OOS friendly?

[CARCOSA]

I am applying to my three in state MD schools, but am also looking at potential DO schools to apply to. I am wondering which ones are OSS friendly??

I am a resident of SC, so there is VCOM spartanburg, but I would much rather prefer blacksburg over the in state.

sGPA is 3.85,
cGPA is 3.75
MCAT is 506


To me, a physician is a physician. And I am trying to do anything to prevent taking a gap year.

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[mk2015]

Someone can correct me if I'm misleading here but most (all?) DO schools are private and have no in state bias. I believe notable exceptions are MSUCOM, PCOM-GA, Rowan-COM, UNECOM, Western COMP (?).

You can always check the specific schools' websites as well. They sometimes comment on IS/OOS preference.

 

[CARCOSA]

Someone can correct me if I'm misleading here but most (all?) DO schools are private and have no in state bias. I believe notable exceptions are MSUCOM, PCOM-GA, Rowan-COM, UNECOM, Western COMP (?).

You can always check the specific schools' websites as well. They sometimes comment on IS/OOS preference.

Awesome, I will check that out. Thank you for your help!

 

[ahawke100]

OUHCOM has an extreme in-state bias. I believe out of state matriculants are required to sign a contract to stay in Ohio to serve.

 

[DoctorKrieger]

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/cib/2016_cib.pdf?sfvrsn=12

Profiles of each DO school start around page 34. Public/private status can be found in the 'Date Founded' section for each school. Even though most DO schools are private, many do have regional biases. That information can also be found in the College Information Book in the 'First-Year Class Matriculants' Selection Factors' paragraph for each school.

I have no idea what the new MCAT scores mean, but if yours is in-line with your GPA you would make a competitive applicant at any DO school, regardless of residency bias.

 

[Gandyy]

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/cib/2016_cib.pdf?sfvrsn=12

Profiles of each DO school start around page 34. Public/private status can be found in the 'Date Founded' section for each school. Even though most DO schools are private, many do have regional biases. That information can also be found in the College Information Book in the 'First-Year Class Matriculants' Selection Factors' paragraph for each school.

I have no idea what the new MCAT scores mean, but if yours is in-line with your GPA you would make a competitive applicant at any DO school, regardless of residency bias.

I believe a 506 is slightly below a 29 but slightly above a 28. Not sure though. Can't remember efles chart right now

 

[CARCOSA]

I believe a 506 is slightly below a 29 but slightly above a 28. Not sure though. Can't remember efles chart right now

It is like a 29. It is really frustrating b/c based off of the old mcat three sections, and my percentage I received in those, my old score would have been a 31. (12Bio, 10 Phys, 9 Verbal). Psych/Soc really dropped me (125 on the test :/ ).

The 29 is median of two of the instate md schools (I emailed them and asked what their average matriculation was for the in coming class), so I believe I have a shot at those two schools, but I really could careless where I go. I just want to practice medicine.

Last question, is there any way to figure out if the DO schools would allow resident status to be established after the first year? Two of the schools in SC allow that to happen.

Thank you all for the help and insight. Really stressful time in all our lives right now, and it is awesome to see the encouragement (give and take the handful of pricks.)

 

[CARCOSA]

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/cib/2016_cib.pdf?sfvrsn=12

Profiles of each DO school start around page 34. Public/private status can be found in the 'Date Founded' section for each school. Even though most DO schools are private, many do have regional biases. That information can also be found in the College Information Book in the 'First-Year Class Matriculants' Selection Factors' paragraph for each school.

I have no idea what the new MCAT scores mean, but if yours is in-line with your GPA you would make a competitive applicant at any DO school, regardless of residency bias.

thank you very much for the link. I am going to be up for awhile looking at it 🙂

 

[DoctorKrieger]

Last question, is there any way to figure out if the DO schools would allow resident status to be established after the first year? Two of the schools in SC allow that to happen.

I can only speak for OSUCOM, but that school does not allow that for tuition purposes.

 

[Cardboard101]

IS and OOS statistics: http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/data-and-trends/2014_MatCOMState.pdf?sfvrsn=6

 

[spenguin]

Someone can correct me if I'm misleading here but most (all?) DO schools are private and have no in state bias. I believe notable exceptions are MSUCOM, PCOM-GA, Rowan-COM, UNECOM, Western COMP (?).

You can always check the specific schools' websites as well. They sometimes comment on IS/OOS preference.

PCOM-GA, UNECOM have SOME regional bias
Western just takes a lot of Cali students because they have a lot of strong in state students applying

MSUCOM has 80 k tuition

Ohio- 5 year contract + not easy to get into
Pacific northwest- Strong regional bias
Oklahoma, Texas, Rowan- Accept 80+% in state students