No. Your best option is to sign up for a preview day, I emailed my admissions counselor and she made it sound like you can also possibly see certain things post acceptance if you wanted to come back and look? Not sure about that part though. Her advice mainly was to sign up for a preview day.
Mine works fine. Been able to use it, does your password you set up just not work or what seems to be the issue?
I haven't been able to sign in yet. I tried using the temporary username/password but it says incorrect id/password. I think I'll just try e-mailing them
Oh gotcha. Yeah, it was weird because the portal changed for me. When I initially made the email, I didn’t have a created password given yet. I had to make my own given those parameters then I ended up changing it after the fact. Not sure though, emailing them is probably your best bet.
I believe Western's waitlist=alternate. There is a deferred acceptance that people have gotten. If spaces opens up, deferred acceptances will be considered first, then alternates.
Not sure, but according to SDN posts, yes. Only deferred acceptances I saw were from 1/9 and 1/16 interviewees. Myself and the others that posted on here from 1/30 were all placed on the alternate list. Looks like timing really screwed us.
Also placed on alternate list. Frustrating since we were the given option to interview 1/16 or 1/30
An interviewer posted a page or so back in the thread the remaining interview days so look out for ICanHelpYou’s responses. When I got my II I was offered a choice but I think there’s only one or two days INterview days left so if you got one at this point you may not have a choice since from what I’ve gathered one of those days is just for the linkage students ...also taking into consideration if they’re even sending anymore IIs out since the class has been full since the beginning of January.
02/27 and 03/05 are currently the only interview dates left. If a lot of students withdraw their acceptances, there might be additional interview dates later, but it seems somewhat doubtful right now.
Do you have an estimate on the chances of deferred applicants being accepted this year and when they might hear back?
Following this... I thought they said last year almost everyone on the alternate list was offered an acceptance, are things going to be different this year?
I contacted office of admissions last week and they said the last interview is on February 27th, and all the slots have been filled. So no more invitation will be sent out.
wow i feel gutted. but that's life, thank you so much for letting me know!
I’ll see you at ISAC!
Have you already signed up for the ISAC program?
I know I have, and was already accepted.
You reach out and request to be in it, there is a slight application process which i did via email. Just be aware there are limited spots, about 30 of them or so i believe, that are given to students.
That is what the admissions representative said. Hopefully she's right.
I feel like that’s a hard question to answer. For me it is worth it, I have already been out of school for a while, had plenty of time to travel and to enjoy life with my family and friends. So I don’t necessarily need that time to be dedicated to having a summer. For me having pervious anatomy courses, dissection classes etc and clinical experience where I had to know a lot of anatomy I think it’ll be worth it for me to have a shot at becoming a TA during the year and having one less exam to worry about through out the year. I think you need to figure out what’s worth It or not for you personally. Also FYI, the program seems to be filled as of now if you have not applied for it already.
No it is a 6 week course where we cover the entirety of the anatomy class that you would normally take starting in the fall. I believe there are exams every two weeks so 3 exams total over the six weeks.
Did you already submit the payment? I was admitted but haven't paid yet
There is no payment, just an application process. There is no added cost to tuition you would just pay for living expenses while in Pomona for class. The application process for me was an email to the professor running the course and then some follow up questions pertinent to the ability to be successful in the course and then I was accepted into the program after being admitted to the medical school.
There is mor information regarding ISAC in the interview guidebook that was given to you on your interview day.
The school is currently trying to deal with conrona virus right now, school Is moved online and students were told to avoid campus. Staff are still required to show up but this will probs delay admission results I would believe
first year here
I am not too knowledgable in terms of what it was like before so I can't comment on their motivations. I feel like all med schools teach towards boards, some teachers here do a better job of it than others. We do have a good number of PhDs teaching so there tends to be some "low yield" stuff we need to know but it is not horrible. A lot of students study for boards primarily and just try to pass the class, but this is also true for other medical schools also.
