How Hard Is It To Get Admission Into Texas Medical Schools

[Miss155]

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HOW COMPETITVE IS IT TO GAIN ADMISSION INTO TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOLS? WHAT IS AN COMPETITIVE GPA AND MCAT AND EC'S? WHICH TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL LIKE WHICH TEXAS UNDERGRADUATE BETTER?

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by Miss155
HI

HOW COMPETITVE IS IT TO GAIN ADMISSION INTO TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOLS? WHAT IS AN COMPETITIVE GPA AND MCAT AND EC'S? WHICH TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL LIKE WHICH TEXAS UNDERGRADUATE BETTER?

Your caps lock and English confuse me, but I will try to answer anyway.

TX is probably the easiest major state to get into medical school in terms of sheer acceptance percentages. A lot of this has to do with the fact that state law requires its public schools to accept 90% in-state (or around there) and that TMDSAS being seperate from AMCAS shields Texas applicants. If you are a Texas resident, you have a variety of schools to choose from including the top-20 Baylor (on AMCAS, but still accepts majority in-state) and UT-Southwestern.

A competitive GPA and MCAT depends on the school you are applying to. A 3.5 and a 30 for most schools, and probably a 3.7 and 34 for Baylor and UTSW.

I hear UT-Houston loves A&M, and Baylor loves Rice (Baylor is basically Rice medical school). UT is also popular all around.

 

[Megalofyia]

UT San Antonio has connections with UT El Paso and St. Mary's University at San Antonio.

 

[lazgirl24]

what about california's medical schools?

 

[hrusky17]

does anyone know if texas tech's med school is difficult to get into?

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by lazgirl24
what about california's medical schools?

Extremely difficult, even if you are in-state.

 

[thackl]

I've read the stat's and it appears about 1/3 off total applicants to TX schools get in. Someone else on SDN had quoted a national ave of 1/2. Also, the TX ave GPA/MCAT for all schools is slightly higher than the national ave.

Is it really easier to get in here? I honestly don't know and this is a serious question. Gleevec's above post doesn't agree with the numbers.

 

[Miss155]

Hi

I attend the University of Houston and I was wondering which Texas Medical school favors UH. So, is it true that UT-Austin is a favorite among all the Texas medical schools?

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by thackl
I've read the stat's and it appears about 1/3 off total applicants to TX schools get in. Someone else on SDN had quoted a national ave of 1/2. Also, the TX ave GPA/MCAT for all schools is slightly higher than the national ave.

Is it really easier to get in here? I honestly don't know and this is a serious question. Gleevec's above post doesn't agree with the numbers.

The national average is not 50% acceptance to medical school. Where did you get that number?

 

[thackl]

Originally posted by Gleevec
The national average is not 50% acceptance to medical school. Where did you get that number?

Seems crazy to me as well. I've seen it posted more than once here. The info I've seen at TPR suggests about 1/3 of actual applicants get in nationally. Places like MI and CT are lower while some were higher. TX fell right around the ave.

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by thackl
Seems crazy to me as well. I've seen it posted more than once here. The info I've seen at TPR suggests about 1/3 of actual applicants get in nationally. Places like MI and CT are lower while some were higher. TX fell right around the ave.

Between 25-33% I can believe, 50% I doubt. The latter seems way too high.

 

[deez4life]

Originally posted by Gleevec
The national average is not 50% acceptance to medical school. Where did you get that number?

The national rate of people getting into at least ONE medical school out of all that they applied to is slightly below 50%. This is not to be confused with the 5-15% acceptance rate that most individual medical schools have. I believe Texas schools have some of the highest acceptance rates in the country (because of the in-state restrictions), so it is from this viewpoint that it is relatively "easier" to get into Texas schools.

deez

 

[thackl]

When I said 1/3, it was intended to mean "rate of people getting into at least ONE medical school out of all that they applied to". Individual rates of acceptance for TX schools are considerabley lower ranging from less than 1% (Baylor) up to around 10%. Still below the national ave if it is indeed close to 50%.

I hope TX isn't tha easy. You're killin' my ego trip 😀

 

[Giving My .02]

I really don't think medical schools favor any one undergraduate. I do know that there have been a lot of students from A&M at the interviews, but they told me it is because they are told to submit their application around 6/15. A lot of medical schools have combined programs that guarantee admission.

For example...

Baylor fills 34 of its spots four years in advanced with combined programs.

10: Rice
10: UT Pan Am
10: UT Houston (Debakey High School)
4: Baylor

Considering there are only 160+ (20%) are already filled. YIKES!

