<p>Whoo – nice work, somedaughter. =) And congrats to somemom, too. Well-played, all around.</p>
<p>Congrats to you and your D somemom, enjoy!</p>
<p>somemom, congrats to your D and you, a very supporting parent.</p>
<p>Four years in Seattle – it don’t get much better than that!</p>
<p>I am soooo pleased. I told you that she would get in this cycle. I told you. I told you. I told you. Heck, two days ago I sent you this
But dang. U-Dub in November? :eek: Even I dinna told you that. </p>
<p>O.K. Who’s next? We-are-on-a-roll. Boo-yah!!!</p>
<p>She deserved it. And what a great med school. Join me on the bench. I’ve been keeping your seat warm. ;)</p>
<p>And BTW, as you know, I agree with the honest way your D presented herself and agree it was the difference maker. Cookie-cutter , she wasn’t. And that’s a good thing. The “girl who stares at goats” and the “rugby champ” did real good, didn’t they?</p>
<p>Yeah, yeah, Curm, you done tole me so</p>
<p>But yeah, dang November for the UDub, amazing and exciting- I am especially thrilled about the interviews (travel costs and time off work) that can be canceled, saving the big bucks for tuition.</p>
<p>I will admit to envy for all ya’ll who had the opportunity for rolling admissions or TX match in Oct/Nov, we expected this to last until March or April. I do think it is really quite smart of the schools to admit kids early when they want them, because it does give one many months to develop an affection for that school. She’s honoured to be one of those chosen very early for her school of choice.</p>
<p>Any one else on the board here who has not heard good news yet? It sure felt like every one but D heard in October!</p>
<p>Heck, look up. ^^^^^^^^^I’m still editing my dang post. (I’m too excited.;))</p>
<p>Congratulations Somemom (and Somedaughter)! You both deserve it, and I’m sure that SD is going to love UW.</p>
<p>Somemom: Huge congrats to you and your daughter as well. I’ll be looking for your daughter on next year’s Gray’s Anatomy! (JK)</p>
<p>This may be a silly question, but is there an efficient way to withdraw, like via AMCAS? Or does one need to contact each school individually?</p>
<p>I’ve been to some of the status check websites at individual schools and there is usually a withdraw your app choice there. But an AMCAS (or TMDSAS) based one would sure be easier. D has a few to do also.</p>
<p>Curm- DD just got an interview invite from UTSouthwestern today!!</p>
<p>She has not begun the withdrawals yet.</p>
<p>No!!! Really??? That is TOO COOL. She ought to go to the interview. My D loves it. And most importantly , if things played out right, my kid would have a point guard for intramurals. 
BTW, my kid raves about the basketball gym(s). I think they have several to choose from. Indoor and outdoor. Priorities, right? lol That’s just like my kid, though, factoring in the athletic opps in her med school choices.</p>
<p>My D will withdraw from a couple OOS within the next few days. Then after acceptance packages are formally in from a few Texas schools she’ll review her positions there and withdraw from most (making room for others) while they can still pre-match. Then she’ll adopt a wait and see till probably the first of the year when she’ll most likely dump a couple more. It’s tempting to pull the trigger and just withdraw. Tempting but probably not that smart. So, unless she can absolutely say that there is no way , even with a scholarship, she’d attend <blank> over SW at full-pay, she’ll keep some on the list. </blank></p>
<p>We went through last night and did some what-if’s. 3 schools lost out completely, at the 100% no way level. A couple more are at the 90% level of no-way. No school (even the tip-top mega-reaches) made the “100% I’d turn down SW for an acceptance”. SW , in fact, is the only school that doesn’t have some negative going in. Whether it be Fargo-like winters, difficult travel, cost, housing…whatever. SW is hitting on all cylinders with her. It may take a blowtorch to cut her out of that herd. She’s real pleased. :)</p>
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<p>Congratulations on the acceptances. I was so happy to read that somemom’s daughter got in to UW and it’s wonderful that Curmudgeon’s daughter is so excited about SW. Totally awesome! Thank you to curmudgeon, somemom, steeler, and all the rest for sharing your experiences during this process. My son is two years away from applying, but it is very helpful to know how to prepare and what to expect. It’s wonderful that you all are willing to share your experiences. Thank you!</p>
