’re just shocked anyone was doing that because most of us were. Though a glimmer of transparency in this process was a breath of fresh air.
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Did you get above an 85?
 
ridikulus said:
Not true. The admissions person specifically told me my score, as she did several others who were there. Said that she wanted to be “as transparent as possible.” She had the computer in her hand to look up people’s score and tell them. So, the misinformation is coming from admissions now, or maybe they’re just shocked anyone was doing that because most of us were. Though a glimmer of transparency in this process was a breath of fresh air.
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Yea, I want to support this claim. There were others in the thread talking about this too so it's def not misinformation. Not sure what the email to admission said but if we want to get technical, we were only given our scores in a vacuum; there was no mention of where we "ranked" in relation to other interviewees.
 
Honestly I think admin told people their scores at tours, realized that it's probably not a good idea to do that (and might violate FERPA), and now claims that it never happened to save face.
 
Jenniferismydog said:
To those who went on the tour…. Did you begin the tour in the basic sciences building? I showed up this morning and nobody was to be found anywhere lmaooooo
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There should have been white coats scattered around outside, by the roundabout and parking garage.
 
Curious what the people who toured today were told? I feel like it’s lots of mixed info on here and idk what to think hahaha.
 
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