Good schools for out-of-state applicants

[bonoz]

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Fellow dactor-wannabes,

I am trying to find good schools to apply to that are not in your state. I have done my research and have only found a few. Can someone list some schools that are good schools to apply to with realistic requirements and good out of state matriculation?

Thanks!

 

[Dannyw]

Princeton is supposed to be pretty relaxed.

 

[mvenus929]

UVA takes something close to 50% of their class from out of state.

 

[EpicBearMan]

Most private schools take a majority of their applicants from out of state, and there are some public schools that are very OOS friendly too, such as U Vermont, U Virginia, Ohio State, etc.

In areas with a low med-school density, the public schools generally tend to be less friendly to OOS'ers, but there are of-course some exceptions.

 

[student1799]

Vermont is definitely OOS-friendly: 75% of the class is OOS. VCU also takes a fair number of OOS.

 

[bonoz]

Well I'm from Virginia. So any non-Virginia OOS-friendly schools?

Thanks 🙂

 

[EpicBearMan]

Sure, I can list off some if you like. You'll need to get an MSAR and see how your stats fit though of course. MSAR also provides information about how many students they accept from out of state. Applying without this information is like going in blind.

WashU
Harvard
Hopkins
U Chicago
Cornell

Ohio State
U Rochester
Case Western Reserve
Boston U
Tufts

St. Louis U
Albany
Jefferson
Temple
Georgetown
GWU
Drexel
NYMC

etc..

 

[bonoz]

Sure, I can list off some if you like. You'll need to get an MSAR and see how your stats fit though of course. MSAR also provides information about how many students they accept from out of state. Applying without this information is like going in blind.

WashU
Harvard
Hopkins
U Chicago
Cornell

Ohio State
U Rochester
Case Western Reserve
Boston U
Tufts

St. Louis U
Albany
Jefferson
Temple
Georgetown
GWU
Drexel
NYMC

etc..

I have the MSAR but that list helps. What is sort of a good ration when it comes to the OOS#ofapplicants/OOSmatriculated?

 

[EpicBearMan]

Instead of the OOS #applicants / #matriculated, I tend to look at the ratio of #OOS accepted / #TotalAccepted.

The #OOSapplicants / #OOSmatriculated ratio will be skewed based upon # of apps and general selectivity of a school, and doesn't tell you as much about how OOS friendly it is.

If 35% or more of those accepted came from out of state, I figured it was worth a shot. That is where I generally cut off unless I really had a thing for a particular school.

I started off with a list of schools that were >35% OOS, then trimmed it down as I checked their requirements, stats, values, did research on location, etc. Generally, the higher the percentage the better. 35% was just my arbitrary cutoff if I had no connections to the state or area.

 

[The Mull]

Useful:

http://www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/health/info_sheets/which_schools.PDF