**Official 2008 MD/PhD Acceptance Thread**

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everyone is sooo amazing!!!!

WaltzingMatilda - WOW you are AWESOME....does this complicate your life? What'll you do? An enviable problem, but I guess a problem nonetheless...still WAY TO GO!!!
 
Wow, the adcoms are giving a lot of love to this forum. Congrats to everyone that's received kickass acceptances these past few days!
 
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Whoa, props to everyone. It's times like these that I think I just may have a shot at getting in somewhere...
 
First off, a huge mazel tov to everybody! Amazing!!!

Second, somebody help me...I absolutely cannot get anything done. All I keep thinking about is getting my Harvard rejection and finding out--at long last--aye or nay from Penn! I just wish for my lepidopteran stomach to finally be settled!!! Please tell me I'm not alone in my antsiness.
 
Have you found Ativan or Nembutal more effective?
 
pennquaker08 said:
First off, a huge mazel tov to everybody! Amazing!!!

Second, somebody help me...I absolutely cannot get anything done. All I keep thinking about is getting my Harvard rejection and finding out--at long last--aye or nay from Penn! I just wish for my lepidopteran stomach to finally be settled!!! Please tell me I'm not alone in my antsiness.
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you're not alone!

i have to get my damn mini-gene to work so i can write my damn thesis, and all i can think about is knowing where i am going. come on penn! accept me, or put me at the bottom of the bottom of the waitlist, just so i know where im going.
 
pennquaker08 said:
First off, a huge mazel tov to everybody! Amazing!!!

Second, somebody help me...I absolutely cannot get anything done. All I keep thinking about is getting my Harvard rejection and finding out--at long last--aye or nay from Penn! I just wish for my lepidopteran stomach to finally be settled!!! Please tell me I'm not alone in my antsiness.
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Feel EXACTLY the same!
 
AECOM: pennquaker08 (12/14, by post), MSTPbound (12/14, snailmail), ICMD (02/20, e-mail and snailmail)
Baylor: revaldo29 (MD offer 12/12, still waiting for MSTP), Ariodant (MD offer 12/14, MSTP 3/7), seraph524 (1/?, MD offer, MSTP second-round invite)
Boston University: bioartist (12/24, email), mcdavid65 (12/25, email)
Case Western: j-weezy (11/19 - phone call), picklesali (1/15 - email), iveshchmive (11/14 - phone call), Rfectea (2/25 - phone call)
Columbia: marctam86 (2/23), Dodo23 (2/25, snail mail), pennquaker08 (2/25, by post), goldsonic99 (2/25 snail mail)
Cornell Tri-I: Dodo23 (12/7 - e-mail to call office), neuropenguin (12/7 - e-mail to call office), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email to call office), WaltzingMatilda (same)
Dartmouth: Ariodant (1/04, mail)
Drexel: chylo (11/14, email)
Duke: Dodo23 (12/14 - phone call), meowkat444 (2/6/08-phone), Ziggy08 (same), seraph524 (3/?, phone)
Emory: revaldo29 (12/20- phone call)
Harvard: WaltzingMatilda (3/18 - phone call)
Johns Hopkins: Ziggy08 (2/11-mail); Kraazy (3/7 call)
Medical College of Georgia: solumanculver (12/13, regular mail)
Medical College of Wisconsin: FoxTrot12 (12/14, email), iveshchmive (12/14 - email), SirTony76 (2/4 - email)
Mount Sinai: MSTPbound (11/26 - email), meowkat444 (11/28, email), Redoc (12/8, e-mail), Ziggy08 (12/8, email)
MUSC: rmwhitak (2/15, email)
Northwestern: pennquaker08 (1/10, e-mail), iveshchmive (3/3 - email)
NYU: Picklesali (11/12, email), Dodo23 (11/12, email), neuropenguin (1/25 email), dazlindz (1/25 email)
Ohio State University: solumanculver (3/10, phone call)
OHSU: AMPed (12/?, Call)
Penn State: chylo (11/20, snail mail), dwightshrute (2/12, snail)
Stanford: meowkat444 (1/24, snail)
Tufts: Kraz (2/11)
UC Irvine: meowkat444 (1/18, call), goldsonic99 (2/15, call)
UCLA: meowkat444 (3/16, email, Caltech 3/19), j-weezy (same), skillmatic (same), OncDoc19 (phone call from director 2/27), goldsonic99 (3/16, email)
UCSD: neuropenguin (3/5, call and e-mail), j-weezy (3/4, call and e-mail)
UCSF: richardlo (1/31, snail mail), Ariodant (2/26, call), solitude (3/14, call)
University of Alabama: Barbarossa (2/11), Mountain Cow (2/11, phone/email), violarocks (2/11, phone/email)
University of Cincinnati: magwi11 (1/15, email), darrenaronofsky (1/14, phone call)
University of Chicago: jlamacc1 (2/1, email)
University of Colorado: Mountain Cow (12/20, email), dendro (1/17, email)
University of Connecticut: GreenMudPhud(10/26, email), marctam86 (10/26, email), bioartist (10/26, email), clover86 (10/26, email), clarke789(2/5, email)
University of Iowa: iveshchmive (12/19 - email), dendro (2/13 e-mail) Crimson doc (02/13 e-mail).
University of Massachusetts: bioartist (11/16, email), bosoxmacka (3/12, snail mail)
University of Miami: Inuranic (Jan. 31st - email)
UMDNJ-RWJ/Rutgers/Princeton: chylo (12/4- phone call), Mountain Cow (1/10/08)
University of Michigan: solitude (10/31, email), j-weezy (11/14, email), revaldo29 (11/21, email); Kraazy (11/29, email); Picklesali (12/7, email), iveshchmive (3/12 - email), seraph524 (11/?, email)
University of Minnesota: magwi11 (3/7, email)
University of North Carolina: Kraazy (3/1, email), j-weezy (same)
University of Nebraska: dendro (1/26, snail-mail)
University of Pittsburgh: clover86 (10/19, snail mail), HypoxiaBoy (10/19, snail mail), Richardlo (10/19, snail mail), MSTPbound (11/15, phone call anticipating snail mail), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email stating letter was mailed on 11/30), pennquaker08 (12/19...by post, off waitlist), meowkat444 (12/22, snail off waitlist), goldsonic99 (12/26, snail mail), seraph524 (10/?, snail mail), WaltzingMatilda (email)
University of Rochester: meowkat444, 10/16, call from director, skillmatic 11/21, phone call, clover86 (11/21, phone call), richardlo (12/18, phone call), iveshchmive (11/28 - phone call)
USC+Caltech: Ariodant (2/28ish, snail mail)
University of South Carolina: violarocks (10/20ish, phone call)
UTSW: j-weezy (2/11/08 - call from director), Ariodant (2/11/08- call from director), Ziggy08 (same)
University of Washington: skillmatic (1/13, phone call!), jlamacc1 (1/14, phone); Kraazy (2/18)
University of Wisconsin: iveshchmive (2/22 - visit from director), OncDoc19 (2/29 - email)
Vanderbilt: j-weezy (10/17 - call from director), revaldo29 (11/30- call from director), HypoxiaBoy (11/30 - call from director), The Force (12/1 - call from director), seraph524 (10/?, call from director), WaltzingMatilda (sometime in December, call from director)
VCU: chylo (12/19, email from the director), AMPed (12/19, email from director), Inuranic (early January - email)
Wash U: revaldo29 (11/15 - phone call), solitude (same), notlikethat (express mail), Ziggy08 (12/18-email), Dodo23 (snail mail), jlamacc1 (1/10, email), iveshchmive (1/24 - phone call), seraph524 (11/15, phone call)
Wayne State: Kraz (sometime)
West Virginia University: Inuranic (3/1, email from director at 8 PM on a Saturday night)
Yale: bioartist (03/14/08, email), meowkat444 (3/14, email), seraph524 (3/14, email), Dodo23 (03/14/08, e-mail), solitude (same)
 
