Life After High School
Most DeBakey students end up at either the University of Houston or the University of Texas at Austin after graduation. A unique program specifically for DeBakey graduates known as the UH-Baylor program allows around 10 DeBakey students to be guaranteed admission to the Baylor College of Medicine after four years of classes at the University of Houston. A considerable amount attend private Texas schools such as Trinity University, Baylor University, University of St. Thomas, and Houston Baptist University, as well as out of state colleges such as Knox College, Loyola University New Orleans, and Case Western University. DeBakey graduates are also represented in the nation's leading national universities such as Harvard University, Rice University, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame University, Emory University, University of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as in top liberal arts colleges such as Amherst College, Pomona College, and Colgate University.
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