<p>It just asks you a general question like are you staying with family, friends, will you arrange room/board, etc. It doesn’t ask for proof of anything. You can worry about housing after acceptance. In fact, if you are accepted PM me and I will give you the contact info of a few places that do short term rentals within walking/biking distance of the labs we worked in. </p>
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<p>They didn’t do this last year. If they do implement it this year, it won’t help anyone as SIMR doesn’t have a waitlist. I believe 75ish were accepted last year and about 65 chose to attend. So, students unable to provide proof of housing within a week won’t be any sort of benefit to you. And regardless, it is possible to arrange housing within a week if you are really on top of everything. </p>
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<p>lulz definitely not hobos everywhere. Palo Alto is a very wealthy area.</p>
<p>This doesn’t seem prohibitive to me. It does say you have to stay with a responsible adult, but to be honest I doubt PJ would restrict you from attending just because you subletted instead of staying with a family friend. Additionally, I do know at least two girls who rented a room from another SIMR student’s family, so perhaps that would be an option to explore. That would definitely qualify as having a “responsible adult.”</p>
<p>Does anyone know if renting an apartment is convenient or arrange housing with a SIMR 2013 accepted applicant or staying at a SIMR 2013 applicant’s house (uhm just a little weird if this happened).
But yea…</p>
<p>There are apartments that do short-term rentals literally a 5-10 minute walk from the labs, but they are expensive (like 5k/month though you could split that).</p>
<p>It’s not really weird that SIMR people were willing to accomodate people who needed a place to stay…why would that be weird? </p>
<p>Anyway, all this stuff will be arranged through the facebook group so don’t worry about it right now. If you want to do SIMR, at least apply. The worst that can happen is getting rejected or getting accepted and not being able to go. Neither are worse circumstances than if you never applied in the first place.</p>
<p>Do you guys think that SIMR will even look at a sophomore’s application?
I’ve only heard about juniors or seniors getting accepted into this program</p>
<p>No. You must be a junior or senior to apply. This is stated on the website. </p>
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<p>No idea. There were mostly bay area students, but I don’t know if that mirrored the proportions of applicants or not. We had a few midwest students, it can’t hurt to apply.</p>
<p>Stanford/Rest of Bay Area is quite expensive. I guess it would be a bit strange to have someone living with you who you’ve never met. Did that make any sense?</p>
<p>Anyways, I am local to SIMR and if I got in (which I seriously doubt) I think my family would be OK with housing someone (my sister will be gone to her study abroad between June and September. Well, not that she’s home much when college lets out). I don’t know about food, but perhaps it would be possible to provide that too. Also, I would probably bike there so I don’t know about transportation. I am pretty sure my family doesn’t want to be held accountable if you don’t know how to ride a bicycle or have bones that break when you just fall off your bike. Also, you’d have to deal with my little brother. And messiness.</p>
<p>But if I don’t get in, I won’t be able to arrange housing with my family. That would just be totally awk. So yeah, don’t get your hopes up too much.</p>
<p>I plan on starting my application essay either today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>I’m just worried because everyone is saying how important the essays are. But even when I work my hardest on essays, I still feel like they are not up to par, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>I just hope that I can make the admissions officers see my love for medicine and biology through my essays…</p>
<p>Are there any other SIMR alumni who would be willing to share their stats? I’d just like to get a general sense of what accepted students have done, so I don’t waste my time if it’s too competitive. Thanks!</p>
<p>So, I finished my first essay a few weeks ago and now I am having everyone I know edit it (including my crazy-good writer friend). I feel like I said everything I wanted to say, so I hope that they see something they like within me and accept me! I am working on my second essay right now, but I never really knew how to describe myself as a diverse person…</p>
<p>@numbersense, yes they are both supposed to be 3000 characters long. for the essays, I would just try to let your personality and enthusiam shine through as much as possible, and hope for the best. I am no expert, but best of luck to you!</p>
<p>SIMR says that each essay should not exeed 3000 characters in length and then they say in parentheses “about 1 page, double spaced”. I found that one page, double space in times new roman, 12 font is more like 2100 characters. I was wondering if I should follow the character guideline or cut my essays down by like 1000 characters to fit it onto one page. I don’t want to have to cut too much, but I also don’t want my application tossed aside because my essays are too long.</p>
<p>3000 characters is about 530-570 words, depending on how long your words are. </p>
<p>I’m have major problems with my first essay. It’s really hard to make the essay sound unique and insightful. /:
Which institutes are you guys applying for?</p>
