Texas Medical School undergrad statistics

[hakim100]

Ok I'm planning on going to Medical School in texas, and I'm starting to apply to undergraduate programs. Does anyone have any statistics on the most successful undergraduate institutions for getting you into medical school in texas and the most successful undergraduate degrees for texas med schools.

Also positive/negative personal experience would be very helpful. (did your undergrad do a good/bad job preparing you for getting into med school and performing well once you were in) I'm trying to stear away from the huge schools like UT at Austin and Texas A&M Main Campus, but would still like any feed back that applies.

Also ive heard of some joint undergraduate/MD programs for baylor, does anyone know of any other joint Undergraduate/MD programs in texas. Or other special Pre med programs in texas with very high MD marticulation rates.

Any advice with logical backing would be greatly appreciated.

(this is for my little sister by the way so don't look to my profile for relavent info)

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[Sol Rosenberg]

Rice, UT, and A&M are the three best schools in TX. Certainly, Rice is the best, and then Longhorns and Aggies will slug it out about who is better. Truth is that UT and A&M are about the same, but it does depend upon what you want to major in.

Medical Schools don't care what you major in.

A&M has the statistics that you are talking about, but I don't really think that they are available from any other schools.

 

[potato51]

Rice, UT, A&M, Baylor are all good schools for pre-med. In fact any school in Texas can get you to med school. Ultimately it depends on your performance whether you get an acceptance.

 

[future_dr_house]

check out assured acceptance programs

here's some for UT-H: http://med.uth.tmc.edu/administration/admissions/assured-acceptance.html

baylor, utsa, etc has some too just look at their websites.

if you don't do these acceptance programs then go to an undergrad where you're happy (do this even if you do go into a program). do well in school, be involved, make sure medicine is absolutely what you're interested in, do well on the mcat, do some research, party and learn who you are (med schools really want mature students who, believe it or not, actually have a personality beyond the numbers) and you'll get in no matter what institution you came from

 

[hakim100]

i know its mostly your performance, but do some schools have a higher acceptance rate into med school. basically are some schools more likely to produce higher performers

also i know you can go any undergrad degree, but are there any that are more represented on the marticulation side

and thanks for that UT-H bs/md info...that is very helpful

 

[kemper]

If you want a small school University of Dallas and Austin College are two that have stellar acceptance rates, but ultimately, it's the student and not the school.

 

[future_dr_house]

i know its mostly your performance, but do some schools have a higher acceptance rate into med school. basically are some schools more likely to produce higher performers

also i know you can go any undergrad degree, but are there any that are more represented on the marticulation side

and thanks for that UT-H bs/md info...that is very helpful

best source of info is the health professions office at all of the places you/she (i'm confused by your original post) is interested in.

food for thought:
1. choose an undergrad with lots of research opportunities, med schools love research, this is probably the most lacking of smaller schools, but conversely it will be hard to get into a lab at a larger school
2. look up amsa officers or alpha phi omega at the school and ask them questions about their experiences, second best resource after the health professions office
3. stats won't tell the whole story

good luck, please don't expect us to look up school statistics for you that you could easily google and search for yourself

 

[hakim100]

good luck, please don't expect us to look up school statistics for you that you could easily google and search for yourself

I've googled as many stats as i can to help her out, but i can't really seem to find undergraduate institution acceptance rates into medical school in texas. Unfortuantely since TMDSAS is seperate, alot of the AMCAS stats aren't as applicable.... A&M had some stats but after a few years in school my self ive learned not to trust stats made by the benefitting group it self. Don't get rude bud, just lookin for help any where i can find it, and any opinion that might help...and yal have been helpful already..i wasn't aware of the assurance programs in houston...

i guess i'm not look for stats as much as, just some personal experiences at undergrads/degrees in texas that some people feel was exceptionally helpful at preparing them and getting them into medschool...like do some of you feel you are ahead of everyone in your med class because of your undergrad institution/degree, or behind because of your undergrad...or have you noticed a great number of your fellow class mates are from a particular school and how they are performing

for example i'm at a medschool in virginia, and some of my class mates have already had graduate level anatomy and histo, which wasn't even mentioned by my med advisor at my undergrad...and it seems to help them a great deal...

 

[DrBowtie]

You won't find these rates often because there isn't exactly a person compiling everyone who applies. Some people don't go through a committee. If you do find there rates, be wary of fine print such as grade and mcat cutoffs to be considered.

 

[63768]

only go to rice if you really really want to and if you are motivated to do well and study a whole lot.

i went to rice instead of UT and i could have done well but i wasn't motivated. that killed my GPA (along with other familial crap). that and the fact that going to rice does not help you in terms of applying to medical school. you don't get any preferential treatment at all. go to UT, have fun, study hard.

there's a rice/baylor program, UH/baylor, (i think there's a baylor/baylor). look into JAMP or early admission to the UT medical schools.

good luck. again, i'd recommend you take a good hard look at rice before you decide to go.

 

[txfisher]

The texas A&M honors/premedical advising office says that A&M has a 61% acceptance rate for those that use the premedical committee letter, and that is definitely most pre meds at school there. I think that figure includes DO schools.

 

[AggieJohn]

At my UT-Houston interview, my tour guide told us that A&M puts more students into UT Houston than any other undergrad school. However, he did not mention if it was a sheer numbers thing or what.

