did anyone who interviewed in october get accepted?
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I got an email regarding my acceptance~!
Don't stress too much if you haven't gotten an email yet though. Last October, I was told I was on the active pool list still about 4-5 days after others heard that they were accepted. I wouldn't be too worried if you aren't accepted this round... there is still time.
Don't stress too much if you haven't gotten an email yet though. Last October, I was told I was on the active pool list still about 4-5 days after others heard that they were accepted. I wouldn't be too worried if you aren't accepted this round... there is still time.
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does anybody know if no email yet means rejection or wait-listed or be patient?
I think this is what we have all been trying to figure out. It doesn't appear that anyone on this thread who WASN'T accepted has received an email (I interviewed in November and have not heard anything at all as of yet). Looking back at October, it seems that people did receive an "active status pool" email, but the day AFTER acceptances were supposed to go out. That said, it's already 2 days after the 15th so I am thoroughly confused. My best guess is we just have to try and be patient, but I know that's hard because I for one REALLY liked the school, and would LOVE to go...
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Congrats to everyone who got accepted and who made the wait list. The waitlist is also kept very small so it is still quite and accomplishment. I was accepted off the waitlist so I know what you guys are going through. Stay calm and be sure to update often and show your interest!
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Congrats to all those with acceptances!
I am kinda bummed, I was hoping for at least some news by now because I loved VTC, would definitely matriculate. Worried that the MMI killed my chances here...
Panda, that's good news about the WL. Hopefully e-mails go out today!
I am kinda bummed, I was hoping for at least some news by now because I loved VTC, would definitely matriculate. Worried that the MMI killed my chances here...
Panda, that's good news about the WL. Hopefully e-mails go out today!
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Congrats Tiger and Burger! If I understand the scoring system correctly, that means that the average/acceptance cutoff scores actually went DOWN in December because people waitlisted in October were accepted in December? Or do you think its because some of the people accepted in October declined their acceptances?
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I recall them saying in my interview (August) that they were going to be very selective with who they accepted in August, have a larger batch in December, then a smaller batch + establish a waitlist in March. I have to imagine that they don't accept much more than 42 people considering they don't really have a long history to know what their yield will be, so I would imagine their their waitlist will be active, but I say this based purely on guess.
Though I do remember them saying 25% in October, 50% in December, and 25% in March so that would be ~10, 20, and 10 acceptances respectively. I can't imagine many people in October were turning down acceptances (I know I didn't), so I kind of doubt that is the reasoning. I bet it is just they are figuring out more of who is applying/who is interviewing and what they want for their class as time progresses.
Does anyone know where I can find more information about VTC's rotations in the 3rd and 4th year? The school's website is really descriptive about the first two years, but all I can find about the latter two is a schedule. I'm wondering where all the rotations take place, what % of rotations are in Roanoke, and whether those hospitals have had other students rotating through.
PS - I really appreciate how often current students post. I've been recently accepted and it's refreshing to see students involved in the recruitment process.
PS - I really appreciate how often current students post. I've been recently accepted and it's refreshing to see students involved in the recruitment process.
Just received the post-December acceptances Active Status Pool email:
Greetings from VTC:
This week the Admissions office of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine contacted all the applicants selected in our December round of acceptances. Applicants from all four MMI weekends were among those selected in this round.
As you may recall from our briefings during MMI weekend, VTC has a small class size of 42 students, and our goal for our December acceptances was to select no more than 50 percent of next years class. This is so the VTC admissions committee can give full consideration to those applicants who will interview at our winter MMI interview weekends, and whose records have not yet been reviewed by the committee. With so many well-qualified candidates, it was difficult to select only 50 percent of the class.
Your record now moves over to our active-status pool, and your application package will again be fully considered by the admissions committee for our March 15 round of acceptances.
Please call us if you have any questions. Thank you for your interest in Virginia Tech Carilion.
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Office of Admissions
(540) 526-2560
Greetings from VTC:
This week the Admissions office of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine contacted all the applicants selected in our December round of acceptances. Applicants from all four MMI weekends were among those selected in this round.
As you may recall from our briefings during MMI weekend, VTC has a small class size of 42 students, and our goal for our December acceptances was to select no more than 50 percent of next years class. This is so the VTC admissions committee can give full consideration to those applicants who will interview at our winter MMI interview weekends, and whose records have not yet been reviewed by the committee. With so many well-qualified candidates, it was difficult to select only 50 percent of the class.
Your record now moves over to our active-status pool, and your application package will again be fully considered by the admissions committee for our March 15 round of acceptances.
Please call us if you have any questions. Thank you for your interest in Virginia Tech Carilion.
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Office of Admissions
(540) 526-2560
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From what I understand the rotations are within the Carilion system, so more than likely you'll be able to stay in the Noke. If you wanted to go elsewhere, well, I'm not sure about that. That's something that might be worth a call to the school about. The hospitals in Roanoke do have other students in them; I've seen LECOM, VCOM, and UVA students there.
Hope that was of some help.
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+1 on the active status pool e-mail
Does everyone get active status pooled or do some people get rejected this early in the game? Does anyone know or remember from last year's thread?
