<p>Add my congrats to everyone else’s. Wonderful, wonderful news!</p>
<p>Somemom is right–don’t stress if you haven’t heard. There’s plenty of time left. (Our state med school has even BEGUN interviewing yet. Acceptances–except for MD/PhD–aren’t announced until March 15.)</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the new Med students, well done!</p>
<p>Got the call yesterday from two of my top picks. If I can do it anyone can!</p>
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<p>Just like somemom said!!</p>
<p>I remember that around this time last year, I started to become very very anxious! I did not apply to any of the schools that released admissions by October 15th so I was still waiting. However, by late november I was thrilled with the great news I was getting. </p>
<p>Congrats to those of you who have some news! and to the rest …be patient because your time will come soon!</p>
<p>Thanks MyOp,
My son is at his first interview as I write and I still have butterflies since he left. It’s going be a long ride. So happy for all those hearing early decisions!<br>
Thanks for the encouragement~
CCL</p>
<p>Guys, chill! The only thing I was worrying when D. was going to interviews was her driving in a snow. She missed one major snowstorm trailing her literally by very few hours and we learned about it while being on vacation in Mexico becasue many at our resort were from the city D. had interview. Other than that, it is not life/death situation, please, stay cool!!!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone 
It does feel good to know I’ll be going somewhere next year. Now to get this exam week over with!</p>
<p>Congrats to all for the acceptances. You can all take a deep breath now…</p>
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<p>I think it’s okay to be excited (butterflies)…at least that’s how I feel. Pretty exciting stuff in our house. Nice seeing years of hard work paying off. Congrats again to the newly accepted~ :)</p>
<p>Congrats to those that got a thumbs-up! </p>
<p>To those that haven’t - Years ago I was standing in line at the Apple store and behind me there was a guy dressed in scrubs and giving off a high energy vibe. He wasn’t being pushy but I wondered if he had to get back to the hospital so I asked if he wanted to switch places with me. Well, you let someone jump ahead of you at the Apple store and you are friends for life. There were still a few people to go before he would be waited on so we chatted. He was in his late 20’s and was an M1 at Jefferson. He had not heard until a few weeks before classes began. It was his only MD acceptance. His wife left her job to come with him and they had scrambled to find a place to live at the last minute. He was pumped. He told me all this because I had mentioned that my young daughter was already talking about possibly becoming a doctor.</p>
<p>I am sure it is rare but an acceptance seemingly can happen that late in an application cycle. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Congrats to you all. Enjoy the moments with the kids. Celebrate as you deem now, then next year, chill as you please when you are no longer in this Med School Acceptance moment. </p>
<p>Sure, there will be different phases ahead for even more celebration! You all should be proud, students and parents.</p>
<p>First, congratulations to everyone on the new acceptances! You’re in for quite a ride.</p>
<p>Second, hope you’re soaking in the celebrations–I’m sure you’ve earned them.</p>
<p>Third, just to echo other posters, try not to be discouraged if you haven’t heard yet. Not all schools notify in mid-October (mine, for example, notifies a few mid-Nov, a few mid-Dec, some mid-Feb, most in mid-March, and then throughout the summer), so as long as you haven’t been rejected…there’s still plenty of time to be accepted! Good luck with those interviews!</p>
<p>Well, even more good news!! Congrats to all.</p>
<p>My D’s friend is getting nervous about her lack of interview invites. She’s only had one (loved it) and she’s “competitive” for the schools on her list. Texas schools move faster than AMCAS schools so…interview season is done by 12/9 at one school, 1/6 at another. I’m telling her to get an update letter ready for her Texas schools that accept such things pre-interview. Not my kid…but I’m invested. lol</p>
<p>Too early to be nervous about AMCAS schools.</p>
<p>My D and her med. school firends are very nervious about their exams, much much more than she ever was about MCAT. I told her to chill and stay away from those who freak out, but it is easier said than done. I wonder how is it at Kristin’s med.school and your D’s, curm.</p>
<p>Well, D1 passed Human Structure and Function–aka anatomy-- last week. (Only 50% of her class did so. The rest are retaking their exam and a few will be re-taking the class in the summer.) </p>
