Heard from any programs yet?????

[idoc]

This is the edited updated version. Lets keep this board as concise as possible, and continue editing posts. I sent in my application on August 15th, applied to 40 schools mainly in the Southeast. As beefyRedeye has suggested, adding some credentials would be beneficial to those who will be matching next year. I'll add mine after the match.

Here are all the programs I've heard from
1. St. Louis University Eye Institue
2. UT- Memphis
3. University of Chicago
4. MCG
5. Northwestern
6. UF-Gainsville
7. University of Illinois, Chicago (10/9)
8. UVA (10/14 by email)
9. UAB (10/14 snail)
10. Arkansas (10/14 snail)
11. University of Louisville (10/15 snail)
12. Wake Forest (10/20 snail)
13. Cinci (10/20 snail)
14. U MO-Columbia(10/24 phone)
15. U MO- KC (10/27 snail mail)
16. U South Florida (10/31 phone)
17. Vanderbilt (10/31 phone)
18. UT-Chat. (11/6 email)
19. Eastern Virginia (11/7 snail mail)

No Word yet:
Michigan, VCU, Duke, MEEI, Emory, Bascom Palmer,

Rejected from: Yale, Wash U, Ohio State, WVU, Indiana, Rush

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[mjl34]

Here's what I've got -

1. University of Wisconsin (via phone)
2. Medical College of Wisconsin (via email) ... 9/16
3. UT Southwestern (via email)... 9/something
4. UT Memphis (via phone) ... 9/22
5. Baylor (via email) ... 10/1
6. UC Davis (via email)
7. Utah (via phone) ... 10/9
8. Vanderbilt (via email) ... 10/13
9. Oklahoma (via email) ... 10/20
10. Iowa (snail mail) ... 10/20
11. Indiana (email) ... 10/24
12. Colorado (email) ... 10/30
13. Wilmer (phone) ... 11/4
14. MEEI (email) ... 11/5
15. Loma Linda (email and phone) ... (11/11)
16. Minnesota (I called them)
17. Casey eye institute (after being rejected) ... (12/3)

REJECTED FROM:
ohio state, Michigan (11/4), scheie (11/6), Seattle (11/8), Wills (11/19), Duke (11/20)

 

[Redhawk]

Application in on 8/15

Wisconsin - 8/28 via phone
Henry Ford - 9/19 via phone
Northwestern - 9/24 via email
Florida - 9/25 via mail
Ohio State - 10/6 via phone
Case Western - 10/8 via email
Vanderbilt - 10/13 via email
Mayo - 10/13 via email
Louisville - 10/16 via mail
Minnesota - 10/16 via email
Wayne State - 10/16 via email
Iowa - 10/20 via mail
Cincinnati - 10/20 via mail
Pittsburgh - 10/22 via email
Kentucky - 10/23 via email
Indiana - 10/24 via email
Miami - 10/25 via email
Illinois-Chicago - 11/7 via email
Emory - 11/7 via email
MU South Carolina - 11/11 via phone
Wills - 11/12 via email

Denied: Baylor, Wash U, Loyloa (no notice), Utah (11/6), UCSF (11/15), Duke (11/19), UCLA (12/4), Michigan (no notice), USC (no notice), Cleveland Clinic (no notice)

 

[Baylor_eye]

UT-Galveston - snail
UT - Memphis - phone
Tufts - snail
UT-SW - email
Baylor - email
VirCU - phone...interview dates D6,D13
CalPacific - phone
Utah - phone...interview dates N21,N24,D12,D15
Wash U - email
UI-Chicago - email
Mayo - email
UT - Houston - email
UT - San Antonio - phone (10/13)
U-Michigan - phone (10/15)...interview dates N20,D4,D11
Wayne State - e-mail (10/16)...interview dates D3,D4,D10,D11
Scheie (U Penn) - phone (10/17)...interview dates N21,N24,D2
Iowa - snail (10/20)...interview dates N21,D12,D19
Oklahoma - e-mail (10/22)...interview dates D1,D8, J5
Indiana - e-mail (10/24)...interview dates D6
Bascom - e-mail (10/25)...interview dates D11,D12,D13
Wilmer - phone (11/4)...interview dates N24,D12,D19
MEEI - e-mail (11/5)...interview dates N24,D5,D19
JSEI - e-mail (11/6)...interview dates N19, D3,D10,D17
Emory - e-mail (11/7)...interview dates D6,D7
Drexel - snail (11/7)...interview dates D7
LSU - e-mail (11/12 - second (or third or fourth) round) dates D3,D4,D5
Duke - e-mail (11/15)...(?scrub)...dates N21,D5
NYEE - snail (11/21)...interview dates D13, ?D19?
BosUni - e-mail (12/1)...(?scrub)

