<p>Hearty congratulations to you and your DD. Accomplishment for you both since you have been her tail wind!</p>
<p>Tailwind, taildragger. Some aviation term anyway. ;)</p>
<p>Curm: Guess second time’s the charm in this case. Huge congratulations to both your daughter and you … so much to be proud of. Thank you for sharing this ride with us; this thread will be quite helpful to next year’s applicants.</p>
<p>Is Yale an MD/PhD program?</p>
<p>Nope , but they offer a 5th year free tuition (and an official Masters program , too) and are very research-y (make it easy for the research-biased kids, maybe not so easy on the rest) . She could still try to opt into an MD/PhD after MS1 (somewhere) but she never applied to any this cycle. Keeping her options more open.</p>
<p>Yale is not a foregone conclusion, as least not that I’ve heard. D still has to hear from FA and she’s up for some serious merit scholarships at other schools that could provide us a repeat of the UG conundrum. (In fact, her dad may think we are already there as 1 of her favorite schools has already offered 4 years of half-tuition and says she might get full.) It’s just that she is waaaaay more willing to take on some personal debt this time around. UG? Not so much. Not with med school looming.</p>
<p>curm:</p>
<p>Since your daughter is lucky enough to have many choices, I’d strongly urge her to seriously consider the “character” of the student body. On her interview days, did she like the students she met? Did she think they were cool or interesting? Would she want them as classmates, friends, partners, or coworkers? If the answer to those questions is “no”, then I’d say that school wasn’t a match for her. Medical students spend a lot of time with each other, and if you don’t like or get along with your classmates, it’s going to be a miserable and expensive four years.</p>
<p>Curm, I’d say HOLY COW, but i think it’s more appropriately HOLY GOATS!!!</p>
<p>Eight schools, money, big names and great programs – what more could anyone ask? Mudge dun good.</p>
<p>Excellent post, shades. I’ll send it along. That’s exactly the kind of “stuff” I don’t want her to “forget” to consider.</p>
<p>Curm: I was under the impression that she had only applied to MD/PhD programs. Thanks for clarifying. So many great options!!!</p>
<p>tsk. tsk. That’s so 1 year ago, twinmom. That was the original original plan. This is the revised original plan v11.3. Can’t wait to see where it all ends up.</p>
<p>^^you mean revised^11</p>
<p>Hey, I’m having trouble keeping up with my own kid’s plans (not the pre-med kid) whose graduate school choices for next year have changed six times over the past two weeks!</p>
<p>FAFSA is required for all nine schools where I’m accepted or waitlisted. My two state schools have additional applications for scholarships. UVa has their own additional financial aid application. Emory is one of the 4-5 schools that uses Collegeboard’s PROFILE financial aid application (which asks everything you could possibly know about a family’s financial situation). Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Pitt, Cornell, and Mount Sinai use the NeedAccess application. A number of these schools want copies of signed tax returns / W2s mailed in.</p>
<p>What a hassle! So glad I’ll only have to focus on a single school’s needs next year.</p>
<p>Steeler: Do your parents have to input their info into all those finaid apps as well?</p>
<p>Yep. If you want anything other than fed loans.</p>
<p>And is there anything other than fed loans ever available?</p>
<p>Yep. So far I’ve seen merit scholarships , institutional grants, institutional loans, and institutionally-administered ( from a third party that go through the FA office) loans.</p>
<p>Okay. I will enjoy my one year off from FAFSA, Profile, etc. Maybe there is some rest for the weary!</p>
<p>A couple of random thoughts. </p>
<p>As this cycle is winding down (D has only one more opp for an interview and that candle is burning down fast, and is only staying on one wait-list) it hit me that connections meant absolutely nothing to my D’s results. </p>
<p>She had great connects at 2 highly thought of boutique-ish programs that on paper looked perfect for her, and were her among her top choices heading into the cycle. Her GPA/MCAT stats were well in range. Her career interests matched their missions. She felt the interviews went very well …and she was flat out rejected by both. lol </p>
<p>I’m talking personal acquaintances with high-ups at both institutions who think highly of her. Apparently, not as highly as she thought they did. ;)</p>
<p>In trying to decipher the outcomes, the only thing I’ve noticed is that the 2 schools in question appear from MSAR/USNews/sdn/mdapps to have a higher percentage of non-trads/higher average age. These are 2 schools where the tiny class size probably, and for good reason, produces the most “fit”-centric (to coin a phrase) admissions results.</p>
<p>So check on that when you are selecting your app schools. I’m not saying rule out those schools, just be aware and add it to your long list of factors.</p>
<p>Just returning from a spring break trip, looks like I missed some breaking news. Congratulations to D of Cur and all others who have gotten great news recently!</p>
<p>Cur, ever think that Med School admissions is not made for analytical types, that they just pick’em from a hat to mess with your mind??</p>
<p>Just back from out of town- BooYah Mudgie!!! Yeah, buddy, that’s our girl. Now let’s see what Yale does with the money this time!</p>
<p>I am so glad DD wanted UDub #1 and we don’t have the choices you have, Curm 
But I am sure having fun watching the the choices you are considering!</p>