<p>Costwise, Texas makes sense for OOS if they can get in. Lot of instate people attend because of the same reason.</p>
<p>One of the parents was telling us that people go everywhere else and come back to texas for med school! Their salutatorian kid went to UT honors and joined Southwest while the valedictorian went to Harvard and came back to Southwest. :p</p>
<p>California schools are ridiculously competitive for instate. Some of the schools don’t even invite 4.0/40 kid for an interview. Someone like that joined WASU with a scholarship!</p>
<p>^ Agree that California schools are ridiculously competitive (or worse, unpredictable) for instate. Sometimes it is hard to know what these California schools really want. Maybe a 4.0/40 kid from there is automatically labeled as too nerdy, just like some top colleges enjoy rejecting a kid with 2400 SAT.</p>
<p>DS knows a student from that state, with stats close to what you posted from a HYPS college, got into a single California school extremely late in the application cycle.</p>
<p>Southwest indeed has many top students from the top 2 flagship state universities in Texas.</p>
<p>“Interesting that Pitt changed their rolling (but heavy on WL) admissions to non-rolling with decisions in Jan. Wouldn’t it have benefited them more for decisions to come out in Feb”
-Applicants start withdrawing after acceptances to other places. My D. did (was put on a WL). She said that she did not see herself going there despite of high ranking. She did not care for Pittsburgh, school location and did feel that the school is a good match for her overall. She also had a negative experience with the host which could have influence her the most.
Looking back, maybe it would have been a better decision if we visited the place before applying.</p>
<p>Very interesting on your D’s outcome. That local school might have figured out she would have other preferred schools, by reading her app? So not want wasting their time to pursue her, I guess.</p>
<p>plum. Is AAMC 3 the free one? If so, it is the “easy” one. Supposedly. It was also the one my D took after first year before Orgo or Physics on her road to over-confidence.</p>
<p>pcb1604 - We will never know. It is very possible that this school waits on some people to see the seriousness of their intent. She did not follow up with them. Each application was tweaked for the particular school but she didn’t indicate to this school that they were her first choice. She was accepted to two schools that she really liked early on so the pressure was off. She didn’t communicate “If you admit me, I will come.” to any school until she was waitlisted at what truly was her first choice - and where she currently attends. </p>
<p>It was a very interesting process to observe. Ultimately, the medical schools that showed her love seemed more holistic in how they crafted an incoming class. She had good stats but it was obvious that her somewhat quirky CV was what they were looking for…she speaks very well about her past work and how it will (hopefully) tie in to her eventual medical practice. Though they were stressful, she rather enjoyed her interviews.</p>
<p>I agree, interviews were rather enjoyable experience for my D. with the most common discussion around her Music Minor and somewhat unusual long term volunteering.<br>
She is uitilizing most of her non-academic, semi-academic (non-science) skills at her Med. School. Surprizingly enough, few med. students have asked her to give them free swimming lessons which she was more than happy to do.
More usefull skills include great tutoring / communication skills (program helping inner city HS kids applying to colleges), music (fund raiser for Free Clinic), Spanish (working at Free Clinincs abroad in poor regions ), ability to draw (skill developed thru private art lessons 5 y o thru HS) and the most of all superior writing skills for those 5 - 6 hours essay type exams at the end of each block.<br>
We have a feel that they look closely at what person can offer after you pass thru the door with your GPA/MCAT. It looks like that match to the set of skills for the programs outside of academics.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s the free one. Many on SDN seem to agree that it was easy; however, there are some who disagree. I’m going to just take them all in numerical order. My plan is to study full time for the next 30 days or so while taking practice test every three days. </p>
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<p>I will have no problem with “over-confidence”. Even if I were to start scoring 15’s on practice tests, I won’t stop studying.</p>
<p>Thanks for the updates, glad she is in the place she meant to be.
To me, by not to extending an interview for a local candidate, obviously qualified, this school is providing a dis-service to local community/stakeholders, considering subsidy involved in state/federal level.</p>
<p>Very happy for your son and for you! I hadn’t realized how stressed out I was for my D until she got an acceptance. It is a wonderful feeling. Both of you - Enjoy!</p>