Does everyone get active status pooled or do some people get rejected this early in the game? Does anyone know or remember from last year's thread?
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I remember from interview day the only way someone is rejected post-interview is if the committee unanimously rejects the person. I think he said either nobody has been rejected like this before, or it was some really small number like 1-2 people.
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Thanks, Sarah!
So I've been trying to call the admissions office to ask this question, but nobody is answering there...
I guess I shouldn't say "rejected" until I get the letter, but it sucks seeing all these good statuses and hearing nothing but silence.
That said, it was suggested to me that "active status pool" could mean like the "waitlist" for the next admit date (if that makes any sense) and that there will be a "true" waitlist later. I have no idea if this is correct-- I am just repeating another person's speculations...
I think the best we can do is just keep our fingers crossed...it's good to hear that I'm not alone with not getting an update
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I kinda doubt that. Let me go back and check who got active status and came back this time with an acceptance. Will update this post.
Adding:
1 accepted 10/18, 3 active status pool
3 accepted 12/15 (one from active status pool), 2 new active status pool as of right now
Of course this is just based on posters here. The e-mail from VTC said that anyone in the active status pool would be reviewed/rereviewed for March 15th acceptances. From there, it's anyone's guess as to how they create the unranked waitlist - i.e. will there be cuts before the waitlist is formed, how do they order admissions from an unranked waitlist, etc.
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No problem, msabet. Hope you get some news soon!
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I interviewed in August, got the AAP e-mail on October 20 or so regarding the October 15 acceptances, then got another AAP e-mail this morning regarding the December ones.
Thanks - friends in other schools have horror stories about driving hours a day to rotations and that just doesn't seem appealing to me. I'll probably give admissions a call after the holidays to ask more questions, since at the interview they seemed very eager to answer questions about the school.
I just received an e-mail from Admissions telling me that two of the teams that interviewed on November 20 will not be reviewed until sometime in January. That may provide an answer for those of us that haven't received any news yet!
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Anyone familiar with the VTC curriculum who would kindly share their insight regarding its content and organization? There wasn't much on the website I could find beyond the PCL and mention of the integrated curriculum. Thanks.
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I haven't looked at this thread in a while, but I was accepted on Monday 10/18 and I'm committed to matriculating in August 2011. Totally LOVED everything about VTCSOM and can't wait to move 
If anyone is interested, I found a cool page on Facebook to help people find more info about Roanoke & VTC: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Vi...Medicine-Class-of-2015/112427498824414?v=wall
If anyone is interested, I found a cool page on Facebook to help people find more info about Roanoke & VTC: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Vi...Medicine-Class-of-2015/112427498824414?v=wall
Hey, sorry I haven't been following the posts in a while, but I hope I can give you all some insight about the curriculum.
In Class: We are currently doing what every other school does and going through basic sciences of "normal" and then next year we will be doing pathology. We are in class for basic sciences about 7 hours a week. Then we have about 4 hours of lab a week as well which includes imaging, ultrasound, anatomy, applied anatomy, and histology
PBL- patient based learning: we have this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We look at a case and try to diagnose patients while learning about the subject matter of the week. For instance- during heart physiology we had a patient with a heart attack (and learned how to read EKGs which was cool). We also focus on labs, exams, and treatment during this time and on Friday we meet the patient (or a similar patient). I think this is a great way to learn basic sciences and also gives us early experience with pathology and differential diagnosis. It also allows us to ask questions to the patients and their doctors about the process on Friday which is really informative and a perspective that most medical school students do not get.
IPL - Interprofessionalism: We have a class with PA students and Nursing students from Jefferson and together, we work through problems and difficult situations. We also come up with our own community service project which we will be doing for the next two blocks.
Clinical Skills: we work with several doctors in the community to practice physical exams and interviewing skills. Our teachers are really amazing and the standardized patients we get are great. We even get a lot of pediatric standardized patients. We have clinical skills for about 5 hours a week.
LACE: When I was applying to medical schools I was very interested in finding a place where I would have early patient contact. LACE is a program that allows us to practice our clinical skills with real patients. Some of us are with ER docs, pediatricians, internists, and other specialists. It is incredible to go out into the community and work with real patients because it is much different than working with standardized patients! It has been an amazing experience
. We have LACE once a block for an afternoon.Research: We just got done with biostats (oooooo soo much fun... not...) but we also learn a lot of helpful information for when we actually go out to do research on our own. Every Friday we have a class called Research Live where a researcher comes and offers us positions in their lab or clinic and we learn about what type of research is going on in the community. I just got a position working at VBI (AWESOME!!!) looking at acute lymphocytic leukemia and also starting on a project with an anthropological perspective on electronic medical records (yay!.. btw I was an Anthropology major) and all through research live!!!
I hope this has helped you guys. Enjoy your holidays everyone and again, good luck!!!
Again, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask any of the students on SDN or email/call the school
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I got a very similar one today as well. Have no idea what it means however. I received the first one on the 22nd of November too.
