<p>UNM’s North golf course is located directly on the other side of med school parking lot. Lots of med student go for jog around its shady perimeter during their lunch break or right after afternoon classes.The PGA championship South course is down next to the airport.</p>
<p>Unless the person says “I don’t report to the admissions committee.” If they say that, you can be a little more relaxed (ask about parties/drinking, hint at the fact that doing homework isn’t your favorite thing in the world etc). Obviously no matter what someone says if you do something absolutely insane (punch someone, address someone by a racial slur) then they could report that even though they said they wouldn’t.</p>
<p>My son completed his Stanford MMI and should be landing in Washington in a few minutes. He told me that this was the most intimidating set of interviewees he has seen so far. There were several kids from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. There were 3 from JHU and one from Brown. There were 30 kids divided into 3 groups of 10. There were 10 stations per group. Just like at NYU and UMD, a vast majority (all except 6/7) were female. Apparently, Stanford fills only about 25% of its class straight from undergrad. Another interesting piece of info is that Stanford med school is embracing Khan Academy in a big way. Apparently Khan’s wife is a faculty there.</p>
<p>Without getting into the details of the questions (because of the NDA), my son felt that the MMI here is very different than it was at NYU. Stanford’s questions were a lot more oriented towards problem solving. My son didn’t do very well at a couple of stations. Apparently they drop the best and worst scores.</p>
<p>Also, in the years past, from each batch, Stanford gave 30% acceptances, 30% waitlists and the rest rejections. All said and done, it would be a great honor for my son to get in here. Next up, Pitt on Friday, CCLCM on next Friday followed by Yale, Mount Sinai and UPenn in the month of November.</p>
<p>Congrats to all this application cycle…so much good news and so early! </p>
<p>No golf course at my daughters school but a nice ski hill where she managed to blow out her knee. It did give her an interest in ortho… :(</p>
<p>Interesting observation kal: >67% female applicants? Wonder if that’s across the board or just at those schools.</p>
<p>It does not look like the final admits are skewed this way since they are 50:50 in the school. </p>
<p>Do we see any evidence they are interviewing a lot more women?</p>
<p>UTD and Southwestern have a 7 year program. There were 40 interviewed and 30 were girls this year.</p>
<p>When D interviewed at Univ. of Chicago there were 10 women, 5 men. Much the same for many of her other interviews. Could just be coincidence. And she is seeing many of the same people interview after interview.</p>
<p>^^^^ interesting, I ran into an interviewee from my first interview 2 weeks ago and even ran into some at the airport (same flights)! Funny world</p>
<p>Yesterday, my son got his first post-secondary rejection of the cycle from UCSF. I told him that I was proud of him for at least getting a secondary from this school. He is doing his Pitt interview as I type this message. This is the end of a gauntlet of 4 interviews in 8 days. Poor guy didn’t have a good night’s sleep in a while.</p>
<p>There are still 8 schools that are yet to give him their interview decision. Out of those 6 have been completely silent.</p>
<p>Kal, I don’t know if you mentioned this, but is your son still in school? If so that’s one heck of a schedule to balance!</p>
<p>^Yes, Kal, this is very busy. Thinking back. D. went to 5 interviews, all in driving distance and 2 were in the same city, so she had 4 trips and 2 additional trips later in spring for Second Look events. D. had to make arrangements not only with profs about making up exams, but also with her job and Research Lab. She felt that she had more responsibilites towards the last two than her classes.</p>
<p>Pinkstuffz - I think most parents’ kids and students on this thread seem to be seniors including Kal’s son.</p>
<p>D had two interviews in one week, one involved a red eye flight to the east coast. She also had a midterm exam. The interview had been scheduled before the exam was scheduled. She arranged with the prof to take the exam a day early. It all worked out fine.</p>
<p>I appreciate the schools that interview on Monday and D has set up most of her interviews on Mondays. She arranged a light Monday schedule for the fall quarter and flies on Sundays. </p>
<p>Don’t the schools that have interviews only on Thursdays, for example, know that it takes two days out of the school week to attend rather than just one?</p>
<p>^Not for everybody, I do not think they would care as much as to accommodate everybody’s schedules / distances. There are only 5 days in a week. The 2 that D. had in the same city, thank goodness that she was able to schedule them on a different days. I would be bad if she had to drive to the same (very snowy) place 2 times in a middle of the winter.</p>
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He is a senior with a 17 credit load. Six of them are his honors thesis (pass/fail) credits, thankfully. Yesterday was a particularly hard day for him. He landed at Washington Dulles after a red-eye from San Francisco. After a 2 hour shuttle ride back to Baltimore, he had to take a test right away, turn in a programming homework, and finish 4 hour Genetics lab. He then had to pack up and hurry back to catch his flight to Pittsburgh (reached his hotel by 11:45 pm) to attend his interview. He didn’t get his programming assignment completely done because he fell asleep during red-eye flight. Thankfully, he is allowed to muff one of his programming assignments. The good news is all but one of his remaining interviews are on Fridays and he doesn’t have classes on Fridays.</p>
<p>Wow, 17 credits is definitely way too much for a senior. D. made sure that she has only 15 - 16 credits in her senior year. Not only this few, but also much easier classes. Nothing like Genetics. I have advised before to load up in the first 2 years. Junior year is busy with MCAT prep. and senior year is for interviews and ahving some end-of-college fun. it was more hitting bars on the weekends in my D’s senior year.<br>
Anyway, apparently your S. is holdoing it together, kal. Kuddos to all the interviews / acceptances…many will be coming. Acceptances sometime trigger more interviews as D. has learned and consequently more acceptances. At least he is not driving in snow …yet. D. barely escaped the major snowstorm coming from Chicago…while we were in Mexico on vacation literally surrounded by people from Chicago talking about storm constantly, there were some major worries, but she was ahead of storm for about 1 hour, very lucky…and, of course, there was an instance of dead battery (thank you, AAA, do not let them drive without this magic card!!!), waiting in a dark for several hours for her host to show up, while her host not even answered her calls…and we were talking about finding hotel in a city that D. has never been before. Talking about some adventures, but that is how they grow up.<br>
She will travel more than that (hopefully!!) next year for residency interviews (hopefully!!!). At least she has an ample of experiences, both driving and flying all by herself, including abroad.</p>
<p>How do acceptances trigger more interviews? The schools can’t see where an applicant has been accepted until the spring, I thought. </p>
<p>It seems to me that the interview invitations are sort of slowing down after the early rush.</p>
<p>Schools are not able to see acceptances until mid-March.</p>
<p>And D2 is experiencing the exact opposite–she’s gotten several (>2) IIs this week. (So lots of travel between now and mid-December.)</p>
<p>Congrats WOWM.</p>
<p>^ I do not know. Maybe it was a coincidence in D’s case. I know that 2 schools that D. was accepted, compete for students. D. was accepted to one the night that they can tell, in her year it was Oct. 16. She got an invitation to another very soon after this acceptance and she was accepted there also. She had hard time deciding, she also learned that many have inteviews at both of these schools and one of her UG classmate was in the same situation. He ended up going to the Med. School, that D. ended up turning down. At the end, you just got to choose and it is not easy. D. went to Second Look events at both.</p>