Baylor (BCM)

Baylor College of Medicine School of Medicine Houston, TX · Private · MD

Class size: 226
Tuition: $32,782 (per year, nonresident)
Out-of-state applicants: Welcome

Deadlines

AMCAS deadline: Oct. 1, 2026
Secondary deadline: Nov. 1, 2026

Essays

Areas of interest (1,000 characters total)

In addition to training as a competent physician, please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply. Clinical Research; Healthcare/disparities/medical underserved communities; Academic Medicine; Community Health; Simulation in medical education; Health systems science; Telehealth; Advocacy. What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?

Gap years (No limit stated)

Are you planning to matriculate into medical school immediately after completing your undergraduate education? If not, please explain what activities and/or careers you have pursued in the time between your college education and your application.

Special experiences (2,000 characters)

Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee.

Editor's notes

Watch the Casper date, not only the TMDSAS one. The last Casper sitting that reaches Baylor is Sept. 15, 2026, two weeks before TMDSAS closes, and a file without a Casper score is never considered for an interview. Scores from earlier cycles don't carry over.
Baylor says it judges Texans and non-Texans by the same criteria. Nonresident tuition is still only $32,782.50 a year in 2026-27. If you're out of state and your numbers fit, it belongs on your list; just remember you're applying through TMDSAS and its match, not AMCAS.
The special experiences essay is required, and the prompt says your application won't be reviewed without it. Use it for depth on something TMDSAS only lists. Don't paste your personal characteristics essay.
You don't choose your campus when you apply, and you can't switch later. Before you rank schools in January, decide honestly whether you'd be happy spending four years in Temple as well as Houston.