State preference

[GypsyHummus]

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Which osteopathic schools have a strong preference for in state students?

 

[yellowperil]

One school i know is Texas COM.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

All of the publicly owned ones. And then a few are regionally favoring, such as UNECOM, PCOM, PCOM-GA, VCOM, WCU, and Pacific Northwest.

 

[ManBroDude]

Public schools: MSUCOM, OSU-COM, OU-COM, UMDNJ-SOM, TCOM, WVSOM.

 

[poopyhead]

Public schools: MSUCOM, OSU-COM, OU-COM, UMDNJ-SOM, TCOM, WVSOM.

I can personally attest to this. OOS applicant files were in a different color folder than IS applicants. I was told that the school will have to justify to NJ's taxpayers why I should be accepted over someone IS. The point being that OOS applicants have to have higher than average stats. I also noticed a trend with the OOS applicants they interviewed, albeit n=3 for me. The three OOS applicants all came from certain schools, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, & UC Berkeley.

PNWU is probably the most regionally biased DO school. They don't even send secondaries to anyone without ties to the region until Dec.

edit: I have to reiterate my hope that AOA/COCA targets more public universities for future DO schools. Maybe they have.....DocEspana can probably shed some light on this. 😳

 

[ManBroDude]

No offense, but the last thing we need are more schools. Say it with me: "more AOA residency positions".

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

No offense, but the last thing we need are more schools. Say it with me: "more AOA residency positions".

We also need to take the older ones and merge them strong undergraduate universities, as well as make efforts to increase their research funding.

 

[411309]

Do any florida schools have a preference for in state?

 

[GypsyHummus]

Public schools: MSUCOM, OSU-COM, OU-COM, UMDNJ-SOM, TCOM, WVSOM.

With OUCOM, do they treat OOS the same as long as u sign the 5 year contract? Like would I be on the same playing field if I agreed to the contract as the in staters?

 

[ManBroDude]

I believe NSU-Nova is around 40-50% although I could be wrong.

 

[DocEspana]

No offense, but the last thing we need are more schools. Say it with me: "more AOA residency positions".

👍

of note: NYCOM is a private school with a decently prominent NY resident preference. Nothing crazy like PNWU or WVSOM, but its a noted preference none the less.

 

[donkeykong1]

With OUCOM, do they treat OOS the same as long as u sign the 5 year contract? Like would I be on the same playing field if I agreed to the contract as the in staters?

nah, its really tough to get an OOS interview at OU, but its definitely possible and well worth the time to apply.

 

[seraphkz]

When I interviewed at Western, they gave us a admissions packet which contained a demographic chart.

Last year's class, 83% of the students were from California.

 

[rafman]

OSU is increasing their class size from 92 to 115 this year, so they'll be accepting more OOS students, def a good idea to apply, if you're interested in the school that is.

 

[costales]

One school i know is Texas COM.

Also, the 10% OOS quota is state law that applies to every public med school in Texas, not just TCOM.

 

[zma21]

A recruiter from WCU stated they have a very strong preference to the Gulf states. In fact he said that they review all applications out of area after the gulf areas are done. If the class is filled from the gulf state applicants, OOS apps don't even get looked over, just filed away.

Take it for what it's worth. This was an MD from Emory that's selling point for WCU was "People won't even know you're not an MD!".