OOS DO Schools?

[sultana]

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I was wondering if anyone has some insight on what schools are more friendly to out of state students? I live in Washington and we don't have a DO school that I know of in-state. Thanks!

 

[r2cole1]

Go here: http://www.aacom.org/data/annualreport/index.html

Download that book and look at page 20. The stats should give you a pretty good idea about who is OOS friendly.

 

[Jpc984]

I would stay away from the state schools.

 

[ShyRem]

Any school that is private (i.e. not with a state school) will be OOS friendly. Many folks think PCOM, WVSOM, and UNECOM are all not friendly to OOSers. SO NOT TRUE.

Apply where you think you would fit the best. See what happens.

 

[HarveyCushing]

Any school that is private (i.e. not with a state school) will be OOS friendly. Many folks think PCOM, WVSOM, and UNECOM are all not friendly to OOSers. SO NOT TRUE.

Apply where you think you would fit the best. See what happens.

From my opinion I think that UNECOM prefers students from the NE and upper east coast states. The recruitment officer (James Gaffney) told me himself. This isn't saying that someone from the midwest or westcoast can't get accepted, but I think it will be more difficult.

 

[futoi]

washington state, right? check out this website.
www.pnwu.org

 

[146233]

washington state, right? check out this website.
www.pnwu.org

Right. That URL is leaps and bounds better than the previously advertised one -- which still works, btw -- http://www.pnuhs.org/. How do you think that is pronounced?

 

[ShyRem]

From my opinion I think that UNECOM prefers students from the NE and upper east coast states. The recruitment officer (James Gaffney) told me himself. This isn't saying that someone from the midwest or westcoast can't get accepted, but I think it will be more difficult.

Ok. But I'm an MSII student at UNECOM and I can absolutely tell you that we have students from all over the country, and more than a couple other countries (besides Canada). The non-NE folks don't necessarily have stellar numbers, either (no, I won't tell you exact numbers, but I will tell you that several are below average).

And not just advocating for UNECOM, but I can tell you as an OOS applicant to MSUCOM when I was applying my numbers weren't stellar (about a 3.0 and just below 30), but I got an interview to MSUCOM. My PS was killer.

If you want to be discouraged from applying somewhere, go ahead. I just would hate for anyone to limit their options. Make THEM say no. You never know what they're looking for...

 

[xTinaBna]

I was wondering if anyone has some insight on what schools are more friendly to out of state students? I live in Washington and we don't have a DO school that I know if in-state. Thanks!

i think CCOM is also OOS friendly, its just that a majority of its applicant pool is from Illinois, but they have no state requirements to take an illinois applicant over an OOS applicant since it is a private institution. I believe they said last year's class had around 35%-40% in state students.

 

[xTinaBna]

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[Toohotinvegas33]

DMU, Touro-CA, and Touro-NV are real friendly to OOS.

 

[Boner]

Private schools do not give preference to in state applicants, despite what you will hear. ShyRem is completely correct in that UNE has no preference for applicants in the NE area; my wife and I are from Georgia and were both accepted. On our interview day, the recruitment guy reiterated this statement. The only schools with in-state preference are the state funded schools, which are:

Michigan State
Ohio University
Oklahoma State
UMDNJ
University of North Texas
West Virginia

Even if you are out of state for these schools, some offer more favorable acceptance opportunities for out-of-state applicants than others. Some also offer terrible tuition rates for OOSers, so buyer beware. Bottom line, apply to schools you would realistically attend, only after having heavily researched them. For example, don't apply to Ohio University without first knowing you must sign a contract to stay in Ohio for four years post-graduation/residency (depending on what residency route you take). Do your research, talk to CURRENT medical students at schools of interest, apply to schools you would be happy attending based on your research, go on interviews and see the schools/students for yourself, matriculate at the school you're most excited about attending.

 

[sultana]

thanks for the advice, guys. I'll have to revise my list 🙂

 

[HarveyCushing]

Private schools do not give preference to in state applicants, despite what you will hear. ShyRem is completely correct in that UNE has no preference for applicants in the NE area; my wife and I are from Georgia and were both accepted. On our interview day, the recruitment guy reiterated this statement.

I will respectfully disagree with you on that one. They do give preference to people from that area of the country without question, one of the admin people told me so himself. Go to the schools website: "True to the mission of the College to serve the people of New England, some preference is given to candidates from the New England states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)."

Later on it continues: "Approximately 60 percent of the current first-year class is from the New England states; approximately 20 percent are from the northeast states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York; and the remaining members of the class are from around the country." Not to pick bones, but 80% of the accepted students are admitted from states ranging from NJ/Pennsylanvania in the south to Maine in the north. Boner, I never said someone out of this area couldn't get into UNECOM, I just stated that they gave preference to people in this area and an interested applicant needs to know that before applying. I realize they take students from all over the country, however the proportions are completely skewed to one side. If I wasn't a resident from that area and super interested in the school, I would save the money and apply to another school. I just think applicants need to be fully aware of their chances when applying instead of believing hersay on SDN. Let the numbers speak for themselves.

 

[ShyRem]

But one point you're missing, Harvey, is the proportion of students not from NE states that apply. Acceptances per area may be proportional. I have a hunch, however, that there are far far more applicants in the NE area and that as a non-NE applicant you may have a better shot. Just my opinion. I find it interesting that I was the only person in my interview group who was not from NE. I was accepted.

Now if you look at the "numbers game", DMU offers one of the best opportunities for acceptance post interview. MSU offers one of the lowest numbers for OOSers for both interview and acceptance. I interviewed at DMU. I was waitlisted (and immediately withdrew from consideration for my own reasons). I got an interview at MSU (and declined after accepted at UNE - I just couldn't swing the OOS tuition at MSU). My point is if you looked at the "statistics" for the odds I should have been a shoe-in for DMU, NEVER heard from MSU, and had an iffy shot at UNE. Didn't pan out that way.

Remember folks: there are liars, d*mn liars, and statisticians. Apply where you WANT TO GO. Then see what happens.