Texas Programs

[WYNN86]

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Any Post-bac programs in Texas that AREN'T aimed at under represented minorities or disadvantaged students?

If not is there anyone who has done a diy postbac in Texas? If so where and was there a lot of help from the university? Did they have an advisory board or at least some guidelines about the best way to do things?

Thanks👍

 

[jlittlej]

When I was first looking at schools, the pre-med advisor at UT-Dallas (which is actually in Richardson, a Dallas suburb) was very helpful and clearly had experience with informal post-bac students.

 

[xeulee]

There's one at UNT's DO school. I think you have to have a bachelors degree in a natural science area though to apply.

 

[Wannabe Doktor]

There's one at UNT's DO school. I think you have to have a bachelors degree in a natural science area though to apply.

I didn't think you did, until I read this.

From the MS Med Sci page here:

Applicants must hold either a B.A. or B.S. degree and must meet the general requirements of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as described in the current graduate catalog.

From the GSBS Graduate Catalog page 13 here:

Applicant must hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent with a major in biology, biochemistry, chemistry or equivalent field from a regionally accredited institution.

So wow. I am glad that I am a Bio major, since this is probably the program that I am going to go to first. Sucks for others though.

 

[Flushot]

Wow, pretty inconsistent on TCOM's part. I would think they take any major as long as you have the premed requirements and have taken the MCAT. That's more than enough to prove your science background.

Anyhow, there is a TCOM thread going on, so if you have more questions, go in there.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=461692

 

[jlittlej]

The original poster stated they were considering a do-it-yourself postbac, which I think implies they're looking to take the pre-med prerequisites. The UNT in Fort Worth program is an SMP for people who already have the pre-reqs and are looking to enhance their applications with difficult grad-level courses that sometimes overlap with the med student curriculum.

As for the UNT SMP only being for science majors, that's what their Web site says, but I emailed them and received a response that just having the pre-med prerequisites was fine.