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If you're an out of state applicant, does it matter if you apply early or not? Would adcoms just review all in state applications until they fill up 90% of their spots and then move on to out of state?
 
Babbitt4MVP said:
If you're an out of state applicant, does it matter if you apply early or not? Would adcoms just review all in state applications until they fill up 90% of their spots and then move on to out of state?
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they don't usually look at OOS until September. so yeah pretty much when a lot of spots are already taken. it might still be good to get the app in since they might look at OOS in order the apps came in. total guess here though
 
Babbitt4MVP said:
If you're an out of state applicant, does it matter if you apply early or not? Would adcoms just review all in state applications until they fill up 90% of their spots and then move on to out of state?
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I would still apply as early as possible though. Chances of them looking at you still higher if you're earlier than others.
 
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I chose the option to have the letter from my dentist be included in my committee letter and it was finally uploaded today. It says the status is received but my dentist letter says not received. It looks like they'll verify my dentist letter is in my committee letter at some point, is that correct?
 
CareerNumTwo said:
Random question - is it the schools themselves that approve whether or not we've completed the prerequisites or do they go off of what TMDSAS says?
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I believe the schools do. I emailed the schools individually about a class I wasn't sure about and they replied pretty quick
 
For Texas A&M secondary, when it ask you about "Overcame or is experiencing extreme hardship" and "Other adverse circumstances".... like could it be anything? For example overcoming the fear of talking in public?
 
hihobi said:
For Texas A&M secondary, when it ask you about "Overcame or is experiencing extreme hardship" and "Other adverse circumstances".... like could it be anything? For example overcoming the fear of talking in public?
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I'm pretty sure it means financial, familial, or other personal hardships that debilitates your quality of life.
 
Lostmoonofpoosh said:
I chose the option to have the letter from my dentist be included in my committee letter and it was finally uploaded today. It says the status is received but my dentist letter says not received. It looks like they'll verify my dentist letter is in my committee letter at some point, is that correct?
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If I can recall correctly, there's some box to put the dentist's name and some option that says that you'll be submitting the dentist's LOR with the committee letter.
 
For people whose app was sent to all 3 schools, were you notified by San Antonio saying they received your app? I heard back from Hou and A&M but not SA. Are they slow to inform people?
 
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Babbitt4MVP said:
If you're an out of state applicant, does it matter if you apply early or not? Would adcoms just review all in state applications until they fill up 90% of their spots and then move on to out of state?
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I believe it does not matter. My friend who got an interview at one of the Texas dental schools let me know that during interviews they made an announcement to the out of state students stating that their chances of getting accepted are very slim. That does match with the information they shared during campus tours I have attended. Since all three schools are public they are allowed to accept up to 11 out of state students. I believe the stats from last cycle were :
Texas A&M 4
UTHouston 3
UTSCA 3
 
Sean94 said:
For people whose app was sent to all 3 schools, were you notified by San Antonio saying they received your app? I heard back from Hou and A&M but not SA. Are they slow to inform people?
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No, I have not. They are the only school to still not get back to me with an email like A&M and Hou.
 
After your application has been transmitted to the schools, does TMDSAS update the status and notify you when schools begin looking at your app? Or do you just wait and hope you get an interview email at a random time?
 
Samin23 said:
After your application has been transmitted to the schools, does TMDSAS update the status and notify you when schools begin looking at your app? Or do you just wait and hope you get an interview email at a random time?
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Yeah you just wait. It will tell you your stuff is complete and then there's silence for several weeks, then you just get an email out of the blue.

In my experience, Baylor is the quickest to invite for interviews, but they plan them super far into the future in the beginning, like a month.
 
stoopidmonkeycatdog said:
Yeah you just wait. It will tell you your stuff is complete and then there's silence for several weeks, then you just get an email out of the blue.

In my experience, Baylor is the quickest to invite for interviews, but they plan them super far into the future in the beginning, like a month.
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Do the schools not send an email saying they've at least received your application? TAMU did for me, but that's it. What about the other?
 
stoopidmonkeycatdog said:
In my experience, Baylor is the quickest to invite for interviews, but they plan them super far into the future in the beginning, like a month.
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And I will say (just so no one freaks out like I was!) that for me they were super slow. At least 1-2 months slower than the other two for interview invite.
 
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anyone know roughly when OOS can expect to hear something/anything back from A&M (about application complete or interview)
 
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For people that have been through this before, is the month+ lag time normal for the app to be transmitted? According to the TMDSAS twitter, they were still working on June 16 applications as of yesterday. Seems like a long time for verification. At this rate, most people submitting in July won't be seen by the schools until mid-August.
 
Do we have to do anything additional for our DAT scores if we selected the Texas schools to be sent to? I've heard for AASDAS we have to contact them to get the scores connected so not sure if its the same for TMSDAS.

Thanks for the help!
 
d_risi said:
For people that have been through this before, is the month+ lag time normal for the app to be transmitted? According to the TMDSAS twitter, they were still working on June 16 applications as of yesterday. Seems like a long time for verification. At this rate, most people submitting in July won't be seen by the schools until mid-August.
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Slowest process on earth.
 
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Stanelz said:
Will be out of the country for the next week and a half...hopefully to be surprised with interview requests when I get back #suspense
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Like the new pic! just in time for the Dak Attack!
 
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