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Question: Just received an offer to join AL. However, I already matched. If to join the AL list and then be selected off the alternate list, would this decision automatically void my current acceptance at a Texas medical school, or would I have the opportunity to choose between the two schools?
 
Bryan Reina said:
Question: Just received an offer to join AL. However, I already matched. If to join the AL list and then be selected off the alternate list, would this decision automatically void my current acceptance at a Texas medical school, or would I have the opportunity to choose between the two schools?
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After match day, if you get off the WL you will get to choose between your matched school and WL school.
 
Bryan Reina said:
Question: Just received an offer to join AL. However, I already matched. If to join the AL list and then be selected off the alternate list, would this decision automatically void my current acceptance at a Texas medical school, or would I have the opportunity to choose between the two schools?
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Congratulations on matching!
If you had ranked A&M higher than the school you Matched to, A&M can offer you their WL and a chance at admission later. The choice would be yours later- if they offer you admission, you can say yes or no. It isn’t automatic.

If you are content with your present school, you can let them know you don’t want to join their WL.
 
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Congratulations on everyone accepted so far! I have been getting questions about choosing a campus, a hot topic every year, so more information on campuses may be found below.


It's hard to believe as a M0 (and probably even as a current M1 or M2) but there genuinely is no significant advantage choosing one campus over another, save for potentially BCS (due to the AIM program). You should choose wherever you will be happiest living over any perceived edge on "competitiveness". Research opportunities are essentially equivalent since most clinical research these days is done virtually. Rotating at a particular campus may help you match to that particular campus's residency programs but, if that's the goal, it's very easy to rotate on other campuses for electives anyway and show off as a competent M4. Many of the A&M residencies also favor interviewing you just because you are a home applicant, regardless of the campus you are from. During my interview trail, outside residencies never mentioned (or seemed to even internalize) that we have different campuses and just recognized the school name overall.


My classmates and I who stayed in BCS, arguably the least "competitive" location with only a FM residency in the city, performed well relative to the other campuses and have had great cycles. Several of last year's great matches hailed from the BCS campus also. I say this just to illustrate that your campus doesn't really matter for things like residency applications. What's important is your USMLE and clinical performance, which is compared to the entire class on the MSPE. To set yourself up to achieve that, you need to go where you will be happiest living and which clerkship structure you think will best suit you.


BCS stays out of the limelight because it isn't a major city, but it does deserve special consideration because of its unique longitudinal curriculum. You essentially spend 6 outpatient months rotating in every specialty, including electives you choose, and the other 6 inpatient months taking shortened blocks, so you still get to experience a block structure and focus on one specialty at a given time. You also get exposure to other healthcare systems, rotating in locations such as Waco, Temple, and Corpus Christi (housing provided). The main advantage there lies in learning and integrating medicine as a more cohesive system across the year instead of specializing for each block. You then use your experience to take each Shelf exam at the end of the clerkship year, acting as practice tests right before taking Step 2. The other campuses are a traditional block schedule for clerkships.


All campuses are equivalent when taking M3 or M4 electives. The few core M4 rotations are expected to be taken at your home campus, but you may still take them at other campuses--you just won't have priority in the lottery system. I know students every year who have spent their entire M4 year at a campus other than their original home campus.
 
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Hello! I was very lucky to match into A&M, but I am worried about one of the contingencies for enrollment. When I went into the portal to accept my offer, I saw the following:

"I understand that my enrollment is contingent upon my meeting the following conditions:
...
5. Maintaining high levels of academic performance (A's and B's) in all courses undertaken between the date of application and matriculation, and completing any and all degrees."

I am on track to graduate with my degree, but last fall semester, I got a C on a non-pre-requisite course. I did very well in all other my other fall classes, and I am on track to get all A's this spring semester. Last semester was a transitory period where I was adjusting to a life transition, and as a result, I slipped up and ended that one class with a C.

I just read this requirement on the A&M portal (wasn't visible before I matched), and now I'm worried that I will get rescinded. Should I contact the admissions office? Will I get rescinded? Any advice from current students or others is helpful! Thanks!!
 
arbol29 said:
Hello! I was very lucky to match into A&M, but I am worried about one of the contingencies for enrollment. When I went into the portal to accept my offer, I saw the following:

"I understand that my enrollment is contingent upon my meeting the following conditions:
...
5. Maintaining high levels of academic performance (A's and B's) in all courses undertaken between the date of application and matriculation, and completing any and all degrees."

