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<p>I will try to find the results that I saw, but for the most part anything a point below the school’s LizzyM score was not very encouraging. </p>
<p>Personally, I think that Tufts will be “tough”. Everyone applying to Harvard and Boston U also applies to Tufts, especially if they are looking to stay in Boston. A great percentage of their M1 class comes from the ivies. Worth a try though!!</p>
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I agree with curmudgeon on this. Feel free to say you’ve had an interest in the university as an institution for a while now, but the specifics of the scholarship won’t add anything to that main point, so I’d leave it out.
The medical school is located on the outer edge of the main campus. The old building was firmly on campus, but the new building is still right across the street. It’s not farther away like the law and business schools.</p>
<p>By a good number, do you mean stats? GPA/MCAT? That will definitely help make up for disadvantages elsewhere in his application. However, depending on how little he’s done, it might not be enough.</p>
<p>To clarify though: I had some pretty good ECs, but my most significant involvement was in community service. As far as research went, I had relatively little compared to my peer applicants: two summer internships and my senior thesis, the latter’s timing not allowing me to write much about it on my applications. Not having much research to show schools, I feel UVa gave me the most leeway in that area of my application of any of the top 25 schools where I interviewed.</p>
<p>DS did Texas first (still not early :() and then did AMCAS. But it looks like AMCAS will be verified before TMDSAS. It is rumored that the tmdsas verification process is very slow because it is understaffed and its system is revamped and many texas schools have problems interfacing with their new system. It is definitely slower this year.</p>
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What is the difference between grownup stuff and college kid’s suff? Fewer books/notebooks? 
We did not help getting a bookshelf for DS, but we got him a really large desk, and some self-installed small shelves for kitchenware. Boy, he is more into cooking and exercising than doing his secondaries these days.</p>
<p>Steeler, Thanks for your input. By a good number, I meant stats. DS’s community service is weak but not totally missing. (Hey, he spent almost 3.5 hours the other evening for this but he thinks this does not count because it is not a long term commitment. He seems to have removed any activities that are less than 10-20 hours from his activity list in his primary.) Have some research but not stellar. DS definitely needs to apply to schools which could give him some leeway.</p>
<p>curm, suggestions for TX schools to check out? I only started with UT-SW because its numbers, prima facie, looked most promising. Haven’t looked any further into other schools (though I remember Galveston also had promising-looking numbers).</p>
<p>I could be wrong here, but I think many texas kids have higher GPAs but lower MCAT. Baylor has an easier time to have access to high MCAT kids because it is an AMCAS school. But UT-SW is on TMDSAS. As such, some OOS kids with high stats are especially valued by UT-SW because it needs their stats to beat the other top dog in Texas, Baylor, by boosting the school’s numbers on USN/MSAR next year. (Starting this year’s USN, UT-SW finally beat Baylor on USN for the first time, I think. It is not because I believe the ranking is important.)</p>
<p>One California kid reported posted on sdn that he had applied to UT-SW two times. The only difference for his second time is he retook and got a higher MCAT. He did not have time to beef up any other aspects of his application as he had been working full-time as an i-banker/consulting (way too busy.) He was from Berkeley and double-majored in molecular bio and HAAS/business(undergrad). He got in the second time.</p>
<p>Hi Kristin –</p>
<p>My recommendation is to take out OSU, add Tufts. Think about NYMS and Tulane, among others. How does the rest of USN look? Anything else catch your eye?</p>
<p>And you might as well go for the entire Texas spread. I still really don’t like OOS publics, but adding several of them in one fell swoop seems like a pretty good bang for your effort/buck.</p>
<p>I had omitted Wake because of the low admissions percentage, but I thought it might have improved since 2005. Apparently not.</p>
<p>Did anybody received packet from Wash U in St. L Med. School with invitation to apply and booklet about their program?</p>
<p>MiamiDAP, I received it a couple of weeks after my MCAT score was released. It must be part of their strategy to get kids to apply to the school.</p>
<p>IF you are stressing the arrival of the secondaries, you can check SD for that school.</p>
