<p>Got rejected from VCU</p>
<p>anyone know vcu stats?? I know 60 are interviewed. Anyone know how many admitted, in state and out of state??</p>
<p>Rochester does give out at least $17,000/yr. for National Merit Finalists.</p>
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<p><a href=“https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/forms/ga/instructions.aspx#selection[/url]”>https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/forms/ga/instructions.aspx#selection</a></p>
<p>450 hours health care - wow! I am assuming any research time is not included in that either. That’s a lot of hours.</p>
<p>texas where did you find that information? the link doesn’t give those numbers.</p>
<p>I know those were the stats for back in 2012 for VCU, but how about this year or more recently? Will it still be 34 acceptances?</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/forms/ga/instructions.aspx[/url]”>https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/forms/ga/instructions.aspx</a></p>
<p>midhelper - It is odd since the link seems to point back to something else after I get to this area. </p>
<p>Click on medicine on the left and then click on information and application and scroll down for this section.</p>
<p>Actsat - I was looking for the number of seats available and this is what I found. I am assuming they offer more admissions than available to account for yield but not sure if that is correct. 34/60 is incredible odds.</p>
<p>“450 hours of healthcare”
That is a lot. Do all the BS/MD programs ask the students to disclose hours they spent in healthcare? Is such question asked in the interviews?</p>
<p>It sounds overwhelming but I can think of how someone gets there: </p>
<p>2 months/320 hrs of research, 50-150 hours volunteering, 50-100 hours of shadowing, 50-100 hours of some sort of health advocacy, - you can choose variations of this.</p>
<p>I think there were some people last year (bombingrange?) who had 800 hours without research.</p>
<p>@everyone</p>
<p>What about general total hours? Like I have over 750 hours of total community service that includes everything from healthcare to soup-kitchens to organizing charity events as well as other community service that is not health related. Do the BS/MDs value that kind of stuff as well? I have like 100 hours or -ish of total research (everything from environmental science to cancer research with profs)</p>
<p>I am asking because in my applications to most places, one of my main focuses/passions is community service which I genuinely love doing.</p>
<p>Yeah I didn’t have research so I played up my volunteering hours like you don’t even know. Only about 300 of those were actual EMS volunteering, though. I also never shadowed or volunteered directly at a hospital so I would have probably not gotten an interview for VCU had I applied.</p>
<p>Where did you all write your total hours for your activities? In the common app?</p>
<p>It was actually on my transcript, the school keeps track.</p>
<p>^oh geez really? How could the school keep track of it all? Schools here are close to 2000 enrollment and public - they would never bother to keep track of hours. This is where I feel it is unfair. My S’s school doesn’t even have Sci oly, no academic team, no WYSE team, no fairs of any kind, no honorary recognition except nhs, no math team. Some of you are very fortunate indeed.
Such is life I guess.</p>
<p>Will it be the same amount of acceptances this year?? 34 acceptances?? I dont know how many they interviewed in 2012, if someone found out how many interviews they had back in 2012 then we could just proportionate it</p>
<p>The seats usually remain the same. Number admitted may vary based yield. Anyone know how many seats exist?</p>
<p>i think the best way to find out is look in previous bs/md forums. I think they actually choose 60 interviews as the same amount every year. I think its 60 interviews regardless of number of applicants each year</p>
<p>I spoke with an admissions officer about community work. I was told that it is not the number of hours that counts. Colleges like to see that you have done community work consistently, and especially taking the effort to do that during term time. Community work, no matter how many hours, mean a lot more if you have done it on a regular basis and include during school terms.</p>
<p>Not that anyone will do…but…VCU seem to want +/- 450 hrs while adcom says a little different. I don’t know where they would state in common app about the # of hrs, but if some kid does it in the app w/o actually doing that many hrs, who is to verify that or the kid runs the risk loosing the acceptance if someone does look into the claim later? How does this work anyways? Probably honesty or honor code I guess.</p>