What is the acceptance rate for JAMP?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I recently found out about the Texas Joint Admission Medical Program and just wanted to know how many people they accept every year. Any information on this would be appreciated. Thanks</p>

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<p>I personally don’t have any admissions data for early admittance programs, but I have heard that the acceptance rates are extremely low. Some in the single digits. However, it seems that your acceptance to a JAMP program is dependant on the University that you are attending. For example, at Angelo State University they accepted 4-6 students out of about 15 applicants. I suggest that you consult with each of the texas universities that you are interested in to see how many spots and applicants are available.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.angelo.edu/ASUMagazine/archives/2009/vol%202%20no%202.pdf[/url]”>http://www.angelo.edu/ASUMagazine/archives/2009/vol%202%20no%202.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Read the JAMP start article</p>

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<p>the acceptance rate is extremely low. every school in tx only has 2 slots available.
3.2 overall gpa and 3.2 science gpa is the min. must have 30 hours and only 3 can be AP and you must be a sophomore. 2nd year in college right after hs graduation.</p>

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<p>I think this program may have some strings attached. You might have to become a primary care doctor and work in rural areas or one of the requirements for the program may be that you have to come from a rural area in Texas. I could be wrong…</p>

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<p>no strings attached. last year, everyone that applied from my school got it. even people that i’m pretty sure are not economically disadvantaged</p>

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<p>What school is that?</p>

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<p>The program is only available to schools in rural areas. So it depends on where you live within Texas that determines whether you are allowed to apply.</p>

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<p>not true. its at texas public schools, not just in rural areas</p>

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<p>^ I suspect the students who are qualified to be in this program need to have some “desirable” attributes. Whatever these attributes are, they are generally not academic merit based in the broad sense.</p>

<p>Last year a very top texas public medical school had to explain why one of their admitted students has a MCAT score of 24 or something when their average MCAT score for admitted students is much higher (almost 10 points higher). I heard it was because of JAMP.</p>

<p>My guess is that its criteria may be much lower than that of Quesridge (sp?), as the medical community needs students of special background/life experiences, more than top colleges need the students of a similar background. The challenging part is whether they classify you as being belong to the group of students they want.s</p>

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<p>[How</a> to Become a JAMPer](<a href=“http://www.utsystem.edu/jamp/students/become-a-JAMPer.html]How”>http://www.utsystem.edu/jamp/students/become-a-JAMPer.html)</p>

<p>Take the SAT or ACT. You must earn a score not less than the mean for the state of Texas.
Apply for Financial Aid. You must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA and be eligible to receive a Pell Grant or an Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) up to 8000. </p>

<p>I must have been thinking of another Texas program supporting rural areas.</p>

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So, being from an economically disadvantage background is the first criterion. Being able to work hard in college is the second criterion. Since the standardized test is highly dependent on your growing-up environment and your zip code/school district or how educated your parents are, the standardized test score is not a good measure for the academic merit of the students from this kind of background so we need ro give them some break on this test. Too many “academically good enough” students may be weeded out if we use the same standard for everybody.</p>

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Have you heard of the word “loophole”? I heard of a case that a student whose parents can afford the expensive private music lessons for 10 years and live in a nice school district, and can still be qualified for the QuestBridge program.</p>

<p>A few years ago, any students from any flagship university were automatically not qualified for JAMP. Maybe some politicians have decided to make a change to please their constituents since then.</p>

<p>BTW, many of URMs (esp. competitive ones) at many top colleges are actually children of not-so-poor and/or educated new immigrants – that is exactly the reason why they instead of others were able to immigrate to US in the first place. But they happen to belong to a certain ethnic group, and the colleges value their diversified backgrounds.</p>