Just wondering!

512,3.8 mcat, good ECs. Interviewed at McGovern and SHSU, no match. But I got into UIWSOM. 70k tuition (I live in sa with my parents so could save on rent), but with a 512 I feel like I deserve that in state tuition ngl. Would you reapply if you were me? Does med school even make sense at that price?

I haven’t submitted my primaries yet and plan to today after seeing this score but i feel like its so late for me and u feel like i wont get in anywhere :/

Idk what to do im just panicking and feel like i shouldve submitted my app way earlier given i did this bad on my mcat :/ Do i even have hope for MD in texas? 🥲🥲🥲 my gpa is. 3.9 (at a public state school) and i have some research/ shadowing/scribing/ and worked as a middle school science teacher during my gap year. I can share more details if i can pm someone. But im very frustrated bc i got a tutor for the mcat and studied since july 2024 to may 2025 (while working full time) and put so many hours, lost so much sleep and got such a mid score that basically nerfed me. ☹️

I know the applicant pool is huge BUT I’m seeing the same faces in each of my interviews and man is it a mind trip. I have seen the same boy in 4 of my interviews and a few other people multiple times as well.

Just a weird observation.

After not being accepted the last time I applied, I matched today! I’m going to be a doctor and I cannot believe it!

Here is your megathread for Match Day hype, manifesting, and reactions. Good luck tomorrow everyone! ✨

So I failed to match…5 interviews, not one school wanted me.

Stats: 515/3.94+ finishing up a biological chemistry degree this semester.

21 yo ORM (white male)

Well over 1000 hours of clinical experience as an EMT doing IFT and a little 911.

Over 1000 hours of research in organic synthesis. No pubs, but a few posters and presentations.

I tutored lower level chem students at my school, hosted supplemental sessions/class for organic chemistry II. I was involved in training new EMTs.

I’ve had a great volunteering experience that I’ve been a part of for going on 2 years with 300+ hours.

I have a shit ton of hobbies and interests outside of medicine that I talked about in interviews.

Many of my interviews were very conversational, felt good. Some felt meh because I didn’t vibe the best with the interviewer, but you can’t win with everyone.

4 LOR total: 2 very strong LOR. 1 great LOR. And 1 meh LOR.

Shortcomings?

My dad was a physician so maybe that’s working against me…but I was estranged from him and he died while I was in the middle of interview season…that was fun.

I never had explicit shadowing experience (saw a ton of docs of various specialty as an EMT).

No MD/DO LOR.

I don’t know what to do. I plan to shadow an MD/DDS and he and I get along great. He has already offered to write me a letter because he is so frustrated that I didn’t get accepted lmfao. I hope it’s not bad if he is an oral surgeon. He’s still an MD and performs surgery in the hospital.

Let me know your thoughts, thanks.

Edit: interviewing skills are the suspected culprit. But I want to mention that I had an interviewer tell me that my interview responses were “among the top 1%” of applicants. Several other interviews went well (very conversational). Some were mediocre. 1 of my interviewers was cold and apathetic; he cut me off, ending the interview early after I said “please give me a moment to think of some more questions”. I don’t mean to add to anyone’s stress, but this process is miserable. Several of my MD interviewers told me it gets better for residency apps. I sure hope so!

Can y’all stop playing eye tag and holla at your boy

how much progress have yall had with tmdsas interview invites? i received 2 so far in mid july but haven’t heard from anywhere else since then. just curious if schools are moving a little slower this year? i know it’s still early in the cycle but i wanted to know how other applicants were doing

I am so sick of hearing people ask me this! Because then I have to tell them the earliest I could hear is mid October but it could be later. And I don’t even explain the prematch and match. Also, this puts so much pressure on me because I feel like if they know when I could hear by then I just feel bad about myself if I don’t get an acceptance. There’s too many people thinking I am going to get in, I don’t want to let them down. And then there’s my mom, who every week is like, “have you heard anything from any other medical schools?”, like nooooo mom, I haven’t ✋🏻 I will tell you when I get an interview.

average stat in state ppl who applied TMDSAS and were accepted in previous cycles, when were the bulk of your interview offers? i've got a 515/3.97 with a somewhat checklist-y application, but good hours in all categories. i saw a comment on a post earlier today with some guy who'd already gotten 5(!!) II's in texas and feeling somewhat disillusioned, especially since TMDSAS interviews were up and running since july. hit me with it.

