2024-2025 UTMB (Sealy)

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Buffalo Hunter said:
Has anyone received a Pre-Match offer from UTMB yet?
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Remember, UTMB has announced at their orientation sessions that they will wait to give out pre-match offers until they have completed ALL the interviews for this year, probably in mid-December.
 
Great to hear. I am sorry I had to ask a question that has already been answered, don’t monitor here often.
 
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is it too late to submit a secondary here? I counted my self out earlier on but I want to give it a go now
 
Stallion76 said:
is it too late to submit a secondary here? I counted my self out earlier on but I want to give it a go now
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here's some great advice I got from a mentor

"apply to the schools that you can see yourself being happy at, make the schools THEMSELVES go through the effort of rejecting you"
 
Arbitas said:
here's some great advice I got from a mentor

"apply to the schools that you can see yourself being happy at, make the schools THEMSELVES go through the effort of rejecting you"
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im just gonna be overly pedantic and say don't just apply to schools that make you happy, because sometimes what will make you happy is getting into a school, period, lol. like there was a reddit post early this month of a person who was doomposting and despairing how their dreams are over because they were getting ghosted when they were a low-mid stat applicant who only applied to california and refused to apply anywhere else because they "weren't interested". dont be that person lol
 
Arbitas said:
here's some great advice I got from a mentor

"apply to the schools that you can see yourself being happy at, make the schools THEMSELVES go through the effort of rejecting you"
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Horrible advice unless someone has a perfect application and can be choosy.

The advice should be choose the school where you will be happy once admitted.
 
I want to share some of my story while we’re at it. We are TERRIBLE judges of things when we haven’t experienced it ourselves. UTMB was actually not my top rank. Nor my second. I ended up matching here and if you go back and read my year’s match thread, you’ll hear me be initially quite disappointed. It was SO convinced I would be happier at another school and I would be miserable here.

I’m an MS2 now and I freaking LOVE it here (and I say that genuinely, not in a Stockholm sort of way). There is so much I have been able to do and get involved in that I was never told about during interview days or tours. I do not regret my decision AT ALL, but it was also not the experience that I had expected.

We are strong, resilient people. You will find your way no matter where you end up. And if you do dislike where you matched, you can survive 4 years for the MD on the other side (caveat: obvious don’t go somewhere that is actively harmful to your mental health, but very few places actually fit that bill).
 
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chicandtoughness said:
I want to share some of my story while we’re at it. We are TERRIBLE judges of things when we haven’t experienced it ourselves. UTMB was actually not my top rank. Nor my second. I ended up matching here and if you go back and read my year’s match thread, you’ll hear me be initially quite disappointed. It was SO convinced I would be happier at another school and I would be miserable here.

I’m an MS2 now and I freaking LOVE it here (and I say that genuinely, not in a Stockholm sort of way). There is so much I have been able to do and get involved in that I was never told about during interview days or tours. I do not regret my decision AT ALL, but it was also not the experience that I had expected.

We are strong, resilient people. You will find your way no matter where you end up. And if you do dislike where you matched, you can survive 4 years for the MD on the other side (caveat: obvious don’t go somewhere that is actively harmful to your mental health, but very few places actually fit that bill).
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Getting into medical school is the hardest thing most students do in their life. Many may have only one choice and so it becomes a when life gives you lemons, ...

Medical school itself is really hard to get through and if students cant find things that make them happy while they are there, it becomes hard for those 4 years. There is a reason many interviewers want to talk about your hobbies more than your qualifications.
 
texasvandy said:
Medical school itself is really hard to get through and if students cant find things that make them happy while they are there, it becomes hard for those 4 years. There is a reason many interviewers want to talk about your hobbies more than your qualifications.
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Agree, which is why it's so important to have hobbies and self care you can lean on regardless of where you go for med school (and for residency and beyond). The Texas match is a good little preview for how grueling the actual match will be :/
 
chicandtoughness said:
I want to share some of my story while we’re at it. We are TERRIBLE judges of things when we haven’t experienced it ourselves. UTMB was actually not my top rank. Nor my second. I ended up matching here and if you go back and read my year’s match thread, you’ll hear me be initially quite disappointed. It was SO convinced I would be happier at another school and I would be miserable here.

I’m an MS2 now and I freaking LOVE it here (and I say that genuinely, not in a Stockholm sort of way). There is so much I have been able to do and get involved in that I was never told about during interview days or tours. I do not regret my decision AT ALL, but it was also not the experience that I had expected.

We are strong, resilient people. You will find your way no matter where you end up. And if you do dislike where you matched, you can survive 4 years for the MD on the other side (caveat: obvious don’t go somewhere that is actively harmful to your mental health, but very few places actually fit that bill).
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If you don’t mind sharing, What was your rank list?
 
