Interview: Really impressed with the clinical training and teaching hospitals. Faculty seem very supportive and invested into the students at UTSW. Every student I met loved the school, although some of them were a bit prestige-whorey (which turns me off a bit) save for one whom I talked to extensively at the Friday dinner. Good mix of brand-name OOS interviewees as well as state schoolers. Quite a few non-trads. I can see myself at the school, but I don't know how well I mix with the student body. I spent a long time running away from the rat race, and it seems like everyone at UTSW has never really left.
Summary of Experience:
Pre-matched here on Nov 15.
SR: 7/18/2014
Interview: Everyone was really nice. My interviewers were a PhD and a DO; the former asked a lot of questions about why DO specifically and the latter about my interests and experiences. Facilities look nice, up-to-date. Visited the NICU - great OB/GYN (level 3) and apparently great behavioral health/psych program too. No established global health/international opportunities, but they seem open to letting students arrange it for themselves for away rotation. Very big on primary care/rural health opportunities.
dragon mouse took the old MCAT and scored a 36 which is in the 97th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 519 on the updated scale which is in the 97th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted dragon mouse’s section scores as follows:
dragon mouse scored a 14 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 131 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
dragon mouse scored a 11 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 128 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
dragon mouse scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
