<p>Also, would somebody still have 20 active apps at this stage of the cycle? Seems a bit late to have that many real possibilities still hanging around. We’re still waiting on 1099’s and W-2’s, but as soon as they are here we’ll be filing with all the schools where she’s been accepted (and maybe her two non-rolling schools. But maybe not.).</p>
<p>Since the tax return season is on the horizon, I have a likely stupid question, which is more for the parents than for the students. If your child applied to, say, 20 schools and s/he had the luck of going to many interviews, you must have spent a lot of money. Are any of these expenses tax deductible? Since nobody will send you any 1099’s for any of these expenses, I would imagine none of these expenses are tax deductible.</p>
<p>Because of the interview requirements, applying to medical schools is almost like finding a job all over the country.</p>
<p>I wanna say that the FAFSA deadline for most med schools is March-beginning of April. So, by then, you should have a good idea of the select of schools for which you are under consideration or have acceptances from.</p>
<p>I know someone who’s still “under consideration” at fourteen schools (some upcoming interviews, a pre-interview hold, and a lot of radio silence).</p>
<p>So, there’s no penalty for waiting until March to submit the financial forms? Those who apply for aid earlier don’t have a better chance of getting money?</p>
<p>I don’t think they’ll actually award/process $ until you’ve been accepted in any case. So I think the FA info just kinda sits there if you send it before an acceptance. It really would be kinda crazy to make FA staff work that hard calculating FA for a kid they weren’t going to accept. </p>
<p>Think about it this way. Yale has accepted/rejected zero kids as of now. How many applicants? 4K+? If you send FA in now, and everyone else sends FA info in a month or 2, how does that move you to the head of the pile? They’ll start actually calculating the FA packages once they accept you.</p>
<p>Now, being late will certainly hurt you, I’d think.</p>
<p>Are you sure about the Yale thing? I think we know somebody who has been accepted.</p>
<p>I had the name Harvard there at first and then realized all their invites are supposedly done this year. I’ll check, but I think Yale is completely non-rolling.</p>
<p>Yale is not rolling. No acceptances out yet this year MD or MD/PhD. Except, Yale has an ED Program. That would be the only way I could see it happening.</p>
<p>Yeah, kdmom, that “radio silence” thing is fast turning to a rejection thing at my D’s “silent” schools. Harvard and Penn are done, only Stanford is waiting out there as a possible and they interview quite late.</p>
<p>Well I’m pretty certain this person has already accepted. Of course he is an “unusual” student. My d says he is the smartest person she has ever met at Harvard.</p>
<p>I didn’t see that “smartest guy at Harvard” exception on Yale’s website and I’m pretty certain he hasn’t been accepted unless he was an EDP applicant. But, hey. It could happen. ;)</p>
<p>My DD is on the west coast and her MCAT was on the low side, lower by a few points that the state school option. She had to assume she may not get in to our state med school. Due to the low MCAT, DD applied to more than 30 schools.</p>
<p>She picked every med school in the west that takes out of state (she only did 2 UCs though, due to their higher than average #s, same with Stanford, etc) She got 3 interviews in the western US</p>
<p>She did all the TX schools (only 10% admitted OOS) and was offered 2 interviews</p>
<p>She also did all the middle America schools- she prefers west USA over east USA 
but they let very few in, too!</p>
<p>She applied to a smattering of schools in places like NY/VA/DC etc and had 4 interview offers.</p>
<p>DD was blessed with an offer from our school in mid-fall, so canceled all subsequent interviews, but since the TX offers in the fall, she has not heard any offers.</p>
<p>There have been a few declines, mostly from the half dozen reach schools to which she applied; most of the remainder have not notified her either way. If she did not have that early admissions we would be nervous now.</p>
<p>DD did NOT apply to every school on the SDN low score shortlist, most of those schools are back east and with great ECs & LORs as well as an interest in rural family practice, she instead applied to the middle American schools, but I don’t believe i would advise that strategy. As Curm has noted before, no matter what they say, most schools really are number & state residency driven.</p>
<p>DD did get a good deal of screened secondaries and completed them, one day at a time, luckily once you get beyond 15 schools, you can do some recycling or shifting of already written essays.</p>
<p>Thanks, somemom. Its good to see how different people approach the process.</p>
<p>I really want to give credit to the cc poster who said this first (and best) but , I can’t remember who that was. 
