***TMDSAS 2016***

Started by EasTexan
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EasTexan said:
Any idea when financial aid "awards" start coming in? From filling out the FAFSA and all that fun stuff.
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If you mean when they send the award packages, if it's like undergrad, it usually comes in about June-ish. If you mean disbursed, then yeah around when school starts
 
strep mutans said:
Where are you guys getting this information? It doesn't make any sense. They can't expect you to live on nothing for 2 weeks as a full time student.

UTHSCSA's website says that they disburse financial aid appox 10 days prior to the first day of class.

Last year:
UTHSCSA's disbursement date was July 17th and classes started July 27th.
Baylor's disbursement date was August 7th and classes started August 17th.
UTSD's disbursement date was August 3rd and classes started August 10th. (Prpbably because Aug 1st was a Saturday, it was pushed to Monday Aug 3rd.)

Anyway, I believe EasTexan was referring to the finaid award info, not the actual funds. You find out your financial aid package before disbursement. You have to approve loan amounts and sign MPNs and all that.

I still don't have an answer though, wish I did.
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I was told this at all of my interviews, you don't get your loan disbursed until after classes start, so you'll have to put down for an apartment and everything else out of pocket. Tuition can be left alone if you have pending financial aid.

This was also how undergrad worked.... at least at my institution... Maybe y'all had it differently.
 
Typical Average Student said:
I was told this at all of my interviews, you don't get your loan disbursed until after classes start, so you'll have to put down for an apartment and everything else out of pocket. Tuition can be left alone if you have pending financial aid.

This was also how undergrad worked.... at least at my institution... Maybe y'all had it differently.
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Yeah my undergrad was like that too.
 
Typical Average Student said:
For all those who are still hoping for Houston... An email was sent out to The entering class but only 98 recipients were on the email. So there is probably 2 seats left to be filled. I suggest emailing an update to Dr. Galindo or someone about your status and application. Good luck!
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Props to the person on our mailing list who managed to get in with the email username "Dirty" LOL
 
Typical Average Student said:
For all those who are still hoping for Houston... An email was sent out to The entering class but only 98 recipients were on the email. So there is probably 2 seats left to be filled. I suggest emailing an update to Dr. Galindo or someone about your status and application. Good luck!
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I emailed Dr. Galindo about my status on March 29th. She said an alternate list will be created after May 1st. Congrats to everyone that already heard back and got accepted!!
 
Those who were accepted late, when y'all went and got your immunizations, what did y'all do for the hep B shot series? The one insurance covers takes 6 months and the Twinrix combo series cost $206 per injection (x3!!). Any one run into this problem yet?
 
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cacajuate said:
Those who were accepted late, when y'all went and got your immunizations, what did y'all do for the hep B shot series? The one insurance covers takes 6 months and the Twinrix combo series cost $206 per injection (x3!!). Any one run into this problem yet?
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I went to get my hep B titer and apparently I don't have immunity to hep B (even though I had the series before). I was going to go get the first injection this week. 206$?....EACH? you aren't serious right?

EDIT: Apparently you can get the series at walgreens for 90$ per dose.
 
I'm serious.. For the TWINRIX one, which only takes about 5 weeks for all three, cost $206 each. She said insurance very rarely covers that one. The normal hep b series takes 6 months and is usually covered by insurance.

I went to just a immunization clinic so cost may differ but I was shocked and told her I will call the school first.
 
cacajuate said:
I'm serious.. For the TWINRIX one, which only takes about 5 weeks for all three, cost $206 each. She said insurance very rarely covers that one. The normal hep b series takes 6 months and is usually covered by insurance.

I went to just a immunization clinic so cost may differ but I was shocked and told her I will call the school first.
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Oh just get the 6 month one. You're going to UTHSCSA right? At Baylor we can register and attend classes if we've gotten the 2nd dose. I'm not sure if UTSD and UTHSCSA has this policy.
The 2nd dose is administered 30 days after the first one.
 
Advance said:
Oh just get the 6 month one. You're going to UTHSCSA right? At Baylor we can register and attend classes if we've gotten the 2nd dose. I'm not sure if UTSD and UTHSCSA has this policy.
The 2nd dose is administered 30 days after the first one.
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That's what I was hoping to hear. Thanks
 
I talked to UTHSCSA and they said if you have documentation about your childhood hep B vacc, you only need to have started the new hep B series and you are good.
 
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Hey y'all I have a question.

I will be reapplying this cycle but the last time I applied was in 2013. Will my old TMDSAS account still be there? Or will I have to refill out the entire thing?
 
Question again:
What is the latest I can take the DAT and still be considered early? I plan on having my app done and sent in by mid May so the only thing missing would be my DAT
 
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cacajuate said:
Rejection coming soon brother. I'm in the same boat with them.


What I'm most surprised about with Baylor is did they ever send out a second round? Besides the few OOS ones.
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I emailed them a while back and they said they have a high first round acceptance rate this year and almost fill their class, so the second round was never determined.
 
cacajuate said:
I feel ya, I interviewed there after dec 1st. I literally had zero chance.

Still amazing, what other school in the nation could say they did that? What's funny to me is they have the oldest clinic in Texas now and still pull that off.
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I interviewed in Nov and I felt pretty good.
Guess I was wrong.
Or maybe I'm just too ugly. My RBF is too much for a dentist...
 
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Do the TX schools accept unofficial DAT scores? Like the paper you get after you finish your exam? I was wondering if you could email them those scores while you wait for TMDSAS to send it.
 
Yeah, Baylor had a small second round acceptance in mid April. To answer the question above, I know when you apply Baylor requires you to email your unofficial score report to them so I'm pretty sure the other two schools won't mind getting it either 🙂
 
meemo93 said:
Yeah, Baylor had a small second round acceptance in mid April. To answer the question above, I know when you apply Baylor requires you to email your unofficial score report to them so I'm pretty sure the other two schools won't mind getting it either 🙂
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Thank you my friend!
 
Would you guys suggest submitting my app the second week of May or increasing my stats and submitting the last weekend of May?


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Baileyy259 said:
Would you guys suggest submitting my app the second week of May or increasing my stats and submitting the last weekend of May?


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I think most if not all TX universities don't release their finalized transcripts til middle of may right? That's usually when the semester ends.
 
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