<p>Most certainly. ;)</p>
<p>Can we get some further clarification on the LizzyM score and how to interpret its significance at various schools?</p>
<p>Since we cannot post links, go to the SDN forum and search for LizzieM and pick the school selection spreadsheet thread. Some kids with way more energy than I have put together a spreadsheet for the LizzieM #s and how they seem to work at various schools, some schools are much more numbers driven than others.</p>
<p>A scholarship! That’s big time. Congrats to her!</p>
<p>Basically, I have a lot of waiting ahead of me. My Duke interview isn’t until February. I could hear from Emory and Vanderbilt next week, my two favorite schools so far, so I’m just a tad nervous about that. Sinai will probably send out decisions in late December. Pitt begins its crazy waitlist movement in March. Duke and Cornell hold their decisions until mid-March. Scholarship decisions at my state schools (full tuition or full cost of attendance) are done in January and April.</p>
<p>Deferred at Penn. Silence from UNC and Wake Forest. The first two are expected (former just had an easy secondary, latter was somewhere I strongly considered for undergrad) but I’m a little surprised with WF.</p>
<p>No worries. Until further news, MUSC and UVa <3!</p>
<p>Another interview invite received today, that is the 3rd from schools in the DC/VA area. Nine to date</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, somemom. I still think the die is cast. I really can’t imagine a school unseating U-Dub. It is a remarkable school. </p>
<p>Steeler, congrats on even filling out the Duke and Emory secondaries. My D punted them both. Fear about the former and laziness for the latter. 
Thanks for the detail on your app progress , too. Good luck on Emory and Vandy next week. </p>
<p>D got into Baylor this afternoon!!! That’s pretty early for Baylor acceptances so she’s pretty pleased with herself. Let’s hear it for IS Top 20 love!!!</p>
<p>That is great Cur. Baylor! Scholarships! Just wow. </p>
<p>Steeler, you must be happy with both of your admissions. You got invites at some great schools. It is still early and who knows what else will come your way. </p>
<p>Somemom- that is good to hear that invites are still coming out. DS hasn’t had any invites lately and he is surprised that he hasn’t heard anything at all from a couple schools. </p>
<p>He did get a post secondary rejection the other day from one school. That one shocked me since he seemed to be just the right fit for there. He also got an interview deferral from another school but that was not surprising… Next week are two more interviews and then he has one more just before Christmas. He is hoping to hear back from 2 more schools about their decisions during Christmas break. </p>
<p>I am glad to hear that Pitt starts moving on their waitlist in March. Are you sure about that? I thought I had read on SDN that there wouldn’t be any movement until May. Maybe I read it wrong.</p>
<p>Awesome, Curm, I am not surprised, but it is nice, really really nice, to get early love. DD feels like Sally Field, “You like me, you really like me” with UDub, since they have only let 5-10 people in at all</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m really happy with MUSC and UVa. It’s so nice to get in early, just for peace of mind, as senior year became a lot easier once those letters came in. MUSC - I love Charleston and the school is 5 minutes away from the beach. UVa - Charlottesville was amazing and their brand new curriculum / building is shiny shiny shiny.</p>
<p>I also read the SDN post that Pitt’s admissions office said the waitlist would begin moving in May. If I had to bet, though, I’d say they’re avoiding committing to anything. Most people on SDN seem to think this is a new strategy for Pitt, but I don’t see how it’s any different from what they did last year.</p>
<p>Story time: For the class entering in Fall 2008, Pitt ended up over-enrolling by a few spots. Oops. I’m not sure how it happened, but it did - I believe they persuaded some people to defer a year (by offering some nice scholarship packages) to get their class down to the proper size.</p>
<p>Thus, last year they played it really cautious. Whereas before they handed out a significant amount of acceptances as the year went on, they made a small number of offers, rejected some people, and then created a large waitlist. It’s exactly what they’re doing this year, except now they explicitly state what they’re doing in waitlist letters - if you take a look at last year’s Pitt thread, people were extremely confused by the high number of waitlists. Beginning in March, a lot of waitlisted people were accepted. Some even got scholarships! I don’t see why they would handle it differently this year, although I can understand them not committing to an early date. Better to be early than late!</p>
<p>Congrats on Baylor! A friend from school is a first year there and loves it. With schools like Baylor and UTSW offering so many opportunities at such low prices, is there something about schools like Pitt or UVa that appeals to her to postpone withdrawing? Specific research interests, perhaps?</p>
