<p>Piggle, no tips for travel exhaustion per se, but if it’s a sinus/nasal issue that you’re having, I’d recommend a Neti pot.</p>
<p>good showing mrpenguin!</p>
<p>There are discounts and then there are DISCOUNTS. School recommended rates usually would be much higher since they are negotiated and the discount might only be 10-20% while the additional 35% sounds like a real special rate.</p>
<p>I normally try to find something in an area by picking the express deal on priceline. This works if you don’t have to be at a specific hotel but one with certain stars and an acceptable price and you are ok to take a taxi or have a car.</p>
<p>Thanks WOWM…</p>
<p>I know for DS, he has been quoted two rates for two schools, which were cheaper than online posted rates and also better than AAA. Though he did do a student host for one. So definitely have your DD check it out when she gets her invites to have an option if no student hosts.</p>
<p>Yeahhhhhh!!! for Mr Penguin…BIG CONGRATS… see, you have to listen to the elders here and those that have gone through the process before you…they were right when they mentioned it was only a matter of time. Wishing you many more to come.</p>
<p>Texaspg- You are right there are indeed discounts and then there are DISCOUNTS… 
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<p>That’s great news mrpenguin!!!</p>
<p>I’m thrilled for you, mrpenguin. And happy birthday, too!</p>
<p>Congratulations mrpenguin!</p>
<p>My son got his 7th interview invite of the cycle today. This one is from our neck of the woods - NYU SOM.</p>
<p>He also finished his first interview of the cycle at Ohio State today. He had a wonderful experience. It was a group of <15. Interviews were open file with GPA and MCAT hidden. There was a decent JHU connection there. One of the student interviewer was a JHU alumnus nd one of the interviewees did the JHU Postbac. However, she didn’t interview my son. Both of son’s interviewers said that they liked his background in CS. His faculty interviewer told him that his recommendation letters were “some of the best I have ever seen”. That is good to know. </p>
<p>Son liked the school and their new curriculum with early clinical exposure (after 9 months!). Apparently 90% of the OOS students get IS tuition after the 1st year! Needless to say, that was music to my ears.</p>
<p>They told that kids who interviewed today would get a result on October 16th. Hope it would be a positive one.</p>
<p>Mr. P–congrats!</p>
<p>One of the best b-day presents you could hope for!</p>
<p>Congrats, Mr. P!!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the Bday cake Mr P. I’m saving some of that in my frig for when I hear of some of your acceptances too.</p>
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<p>That is a sweet deal - didn’t know any schools did that.</p>
<p>^^^^Brown, UNC does. But you have to get in first!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>My school does it too. Basically no one should be paying OOS tuition after M1 year.</p>
<p>MrP…Happy Bday and congrats on the II.</p>
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<p>Kristin, I think I have a reasonable sense as to where you go to school :D</p>
<p>I just noticed on MSAR that this year Vanderbilt’s projected class size is only 88! Their class size is usually 105-106. I tried to poke around to see if it is really the case and if so what’s behind it. All I could find is some vague reference to their new curriculum more resource incentive. If that is the case, it looks like they are putting quality ahead of quantity. While that is admirable, its too bad for the interviewees this year :(</p>
<p>I was chatting with software manager for admissions at a medical school (which shall remain nameless…). He’s been in this position for years and in the leadership of the admissions software managers professional organization.</p>
<p>He said that part of the delays occurring in processing applications at individual schools has to with a number of software issues. As of Jan 1, 2014, AAMC is getting out the applicant management software biz. Any med school using AAMC’s software (and that was almost all AMCAS schools) faced a choice–to lose access to the software midway thru this admission cycle or to purchase and implement new software (from various different vendors) at the beginning of the current admission cycle.</p>
<p>Apparently implementation has not gone smoothly at ‘a good many’ schools. There have been major glitches with application downloads and with computerized applicant tracking/screening.</p>
<p>I don’t know if software issues were at the root of AMCAS’s delay in opening this year. (I didn’t ask.)</p>
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Duke med right-sized its class size not many years ago. As it was rumored at that time, a reason is to boost the school’s ranking. It did seem its ranking was up, coincident or not.</p>
<p>How come it is always the private med school which tries to reduce the class size?!</p>
<p>Stanford class size is supposed to be 80-85. This year’s size is 102. </p>
<p>Supposedly when students attended the admitted days, they said please go to another school if you can! There are people who do seem to care about the rank and so moving higher was detrimental.</p>
<p>Last year UMich offer a 10% tuition discount to the first 15 students who agreed to defer their enrollment for a year since their matriculating class was too big. (Which means this cycle’s class will have to be smaller to accommodate those 15 students who deferred from last year.)</p>
<p>^4 year discount or 1 year discount?</p>
<p>I would have told my kid to hold out for a tuition waiver! Wasting an year is not worth just 10% even if for 4 years. :p</p>