Hi i’m crying i just got admitted for fall 2023. /sobbing rn will be back soon
(app portal updated and all the crazy stuff excuse me)
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Oh that’s so wonderful!!! Huge congratulations!!!
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WHAT?! NO WAY!! YAY!!!
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How wonderful. Congratulations
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Congrats!
This thread is a rollercoaster of emotions! 
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Whooooo hooooo! Congrats!!!
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CRAZY!!! 
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Holy moly that is fantastic!!! I am so, so happy for you! What a plot twist!
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Congratulations, and best of luck at NEU.
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it’s real. I’m not dreaming. /happily, i am sobbing
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Did they contact you and give an explanation for this change?
No, I just got an email with an “app status update” but I’m just… shocked. /happily
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I would follow up. I don’t want to be negative, but that may just be the placeholder for the plan you already had in place. Do you see a housing selection or an invitation to summer orientation?
Oh, please no! This poor kid.
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I have no idea. My brain is just saying she would have gotten a more direct and explicit explanation for such a big change.
I see admitted student events and Boston-specific things, I assume housing will open once we put the deposit down. /happily
Also I will double check with them, in case. /happily
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Yes just follow up. You want the be sure.
NE went to the waitlist starting yesterday, so it makes perfect sense they offered a spot to op. Congratulations op, glad this rollercoaster ride ended up in a happy place for you.
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Because I was asked to weigh in–
FYI, activities done before matriculating full time in college generally are not included on a med school application, including activities done during a pre-college gap.
I’ll also be taking some online and in-person college classes at Harvard (through the extension school), and at BU.
I strongly recommend that you get approval for your class selections for this plan with the pre-med advisor at NEU before enrolling in these classes.
Med schools discourage students from taking online classes, esp in sciences. Online labs are extremely problematic and most med schools do not accept them.
Any DE and AP science classes will need to be supplemented with additional UL electives in the same department.
Please read this pinned thread in the pre-med forum;
One more topic and I promise I will stop being the Prophet of Doom™ /tongue in cheek
All medical schools have a set of technical standards every student must meet before they are allowed to enroll. Students
must reaffirm annually that they continue meet those standards.
Here’s an example from from BU:
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/admissions/application-process/technical-standards/#:~:text=Compassion%2C%20integrity%2C%20high%20ethical%20standards,and%20proactively%20access%20available%20resources.
Medical schools only offer limited accommodations to students with physical/medical disabilities and those accommodations are mostly limited to the pre-clinical years. Don’t expect any accommodations for non-verbal or psychiatric disabilities (like adhd or executive functioning disorders). Hospitals where med students rotate are not required to provide any accommodations that would prove to be burden on the functioning of the hospital. This is also true for residency programs.
So scheduling a wheelchair bound student to only do patient exams in rooms with doors wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair would not be a burden since all hospital doors already meet this requirement. Providing a full time sign language interpreter for deaf student on rotation would be. Residents with epilepsy who require regular sleep schedules to avoid seizures won’t be excused from doing assigned overnights (overnight shifts are 26-32 hours long) because that would require other individuals to work additional hours to cover those shifts.
Also please be aware that getting any type of accommodation on standardized testing (and there is A LOT of that in the medical profession ) gets harder and harder as one progresses. It’s very difficult to get extended time for the MCAT; it’s all but unheard of to get extended time for the USMLE or COMLEX.
So before you move further down this path, make sure that your end goal is realistic.
/sigh of unburdening now that the potential bad news is over
/not trying to discourage, just trying make sure you understand the difficulty of your journey
Wishing you success on wherever your journey takes you.
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You may be right. I would just want to know exactly why there was this change just days after the original plan.
Both my kids - one NE and one another college got an email notification any time there was any adjustment to the admissions portal. I think it triggers automatically.