All three schools --Baylor, Rice and Vanderbilt-- use a health committee letters to control which student are allowed to apply for medical school. Only those students whom the committee feels have a very strong chance for med school admission receive committee letters.
Neither Rice nor Baylor make any claims about their medical school admission rates. Vanderbilt claims that during the 2018-2019 application cycle, about 70% of Vandy applicants who received a health committee LOR were accepted into med school. However, nowhere in the document does the pre-health office define what a “medical school” is. (While the common assumption is this means a US MD program, that isn’t always a safe assumption.
Also note that Baylor University and Baylor School of Medicine are no longer associated (Baylor SOM “divorced” the undergrad in 1969. ) and there is little or no interaction between the Baylor U and Baylor SOM. Baylor SOM is in Houston–which is 3+ hours by car from Waco where the undergrad is located.
Hopefully I can establish residency in Texas because Texas has higher in-state acceptance rates and lower tuition for med school
You cannot establish state residency in TX as a college student. You would need to take a gap year between undergrad and applying to med school in TX to become a TX resident.
BTW, it’s a common pre-med misconception that TX is some sort of paradise for med school applicants. Although TX has a reputation for having a very high in-state acceptance at TX med schools–it actually doesn’t. TX has an in-state matriculation rate of 32% (meaning only 32% of in-state applicants receive an acceptance to an in-state public or private med school.) That’s not even in the top 15 for highest in-state matriculation rates. Additionally TX OOS matriculation–TX applicants who receive acceptances to OOS public or private med schools–is one of the lowest in the US at 6%. This is because there is some real bias against TX state resident applicants by non-TX med schools. (They know TX applicants won’t matriculate if they have an in-state acceptance because of TX low med school COA so OOS med schools don’t want to waste one of their limited number of interview slots on a candidate who probably won’t attend.)
In-state and OOS matriculation rates here:
https://www.aamc.org/media/6016/download