If you are set on going to medical school, UTD does a good job of preparing you for that. These are the prehealth statistics from 2018: https://www.utdallas.edu/pre-health/results
There are many opportunities for doing research starting in your freshman year. There is even the Clark Research program that starts before your freshman year.
My daughter has had several friends that were premed students and most have been accepted to every medical school that they applied to. The only one that is having issues is an international student which is having issues because of that.
As far as cost, @Sybylla is right, it will be closer to $12,000. All the dorms cost the same but after the first year there is cheaper housing both on and off campus.