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Congrats! If I may ask, where did you apply?
Thanks! You want my whole school list or the amount of schools I applied to?
I applied to 26 schools in total
Congrats! If I may ask, where did you apply?
Thanks! You want my whole school list or the amount of schools I applied to?
I applied to 26 schools in total
My Lizzy score is a 64
I was complete late-October to mid November for all of my schools.
I would love to get an interview from Stony, Mt Sinai, Brown, Einstein and Harvard, lol
I didn't apply to Hofstra or Cornell.
Where are the 7 silences from?
The list or at least how you decided which schools you applied to. I have the MSAR and have been doing a lot of research but want to maximize my chances next cycle
Well, if it's one thing I learned, don't count yourself out. Your Stats are weighed against other parts of your application and other things you have to offer that may be as valuable to a school, if not more. I'm below the 10th percentile of MCAT scores for many of the schools I've gotten attention from. Hope you get love from all those schools you mentioned and more.
As for schools I'm waiting on, off the top of my head: Dartmouth, Hopkins, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, UMiami, Penn, and Baylor. I think that's it, so make that 8 silences.
Pretty damn top heavy, haha, but I had a lot of people with *a lot* of faith in me and was strongly urged to save my money. Was certain I should've applied to more reasonable schools, but then IIs started coming in and I guess it all worked out.
Your MCAT score is way above mines, and I took it three times. I think that may work against me, even though I improved. We are waiting on similar schools. In addition, it doesn't help that I applied so late in the cycle, haha. I am keeping prayers and staying hopeful , but it is hard to not feel defeated!
Which 9 schools did you receive an interview from?
Did you get accepted into NYU?
Will dm you
Your signature shows that you watch Sailor Moon . The Japanese version came out this year. Series was FANTASTIC!!
3.6 overall, 3.52 scienceIf I may ask, can anyone who's been accepted or has received IIs post their sgpa? Just so I can determine if I'll be competitive next cycle
Thank you for sharing!3.6 overall, 3.52 science
I got secondaries but I think it's because my grad school gpa is a 4.0. My undergrad was kinda low in my opinion because I had one degree with a 2.8 and another with a 3.6 (combined its not bad but notcompetitive in my opinion) and so I went and did a degree in biomedical sciences to make my app betterIf I may ask, can anyone who's been accepted or has received IIs post their sgpa? Just so I can determine if I'll be competitive next cycle
3.46 sci 3.67 overallIf I may ask, can anyone who's been accepted or has received IIs post their sgpa? Just so I can determine if I'll be competitive next cycle
If I may ask, can anyone who's been accepted or has received IIs post their sgpa? Just so I can determine if I'll be competitive next cycle
My apps were complete rather late in the cycle (October-Novemberish) and as such I have yet to attend an interview. Any advice for how to prepare for interviews from the veterans out there?
Also, I hope you are all members of diversemedicine.org
Finally, a post-interview final decision to report. Accepted!
Non-traditional, Latino
LizzyM 69-70ish (new mcat)
~17 MD schools
8 II (NYU, Hofstra, Cornell, Stony Brook, Mt Sinai, Brown, Einstein, Harvard)
2 Pre-interview rejection (Georgetown, Hopkins)
1 Acceptance (Stony Brook)
7 Silences
When were you complete for Brown and Mt Sinai?
They need to give a fellow NYer some love
Hey there!
Uh, I was complete at most schools around 9/1. They both already starting accepting people, so hopefully you hear something soon.
I see you're getting quite a bit of love over there as it is. Lol.
Edit. Yup, I read the post rather quickly. Reading is indeed fundamental.Didn't know this thread existed.
what's up everyone. I am also adding my info here.
Non-trad 27 years young latino male student. Took the old MCAT in Jan 2015--> 7/8/11= 26. cGPA 3.52 sGPA 3.42
I work at a community health center (2 years) so I have plenty of patient exposure (interpreting services) and physician shadowing (1000+ hours). LOR come from the chief medical officer (MD) at our clinic and the associate medical director of family practice (another MD). Nebraska Resident. I was verified in late August. I only applied to 4 schools due to financial problems.
Schools: UNMC, Creighton, St Louis in Missouri and Stritch school of Medicine in Chicago. I interviewed at UNMC back in late Oct but have not heard anything. I have not heard anything from the other 3. I just need an acceptance somewhere!!
Good luck everyone!
Hey Medschoolboy88, By any chance did you apply to DO schools and at least 15 MD schools?
He clearly stated he only applied to 4 schools, lol.
Will a white refugee count as a URM? Apparently while registering for the MCAT there was a check box that grouped URM's as black, hispanic/latino, native american/pacific islander, or anyone granted refugee status upon entering the United States. Will this also carry over into the admissions process?