<p>I really don’t know that answer, steeler. I know she loved Charlottesville and her PI went there but that’s probably not gonna be enough. Pitt has that PSTP that appeals to her a great deal and it’s a fine, fine school with a great hospital system. I’ll have some time with her when I pick her up at the aeropuerto manana . I’ll start the grilling then. ;)</p>
<p>Edit: but her mom will be the one pushing hard for the “home” schools. You can count on that cause it’s gonna happen.</p>
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<p>Congrats again to the mudgette on the BCM acceptance. Y’all are going to have a really nice Thanksgiving this year…:)</p>
<p>Congrats again, mudge. Job well done! Now she has all these wonderful choices. to sort out.</p>
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<p>Somewhat not related to this: I heard that when a young couple get married, the families of both bride and groom really push hard for their respective “home” states. — It is usually the bride’s side wins. Some people said this may be a “downside” of sending a child to an OOS college :-)</p>
<p>Well, anybody got any updates? Steeler? </p>
<p>I got virtually nothing. Same old, same old. </p>
<p>I think D is getting closer to pulling the plug on schools that haven’t offered invites. She’s the type to start thinking about what life would be like at schools she’s been accepted to and that includes where she’d live, costs, expected FA, transportation needs, as well as curriculum , research opps, time off, well…about a billion things. For her , she’d like to get it down to 3-4 possibles as soon as she can and start spending some time investigating those in great detail. She’s had offers from some current students at Baylor and UT-SW to show her around the areas informally over Christmas and she plans to do that. </p>
<p>After Christmas I’m betting she’ll round-can all schools (including the big boys) where she hasn’t received interview invites. I think she’s decided pre-interview update letters won’t do her much good as nothing earth-shattering has happened to her and some were such big reaches no skin is lost by withdrawing early and beating the silent rejections. She’s already dropped 3 acceptances and 5 others. </p>
<p>A couple of wait-list schools are hanging by a thread. Every time acceptances come through and she’s not among them they drop a little further. I think her theory is that “They may be on to something. Maybe I’m not such a good fit for them.” I guess I’m not that convincing when I state that med school’s use of waitlists is just different than UG schools. I’ll suggest again the use of updates in the waitlist arena as my readings of sdn suggest a much higher efficacy. But still, she just doesn’t have anything more persuasive than what is already there under review. </p>
<p>She spends time on the web searching for cat-friendly apts where she wouldn’t need a roomie at her 3 currently active acceptances. Our conversations have turned to what kind of vehicle makes sense at what school, what can she take from home if the apt is unfurnished, things like that. </p>
<p>Sounds to me like she’s moving on to the next stage. Probably not a bad thing.</p>
<p>Your DD is farther along in the process than my DS. He had 2 more interviews the past couple weeks and has another one next week. That should be the last interview. There are still a few schools that haven’t invited him for an interview or haven’t rejected him yet and he is not quite sure what he is going to do about them. He is hoping to hear about admission offers from a few schools this month. I think once those offers/non-offers come through, then he can start narrowing down his options. For now he is still in limbo.</p>
<p>Curm, a december update letter that was mostly me telling the school why I liked them got me a last minute interview at one of the four schools I wrote. It might be worth it unless your D doesn’t want the emotional turmoil.</p>
<p>Good to know. No earth-shattering updates? Just why I fit? BTW, no turmoil. She wants the interviews.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s it.</p>
<p>DS just got invited to an accepted students’ luncheon to his med school of choice on Jan 8th. It’s so exciting! I am more excited than him. He is his cool self but I am thinking “Hey! This could be the place where he meets his future mate!”</p>
<p>Any of you parents on line thinking along the same lines?</p>
<p>Pharmagal, Congrats to your S.</p>
<p>My child has not reached the milestone as your S has, but I sometimes secretly hope that he could meet his future mate in college. He once complained that he did not have time for that.</p>
<p>While it does happen, according to my son most of his med school classmates see it (serious BF/GF) as more of a liability since they don’t want to be put in a position to have their residency matches based on/limited to where their girlfriend/boyfriend may end up. </p>
<p>FWIW, more mates are found during residency than med school from what I have heard from conversations with him and his friends.</p>