Wait List:
Vanderbilt - snail (11/21- screw 'um - Go Vols!!!!)

So long and please pick up your fabulous parting gift (rejected)
Oregon, Case Western, UW-Seattle(11/6), UNC(11/7), Albert Einstein (11/10), Columbia (11/14), Wills (11/22)

 

[helpless]

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[browneye]

Rush University (9/24) e-mail
Saint Louis University - phone
Northwestern (9/30) e-mail
Loyola - phone
Ohio State - phone
Medical College of Wisconsin (10/7) e-mail
Mayo (10/7) e-mail
U. IL Chicago (10/9) e-mail
UT-San Antonio - phone
U. of Minnesota (10/16) e-mail
U. of Missouri-Columbia (10/21) e-mail
Case Western Reserve (10/23) e-mail
Colorado U. (10/30) e-mail
U. Tenn. - Memphis (10/29) phone
U. South Florida - Tampa (10/31) phone
U. of Kansas (11//5) phone
MUSC - Storm (11/6) phone
George Washington (11/21) e-mail
Indiana U. (off the wait list)

Rejected by: Davis, BU, WashU, Michigan, Penn, Utah, Seattle, USC, UNC, Duke, Wills, Hopkins

 

[nyeyes]

Got an interview to nassau on LI yesterday.

 

[nyeyes]

my invite came via reg. mail

 

[JR]

Anybody interviewing 10/4 at SLU and 10/25 at Wisconsin? If yes, I'll see you guys there.

J

 

[Light]

Interviews:
CA Pacific...8/26 via phone
Yale...9/16 snail mail
Tufts...9/25 snail mail
Baylor...10/1 email
Wash Univ...10/2 email
Northwestern...10/6 email
Stanford...10/6 email
UC Davis...10/7 email
Mayo Clinic...10/7 email
Vanderbilt...10/13 email/snail
UI Chicago...10/14 email
USC...10/15 email
Wayne State...10/16 email
UPenn...10/17 phone
Univ Chicago...rejected and then un-rejected...10/20 phone
U of Iowa...10/20 snail mail
UC Irvine...10/23 email
Mount Sinai 10/24...email
Bascom Palmer...10/25 email
UMDNJ...10/27 snail mail
NYU...10/30 phone
Boston U...11/4 email
Jules Stein...11/4 phone
Columbia...11/5 email
Cornell...11/6 email
Loma Linda...11/7 email
Emory...11/7 email
Wills...11/12 phone
LSU...11/12 email
Cleveland Clinic...11/13 email

Rejections:
Case Western
Oregon
Wilmer


I guess this might be the topic of another thread, but does anybody know the most efficent and cost effective way of travelling (i.e.--travel agency vs. plane tix on the web, etc...)?

Good luck to all!

 

[jse75]

via email

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by Light
CA Pacific...via phone
Yale...snail mail

I guess this might be the topic of another thread, but does anybody know the most efficent and cost effective way of travelling (i.e.--travel agency vs. plane tix on the web, etc...)?

Good luck to all!

Try:

http://www.hotwire.com/index.jsp

 

[DO for ophtho]

I have had one invite come in via regular mail....I didn't get my stuff sent out to the people in SF til Aug 26-27....I have seen that some people here have been contacted by Henry Ford and U Chicago but I have not yet...wonder if that means I didn't get interviews there?

 

[yagmd]

Has anyone already received interview offers from any of the following programs?

Wilmer, Wills, U Penn / Schei, U Maryland

Thanks!

 

[GeddyLee]

Here's my list of interview invites as of 11/18.

