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Here is a thread on how to fund the move that completely jumped the shark. They never identified anyone giving loans before the start.

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Having a hard time finding relocation loans for moving to medical school. Plenty for residency relocation, am I missing something?

I'll be matriculating when I'm 30. I've never had to take out private loans before so this is a bit of new territory. That said I feel I will have a hard time convincing a private lender to give me money under the premise that I'd be jobless and going back to school a few months after they give...
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I went searching for bridge loans and it looks like they are focused on end of medicine and not beginning. Lots of orgs will to offer loans to a future resident.

Here is one to keep in your backpocket if you need money along the way in med school.
 
Does the April 30th deadline where medical applicants must make their choice of which program they want to attend apply to out of state schools. Say I have an offer from an AMCAS school and also matched into a Texas school. Do I need to be concerned about this deadline and choose which school I want to attend by April 30th?
 
medalik said:
Does the April 30th deadline where medical applicants must make their choice of which program they want to attend apply to out of state schools. Say I have an offer from an AMCAS school and also matched into a Texas school. Do I need to be concerned about this deadline and choose which school I want to attend by April 30th?
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I am in the same situation. I do believe that April 30th is the deadline to narrow down to 1 choice. CYMS gives the option to pick one school (even the TMDSAS school you matched to). I think you can stay on WL but not sure about that. Again not super sure, would love if someone could confirm or provide the accurate info.
 
@medalik to the best of my knowledge, yes! And @wysdoc or someone else can confirm so I don't confuse folks who may need this info:

1) If you have multiple acceptances (including TX and national ones), you must choose a school by April 30th (by using the Choose My School tool in AMCAS or whatever it's called)

2) if you only have once acceptance and one waitlist offer, you can wait for the waitlist offer until May 15th

3) for folks with no offers, they can be on waitlists until much later something like even right before orientation week....
 
LavenderDreams said:
@medalik to the best of my knowledge, yes! And @wysdoc or someone else can confirm so I don't confuse folks who may need this info:

1) If you have multiple acceptances (including TX and national ones), you must choose a school by April 30th (by using the Choose My School tool in AMCAS or whatever it's called)

2) if you only have once acceptance and one waitlist offer, you can wait for the waitlist offer until May 15th

3) for folks with no offers, they can be on waitlists until much later something like even right before orientation week....
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We discussed this recently over here: 5

The TMDSAS Match narrows all us Texans down to one school. If you also hold an offer at AMCAS you have to pick and narrow down to one school April 30.
Read the remarks in the thread I linked and also see where the stance of TMDSAS is quoted
 
There are OOS people who might be holding more than one TMDSAS acceptance. They need to narrow down to one by April 30th - in or out of state.
Last cycle there was an OOS student who chose Penn State with a much higher tuition over A&M with instate (had UTMB and may be some other school). Essentially this person was holding one or more admissions until April but didnt keep any in Texas in the end.
 
mindresolve said:
Has anyone been able to send UT Austin transcripts electronically to TMDSAS?? Or only paper copies?
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Austin is a dinosaur with paper copies! I heard they might have electronic transcript delivery available but that it’s not compatible with TMDSAS system, has anyone else heard this?
 
wysdoc said:
Austin is a dinosaur with paper copies! I heard they might have electronic transcript delivery available but that it’s not compatible with TMDSAS system, has anyone else heard this?
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Yup, something called SPEEDE I think
 
Sandman23 said:
Anyone know if the Texas Public Education Grants (TPEG) need to be paid back?

Found the page for it here but that info isn't stated there
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A Grant does not have to be repaid.
They are usually based on financial need, so FAFSA has to be completed and sent to your school's financial aid office.

The website you linked is for college education but there may be similar grants available for medical school. The best source is your school's financial aid office & let them know that once they have processed your information you would like to know if there are any grants you are eligible for.
 
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It took exactly three weeks from when I sent mine to TMDSAS to be processed. Remember for most schools you must send your transcripts to TMDSAS and the school.
 
