Texas Waitlist Information 2005 part 01

[txkiwieyes]

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thought this was a cool idea... just to see where exactly everyone is waitlisted at...

just erase the [quote..] stuff before u add...

 

[true blue]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes

UT Galveston

Texas A&M
true_blue

Texas Tech

TCOM

 

[txkiwieyes]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100

 

[drsungoddess]

Well so far our chances look good since there are only a few people on each waitlist, he he

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100

 

[APTX]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100[/QUOTE]

 

[basten0]

OKAY I GOT SOME REALLY BAD NEWS:

I hear that UTH has accpeted ~230-240 people for class of 200, so that means 30-40 people have got to tell them no before any waitlist movement occurs.
and UTMB said they have 230 for class of 200 as well.
and TAMU said 91 for class of 80.
I don't know about tech and san antonio or SW, but I am sure it's a similar story.
and this makes sense from the admissions point of view cause they know some people will leave so they accept more people then they need.

crap, i hope i am wrong. what do ya'll think, i don't know what i am gonna do if this thing doesn't work out this year......
anyone hear similar story

The story is indeed the same every year apparently. They overaccept b/c i guess it gives them more control over the class size. these numbers sound legit. where did you get them?

 

[kilppy]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100[/QUOTE]

 

[Dr. Ditka]

"The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at University of North Texas
Health Science Center offers a Post-baccalaureate Premedical
Certification Program. This is an intensive one-year program designed
for students who wish to enhance their academic credentials for
admission to medical school."

this is what I got through email today from TCOM. What does this mean? Do I automatically get in if I do well or am I just considered. What do you guys think this means and would you do it if you were accepted to a DO out of state school already. I would love to stay in Texas but I might not want to wait a year.

 

[UT_mikie]

Wow, TMDAS really lowered their standards this year. Should of reapplied this time.

I think Valtry was a sub captain and went to the north pole or something amazing like that. Correct me if I'm wrong 😉 .

 

[txguy]

Yes, I got the letter saying I am on their wait list, but what confused me was that they said that if applicant accepts the offer in any other school, they are automaticly taken off the waitlist. I accepted TCOM just in case, but it sux if that automaticly took me of UTMB waitlist.

lol, did you not read my post or the link I posted? 😀 🙄

You will only be removed from the waitlist after JUNE 1 if you have an acceptance from another school. Up until June 1, you can still get in off the waitlist at UTMB! And if you don't get in off the waitlist, you still have your TCOM acceptance 👍

-tx

 

[thehopeful]

You're not Asian are you? I think thats as bad if not worse than being a WASP. I once had this Princeton Review applicant score card which added to your diserability score +5-10 points if you are Latino, African-American, or Native American, WASPS +0 and Asians and Jews -1. I don't want to turn this into an AA thread but just a comment.

hold up, so what is this scorecard thing. please futher explain b/c i am starting to believe it b/c i have seen it with my own eyes. i do believe asians are worse off than wasp b/c if you think aobut it asians are overrepresented than wasp in medicine respect to US population. but i agree i don't want to turn this into AA thread and i certainly do't want people being mad at me for saying it.

and i got the numbers for the schools from different sources but i think that's why they are accurate. the UTMB i got from when i callled them and they said 31 people must leave before we consider the watilist and i ask why and you can expect what the answer was.....

and i got UTH numbers from someone who talk to like the assistant director or something. alos you can go to UTH site and count the number of people that are on the imcoming class list and it counts to like 230.

A&M numbers i got from a lady who came to my school, she was like the recruting person or somthing that was her title.
and the other schoools i don't know.

but from my point of view 30 to 40 people seems alot but if it happened before than maybe it'll happen again. i hope.
maybe we should start a thread persuading people to go to out of state. i can think of hundreds of reason and i would go out of state if i could. maybe we'll be successful.

 

[txkiwieyes]

there's gotta be more of us! haha...

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jb100

 

[civic4982]

Urm?
Wasp?
Wtf?