Does the student personally list them-self as URM and let the schools decide upon applying?I read about that as well. I think they notified schools whether or not a student has classified him/herself as an urm or coming from a disadvantage background and this will in turn carry over to all of your applications.
The reason why I ask is because "white" is not considered a minority, yet the MCAT registration has refugee grouped in the same category as URM. I am wondering what a white refugee falls under. There was only a "white" checkbox on the AAMC application but no mention of refugee. Explaining the circumstance under the "other" checkbox seems logical. Also, should "disadvantaged" be checked off even though the applicant is no longer disadvantaged (times were tough in the beginning, but everything is good now)?You can apply as disadvantaged, but I don't remember there being a URM checkbox. You just list your racial/ethnic background and it's up to schools how they want to interpret that. A school may consider all Hispanics URM, for example, but another school might limit it to Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
Normally, I think parental education level and occupation is what is used to assign disadvantaged status. I'm really not sure how refugee status plays in but it's definitely worth a shot. They give you a box to explain why you're applying for disadvantaged status. I doubt you'll get URM consideration, but disadvantaged status is possible.
I think having to adapt to the culture, having to master English, arriving to the country with absolutely nothing, and requiring federal assistance for a short amount of time would count as disadvantaged. Would you agree?Whatever the MCAT asks is different than what happens for AMCAS. On the MCAT, if you're talking about the MED-MAR registry, that's merely a service AAMC provides to distribute your scores to diversity affairs and outreach offices, and yes, it does lump racial/ethnic minorities together with people with disadvantaged backgrounds (see more info here: https://students-residents.aamc.org.../medical-minority-applicant-registry-med-mar/). I don't think it's anything official or too serious, as the FAQ says you can just ignore it if you signed up on accident. On the actual AMCAS application though, racial/ethnic considerations and disadvantaged status are separated, which is why I think you'd possibly qualify for the latter, but not the former.
That being said, I'd check off disadvantaged even if you're okay now. If you had to work harder, lacked resources, or grew up facing more challenging experiences than the average applicant in anyway, that fact that you're "okay now" doesn't mean you didn't have to overcome more. It makes your accomplishments that much more impressive imo. Disadvantaged status helps put your application into your life context and will help adcoms give you a more fair assessment. I'm not sure how your parents education and occupation will influence whether they grant you the status or not (if they're well off), however. Good luck!
I think having to adapt to the culture, having to master English, arriving to the country with absolutely nothing, and requiring federal assistance for a short amount of time would count as disadvantaged. Would you agree?
What exactly does disadvantaged status do for an applicant? Does it give them a better chance of acceptance? Are they treated the same as a URM?...Yup.
There's no harm in applying. If they don't buy it, you simply don't get the status. Just be as detailed as you can in your explanation.
What exactly does disadvantaged status do for an applicant? Does it give them a better chance of acceptance? Are they treated the same as a URM?...
Invite from Loyola , (today)
Rejected from Einstein (yesterday). No NY love, lol
Got my first acceptance today from Howard! Stats are on the first page.
16 MDs
4 IIs (Morehouse, Howard, SUNY Down, U.Miami)
3 rejections (GW, U.MD, VCU)
2 waitlist (Morehouse, U.Miami)
1 acceptance
I'm pretty much done. Howard is a great school; still hoping to get off Miami's waitlist though and it would be cool to get an acceptance from SUNY as well.
What are your stats?Hey everyone. SDN noob here, figured I'd contribute to stay posted on how other fellow URMs are doing. I don't know any other URMs applying this cycle and honestly, it's kind of saddening. Wish you all a successful cycle!
Non-traditional, Latino
LizzyM 69-70ish (new mcat)
~16 MD schools
6 II (NYU, Hofstra, Cornell, Stony Brook, Mt Sinai, Brown)
1 Pre-interview rejection (Georgetown)
9 Silences
Having a ridiculous cycle. I was complete 9/1 so hopefully I hear back from more schools soon!
When you say II attended, you mean interviews? What EC's did you do?Got some alerts from this page lol so figured I'll update:
Non-traditional, Latino
LizzyM 69-70ish (new mcat)
~17 MD schools
6 II Attended (NYU, Cornell, Stony Brook, Mt Sinai, Brown, Harvard)
2 II Withdrawn (Hofstra, Einstein)
3 Pre-interview Rejection (Georgetown, Hopkins, Penn)
6 Silences
3 Acceptances (NYU, Stony Brook, Mt Sinai)
Awaiting 3 more decisions, but yeah, I'm more than happy with my options lol. Hope everyone's cycle is going okay!