<p>C3- the SDN mantra of apply early & apply broadly is the way to go. If your son can get his PS going early enough, do that TX app the 1st day you can (mid to late May) and AMCAS on June 1st.</p>
<p>Some people have asked me why DD “bothered” to apply to more than 30 schools when she got in early at UW, “shouldn’t she have known she would get in at UW no matter when?” AAHHH. They don’t get overcoming a 29.</p>
<p>DD also feels completing 30+ secondaries certainly helped her hone her thoughts on all sorts of issues very well so that she could interview well and having been to an expensive interview back east (expensive and difficult travel circumstances) was serious prep for the ones she cared most about, so we view it that it is all part of the process.</p>
<p>And whilst Curm is seeing a lot of numerically based interest in those tippy top private schools, DD has proven that UW is as holistic as they claim to be and their GPA calculation is something like 2x3rd year, 1.5x2nd year, 1x1st year, skewing for a strong trend. Not sure how that worked with 4 years of grades, but 3.9 senior year had to be helpful in that formula.</p>
<p>UW also makes a huge deal of being ready, lots and lots of shadowing, lots of clinical experience etc so you really know what this being a DR thing is all about. DD did that for herself, but I would bet many kids who begin premed and go through all the requirements don’t always pursue it with the same vigour. What I am trying to convey is that UW admitting DD early would mean that they actually do value what they say they value and that is nice to know when so many admissions things are so mysterious.</p>
<p>What future applicants can take from that is that they should really make an effort to research their favourite schools and make sure they have covered that schools apparent priorities.m</p>
<p>Just want to start by saying that I’m not going to post her MCATs. I will say that she’s not a top scorer, but is competitive</p>
<p>10 schools selected </p>
<p>All schools that screen before allowing secondaries allowed her to submit secondaries</p>
<p>She dropped two schools from her list and didn’t submit secondaries because she thought they were too much of a reach</p>
<p>Two rejections without interviews</p>
<p>Two interviews scheduled</p>
<p>Several of her classmates have received rejected without interview in two waves from one school (Georgetown), but she hasn’t been contacted by G’town</p>
<p>Two “random” schools sent her letters saying, “We think you have great MCATs and should apply to our MD-PhD program.”</p>
<p>And, (TA DA!!) one acceptance.</p>
<p>Just post what you are comfortable posting. </p>
<p>O.K. Started with 10, she dropped 2, 2 dropped her, that leaves 6 active apps. 2 interviews scheduled and , Yeah!, 1 acceptance. So…3 more to hear about interview invites and 2 interviews to go. And the important thing… she’s already accepted and it’s just November. Many, many congrats to your D. </p>
<p>BTW thanks for posting. The more stories detailing different approaches and outcomes the better.</p>
<p>LWMD, Congrats to your D. She must be quite confident in her credentials because she only applied to 10. I think most applicants tend to apply to much more schools as most of them are paranoid about the “random factor” of medical school admissions. But you only need one admittance so your D is all set and it can only get better from here.</p>
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<p>Are there many other medical schools which evaluate your GPA like this? </p>
<p>For undergraduate admission, I think some colleges do something like this. If my memory serves me well, I believe Stanford (as an undergraduate college) does not look at your freshman year grades in high school. I vaguely remember that somebody at SDN once complained that some UC medical school insists that he should go back and take freshmen biology class even though he has taken many many upper-division biology classes. I think UC medical schools are exceptions though.</p>
<p>(I think another reasons he got into this trouble is that he might have taken many upper-division biology classes while he was in a master program, not while he was an undergraduate student there. When you take the class may make a difference, as the medical school adcoms want to see how you perform academically – and socially – while you are taking many other non-science classes while you are taking pre-med classes.)</p>