😕

 

[txguy]

There are 215 students on the entering class of 2005 list for UTHSCSA:

http://som.uthscsa.edu/Information.html (click on "2005 entering class")

-tx

hold up, so what is this scorecard thing. please futher explain b/c i am starting to believe it b/c i have seen it with my own eyes. i do believe asians are worse off than wasp b/c if you think aobut it asians are overrepresented than wasp in medicine respect to US population. but i agree i don't want to turn this into AA thread and i certainly do't want people being mad at me for saying it.

and i got the numbers for the schools from different sources but i think that's why they are accurate. the UTMB i got from when i callled them and they said 31 people must leave before we consider the watilist and i ask why and you can expect what the answer was.....

and i got UTH numbers from someone who talk to like the assistant director or something. alos you can go to UTH site and count the number of people that are on the imcoming class list and it counts to like 230.

A&M numbers i got from a lady who came to my school, she was like the recruting person or somthing that was her title.
and the other schoools i don't know.

but from my point of view 30 to 40 people seems alot but if it happened before than maybe it'll happen again. i hope.
maybe we should start a thread persuading people to go to out of state. i can think of hundreds of reason and i would go out of state if i could. maybe we'll be successful.

 

[true blue]

Urm?
Wasp?
Wtf?

😕

LOL!

 

[UT_mikie]

It's not that I dislike UTMB or the city that much...It's just that I've worked so hard for four years and wanted to go somewhere better. I don't mean somewhere in the top ten or anything. Just somewhere with better resources like UT-H or USC, for instance.

Also, my experience with UTMB students (night before interview) and on these threads make them sound like a joke. People get excited like UTMB is Galveston social hour. The fraternity idea sounds ridiculous to me. I'm in a fraternity now at Texas Tech, but I plan to put these days behind me and grow up. I'm going to med school to become a physician...not to go to some joke toga party.

Perceptions of Galveston aside, UTMB got the most NIH funding in 2003 than any of the other UT schools (yes more than UT southwestern heck more than Harvard). Something like $202 million. Thats 19th in the nation. You want more resources?? Something good must be going on down there. 👍 .

 

[Stitch626]

The story is indeed the same every year apparently. They overaccept b/c i guess it gives them more control over the class size. these numbers sound legit. where did you get them?

I can verify the current UTH class size. There is a preliminary entering class list posted under "Admissions" on the University of Texas-Houston website. I counted 240 even. Having looked at the Baylor c/o 2005 forum on SDN, it seems as though a significant number of accepted UTH students are waiting on possible Baylor acceptances (I would assume most accepted to both schools would preferentially choose Baylor).

I am sorry to hear the discord felt by several toward UTH. I never thought of UTH as an "elitist" school, but it does seems odd that those with 30's MCATs and 3.7+ GPAs would not be accepted.

ENTERING UTH CLASS LIST 2005: http://www.med.uth.tmc.edu/admissions/february mailing 05/entering students.doc

 

[civic4982]

LOL!

no but really, could someone decipher what URM And WASP mean? I'm very :clueless: to the forum vernacular.

 

[UT_mikie]

hold up, so what is this scorecard thing. please futher explain b/c i am starting to believe it b/c i have seen it with my own eyes. i do believe asians are worse off than wasp b/c if you think aobut it asians are overrepresented than wasp in medicine respect to US population. but i agree i don't want to turn this into AA thread and i certainly do't want people being mad at me for saying it.

and i got the numbers for the schools from different sources but i think that's why they are accurate. the UTMB i got from when i callled them and they said 31 people must leave before we consider the watilist and i ask why and you can expect what the answer was.....

and i got UTH numbers from someone who talk to like the assistant director or something. alos you can go to UTH site and count the number of people that are on the imcoming class list and it counts to like 230.

A&M numbers i got from a lady who came to my school, she was like the recruting person or somthing that was her title.
and the other schoools i don't know.

but from my point of view 30 to 40 people seems alot but if it happened before than maybe it'll happen again. i hope.
maybe we should start a thread persuading people to go to out of state. i can think of hundreds of reason and i would go out of state if i could. maybe we'll be successful.

