<p>^Awesome. I wish him to have great choices. But having this one spot already that early in a process is a real relief!</p>
<p>Robert…congrats! What a relief!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to entomom’s D and Robert’s S.</p>
<p>Robert, Congrats to your S.</p>
<p>I do not know UConn med school could be the cheapest for some students. (I mistakenly thought everything in the north east is expensive but I am wrong here.) This is very useful info for new applicants.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing the info.</p>
<p>mcat2: “Cheap” is a very relative term for med schools. For instate students like DS2 tuition plus fees at UConn Med is $30,000. For OOS its $57,000! Private New England schools like Boston University also have $50,000+ tuition.</p>
<p>^Did you check if it is $30K for all 4 years? Our IS schools are “cheap” only for first 2 years, then tuition is the same in the last 2 years as privates.</p>
<p>Its the same every year except that obviously each year tuition across the board for all years increases.</p>
<p>Miami makes a good point. At my school the first 2 years are about 15k cheaper per year than 3rd and 4th year.</p>
<p>^bigred, yes, that is about the same…so I told my D. when she was choosing that the difference in total price for private vs public in OUR state is about equal to the price of a car. It was a logic to exclude the price tag from decision making. We could keep our cars for a bit longer.
However, I heard that it is not the same at other state publics.</p>
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<p>Thank-you for posting about this school. The mission statement of this school aligns well with my interests! Since I haven’t been getting more love from my Texas schools, I decided to go ahead and apply! I called and talked to admissions they expect 2500 applications, 400 will be interviewed, and 80-100 will be accepted for 60 seats. The more I read about this school, the more interesting it seems.</p>
<p>anyone else with any news?</p>
<p>How about your son, m2ck? Are all his interviews in 2013?</p>
<p>He had an interview 2 weeks ago, and has another one on Tuesday. Another interview in November. Of course, hoping for more. :)</p>
<p>Tomorrow was to be D1s final interview flight, but due to Frankenstorm she’ll be getting home two days later than expected :(. Trick or Treat?!?</p>
<p>A funny interview story:
DS2 drives to Albert Einstein for an interview. He stays overnight with a student host. The next morning he puts on his suit packs his bag and walks to the admissions building. On the way he meets an Orthodox Jewish man (hat, payot) who approaches him.
Man: Are you going in for a medical school interview?
DS2: um, yes
Man: Are you Jewish?
DS2: yeah
Man: Would you like to pray with me before the interview?
DS2: I guess so.
So they stood together and prayed for a couple of minutes. He went into the interview which he thought went really well. Hey a little prayer before an interview couldn’t hurt. Of course this story could only happen at Einstein.</p>
<p>^^ Sweet story. Thanks for sharing. The day D went for her interview we said a prayer in the circle as I dropped her off. That prayer was answered. We have said many more over the last five years. All have been answered. Sending good wishes and prayers for all your daughters and sons.</p>
<p>"Of course this story could only happen at Einstein. "
-Cannot imagine single Med. School without at least few Jewish Med. students and faculty. I am not sure about offer to pray, but who knows, they might! Also, there are Graduate/young proffessionals Jewish organizations. So, they have Sabath dinners on Fridays. Sweet story and I am sure that good interview was somewhat connected to a prayer!</p>
<p>MiamiDAP: I just thought it would be rare to receive an offer to pray outside of any other admissions office but you’re right maybe it happens more than I know! Lets see if this actually leads to an acceptance.</p>
<p>^Best wishes to your S2 at Albert and other places!</p>
<p>While I wasn’t going to post names of med schools with results, I’m going mention the good news D1 received last night. She got a call from the head of her interview committee that she’s been accepted to the UWashington. </p>
<p>The reason I do so is because UDub is a public school that accepts extremely few Out of Region applicants. OOR, not OOS, as it participates in the WWAMI program with WY, AK, MT & ID, other NW states without med schools. Here is their exact wording:</p>
<p>[Application-Procedures-Requirements</a> | UW Medicine, Seattle](<a href=“http://www.uwmedicine.org/education/md-program/admissions/applicants/pages/applicationprocedureandrequirements.aspx]Application-Procedures-Requirements”>http://www.uwmedicine.org/education/md-program/admissions/applicants/pages/applicationprocedureandrequirements.aspx)</p>
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<p>D1 is part Hispanic but does not come from an economically or educationally disadvantaged background, however she has demonstrated a commitment to serving underserved poplations. While her participation with underserved communities started in HS, her application reflected volunteering and work with vulnerable populations: at a free clinic in college, a summer program at UW which included shadowing a family medicine physician in a low income clinic, a year long Americorps position assisting low income, mostly Hispanic and Chinese immigrants, and other volunteering within the community but outside of medicine (eg. citizenship classes, English tutoring for children and adults).</p>
<p>So, it can happen, but UDub really does look for the things described on their website, not just gpa or MCAT scores.</p>
<p>Hope to hear more great news soon from everyone else going through the process this cycle!</p>