I'm also worried I may have messed up in my writing, or maybe screwed up on hours for an activity. Maybe I put 200 instead of 100, or just miscalculated, and ADCOM is like wtf is this bull****. This is scary. Two of my friends already got Interview invites, and we all have similar stats overall, so, idk. I trust God, though.
You always give such amazing advice. Honestly, thank you for what you do on this forum.
Dell, UH Fertitta, UTRGV, TCU (AMCAS) and to some extent UT Tyler.
UTRGV screens? Do you know their criteria? Because I heard from them the day after my TMDSAS verification. Whereas it took 2 weeks for UH and I still haven't passed Dell's screening.
UTRGV say they screen, but in essence I think they send a secondary to all US citizens and permanent residents.
The last date valid for this cycle is a September 13 MCAT.
I already got my TMDSAS primary app verified and got secondaries earlier this week. It's just the September 4th MCAT that is delaying my application because I plan to get secondaries in by the end of this week.
You will still be among the last 5% to have a complete application in.
Aw man that sucks to hear 🙁
I'm afraid that @wysdoc has the story here as usual. Schools will save some spots late in the cycle to interview great applicants, but even then it's tricky to go back and get those last minute complete files to the top of the queue for review. So, if your MCAT is very high we might see it and fill you in to one of our last slots, but there's no guarantee and if your MCAT is near or below a school's average, it is less likely to get pulled out of the last pile for interviews, although it could happen. So, there's a chance, and it depends on how each school saves spots for their last interview days which is variable, but the last spots are more competitive to get into even though we TRY to make sure that it's still possible and not to overly bias towards early applicants.
The numbers dont seem to align unless there same date submitted is what they are tracking. It shows 10.6% but refers to a 6% increase in verbage.
Submitted 7,277 vs 6536 for 10.6% |
yep! is it 6? is it 10? The text below that table breaks it down into medical, dental, and veterinary applications, with the biggest increase in dental.
I go to the TMDSAS Data Reports instead of Google because I can see the separation into the 3 schools.
I made a mistake by assuming it is 2025 but it is defaulting to 2024.
I was second quartile. Someone that prematched Long last cycle had 1Q.
Also, I thought I read some schools are even looking to get rid of it. I could be wrong though.
Texas A&M dropped it this year after being one of the first Texas schools to try CASPer out. The admissions dean said they felt the scores had not, in the end, played much part in their admissions decisions.
Thanks for the confirmation. That might explain why I got an II from them even with my 2nd quartile CASPer. lol.
Just keep working on them. What held you back?
Honestly balancing everything with my full-time job got to me, with a little imposter syndrome thrown in. I definitely will get them done asap, but I'm worried I shot myself in the foot with being at the end of August now.
In the same spot as you. My other 2 friends have all gotten interview invites. We were complete around same time, I am 100% worried.
Bro I’m not even adcom and this is bad to do for Texas man. It’s super fast rolling. I was complete end of July/augut 1st and imo kinda late for Texas. Definitely not early, I knew people complete mid June.
happy to report back that i am pretty much done with TMDSAS! i appreciate the words of support to just keep trucking on them it was needed! as a career changer i really did not realize how important the timing was. I'm hoping my background gives me some grace, but am still anxious about this being way too late.
Yeah I shouldn't have done my MCAT last min.. I'm hoping there will be some grace for late applicants.
TCOM and SHSU adhere to the TMDSAS cycle dates and deadlines:
Somebody’s got to get those early ones, but you can still get interviews between now and December
0, but I wasn’t expecting any love from TMDSAS anyway. I’m IS, but TMDSAS schools are very stats heavy
0 for Texas as well. I have gotten 4 II and 1 A from DO, though. I am grateful nevertheless.
Don’t give up, just got two today
Congrats! Now dominate those interviews.
Thank you. Yours are coming up. Imma submit my aacomas this month, let’s get this done. We will be doctors 👊🏾
Texas schools usually pad their stats with higher stat students from OOS. An example is Long where OOS students have closer to 80 LM.
I had an inkling this would be the case. I had a significant upward trend in my GPA, so if they only factored in my last 60 hours, I’d be close to a 76 (75.9 to be exact) LM score. I was hoping my ties would save me, but we shall see.
By law they have to take at least 90% in state residents. It's not an ideological thing (not only at least) so your ties only might help distinguish you against other OOS applicants but likely only if you have comparable stats.
You can add the 2 DO schools still- do it asap, the deadline to submit your primary to them is October 1 and secondaries due promptly. Does either require your CASPer score? Log back in to your Acuity Insights account and send them your report
is it realistic to expect an interview with 3.34cGPA/516 MCAT? I really cant afford to waste money unfortunately
More likely at the DO schools where your GPA is good enough
