Current college senior, not URM, not FGLI, with 517/3.95 at a T5 college, double non-science major plus premed. Overall college GPA is brought down a little bit by HS dual enrollment transcript from in-state flagship U, but not by that much. Had excellent letters from scribing and med assisting, some in-school counseling volunteering, a bit of shadowing. No research. Tremendous involvement and leadership in an arts-related field, with national level achievement. Applied to 30 schools, mostly top heavy, no interview invites, not even to in-state school (Northeast). Did not apply to any TX schools.
Will have to plan a two year gap, with the plan of clinical research (assuming even volunteer positions available after the recent funding cuts), continued scribing, and volunteer work with extremely needy population. Also plans study for a year to retake MCAT in spring of '26 - should be able to get a much better score, as had a virtually perfect ACT, and had only studied intensively for MCAT for 4 weeks.
There is a family relative, not a parent, in medicine in a major city in TX. Student could move to TX, get established there, accomplish these things there, and then apply as an in-state resident. Am I correct in my understanding that they would need to be set up there before November, '25, in order to get certified via TMSDAS by Nov '26, while having already applied in summer of '26 for entry in August/Sept '27?
Does this seem like a realistic plan? Impression is that their chances would be good of acceptance to an in-state MD school in TX as an in-state resident, and of course the tuition is so much lower than almost anywhere else. Plan would be to apply to every in-state in TX (aside from the few expensive private ones), plus some other ones, too. Also would do something to resurrect what had once been quite good high school Spanish.
Any advice is welcome. Everyone, including the school premed advisor, is surprised at no interviews, but apparently there are many others this year in the same situation.
Will have to plan a two year gap, with the plan of clinical research (assuming even volunteer positions available after the recent funding cuts), continued scribing, and volunteer work with extremely needy population. Also plans study for a year to retake MCAT in spring of '26 - should be able to get a much better score, as had a virtually perfect ACT, and had only studied intensively for MCAT for 4 weeks.
There is a family relative, not a parent, in medicine in a major city in TX. Student could move to TX, get established there, accomplish these things there, and then apply as an in-state resident. Am I correct in my understanding that they would need to be set up there before November, '25, in order to get certified via TMSDAS by Nov '26, while having already applied in summer of '26 for entry in August/Sept '27?
Does this seem like a realistic plan? Impression is that their chances would be good of acceptance to an in-state MD school in TX as an in-state resident, and of course the tuition is so much lower than almost anywhere else. Plan would be to apply to every in-state in TX (aside from the few expensive private ones), plus some other ones, too. Also would do something to resurrect what had once been quite good high school Spanish.
Any advice is welcome. Everyone, including the school premed advisor, is surprised at no interviews, but apparently there are many others this year in the same situation.