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I got the 11/22 one, but not the second one... hopefully this does not mean I'm out of the game
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I had just barely sent out a "would you like my updated transcript" email and it was within 24 hours that I received the new almost identical one. I thought maybe it was in response to that, and consequently I was surprised to hear that someone else received it too.
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Got two interview invites this morning, with VTC being one of them! Good way to start the new year.
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Congrats to everyone as well. I received mine by email and I think I was complete in late August.
Depending on your gender, I'll bring a bottle of wine
Also, is everyone planning going to the Friday reception for the February interview? I know I definitely am.
Hey guys,
This is my first post ever on SDN, but seeing how there are so few updates on this thread, I felt compelled to post.
I got accepted today to VTCSOM via phone call from Dr. Workman. He said that there were two groups from the November interview that the committee wasn't able to discuss before the holidays but that the committee met last night and thus, I got the call today. I don't know whether they discussed all of those students in the two groups last night, but if not, then they probably will soon and you can possibly expect a call before March. I'm just letting ya'll know so you can keep the hope alive--I was convinced I wouldn't hear anything until March, so hopefully there will be more acceptances (or at least status update emails) coming this week or next.
Good luck to all!
This is my first post ever on SDN, but seeing how there are so few updates on this thread, I felt compelled to post.
I got accepted today to VTCSOM via phone call from Dr. Workman. He said that there were two groups from the November interview that the committee wasn't able to discuss before the holidays but that the committee met last night and thus, I got the call today. I don't know whether they discussed all of those students in the two groups last night, but if not, then they probably will soon and you can possibly expect a call before March. I'm just letting ya'll know so you can keep the hope alive--I was convinced I wouldn't hear anything until March, so hopefully there will be more acceptances (or at least status update emails) coming this week or next.
Good luck to all!
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just a couple corrections/clarifications to panda's quote:
-we have LACE (longitudinal ambulatory care experiences) twice per block (so, one afternoon per month) and it's a really neat way to get to know community physicians and practice clinical skills on real patients!
-secondly, we have clinical skills class 3 hrs/week (and research class 4.5 hrs/week, with the last 90 minutes being a presentation about a potential research project opportunity).
-we have LACE (longitudinal ambulatory care experiences) twice per block (so, one afternoon per month) and it's a really neat way to get to know community physicians and practice clinical skills on real patients!
-secondly, we have clinical skills class 3 hrs/week (and research class 4.5 hrs/week, with the last 90 minutes being a presentation about a potential research project opportunity).
Hey, sorry I haven't been following the posts in a while, but I hope I can give you all some insight about the curriculum.
In Class: We are currently doing what every other school does and going through basic sciences of "normal" and then next year we will be doing pathology. We are in class for basic sciences about 7 hours a week. Then we have about 4 hours of lab a week as well which includes imaging, ultrasound, anatomy, applied anatomy, and histology
PBL- patient based learning: we have this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We look at a case and try to diagnose patients while learning about the subject matter of the week. For instance- during heart physiology we had a patient with a heart attack (and learned how to read EKGs which was cool). We also focus on labs, exams, and treatment during this time and on Friday we meet the patient (or a similar patient). I think this is a great way to learn basic sciences and also gives us early experience with pathology and differential diagnosis. It also allows us to ask questions to the patients and their doctors about the process on Friday which is really informative and a perspective that most medical school students do not get.
IPL - Interprofessionalism: We have a class with PA students and Nursing students from Jefferson and together, we work through problems and difficult situations. We also come up with our own community service project which we will be doing for the next two blocks.
Clinical Skills: we work with several doctors in the community to practice physical exams and interviewing skills. Our teachers are really amazing and the standardized patients we get are great. We even get a lot of pediatric standardized patients. We have clinical skills for about 5 hours a week.
LACE: When I was applying to medical schools I was very interested in finding a place where I would have early patient contact. LACE is a program that allows us to practice our clinical skills with real patients. Some of us are with ER docs, pediatricians, internists, and other specialists. It is incredible to go out into the community and work with real patients because it is much different than working with standardized patients! It has been an amazing experience
Research: We just got done with biostats (oooooo soo much fun... not...) but we also learn a lot of helpful information for when we actually go out to do research on our own. Every Friday we have a class called Research Live where a researcher comes and offers us positions in their lab or clinic and we learn about what type of research is going on in the community. I just got a position working at VBI (AWESOME!!!) looking at acute lymphocytic leukemia and also starting on a project with an anthropological perspective on electronic medical records (yay!.. btw I was an Anthropology major) and all through research live!!!
I hope this has helped you guys. Enjoy your holidays everyone and again, good luck!!!
Again, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask any of the students on SDN or email/call the school
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Withdrew from my interview for Feb. 5th. I hope one of you guys gets my spot!
does anyone know if VTC rejects immediately post-interview? or are the only two options at this point acceptance or active status? i know that active status is supposed to become the waitlist, but will there be a bunch of rejections off of active status come late-March before that happens? thoughts?
I interviewed back in September and I'm in the "active status pool" -- any one have any suggestions as far as whether to update VTC at this point to show I'm still interested? I was very impressed with the school and will be eagerly waiting for March.
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atu7... I am wondering the same thing.
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