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Texas Medical & Dental Schools Application Service

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2022
Entity authorityQ7707848 ↗
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The Texas Medical & Dental Schools Application Service (TMDSAS) is a service run by the University of Texas System through which prospective professional students can use a common application to apply to all public medical, dental and veterinary schools in the state of Texas.

Applicants to public Texas medical schools must apply through TMDSAS, unlike schools in other U.S. states which use the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) or the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Service (AACOMAS).

The Texas Medical & Dental Schools Application Service is located in Austin, Texas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Texas Medical & Dental Schools Application Service” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.