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****. Undergrad biochem is 100% required for UNECOM?
100% required. They do have a distance learning course you can take over the summer before matriculation if you need.
portland is only 17 miles from Biddeford. You can easily live either place and comfortably commute if you're used to that (most Mainers think 17 miles is an unforgivable distance away from anything though).
Correct. Would help if you actually had it listed as "future courses" in your app, but they definitely won't hold it against you not having had it already. Most folks haven't actually finished the course (or started it sometimes) during app season.LOL sounds terrible. So they won't hold it against me not having taken biochem though right? They'll just make me take it as a condition of acceptance?
can someone post the secondary essays, or at least a link to them? i cant seem to find them anywhere.
Correct. Would help if you actually had it listed as "future courses" in your app, but they definitely won't hold it against you not having had it already. Most folks haven't actually finished the course (or started it sometimes) during app season.
Our initial review of your AACOMAS application indicates one or more deficiencies exist in meeting the prerequisite classes.
Thanks to you and to everyone else who answered my questions! Now if only AACOMAS would verify my app... for the love of GOD, already... maybe I could throw my hat in this ring.
Write them and ask. I would also state in your email/letter that you would be happy to take the online course over the summer should you be accepted for admission.They sent that letter to me and said my application is on hold. Now I put on aacomas I'm completing all the normal prereqs by the end of this year so the problem must be with biochemistry. If they really offer biochem summer before matriculation what could the problem be?
List ALL the medical schools (osteopathic and allopathic) to which you have applied in the past and/or are applying to this admissions cycle. List each school/college on separate line and include month/year of application.
Describe your particular interest in attending UNECOM and what brought you to your decision to apply. Reflect on the type of physician you want to become, and how UNECOM can help you reach your potential.
Describe any contact you have had with UNECOM students, alumni, faculty members, or clinicians, admissions/student affairs staff members, etc. How did these interactions influence your decision to apply?
Reflect on your involvement in healthcare, research, clubs, and community organizations. In light of all these experiences, how would you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in your preparation to study and practice osteopathic medicine?
Please share any additions or changes since submitting your AACOMAS application. Include academic recognition, research achievements and/or publications, presentations, promotions or changes in employment, recent leadership or volunteer service, etc.
cool, thanks, do you know if there is a character limit?
Write them and ask. I would also state in your email/letter that you would be happy to take the online course over the summer should you be accepted for admission.
I just gave the admissions office a call. Apparently, unlike just about every single other medical school, the prereqs have to be COMPLETED prior to APPLYING. I am in the process of taking gen bio now, so they're not going to consider my application. ****.
Complete ALL pre-reqs BEFORE applying??? If that is really true (which I sincerely doubt), you're right - they'd be the only med school that has that policy, and it must be a very very new change. I can absolutely tell you that the policy in previous years has NOT been what you were told. However, if you're just taking gen bio NOW, the MCAT must'a been... interesting.
I think you do need to have the pre-reqs listed on your app that you are planning on taking them in the future. I'd call again and talk to someone other than a secretary.
cool, thanks, do you know if there is a character limit?
I just got a letter from Lisa Lane, Assistant Director of Admissions that I did not meet the minimum MCAT writing sample score. I had a K, and the min is a M. But I beat the min MCAT of 18 with a 30 and the min overall GPA of 2.7 with 3.72. Apparently, the writing score has equal weight with the other scores.
Any comments?
YEah I got a comment. They're a bunch of ass holes in the admissions office.
does anyone applying to have a connection or know someone affiliated with UNECOM? i don't know what to write for the secondary question that asks :
"Describe any contact you have had with UNECOM students, alumni, faculty members or clinicians, admissions/student affairs staff members, etc. How did these interactions influence your decision to apply?"
anybody else struggling with this question?
I thought this thread could use a little bump because I just got my first interview invite this morning from UNECOM!
I thought this thread could use a little bump because I just got my first interview invite this morning from UNECOM!
I felt my ears burning.
You can definitely say you have had contact with anonymous current and past students of UNECOM through online forums. However, I said I didn't have any contact and I still got in.
You do NOT "have" to leave Maine for rotations. third year rotations are by core site. There are several of these: three in Maine, and then others in NJ, PA, RI, NY, and they're looking at one in NH. All your third year core rotations are done at one core site, so you can settle into one place to live for an entire year and all rotations are within reasonable driving distance. There are a few exceptions: I think right now there is one six-week block in some of the southern Maine tracks that require you to go to PA for that block. I'm currently at a core site in Maine. Your fourth year rotations you set up on your own, which can actually be a huge plus - you can get your "face time" at a place you want an interview, and you can plan your rotations to be nearer your residency application places in case you get an interview. It allows a lot of freedom. Or you can get in with the local hospitals for your fourth year rotations. You just have to set it up.I've read on sdn that unecom students must leave Maine for their clinical rotations and that you must set up your 4th year rotations yourself. Are these statements accurate? Can anyone help me out with some data that is not on the school website?
You can absolutely ask for current student contact. Admissions can help you with that. Generally the contact is via email (med students are freakishly busy folks and email is about the best way to guarantee a message). I did it for two years and usually responded the very same day to any request from a potential applicant. The email responses are not monitored, and most students will be very honest with you about what they like and what they'd change if only given the chance.I just got the secondary, I am definitely using SDN as a contact but can I also call and request to speak to a student? has anyone actually tried that? thanx
how early do students get patient/clinical exposure at UNECOM, first week of first yr? the website says the curriculum can change, it can be PBL, case based etc, how does that work? THANX in advance.
One more ques about UNECOM. I've seen where some schools test on conceptual stuff and in others, good memorization skills are needed because they test almost strictly rote memorization. What category does UNECOM fall into or is it an even mix?
BTW, the admissions dept, are not "a-holes". In fact, they are particularly good from what most have said. I got my interview quickly after the secondary, was told I was in shortly after, and treated kindly the whole time.