Hey sorry, I deleted the post because I don't think it applies to med schools, therefore it wasn't relevant to this thread. I know at undergrad schools Asians are overrepresented generally but I don't know about med schools.

 

[civic4982]

I can verify the current UTH class size. There is a preliminary entering class list posted under "Admissions" on the University of Texas-Houston website. I counted 240 even. Having looked at the Baylor c/o 2005 forum on SDN, it seems as though a significant number of accepted UTH students are waiting on possible Baylor acceptances (I would assume most accepted to both schools would preferentially choose Baylor).

I am sorry to hear the discord felt by several toward UTH. I never thought of UTH as an "elitist" school, but it does seems odd that those with 30's MCATs and 3.7+ GPAs would not be accepted.

ENTERING UTH CLASS LIST 2005: http://www.med.uth.tmc.edu/admissions/february mailing 05/entering students.doc

Maybe not elitist but there's a lotta good lookin' women there... 😍

I wish they would've given me an interview this year like they did last. DRATS!

 

[true blue]

no but really, could someone decipher what URM And WASP mean? I'm very :clueless: to the forum vernacular.

URM ---> Underrepresented minority
WASP ---> White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

 

[true blue]

there's gotta be more of us! haha...

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jb100

No one waitlisted at UTSW on this thread????????????

😕 😕 😕

 

[txkiwieyes]

Hey sorry, I deleted the post because I don't think it applies to med schools, therefore it wasn't relevant to this thread. I know at undergrad schools Asians are overrepresented generally but I don't know about med schools.

from the AMCAS website (which includes stats from Texas schools as well)
2004 Matriculants: there were approximately 3000 Asians admitted... and 11,000 "WASPS"... don't know if that answers ur question or not...

I don't think Asians are overrepresented in med schools at all... or it doesn't seem that way to me...

 

[txkiwieyes]

No one waitlisted at UTSW on this thread????????????

😕 😕 😕

yea.. where are ya'll???

 

[SitraAchra]

me = tech alternate

 

[civic4982]

from the AMCAS website (which includes stats from Texas schools as well)
2004 Matriculants: there were approximately 3000 Asians admitted... and 11,000 "WASPS"... don't know if that answers ur question or not...

I don't think Asians are overrepresented in med schools at all... or it doesn't seem that way to me...

Considering that according to the 2000 census Asian Americans constituted to less than 6% of the population here in the US including those that are part Asian only (without much growth since then) the group is over-represented if there are 3000 admitted.

 

[true blue]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy
SitraAchra

TCOM
jb100

 

[getunconcsious]

Baylor

UT Southwestern
getunconscious

UT Houston
txkiwieyes

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy
SitraAchra

TCOM
jb100

Evidently I have the dubious distinction of being the first UTSW waitlister 🙄

 

[Dr. Ditka]

I don't know how to get on da list. I have been waitlisted at UTH and TCOM. I am very happy to be on them considering I got a 25 and have a 3.5. I guess playing football helped.

 

[true blue]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes
Dr. Ditka

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy
SitraAchra

TCOM
jb100
Dr. Ditka

 

[getunconcsious]

Baylor

UT Southwestern
getunconscious

UT Houston
txkiwieyes
Dr. Ditka

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy
SitraAchra

TCOM
jb100
Dr. Ditka

No Baylor peeps yet?

 

[true blue]

Baylor

UT Southwestern
getunconscious

UT Houston
txkiwieyes
Dr. Ditka

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy
SitraAchra

TCOM
jb100
Dr. Ditka

No Baylor peeps yet?

Don't think Baylor compiles theirs until March.

 

[utgirl812]

Baylor

UT Southwestern

UT Houston
txkiwieyes
utgirl812

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100[/QUOTE]

 

[trauma_junky]

I hate to blow people's theories away but I'm not a URM, had a 26 MCAT and I got 5 interviews (every school but UTSW and UTSA).

What I think people don't realize is that those 2 above are only just 2 parts of your app. There are ECs, PS, LORs, etc. that make a candidate attractive to a particular school. I applied early and 4 of 5 of my interviews were in August (1st or 2nd interview of the season for most schools).

