<p>I was reading the University of Massachusett's Pre-Med Advisoree Report: </p>
<p>"Residency in a state in which there is a state supported medical school (or schools) is also a definite advantage in gaining admission. Competition for the 100 positions at the sole state medical school in Worcester is keen since over 800 bona fide state residents apply. However, New York has 4 state supported medical schools so New York residents have a considerably better chance of acceptance at a state school as compared to a Massachusetts resident. Similar situations occur with residents at Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Texas."</p>
<p>Which state do you think it is best to live in in terms of gaining acceptance into medical school? Which states have the most medical schools and least number of applications? Has anyone done the math/statistics?</p>
<p>I'm not so sure about Texas - the application numbers are pretty high at over 3000 at each school, but it's hard to tell exactly how many applicants are really there since one assumes most Texas residents will apply to all the schools. But they do have a lot of schools, they do have a lot of spots, and they do give TX residents a sizable advantage.</p>
<p>University of Kansas had 424 applicants for 153 spots...They have a really good mix of fairly low number of total applicants (less than 2000), pretty low number from in-state residents (22.1%), but a sizable entering class (176) that's comprised mainly of in-state residents (86.9%). A lot of the other schools that have similar features fail in that they have smaller class sizes.</p>
<p>I am also facing the same issue. I am still a dependent, so my residency follows where my parents are currently residing at (which usually ends up being of "popular" places, with extremely competitive med schools). Being a resident usually means lower tuition, and the med schools that I am looking at right now show a difference of $10,000-$20,000 whether or not if you are a resident. I don't want to "take the easier way out", but I think I will pay for being out-of-state than being rejected.</p>
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I think South Dakota and Indiana University sport in-state acceptance rates of 40-50%.
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<p>Not from that data they don't.</p>
<p>1) I'm amazed at the size of Indiana's class - does anyone have an explanation for that?</p>
<p>2) Kansas was at 36.08% rate of in-state acceptances, while IU and USD were at 35.92 and 35.96% respectively.</p>
<p>3) Arkansas appears to lead all comers with a rate of 39.87% acceptance from this data set.</p>
<p>4) Again, the combination of relatively small numbers of apps, combined with low % of in-state applicants is important. But perhaps more important is the size of the class...</p>
<p>that would explain why Texas has it's own separate admissions application process- TMDSAS and does not participate in the AMCAS(that the other 49 states use). Texas does have great schools with among the cheapest costs in the nation, however, many graduates leave the state for residencies and do not come back-an issue being discussed at the state level. The TMDSAS is quite a system-you rank the schools you like in Texas and they rank you and then there is a lottery, followed by a scramble-getting into a Texas medical school for a Texas resident may not be quite as hard as in other states-but getting into the one that you want(your first choice) can be as hard as anywhere(particularly Baylor and Southwestern).</p>
<p>you can also get a pre-match offer in texas, which is literally, an offer before the match thing. and im pretty sure that baylor does not participate in the TMDSAS</p>
<p>yes, I was in the first group that had the pre-match offer-if you are lucky enough to have a school offer you an acceptance-prior to the match-you can hold onto that offer, no matter what, than go into the match-you can either hold out to match with a school you ranked higher or if you are happy with the initial offer, you just rank that school #1, but you never lose that offer. Many students do not receive a pre-match offer. The match thing can be nerve-wracking for many-as you may not be sure who liked you, so gaming your personal ranking to guess the school's ranking of you can be an issue. If you ranked a school #1 and they ranked you low-bad combo, and if you ranked a school low and they ranked you high-bad combo. Anyway, its a different experience.</p>
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yes, I was in the first group that had the pre-match offer-if you are lucky enough to have a school offer you an acceptance-prior to the match-you can hold onto that offer, no matter what, than go into the match-you can either hold out to match with a school you ranked higher or if you are happy with the initial offer, you just rank that school #1, but you never lose that offer. Many students do not receive a pre-match offer. The match thing can be nerve-wracking for many-as you may not be sure who liked you, so gaming your personal ranking to guess the school's ranking of you can be an issue. If you ranked a school #1 and they ranked you low-bad combo, and if you ranked a school low and they ranked you high-bad combo. Anyway, its a different experience.
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Just shoot me now. No joke. For me to watch that Fellini-esque process unfold for my D I'll have to be at the very least sedated but the big money should be on "near-death medically-induced coma". God. All they need to add are some scary clowns and a bear on a trike.</p>
<p>eadad. I hope it is not as bad as I know it has to be. Absolutely no control. Precious little input. Byzantine system. Maybe that place that has Ted Williams' head will mastered the process and they can freeze my #$@ for the app year.</p>
<p>curmudgeon: for someone as competitive as your daughter is, I will bet that she will have more than one prematch offer in hand when the offers go out in mid-November. With that, as happened with me, its all over but the shouting. You know you are going to medical school and you can shoot for the stars(Southwestern etc..) during the match. I even received a small merit scholarship from my school-which came as a complete surprise.</p>
<p>eadad: I think the prematch offers were all out by this time, but I am not completely sure. I will say that being interviewed by Southwestern is a very good thing and I would be quite hopeful for his prospects of acceptance at one of those two schools. BTW, going into the match, you can only rank schools that have interviewed you.</p>
<p>A little confused here...let's say you're originally from Texas but you move to North Carolina for college; so are you legally a state resident of N.C.? Or Texas?</p>
<p>Easy way to tell is your driver's license, provided you have one and it's currently valid. If your driver's license is from NC, then you're an NC resident. If your driver's license is from TX, then you're a TX resident.</p>
<p>Same goes for voter registration. Whatever state you're a resident of is the place where you're registered to vote.</p>