Applying out from Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars program

If you're in this program, can other medical schools see that you already have an acceptance to Baylor? Does that hurt your chances of getting into other schools?

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7+ Year Member Joined Jul 1, 2015 Messages 2,065 Reaction score 1,930 I would take the acceptance to Baylor and run. It's a great school with amazing research support. Reactions: 5 users

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Don't most BS/MD programs require you to go through the process of submitting an AMCAS even when you are already guaranteed a seat? If that's the case at Baylor, I don't think any other med schools can see your admit until the end of cycle, same as for everyone else. It def is normal at a lot of BS/MD programs to let people apply elsewhere too (though some do forbid this).

As above though, Baylor is a great school. Unless you have an amazing app that might land merit/recruitment $ elsewhere or have a reason you can't stay at Baylor, I'd just sit on this admit and save yourself a lot of time and money and stress.

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Don't most BS/MD programs require you to go through the process of submitting an AMCAS even when you are already guaranteed a seat? If that's the case at Baylor, I don't think any other med schools can see your admit until the end of cycle, same as for everyone else. It def is normal at a lot of BS/MD programs to let people apply elsewhere too (though some do forbid this).

Echoing this - most BS/MD programs I'm familiar with don't formally accept you to the medical school until after the cycle, so there wouldn't be an acceptance for other schools to see.

However, I'm going to disagree with the other posters re: applying out - if you won't lose your seat by doing so, and there are any schools you'd rather go to, you should definitely apply and see what happens. You won't need to cast as wide a net as a typical applicant, so it's a much less stressful cycle.