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Alright, lots of people seemed to have followed me in my footsteps and made the same mistake that I did. Here's the thing about the medical schools in texas, they don't care about hard work or ability, they want to put out family practice docs. That's why you have people with 5 interviews with good grades get in nowhere. The texas schools are difficult to predict.
So students that didn't match and have no OOS acceptances have a choice to make:
1. Change career. Most students will follow this route and go into another area of medicine, such as PA, nursing, pharmacy. Some students might rather go into grad school and get a PhD. There is nothing wrong with this. If every student reapplied who didn't match we'd have an extra thousand applicants in the pool the next year, then an extra 2000 the year after and in fact we are seeing a growth in applicant pool thanks to this so next year will even be harder to get in.
2. Reapply. Some students may think they got the short end of the stick. They had good stats but still didn't get in, which was my case. Don't play games again with your future. Texans do not have it good when it comes to medical schools, half the other states out there have a higher acceptance rate for applicants then texas and texas is going to be like california soon. So let's come up with a list of out of state schools that give texas students a chance in getting in, then save up, and apply far and wide and mostly to schools that give you a chance to get in.
3. Take time off to do something else such as seeking a masters degree. Some students will find it easier to get into medical school after getting a master's degree. I find this to be useless and a complete waste of education resources and a waste of time for an individual that could otherwise be productive. But the schools like it, so why not.
What to do in the meantime. If anyone wants advice on how to land an internet tutoring job, send me a PM, I know two reliable companies now that pay tutors to tutor online, that also make the payment system easy: You just tutor and wait for your paycheck. I'd also seek research jobs, and medical field related jobs. Teaching, research and field experience all look good in case you reapply next cycle. I would take a paid job over volunteer work. I'd take research over medical experience over teaching if you have to make a choice between them.
*If you are a new applicant in texas I would follow the same advice, apply far and wide out of state. I don't mean apply to 5 out of state schools, I mean no less then 10 if you are a serious applicant but at least apply to a few. The benefit for reapplicants is that these schools are first time applications, so you are treated like you are a first time applicant.
I'm going to try to come up with a list of schools that are good schools to apply to out of state. These are schools that other texans have gotten into in the past or have had interviews. We can also talk about tuition costs
1. University of Toledo in ohio. tuition: very high first year for out of state ($50,000/yr) but you will become a state resident during your first year and pay in state thereafter ($22,000/yr). Interviews: They accept a lot more than half the the students interviewed because they are very selective for interviews, which is good because a trip to a toledo interview is not a waste of your money.
So students that didn't match and have no OOS acceptances have a choice to make:
1. Change career. Most students will follow this route and go into another area of medicine, such as PA, nursing, pharmacy. Some students might rather go into grad school and get a PhD. There is nothing wrong with this. If every student reapplied who didn't match we'd have an extra thousand applicants in the pool the next year, then an extra 2000 the year after and in fact we are seeing a growth in applicant pool thanks to this so next year will even be harder to get in.
2. Reapply. Some students may think they got the short end of the stick. They had good stats but still didn't get in, which was my case. Don't play games again with your future. Texans do not have it good when it comes to medical schools, half the other states out there have a higher acceptance rate for applicants then texas and texas is going to be like california soon. So let's come up with a list of out of state schools that give texas students a chance in getting in, then save up, and apply far and wide and mostly to schools that give you a chance to get in.
3. Take time off to do something else such as seeking a masters degree. Some students will find it easier to get into medical school after getting a master's degree. I find this to be useless and a complete waste of education resources and a waste of time for an individual that could otherwise be productive. But the schools like it, so why not.
What to do in the meantime. If anyone wants advice on how to land an internet tutoring job, send me a PM, I know two reliable companies now that pay tutors to tutor online, that also make the payment system easy: You just tutor and wait for your paycheck. I'd also seek research jobs, and medical field related jobs. Teaching, research and field experience all look good in case you reapply next cycle. I would take a paid job over volunteer work. I'd take research over medical experience over teaching if you have to make a choice between them.
*If you are a new applicant in texas I would follow the same advice, apply far and wide out of state. I don't mean apply to 5 out of state schools, I mean no less then 10 if you are a serious applicant but at least apply to a few. The benefit for reapplicants is that these schools are first time applications, so you are treated like you are a first time applicant.
I'm going to try to come up with a list of schools that are good schools to apply to out of state. These are schools that other texans have gotten into in the past or have had interviews. We can also talk about tuition costs
1. University of Toledo in ohio. tuition: very high first year for out of state ($50,000/yr) but you will become a state resident during your first year and pay in state thereafter ($22,000/yr). Interviews: They accept a lot more than half the the students interviewed because they are very selective for interviews, which is good because a trip to a toledo interview is not a waste of your money.