My advice -
1) take the April MCAT no matter what (you can always upgrade your score in August)
2) Apply as early as humanly possible (this may require some forward planning and sacrificing study time, but it's worth it)
3) Diversify your profile (I played hockey - was the president for 1 yr, assistant Captain for 4 yrs) you can then talk about something other than medicine and you've developed other skills that Adcoms want (teamwork, leadership, etc)

Remember, the only numbers you really need are the ones that get you an interview. After that, your interview and personality is what clinches the deal.

Good luck and may the waitlists be good to you all!!

I hate to burst your bubble, but did get lucky. And anyone that has been in this as long as I have will tell you that. I'll post my resume and you tell me why I didn't get accepted.

 

[jbp100]

"The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at University of North Texas
Health Science Center offers a Post-baccalaureate Premedical
Certification Program. This is an intensive one-year program designed
for students who wish to enhance their academic credentials for
admission to medical school."

this is what I got through email today from TCOM. What does this mean? Do I automatically get in if I do well or am I just considered. What do you guys think this means and would you do it if you were accepted to a DO out of state school already. I would love to stay in Texas but I might not want to wait a year.

Ditka-

I got that same email. I don't think anything is guaranteed. I almost wet myself thinking I got in off the waitlist when I saw the email in my inbox from TCOM admissions. They should think about these things before they send them out. 😱

 

[trauma_junky]

Yeah, I hear you man. Even though I've already served, I still think about going back from time to time. I'll tell you this: the time that you serve on active duty is time lived @ 110%. In civilian life it sometimes feel that you're only half alive. If you do decide to serve then I think you'll really like it. However, it won't do anything to get you into med school. Just an FYI.

So you're going to re-apply? I think that's great. Are you retaking the MCAT too? I re-took mine in April and that immediately got me an acceptance off a waitlist, more interviews, and an acceptance to UTHSCSA (with your favorite Dean 😉 ). Glad to see that you're still around.

Evo

Ya, Dr. David something? Just call him honest Abe!

 

[trauma_junky]

I think Valtry was a sub captain and went to the north pole or something amazing like that. Correct me if I'm wrong 😉 .

Since when do crack heads get into medical school. Oh wait all the time. My job is educating stupid doctors now.

 

[civic4982]

Wow, TMDAS really lowered their standards this year. Should of reapplied this time.

You seem to have a lot of hostility towards those that got interviews/accepted with lower #s. I'm sure there's lots of people who, like yourself, are very qualified in other areas outside of academics alone. You make it sound as if tehy're undeserving and just caught a lucky break.

 

[true blue]

Baylor

UT Southwestern
getunconscious

UT Houston
txkiwieyes
Dr. Ditka
utgirl812

UT San Antonio
txkiwieyes
kilppy
coomassie

UT Galveston
jbp100
snowhard
drsungoddess
Blue Orchid
ilona

Texas A&M
true_blue
coomassie
drsungoddess
kilppy

Texas Tech
premed7
kilppy

TCOM
jbp100
Dr. Ditka

 

[true blue]

You seem to have a lot of hostility towards those that got interviews/accepted with lower #s. I'm sure there's lots of people who, like yourself, are very qualified in other areas outside of academics alone. You make it sound as if tehy're undeserving and just caught a lucky break.

I hear a lot of this is just plain dumb luck. It seems this way sometimes.

Too bad I don't have that! 🙁

 

[true blue]

I don't know if I'd go so far as saying "a lot" of it is luck, but sure, on any given day you might catch your interviewer in a good/bad mood. You might sit down to the MCAT with all the ppl that had your form only a bit more/less prepared than the people on other forms. You could also be lucky to have grown up in a state that has lower average scores for acceptance than others (like we're lucky enough to be in). I think there's a lot of things in order and numerous people that look at applicants so that things like this are minimized. I wouldn't ever belittle anyone's app by saying "you just got lucky." I know lots of people with really high scores who didn't get in and lot with really low scores that did get in. Then there's a whole lot of everything in between.