Congrats, meowkat! Caltech is an awesome opportunity, and very hard to get from what I understand. :)
 
of course i'm delighted, but it really complicates things (i.e. makes ucla much harder to turn down)
 
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Depending on how good a fit Caltech is for your research interest. In terms of basic science and fundamental principles, no one beats Caltech; but the same is not true if your are clinically oriented. I personally find its bio department too small, and still it caused me much heartache to turn them down. Caltech is Caltech, just like the big H, sigh.
 
if you're neuro-inclined then caltech is even harder to turn away from!
 
Does anyone know if accepted HMS students for both HST and NP MD/PhD notified by phone? All the craziness in the pre-allo forum is driving me nuts.
 
SingeMagique08 said:
Does anyone know if accepted HMS students for both HST and NP MD/PhD notified by phone? All the craziness in the pre-allo forum is driving me nuts.
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Don't know, but I've definitely been checking my mailbox obsessively for a rejection letter. I just want closure!!! The wait is just agonizing now b/c I just want to know what my options are so I can have some idea of where the next 8-ish years of my life will be spent...
 
Kraazy said:
Don't know, but I've definitely been checking my mailbox obsessively for a rejection letter. I just want closure!!! The wait is just agonizing now b/c I just want to know what my options are so I can have some idea of where the next 8-ish years of my life will be spent...
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Would you go Harvard MD-only (or pay for the MD and do the MD-PhD) over Hopkins MSTP? I'm afraid that most/all of the Harvard MSTP acceptances have gone out, but they usually go 2-3 deep on the waitlist.
 
solitude said:
Would you go Harvard MD-only (or pay for the MD and do the MD-PhD) over Hopkins MSTP? I'm afraid that most/all of the Harvard MSTP acceptances have gone out, but they usually go 2-3 deep on the waitlist.
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NO! I am definitely set on MD/PhD and I just can't fathom any good reason to turn down an awesome program with funding for another awesome program that would bleed me of ~$200K that I don't have. And in some ways (considering my research interest) JHU would be a better fit than Harvard. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I didn't get Harvard, I just want the supporting evidence...
 