I am on track to graduate with my degree, but last fall semester, I got a C on a non-pre-requisite course. I did very well in all other my other fall classes, and I am on track to get all A's this spring semester. Last semester was a transitory period where I was adjusting to a life transition, and as a result, I slipped up and ended that one class with a C.

I just read this requirement on the A&M portal (wasn't visible before I matched), and now I'm worried that I will get rescinded. Should I contact the admissions office? Will I get rescinded? Any advice from current students or others is helpful! Thanks!!
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Really you will have to send them your transcript and wait to see what they say after they analyze it.
I don’t think one C will sink you
 
minor ENMED update: offers are going to be made on a rolling basis, and all decisions should be out by mid-March. so ENMED people, hope ain’t lost!
 
palutena said:
minor ENMED update: offers are going to be made on a rolling basis, and all decisions should be out by mid-March. so ENMED people, hope ain’t lost!
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Thank you for the update! Did you have to call the admission office to get this info?
 
Do any past students remember when A&M notified the majority of students about scholarships that offers?
 
olijideola said:
Do any past students remember when A&M notified the majority of students about scholarships that offers?
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I think they gave some scholarships early to prematched students & then the rest were in the summer, can't remember when but it was like Juneish
 
Was offered a position on the alternate list today at 1:18 pm! I thought all the offers had gone out already and that silence meant I was rejected, so this was a nice surprise. Anyone else get the same notification?
 
Did anyone else on the waitlist get an email about the re-applicant workshop? Just wondering if it’s something routine that they send to everyone or only certain people
 
Is it worth submitting a late LOI here if I'm WL at both this school and WL at my higher ranked school in state? Mainly because my higher ranked school has only a tiny amount of WL movement and my chances to get off the WL at A&M seem much higher.
 
Can any houston students for regular MD talk about the study spaces available at the houston campus? I know Dallas has the BUMC library, Cstat has the med sci and HPEB library, etc but what about Houston?
 
olijideola said:
Can any houston students for regular MD talk about the study spaces available at the houston campus? I know Dallas has the BUMC library, Cstat has the med sci and HPEB library, etc but what about Houston?
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There is a building called the annex at WB where the college of medicine has a communal area with fridge, tables, several computers for charts, and small study rooms.
 
Do you mean you were offered a spot on the AL, or were you on the AL and now Accepted?
 
Would appreciate some advice from any current TAMU students - I am from Dallas but have always wanted to live in Austin, I am heavily considering ranking RR campus first. Worried about being a little further from family/friends, and also missing out on the opportunity to rotate at BUMC. I don't want to pass on the opportunity to live in my dream city though. Has anyone else gone through something similar and is there anything that makes the RR campus stand out?
 
meepmoopluna said:
Would appreciate some advice from any current TAMU students - I am from Dallas but have always wanted to live in Austin, I am heavily considering ranking RR campus first. Worried about being a little further from family/friends, and also missing out on the opportunity to rotate at BUMC. I don't want to pass on the opportunity to live in my dream city though. Has anyone else gone through something similar and is there anything that makes the RR campus stand out?
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Round Rock is 20 miles from Austin, but close enough to go on the weekends
 
meepmoopluna said:
Would appreciate some advice from any current TAMU students - I am from Dallas but have always wanted to live in Austin, I am heavily considering ranking RR campus first. Worried about being a little further from family/friends, and also missing out on the opportunity to rotate at BUMC. I don't want to pass on the opportunity to live in my dream city though. Has anyone else gone through something similar and is there anything that makes the RR campus stand out?
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There was someone from Austin who chose Dallas to not be at home (UT undergrad) who transferred after an year in dallas to Round Rock. So that can happen too!
 
Do they split the class up evenly across all four campuses? Or do the amount of seats differ across the 4? If so does anybody have a rough estimate?
 
olijideola said:
Do they split the class up evenly across all four campuses? Or do the amount of seats differ across the 4? If so does anybody have a rough estimate?
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The number of students at each site is different, depends on how many each campus can accommodate that year, and changes every year. BCS tends to be the smallest and Dallas tends to be the largest, with Houston and RR somewhere in-between. This shouldn't be a consideration for any decisions.
 
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