OOS applicants: Do NOT apply to these dental schools

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Unless you're a state resident, do NOT apply to these schools.

1. University of Texas A&M
2. University of Washington

Despite the merits of my application, I got rejected by both due to my OOS status.

It hasn't been formalized yet, but I called both and got the info:

Texas isn't giving out anymore OOS applicants interviews. 25 OOS interviews is their max for the entire application cycle while they give 200-300 interviews to less qualified in-staters.

When I called Washington, the woman who picked up asked for my info so she could see how my app was being processed. I waited a few seconds before she exclaimed, "Wow. Nice application..." (she actually said this and I was very flattered). But then she explained that even still, my chances as an OOS applicant were very slim in the last few interview offers.

Don't waste your application money. Apply somewhere else.

Any other schools I should add to the list?


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Azide047 said:
Unless you're a state resident, do NOT apply to these schools.

1. University of Texas A&M
2. University of Washington

Despite the merits of my application, I got rejected by both due to my OOS status.

It hasn't been formalized yet, but I called both and got the info:

Texas isn't giving out anymore OOS applicants interviews. 25 OOS interviews is their max for the entire application cycle while they give 200-300 interviews to less qualified in-staters.

When I called Washington, the woman who picked up asked for my info so she could see how my app was being processed. I waited a few seconds before she exclaimed, "Wow. Nice application..." (she actually said this and I was very flattered). But then she explained that even still, my chances as an OOS applicant were very slim in the last few interview offers.

Don't waste your application money. Apply somewhere else.

Any other schools I should add to the list?


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Add the rest of the Texas schools to your list along with Georgia and Tennessee. UAB too I think
 
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It is known that quite a few schools are not OOS friendly. I used the ADEA guide to figure that out when I was applying.
 
It just depends on how badly you want to go to the school. I took a chance on UCLA and got an interview, now there is no guarantee I'll be accepted but I applied late and still got an interview.


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roy williams II said:
It just depends on how badly you want to go to the school. I took a chance on UCLA and got an interview, now there is no guarantee I'll be accepted but I applied late and still got an interview.


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Congrats! What are your stats and ECs? I assume you don't like in California right?


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Word of mouth from my friends at UF Dental: it's not that UF doesn't accept out-of-state, it's just incredibly difficult to compete. I went to UF for undergrad, it seems like all my pre-dental friends ended up staying at UF for dental school. Seems like a disproportionally high ratio of acceptance for not just Florida residents, but UF students.
 
A&M is pretty tough on OOS applicants. Many of my classmates that are OOS students had some connection with the school or Texas prior to application.
 
roy williams II said:
It just depends on how badly you want to go to the school. I took a chance on UCLA and got an interview, now there is no guarantee I'll be accepted but I applied late and still got an interview.


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Yeah, sometimes it's worth the risk. My buddy is a current OOS student at UCLA. A few OOS students at UW too.
 
DentalAptitude said:
Word of mouth from my friends at UF Dental: it's not that UF doesn't accept out-of-state, it's just incredibly difficult to compete. I went to UF for undergrad, it seems like all my pre-dental friends ended up staying at UF for dental school. Seems like a disproportionally high ratio of acceptance for not just Florida residents, but UF students.
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I went to a different undergrad in FL and heard the same as well about UF
 
Azide047 said:
Congrats! What are your stats and ECs? I assume you don't like in California right?


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Thank you! Yes I'm out of state.

22AA, 23 TS, 4.33 sGPA, 4.3 oGPA
Research, ~350 hrs shadowing, multiple officer positions a volunteer organizations, and in my schools predental club.


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roy williams II said:
Thank you! Yes I'm out of state.

22AA, 23 TS, 4.33 sGPA, 4.3 oGPA
Research, ~350 hrs shadowing, multiple officer positions a volunteer organizations, and in my schools predental club.


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Incredible GPAs. What undergrad did you attend?


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Incis0r said:
I am out-of-state, and have ZERO connections with Texas. However, I got a pre-December interview invite to a Texas school. It's definitely worth a shot if you want to go there.

The great thing about applying to TX schools is that you can apply through TMDSAS. It's a flat-fee of $150 regardless of how many TX schools you apply to, and there are no secondary fees.

If you apply through AADSAS, it'd be at least $279 for the three schools. So don't apply to TX schools with AADSAS.
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Congrats!! which school is it and when is your interview?
 
blablabla1 said:
Add the rest of the Texas schools to your list along with Georgia and Tennessee. UAB too I think
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I'm an OOS that interviewed at UAB this cycle. They have high standards but made it clear that OOS applicants have a shot. They also told me that if you are seriously interested in one of their dual degrees, you'll be almost on par with IS applicants.


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Incis0r said:
Since very few OOS people interview at any TX school, I cannot state it publicly due to privacy reasons.

I'll PM you & let you know if I decide to go there (assuming I even manage to get accepted).

Congratulations to you on getting into a TX school!
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I always love this response.

No student cares enough to put in the effort to give out your identity.

And no adcom cares enough or has enough free time to scour the internet looking for posts that may match up to a student they interviewed lol.

I mean don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, but I always laugh whenever i see someone reply like this.
 
stoopidmonkeycatdog said:
I always love this response.

No student cares enough to put in the effort to give out your identity.

And no adcom cares enough or has enough free time to scour the internet looking for posts that may match up to a student they interviewed lol.

I mean don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, but I always laugh whenever i see someone reply like this.
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@Incis0r is absolutely right to protect his identity like this. No one reading may care now. But what we write here will be here for the next 10 years when we are practitioners. Many people who use search terms that match this thread's keywords will read this and in that span of time the wrong person might recognize it.

