<p>Step 1 is taken at the end of the 2nd year. Yes, there are step 2,3. But Step 1 is more important for residency application.</p>
<p>Step 2 is during 4th year and step 3 during intern year. They are of descending importance.</p>
<p>Your own state’s med school is definitely among your safest bets (other than California)</p>
<p>I’ve said this before on other sites, go to a strong, academic, university school thats in the area you want to be in and at the most reasonable cost. Most meds schools are expensive. I’ve seen some in TX for less than 20K per year tuition but most are near 50K per year or more, cheap ones are 30K.<br>
I changed my mind three times during medical school about what residency I wanted to do. I even planned my 4th year schedule around going in OB GYN but changed to internal medicine (after ophtho). So if your planning med school choice based on what you want to do as a career, forget it. Just give yourself good options by getting a great education.</p>
<p>Why does Ohio State University med school accept so many OOS applicants?
With 57% of matriculants are from OOS at OSU, it will definitely attract many OOS applicants.</p>
<p>As a comparison, the percentages of most public med schools in TX (a single digit or lower teen in terms of percentage) aremuch lower.</p>
<p>I just notice that both Ohio and IL have many med schools. But I think our state (TX) is “better”. We have many LARGE public med schools and they mostly accept IS aplicants (about 90%.) The politicians in TX “protect” their IS applicants very well. I also heard that the applicants in NY complain that, unlike the public med schools in other sstates, many of theirpublic med schools do not favor their residents enough. I wonder whether it is true. I originally thought it is due to the “blue or red state” thingy, but the Ohio seems to be a “purple” state and it appears that it does not favor their IS applicants much.</p>
<p>A downside of having many med schools and many med school students in TX is that, as I heard (assuming it is true), there are fewer residency seats than the number of med school students in TX. So, some students need to go OOS for their residency training after they graduate from the med schools here.</p>
<p>^I have no idea, but D. was accepted at OSU (in-state) with the tiny Merit award. Other that my regular comment about California flooding our region in huge numbers and getting accepted in huge numbers to both Privates and Publics.</p>
<p>Just want to clarify mcat2’s statement: Texas schools have 90%+ of their students in state, not that they accept 90%+ of their in state applicants.</p>
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<p>Osteopathic medical schools are regulated by a different accrediting body than are MD schools. Osteopathic med schools have their own application processes and requirements that are separate from MD (allopathic) medical schools. Their student take a different (but equally rigorous) exam (COMLEX instead of USMLE) than do MD students. It used to be that DO grads trained in DO residency programs and MD grads trained in MD residency programs. However, in 2015, the residency match process for MDs and DOs is being unified into a single match process. Both MD and DO grads will participate in the same residency match and be trained side-by-side in the same residency programs.</p>
<p>Does it mean in state school is easier to get in than the private school since less people apply?</p>
<p>That depends on the state and the state SOM. Calif state SOMs are hard to get into. However, if you’re a Mississippi resident and applying to Ole Miss SOM and you have good stats, you’ll probably get accepted. They accept most of their instate applicants with GOOD stats.</p>
<p>why everyone keeps saying California is hard and flooding other states? Is it because there are more applicants from California than any other states? California has more undergrad student body overall?</p>
<p>If a California student goes to out of state school for undergrad, does she account as California when she applies the medical school?</p>
<p>It’s because of the population size in California leading to more applicants. Undergraduates almost always maintain residency of their parents so a California student who goes to UG in some other state is still a California applicant.</p>
<p>@gomedical,</p>
<p>You are likely in middle school now. How about getting off these boards and concentrating on your high school first?</p>
<p>No, I am a incoming freshman in a top school, plan to go to medical in the future. So I would like to get some info to prepare my courses, loads and everything. I maybe asked some stupid questions since it’s new to me. Sorry. But I did appreciate all the info everyone provided.</p>
<p>Incoming freshman into what? Your age says you are 13.</p>
<p>I just put a random age there. why should I put a real age in CC? People care about this? I am new to CC as well.</p>
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Your profile says that you are a 13 year old!
You must be a regular Doogie Howser :D</p>
<p>“I just put a random age there.”</p>
<p>Not if you want to be taken seriously on CC. You still have not answered what kind of a freshman you are - high school, college…</p>
<p>college, of course!
Why would I ask about medical school if I was in middle school. High school kids might be. You can choose hide the age on CC. I don’t like to put my real age anywhere, especially birthday. it’s private and everywhere uses it as security question, isn’t it?! But you are right, maybe people do not take me seriously if I put a wrong age there. I will change it.</p>
<p>gomedical - we do have a lot of go-getters on CC who think very serious thoughts and have their whole life mapped out in elementary school. So the common advice is to tell them to pay attention to their current level first.</p>
<p>You can mask your birthday to be not public. However, people tend to look at your age to see whether you fall in high school, college or parent group and some times the advice you get depends totally on your age.</p>
<p>what are the most competitive specialties? read other posts, they are plastic surgeon, radiologist? and others? Does OB GYN count?</p>
<p>Is there a link about which medical school admits certain range of MCAT score students?</p>
<p>I read other posts, people’s advices are double major does not help the medical admissions (I am thinking to do double major in Bio/CS if I could pull it off), since the committee might think I am not serious enough about bio/medical. Is it true?</p>
<p>thanks for all advices!</p>
<p>mact2, thank you so much! I could not send back to you since I do not have 15 posts yet.</p>
<p>have you looked into the pinned threads in the premed area (those that show up at the top but are locked)? There are a lot of links in some of those threads and lot of advice too.</p>
<p>Look for LizzyM Score to see predictability of an admission at a school. </p>
<p>If you are a freshman, you don’t want to worry about specialties yet. People in third year of medicine are deciding what they want. In a lot of cases, it is a function of their performance at med school than anything else.</p>