<p>My D. has asked us to be involved. She has asked me to compile the list of Med. Schools based on her criteria. She ended up appliying to all of them. She has asked us to look for apartments in 2 places that she considered at the end. We have rented her place while she was abroad. She has relied on us a lot to ensure her focus on important stuff, like applications, MCAT, interviews, choosing school…none of that we were pushing her one way or another, except we have insisted that she would not ask us and would not consider cost of tuition.</p>
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I do not think I helped DS figure out the school list. However, I forwarded a list from a kind CCer here and it saved him a lot of time. (He does not want to think too much about the school list, just like in his college application cycle. This is because many schools will be very fine for him in his standard.) He basically trimmed that list by 1/3 and added a couple of physically nearby schools. In the end, I think he actually completed like 50-60% of the schools in that list. (I think he only got one rejection from those schools he had completed the application, and tons of WLs.)</p>
<p>^D. had 8 schools on her list (including one in her bs/md). Got accepted to 4, WL’ed at 2 (withdrew, so we will never know the end result), and 2 pre-interview rejections. She used 3 criteria in order of importance: 4.5 hrs driving from home, ranked higher than Med. school in her bs/md, decent location.</p>
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Well, I am most certainly not! This year I’m pressuring someone else’s kid about medical school admissions (and I’m about to open a whole can of e-mail whup-ass on someone else’s kid if she doesn’t get the rest of her app done ;)).</p>
<p>the secondaries are starting to pile on. ahhhh</p>
<p>got my first interview from a texas school!</p>
<p>Congratulations bigreddawgie! Definitely a huge accomplishment and something to celebrate! Way to go!</p>
<p>Nice job! That’s a good way to start off the application season. I am still flipping secondaries at the moment, and my premed committee has still not sent my committee letter to AMCAS yet. Hopefully they get it in before the fourth of July.</p>
<p>Congrats! In the same boat as pccool but I don’t expect my committee letter to be in till Aug</p>
<p>Congrats Bigreddawgie on being the first cc’er getting an interview invite this cycle. My daughter dedcided to forego TMDAS altogether, says she can’t see four years of Texas heat (no offense to all Texans here.) 
Daughter also got her first four secondaries today.</p>
<p>Congrats Bigreddawgie. You are really very organized and I strongly believe you will have a good set of schools to select from after this application cycle. (Is it a school that requires a secondary or one that does not? I vaguely remember there are some Texas schools that do not require any secondary. And there are some Texas medical schools which do not welcome any update from the applicant after Feb. 1 on the ground that they have enough of your information already. I suspect some of these schools mostly look at the numbers only: Last year, some SDNers posted at SDN that they received an interview invite BEFORE they had a chance to complete the required secondary.)</p>
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At one time, DS almost decided to forgo AMCAS altogether and just applied to TMDSAS schools. This happened when he heard that one applicant who applied in the 2009-2010 cycle got into a single in-state school in California with 3.95/40. So he thought that, generally speaking, only in-state schools would love their in-state applicants. He submitted his AMCAS primary much later than his TMDSAS primary which was not submitted early either (around July 4th.)</p>
<p>The young lady from Rhodes I’m helping this year (through my D) is submitting her Texas apps Wednesday. AMCAS soon after. She has a great profile, some research in the same lab as my D, very interesting EC’s (heckuva singer and a good artist), a 3.6+ AMCAS gpa for both (higher for TMDSAS because of A-'s), should have good rec’s (already done), and I’ve read her essays (they should be good). My D has reviewed her activities lists and says they look good. Her negative will be her 28 MCAT but it is well-balanced.</p>
<p>I think she’s in decent shape for a Texas school and will be happy with any of them. I’d like to see her at Galveston or San Antonio or Houston. She should interview quite well. She wants some OOS schools but I’m drawing a blank. I have suggested Tulane, SLU, Drexel, and Rush. But, in reality, she is far more likely to get in a Texas school with her present MCAT and with $ being an issue, she can’t beat in-state. She is scheduled for a MCAT re-take mid July. (Yeah. She knows the timing ain’t the best.)</p>
<p>curm–</p>
<p>I’d skip Rush. It has an acceptance rate of 3.8% and is among the 10 US med schools with the lowest acceptance rates.</p>
<p>[10</a> Medical Schools With Lowest Acceptance Rates - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2011/04/05/10-medical-schools-with-lowest-acceptance-rates]10”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2011/04/05/10-medical-schools-with-lowest-acceptance-rates)</p>
<p>D1’s experience was that the school itself wasn’t very responsive to applicants, had a long secondary and would ONLY accept paper versions of all documents (secondary, candidate photo, LORs, etc) PITA.</p>
<p>University of Toledo?</p>
<p>Ugggh. Nix Rush.</p>
<p>ugh…d should nix rush? Likes pritzker much better. Reasoning for dropping rush?</p>
<p>Curm, what about Creighton or Loyola? I’m pretty sure they were among my mid-stats schools, as were SLU, Drexel, and my state school.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, by the time I withdrew my applications in mid-December, I hadn’t heard from Creighton, Loyola, SLU, or Drexel–you know my profile, could repost the juicy parts if necessary. I don’t know how SLU treats OOS candidates, but my IS friends who got SLU interviews had scores 32+.</p>
<p>Assuming she’s not a URM (I imagine you’d mention that), I think you’re definitely right that MCAT’s going to be her weak point. My advice to “low” MCATs (which I’d conservatively say would be scores up to 30) would be to absolutely love love love every school you’re applying to, because the likelihood of collecting more than a couple interviews seems pretty low (which will be an ego blow, but you’ll get over it). And do your best to love your state school! I personally think state schools are some real hidden gems (I wonder why… 
) and one thing they really have going for them is a laid back environment.</p>
<p>Wish I had some insights into the TX schools!</p>
<p>And GAMOM, as long as the rest of her list is balanced, dropping Rush for any reason is a good one (in my opinion, based on it’s unexpected selectivity).</p>
<p>Drexel ran late on alot of things in D1’s experience. Slow to send out secondary. Slow to mark file complete. Slow to schedule interviews. (like in mid-April…)</p>
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I once noticed many students from Rice were admitted/matriculated to SLU. I can hardly believe Rice UG has many students from Missouri. I think it is because SLU may be, to an extent, a stats-driven (to a less extent than the king of number-driven schools which happens to be nextdoors :))</p>
<p>I also happen to remember that a CCer (who is OOS) who is currently at an elite medical school in NY was interviewed/admitted to SLU ~3 years ago.</p>
<p>Just like the fact that prep-schools tend to have a much higher percentage of students who are good at a standardized test like SAT (because this is the second major criterion of being admitted to this kind of school in the first place – the first criterion is being rich enough), a higher percentage of students from a school like Rice tend to get higher standardized test scores. A side benefit of recruiting this kind of students may be that their debt may be lower after they are graduated from the medical school. This is because his/her family may have more financial resources and therefore does not need to borrow so much – This is good for medical schools also - no medical school wants to be publicized as a school whose students carry the highest debt after graduation. (Most of the above are just my speculations at best.)</p>
<p>Maybe change up Drexel for Temple? New buildings…they like all kinds of students.</p>
<p>But I would think she has more/better opportunities with the TX schools.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>thanks everyone
this school is one of the ones without a secondary, which explains the quick invite.
still patiently waiting for my amcas to be verified while prewriting some secondaries</p>