It must have something to do with the weather. When the young adult can afford to dress like Californians do, they all become more attractive. LOL.</p>
<p>All I heard from DS who went to a college in NE was that many of his friends there agree that their school is not a good place to find a partner while in college. DS’s suite (and the suite next to his) resulted in zero couple after 4 years.</p>
<p>A child of my coworker went to Stanford (as a college) and did graduate with a partner (now spouse) from the same school. Both attended med school after graduated from college.</p>
<p>My coworker said unless he visits his S and DIL, he almost has no chance to see them as both of them are in residency now and are extremely busy.</p>
<p>One of the 4th years at UT Houston med told me recently that something like 200 out of 240 in that class are either paired up or already married. :p</p>
<p>Roughly a week left before October 15th, i.e. the day schools can begin notifying students of acceptances. Here’s hoping for good news from the school I interviewed at two weeks ago!</p>
<p>Thanks mrpenguin. I would love to see 100% acceptance for the participants on this thread.</p>
<p>My son finished his Rutgers NJMS interview today. Being 10000 miles away, I haven’t been able to get his feedback yet. Next up - Vandy on the 12th. It’s unlikely that NJMS and Vandy would have a decision for him on the 15th, as these interviews are too close to the deadline.</p>
<p>Acceptances for 2014 entering class have already started! Some schools like Eastern Virginia and Des Moines are already informing the decisions to their interviewees. According to AMCAS traffic rules for this year, the first decisions are supposed come out only on Oct 16th. I guess some of these schools don’t care much for the rules.</p>
<p>My son finished his Vandy interview a few minutes ago (it was today, not on the 12th as I mentioned before). This one being his most significant interview of the cycle so far, I woke up at 4:00 AM Indian Standard Time to talk to him. I will elaborate his experience for the benefit of future interviewees. </p>
<p>He had two interviews; a short one and a long one - both by a faculty. The short form one was a closed file interview with 6/7 questions picked by the interviewer from a list of 20-25 pre-prepared questions. The long form interview was about 45 minutes long and an open file one. The new curriculum reduces the pre-clinical work to just 1 year!</p>
<p>The interview day started ominously with my son arriving 30 minutes late. Thankfully, the first item on the agenda was orientation. The short interview for him went uneventfully because most of the questions were “behavioral” in nature. The long one got really interesting really quickly. The interviewer was the CEO of the Vanderbilt clinics and hospitals. He immediately zeroed in on my son’s startup company and they spent the entire interview pretty much on that. The interviewer himself did an MD-MBA and he suggested that my son should seriously consider their MBA program. In the middle of the interview he walked out and brought in another senior executive to talk to my son. My son walked out thoroughly and utterly impressed. He thought that UVA and OSU had very good facilities with UVA’s being slightly more modern. However, Vandy is in “another stratosphere” altogether, both in terms of size and sophistication. They said that he should get a decision in “less than a month”.</p>
<p>@Plumazul, yes I use it just to keep track but I do use MDapps more. </p>
<p>And yes, a few schools do tell you early. I was surprised and visited the AAMC site, they are actually recommendations, not rules.</p>
<p>"The AAMC recommends that:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Each school:</p></li>
<li><p>Publish annually, amend publicly, and adhere to its application, acceptance and admission procedures.</p></li>
<li><p>Utilizing an application service abide by all conditions of its participation agreement with that application service.</p></li>
<li><p>Each school:</p></li>
</ol>
<p>a. Between August 1 and March 15 notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within four weeks of those actions being taken.</p>
<p>b. Between March 16 and the first day of class, notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within seven days of those actions being taken.</p>
<ol>
<li>Each school notify all applicants - other than Combined College/M.D., Early Decision Program (EDP), and deferred matriculation applicants - of acceptance to medical school only after October 15 of each admission cycle. It may be appropriate to communicate notifications of decisions other than acceptance to medical school applicants prior to October 15."</li>
</ol>
<p>Pinkstuffz, WOW!! So far as I know, you’re the first one in this group to hear! Congratulations Now you can sit back and enjoy the rest of the year without stress.</p>
<p>Good to be back stateside, after a grueling trip to India. My son got interview invites from Columbia and Mount Sinai today. If anybody is waiting to hear from these schools, the first available date for Columbia was October 31st and Mount Sinai offered my son Nov 19th. Both schools have plenty of dates open in November, it seems. Since Columbia is non-rolling, my son ended up scheduling his interview on Dec 7h, as it was the first available Friday (he doesn’t have any classes on Fridays). Needless to say, there are still plenty more interview invites to go. </p>
<p>Off the 5 NYC schools my son applied to, Albert Einstein is the only one that hasn’t gotten to his application yet. He is giving up on them, since they are now offering interview invites for Feb 2014!</p>
<p>Many schools will let the first decisions out in just over 30 hours. Good luck everybody!</p>
Now you can sit back and enjoy the rest of the year without stress.</p>