<p>Don’t get confused by the 5th year example. Many schools charge lesser amounts.</p>
<p>What is 5th year - I thought medical school is 4 years.</p>
<p>In terms of financial aid and loans, we’ll have to get involved since this doesn’t seem to be that trivial to navigate.</p>
<p>DocT- many medical school careers span more than 4 years. Some schools have a relatively high percentage of students spending 5 years. Usually the heavy research schools. Check out Stanford’s stats in that regard as an example.</p>
<p>My D plans on 5 years , as a minimum. Many of her schools (maybe all?) have her 5th year tuition-free. As she will be involved in research that year , she will also receive a stipend. Most students add the research year (her interest) after MS-2.</p>
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<p>My daughter had a number of US med students doing a one year masters in her department at Oxford at that point in their medical training.</p>
<p>Yale’s required research often means a fifth year but in the past that year has been tuition free</p>
<p>elleneast, oooohhh!! Very interesting. D is quite enamored with a lab there.</p>
<p>Be sure to plan for the fact that they don’t take credit cards and do not process your application until the check is mailed. Mail the check early.</p>
<p>AMCAS finally verified, that took a couple of weeks
TX still shows the payment outstanding, they do seem to run slower than AMCAS in terms of system updates, like transcripts sent the same day took many days longer to be input, but hopefully soon.</p>
<p>A little flurry of secondaries, but not rushing for 24 hours as the LOR packet had to be SNAIL MAILED. Had she realised that she would have sent them sooner.</p>
<p>Interestingly the prof for whom she waited has now shown up as received on TX system, not sure why he never gave it to her school packet, but whatever, as long as he submits it somewhere.</p>
<p>Hearing the details 2nd hand, I find the LOR process to be somewhat confusing between TX/AMCAS/Interfolio, evaluations, school committees, VA Tech online evaluation system, etc. It is difficult to be very efficient on it, the systems keep changing!</p>
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<p>there is absolutely no reason at all to rush sloppy secondaries out in 24 hours. take some time, put it aside and read it over later just to make sure you got the point across as long as you take no more than 2 weeks. unless of course the secondary has no essays then no reason not to submit right when you get it.</p>
<p>My data point has turned a couple with essays around in 48 hours but Chicago’s took a while. Soon after submitting Chicago…she got Duke. :eek: That thing looks awful. She knew it was coming (having printed off last year’s) but still to see it in all its aggressive awfulness <shudder>. </shudder></p>
<p>I think she is almost halfway through her list now. About 12 more to go and some of them are 2 weeks to a month away.</p>
<p>I agree with shraf. I see no reason why “within 2 weeks” is not plenty quick.</p>
<p>It is possible to be a resident of a state legally, but not for tuition. Because my DD was in university in one state when I moved to another state, even though she is a resident (DL, vote, car reg, etc) of the new state, because she has not lived here for 12 months, ever, she would not qualify on her own. Had she lived here and then left for university it would not be a problem.</p>
<p>She also would not qualify in her university state due to the DL, voting, etc in the new state.</p>
<p>She has to qualify in the new state via being my dependent and from reading SDN last year I learned the the Med School would ask for students to go through the residency office. I spoke to some one there last fall, made sure I understood the procedure and I have already submitted the forms.</p>
<p>Last year some kids were waiting 6-8 weeks for residency to be processed and that was in Aug & Sept when they should have been in line for interview consideration…completely negating the benefits of applying in June! :eek:</p>
<p>I would encourage any one who has had anything other than every one in the family spending 100% of their time in their home state to read the rules & forms of your state very early and make sure you cover your bases early and properly so your student has an in state school and has no crazy delays.</p>
<p>Yes. University of Michigan has a lot of ways to discount you even if you are in state technically.</p>
<p>Big day. Big doings. D got her first interview invite. Called me immediately. </p>
<p>:) doesn’t begin to explain her shrieks of glee.</p>
<p>35 whole seconds later she calls back after realizing she has her first med school interview in 3 weeks.</p>
<p>:eek: doesn’t begin to explain…</p>
<p>Congratulation! Getting an interview is a great achievement. If it is an in-state one, isn’t it a qualification for the match? (I did not mean to say that she will need to depend on the match. I firmly believe she would get a pre-match offer sooner or later.)</p>
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<p>Congrats to your daughter! Has she done a mock interview for practice yet? If not, I highly recommend it! See if her school’s pre-med advising office or career center will set one up for her.</p>
<p>She should also take a look at the feedback for that school’s interviews at studentdoctor.net. Get a sense of the questions that tend to come up again and again, and come up with great answers. Of course, be prepared for “Why this school?” and “Why medicine?”</p>
<p>Mock interview? Nope. But she will utilize every tool available to her and that sounds like a good one. She’s pretty good face to face. I’ve always felt if she can pass the “screens” she has a decent shot. She exudes …uhhh…“personality”. lol. If past interviews (scholarships and the like) are any clue , they’ll either love her or …not. But they’ll get to know her. She “brings it”. Every time. Sometimes that works, sometimes…not. 
(Edit: What I mean is, she’s not one to play it safe.)</p>
<p>Thanks, shades. I’m sure that her time after lab today will be spent checking those threads out. Of course, she has 3 secondaries due , too.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D, and you too.</p>
<p>Hope you are staying cool with the heat wave TX has been having! :(</p>
<p>Whatever do you mean? I live in Paradise…if Paradise somehow means Hellish heat, no rain, and no grass for the hungry herd. It’s going to be bad summer on the ranch.</p>
<p>Curm: I’m sure some members of the board, myself included, would be happy to set up a mock interview via whatever route she prefers: talk board, chat room, e-mail, or (most accurately) phone.</p>
<p>Ooooh. That’s an i-dee I wouldn’t have thought of. I’ll run it by her.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh, wait. She hates the phone. But I’ll still run it by her. Thanks, bdm.</p>