Texas Medical Schools

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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This discussion was created from comments split from: TAMU med school.

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Hi all!

I understand this thread is a few years old, but wanted to update a few points since current students applying may find this thread as I somehow did through google. Let me premise this by saying I’m currently a student at UTH.

Here are the current average LizzyM, GPA, and MCAT of those matriculating to TX medical schools (stats on MSAR will be higher because it accounts for all students who are accepted, though not all of those accepted matriculate).

Also included is % of students matched to primary care residencies (since some people believe certain schools produce primary care doctors only) as well as US News and World Report Research Rankings (since primary care rankings just includes total # of students going into PC residencies, and thus most students care more about the research ranking).“Startclass: Find the Best Medical Schools” Smart Rankings are calculated with: admission standards competitiveness, US News primary care and research rankings, student resources (faculty:student ratio and % of students receiving aid), and NIH funding amount given to each school. (In other words, not just a made up number, though criteria to be ranked is another story).

SCHOOL- LizzyM (GPA, MCAT)—% students matched to primary care residency in 2014 —USNWR rank / Smart Rank:

  1. Baylor - 73.4 (3.84, 35) ::: 39% PC–USNWR rank: #21 / Smart Rank: #18
  2. UTSW - 72.4 (3.85, 33.9):::47% PC–USNWR rank: #26 / Smart Rank: #23
  3. UTH - 69.3 (3.76, 31.7) :::: 35% PC–USNWR rank: #56 / Smart Rank: # 73
  4. UTSA - 69.1 (3.73, 31.8) :::48% PC–USNWR rank: unranked /Smart Rank: # 70
  5. UTMB - 67.7 (3.87, 29) :::: 38% PC–USNWR rank: unranked / Smart Rank: # 111
  6. TTL - 67.5 (3.65, 31) :::::::::46% PC–USNWR rank: unranked / Smart Rank: # 104
  7. A&M - 66.7 (3.66, 30.1) :::::44% PC–USNWR rank: #81/ Smart Rank: # 101
  8. TTEP - 64.8 (3.6, 28.8) ::::::38% PC–USNWR rank: unranked / Smart Rank: # unranked
  9. TCOM - 64 (3.60, 28) ::::::::64% PC–USNWR rank: unranked / Smart Rank: # 158

These stats prove that clearly no MD school only produces primary care doctors for rural Texas (though both Texas Tech schools have it in their school’s mission - A&M doesn’t) and that A&M produced the 5th most primary care doctors out of 9 schools - though El Paso only had 53 residency matches total since their class size was so small, I expect them to produce more since they now have more students graduating per class. A&M is 7th/9 based on competitive entering stats, 4th/9 in USNWR ranking, 5th/9 in Smart Rankings, and 6th/9 in NIH research funding. Take rankings for what you want, but if every school is judged based on the exact same criteria then what’s unfair/fair for one school is also unfair/fair for the others.

In no way is A&M the bottom of medical schools in Texas, and the fact that they can now rotate at the best hospitals in Texas is an even bigger reason it shouldn’t be considered that way. A&M rotations:

Houston: #1, #3, #4 best hospitals in TX (Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center) at the Texas Medical Center (my UTH classmates and I rotate at the TMC and it was a huge selling point for UTH, UTMB, and now A&M)
Dallas: #2 best hospital in TX (Baylor University Medical Center) and Cook Children’s in FW
Temple - #10 best hospital in TX/a top 15 teaching hospital in the U.S. (Baylor Scott & White)
Round Rock/Austin - two hospitals are both tied at #31 best hospitals in TX (St. David’s Medical Center in Austin and St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center)

Regardless, they are all great schools, and having interviewed everywhere in TX but Baylor, I would’ve been proud to attend any of them. Just wanted to provide an updated opinion with (way too much) stats for everyone to see for themselves. Good luck to any and all applying!

References:
http://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools
http://medical-schools.startclass.com/
http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/tx
http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/2014/NIH_Awards_2014.htm

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Not sure why the above comment was moved from the other thread, but it was in response to:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/1158785/tamu-med-school/

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@RaiderTX1,
The move is due to the divine intervention :slight_smile: (Seriously, it is because it includes much good information that has been collected and could be useful to many perspective applicants in TX. Nice job, RaiderTX1, and the “mover”, texaspg.)

Wonder where Colleges00701 is at now. (Emory as a med school? Some med school in TX? Other med school?)

It seems he was at Emory (as a college) as far as I could remember. I think he once posted that the dean from BCM visited his college and he posted what he said at his college. (making sure the GPA is good enough in the first one or two semesters before committing too much time to other activities like ECs.)

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The instate Texas med school application matching system (for med schools) is interesting.

So, do those who’ve been interviewed rank their preferences, and then the SOMs decide who to accept? or what?

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Any school where a student interviews can admit, waitlist or deny.

Once the results are in, there is a date in January when the student can set the ranking. If someone has the student waitlisted, they can be ranked ahead of the schools that admitted the student.

At that time, the waitlist schools and the first ranked admit school stay on the list and rest are dropped and they can then go on to offer the opened up slots to waitlist candidates.

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Thank you for the explanation! Very interesting.