<p>Harvard HST requires extra math beyond 2 calc’s.</p>
<p>Keck is University of Southern California.</p>
<p>Hrm, I think I might have applied to one school (Weill) whose requirements I didn’t meet. Sadly, my other rejections cannot be blamed on this factor. I might not have had enough English for them.</p>
<p>Stanford recommends p-chem, but I can’t imagine they take that requirement very seriously.</p>
<p>lol, why is USC called keck? (I grew up in socal)</p>
<p>I’m betting Mr. or Ms. Keck was loaded AND generous to the med school. ;)</p>
<p>edit: Probably this dude. <a href=“http://www.wmkeck.org/programs/profiles.html[/url]”>http://www.wmkeck.org/programs/profiles.html</a></p>
<p>Jeez. There’s Keck science stuff everywhere. Impressive.</p>
<p>Hey, there have been more egregious “naming rights”. It’s better than the Poulan Weedeater School of Medicine. ;)</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, agreed. The worst is some friends who made it through Vandy’s screening to get an interview invite… only to find out they had no shot at clearing the English requirements.</p>
<p>Making my way through these secondaries slowly but surely. My letter packet wasn’t complete and received by AMCAS until this past week, so there was no reason to turn in anything early. Complete at Cornell, Penn, and Pitt. MUSC should be complete, although I haven’t been in their system long enough for it to be displayed. Wake Forest and Univ. of South Carolina have the final pieces in the mail. Sinai and UVA should be turned in today.</p>
<p>Duke? Let’s just say I’m going to take my time working through that one…</p>
<p>Only UNC, Vanderbilt (both screen), and Emory (won’t be live until end of August) left. I applied to 12 schools, I can only imagine the pain people who applied to 25-30 schools are going through.</p>
<p>Mine has 6 stacked up and still 5 more to come after that. 22 is starting to seem like too many. She’ll be home Sunday. She may want to consider some pruning herself. But I doubt it. Time to catch a second wind.</p>
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That is exactly what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>Y’all have Penn, Pitt, Emory, Duke, and UVa in common. She’s finished …uuhhhhhh…Pitt and UVa.</p>
<p>Hrm, it’s getting a little late, Curm. I know she’s not exactly a board fiend, but do try to give her a nudge. And tell her to put off Duke’s app and prioritize others for now.</p>
<p>bdm, it’s actually 6 stacked up and 4 she hasn’t received yet (according to mdapps anyway). Her oldest is Tulane 7/13, then Penn 7/15, Case and CCLCM 7/17, and then Keck 7/22. Well, not counting Duke 7/9. But Duke and Penn are non-rolling schools. She’ll probably finish Tulane Sunday. Penn won’t take long. Case and CCLCM are due by the end of the month. Keck’s pretty yucky. Duke is beyond belief. </p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t have an essay (or at least they didn’t last year). Emory won’t be out for a couple of weeks. Still waiting on Stanford and Northwestern, too.</p>
<p>Oh, haha – I misread your post #288 as meaning that she’s only done two. That would considerably put her behind the eight-ball. =) My misunderstanding.</p>
<p>:eek: No. You and I would be having a different conversation if that was the case. ;)</p>
<p>She hasn’t turned in Penn yet? It’s not much more than tweaking your AMCAS description of involvement for up to 3 activities. She’d be able to put it away after 20 minutes of work.</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance once again - why the rush on these applications? Its my understanding that most don’t have to be in for a while.</p>
<p>They don’t have to be in according to the official deadline, but without turning one in, you can’t get an interview offer. Without an interview spot, you can’t get an acceptance. There aren’t a ton of interview spots. Right now, those interview spots are dwindling away. That’s why you want to turn those secondaries ASAP.</p>
<p>1.) Many schools operate on a “rolling basis” – that is, they’re giving away spots progressively. So getting there late means you have tougher and tougher odds.</p>
<p>2.) Many schools are rumored to use turnaround time as a gauge of student interest. Some (Northwestern) are more sensitive about this than others (Duke).</p>
<p>3.) These are doctors you’re dealing with. When it comes to their expectations of others, “deadlines” are meaningless. Their expectation is that it’s ASAP or something is wrong with you.</p>
<p>From the un-official time-line I’m keeping based on studentdoctor.net threads, not that many schools are issuing interview invites…yet. But many, many schools are about to un-leash their first batch in the next two weeks if recent history can be a guide. Right now, the ones I know (I don’t follow all of them) that are giving out a substantial number of invites are: </p>
<p>Pitt
Michigan (although they all look like super high stats “auto-invites”)
Mayo
UTMB
UT-H
UTHSC-SA
Texas Tech
Texas Tech-EP</p>
<p>Again, I don’t watch all of them. I’ll go see if there are any others.</p>
<p>I remembered all the big # ones that were posted. Also one or three at :</p>
<p>Florida International
U of Rochester
U of Chicago
Suny Buffalo
U of Connecticut</p>
<p>Some rolling schools in the past have been known to “fill-up” a substantial portion of their class with offers before November 15th. Of course, that means they filled-up with students who interviewed PRIOR to November 15th. Late applicants are “really behind the 8-ball” at those schools.</p>
<p>At my D’s school they really, really push for early applications and responsive secondaries (nothing over two weeks at the latest). Historically, at her school at least, it makes a big difference even for a student with good stats. I’d say at all the Texas schools (including Baylor) app timing can make you or break you.</p>
<p>Right, but when the big batch of interview invites starts, you want to be ahead of the game a little bit, since you can’t possibly do secondaries quickly enough to keep up.</p>
<p>Agreed. You gotta be out front of that gnarly wave to catch it, bra. Mahalo. 
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