<p>Well I keep hearing that you should always apply to the med schools in your state, is this because you have a higher chance at med schools in your state? even if it is a private school? </p>
<p>Also are there any other pretty much uncontrollable factors that might affect med school chances? ie. legacy, going there for undergrad...</p>
<p>It mostly matters for public in state schools, but some private schools do also give preference to in staters (Baylor comes to mind).</p>
<p>“Hooks” include parents that are doctors, URM status, legacy status, and pretty much the same that apply for undergrad. They tend to be, in most cases, more of a nudge than a push like they can be in undergrad admissions.</p>
<p>Oh well so when I get to Med school would I apply to the following schools no matter what
-UConn (CT resident)
-Yale (CT resident)
-JHU (Dad went there for med school to be a doctor and mom went there for med school to be an APRN)
-Cornell (Dad went there for undergrad)</p>
<p>Seems like I got really lucky with the schools that my “nudges” are at but also unless I don really good they probably won’t help.</p>
<p>^^^ Yale wouldn’t give you preference for being in-state</p>
<p>Let’s throw some good ol US News & World Report numbers out there, gathered this summer, for the application cycle that’s happening now.</p>
<p>I’m a Missouri resident.</p>
<p>U Missouri: 459 applications from Missouri residents, 237 interviews granted (52%), 125 accepted (52% of those interviewed) for an overall acceptance rate of about 27%. Contrast that with about 1000 applications from non-residents, about 100 interviews offered, about 20 acceptances offered. Missouri’s not an outlier in this one.</p>
<p>SLU (private, gives preference to MO residents): 440 applicants, 120 interviews (28%), 115 acceptances (95% of those interviewed) for an overall acceptance rate of about 25%.</p>
<p>U Virginia (friendly to out of staters): 2150 applicants, 400 interviews (18%), 250 acceptances (65% of those interviewed) for an overall acceptance rate of about 12%.</p>
<p>Northwestern (competitive private): 5840 applicants, 560 interviews (9%), 430 acceptances (77% of those interviewed), for an overall acceptance rate of about 7%.</p>
<p>As you can see, there’s a lot of variation. The odds are pretty heavily stacked against you, which seems daunting but doesn’t have to be. If you’d like to get a better picture of where you as a numbers applicant might stand, there’s a grid from the AAMC that compares GPA and MCAT and acceptances. It’s called “Table 24” and you can find it by googling “AAMC GPA MCAT grid”–it’s the pdf file a few hits down.</p>
<p>In general: if you want to go to med school, there’s absolutely no logical reason not to apply to your state’s public schools.</p>
<p>D’s has applied to 4 IS and 4 OOS. So far got accepted at several IS (one private with notification of Merit scholarship), and none OOS. Conclusion is yours.</p>
<p>o thanks. @Kristen, where did you find those stats, do you have them for UConn?</p>
<p>Never mind, I found it</p>
<p>In-state admissions data 418 applied, 240 interviewed, 127 were accepted, 70 enrolled
Out-state admissions data 2624 applied, 160 interviewed, 48 were accepted, 11 enrolled</p>
<p>So 16.7% got in for instate and .4% for out of state. Looks like Uconn would be a good place to apply.</p>
<p>Also @college you’re wrong about Yale, I just looked up its stats as well and…</p>
<p>In-state admissions data 203 applied, 68 interviewed, 26 were accepted, 15 enrolled</p>
<p>Out-state admissions data 3854 applied, 930 interviewed, 210 were accepted, 85 enrolled</p>
<p>So in states have a 7% chance while out of states have a 2 % chance</p>
<p>It may not be as simple as that. A lot of those students probably went to Yale or had ECs/LORs/etc that were more familiar to Yale Med because of the fact that they are long time residents of that state. As I have said, some medical schools do give preference when they are private because they know that in staters are on average more likely to stay.</p>
<p>^^ beat me to it, I was about to say the same thing.</p>
<p>There’s a LOT more to your application and to your candidacy than your numbers, and there’s a lot more to a medical school than its numbers. I would recommend using the numbers as a starting point when you’re putting together a list of schools to apply to. Just because your stats fall into the range of the accepted students’ stats doesn’t mean you’ll be accepted, and just because you live in Connecticut (I’m guessing) doesn’t mean you’ll go to UConn. Obviously, you could be accepted to schools with stats similar to yours and you might end up at UConn–and if/when that’s the case, it likely won’t be because of your numbers.</p>
<p>Seems like you live in Connecticut. Thus, it makes sense to apply to all (or at least most) schools in Connecticut. From there, you could also apply to schools within your stats ranges as well as others depending on what you’re looking for. By knowing the stats of various schools, you can avoid wasting lots of time, energy, and money on applications that probably won’t yield interviews or acceptances. For example, I had a 30 on the MCAT. Out of the 13 schools I applied to, only 4 of them had average MCAT scores >33–because applying to lots of schools with numbers that just don’t jive with mine would have been a waste of resources (even if I might have really liked those schools). </p>
<p>Pop on over to the thread about putting together a list of schools started by GAMOM the other day, you’ll probably find some good advice there.</p>