<p>Another NYC acceptance today 
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<p>So @iwbB, what do you think about midtown vs. uptown? :)</p>
<p>Congratulations Plum! My vote is that the difference between midtown and uptown is totally negligible. I lived in the upper west and in the village. I liked the upper west, but that was really because of my apt at the time: an old brownstone apt with doorman that doesnât even exist now.</p>
<p>Miami: even if I tried to âenforceâ a no-crying rule here, one of my boys cries easily. (Still does and heâs in his 20s) Yes, male hormones are different from female, but thatâs only one part of who they are and how they express themselves. But me? I never cry.</p>
<p>I have to say that the students on this forum are an incredible, impressive bunch. Is it just me, or do students here do a whole bunch better than any random group of applicants? (I have been doing some light reading over on SDN)</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of the wonderful students and their parents!</p>
<p>CC is the Lake Woebegone of the internet. ("âŠâwhere all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.â)</p>
<p>WOWMâI like that!</p>
<p>It just seems that over on SDN there are a whole lot of students who arenât even get invitations to interview, much less acceptances. âOurâ group seems a whole bunch more successful, maybe due to the cooperative atmosphere here at CC.â</p>
<p>just a random thoughtâŠcan you imagine what would happen if word were to get out over there about the results of the students over here?</p>
<p>I would prefer if we say the women were strong AND very good looking. Lima, like UG, I think the med students as well as the parents here on CC are a self selecting, high achieving bunch. My kid had 9 acceptances and I know of some here who have had more! Def a crazy over achieving bunch.</p>
<p>Just talked to D2 and she started withdrawing some of her applications this weekend.</p>
<p>She has acceptances in hand at schools she likes so why draw out the process?</p>
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Congratulations to her! It is great that she has that option. It also opens up spots for other people earlier rather than laterâŠwhich is a nice thing to do.</p>
<p>CC gives great advice, SDN can be a nit neurotic. I would be money that my DD would not have been into med school first round had we not had the valuable advice on CC. It is a platform to help people not âin the knowâ to figure out the unspoken rules. For example, schools list their deadlines in November, yet very few November applications will result in admissions.</p>
<p>TatinG #1291
S had similar numbers albeit a little bit fewer ⊠applied to 16 (which I worried at first if it is too few, turned out to be about right), the advices of bluedevilmke and bigredmed were instrumental in making the right selections. S applied to 16 schools which included 4-5 safeties (based on his and school LizzyM score), 4-5 matches, 5 reaches and 2 super reaches. Of these,
6 - no word for 5 months and more
6 interviews (3 accepts, 1 hold, 2 to go)
3 pre-interview rejects,
1 pre-interview hold (a soft form of reject?)</p>
<p>Interestingly, the first two rejects came from OOS match (at least what we thought to be) schools. Then came IIs from IS safety schools, then from IS and OOS match schools. Whatâs more interesting was that the order in which the IIs came was almost exactly in the opposite order of the research rank in USNWR. He hasnât had any IIs from his reach schools. He is happy with one school that he likes very much and the other two are also very acceptable to him. Receiving the first accept was the biggest thing for his and our emotional wellbeing. CC was very helpful in making the right selections of schools to apply to and knowing when to do what in the application process, and once the application was made, the SDN individual school forum was very useful in knowing what is going on with each school at any given date/week, such as to what stat applicants the invitations are being sent to, if pre-interview rejections are being made, or once interviewed, if decisions are being made to his interview groups, etc. Most of the folks here in this thread seem to have applicants in the very top tier that it seemed not a good comparison. Good luck to those who are waiting for decisions.</p>
<p>Yes, CC and SDN have been very helpful. But I question calling anything a âsafetyâ or a âreachâ. There really has been no rhyme or reason to the interview invites. D was rejected within days from two unranked schools. Some top ten schools have offered interviews, some not. Location doesnât seem to matter. Similar essays have garnered different results at different schools. If sheâd winnowed the list down and picked the wrong schools, sheâd be in the Panic Thread right now with a LizzyM of 78.</p>
<p>Plu,</p>
<p>Which schools are we talking specifically? Neighborhood wise sinai is much nicer than Columbia for uptown and NYu is more vibrant than Cornell for midtown although Murray hill attracts mostly bankers and the b&t crowd so I donât know that itâs the right kind of vibrant.</p>
<p>None of the schools are in hip neighborhoods.</p>
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<p>DS knew a few cases a few years ago which were like this or even worse - picking the wrong schools resulted in a lot of IIs but a single acceptance (ucla) late in the spring. S/he is an ORM from a very difficult state (CA) though.</p>
<p>High stats could result in a false security if unlucky (or being overly arrogant to only apply to very âhotâ med schools in the coast area for which you do not have much tie with .) It could result in more IIs though. At the end of the admission cycle, most med schools would like to admit a class of students who have varieties of attributes rather than all/most with, say, high LizzyM scores. They may want some of X type, some of Y type, and so on. Actually, the admitted class at many med schools is already perceived as being too uniform already - as compared to the composition of an UG class. (e.g., 40-45% of the somewhat nerdy kind vs 16-18% of the same kind.)</p>
<p>I suspect that it may be better that, if you have achieved a good enough stats, get out of the study room and do something else which would possibly impress the adcoms.</p>
<p>BTW, DS once mentioned that, in his class, there appears to be quite a high percentage of students whose parent is a physician - including one who is the third generation in his/her family who attended the same medical school. Med schools appear to have no problem with this kind of âuniformityâ. LOL. We jokingly said to him that since we do not know anything about this career path, he has achieved more in order to be in the same league as those students whose family knows better. (One of the physician parents actually kindly gave every student in his class a stratescope.)</p>
<p>^ Should be âstethoscope.â</p>
<p>Some of the newly admitted students and their parents may be interested in taking a look at this fact card from AAMC:</p>
<p><a href=âhttps://www.aamc.org/download/152968/data[/url]â>https://www.aamc.org/download/152968/data</a></p>
<p>Congrats to all on their acceptances., best of luck for future interviews. My final interview will be in Jan.</p>
<p>Good news to report from my neck of the woods
~got an merit scholarship offer from one of my top choice schools( 75% covered ). The call came yesterday night.
~senior year project prototype will be used in global health program ( may need to do slight tweaking ) and very excited about the possibilities.
~got a paid lab post for coming semester
~ The semester ended with good results even though I missed 40% of my classes.</p>
<p>Now for the not so great news
- much anticipated, belated pre interview rejection from one school and hold status notice from another .
. I am thankful for all my blessings and acceptances., so not disappointed about these two.</p>
<p>Congrats Piggle! Sounds like a good chunk of money!</p>
<p>You have enough great admissions and so donât worry about those that did not materialize.</p>
<p>Talk about a disconnect!</p>
<p>D2 received an email from the FA dept with a link to apply for FA at a school she applied to, but hasnât been interviewed. (And she isnât holding her breath hoping they will interview herâŠ.)</p>
<p>The text of the letter seems to indicate they send this email to * every single student that applies* regardless of their application status.</p>
<p>Geez, both misleading and borderline abusive.</p>
<p>I know the school-I got the early morning email as well.
I remember at interview day they encouraged people to start sending financial aid papers in as soon as possible,</p>
<p>A little Christmas cheer. Another acceptance and another interview invitation. </p>
<p>Hope everyone is having a good holiday.</p>
<p>Congratulations TatinG! How exciting. So nice to have a choice.</p>