AECOM: pennquaker08 (12/14, by post), MSTPbound (12/14, snailmail), ICMD (02/20, e-mail and snailmail)
Baylor: revaldo29 (MD offer 12/12, still waiting for MSTP), Ariodant (MD offer 12/14, MSTP 3/7), seraph524 (1/?, MD offer, MSTP second-round invite)
Boston University: bioartist (12/24, email), mcdavid65 (12/25, email)
Case Western: j-weezy (11/19 - phone call), picklesali (1/15 - email), iveshchmive (11/14 - phone call), Rfectea (2/25 - phone call)
Columbia: marctam86 (2/23), Dodo23 (2/25, snail mail), pennquaker08 (2/25, by post), goldsonic99 (2/25 snail mail)
Cornell Tri-I: Dodo23 (12/7 - e-mail to call office), neuropenguin (12/7 - e-mail to call office), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email to call office), WaltzingMatilda (same)
Dartmouth: Ariodant (1/04, mail)
Drexel: chylo (11/14, email)
Duke: Dodo23 (12/14 - phone call), meowkat444 (2/6/08-phone), Ziggy08 (same), seraph524 (3/?, phone)
Emory: revaldo29 (12/20- phone call)
Harvard: WaltzingMatilda (3/18 - phone call), Dodo23 (3/18/08 - phone call)
Johns Hopkins: Ziggy08 (2/11-mail); Kraazy (3/7 call)
Medical College of Georgia: solumanculver (12/13, regular mail)
Medical College of Wisconsin: FoxTrot12 (12/14, email), iveshchmive (12/14 - email), SirTony76 (2/4 - email)
Mount Sinai: MSTPbound (11/26 - email), meowkat444 (11/28, email), Redoc (12/8, e-mail), Ziggy08 (12/8, email)
MUSC: rmwhitak (2/15, email)
Northwestern: pennquaker08 (1/10, e-mail), iveshchmive (3/3 - email)
NYU: Picklesali (11/12, email), Dodo23 (11/12, email), neuropenguin (1/25 email), dazlindz (1/25 email)
Ohio State University: solumanculver (3/10, phone call)
OHSU: AMPed (12/?, Call)
Penn State: chylo (11/20, snail mail), dwightshrute (2/12, snail)
Stanford: meowkat444 (1/24, snail)
Tufts: Kraz (2/11)
UC Irvine: meowkat444 (1/18, call), goldsonic99 (2/15, call)
UCLA: meowkat444 (3/16, email, Caltech 3/19), j-weezy (same), skillmatic (same), OncDoc19 (phone call from director 2/27), goldsonic99 (3/16, email)
UCSD: neuropenguin (3/5, call and e-mail), j-weezy (3/4, call and e-mail)
UCSF: richardlo (1/31, snail mail), Ariodant (2/26, call), solitude (3/14, call)
University of Alabama: Barbarossa (2/11), Mountain Cow (2/11, phone/email), violarocks (2/11, phone/email)
University of Cincinnati: magwi11 (1/15, email), darrenaronofsky (1/14, phone call)
University of Chicago: jlamacc1 (2/1, email)
University of Colorado: Mountain Cow (12/20, email), dendro (1/17, email)
University of Connecticut: GreenMudPhud(10/26, email), marctam86 (10/26, email), bioartist (10/26, email), clover86 (10/26, email), clarke789(2/5, email)
University of Iowa: iveshchmive (12/19 - email), dendro (2/13 e-mail) Crimson doc (02/13 e-mail).
University of Massachusetts: bioartist (11/16, email), bosoxmacka (3/12, snail mail)
University of Miami: Inuranic (Jan. 31st - email)
UMDNJ-RWJ/Rutgers/Princeton: chylo (12/4- phone call), Mountain Cow (1/10/08)
University of Michigan: solitude (10/31, email), j-weezy (11/14, email), revaldo29 (11/21, email); Kraazy (11/29, email); Picklesali (12/7, email), iveshchmive (3/12 - email), seraph524 (11/?, email)
University of Minnesota: magwi11 (3/7, email)
University of North Carolina: Kraazy (3/1, email), j-weezy (same)
University of Nebraska: dendro (1/26, snail-mail)
University of Pittsburgh: clover86 (10/19, snail mail), HypoxiaBoy (10/19, snail mail), Richardlo (10/19, snail mail), MSTPbound (11/15, phone call anticipating snail mail), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email stating letter was mailed on 11/30), pennquaker08 (12/19...by post, off waitlist), meowkat444 (12/22, snail off waitlist), goldsonic99 (12/26, snail mail), seraph524 (10/?, snail mail), WaltzingMatilda (email)
University of Rochester: meowkat444, 10/16, call from director, skillmatic 11/21, phone call, clover86 (11/21, phone call), richardlo (12/18, phone call), iveshchmive (11/28 - phone call)
USC+Caltech: Ariodant (2/28ish, snail mail)
University of South Carolina: violarocks (10/20ish, phone call)
UTSW: j-weezy (2/11/08 - call from director), Ariodant (2/11/08- call from director), Ziggy08 (same)
University of Washington: skillmatic (1/13, phone call!), jlamacc1 (1/14, phone); Kraazy (2/18)
University of Wisconsin: iveshchmive (2/22 - visit from director), OncDoc19 (2/29 - email)
Vanderbilt: j-weezy (10/17 - call from director), revaldo29 (11/30- call from director), HypoxiaBoy (11/30 - call from director), The Force (12/1 - call from director), seraph524 (10/?, call from director), WaltzingMatilda (sometime in December, call from director)
VCU: chylo (12/19, email from the director), AMPed (12/19, email from director), Inuranic (early January - email)
Wash U: revaldo29 (11/15 - phone call), solitude (same), notlikethat (express mail), Ziggy08 (12/18-email), Dodo23 (snail mail), jlamacc1 (1/10, email), iveshchmive (1/24 - phone call), seraph524 (11/15, phone call)
Wayne State: Kraz (sometime)
West Virginia University: Inuranic (3/1, email from director at 8 PM on a Saturday night)
Yale: bioartist (03/14/08, email), meowkat444 (3/14, email), seraph524 (3/14, email), Dodo23 (03/14/08, e-mail), solitude (same)