UT-Galveston
UF-Gainesville
Summa Health System - Akron, OH
UT-Memphis
UT-Houston
University of Alabama (10/13)
University of Arkansas (10/13)
University of Arizona (10/17)
Oklahoma (10/20)
Cincinatti (10/20)
Penn State (10/21)
Wake Forest (10/22)
Cleveland Clinic (10/27)
UNC (11/5)
UT-Chatanooga (11/7)
Eastern Virginia Medical College (11/7)
UVA (11/10)
University of SC (11/**)

And for the formal rejections:
Boston MC
Ohio State
West Virginia
USF-Tampa
Wilmer (i called them)
MEEI

I applied to 46.

 

[JR]

Just received an invitation form UF-Gainsville vis snail mail. Does anyone know anything about this program? I've asked several MDs, and no one seems to know much...

 

[Light]

Hey idoc,

Thanks. So, the info i got about yale is from a former resident there (currently a fellow here) and an attending here who trained there. They both said if you were to split ophtho programs into three levels, yale would be near the top of the middle level. They take 4 res. per year. Generally three of the four residents go on to do fellowships (historically 1 in plastics, 1 in retina, and 1 in either cornea or something academic, and 1 does general ophtho).

Residents average about 75 cataracts...in terms of procedures, they said it's low to middle of the road, but some get as many as 130 if they are aggressive.

While they have all the ophtho fields covered, all the depts. are not huge...i.e.--they just got a full-time plastics faculty, and they only have a few clinics in uveitis and neuro-ophtho per week. The other depts. are quite strong, and there is a good amount of research available in both clinical and basic science.

The real strength of the program is that there is a lot of comaraderie among residents and faculty, the ancillary staff is wonderful, and people there are generally very happy, despite being in new haven.

The teaching is supposed to be quite good, but it is not a "hand holding" program.

That's about all i know...hope it helps some...pls. keep in mind this info is only from speaking to a couple of peeps, so it could be biased.

Last thing, from what they could remember (from when they were there), they said yale typically gets about 400 or so applicants from which they interview about 60-75 peeps.

 

[kel]

Here is my list:
University of Rochester - 9/5 via email
Tufts - 9/26 via snail mail
Northwestern - 10/6 via email
Arizona - 10/13 via email
Oregon - 10/22 phone
UC Irvine - 10/23 via email
Bascom Palmer - 10/25 via email
Cleveland Clinic - 10/27 via email
UCSD - 11/4 via email
Columbia - 11/5 via email
Loma Linda - 11/7 via email
UT Southwestern - 11/12 via email
University of Maryland - 11/17 via email
Stanford - 11/20 via phone
UCLA - 12/1 via email

Rejections:
Wash U, Baylor, U Penn

 

[odieoh]

9/26 LSU Shreveport by snail mail
9/29 Cook County Chicago by phone
10/1 Saint Louis University (email)
10/20 Oklahoma (email)
10/21 U Missouri Kansas City (snail)
10/21 Wake Forest (snail)
10/27 UT Memphis (phone)
11/4 U of Kansas (phone)
11/6 UC Irvine email
11/12 LSU Ochsner email
11/13 Tulane

 

[jse75]

very thoughtful of them sending a group email that way

 

[nyeyes]

got an interview to tufts yesterday

 

[nyeyes]

got an interview to syracuse recently as well.

 

[GeddyLee]

Dang...I haven't heard anything from Baylor, no rejection, no interview, not even the famed group email. Wonder what's going on....

 

[GeddyLee]

Rejected by Boston University today. Anyone know how competetive this program is? For some reason I was thinking they were one of the lesser competetive programs in Boston.

 

[rice]

LSU Shreveport by snail mail
Virginia Commonwealth by phone
UT - San Antonio by phone
Duke by email
U Rochester by phone
Emory by email
Tulane by email

I got the "axe" by W Virginia and BU as well. I wonder if W Virginia is looking for local people.

 

[yagmd]

Has anyone even received a confirmation sheet from Wilmer that they received their application from CAS?

I have received confirmations from almost all the other programs I applied to, but not Wilmer.

