<p>D2 is getting full-on wooing by one her acceptances–several chatty and encouraging emails from the Dean of Admission post-acceptance, letters of congratulations (handwritten, not emails) from her interviewers, an MS2 assigned as her “big sister” who calls her once a month or so to see if D2 has questions…</p>
<p>Is this the norm?</p>
<p>I realize that enrollment management is a key part of any admission process (and part of USNWR ranking scheme), but this seems more of a full court press than either of us were expecting.</p>
<p>And more importantly–does this suggest we can maybe look for some merit money in the spring?</p>
<p>If it is OOS public, it is a good time to ask the questions while they are showing love. </p>
<p>I have heard from students at UT Houston that they usually convert OOS to instate quickly by offering something because there are so few OOS students admitted that it is not a revenue generator for them and the med OOS tuition is much lower than undergrad OOS at UT.</p>
<p>The difference is 16k vs 28k and they just don’t want to collect extra money from 20 kids while they charge 220 kids a lower fee.</p>
<p>my program has a system where current students are assigned a couple accepted students to contact and a be a resource for questions but it’s not as extensive/persistent as your D is experiencing. Could just be the school’s MO, could be the MS2 assigned to her in particular’s MO, or could be a sign of the school’s desire for her specifically. No way to know until after she’s enrolled unfortunately.</p>
<p>I hope jc40’s daughter got some good news today.</p>
<p>My son got an acceptance from UMD yesterday. Today, he got the most exiting news of this cycle so far - an acceptance from Vanderbilt. At this point, he feels that Vandy and UVA will definitely be on his second look trips, regardless of where else he gets in. This weekend he will probably reject interview invites from some schools and withdraw from some schools he already interviewed yet. </p>
<p>Yesterday he finished his JHU interview. There were 12 in the group - three from each of Harvard, UPenn and JHU, one from Princeton, one from Haverford and one from UMD. One of the girls from UPenn was his classmate from high school. He thought that the interview went well for him, even though the reaction of the student interviewer was hard to fathom. JHMI is very familiar to him, as he has been working there for several years. Even though it is not as opulent and grandiose as Cleveland Clinic, he thinks, JHMI is just as good, if not better. </p>
<p>He rushed home right from the JHMI and I drove him to New Haven (there are no trains past 6:00 PM!) for his Yale interview. He finished it is on his way back home. With all the excitement surrounding his Vandy acceptance, we did not talk much as to how Yale interview went. I will post more as I know more. My son has been writing very detailed school impression essays. Even though he has them all written up, he is posting them on his blog at MDApplicants, only after he gets a decision from a school.</p>
Thanks! There is free time between events and at the beginning of the interview day, when these kids get to chat. Also, its a small world; my son keeps running into kids that he interviewed with at other schools.</p>
<p>Okay, so we were bracing for the possibility of a “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day,” but were pleasantly surprised; it’s been a very, very, very, very, very, very, very good day! ;)</p>
Its actually 17% (down from 105 to 88), ostensibly because of the labor intensive nature of their new curriculum. Stanford is another school that is going to admit less kids this year (by as many as 10) because of over enrollment last year.</p>
<p>A big Texas Yee-haw!! I have said and will continue to say that the greatest single advantage a pre-med can have is being a Texan. It is simply a much more predictable process for a well-qualified applicant. Add to that the quality and costs of the Texas medical schools and you have a excellent situation.</p>
Seven out of Seven! UT Southwestern? Congratulations!</p>