Best schools OOS for South Carolina residents to apply to?

[guitarguy23]

I'm currently a MS student working on applying for the fall 2011 enrollment, and I plan on applying by the end of this coming summer.

Does anyone have any info on schools that SC residents generally apply to other than USC and MUSC? A lot of schools in the southeast around us are very competitive anyway even if your are in-state (Duke, Chapel Hill, Wake and Emory come to mind) so I was wondering if you guys had any input. Thanks!

By the way, this is my first post! SDN rocks

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[J ROD]

I'm currently a MS student working on applying for the fall 2011 enrollment, and I plan on applying by the end of this coming summer.

Does anyone have any info on schools that SC residents generally apply to other than USC and MUSC? A lot of schools in the southeast around us are very competitive anyway even if your are in-state (Duke, Chapel Hill, Wake and Emory come to mind) so I was wondering if you guys had any input. Thanks!

By the way, this is my first post! SDN rocks

I would get a copy of MSAR and look through it and see what schools accept a fair amount of OOS. In general, I would say try private schools on the east coast.

 

[c5212]

MUSC is dominant in my biased opinion. Go there. 😀 I don't really believe that there is a true trend in the med schools that other South Carolinian's apply to OOS -except that the majority of them are probably also on the East Coast. It all depends on you stats and where you want to go (geographically); that's all it comes down to.

 

[Moonglow]

The privates in smaller states take a good percentage of OOS: Vanderbilt, Hopkins, GW, Georgetown, Tulane, etc.

 

[Steeler7588]

Check out my MDApps for where I applied. I suspect schools like Emory, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest all have a regional bias (although the latter has ignored me so far). UNC is pretty ridiculous for OOS, they interview something like 3% of their applicants. UVa, however, is very receptive to OOS students.

 

[guitarguy23]

Thank you all for your responses thus far.

 

[rockaction]

Ohio State, U of Cincinnati, U of Toledo, Penn State, the SUNYs, U of Kentucky, and U of Louisville are all good public school options for OOSers. Ohio schools give you in-state tuition after your first year, too.

Check out my MDApps for where I applied. I suspect schools like Emory, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest all have a regional bias (although the latter has ignored me so far). UNC is pretty ridiculous for OOS, they interview something like 3% of their applicants. UVa, however, is very receptive to OOS students.

Vanderbilt definitely does not have a regional bias. They actually have a stigma against people from Tennessee (very few people from UT-Knoxville get in). Wake Forest ends up usually with a lot of North Carolina residents, but that's probably just because North Carolina people want to go there.

 

[Steeler7588]

Vanderbilt definitely does not have a regional bias. They actually have a stigma against people from Tennessee (very few people from UT-Knoxville get in). Wake Forest ends up usually with a lot of North Carolina residents, but that's probably just because North Carolina people want to go there.

I meant the Southeast in general, not a particular state. I could be wrong about Vanderbilt, but I wasn't going to apply to Wake Forest until a current student told me being from South Carolina would help my application.

 

[metallica81788]

I'm currently a MS student working on applying for the fall 2011 enrollment, and I plan on applying by the end of this coming summer.

Does anyone have any info on schools that SC residents generally apply to other than USC and MUSC? A lot of schools in the southeast around us are very competitive anyway even if your are in-state (Duke, Chapel Hill, Wake and Emory come to mind) so I was wondering if you guys had any input. Thanks!

By the way, this is my first post! SDN rocks

I would advise some regional OOS schools. I know Wake Forest and Maryland favor OOS apps from nearby states. You could also think about Emory, Vanderbilt, UVA, VCU, EVMS, the DC schools, just to name a few that take some OOS around your area.