We can't afford to NOT be extra careful if we are going to be doctors. The last thing we need is having something we wrote before matriculation come back in some negative form when we are seeing our own patients.

Just imagine the negative PR against Flowergirl and others who have since been banned. She will be a dentist one day. Imagine a news channel getting a hold of something careless she wrote if they knew her real name.

We're the "paranoid" ones to you. But if and when you slip up, you'll look back and think we were the cautious ones you wish you'd taken advice from.


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Scumbag_Steve said:
While I don't really care all that much about my anonymity (thought process behind it is that anything I saw on SDN I would say in person too, unlike MANY people on here lol), people have different reasons for wanting to protect their privacy. Different strokes for different folks.

While you may be right about faculty not investigating posts unless they're super inflammatory, you would be surprised at how many of my classmates have come up to may and said "hey, are you Scumbag Steve?"

Again, I don't really care and think it's funny when people out me as Scumbag Steve, but to say that students don't care enough to find out your identity is, at least in my experience, not true.
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I feel the same way. During orientation week at least 4 people came up to me and asked if I was advance :laugh:.
 
Scumbag_Steve said:
I mean come on, if you're gonna be that inflammatory and insulting that's your fault.

I completely agree with the rest of your post though. Which is why people are right to try to protect their identity, but the best measure of making sure nothing comes back to bite them is thinking long and hard before hitting the post button. It's not that hard.
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Exactly. And Re: flowergirl, I haven't read everything she posted so maybe I'm less familiar with her inflammatory and insulting behavior. But she will be a professional one day and I'd like to think by that time she'd be embarrassed by anything she wrote in her early years.


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Azide047 said:
@Incis0r is absolutely right to protect his identity like this. No one reading may care now. But what we write here will be here for the next 10 years when we are practitioners. Many people who use search terms that match this thread's keywords will read this and in that span of time the wrong person might recognize it.

We can't afford to NOT be extra careful if we are going to be doctors. The last thing we need is having something we wrote before matriculation come back in some negative form when we are seeing our own patients.

Just imagine the negative PR against Flowergirl and others who have since been banned. She will be a dentist one day. Imagine a news channel getting a hold of something careless she wrote if they knew her real name.

We're the "paranoid" ones to you. But if and when you slip up, you'll look back and think we were the cautious ones you wish you'd taken advice from.


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Thanks man, I appreciate the help!
 
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Indeed it did. Who cares about applying to dental school anyways when were all screwed because everyone knows everything about us? Maybe its time to go off the grid.


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Scumbag_Steve said:
I mean come on, if you're gonna be that inflammatory and insulting that's your fault.

I completely agree with the rest of your post though. Which is why people are right to try to protect their identity, but the best measure of making sure nothing comes back to bite them is thinking long and hard before hitting the post button. It's not that hard.
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I feel the same way. During orientation week at least 4 people came up to me and asked if I was advance :laugh:.
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Have you thought that you guys were easily recognizable because you're one of the few people who are in dental school who continue to post here on the regular? For all the others who stop posting in pre dent after they're accepted you kind of just forget how they seemed like.

That's not to say I dislike that y'all post here just saying.

Azide047 said:
@Incis0r is absolutely right to protect his identity like this. No one reading may care now. But what we write here will be here for the next 10 years when we are practitioners. Many people who use search terms that match this thread's keywords will read this and in that span of time the wrong person might recognize it.

We can't afford to NOT be extra careful if we are going to be doctors. The last thing we need is having something we wrote before matriculation come back in some negative form when we are seeing our own patients.

Just imagine the negative PR against Flowergirl and others who have since been banned. She will be a dentist one day. Imagine a news channel getting a hold of something careless she wrote if they knew her real name.

We're the "paranoid" ones to you. But if and when you slip up, you'll look back and think we were the cautious ones you wish you'd taken advice from.


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Lololol why would a news channel care enough to run a story about a college student who was jokingly mean on the internet before she became a dentist?

Unless someone posts under @realname and says, I would love to hunt lions, and then 10 years later becomes a dentist and shoots a lion, I doubt anything on here would ever get newsworthy lol.
 
stoopidmonkeycatdog said:
Have you thought that you guys were easily recognizable because you're one of the few people who are in dental school who continue to post here on the regular? For all the others who stop posting in pre dent after they're accepted you kind of just forget how they seemed like.

That's not to say I dislike that y'all post here just saying.



Lololol why would a news channel care enough to run a story about a college student who was jokingly mean on the internet before she became a dentist?

Unless someone posts under @realname and says, I would love to hunt lions, and then 10 years later becomes a dentist and shoots a lion, I doubt anything on here would ever get newsworthy lol.
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Hm maybe. I'm just not that secretive when it comes to my anonymity. I told a couple of my classmates and I guess word just spread fast.:laugh:Many well known posters on this forum know my identity and I don't feel the need to hide it from my classmates either.
 
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Advance said:
Hm maybe. I'm just not that secretive when it comes to my animosity. I told a couple of my classmates and I guess word just spread fast.:laugh:Many well known posters on this forum know my identity and I don't feel the need to hide it from my classmates either.
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That's how I am. The 3 of us that post on SDN from my class know who I am (and I know them obviously). And then people from SDN know who I am.

Doesn't bother me, but I can see why people wouldn't want their identity known and I respect that decision.
 
You should slightly change the idea of the thread to "Don't apply to these schools if you are OOS, unless you are a god-like applicant".
Even super competitive, over-achievers who are OOS don't have a shot at the texas schools, alabama, etc. But, if you are god-like enough, anything is possible.
 
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