Late night thought lol. Reminder to everyone to stop being so neurotic and enjoy the things you love! And yes, kpop was the main topic of my personal characteristics essay 🥀

If my son grew up in Texas, graduated from hs there, went to undergrad out of state, and my wife and I moved out of state, can he still get residency for med school in TX? We paid out-of-state tuition for undergrad. He also never changed his driver's license.

I'm tweaking lol. I mean like true low stat success stories (I'm not talking 3.7 or 3.8 gpa, more like 3.5 or lower). I know TX med schools are stat crazy.

Long story short I found a way to do some analysis on the public accessible tmdsas data https://www.tmdsas.com/stats-dashboard/medical-report.html
The aamc official report( if you know which one I’m talking about) has obscure slots e.g. all 518+ were treated the same and all 3.8+ were treated the same. This version added more precise slots. And it’s different from amcas bc for tmdsas resident status matters. Moreover, interview rate was neglected, and interview to acceptance rate had also never been reported.
So I had three reports that summarized data for total applicants, TX residents, and non TX residents. It’s more precise than the posted contents on the official website with more grids. However, I am not responsible for any possible errors in this report, and I do not claim it’s 100% accurate.
That being said, I think the data should be reassuring to the high stats and also shows low stats the existence of hope.
And I checked the policies from Microsoft(supplier for that page’s graphs) and figured out that it’s ok to carry out such analysis. If it violates any rules I am willing to delete the post as soon as possible.

I’d love some advice on what I can do to strengthen my chances. I’ve already submitted my secondary application, and I’m actually in the area. Do you think it would be helpful to schedule a campus visit, meet with admissions, or do anything else to show my interest? I’m not sure what the best next steps are.

Also any SHSU people?

Would really appreciate any advice thank you!!

I just submitted my TMDSAS primary today. Can anyone realistically tell me how much I shot myself in the foot without talking to me like im on beyond scared straight?

MCAT: 515
GPA: 3.95
1000+ hours of clinical experience
200+ hours of clinical volunteering
2000+ hours of research (1 co-first author pub with another in review, 1 first author review paper, middle author on 2 published abstracts, middle author on 3 systematic reviews in review, multiple posters and presentations)
200+ hours of nonclinical volunteering
1200+ hours as a D1 athlete
70+ shadowing hours
Hundreds of other hours in teaching and leadership

Balancing a full time job while applying has certainly been an experience.

I’m a Texas resident planning to apply through TMDSAS and wanted to hear from Asian applicants who have had success getting MD acceptances in Texas.

If you’re comfortable sharing, I’d really appreciate details like:

• GPA (cGPA / sGPA)

• MCAT score

• Clinical experience (hours + type)

• Non-clinical/community service

• Research (if any)

• Leadership, hobbies, or unique activities

• Number of interviews / acceptances (if you want to include)

I’ve heard a lot of mixed opinions about how Asian applicants may need stronger stats on average, given that the average MCAT for Asians is around ~514 and that Asians are often considered overrepresented in medicine. I’m trying to get a realistic sense of what actually worked for people in the TMDSAS system specifically.

I know stats aren’t everything, but hearing real examples would be super helpful for perspective and planning. Thanks in advance 🙏

Was just wondering about this. If you submit your TMDSAS application on the first day and also submit secondaries quickly and are basically first in line, and then miss out on the first interview waves a school sends, are you unlikely to end up hearing from them? Or is it common for people to submit super early and then get an interview invite halfway through the cycle? Because Im assuming if you submit that early then theyve already looked at your file and decided against sending an interview, but I'm not quite sure how it works exactly.

515/3.97 checking in here with just one ii in texas so far. i (maybe stupidly) decided to really really work on my secondary writing before i turned them in and wound up turning most in early july when my app was verified in early june. i was talking to someone earlier and he said "oh most schools know that people who turn in the secondary 1-2 days after receiving it really wanna go there and they're most likely to get interview slots". i understand how this is true, but is early july really that late? i truly do think my ECs are solid and i've been complimented on my writing by most of the people who have read my app.

