<p>I'm placed in the "under consideration" group for the Union/AMC LIM program. does anyone know roughly what my chances are now...? Is it a long shot that I will get into this program considering my status for the program? I know when I went to interview there were approximately 80-100 people interviewed for like 35 spots, but I was just wondering if someone could give me more details of exactly what being placed "under consideration" means (how many people are placed under consideration, how many are accepted off of the under consideration list, etc...), because I would really like to attend this program.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I was also placed under consideration for the RPI program. I wouldn’t worry too much. A lot of people seem to favor other programs just because AMC is ranked lower and located up north. I honestly can’t imagine one of the Californians I met during the interviews making it up there 
. By the time they consider us in mid-April, most of their top candidates could have already withdrawn their applications in favor of other programs or Ivies.</p>
<p>Dear Notahappy, </p>
<p>There are 20 slots so the rest are alternates. NG is right that many from the south and west do not like going up north. Albany, however, is spending millions building new buildings and their ER’s will look like Apple designed them with everything suspended from the ceilings and all the latest equipment.</p>
<p>I was amazed when I walked through last year. They will be an up and coming Med school in 2 or 3 years. The have every speciality except derm and one other I can’t recall. Their top students place well so people will be pleasantly surprised when they go there.</p>
<p>Albany has a website showing animation of the ER’s. They were started by an Ivy Grad in 1830 and are a private Med school owned by Union University Corp which also owns Union College and Albany Law school. They never reply to the US News or other med school survey companies and that is why they rank lower. They don’t care since they turn away hundreds of regular applicants each year. You do two years of class room training and the last two shadowing doctors in underserved areas and clinics. Their trauma center serves upstate NY, the western half of two New England states and lower Canada.</p>
<p>I got an email two days ago saying I was accepted, so you might not have to wait until April.</p>
<p>I just want to clarify/question something about the ranking - I thought Albany wasn’t even ranked because they choose not to be. Like Raycmr said they don’t even fill our the forms. I wouldn’t consider this a “low” ranking. I consider this as abstaining so no one really knows where it would fall in the rankings.</p>
<p>I know at the info sessions they said that they pull people off of their under consideration list until registration time - that sounded like even August to me. Should call and ask.</p>
<p>If anyone is deciding between programs now is the time to go to the student doctor network to read about medical students attending specific medical schools, quality of life at each, obtaining apartments, clinical work etc. How hard it is to get into a certain medical school when not in a combined. Good luck. </p>
<p>P.S. Most combined schools have at least 50% above their allotted med school slots in alternates. So I would say that 6-8 weeks after May 1 reply date they have any vacancies back filled.</p>
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