Got the phone call Tuesday, followed by the official letter by e-mail attachment on Wednesday. Now that MD-only acceptances have started to come in, I think it's finally ok for me to post here now. I'm still in complete shock over the fact that I actually got in, but this is probably the happiest I've ever been in my life. :love:

Edited to add: I just received an e-mail saying I've gotten into both New Pathway and HST, yay! That's going to be a difficult choice to make.
 
Wow congrats Dodo, that's amazing! You /totally/ deserve it, and I'm so happy for you :).
 
Thanks, pennquaker!

ETA: I've got my fingers crossed for you to get into your alma mater, too! :luck:
 
CONGRATS DODO!!!!!

Though I'm sad that this may mean we won't be classmates at Columbia!
 
Congrats Dodo! I'm impressed you were able to restrain yourself from posting. So is this THE school for you then?
 
Congrats Dodo!!!

(by the way, I just looked at your mdapps profile. You're amazing!)
 
Thank you so much, marctam, OncDoc and Ziggy08! You're all very impressive applicants yourselves. :)

OncDoc19 said:
Congrats Dodo! I'm impressed you were able to restrain yourself from posting. So is this THE school for you then?
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Yeah, it was hard to prevent myself from posting as well as from telling most of my friends (only close friends and family have been told so far). And yes, this is very likely where I will end up (and I don't have the two-body problem, fortunately). I'm still planning on attending the Tri-I revisit, though, to be sure I'm making the right decision for myself.
 
Kraazy said:
NO! I am definitely set on MD/PhD and I just can't fathom any good reason to turn down an awesome program with funding for another awesome program that would bleed me of <$200K that I don't have. And in some ways (considering my research interest) JHU would be a better fit than Harvard. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I didn't get Harvard, I just want the supporting evidence...
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yeah I feel the same way.
 
Congrats dodo! Are you going to withdraw from the UCSF waitlist?
 
Way to go everyone... you're all amazing!:clap::clap:
 
congrats dodo!

so the secret is out!
 
MCG 1986 :hardy: Accepted to Medical College of Georgia (MCG) MD/PhD Program via paper mail