AMCAS day (the day you select which schools at $31 a pop to send primary applications) is not a good day to have room on your credit card. There are posters on a sdn thread right now saying much the same thing. Somehow a combo of whathehell and app-day paranoia causes some otherwise bright kids (and their brain-damaged parents to suggest their kids) just throw schools on that hadn’t quite made it to the apply list. </p>
<p>She had 5 :eek: such “app day adds”. For D that was a total waste of time and cash. </p>
<p>One interview invite at an OOS private school that was really never gonna be a contender with her likely in-state options. She withdrew post invite. One very expensive OOS private with a billion apps (that she dropped after the secondary) that was just wasn’t that much better than the mid-range Texas schools. 2 super-reaches that she had previously determined she didn’t have a shot at (and she was correct btw ;)). 1 super-reach where she didn’t even start the intimidating secondary.</p>
<p>5 app day adds, and not a one of them amounted in the end to a hill of beans. Or even a bean. Jeebus.</p>
<p>DD added 5-6 reaches based on Dad telling her to give it a try “so you know” This was against my advice and all were declines, one immediately, others more slowly. Total waste of $, but I guess in the overall spectrum of $$$$ spent on this, that $150 was not a big deal…but, though I never said it then, I will say it now, “I told them so!”</p>
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<p>Often times, The mom knows better than the dad 
This reminds me of some article I read a few years. A father who is a professor at some university wrote that he will ask two of his children to apply to a top school even though he himself does not believe they will get a better undergraduate education there. He wants them to do that so that they will not wonder in their whole life whether they receive a subpar education in college. If he really believes in it, he really pays dearly just for that. (One of his children went to Stanford.) But his attitude is at least much better than those overly proud parents who believe their children definitely receive a much better education at an elite college than others who for various reasons can not go to such a school.</p>
<p>In my own family, my child ends up going to a top school (but he only applied to two such research colleges – actually only completed one of these two applications, and one “safety” school, and all other (5?) colleges he applied to were LACs.) He told us during his freshman or sophomore in college that he went there mainly for the activities outside the classroom, and he could learn just as much academically if he went to a local state school. At one times, he raised a strange question: “If I goes to a state school, will you allow me to stay longer in college because it is much cheaper to go there?” I believe he will likely miss his college years after he graduates - but I suspect that being a premed may have prevented him from fully “enjoying” his college years.</p>
<p>I would like to add that the mom in this family thinks his child only needs to apply to 15 medical schools. The dad thinks it should be 25. The child himself probably has not given any thought to this issue. We as parents are glad that he finally completed and submitted his PS to his premed committee at his school. (He appears to have a lot of ECs to write about, but most may not be directly related to medicine.) The elephant in the room is: When will he decide to take the MCAT?! It is up to him to decide on the issue of “when to take it” and even the question of “if ever”.</p>
<p>At D’s school they have Board that helps with putting everything together. They attach pre-med to one of the members of the Board for one-on-one. D. had one of those meetings. Very helpful. They discuss how many Med. schools and which ones. It is probably the best source of any information in regard to Med. School application, since Board is familiar with specific UG program and statistics in regard to Med. Schools placement from their specific UG. I would consult them for advice.</p>
<p>What medical schooll did you attend. What advice can you give me , I am currently a colege junior and I want to get into medical school in 2013 after I graduate</p>
<p>^^ invest a lot of time in preparing for your MCATs if you haven’t taken them already and try to have your scores in by the end of May. Do some research on which schools you have the best chance at, which will be mainly in-state schools if you don’t have stellar credentials. If you haven’t already done so, go to SDN, and follow the discussions on the 2011-12 acceptance threads for the schools you’re likely to apply to.</p>
<p>Have everything in place so that you can apply early, and fill out the secondaries as soon as you receive them so that ou have a shot at Aug/Sep interviews. Keep your fall semester load a bit light, and begin to set aside money for interview travel expenses. If you find your credentials are slightly below what you need for your state allopathic schools, research DO schools and the 2-year-Caribbean, 2-years-local options.</p>
<p>PS - don’t rely too much on your school’s resources unless you know they’re good - it could vary greatly. DD’s school was quite indifferent to her needs, with the main piece of advice being - just take a gap year after college and apply then. They offered very little useful assistance from what I could gather.</p>