<p>I think it may be more that the UTSW kids are as intellectual without being as nerdy, if you know what I mean…also aside from the “gunners” that all schools have, there seems to really be a highly cooperative rather than competitive attitude among the students. It also depends on when she was there; if she was there after a big exam, many kids stay away…declaring school a "no fly zone’ for a day or two. With all lectures taped and broadcast attendance in many classes isn’t very heavy anyway.</p>
<p>on another note:</p>
<p>S tells us that his MS2 class is consistently scoring 10+ points higher on average than the previous three classes on all exams which seems to correlate with all the data that was out there a few years back about the national HS class of 2004 being among the most highly competitive of all time.</p>
<p>eadad: University of South Carolina, one of my state schools. I should hear from my other one, MUSC, in one week. The other schools I’ve interviewed at, Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt, won’t let me know until sometime in December.</p>
<p>Headed to UVa now. They actually have a really quick turnaround, so I think I’ll find out their decision next week.</p>
<p>Good luck with UVa, Steeler . The kid said it was pretty awesome. Why so long at Pitt? I figured 3-4 weeks from the interview. In fact , I think the kid said within a month of the interview. </p>
<p>Is prestigious undergrad university really important for Med school Apps?
I was just wondering the Ivies down to Columbia, and Duke have such high (85%+) med school accept rates.</p>
<p>DS interviewed at Pitt beginning of the month and was told that he would hear by Thanksgiving. Would that be 6 or 8 weeks??<br>
I am losing track too of when admission notices come. I think DS said that Pitt comes by snail mail.</p>
<p>I was just wondering… how important is research for med school admissions? I have like 3 coauthored medical papers im hoping I can put into good use and Im only a HS senior lol.</p>
<p>These medical papers are funded by and Published for NIH on their governemtn Medical publication site.</p>
<p>Research is valuable. Are your medical papers peer-reviewed? If not, they aren’t as valuable if they were for an essay contest or something. You can pm me a link if you like and I will take a peek.</p>
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<p>I think this interview process has finally caught up with DS. He is sick now and blew an interview because he was sick. Was feeling a bit sick when he flew to his interview and slept poorly. Felt awful the morning of the interview. Ended up 15 minutes late because of taxi problems and then felt so “foggy-headed” throughout the interview that he had a hard time concentrating and answering. He knew he was blowing it but he felt too sick to even care. (No, he does not have H1N1, just a really bad cold/bronchitis). He ended up leaving the interview early, catching a taxi to the airport and flew back to school early on a standby flight.
Then when he came back, he had two midterms and a very long research paper to hand in and ended up loosing more sleep with studying. I have been trying for 3 days now to talk him into going to the health center but his school work has been conflicting with appointment times. I hope he gets there today. </p>
<p>Not sure what is the best way to handle an interview when you are sick. It was too late to cancel it - he was there already and didn’t feel that sick when he left school. I don’t know if the admission committees take into account that you are ill and not stupid. Luckily DS has an admission offer already so he is not too upset about blowing this opportunity. It would be a different scenario if he didn’t have that guaranteed offer. I feel bad because this was a school he was interested in and it was also an in-state school, and therefore, cheaper. </p>
<p>Lesson from all of this? Take care of yourself. Pace your interviews. Don’t schedule too many in a row or during heavy midterm periods. Take a lighter school load so you don’t tax yourself too much. Eat well, get sleep, and listen to your mom when she tells you to get to health center</p>
<p>mom2boys, great and timely post. Mine didn’t have it quite that bad but she has been fighting something sinus-y for a month. This process can grind them down and I think that is coming through in this thread. Apart from the “commiserating” maybe we are doing some good.</p>
<p>Interesting, now that I recall, DD was quite sick with a nasty head cold when she interviewed her one early offer school and got a WL, not saying that is the reason, but it happened. DD is spacing her other interviews out so that she is not exhausted.</p>
<p>to mmmc: the papers are NIH published, im pretty sure other Ph.D/M.D are taking looks at it. One has also been displayed at the American Thorastic Society (ATS) meetings in San Francisco.</p>
<p>Just heard from my brother that my nephew got accepted to a medical school in NY. This is his second try, I’m so glad he finally received an acceptance.</p>
<p>Peer reviewed is not the same as being read by researchers. It means that it was essentially edited and approved by other researchers (in this case NIH probably) to be published in the affiliated journal or other means of distribution.</p>