AECOM: pennquaker08 (12/14, by post), MSTPbound (12/14, snailmail), ICMD (02/20, e-mail and snailmail)
Baylor: revaldo29 (MD offer 12/12, still waiting for MSTP), Ariodant (MD offer 12/14, MSTP 3/7), seraph524 (1/?, MD offer, MSTP second-round invite)
Boston University: bioartist (12/24, email), mcdavid65 (12/25, email)
Case Western: j-weezy (11/19 - phone call), picklesali (1/15 - email), iveshchmive (11/14 - phone call), Rfectea (2/25 - phone call)
Columbia: marctam86 (2/23), Dodo23 (2/25, snail mail), pennquaker08 (2/25, by post), goldsonic99 (2/25 snail mail)
Cornell Tri-I: Dodo23 (12/7 - e-mail to call office), neuropenguin (12/7 - e-mail to call office), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email to call office), WaltzingMatilda (same)
Dartmouth: Ariodant (1/04, mail)
Drexel: chylo (11/14, email)
Duke: Dodo23 (12/14 - phone call), meowkat444 (2/6/08-phone), Ziggy08 (same), seraph524 (3/?, phone)
Emory: revaldo29 (12/20- phone call)
Harvard: WaltzingMatilda (3/18 - phone call), Dodo23 (3/18/08 - phone call)
Johns Hopkins: Ziggy08 (2/11-mail); Kraazy (3/7 call)
Medical College of Georgia: solumanculver (12/13, regular mail) MCG 1986 (Feb. 2008, paper mail)
Medical College of Wisconsin: FoxTrot12 (12/14, email), iveshchmive (12/14 - email), SirTony76 (2/4 - email)
Mount Sinai: MSTPbound (11/26 - email), meowkat444 (11/28, email), Redoc (12/8, e-mail), Ziggy08 (12/8, email)
MUSC: rmwhitak (2/15, email)
Northwestern: pennquaker08 (1/10, e-mail), iveshchmive (3/3 - email)
NYU: Picklesali (11/12, email), Dodo23 (11/12, email), neuropenguin (1/25 email), dazlindz (1/25 email)
Ohio State University: solumanculver (3/10, phone call)
OHSU: AMPed (12/?, Call)
Penn State: chylo (11/20, snail mail), dwightshrute (2/12, snail)
Stanford: meowkat444 (1/24, snail)
Tufts: Kraz (2/11)
UC Irvine: meowkat444 (1/18, call), goldsonic99 (2/15, call)
UCLA: meowkat444 (3/16, email, Caltech 3/19), j-weezy (same), skillmatic (same), OncDoc19 (phone call from director 2/27), goldsonic99 (3/16, email)
UCSD: neuropenguin (3/5, call and e-mail), j-weezy (3/4, call and e-mail)
UCSF: richardlo (1/31, snail mail), Ariodant (2/26, call), solitude (3/14, call)
University of Alabama: Barbarossa (2/11), Mountain Cow (2/11, phone/email), violarocks (2/11, phone/email)
University of Cincinnati: magwi11 (1/15, email), darrenaronofsky (1/14, phone call)
University of Chicago: jlamacc1 (2/1, email)
University of Colorado: Mountain Cow (12/20, email), dendro (1/17, email)
University of Connecticut: GreenMudPhud(10/26, email), marctam86 (10/26, email), bioartist (10/26, email), clover86 (10/26, email), clarke789(2/5, email)
University of Iowa: iveshchmive (12/19 - email), dendro (2/13 e-mail) Crimson doc (02/13 e-mail).
University of Massachusetts: bioartist (11/16, email), bosoxmacka (3/12, snail mail)
University of Miami: Inuranic (Jan. 31st - email)
UMDNJ-RWJ/Rutgers/Princeton: chylo (12/4- phone call), Mountain Cow (1/10/08)
University of Michigan: solitude (10/31, email), j-weezy (11/14, email), revaldo29 (11/21, email); Kraazy (11/29, email); Picklesali (12/7, email), iveshchmive (3/12 - email), seraph524 (11/?, email)
University of Minnesota: magwi11 (3/7, email)
University of North Carolina: Kraazy (3/1, email), j-weezy (same)
University of Nebraska: dendro (1/26, snail-mail)
University of Pittsburgh: clover86 (10/19, snail mail), HypoxiaBoy (10/19, snail mail), Richardlo (10/19, snail mail), MSTPbound (11/15, phone call anticipating snail mail), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email stating letter was mailed on 11/30), pennquaker08 (12/19...by post, off waitlist), meowkat444 (12/22, snail off waitlist), goldsonic99 (12/26, snail mail), seraph524 (10/?, snail mail), WaltzingMatilda (email)
University of Rochester: meowkat444, 10/16, call from director, skillmatic 11/21, phone call, clover86 (11/21, phone call), richardlo (12/18, phone call), iveshchmive (11/28 - phone call)
USC+Caltech: Ariodant (2/28ish, snail mail)
University of South Carolina: violarocks (10/20ish, phone call)
UTSW: j-weezy (2/11/08 - call from director), Ariodant (2/11/08- call from director), Ziggy08 (same)
University of Washington: skillmatic (1/13, phone call!), jlamacc1 (1/14, phone); Kraazy (2/18)
University of Wisconsin: iveshchmive (2/22 - visit from director), OncDoc19 (2/29 - email)
Vanderbilt: j-weezy (10/17 - call from director), revaldo29 (11/30- call from director), HypoxiaBoy (11/30 - call from director), The Force (12/1 - call from director), seraph524 (10/?, call from director), WaltzingMatilda (sometime in December, call from director)
VCU: chylo (12/19, email from the director), AMPed (12/19, email from director), Inuranic (early January - email)
Wash U: revaldo29 (11/15 - phone call), solitude (same), notlikethat (express mail), Ziggy08 (12/18-email), Dodo23 (snail mail), jlamacc1 (1/10, email), iveshchmive (1/24 - phone call), seraph524 (11/15, phone call)
Wayne State: Kraz (sometime)
West Virginia University: Inuranic (3/1, email from director at 8 PM on a Saturday night)
Yale: bioartist (03/14/08, email), meowkat444 (3/14, email), seraph524 (3/14, email), Dodo23 (03/14/08, e-mail), solitude (same)
 
Got the phone call Tuesday, followed by the official letter by e-mail attachment on Wednesday. Now that MD-only acceptances have started to come in, I think it's finally ok for me to post here now.
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OK, honest question, was I supposed to hold off on posting? I haven't been here that much, so I might have missed out on some etiquette rule. If so, I apologize.

And congrats, Dodo!!! We may be classmates. I may decide on Harvard, or you may decide on Tri-I!
 
WaltzingMatilda said:
OK, honest question, was I supposed to hold off on posting? I haven't been here that much, so I might have missed out on some etiquette rule. If so, I apologize.

And congrats, Dodo!!! We may be classmates. I may decide on Harvard, or you may decide on Tri-I!
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Blacklow told me that pretty much all the decisions had been finalized when he was cleared to call us on Tuesday, so he wanted to avoid a deluge of phone calls by keeping that secret. I don't think that telling someone you got into the MD/PhD program, though, necessarily alerts everyone that ALL their admissions decisions have been made, so I didn't have a problem telling a few people early on. It's moot now anyway!
 
chirpingmobiles said:
Blacklow told me that pretty much all the decisions had been finalized when he was cleared to call us on Tuesday, so he wanted to avoid a deluge of phone calls by keeping that secret. I don't think that telling someone you got into the MD/PhD program, though, necessarily alerts everyone that ALL their admissions decisions have been made, so I didn't have a problem telling a few people early on. It's moot now anyway!
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Oh, sorry, he didn't tell me that. He just said that I would receive the letter in a few days.
 