My experience at A&M has been wonderful. Our advising office gets calls from parents of students who attend other undergrad institutions asking for advice based on reputation. It really is wonderful. I would recommend A&M.


That said, I haven't attended anywhere else, and I'm sure other schools are great as well.

 

[Falco2525]

Rice, UT, and A&M are the three best schools in TX. Certainly, Rice is the best, and then Longhorns and Aggies will slug it out about who is better. Truth is that UT and A&M are about the same, but it does depend upon what you want to major in.

Medical Schools don't care what you major in.

A&M has the statistics that you are talking about, but I don't really think that they are available from any other schools.

Actually many people dont konw about Trinity University in San Antonio, but according to the Deans I have talked to they equate Trinity students with Rice students, but beware the premed program at Trinity is ridiculously difficult. Trinity has a 95% acceptance rate if you have a 3.5 gpa or higher, 80% acceptance rate for 3.4-3.5, 60% 3.3 etc. these numbers are not published but i can guarantee they are true

 

[admitrx]

Baylor and Rice have provisionally guranteed acceptance programs so you would certainly want to look at their undergrad programs. If you qualify for JAMP that might also be something you would want to look into. This is a start funded program so many of the start schools could help you with JAMP. Once you are accepted to any undergraduate program (and like many people have stated any accredited school is good) you will probably want to spend one of your summers doing the SMDEP. It is a summer program which has proven to help increase your chances of acceptance. Hope that helps.

 

[afterthought]

From my experience at an OOS private school and taking summer school courses at UT, I would say it's much easier to maintain a higher GPA at UT (in bio/chem type stuff--not nec engineering) than at a higher-tier private school (which would lend little advantage in TX admissions).

Rice is certainly a tier above both UT and A&M, Baylor a tier below. I hear Trinity has a good reputation, but I'm not sure where to place it. (All that said, you can get into a Texas med school from almost any Texas college/uni.)

You have to decide if you'll be happy in a huge student body (UT and A&M) or not. Those are great schools (though I would have been miserable at A&M, but that's just my personality) with lots of great opportunities, but you can get lost in the sea of students.

 

[snowkhat]

I was actually in the same spot several years ago. I did my research and picked the University of Texas, Dallas. They have a really strong Pre-Health Advisng Program. Their medical school acceptances hover around 65%-75%. It was higher but they recently decided to lower their stringent applicant requirements.

UTD is known for it's strong Engineering and Sciences programs. UTD's current Pre-Med Dean is Dr.Scott Wright former Dean of UTSW. One of the other advisors is Dr. Joseph Wood one of the founders of TMDSAS and UT-San Antonio Medical School.

Best of luck!

 

[lane]

NewsFlash:

no school is considered any better than another. if you're a strong applicant based on your MCAT, GPA, ECs, clinical/research experience, and personality, you can get in from any school. many students at texas schools are non-traditional, receiving their undergrad degrees from smaller institutions and then taking pre-med pre-reqs at community colleges. don't concern yourself so much with having to go to a certain school; rather, concern yourself with making yourself a strong applicant and HAVE FUN IN COLLEGE. i repeat, HAVE FUN IN WHATEVER COLLEGE YOU ATTEND.

 

[baylormed]

From my experience at an OOS private school and taking summer school courses at UT, I would say it's much easier to maintain a higher GPA at UT (in bio/chem type stuff--not nec engineering) than at a higher-tier private school (which would lend little advantage in TX admissions).

Rice is certainly a tier above both UT and A&M, Baylor a tier below. I hear Trinity has a good reputation, but I'm not sure where to place it. (All that said, you can get into a Texas med school from almost any Texas college/uni.)

You have to decide if you'll be happy in a huge student body (UT and A&M) or not. Those are great schools (though I would have been miserable at A&M, but that's just my personality) with lots of great opportunities, but you can get lost in the sea of students.

Sorry, I had to interrupt to defend my undergrad.

Baylor is is the same Tier category as UT and TAM...it is lower within that tier by a certain # of places (2nd tier = 51st to 115th in the nation, I think), but it is not a tier below.

http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=41253

Okay, interruption over.


PS: That said, I do not think any school is better over any other to get you into medical school. It's going to depend on YOU and YOUR PERFORMANCE.

 

[SteveUTexas]

UT Austin has such information in their Health Professions Office. Almost everyone from UT goes through the HPO for the application process so they keep very good statistics. They have acceptances broken down into such categories such as GPA, MCAT, GPA+MCAT combinations, major, number of schools applied to, etc. The information is not online but it is worth a trip to Austin and the HPO.

BTW no school is going to prepare you for medical school, you have to do that yourself.

 

[afterthought]

Sorry, I had to interrupt to defend my undergrad.

Baylor is is the same Tier category as UT and TAM...it is lower within that tier by a certain # of places (2nd tier = 51st to 115th in the nation, I think), but it is not a tier below.

Rice (#17) and UT (47) are a tier above both A&M (60) and Baylor (81) by that definition. I was generalizing when I said Rice was a tier above the two state schools and Baylor was a tier below, but I guess that's a good way to get in trouble 😉 😳

 

[TX515]

#1 UT-Austin
#2 A&M

I wouldn't consider going anywhere other than #1