A new Texas Fresh Start question

[genericname01]

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Okay here's my story. I took and bombed a bunch of classes back in '06, and didn't earn a degree. I've since served and exited the Army.
I have been blazing through my med school prerequisites and working towards a bio degree for about a year now with a 4.0. Now I want to move to Texas, attend school for a year, then become a Texas resident and use the Fresh Start Initiative. Ideally, I would then finish my degree in the next year-or-so and apply. Would the FSI erase my credits from ten years ago, but preserve my credits from these past two years? Or do I have to start completely over again once I use the Fresh Start? Finally, how would the 90 credits rule apply? I've read the Texas Fresh Start websites, but they are ambiguous in regards to these questions. If anyone is familiar with the system and could help me out, it'd be greatly appreciated.

 

[LivMoore]

I believe that everything older than 10 years gets "erased" (even if they were good grades) but credits after the 10 years do not.
I have been reading up on it a lot and I remember a post or a comment about someone that did it and got accepted into medical school. I just searched around SDN and found a lot of useful stuff about it.

 

[genericname01]

Here's my main point of confusion:

I've taken classes in '06-'08.

I've taken/will take classes from '15-'18.

I use the Initiative in '18.

Will I have to take 90 more credit hours after '18, or will my classes from '15-'18 still apply towards the 90 credit hours/pre-med pre-reqs?

 

[LivMoore]

Well I don't have any experience since I won't be doing fresh start til 2019-ish so I have no idea personally.

But I think they would still count since they were taken after your fresh start (which will begin in 2008 if you apply for FS in 2018)

 

[ZPakEffect]

Everything less than 10 years old still counts towards all requirements. I used AFS and I have received 7 interviews in Texas this cycle.

 

[esob]

I'm sort of in the same boat, as I have old grades from 93' and 95' that I want to throw out but have grades from 07-10 that I want to keep. Since I wont be applying until at least 2017, some of those grades seem like they will be beyond the cutoff, so does anyone know how that works?

 

[LivMoore]

Apply for fresh start sooner at a community college and take at least one class there. I think that could work?

 

[esob]

Apply for fresh start sooner at a community college and take at least one class there. I think that could work?

Well, I mean I'm applying for fresh start now (did yesterday actually) at UNT. So as far as UNT is concerned, my TCU grades will be included (a good thing). But, if I don't apply for med school until say 2017, some of my TCU grades will be more than 10 years old and if I understand correctly, when you apply to med school you have to declare fresh start again or they will count the old grades against you.

To clarify, I'm not doing a post bac, I have 114 hrs but no degree yet, so I'm applying to UNT as a transfer and taking my pre reqs before doing the MCAT.

 

[LivMoore]

Hmm I thought you only apply for fresh start once and didn't know you had to use fresh start again when you applied to med school. Zpakeffect would know more about it probably.

Well, I mean I'm applying for fresh start now (did yesterday actually) at UNT. So as far as UNT is concerned, my TCU grades will be included (a good thing). But, if I don't apply for med school until say 2017, some of my TCU grades will be more than 10 years old and if I understand correctly, when you apply to med school you have to declare fresh start again or they will count the old grades against you.

To clarify, I'm not doing a post bac, I have 114 hrs but no degree yet, so I'm applying to UNT as a transfer and taking my pre reqs before doing the MCAT.

 

[esob]

Well, here is what TMDSAS says:

https://www.tmdsas.com/medical/texasAcFrshStrt.html

It seems that, according to step 6, you have to apply again under AFS to med school.

 

[ZPakEffect]

No, you only need to do AFS once. It doesn't matter when you apply to med school, only when you apply for AFS.

 

[esob]

No, you only need to do AFS once. It doesn't matter when you apply to med school, only when you apply for AFS.

Ok great, that's good to know. So basically, if I apply for AFS on "X" date, that dates gets set in stone for all grades to be dismissed correct? For example, if I apply to med school in 3 years, even if some grades at that point are more than 10 years old, they will still be counted because I declared my AFS status in the spring of 2016?

 

[ZPakEffect]

Ok great, that's good to know. So basically, if I apply for AFS on "X" date, that dates gets set in stone for all grades to be dismissed correct? For example, if I apply to med school in 3 years, even if some grades at that point are more than 10 years old, they will still be counted because I declared my AFS status in the spring of 2016?

That is correct.