 

[idoc]

Hey rice,
If you got the same letter that I got, it said they were only interviewing 20 people for their program this year. That makes me pretty suspicious that they already know who they want, most likely students from WVU, or research backdoor people. That is not a slam, it just is my opinion. Most programs wouldn't have the cahones to only interview 20, since it would mean they would risk going unmatched. I think WVU is actually a good program, but I guess I'll never get the chance to check it out for myself. Oh well.

 

[odieoh]

Ten:One isn't necessarily the rule for applicant:resident ratios. For example, last year Tulane interviewed 300 people for 6 spots, about 50:1 As listed on FREIDA-maybe they slipped in an extra zero on accident. Even so many programs interviewed close to a hundred for 3-4 spots.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by odieoh
Ten:One isn't necessarily the rule for applicant:resident ratios. For example, last year Tulane interviewed 300 people for 6 spots, about 50:1 As listed on FREIDA-maybe they slipped in an extra zero on accident. Even so many programs interviewed close to a hundred for 3-4 spots.

I doubt Tulane interviewed 300. This must be an error.

 

[yagmd]

Has anyone heard from UVA? I had heard that they were supposed to send out interview invites via e-mail today.

 

[eyehope]

Got the big NO from UT - Houston.

 

[idoc]

UVA by email

 

[eyehope]

NYMC via mail

any news (good or bad) on OHSU or USC yet?

 

[DO for ophtho]

Rejection from Ohio State today.

 

[GeddyLee]

Okay...here's my update...

University of Alabama
Arkansas

Rejections from Boston MC, Ohio State

 

[BeefyRedEye]

Interviews so far at:
UTSW (email)
CPMC (phone)
UCDavis (email)
Northwestern (email)
U. Washington Seattle (email)
BU (email)
UCLA (phone)
Mt. Sinai (email)
Pittsburgh (email)
Cleveland Clinic (email)
Stanford (email)

 

[nyeyes]

interviews yesterday from: NYMC -bklyn/queens & SUNY Downstate both via mail.

 

[tenon]

Today:
Arizona via email
Iowa via snail mail
Case Western- wait list via snail mail
Minnesota: Denied via email

 

[nyeyes]

Maryland general via snail mail

 

[GeddyLee]

Arizona Friday by Email

Ged

 

[nyeyes]

nymedical in westchester last wk

 

[odieoh]

Hey y'all, this board would be much easier to keep track of if we all just had one list per user and edited that list as new offers have come in--much like the people on the first page of this thread have done. Otherwise this thing will end up 30 pages long. If you have your list scattered throughout the board you can compile it into one list and delete the individual posts.

Just a thought.

 

[mjl34]

Oklahoma today via email
Iowa via snail mail

 

[tenon]

Originally posted by odieoh
Hey y'all, this board would be much easier to keep track of if we all just had one list per user and edited that list as new offers have come in--much like the people on the first page of this thread have done.


I use this post to keep track of who is inviting and who has sent regrets. Can we be sure to keep the new invites new, as redhawk has suggested? If others feel like updating their lists, that's cool.

 

[odieoh]

I think its a good idea to keep the new ones new . . .maybe just go back after a week or so and delete and add to a big list. I'm not trying to be anal about this, just like to keep things tidy.

 

[nystagmus]

today:

U Missouri - Kansas City (regular mail)
Texas A&M / Scott & White (phone)

 

[nystagmus]

if you like midwest schools, these invites are out:

U Cincinnati (regular mail)
U Missouri - Columbia (email)

 

[yagmd]

Wake Forest interview invite by paper mail yesterday.

Has anyone heard from Georgetown, Columbia, or Mass Eye & Ear?

Also, my commentary on posting program interview invites... I know that people are trying to keep this thread from becoming too long, but I encourage people to post new program invites (that have not been listed previously) as new posts. That way, we can all just scroll down to the bottom of the last page on this thread to see the latest invites. If people just edit their previous posts, then we don't know which posts to look at for updates.

my 2 cents...

 

[JR]

Hey everyone; I have not posted for a while; so far this week:

UC Davis- e-mail
USC- phone
U Cincinnati- snail mail
U Arizona- e-mail

 

[nystagmus]

UC - Irvine (email)
Penn State (regular mail)
Temple (regular mail)