<p>Still the same here, 3 interviews scheduled, still finishing secondaries and even still receiving some.</p>
<p>Remember, since DD is in a state with a tough school and has average stats, she applied to more than 30 schools, so the secondaries have been a daily event all summer.</p>
<p>It is interesting how some are pretty quickly done and others throw in a question that puts them repeatedly at the bottom of the list and before you realise it that one is 4 weeks old.</p>
<p>Also, she has had some schools where she did not receive the email and only found out a non-screened secondary was available via SDN forums.</p>
<p>DD has not had many denials- 2 OOS places were immediate and she probably should not even have applied there, that was my fault on the research. And 2 of her uber reaches said no thanks, but other than that she is getting tons of screened secondaries and is at least being put on the middle of the pack lists for potential interviews.</p>
<p>Once again, it is intriguing how randomly the schools offering interviews made it on her list. With the back east schools the method after the 1st 20 was just here’s NY-pick 2, here’s PA-pick 2, etc. The other 2 interviews are from a state school which formerly did not allow OOS and just changed the rule and it is a state to which we have seriously strong ties</p>
<p>"If students are new residents of Washington, our policy for reviewing residency for applicants to the School of Medicine is this:</p>
<p>If students have met Washington State residency criteria for 6 full months prior to the application to the School of Medicine, and there is sufficient documentation to suggest that they will continue to meet residency criteria up to the time they enroll at the University of Washington, we can consider them to be residents for admission purposes to the School of Medicine."</p>
<p>Is anyone familiar with this 6 mo vs. 12 mo difference in establishing residency for Med school, either for WA specifically, or for Med schools in general? It’s still a long period of time since you have to establish residency at the time of application, but it might make changing states more doable.</p>
<p>UW has a really nice residency person, Dana, you can call and ask her questions. I think the important issue for the applicants is being able to qualify as a resident in a different state than the one in which they grew up or attended university, even if they are really moving there, as one must spend time in that state as part of the residency requirement.</p>
<p>So, if you are in college in AZ and were born in CO and want to move to WA, you will be applying before you can become a WA resident, unless the student is a dependent of a parent who is a resident of the new state</p>
<p>I received an email from UVA today asking me to confirm the receipt of an interview invitation sent more than a month ago, for an interview scheduled a little over a week from now. Never got the invite email. I called them to sort it out and they were really friendly, letting me reschedule and resending the interview information.</p>
<p>Lesson learned: time to switch from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail.</p>
<p>^ Nice of them to remind you - Most schools would consider a lack of response equivalent to withdrawing your application and wouldn’t give it a second thought haha…</p>
<p>Steeler, that is :eek:. Just awful. Glad someone thought to email you again. My D was at UVa today. Loved it. Really felt good about the school and the students. I hope that last year’s OOS “acceptance after interview” percentages hold steady. Based on her comments this one could be a contender if she’s lucky enough to get in.</p>
<p>Thanks somemom, she’s taking a gap year for sure, and it may turn to 2 depending on how things go, which could give time for establishing residency, particularly if it’s 6 mos rather than 12. She’s planning on working with underserved populations, so there’s a tiny OOS admissions window, but less that 5%, which does not afford much comfort. Unfortunately we’re in one of the few western states that isn’t WWAMI and our only in-state Med school is one of the most expensive Publics in the country. Maybe I should think about moving?!?</p>
<p>Well, well. It appears today is the day lots of this year’s applicants hit the wall. Check out the Class of 2014 thread over on sdn. My kid isn’t there posting, but she dang sure could be. </p>
<p>To all of you in the queue, listen closely- plan your schedules so that you have time to interview without requiring weekly heroic efforts. Mine has had to completely re-arrange her schedule today with the help of incredibly generous administrators and professors. She just about hoisted herself on her own petard. Her story is similar to what is being discussed over there. One of her classes, a very difficult class, has met 5 times. She’s missed 3 of them, one of which was a quiz. 6:00 a.m flights across the country and arriving back at campus at midnight exhausted will get old. Quick. Having to then face a class where you have zippo idea whatthehell they are talking about? Well…that’s not my idea of a good time.</p>
<p>I don’t care who you are or how smart you are, give yourself a schedule where you have a least a shot to keep up. It is a guaranteed tough semester…don’t make it harder by ignoring the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day. At least on this planet. Jeebus.</p>