A lot of other schools have programs like this that most people don't know about when deciding to go to undergraduate school.

I think Texas is competitive, but if you have a great application and EC's I think you will have a chance to interview somewhere. If you try at least three years and don't get in to a Texas school I would suggest applying to DO's out of state or another route to an MD. You can apply to out of state programs, but remember to research them, and don't waste your time if they only accept like 5% out of staters.

There is a new program called JUMP (something like that) I know nothing about. It started this year and like 12 students (?) are automatically accepted into some medical school in Texas.

 

[Rudy1223]

It's called JAMP and students are accepted into any medical school they choose, in Texas.

 

[Centrum]

Not just any medical school you choose. You still have to take the MCAT and you still go through the admissions process. You are guaranteed a spot in a Texas Medical school, which one will be determined by your grades/scores/essays/interviews.

 

[Gleevec]

Yeah, the % Baylor accepts straight out of high school is seriously bothering, but they still accept around 175 students in-state, or about 50% of the interviewees. So while a ton of slots are already taken by HSers, theres still a decent chance of getting in if youre in-state.

Originally posted by Giving My .02
I really don't think medical schools favor any one undergraduate. I do know that there have been a lot of students from A&M at the interviews, but they told me it is because they are told to submit their application around 6/15. A lot of medical schools have combined programs that guarantee admission.

For example...

Baylor fills 34 of its spots four years in advanced with combined programs.

10: Rice
10: UT Pan Am
10: UT Houston (Debakey High School)
4: Baylor

Considering there are only 160+ (20%) are already filled. YIKES!

A lot of other schools have programs like this that most people don't know about when deciding to go to undergraduate school.

I think Texas is competitive, but if you have a great application and EC's I think you will have a chance to interview somewhere. If you try at least three years and don't get in to a Texas school I would suggest applying to DO's out of state or another route to an MD. You can apply to out of state programs, but remember to research them, and don't waste your time if they only accept like 5% out of staters.

There is a new program called JUMP (something like that) I know nothing about. It started this year and like 12 students (?) are automatically accepted into some medical school in Texas.

 

[Miss155]

The JAMP program is only for 1st semester freshmen. Are there any other combined programs out there besides JAMP? Thanks.

 

[calebho501]

Geez....I should have moved to Texas and become a resident there 🙂

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by calebho501
Geez....I should have moved to Texas and become a resident there 🙂

Lets go back in time 5 years and trade places. I want to go to UCSF, and my best chance is as an in-state. 😀

 

[lola]

texas schools are relatively easy to get into for texas residents compared to many other state schools. every year tmdas (or whatever it's called) publishes statistics about this, and something like 1/3-1/2 of texas residents get into a texas state school. that percentage is very high compared to many other states. in california, for example, there are approx 500 spots for 4000 state residents who apply. in 2003, 2586 texas residents applied through tmdas and 1218 of those were accepted. i don't know if it's possible to get the same numbers for california, though i'd imagine it is something like 4000 apply and perhaps 700 (200 of which choose to go to out of state schools, just a guess) or so get accepted.
i believe the overall acceptance rates to med schools is somewhere around 40-50%, meaning close to 1 out of every 2 applicants gets into at least one school. this includes acceptance to out of state schools. thackl, this means that of texas residents applying to get in, almost that many get into at least one STATE school! this doesn't even count the people who didn't get into a state school but might have gotten into another school. thus, even more than that may be getting into med school from texas.
in addition, if one looks at the average gpa and mcat for texas state schools, one can say that it is relatively easy to get in there as a texas resident than compared to a california school for example.

 

[ndi_amaka]

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[Giving My .02]

In my opinion, it would be even easier to get into medical school here if the applicants that went out of state for undergraduate didn't apply. Some of them would rather not live in Texas, however...Texas does have a lot of people that come back to medical school because they know they have a shoe-in with the 90% Texas resident rule.

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by Giving My .02
In my opinion, it would be even easier to get into medical school here if the applicants that went out of state for undergraduate didn't apply. Some of them would rather not live in Texas, however...Texas does have a lot of people that come back to medical school because they know they have a shoe-in with the 90% Texas resident rule.

Med schools would be even more homogenous if they only accepted students who went to undergrad in their state. That would be just downright boring.

 

[Giving My .02]

Originally posted by Gleevec
Med schools would be even more homogenous if they only accepted students who went to undergrad in their state. That would be just downright boring.