WaltzingMatilda said:
OK, honest question, was I supposed to hold off on posting? I haven't been here that much, so I might have missed out on some etiquette rule. If so, I apologize.

And congrats, Dodo!!! We may be classmates. I may decide on Harvard, or you may decide on Tri-I!
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Please don't feel you have to apologize, WaltzingMatilda! Dr. Blacklow asked me not to tell anyone besides close friends and family until MD acceptances were out, so that (as chirpingmobiles said) they would not be inundated with phone calls. I merely wanted to honour his request, as he was kind enough to let us know early. No harm done at all. :)

And yes, I look forward to meeting you and chirpingmobiles at the revisits, and possibly being your classmate! See you all soon.
 
Dodo23 said:
Dr. Blacklow asked me not to tell anyone besides close friends and family until MD acceptances were out, so that (as chirpingmobiles said) they would not be inundated with phone calls.
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Ok, now I wonder if he did tell me and I didn't hear it because I was just too shocked and had a million things going through my mind. I don't remember it, but I don't know why he would tell everybody to keep a secret but me. So yeah, crap, I hope they weren't inundated with phone calls because of me. :eek:
 
WaltzingMatilda said:
Ok, now I wonder if he did tell me and I didn't hear it because I was just too shocked and had a million things going through my mind. I don't remember it, but I don't know why he would tell everybody to keep a secret but me. So yeah, crap, I hope they weren't inundated with phone calls because of me. :eek:
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I bet they were, and now they're typing up a "Withdrawal of Acceptance" letter...
 
Inuranic said:
I bet they were, and now they're typing up a "Withdrawal of Acceptance" letter...
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Oh, geeze, thanks?

Well, Harvard administrator, if you are reading this, I am sorry! I honestly didn't hear that part.
 
Hey, so, I have a random question. If a program says that their acceptance offer is valid through April 15, does this mean I have to either turn them down or turn everyone else down by that date? How could I commit by April 15, when I'm still hearing back from other programs about financial aid, etc?
 
Yea...for schools that have a required start date in the summer, then their deadline is April 15; schools that do not have a required start date is in May 15. Unfortunately, you are right about the deadline...however, I think it should be possible to ask for an extension?
 