<p>Wash U is now doing for grad and professional schools what they did for undergrad.</p>
<p>Their use of mailings significantly increased their applications which also significantly improved their selectivity…raised their rankings a ton in USNWR…until they stopped using selectivity in the rankings…Wash U and others were gaming the system…looks like they are trying again for grad/professional schools…not to mention the added revenue from all the extra apps.</p>
<p>They are master marketers and people still keep sending in the apps despite their annual ridiculously long wait lists.</p>
<p>Is this the most recent USNR ranking?</p>
<p>[National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings)</p>
<p>If it is, then Wash U’s ranking has not really changed even after USNR changed their selectivity system. I remember a few years back they were around the same spot, when I applied during HS. I don’t there there is strong evidence indicating that they are “gaming” the system, or at least not uniquely more than other top schools.</p>
<p>I don’t know why Wash U uniquely attracts so much criticism for its marketing, other schools seem to act similarly. I got a fat packet from Duke and Princeton after I took the PSAT and scored high, applied to both, and didn’t get into either. From my experience, many schools seem to send a lot of packets, I keep getting a lot of emails from schools like UW medical college, UAB, etc. asking me to apply. It only makes sense for medical schools to want to woo top students.</p>
<p>Email from Med. Schools are norm., everybdoy just ignore them, unless they are on you list, then it makes one feel somewhat warm. Thank you for all reposnses.</p>
<p>Thanks for your thoughts again, Mike. Tufts for OSU is an easy swap–don’t have any attachment to either of them (yet). Right now it stands at:</p>
<p>Boston, Creighton, Drexel, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Loyola, Mayo, Mizzou, Northwestern, SLU, Tufts, UVA</p>
<p>I’d venture that Creighton, Drexel, Loyola, Mizzou, SLU, and Tufts would be matches (in terms of the numbers from earlier posts: good percentage interviewed, high percentage of interviewees accepted, fit within my MCAT and GPA ranges) and that Duke, Harvard, and Northwestern are definitely reaches. Seems like Boston, Georgetown, Mayo, and UVA could go either way.</p>
<p>I’m happy with this list. Is there anything else anyone would advise changing? Feedback is, like always, greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p>
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<p>Lol, they waitlist almost everyone for undergrad, I am just surprised they do the same for grad school as well.</p>
<p>The last one - from NW came yesterday and that is the only one for D. to do. What a relief! Good luck to everybody, do not forget to enjoy few last weeks of summer!</p>
<p>S received first outright rejection yesterday a whopping 9 days after returning secondary and money (VCU). Sad because DH and I are moving to VA within the next six months and yet can’t get the schools to read far enough into the application to consider him in state. It is what it is. It came as quite a shock to him although on my master spreadsheet I thought the odds were very slim to start with. I guess the 9 days is better than the Mayo rejection turnaround.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear, he will get in somewhere. I asked D. if she is phyched up for rejections, she said, it is OK. She was fine applying to UG, when she did not get into few programs, including her #1 choice. I hope she will be as cool as she was at 17.
Did it come in email?</p>
<p>Kristin – any chance I can get you to swap out Mayo and UVa? Maybe for something like Tulane and NYMS?</p>
<p>mmmmm you’d have to make some pretty big cases for those swaps–I don’t like Tulane primarily for its location in a historically disaster-prone area (which might be unfair, but nonetheless seems to be true) nor do I want to be in New York. Plus I figure I’ll never have another shot to try for somewhere like Mayo, and UVA’s always been a dream school of mine! But I’m up for some persuasion, if you have some. If not, I’m probably gonna stick with this group. (You were right–lots of shuffling!)</p>
<p>Edit: I know you’ve made strong cases for going to places you’re not initially interested in earlier on in this post. I figure I’m going a little outside my comfort zone by applying to some of the schools I’m applying to (in terms of location) and just am not interested in either of those places! Lo siento :)</p>
<p>I really like Tulane and (wait for it…;)) a full set of Texas apps for kristin. I especially like UTMB (Galveston) and UTHSC-SA for you. I think you’d be a good fit and I really like the schools. Galveston has a great curriculum, “chill” student body and SA is in a decent area of a very fun town.</p>