Most of the threads that are about nonresidents applying to TX schools are pretty old, or the applicants aren't really similar to me. Here are my stats:
I'm a reapplicant; I applied for Fall 2012 (AMCAS schools only, no schools in TX) and got rejected everywhere.
Asian/female/22 (will be 24 entering fall 2014)
Undergrad: Emory, Neuroscience major, German Studies minor
GPA: 3.87 (3.79 sGPA)
MCAT: 32S (10V, 11PS, 11BS) ---> retook it this January: 37 (11V, 14 PS, 12 BS)
Georgia resident
EC's in college:
-Research, both clinical and molecular; had a poster presentation
-Volunteer- at the local children's hospital and as a camp counselor for an autism center in Atlanta
-Club volleyball
-Emory student newspaper staff
-Chemistry Lab and German TA
-Worked as a science/math tutor for a private company
-Shadowing- about 2 semesters worth
-Honor societies: Phi Eta Sigma (VP of Finance), Nu Rho Psi and Phi Beta Kappa
I'm taking 2 gap years. My activities in this time are:
-Employment: research specialist in Emory Immunology lab; I'll probably have my name on a paper while I'm applying
-Volunteer: Egleston Children's Hospital and Atlanta Humane Society
-Club volleyball with an adult league in Atlanta
-Shadowing a neurologist
I'm thinking about applying to these TX schools:
Baylor (AMCAS)
UTSW
UTH
UTSA
UTMB
Texas A&M (on the fence about this one)
AMCAS schools:
Emory (waitlisted last cycle)
Georgia Regents i.e. MCG (waitlisted last cycle)
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
UPenn
USC (Cali)
Miami
Tulane
Northwestern
Jefferson Medical College (waitlisted last cycle)
Oregon
The only other public school I'm applying to as a non resident is Oregon, because my dad got his PhD there and I was born there. I applied to all of these schools last cycle except for Northwestern and UPenn.
Does anyone have any good advice for me, about my chances, how to improve them, more schools to add/take off, etc.? Particularly for the schools in the TX. My boyfriend just moved to Houston, TX. We've been dating for 1.5 years, and I'd really like to move close to him. Does this count as a significant tie to the state?
I'm a reapplicant; I applied for Fall 2012 (AMCAS schools only, no schools in TX) and got rejected everywhere.
Asian/female/22 (will be 24 entering fall 2014)
Undergrad: Emory, Neuroscience major, German Studies minor
GPA: 3.87 (3.79 sGPA)
MCAT: 32S (10V, 11PS, 11BS) ---> retook it this January: 37 (11V, 14 PS, 12 BS)
Georgia resident
EC's in college:
-Research, both clinical and molecular; had a poster presentation
-Volunteer- at the local children's hospital and as a camp counselor for an autism center in Atlanta
-Club volleyball
-Emory student newspaper staff
-Chemistry Lab and German TA
-Worked as a science/math tutor for a private company
-Shadowing- about 2 semesters worth
-Honor societies: Phi Eta Sigma (VP of Finance), Nu Rho Psi and Phi Beta Kappa
I'm taking 2 gap years. My activities in this time are:
-Employment: research specialist in Emory Immunology lab; I'll probably have my name on a paper while I'm applying
-Volunteer: Egleston Children's Hospital and Atlanta Humane Society
-Club volleyball with an adult league in Atlanta
-Shadowing a neurologist
I'm thinking about applying to these TX schools:
Baylor (AMCAS)
UTSW
UTH
UTSA
UTMB
Texas A&M (on the fence about this one)
AMCAS schools:
Emory (waitlisted last cycle)
Georgia Regents i.e. MCG (waitlisted last cycle)
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
UPenn
USC (Cali)
Miami
Tulane
Northwestern
Jefferson Medical College (waitlisted last cycle)
Oregon
The only other public school I'm applying to as a non resident is Oregon, because my dad got his PhD there and I was born there. I applied to all of these schools last cycle except for Northwestern and UPenn.
Does anyone have any good advice for me, about my chances, how to improve them, more schools to add/take off, etc.? Particularly for the schools in the TX. My boyfriend just moved to Houston, TX. We've been dating for 1.5 years, and I'd really like to move close to him. Does this count as a significant tie to the state?