to Boston University


AECOM: pennquaker08 (12/14, by post), MSTPbound (12/14, snailmail), ICMD (02/20, e-mail and snailmail)
Baylor: revaldo29 (MD offer 12/12, still waiting for MSTP), Ariodant (MD offer 12/14, MSTP 3/7), seraph524 (1/?, MD offer, MSTP second-round invite)
Boston University: bioartist (12/24, email), mcdavid65 (12/25, email), boombarash (2/29, e-mail, 3/5 mail)
Case Western: j-weezy (11/19 - phone call), picklesali (1/15 - email), iveshchmive (11/14 - phone call), Rfectea (2/25 - phone call)
Columbia: marctam86 (2/23), Dodo23 (2/25, snail mail), pennquaker08 (2/25, by post), goldsonic99 (2/25 snail mail)
Cornell Tri-I: Dodo23 (12/7 - e-mail to call office), neuropenguin (12/7 - e-mail to call office), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email to call office), WaltzingMatilda (same)
Dartmouth: Ariodant (1/04, mail)
Drexel: chylo (11/14, email)
Duke: Dodo23 (12/14 - phone call), meowkat444 (2/6/08-phone), Ziggy08 (same), seraph524 (3/?, phone)
Emory: revaldo29 (12/20- phone call)
Harvard: WaltzingMatilda (3/18 - phone call), Dodo23 (3/18/08 - phone call)
Johns Hopkins: Ziggy08 (2/11-mail); Kraazy (3/7 call)
Medical College of Georgia: solumanculver (12/13, regular mail) MCG 1986 (Feb. 2008, paper mail)
Medical College of Wisconsin: FoxTrot12 (12/14, email), iveshchmive (12/14 - email), SirTony76 (2/4 - email)
Mount Sinai: MSTPbound (11/26 - email), meowkat444 (11/28, email), Redoc (12/8, e-mail), Ziggy08 (12/8, email)
MUSC: rmwhitak (2/15, email)
Northwestern: pennquaker08 (1/10, e-mail), iveshchmive (3/3 - email)
NYU: Picklesali (11/12, email), Dodo23 (11/12, email), neuropenguin (1/25 email), dazlindz (1/25 email)
Ohio State University: solumanculver (3/10, phone call)
OHSU: AMPed (12/?, Call)
Penn State: chylo (11/20, snail mail), dwightshrute (2/12, snail)
Stanford: meowkat444 (1/24, snail)
Tufts: Kraz (2/11)
UC Irvine: meowkat444 (1/18, call), goldsonic99 (2/15, call)
UCLA: meowkat444 (3/16, email, Caltech 3/19), j-weezy (same), skillmatic (same), OncDoc19 (phone call from director 2/27), goldsonic99 (3/16, email)
UCSD: neuropenguin (3/5, call and e-mail), j-weezy (3/4, call and e-mail)
UCSF: richardlo (1/31, snail mail), Ariodant (2/26, call), solitude (3/14, call)
University of Alabama: Barbarossa (2/11), Mountain Cow (2/11, phone/email), violarocks (2/11, phone/email)
University of Cincinnati: magwi11 (1/15, email), darrenaronofsky (1/14, phone call)
University of Chicago: jlamacc1 (2/1, email)
University of Colorado: Mountain Cow (12/20, email), dendro (1/17, email)
University of Connecticut: GreenMudPhud(10/26, email), marctam86 (10/26, email), bioartist (10/26, email), clover86 (10/26, email), clarke789(2/5, email)
University of Iowa: iveshchmive (12/19 - email), dendro (2/13 e-mail) Crimson doc (02/13 e-mail).
University of Massachusetts: bioartist (11/16, email), bosoxmacka (3/12, snail mail)
University of Miami: Inuranic (Jan. 31st - email)
UMDNJ-RWJ/Rutgers/Princeton: chylo (12/4- phone call), Mountain Cow (1/10/08)
University of Michigan: solitude (10/31, email), j-weezy (11/14, email), revaldo29 (11/21, email); Kraazy (11/29, email); Picklesali (12/7, email), iveshchmive (3/12 - email), seraph524 (11/?, email)
University of Minnesota: magwi11 (3/7, email)
University of North Carolina: Kraazy (3/1, email), j-weezy (same)
University of Nebraska: dendro (1/26, snail-mail)
University of Pittsburgh: clover86 (10/19, snail mail), HypoxiaBoy (10/19, snail mail), Richardlo (10/19, snail mail), MSTPbound (11/15, phone call anticipating snail mail), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email stating letter was mailed on 11/30), pennquaker08 (12/19...by post, off waitlist), meowkat444 (12/22, snail off waitlist), goldsonic99 (12/26, snail mail), seraph524 (10/?, snail mail), WaltzingMatilda (email)
University of Rochester: meowkat444, 10/16, call from director, skillmatic 11/21, phone call, clover86 (11/21, phone call), richardlo (12/18, phone call), iveshchmive (11/28 - phone call)
USC+Caltech: Ariodant (2/28ish, snail mail)
University of South Carolina: violarocks (10/20ish, phone call)
UTSW: j-weezy (2/11/08 - call from director), Ariodant (2/11/08- call from director), Ziggy08 (same)
University of Washington: skillmatic (1/13, phone call!), jlamacc1 (1/14, phone); Kraazy (2/18)
University of Wisconsin: iveshchmive (2/22 - visit from director), OncDoc19 (2/29 - email)
Vanderbilt: j-weezy (10/17 - call from director), revaldo29 (11/30- call from director), HypoxiaBoy (11/30 - call from director), The Force (12/1 - call from director), seraph524 (10/?, call from director), WaltzingMatilda (sometime in December, call from director)
VCU: chylo (12/19, email from the director), AMPed (12/19, email from director), Inuranic (early January - email)
Wash U: revaldo29 (11/15 - phone call), solitude (same), notlikethat (express mail), Ziggy08 (12/18-email), Dodo23 (snail mail), jlamacc1 (1/10, email), iveshchmive (1/24 - phone call), seraph524 (11/15, phone call)
Wayne State: Kraz (sometime)
West Virginia University: Inuranic (3/1, email from director at 8 PM on a Saturday night)
Yale: bioartist (03/14/08, email), meowkat444 (3/14, email), seraph524 (3/14, email), Dodo23 (03/14/08, e-mail), solitude (same)
 
I know I am not the first, but I seem the be the first acceptee on SDN, adding University of Illinois - Chicago MSTP