<p>She managed to put a knife all the way thru her hand (pitting an avocado) and got to spend her first free afternoon in a very long time in the ER waiting to get stitched up, then went snowboarding for the weekend. (Ah! Life in the Rockies! It’s 78 here in town, but there’s 4 feet of fresh powder less than 5 hours away.) She’s now back hard at work learning Genetics and Neoplasms. (That unit ends the day before Thanksgiving.)</p>
<p>D1 said the study groups are coalescing nicely and she has a solid group of “study buddies.”</p>
<p>Miami, I don’t hear a lot about tests. When they released some grade grids at her school last year she told me about those but that’s really it. Not a thing this year. I think it’s a function of her school’s unique “system” of anonymous “tests” and P/F “qualifiers”. Like your kid, mine is a self-starter and is going to stay on top of her work daily whether it is graded or not. </p>
<p>I think the only stressors in a UG sense are the “qualifiers” to move on to the next class and she usually blows by those minimum requirements without a lot of whining or griping. To be blunt, she’s in a “system” where I would fail miserably. I am a stress junkie and work best under the gun. </p>
<p>She has far more free time than I would have ever imagined. They went to a Sara Bareilles (sp?)/Sugarland concert last weekend at the Mohegan Sun Casino and she’s jetting back to her UG this weekend for Homecoming with all her UG chums. She TA’s histology, is a well-paid caregiver for some kids with “challenges” (that pays for all these “extras”), does cancer research during term time, and plays intramurals. I am amazed. I have to assume she’s sleeping. At least some.</p>
<p>I know that Step 1 and MS3 are looming out there. As a worrier, I keep waiting for her to hit the wall. My current bet is Step 1. That looks like a bear.</p>
<p>I did not hear much about tests from DS either, other than the fact that it seems he has completed the first round of tests (like 4 tests?) and he was “doing fine.” Also, I heard he has been doing some volunteering “work” regularly but I do not know what it is and how much time he devotes to this activity.</p>
<p>We also do not know how busy he is as an MS1. We called him usually during one evening in the weekend - a ritual we have had since his UG days. At one time (only one time though), when we called him, he told us he was studying in the library and would call us back later. Studying at 10:00 pm Saturday night? Never heard of this while he was an UG. We would be more pleasantly surprised if he was out somewhere dating at that time. (When would this happen? Or, more correctly speaking, when would he starts to tell us about this?)</p>
<p>At my DDs school, they have multiple sites and each exam has both system wide and class questions, you must pass both sections with at least 70% or retake. DD tutored a few friends on retakes and what I recall most of all is that her friends were really stressing the studying in the first term and she was not. Why? Because she has a diagnosed LD and even when the info was easy, studying was hard, so all through HS & university, when the smart kids are finally hitting their wall, when they have to study for real for the first time, DD already knew how to study best for herself.</p>
<p>If your kid is a smart kid, things have likely always come easy to them, in general. It is scary the first time you really have to work at things and it is tough to learn what is your best studying method. DD had friends walking around with flashcards, reading at all meals, just obsessing, because they did not know yet what would work for them. In each case, no one was too dumb to learn the material, they just needed to work out their best study method, often for the first time ever under the gun of first term med school- no stress!</p>
<p>If your kid is stressed, just remind them that they are smart enough to do the work, and to focus on finding a study method and style that results in success for them.</p>
<p>wowm,
What a coinsidence, my D. was very sick, 2 very long trips to ER, many bags of IV liquids and me spending couple days with her (she missed 2 days of school). She had 3 unrelated conditions, one making another worse, she could not roll in her bed at some point, could not move at all, but at least it was not during exam week.
D’s. school is also p/f. I am singing her “you will NOT fail” every time she calls. She never was like that in UG or when she took MCAT. She has time to visit us, her UG, do EC’s, her b-day scelebration lasted for few days. Exams are next week, I am praying for her to calm down, I do not worry about exams, I wish she did not either, I am not used to that. I have no idea what material they covered, she mentioned several type of deseases, and they had clinicals for some.</p>
<p>I do not believe there is a person on earth who can easily get straight A’s in kindergarten thru college graduation. Nobody is very good at everything, some are better in some classes, others in different classes. Overall, it is hard, but controlling emotions sometime seems to be even harder. Boys have an advantage in this one. My D. has been OK and I wish she stays this way…will see in 2 weeks.</p>