What happened?

[Hopeful1234567]

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I'm a Tx resident with high stats (3.98, 519 MCAT) from a good private university. I applied and was rejected at Umichigan, Harvard, Penn, mayo, ucsf, and Pittsburgh without interviews. Accepted very early at WashU and Baylor with scholarships from both. I'm just wondering why I had so little luck with OOS schools. I'm very grateful to have been accepted at these two schools, but it just seems odd that my app was good enough for WashU and Baylor, but not the other top schools I applied to.

 

[787593]

Both are great schools.
Both have either low tuition or generous scholarships.

Be happy, I command thee.

 

[Goro]

WashU= MCAT *****
Baylor = You're from TX.

Despite being a rock star, very few Texans leave TX, and the OOS schools know this. Hence, you're low yield for them, and not worth the resources for setting up an II. Perverse, but true.

I'm a Tx resident with high stats (3.98, 519 MCAT) from a good private university. I applied and was rejected at Umichigan, Harvard, Penn, mayo, ucsf, and Pittsburgh without interviews. Accepted very early at WashU and Baylor with scholarships from both. I'm just wondering why I had so little luck with OOS schools. I'm very grateful to have been accepted at these two schools, but it just seems odd that my app was good enough for WashU and Baylor, but not the other top schools I applied to.

 

[Lawpy]

I'm a Tx resident with high stats (3.98, 519 MCAT) from a good private university. I applied and was rejected at Umichigan, Harvard, Penn, mayo, ucsf, and Pittsburgh without interviews. Accepted very early at WashU and Baylor with scholarships from both. I'm just wondering why I had so little luck with OOS schools. I'm very grateful to have been accepted at these two schools, but it just seems odd that my app was good enough for WashU and Baylor, but not the other top schools I applied to.

Doesn't matter. You got in. Congrats and go celebrate before you get swamped with med school stress

 

[DokterMom]

Michigan, Harvard, Penn, Mayo, UCSF and Pittsburgh all figured that you would get accepted to Baylor and UTSW, do the math, and then (if you were as bright as you appeared to be) do the sensible thing and accept a terrific low-cost offer from one of those very strong schools.

They probably realized that to lure you to their schools, they'd need to cough up some serious financial aid money that could otherwise be used to finance the medical education of a very deserving but financially-disadvantaged young adult who would then go on to do great things, make great headlines, and down the road, donate great amounts to the school.

Life's not fair. But in this case, it's certainly pretty darned good. Sometimes, we need to just let the ego boost go by the wayside and be happy with what we got. (I lost out on a very prestigious scholarship in undergrad because my father would not provide his financial information. Oh well.)

 

[abcdefg1234567]

WashU already giving out full tuition merit scholarships?

 

[efle]

WashU already giving out full tuition merit scholarships?

I also thought that was odd, IIRC from the financial aid talk merit scholarships don't come out for at least another month

 

[WedgeDawg]

This is pretty common. This isn't like college admissions where you pyramid up. You can get rejected from a ton of "less prestigious" schools yet still get into a top 5. Med school admissions is more about fit than anything else. There's also the fact that you're from TX and thus most schools know that you're very likely to matriculate to a TX med school unless you get money, so if they aren't gonna give you money, you don't have that much of an incentive to attend, say, Michigan over a very cheap UTSW or Baylor.