I sense you go out of Texas. I wasn't saying anything about people going out of state not being accepted to Texas schools. I am just saying there are a lot of applicants who do not consider going to school in Texas, unless going to Rice, if they want to go to Ivy League schools, but turn around and apply to Texas schools for medical school. I have talked to medical students at the interviews who said they were residents of other states, but became a Texas resident just because the chance and the low
cost for tuition. I said nothing about the schools being homogenous, however, they pretty much are (Texas A&M, UT). This is just one of those "sneaky things" (previous tread) people do to get into school. I am not saying it is wrong or right, they just take advantage of the system. We all do.

 

[soonerpillow]

So which school likes graduates from OU??? 😀

 

[thackl]

I don't know anything about the CA averages, but the TX averages are right around the national averages (same MCAT/slightly higher GPA's). The few that pass up the cheep tuition here for Ivy or don't make it in and go out of state are replaced by the 10% coming in from outside TX.

On average, I don't believe it is easier here. My brother and I both know a number of very good applicants who either applied multiple times to get in TX schools or simply left the state to get in. I feel for the Cali folks if it really is 500 spots for 4000 applicants. That sucks!

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by soonerpillow
So which school likes graduates from OU??? 😀

I think UT-Southwestern might based on a few people I know there. But its still really hard to get into a UT out-of-state.

 

[thackl]

I think the TMDSAS is for TX and surrounding areas (NM, OK, LA).

 

[Miss155]

In your opinion, which Texas Medical school is easier to get in? Thanks.

 

[Rezonance]

HI

HOW COMPETITVE IS IT TO GAIN ADMISSION INTO TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOLS? WHAT IS AN COMPETITIVE GPA AND MCAT AND EC'S? WHICH TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL LIKE WHICH TEXAS UNDERGRADUATE BETTER?

Bump!

What is it like for out of state students? GPA/MCAT stats?

 

[487806]

Bump!

What is it like for out of state students? GPA/MCAT stats?

Nice thread resurrection. You could create a new thread you know.

 

[Rezonance]

HI

Yeah, but why the hassle 🙂

 

[Rezonance]

Plus, its nice to have the previous thread a new topic on the same thread to see what has happened in the past nine years, lol.

 

[iforget2]

Plus, its nice to have the previous thread a new topic on the same thread to see what has happened in the past nine years, lol.

These guys are probably residents now

 

[safarix]

Bump!

What is it like for out of state students? GPA/MCAT stats?

I'm not sure the averages but here's some anecdotal evidence:

I'm an OOS student at Texas Tech. I got in with a 3.7 GPA and 33 MCAT. The averages for the whole class are 3.7 GPA and 31 MCAT, so I am pretty much average.

I haven't really asked around to get a feel for the stats of the other OOS students since at this point no one really cares about that anymore!

 

[mangoshakes]

Texas is a great place to be an instate pre-med lol. I know people with 27, 28 and 29 mcats in medical school. Gotta be stellar everywhere else though.

Got a quick question, I'm a non-traditional with an English degree and currently a sGPA of 3.45. Long story short, in 2005 (when this thread was still old) i was a marine biology major who failed horribly. Went back to school in 2011 after working overseas (philippines), been 4.0 since then.

Got a 29q on my mcat. If i continue my current trend, I should be sporting a 3.6 sGPA by the end of the school year, I applied this year though. Do you think I should retake, or focus on improving my GPA as much as possible and re-apply in May with the 29q. People are telling me to stick to the 29Q, but I'd like input from fellow Texan folk.

btw, aamc says that average matriculant mcat in 2011 for texas was a 30.4.

 

[rubisco88]

I think improving your MCAT quickly is more feasible than improving your GPA. Once you hit about a 3.5, I think you'll boost your competitiveness faster by retaking the mcat rather than trying to boost your 3.5 to a 3.6. It would be better to have a 3.5, 32 than a 3.6, 29 in my opinion.

Texas is a great place to be an instate pre-med lol. I know people with 27, 28 and 29 mcats in medical school. Gotta be stellar everywhere else though.

Got a quick question, I'm a non-traditional with an English degree and currently a sGPA of 3.45. Long story short, in 2005 (when this thread was still old) i was a marine biology major who failed horribly. Went back to school in 2011 after working overseas (philippines), been 4.0 since then.

Got a 29q on my mcat. If i continue my current trend, I should be sporting a 3.6 sGPA by the end of the school year, I applied this year though. Do you think I should retake, or focus on improving my GPA as much as possible and re-apply in May with the 29q. People are telling me to stick to the 29Q, but I'd like input from fellow Texan folk.

btw, aamc says that average matriculant mcat in 2011 for texas was a 30.4.