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Discuss away people. New thread for the new year!
So I was looking at the website for ATSU-SOMA and it said that the second year students participate in the community campus. Can anyone provide more information about this? Thanks!
I don't know much about their rotation, but being a new school this is always a concern.
The way it was explained to me is that your core rotations will be at the CHC too. Any inpatient rotating is done at the hospital system the CHC refers patients to. You travel away for your electives if you can't get them near the CHC or you want to do one at a specific place.
I've been involved in the CHC movement for a while now, it's a great place to do core rotations. The populations CHC's serve bring more high acuity cases than you might see elsewhere. The people who use the clinic I work at are usually much sicker than at the clinic I actually get my care at. Low socioeconomic status drives that trend.
Are there many military scholarship recipients at SOMA? If so are any of the CHCs near any military bases?
Are there many military scholarship recipients at SOMA? If so are any of the CHCs near any military bases?
Anyone know what the deal is with the 'evals' versus regular LORs is? It's hard enough to get a Doc to write the LOR let alone these evals as well...
Did SOMA require the Dr. letter to be from someone you shadowed for 20+ hours last year?
.What is your motivation for participating in the activities you have described in the clinical, volunteer and community service section? How have these experiences changed you?
I have a whole bunch of experiences and different motivations for each...
did you guys describe all your activities? or did you just focus on 1 or 2..?
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Does SOMA only want volunteer experiences, or do they want all clinical, including shadowing and paid clinical experiences?
I emailed admissions but I haven't heard back yet.
Thanks, if anyone knows the answer.
Did SOMA require the Dr. letter to be from someone you shadowed for 20+ hours last year?
The did, and it kept me from submitting my "DO" letter since it was written by my next door neighbor who was in residency up until application time. I knew her and she knew me, we talked a lot about osteopathic school etc. but I didn't get to shadow her until about two months ago.
There is a separate section for non-clinical volunteering, so I'm set there. I only have three clinical experiences though, one is paid, one is shadowing, and the other volunteer, so I was hoping I could list all three. They are on the primary app though so I guess it's not the end of the world if I can't put them.
Edited to add, I wanted to tie these experience into my secondary essay so I feel like I need them listed to begin with in order to do that. I may put them and just be very explicit in the top of the descriptions that they are paid/shadowing. Of course if I hear from SOMA that may all change.
Ok, so it says that this information has to be verifiable. Do they need us to have a letter sent from each place we volunteered in order to confirm our volunteer experience? or do we just have to put down their information?
I was thinking about re-applying to this school but I don't think it's worth it.
They pretty much lied to us last year when they said most students on the waitlist will be accepted. Yeah, that didn't happen.
Not to mention there are probably a lot of spots taken this year already from students of LAST cycle via the accepted pending list. This school is at the bottom of my list.
Hi everyone. Sorry if this was already asked and answered but I did a search and couldn't find a reply.
I only applied to ATSU-SOMA and I think I read somewhere that I should forward my Letters of Rec from interfolio to their KCOM campus because that's where all applications are basically collected. Is this true? In Interfolio, their electronic delivery has one for KCOM and another for SOMA. Should I go ahead and choose SOMA then?
Thank you!
i sent it to kcom
yeah i have been complete there and KCOM for a week now. I think it is just the confirmation number e-mail and then you see what all they have.
I am using interfolio so everything is sent directly to the schools electronically the next day. Interfolio is expensive sure but I would pay for it again in a heartbeat for DO schools.
All I can say is about this school is... buyer beware!
I wasted $600 on application fees, hotel and airline costs going out to this school to interview. I was placed on the alternate list where my application went to die. They lied and told us that most alternates are accepted and that it was likely we would be accepted.
They will give you false hope... not to mention much of the class is likely filled already because they allow "pending accepts" from last year to take your spots this year.
I really liked the CHC model and was pumped about this school but their admissions process is crazy. It has been a huge letdown sitting around waiting for this school, only to find that what they told us was not true.
To everyone else, don't let one person's experience deter you; we have an awesome thing going at SOMA. It's definitely a place I think you should give some real consideration to.
Not a normal college campus.
It's not just "one person's experience".
It happened to basically everyone on the alternate list.
All I can say is, you may share the same fate applying to this school. I am personally saving my money for other schools that are truthful and have a realistic admissions process. The actual school is like a University of Phoenix, or tech school, building as well. Not a normal college campus.
It's not just "one person's experience".
It happened to basically everyone on the alternate list.
All I can say is, you may share the same fate applying to this school. I am personally saving my money for other schools that are truthful and have a realistic admissions process. The actual school is like a University of Phoenix, or tech school, building as well. Not a normal college campus.
Last year, even though the class was mostly full, SOMA continued to invite several groups to interview. Some students I talked to were also hesitant about interviewing because there were no spots left.