I don't think applying to any graduate school is purely or even mostly a game of chance. There's a lot of stiff competition from whta I noticed in my interviews last year and this year. I'm sure we all that at one point that most of the ppl with those stellar numbers were introverted unsociable bookworms but whta I saw was a lot of outgoing, multi-talented, educated people.

I'm not belittling. Ask anyone on an admissions committee. They will tell you that themselves. Several of my former professors have served on med school adcoms and have said the same thing. One of my interviewers told me that to my face so I'm not talking out of my a$$ here.

Jeez, dude. Chill! You are in a different place than a lot of us are so don't preach.

Thanks.

 

[Future Doc B]

I hate to burst your bubble, but did get lucky. And anyone that has been in this as long as I have will tell you that. I'll post my resume and you tell me why I didn't get accepted.

After seeing how many people apply with 30+ MCATs and 3.7+ GPAs, I agree with you that I probably got "lucky". However, consider that the "average" (I'm guessing Mean) MCAT of Texas Med School Matriculants is a 27 (source: TMDSAS website), then I don't think a 26 is all that off. I believe my acceptance had a lot to do with hard work and great timing.

As for why you didn't get accepted, I can't imagine. I would presume that your resume is quite stellar, but for whatever reason it might not be convincing enough to get you into med school.

There's an old saying in baseball, "you have to be lucky to be good, and you have to be good to be lucky". I worked pretty hard at other parts of my profile (other than MCAT) to be able to "luck" my way into med school.

Good Luck in your pursuit to realize your dreams.

 

[true blue]

After seeing how many people apply with 30+ MCATs and 3.7+ GPAs, I agree with you that I probably got "lucky". However, consider that the "average" (I'm guessing Mean) MCAT of Texas Med School Matriculants is a 27 (source: TMDSAS website), then I don't think a 26 is all that off. I believe my acceptance had a lot to do with hard work and great timing.

As for why you didn't get accepted, I can't imagine. I would presume that your resume is quite stellar, but for whatever reason it might not be convincing enough to get you into med school.

There's an old saying in baseball, "you have to be lucky to be good, and you have to be good to be lucky". I worked pretty hard at other parts of my profile (other than MCAT) to be able to "luck" my way into med school.

Good Luck in your pursuit to realize your dreams.

Where have you been accepted?

 

[trauma_junky]

You seem to have a lot of hostility towards those that got interviews/accepted with lower #s. I'm sure there's lots of people who, like yourself, are very qualified in other areas outside of academics alone. You make it sound as if tehy're undeserving and just caught a lucky break.

My hostility is not toward the individual, it is to unscientific process that is known as admissions. The world of medicine as it really is and the enigmatic world that medical school thinks it is and chooses its applicants to fit. I have a pediatric surgeon begging me to reapply this next cyle, but I am not ready to go through it again. I am nothing but excited with those of you out there that are getting these opportunities.

 

[D_LOVE]

Hey...it's better to be lucky than good...and that sucks

 

[true blue]

Hey...it's better to be lucky than good...and that sucks

agreed...unfortunately 🙁

 

[thehopeful]

hey TB and all,

so why don't these people try to fix these problem instead of just going with it. I agree this thing is sort of getting lucky sort of thing, so my question is why don't these admissions people try to figure someway to manipulate it so it's based on merit and not on what kind of interviewer get. cause this is my first time going through it and saying that it blows is a gross understatement.

happy waitin

 

[true blue]

hey TB and all,

so why don't these people try to fix these problem instead of just going with it.

Because they don't want to 😡

Seriously, I have no idea.

I'm really bitter today. Whew! I should stop this.

Going to stir my Bloody Mary now. 🙂

 

[fotolilith]

I matched with UTMB, but I really don't think that is where I want to be (hence, why it was fourth out of four on my list). I am hoping I get accepted to University of Southern California...and give up my spot in Galveston for somebody who wants it much more than I do.

I agree with that last comment, USC is definitely more deserving of you.

 

[true blue]

I agree with that last comment, USC is definitely more deserving of you.

Zing!