So… did anyone else get the “past due” email from TMDSAS? What do they mean when they say they will process transcripts received by April 15? If our transcript is being mailed and it gets there after that date, are we no longer getting into med school? 😥
 
honey32 said:
So… did anyone else get the “past due” email from TMDSAS? What do they mean when they say they will process transcripts received by April 15? If our transcript is being mailed and it gets there after that date, are we no longer getting into med school? 😥
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I did, I sent my transcripts immediately after but im worried that they won't process in time on the TMDSAS side and what that'll mean. See if your school has an expedited shipping option. And I'm worried that they contacted our schools. Anyone else been in/ know someone whos been in this situation 😓
 
mindresolve said:
I did, I sent my transcripts immediately after but im worried that they won't process in time on the TMDSAS side and what that'll mean. See if your school has an expedited shipping option. And I'm worried that they contacted our schools. Anyone else been in/ know someone whos been in this situation 😓
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As long as TMDSAS receives your transcript by April 15th you will be fine; however, if it arrives at a later date I'm not too sure what will happen. Also, if they have contacted the school already nothing will happen. In the transcript FAQ they explain that it will not affect your acceptance. So just get them in electronically and it will be received fairly quickly by TMDSAS or get it mailed ASAP and hope the delivery isn't messed up.
 
RightAngleC said:
As long as TMDSAS receives your transcript by April 15th you will be fine; however, if it arrives at a later date I'm not too sure what will happen. Also, if they have contacted the school already nothing will happen. In the transcript FAQ they explain that it will not affect your acceptance. So just get them in electronically and it will be received fairly quickly by TMDSAS or get it mailed ASAP and hope the delivery isn't messed up.
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This was reassuring thank you so much!
 
Paper transcripts take forever through TMDSAS so I would send them ASAP.
 
Rite1234 said:
Paper transcripts take forever through TMDSAS so I would send them ASAP.
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I expedited it so it should arrive in 1-3 days so I should be okay I hope 😭

For transcripts sent through parchment, I couldn’t find TMDSAS as a designation already in the system so I just added their email, was that the case for others?
 
mindresolve said:
I expedited it so it should arrive in 1-3 days so I should be okay I hope 😭

For transcripts sent through parchment, I couldn’t find TMDSAS as a designation already in the system so I just added their email, was that the case for others?
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Yup, I had to do the same thing!
 
mindresolve said:
I expedited it so it should arrive in 1-3 days so I should be okay I hope

For transcripts sent through parchment, I couldn’t find TMDSAS as a designation already in the system so I just added their email, was that the case for others?
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You should be fine. The first time I sent a paper transcript was in December and TMDSAS lost it/couldn’t find it. So I sent it again in late January to TMDSAS and they got it in 1 week ish. It didn’t show up in my portal for 3 ish weeks after that. Dealing with paper transcripts with TMDSAS was frustrating for me. All in all, that one school’s transcript took 2 months to receive and process.
 
Rite1234 said:
You should be fine. The first time I sent a paper transcript was in December and TMDSAS lost it/couldn’t find it. So I sent it again in late January to TMDSAS and they got it in 1 week ish. It didn’t show up in my portal for 3 ish weeks after that. Dealing with paper transcripts with TMDSAS was frustrating for me. All in all, that one school’s transcript took 2 months to receive and process.
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That is frustrating, you would think they'd have a better system in place by now. How did you know they received it if it didn't show up in the portal? Should I just give them a call in about a week?
 
mindresolve said:
That is frustrating, you would think they'd have a better system in place by now. How did you know they received it if it didn't show up in the portal? Should I just give them a call in about a week?
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The best and most direct communication is to message TMDSAS in your portal. Each of you has been assigned a specific liaison who always looks at/takes questions on your file.

I don’t know this for certain, but I think the processing lag with paper transcripts is due to some of the workers doing their job remotely and not in the physical office where mail is delivered.
 
mindresolve said:
That is frustrating, you would think they'd have a better system in place by now. How did you know they received it if it didn't show up in the portal? Should I just give them a call in about a week?
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The first time I sent a paper transcript from UT to TMDSAS, I did not use a tracker. I emailed the transcript person like 5 times. Eventually when January rolled around, they just told me to send another one. Once I did, I made sure to use a USPS tracker with my transcript. They got it like a week-ish later and then spent several weeks to process it. Definitely would send a message in the TMDSAS portal if you don't hear anything in 30 days.
 
