Internal Medicine | Burnett School of Medicine at TCU | Fort Worth, Texas (2024)

FAQs

Is TCU med school hard to get into? ›

The Pre-Health Professions program at TCU boasts a more than 80% acceptance rate to medical school, more than twice the state and national average, and our acceptance rates to other programs are similarly high.

Based on the over-all acceptance rates and average MCAT and GPA scores, the hardest allopathic Texas medical school to get into is the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School while the hardest osteopathic Texas medical school to get into is University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine.

What is the easiest medical schools to get into in Texas? The medical school in Texas with the highest acceptance rate is University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. All medical schools are competitive to get into.

In the table above, we see a wide range of average GPA and MCAT scores among matriculants to medical schools in Texas. For instance, whereas UT Austin (Dell) has an average GPA of 3.78 and an average MCAT score of 514, TCU has an average GPA of 3.66 and 509 as their average MCAT score.

As a significant point of pride, TCU's Pre-Health Professions program boasts above an 80% acceptance rate to medical school, which is twice the state and national averages.

Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine is also #1 in NIH funding in Texas, making it a promising option for research-minded medical students. Accepting just 5.1% of applicants, Baylor is highly competitive, with admitted students having an average GPA of 3.93 and an average MCAT score of 518.

Half of the medical schools with the lowest acceptance rates are along the East Coast, in Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Six are in California – all part of the University of California system – with the remaining two in Arizona and Illinois.

Texas medical schools heavily favor in-state applicants, and tuition is much lower for residents.

What school sends the most students to medical school? ›

Texas Christian University Medical School Overview

The application fee at Texas Christian University is $100. Its tuition is full-time: $66,820. The faculty-student ratio at Texas Christian University is 3.7:1. The medical school has 914 full-time faculty on staff.

The City We Call Home. “As Fort Worth's new M.D. school, we will train the next generation of physicians as Empathetic Scholars™ who are compassionate, excel in communication and inspired by life-long learning, with the patient at the center of our mission.”

TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine uses AMCAS while the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine uses AACOMAS, the platform for DO schools.

And our institute boasts an 80 percent acceptance rate to medical school—almost twice the state and national average—and acceptance rates of 80 percent or higher to the other health professions schools.

Admissions at Texas Christian University (TCU) can be moderately competitive. While it's not as selective as some top-tier schools, you'll still need a strong application to be considered. For Fall 2021 admissions, the acceptance rate stood at around 47%.

[TCU] vs [Texas A&M] Admissions Difficulty

The middle 50% of admitted students at TCU have an SAT score range of 1150-1340 and an ACT score range of 25-31, compared to Texas A&M's SAT range of 1180-1390 and ACT range of 25-31.