<p>High five to WOWmom and her D!</p>
<p>WowMom, Congrats to your D2!</p>
<p>Fantastic news WOWMom!!</p>
<p>Well, I will have an ortho and a neuro. Bones and brains. Which means no matter what breaks down first in my decreptitude, I have a kid who might be able to fix it. </p>
<p>Thanks for the congrats……She’s very happy and relieved----and apparently packing to leave for another interview Friday.</p>
<p>To everyone still waiting–the cycle is far from over. Hang in there!</p>
<p>I think Texas early date is November 15th. Some people I know went from 0 admissions to 5 or 6 on one day over the last couple of years.</p>
<p>Still waiting right by your cyber side jc40. Oh this part is hard. I love stories like that^.</p>
<p>By my estimate, looking at the lists, there will be more acceptances for most people here. But having at least one this early is a great relief.</p>
<p>Congrats WOWM’s DD! </p>
<p>Voicemail for these techy kids is soooooo “yesterday” LOL. However, as you point out, checking it is very important.</p>
<p>Wow! WOWM, I’ve got a kid who never checks voice mail either.</p>
<p>^none of them do, we have stopped leaving them.</p>
<p>As my son and I were getting out of Manhattan after his Cornell interview (more about that latter), he received an interview invite from UPenn. This is his 17th interview invite of the cycle and his 4th from a top 10 school. This one definitely lifted his mom’s hopes of keeping him close. It looks like UPenn reviews the applications pretty much in the order of their completion. They still have the month of November pretty much open for scheduling interviews. My son was even offered several waitlist dates in the first week of Nov, including Oct 30th.</p>
<p>My son finished his Cornell interview today. Cornell medical college is located in the posh upper east side of Manhattan. Its nice, but finding cheap housing there is not going to be easy unless Cornell provides subsidized housing for all 4 years. It was a group of 10 in the morning session including kids from Harvard, Yale, UMich, Penn State and UC Irvine. His interview experience here was the exact opposite of his Vandy experience. At Cornell, his student interview went very well, but his faculty interviewer was hard to read. Cornell is rolling out a new curriculum next year and that’s all they are allowed to say about that until it is approved by LCME. </p>
<p>Next up, MMI at NYU on Monday, followed by Stanford on the 30th and Pitt on Nov 1st. I will travel with him to Stanford to see my brother and catch up with some friends.</p>
<p>Kal - what is the format of the Stanford interview?</p>
<p>Stanford is MMI.</p>
<p>Does that mean there are no student or faculty interviews?</p>
<p>Kal–just my two cents, but I would be pretty wary of a “brand new curriculum.” I’m sure it’s been beta tested to the Nth degree, but still, that would worry me. I would be worried for a variety of reasons (in no particular order): 1) no upperclassmen to get advice from about first and second year curriculum 2) faculty who are adjusting to the learning curve also 3) no boards scores or clerkship experiences or match data from students who have been through the curriculum 4) all the administrative wrinkles to iron out</p>
<p>Having gone through the first two years of med school in a program that as a well-established curriculum and STILL had to deal with some of the aforementioned issues, I know I wouldn’t choose a school with a new curriculum. I might choose to take the gamble over attending other schools I don’t want to go to or not going to med school at all, but if I had any comparable offers, I’d take those first. </p>
<p>Just my thoughts. Your boy might be braver than I am. And maybe the notion of pioneering a new program would be exciting to him. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who has been accepted!</p>
<p>Kristin,</p>
<p>Those are excellent points. I showed your post to my son. Apparently, the only details they divulged were that the pre-clinical stuff is going to be condensed into 1.5 years and that the LEAP program (4 year long longitudinal program in clinical setting) that has been in trials will be rolled out for everybody. He also told me that Vandy’s new curriculum condenses the pre-clinical courses to 1 year and then “some courses” will be spread across all 4 years. Four of the six schools he interviewed at so far (UMD and Rutgers NJMS are the holdouts) have either rolled out a new curriculum recently are about to roll one out soon!</p>
<p>texaspg,</p>
<p>Yeah, Stanford uses MMI format with no faculty interviews. Apparently dean Garcia monitors all the rooms using a monitoring system. Apparently, they wanted to make interview as “just another factor” instead of being a major component.</p>
<p>On another note, my second son (3.87 (4.55 weighted) GPA and 2350 SAT) got an acceptance from Tulane today with 120k (30k per year) scholarship and he still wants to follow his brother to JHU at cost of 240k for me! Now, I got my work on him and his mom (whose usual stance is to keep her ‘baby’ close) to save myself that money 
It didn’t work well with the first one, hopefully I have better luck this time.</p>
<p>Regarding the curriculum for pre-clinicals being condensed, personally I think that is smart. The student must choose their specialty for the rest of their life and if they only have one year to do it, and need to plan early in that year for their MS4 schedule to ensure they get sub-is and LORs and other details set so they can be successful in their residency application, it can be quite stressful.</p>
<p>As long as they are well prepared for the Step 1 exam, I say the longer in clinical classes the better.</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten calls from u miami ? If so when was interview?</p>
<p>sunny- go to student doctor network forum to find that sort of specific information. I believe they were going to be down for maintenance and upgrades this weekend, but usually you will find all you need to know about the nitty gritty details, as a matter of fact, you may find more than you wanted to know!</p>
<p>Another II today. A top 10 school and a complete surprise.</p>