Has anyone heard back for the MD/PhD? On their website it says interviews are conducted in November...
 
browntexaspremed said:
Is there mandatory attendance for lectures at UTMB?
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There are no lectures provided in person. They’re given to you online, and you’re responsible for knowing the material. Then, you go to school for TBL, PBL, labs, or physical skills exam workshops. These are mandatory because that’s also when your quizzes are weekly. Sometimes there are some lectures on specific topics in doctoring randomly dispersed throughout the month, and those are optional. Outside of orientation, any given day is relatively short (~4 hours) but you do have to go more times per week than I initially heard people say (currently 4 times a week, but it was also 5 at some point if you didn’t want to miss important review sessions that were not recorded). Personally I would have preferred longer days but less frequency instead of going 4-5 times a week. And these sessions didn’t cover the time you had to watch lectures on your own or absorb the material through some third party. I spent my weekends watching lectures or third party videos on those topics, then go to school almost daily during the week for all other mandatory interactive sessions.
 
How often are exams? I got a kind of unclear answer from my info session and didn’t ask to further clarify.
 
The curriculum is always changing so it kinda depends on the course duration, but exams are NBME and every 4 weeks. Then you have weekly TBL and PBL quizzes or lab quizzes if you have lab (group and individual). The information for those quizzes comes from supplemental readings. For me, I spent each entire weekend doing a first pass through the lectures, just to realize later that they were not specific enough for the quizzes and I had to do all the supplemental readings and assignments during the week as well. So you study most of the new material each week at home, then the mandatory meetings during the week are for case discussions, tests, and learning through query.
 
The answer to your questions about lectures and exams varies by course. I believe LavenderDreams is an MS1 so they’ve seen 2 courses thus far. The info is sound for those 2 courses but will change depending on which course you’re taking. In the organ blocks, there are rarely recorded lectures at all. In RFE (renal) we only went on campus 3x/wk for about 2 hours. In CVP (cardio/pulm), you’re on campus every day for 4-5 hours and there are multiple quizzes (I have 4 quizzes this week, so basically one every single day), and we have a blend of PBL, TBL, CBL, SIM sessions, and more. The curriculum structure really depends on which course you’re in and who is teaching. And of course, curriculum is changing year to year (the current MS1 class got a *significant* revision between last year and this year, for example), so what we tell you now might not be what it ends up being 2 years down the line.

We have a midterm and final exam in each course and they always come at the halfway point and at the end, as you would expect. The exception is DHM (Derm, Heme, MSK) which is only 5 weeks long and thus only has a final.
 
chicandtoughness said:
The answer to your questions about lectures and exams varies by course. I believe LavenderDreams is an MS1 so they’ve seen 2 courses thus far. The info is sound for those 2 courses but will change depending on which course you’re taking. In the organ blocks, there are rarely recorded lectures at all. In RFE (renal) we only went on campus 3x/wk for about 2 hours. In CVP (cardio/pulm), you’re on campus every day for 4-5 hours and there are multiple quizzes (I have 4 quizzes this week, so basically one every single day), and we have a blend of PBL, TBL, CBL, SIM sessions, and more. The curriculum structure really depends on which course you’re in and who is teaching. And of course, curriculum is changing year to year (the current MS1 class got a *significant* revision between last year and this year, for example), so what we tell you now might not be what it ends up being 2 years down the line.

We have a midterm and final exam in each course and they always come at the halfway point and at the end, as you would expect. The exception is DHM (Derm, Heme, MSK) which is only 5 weeks long and thus only has a final.
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Hi I wanted to ask why you ranked Dell and Long so low, aren't those usually pretty well received schools?
 
PolarIceLongLastingFlavor said:
Hi I wanted to ask why you ranked Dell and Long so low, aren't those usually pretty well received schools?
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Everyone's needs and wants are different. I didn't rank based on prestige or anything. For example, Yale is a pretty well received school but I wouldn't have applied to them regardless lol.

For me specifically, I did not want a 12-month pre-clerkship with a class of 50 students (Dell), and I preferred every other geographic area to San Antonio (love the city, don't want to live there).
 
Tcorrea 23 said:
yeah I got that too, what does that mean?
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Nothing really; I was just bored lmao.

It's just an invite to tour the campus; I'm pretty sure most people (not all, for some odd reason) who were interviewed will get this email.
 
when does this school release decisions after interview? I'm OOS and I'm a little confused ab since the prematch stuff doesn't apply to me haha
 
Do yall think 12/13 will be the date of first round of pre-matches 👀? Last year they did it after a tour, and it was the day directly after last interview day. Last interview this cycle is Dec 12th, so it would make sense!
 
Tcorrea 23 said:
Ok because when i interviewed here i was told no more than 300 pre matches will be sent. Does anyone know how many people UTMB usually accepts ?
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The class size is 230.
No schools's admissions director wants the embarrassment of offering too many and having to ask people to defer for a year. This has happened at other Texas schools.
Not all the people who got an offer from UTMB will end up going there after Match Day, so a director could be safe to offer a little over the class size. After Match a few will withdraw for various reasons and the Wait List will be used to fill back up to 230.

Waiting is hard, so use your time to read up on your schools to make a good rank list
 
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