When is a school considered “OOS friendly”

[calipremed5768]

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When looking at the MSAR, I personally thought that it was safe to consider a school that interviews 10% of OOS applicants to be OOS friendly (ex. SUNY upstate, OSU etc) but some people have said to avoid public schools in general if you’re OOS (with the exception of Michigan, Virginia, UCs, maybe Cincinnati)

 

[907914]

When looking at the MSAR, I personally thought that it was safe to consider a school that interviews 10% of OOS applicants to be OOS friendly (ex. SUNY upstate, OSU etc) but some people have said to avoid public schools in general if you’re OOS (with the exception of Michigan, Virginia, UCs, maybe Cincinnati)

I would use 20% of a class being OOS as a good ROT.

 

[Goro]

When looking at the MSAR, I personally thought that it was safe to consider a school that interviews 10% of OOS applicants to be OOS friendly (ex. SUNY upstate, OSU etc) but some people have said to avoid public schools in general if you’re OOS (with the exception of Michigan, Virginia, UCs, maybe Cincinnati)

Here are the public schools I consider to be OOS friendly:
USF/Morsani
EVMS
U Cinci
OH State
UCSF
UCSD
UCLA
VCU
U VM
U WV
U WA (WWAMI only)

It's not just #s of interviewing, it's # apps, vs II vs accepts (which is usually 2x the number of seats).

As a rule of thumb, even if a school amy on the surface appear OOS friendly, they seem to favor people from neighboring states, or if they went to school in the state.

I don't know why you're fixated on this. All OOS applicants should be focussing on the private schools.

 

[calipremed5768]

Okay thanks for the list. Would you not consider UVA to be oos friendly?

 

[907914]

U WA (WWAMI only)

Respectfully, I would remove UW off of your list - I know you do indicate WWAMI only, but it isn't even a matter of UW actually considering WWAMI residents and not other OOS. They have branches/preclinical campuses in each of those states with X seats that operate almost like independent medical schools.

 

[Goro]

Respectfully, I would remove UW off of your list - I know you do indicate WWAMI only, but it isn't even a matter of UW actually considering WWAMI residents and not other OOS. They have branches/preclinical campuses in each of those states with X seats that operate almost like independent medical schools.

Yeah, I know...it's a * thing, really.

 

[907914]

Yeah, I know...it's a * thing, really.

At least they are up front about it and don't even send secondaries to non-MSTP OOR applicants.