Pls share your experience to help me decide.

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So it’s about decision time for undergrad admission. If money is not the decision factor for Pre DO / Pre Med undergrad Honor admitted applicant in UTD, can you please answer following (or whatever you like to share positive or negative about this school):

-What have been your favorite pre-med / pre-do required courses? Favorite other courses?
-What resources does the school provide for academic assistance?
-Where does the student body fall on the collaborative to cutthroat continuum?
-Best professors?
-Your experience with academic and/or major advisors, and pre-health advisors
-What ECs have been most helpful, how did they get them? Do advisors help in getting EC experience / opportunities?
-Does pre-health advising office provide any special programming? Is it helpful?
-What are you majoring in? Why did you choose it?
-What is your plan B (C, D, etc.) if you don’t get into med school?
-Would you make the choice to go to this school again?

-What type of MCAT prep assistance/course is offered?
-Is study abroad possible? (courses satisfy med school requirements?)
-What has been med school acceptance rate over last X years (by GPA/MCAT)? For students who aren’t accepted what are the typical reasons?
-Any special relationships with specific med schools? (early assurance programs, higher than avg placement)
-Does pre-health advising office help find post-bacc programs and complete applications?
-Does pre-health advising office help grads wanting to go to med school years after graduation?
-What is process for getting committee letter (required med school recommendation)–do all students qualify? Is there a GPA and/or MCAT min?

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It’s not clear who you are, as there have been posts by both parent and student under this user name (not allowed, btw), but you are asking for an extraordinary amount of very detailed info.

Many of the questions will not actually be that helpful in making a decision, partly b/c you have 0 info about any students who respond and how similar/dissimilar they are to the prospective student and partly b/c presumably the decision is not whether to go to UTD or not go to college, but between UTD and another college. So, an answer that may be accurate in absolute terms may not be relevant in comparative terms.