First acceptance today to top pick! So relieved to be one and done! Good luck to everyone going forward!
Congratulations!
Congratulations walker, my D also got her top pick yesterday. Good Luck everyone.
Congratulations @walker1194, @structural 's D, and @eastcoascrazy 's S.
My son had two interviews and got an acceptance to one this past weekend. LOL I think the acceptance came on Oct. 22, but he didnât check until the next morning. We are thrilled for him.
Background, since I havenât ever posted in any med school threads:
Graduated in May 2015, and has been working for a medical consulting firm since then. He wanted time to think about his direction in life, and to take some time off of school.
He took the MCAT in early summer (May?) a couple of years ago.
His grades and MCAT scores were excellent, and he spent three summers working on grant funded research for the medical school that accepted him: two summers in Malawi during undergrad. and one summer in Nicaragua right after he graduated.
We donât even know how many schools he applied to. He very much didnât want to feel pressured, and we certainly didnât want to give him the feeling that we were pressuring him. We knew he had actually completed applications because he asked us for some information, and asked me to proofread his personal statement. And we knew he had two interviews this fall because he told us about them.
I know it sounds like we are really detatched from this, but we have simply been pussyfooting our way around this process. We have a long line of physicians on both my side and my husbandâs side of the family (son will be fourth generation) and didnât want him to ever feel as though anyone was expecting him to go to med school. So we have answered questions but let him take the lead. Nobody has any romantic notions about med school or the life of a physician in this house. He needed to want to do it, and to want it for the right reasons.
Congrats!!!
I just read through all 60 pages of the 2014-15 med school applicant thread. I can not tell you how glad I am that I stayed away from these threads until this week. I would have been a basket case of worry.
Congrats to structural and eastcoastcrazy students! My daughter has decided to withdraw the rest of her apps. She seems happy with her choice and submitted the first batch of forms for the school today. I asked her if she needed a deposit for her seat and she said there wasnât any info about that. Assuming that will come later.
@Walker1194 Congrats!
Have your DD look into deposit. Either she overlooked it or itâs coming soon.
Congratulations to everyone!
One thing to consider about withdrawing from other schools. If your kid has multiple acceptances, it can lead to some scholarships later in the spring. Also a lot of the times they think they know exactly which school they want, they might change their mind as the application process continues. Last year my son ended up picking a school that he didnât want to apply to on a full scholarship. Heâs very happy there. He got first acceptance last year on October 15. If he has withdrawn from other schools at that point he would of never gotten the wonderfull opportunities he has now.
None of Dâs admissions in Texas required a deposit and two out of 4 did OOS. I was surprised when people were discussing deposits last year. 
Agree with @momworried about having choices which may result in money later.
D received her first acceptance around this time last year. She only withdrew from interviews/schools sometime in December when she had multiple acceptances and knew that one of those was likely to be her final choice. No money came through for her though 
Most of her schools required a 100$ deposit that was returned when she officially turned them down.
Money doesnât usually come through until April and sometimes even in May. Son last year got scholarship mid April. And full ride in mid May
Out state Taxes applicant, got II from Taxes Baylor, any parent know will only first year the student pay out state tuition or then will pay instate tuition?
Just realised I didnât answer the OPâs question
@big If you start at Texas Baylor as an OOS student, then youâll be an OOS student the whole time. You wonât get residency for tuition purposes after one year. Thatâs just the way it works.
Baylor has the lowest tuition fees for both IS and OOS. Their OOS fees is lower than many medical collegesâ IS fees.
Yes, Baylor does have lowish tuition and fees for OOS students. Although private, the state of Texas pays for Tx residents to pay a lower rate.
The OOS tuition and fees rate is about $35k per year (plus room, board, personal expenses).
The instate tuition and fees is abut $22k plus room, board, personal expenses.
@big - If the person does not get a scholarship to reduce tuition to instate, there are ways to get instate. It is not because one has finished a year in Texas but because they buy property and become a resident. To be a resident, they would need to work and taxes which is not possible for a fulltime student. However, buying property (students buy a condo usually instead of paying rent) works out.
I just read through a few pages of this thread and I didnât even know they gave out scholarships for medical school. Lucky for me, I live in a state where most Med schools take a lot of out of state(sarcasm). I am a senior in Hs now and i have been stressed for the past two years about getting into Med schools. I never even would have thought people got scholarships to medical school! That is crazy! Also, I am from PA and all the big Med schools take a lot of out of state students(looking at You Pitt)(for real tho my high school is very close to Pitt so I can actually see the Cathedral as I type this).