<p>What Curm said! And imagine if you had a mediocre MCAT or GPA and had to reapply, but the interviews provided a lower than hoped for senior GPA. DD is extremely relieved she is doing this during a gap year. Her lab researcher is very flexible and willing for her to be gone as long as she makes up the time, she is not even being docked pay, yet will have been gone for 3 long weekends in Sept, which ends up being several days of missed work.</p>
<p>A Thursday interview means travel Wed & Thurs & Fri, imagine missing ochem or MV calc or some other critical class. I guess ochem would be done since one would have taken the MCAT, but whatever is missed will be tough to make up, and exhausting!</p>
<p>I guess if I am understanding correctly that it would be very advantageous to schedule an easy 1st semester senior year, assuming you are applying the summer before? That could be such a great tip for those who have not yet got there, thanks!</p>
<p>Curm’s post points out another reason to apply early (June or May for TX) and get your secondaries done ASAP. It takes time for them to be complete, some schools do not download the LORs until you have submitted the secondary and some schools take weeks to mark you complete and whilst some schools email a completion notification, many require you to check status on a website which means you must keep track of the various site, logins, passwords, and fight with the other 40,000 people overloading the server. It is time consuming, get all that done before returning for senior year! I think in TX one might even get some interviews out of the way before heading back to school!</p>
<p>GA2012MOM, I am almost to the point I’d say a gap year application is a sweet idea (if the gap year is otherwise productive and flexible). At the very least, a senior schedule with no Friday classes (for example) or just an overall light schedule would be wise. Another tip, don’t just start clicking “Yes, I will attend.” (or whatever the process is) ten seconds after getting the interview invite. Get your monthly calendar out (if any of you still have those ancient things), your course schedules and syllabi, and do a little planning. Sheesh. Without it it’s click , click, click and all the sudden you look up and see that you have guaranteed yourself a world of woe. </p>
<p>I get that y’all are excited but…calm the heck down. </p>
<p>I know it sounds like I’m being critical of my D’s approach (and the approach of similarly situated sdn students) to this part of the process but if you dig deeper you’ll see that I’m being HIGHLY critical of my D’s approach (and the approach of similarly situated sdn students) to this part of the process. Med school, residencies, fellowships…y’all have lots of wonderful, scary, physically and mentally taxing opportunities somewhat like this app process coming up. Let a crotchety old man tell you a “truth” - exuberance will not get you through. Use that big ol’ brain God gave you for something other than a hat rack.</p>
<p>I know you’re smart. I know you’re diligent. I know you have energy to burn. You wouldn’t get to this stage if you didn’t have those qualities. But you have to be able to forecast the weather, too (so to speak). Identify when the storms are coming, because they are coming. If you don’t like that one, try this…there are pinch zones out there that will squash you like a grape. </p>
<p>My kid was (sort of) pro-active. She went to all her prof’s. Gave them interview dates, made plans to take scheduled quizzes/tests early/late etc. but she left out one thing…when the heck do you learn the material? To interview properly (in her opinion and mine) you research the crap out of the school, previous interview questions, your interviewers (if given the info). The time spent traveling and in the hotel is spent on the task at hand (or else why bother going?) . That leaves the travel time back to try to catch up. </p>
<p>I’m only taking 3 classes this semester (senior thesis puts me at fulltime). Senior year total I’m taking 7 actual classes (I took 6 each semester last year).</p>
<p>…um, yeah, I planned ahead well. I can go with that reasoning. :D</p>
<p>Curm: Yep, I, too, am highly critical of my DDs process, but hey if we don’t nag them, who will. They may not do everything we suggest, but if they do anything it is a help!</p>
<p>Heck, if not for my research, I don’t think my DD would even have known to apply early, she could have been suckered in to going by the stated due dates! As it is, it annoys the heck out of me how slowly it has gone in terms of returning the secondaries (4 left, though in fairness they come out at different times, it’s not like she has had them since June or anything, but not a lot of 48 hour turn around!)</p>
<p>That is one of the reasons (among others) that my daughter decided to take a gap year. I’m feeling pretty good about that right now, though I’m sure that the gap year will likely yield a different set of difficult situations.</p>
Med school, residencies, fellowships…y’all have lots of wonderful, scary, physically and mentally taxing opportunities somewhat like this app process coming up. Let a crotchety old man tell you a “truth” - exuberance will not get you through. Use that big ol’ brain God gave you for something other than a hat rack.</p>