So if my only acceptance is from TMDSAS and I have already paid and accepted the offer, do I have to do anything else?
 
homiesweup said:
So if my only acceptance is from TMDSAS and I have already paid and accepted the offer, do I have to do anything else?
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No- other than watch for emails from your school to see what supporting info they would like next.
Usually-
Transcripts
Vaccine records and/or titers
Background check
FAFSA
 
wysdoc said:
No- other than watch for emails from your school to see what supporting info they would like next.
Usually-
Transcripts
Vaccine records and/or titers
Background check
FAFSA
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Does this include using the choose your medical school tool on AMCAS and selecting my TMDSAS? I can’t tell if that’s like mandatory or not.

thanks for all your support [mention]wysdoc [/mention]
 
homiesweup said:
Does this include using the choose your medical school tool on AMCAS and selecting my TMDSAS? I can’t tell if that’s like mandatory or not.

thanks for all your support [mention]wysdoc [/mention]
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I would go by the emails that your school sends to you.
CYMS tool is primarily a "crowbar" to get people with more than one acceptance to come to a decision by a certain time.
If you have one school only, not such a big deal.
Congratulations -
 
Rite1234 said:
I know this thread got really quiet, but how is everyone doing?
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Slaving away at work, contemplating the banality of my existence. Decided to start reading some classic books, namely A Tale of Two Cities. I'm enjoying it so far so that's good. It is strange to me how much work went into the MCAT, and the subsequent application, and now I'm just kinda sitting here doing nothing. It feels weird.
 
Howdie said:
Slaving away at work, contemplating the banality of my existence. Decided to start reading some classic books, namely A Tale of Two Cities. I'm enjoying it so far so that's good. It is strange to me how much work went into the MCAT, and the subsequent application, and now I'm just kinda sitting here doing nothing. It feels weird.
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It does feel a little weird, but I am glad everything worked out.
 
Just my two cents, but I would be surprised if significant WL movement happens so early in April. As Wysdoc and others have said, WL movement happens when people leave TX spots for OOS spots. Most OOS schools have their second looks in April, through the end of the month. I'd expect more WL movement towards the end of the month/right up to May 1st/right after May 1st as people decide after their visits. Of course, that's a generalization.
 
txapp913945 said:
Just my two cents, but I would be surprised if significant WL movement happens so early in April. As Wysdoc and others have said, WL movement happens when people leave TX spots for OOS spots. Most OOS schools have their second looks in April, through the end of the month. I'd expect more WL movement towards the end of the month/right up to May 1st/right after May 1st as people decide after their visits. Of course, that's a generalization.
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I know 🙂 I was just being silly. Back when PreMatch season started, we silly premeds started games on guessing when more offers would roll in on a certain week or period. So I guess my vibe joke was more of an "internal" joke than anything else... I got melancholic; for ol' times sakes lol
 
jack lock said:
My b i didnt even see this; my guess was as early as this friday or starting next week…but honestly im sooo bored i j wanna see some ACTION😤😤
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Same! Even if it doesn't happen to me, I seriously look forward to the excitement and movement of others! Thanks for dropping your prediction! It made my day hehe Can't wait to see when that first "I got in!" report comes in!
 
Howdie said:
Slaving away at work, contemplating the banality of my existence. Decided to start reading some classic books, namely A Tale of Two Cities. I'm enjoying it so far so that's good. It is strange to me how much work went into the MCAT, and the subsequent application, and now I'm just kinda sitting here doing nothing. It feels weird.
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Brodie hit the spot. Feelin this too. I'm hypin myself up, just like I did for my MCAT. I'm just thinkin "med school boutta be a movie"

Workin on my hops and the gym; goal is to dunk like Jalen and compete for the Olympia by the end of the year. I used to think if I can do the MCAT, I can do anything. Boi boutta put that to the test 😤

- Future Olympian

Slam Dunk Basketball GIF by Ballislife
 
Sandman23 said:
Brodie hit the spot. Feelin this too. I'm hypin myself up, just like I did for my MCAT. I'm just thinkin "med school boutta be a movie"

Workin on my hops and the gym; goal is to dunk like Jalen and compete for the Olympia by the end of the year. I used to think if I can do the MCAT, I can do anything. Boi boutta put that to the test 😤

- Future Olympian

Slam Dunk Basketball GIF by Ballislife
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Big body benz
 
Bonehead11 said:
Absolutely dreading the thought of starting a Re-App next month. Hopefully next year's republic of TX thread is as chill as this one, lol
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You have until July since you have no matches but unfortunately you need to plan in order to be on time.

As I understand it, you should be able to move your old stuff?
 
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