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Hey everyone. I've got a situation that I'm finding tough to iron out on my own and am hoping for some insight from forum members and especially adcoms, if at all possible.
I currently live in Washington, where we have two MD schools and one DO school. My wife and I both have family in Texas and are seriously considering moving to Dallas next year, before I start taking prerequisite courses. I've always wanted to move to Texas, and the prospect of lower tuition for both prerequisites and medical school doesn't hurt whatsoever. This is one of the only other locations besides Washington state that we would settle down and make our permanent residence, even if I didn't get in to medical school, so we're very serious about the move. It wouldn't be temporary if things went well during the application cycle. Even if we got residency elsewhere, we'd want to come back to Texas if we got into medical school there.
My question is, do you think someone who has a 2.9 cGPA/3.3 sGPA with solid upward trend (3.82 last 72.5 credits), does well on the MCAT, has good ECs and is URM would be better off applying to Texas schools as a Texas resident, or Washington schools as a Washington resident?
In Washington, you have the UW with a bit more leniency GPA-wise than the Texas MD schools, but that also shares its admission slots with four other states. You also have WSU, which is just about to launch its new medical school. Lastly, you have one DO School in PNWU, with regional bias and no minimum GPA auto-screen.
In Texas, you have a slew of MD schools, but they all have higher 10th percentile GPA stats. You have one (maybe two?) DO school, with no auto-screen for a minimum GPA. You also have a very inexpensive SMP program at UNTHSC, should I be rejected first cycle and need to strengthen my application before reapplying.
It seems like Texas would give one better odds of admission, but I worry about how flexible they are with GPA vs upward trend vs MCAT vs URM status, etc. It's tough not knowing how to approach my path, given my low GPA, non-trad status, how different schools treat URMs and so forth. The cost of exhausting every avenue possible to have the best shot at medical school admission is extremely lower in Texas, but if my odds are worse there with my stats, it may not make sense. 10 to 11 schools in TX vs 3 in WA is nothing to be taken lightly though.
And of course, if none of these schools accepted me and I had to go to a DO in another state, I'd be more than happy and honored to attend, which makes Texas seem even more like a solid location, because I won't have spent buckets of money in preparation for application to medical school (prerequisites, possible SMP/Post-Bacc).
If it helps at all, I am an African-American male. Not at all sure how much this plays into the way various schools see my stats, but I've always assumed not much at all, then read about this possibly assisting slightly, depending on the overall picture, school applied to, etc. Just trying to provide as much information in order to get as much help as possible.
Any thoughts?
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I currently live in Washington, where we have two MD schools and one DO school. My wife and I both have family in Texas and are seriously considering moving to Dallas next year, before I start taking prerequisite courses. I've always wanted to move to Texas, and the prospect of lower tuition for both prerequisites and medical school doesn't hurt whatsoever. This is one of the only other locations besides Washington state that we would settle down and make our permanent residence, even if I didn't get in to medical school, so we're very serious about the move. It wouldn't be temporary if things went well during the application cycle. Even if we got residency elsewhere, we'd want to come back to Texas if we got into medical school there.
My question is, do you think someone who has a 2.9 cGPA/3.3 sGPA with solid upward trend (3.82 last 72.5 credits), does well on the MCAT, has good ECs and is URM would be better off applying to Texas schools as a Texas resident, or Washington schools as a Washington resident?
In Washington, you have the UW with a bit more leniency GPA-wise than the Texas MD schools, but that also shares its admission slots with four other states. You also have WSU, which is just about to launch its new medical school. Lastly, you have one DO School in PNWU, with regional bias and no minimum GPA auto-screen.
In Texas, you have a slew of MD schools, but they all have higher 10th percentile GPA stats. You have one (maybe two?) DO school, with no auto-screen for a minimum GPA. You also have a very inexpensive SMP program at UNTHSC, should I be rejected first cycle and need to strengthen my application before reapplying.
It seems like Texas would give one better odds of admission, but I worry about how flexible they are with GPA vs upward trend vs MCAT vs URM status, etc. It's tough not knowing how to approach my path, given my low GPA, non-trad status, how different schools treat URMs and so forth. The cost of exhausting every avenue possible to have the best shot at medical school admission is extremely lower in Texas, but if my odds are worse there with my stats, it may not make sense. 10 to 11 schools in TX vs 3 in WA is nothing to be taken lightly though.
And of course, if none of these schools accepted me and I had to go to a DO in another state, I'd be more than happy and honored to attend, which makes Texas seem even more like a solid location, because I won't have spent buckets of money in preparation for application to medical school (prerequisites, possible SMP/Post-Bacc).
If it helps at all, I am an African-American male. Not at all sure how much this plays into the way various schools see my stats, but I've always assumed not much at all, then read about this possibly assisting slightly, depending on the overall picture, school applied to, etc. Just trying to provide as much information in order to get as much help as possible.
Any thoughts?
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