AECOM: pennquaker08 (12/14, by post), MSTPbound (12/14, snailmail), ICMD (02/20, e-mail and snailmail)
Baylor: revaldo29 (MD offer 12/12, still waiting for MSTP), Ariodant (MD offer 12/14, MSTP 3/7), seraph524 (1/?, MD offer, MSTP second-round invite)
Boston University: bioartist (12/24, email), mcdavid65 (12/25, email), boombarash (2/29, e-mail, 3/5 mail)
Case Western: j-weezy (11/19 - phone call), picklesali (1/15 - email), iveshchmive (11/14 - phone call), Rfectea (2/25 - phone call)
Columbia: marctam86 (2/23), Dodo23 (2/25, snail mail), pennquaker08 (2/25, by post), goldsonic99 (2/25 snail mail)
Cornell Tri-I: Dodo23 (12/7 - e-mail to call office), neuropenguin (12/7 - e-mail to call office), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email to call office), WaltzingMatilda (same)
Dartmouth: Ariodant (1/04, mail)
Drexel: chylo (11/14, email)
Duke: Dodo23 (12/14 - phone call), meowkat444 (2/6/08-phone), Ziggy08 (same), seraph524 (3/?, phone)
Emory: revaldo29 (12/20- phone call)
Harvard: WaltzingMatilda (3/18 - phone call), Dodo23 (3/18/08 - phone call)
Johns Hopkins: Ziggy08 (2/11-mail); Kraazy (3/7 call)
Medical College of Georgia: solumanculver (12/13, regular mail) MCG 1986 (Feb. 2008, paper mail)
Medical College of Wisconsin: FoxTrot12 (12/14, email), iveshchmive (12/14 - email), SirTony76 (2/4 - email)
Mount Sinai: MSTPbound (11/26 - email), meowkat444 (11/28, email), Redoc (12/8, e-mail), Ziggy08 (12/8, email)
MUSC: rmwhitak (2/15, email)
Northwestern: pennquaker08 (1/10, e-mail), iveshchmive (3/3 - email)
NYU: Picklesali (11/12, email), Dodo23 (11/12, email), neuropenguin (1/25 email), dazlindz (1/25 email)
Ohio State University: solumanculver (3/10, phone call)
OHSU: AMPed (12/?, Call)
Penn State: chylo (11/20, snail mail), dwightshrute (2/12, snail)
Stanford: meowkat444 (1/24, snail)
Tufts: Kraz (2/11)
UC Irvine: meowkat444 (1/18, call), goldsonic99 (2/15, call)
UCLA: meowkat444 (3/16, email, Caltech 3/19), j-weezy (same), skillmatic (same), OncDoc19 (phone call from director 2/27), goldsonic99 (3/16, email)
UCSD: neuropenguin (3/5, call and e-mail), j-weezy (3/4, call and e-mail)
UCSF: richardlo (1/31, snail mail), Ariodant (2/26, call), solitude (3/14, call)
University of Alabama: Barbarossa (2/11), Mountain Cow (2/11, phone/email), violarocks (2/11, phone/email)
University of Cincinnati: magwi11 (1/15, email), darrenaronofsky (1/14, phone call)
University of Chicago: jlamacc1 (2/1, email)
University of Colorado: Mountain Cow (12/20, email), dendro (1/17, email)
University of Connecticut: GreenMudPhud(10/26, email), marctam86 (10/26, email), bioartist (10/26, email), clover86 (10/26, email), clarke789(2/5, email)
University of Illinois - Chicago: Bosoxmack (3/24, call from Roberta)
University of Iowa: iveshchmive (12/19 - email), dendro (2/13 e-mail) Crimson doc (02/13 e-mail).
University of Massachusetts: bioartist (11/16, email), bosoxmack (3/12, snail mail)
University of Miami: Inuranic (Jan. 31st - email)
UMDNJ-RWJ/Rutgers/Princeton: chylo (12/4- phone call), Mountain Cow (1/10/08)
University of Michigan: solitude (10/31, email), j-weezy (11/14, email), revaldo29 (11/21, email); Kraazy (11/29, email); Picklesali (12/7, email), iveshchmive (3/12 - email), seraph524 (11/?, email)
University of Minnesota: magwi11 (3/7, email)
University of North Carolina: Kraazy (3/1, email), j-weezy (same)
University of Nebraska: dendro (1/26, snail-mail)
University of Pittsburgh: clover86 (10/19, snail mail), HypoxiaBoy (10/19, snail mail), Richardlo (10/19, snail mail), MSTPbound (11/15, phone call anticipating snail mail), chickenlittle's SO (12/7, email stating letter was mailed on 11/30), pennquaker08 (12/19...by post, off waitlist), meowkat444 (12/22, snail off waitlist), goldsonic99 (12/26, snail mail), seraph524 (10/?, snail mail), WaltzingMatilda (email)
University of Rochester: meowkat444, 10/16, call from director, skillmatic 11/21, phone call, clover86 (11/21, phone call), richardlo (12/18, phone call), iveshchmive (11/28 - phone call)
USC+Caltech: Ariodant (2/28ish, snail mail)
University of South Carolina: violarocks (10/20ish, phone call)
UTSW: j-weezy (2/11/08 - call from director), Ariodant (2/11/08- call from director), Ziggy08 (same)
University of Washington: skillmatic (1/13, phone call!), jlamacc1 (1/14, phone); Kraazy (2/18)
University of Wisconsin: iveshchmive (2/22 - visit from director), OncDoc19 (2/29 - email)
Vanderbilt: j-weezy (10/17 - call from director), revaldo29 (11/30- call from director), HypoxiaBoy (11/30 - call from director), The Force (12/1 - call from director), seraph524 (10/?, call from director), WaltzingMatilda (sometime in December, call from director)
VCU: chylo (12/19, email from the director), AMPed (12/19, email from director), Inuranic (early January - email)
Wash U: revaldo29 (11/15 - phone call), solitude (same), notlikethat (express mail), Ziggy08 (12/18-email), Dodo23 (snail mail), jlamacc1 (1/10, email), iveshchmive (1/24 - phone call), seraph524 (11/15, phone call)
Wayne State: Kraz (sometime)
West Virginia University: Inuranic (3/1, email from director at 8 PM on a Saturday night)
Yale: bioartist (03/14/08, email), meowkat444 (3/14, email), seraph524 (3/14, email), Dodo23 (03/14/08, e-mail), solitude (same)
 
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