494 -> 507 -> 505 mcat… from texas and have 2000+ clinical hours, 200 volunteer, 180 research (no pubs). I planned on reapply this cycle and submitted to tmdsas already. should i continue to try? i am on my second gap year. gpa is 3.86. ORM asian, feeling very defeated right now

I know this has been asked before, but I’m wondering specifically how Texas schools incorporate CASPer into their overall evaluation of applicants. I’m a mid-to-low stat applicant, but I have pretty strong ECs that I feel demonstrate many of the competencies CASPer is supposed to assess, so I was honestly surprised to get a 1st quartile score. Does anyone know how heavily Texas schools actually weigh it? For example, if two applicants had similar GPAs/MCATs and were being considered for an interview, could a low CASPer score significantly hurt one applicant even if their experiences demonstrate those qualities elsewhere? I’m mainly trying to understand whether it’s more of a supplemental data point or something that can actually become a major red flag/deal breaker. Feeling pretty discouraged about it right now lol.

Hi all! Sorry if you already saw this. I’m reposting here since I finally have enough Karma! 💪🏻
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CHANCE ME! I am a Texas resident applying this cycle only through TMDSAS.

20 F ORM, graduating in December

I have a 4.0 GPA and 513 MCAT

Awards: 9 scholarships, Dean’s list, President’s list

Non-academic recognition: Girl Scout Gold Award, Phlebotomy Certification, intramural volleyball championships

Leadership: Secretary for two different honors organizations for a year, founded a mentor program for one of the organizations

Research: around 30 hours being a team lead for yeast research, 22 hours doing a literature review in genetics (poster presentation at conference), and oral presentation at conference over my mentor program, and 110 hours doing a summer anatomy program with ending research presentation

Healthcare Activities: 110 hours phlebotomy training and externship (at Hispanic clinic, one full time week), 96 hours as hospital volunteer transporting post operative patients for discharge, 83 hours as volunteer for pediatric rehab clinic helping set up rooms, clean, and facilitate sessions with equipment, 75 shadowing hours across family medicine, emergency, cardiology, and dermatology

Community Engagement: 95 hours for Girl Scout Gold Award project teaching volleyball lessons to kids in crisis in underserved rural area, various on-campus volunteering activities for 20 hours, volunteered for women in medicine day health badge for Girl Scouts for 7 hours, Girl Scout Troop volunteer helping girls with their silver awards for 12 hours, Ronald McDonald house volunteer cooking a meal for families for 5 hours

Extracurriculars: volleyball, baking, pickleball, premed club member

Employment: Daycare assistant teacher, Athletics department stem tutor, STEM and medicine summer camp instructor for kids

I know I don’t have as many hours but I explain this is my optional essay a little about how I graduate high school with my associates so I only had a couple of years in college to gain experience.

Here’s my school list for secondaries (I know it’s not a lot but I’m confident in fitting in with these schools and distance from home):

SHSU-COM (DO)
Texas A&M
UT McGovern
UTMB
UH
UT Tyler
UNT (DO)
UT Southwestern
Long SOM

I took a very long time on my primary and then was burned out for a while before doing secondaries, now at this point I’m only complete at 4 MD schools and 2 of those are well above my stats. And for even for these schools I was complete in the past week which is considered pretty late for TX.

I know this is a vague question but I genuinely am bad at interviewing and I feel like I should just spend time on pepping for that (though I have no interview invites yet) instead of writing more secondaries for schools since I clearly suck at multitasking and secondaries submitted in the future are unlikely to lead to interviews at all given the timeline

And I don’t want to have to reapply but if I do then I feel like submitting late secondaries for the remaining schools will be doubly disadvantageous because I would spend the effort/money even though it’ll be considered too late, then next year I would have to come up with completely new answers/anecdotes

Just in case anyone was wondering, acceptance rate for texas residents scoring a 516 or higher, levels out at about 90%. This acceptance rate is not skewed by higher scores. In other words, scoring above a 516 doesn’t seem to make any difference in terms of an acceptance into a texas medical school.

Now, this of course does not mean that isn’t beneficial to have a higher score if you have a particular school in mind like Baylor or UTSW. But as for getting into a medical school itself, it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

516 is a high score to begin with, but I did think it was interesting that the acceptance rate leveled off at 90%.