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Alrighty...I've finally submitted my AMCAS so I consider the application process to be started...thus, I'm starting the Mayo 2009 thread (my first choice). So, who's applying to Mayo this cycle?
Alrighty...I've finally submitted my AMCAS so I consider the application process to be started...thus, I'm starting the Mayo 2009 thread (my first choice). So, who's applying to Mayo this cycle?
Do you want to make a thread titled "2008-2009 Mayo Secondary Application Thread" so that I can link to it on the main secondary application thread? The secondary for Mayo is probably not available yet, but when it is, I can link to that, too.
I've been making these threads for a lot of individual schools so that people can go there to talk about school specific issues.
I was actually debating whether or not to apply to Mayo. It was my "15th choice", I guess, but I cut it off at 14 when I submitted my AMCAS.
It seems like a really interesting program with a small tight knit group of students. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't apply besides the fact that I was already applying to 14 other schools and was feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all.
go mayo! don't they do some sort of phone inteview in the application process? could've made that one up...
I was actually debating whether or not to apply to Mayo. It was my "15th choice", I guess, but I cut it off at 14 when I submitted my AMCAS.
It seems like a really interesting program with a small tight knit group of students. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't apply besides the fact that I was already applying to 14 other schools and was feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all.
Just curious Shemarty.. how do you already have an interview invite the day after apps were sent out? Did you get an automatic invite?
And I would also like to add....
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Just curious Shemarty.. how do you already have an interview invite the day after apps were sent out? Did you get an automatic invite?
And I would also like to add....
mmmmmmmMayo
Well, I just submitted my AMCAS application. I know Mayo is a a serious reach for me, but I figured it's worth the money just to say that I gave it a shot.
I'm in! Anybody have any idea when the secondary could get sent out?
You really never know. It's hard to say what Mayo is looking for. There's a good range of stats and backgrounds in the med students here.
Probably, I have no clue. I thought I remember hearing people complain that you had to pay to even get them to look at your primary. Maybe I'm way off though.....Dont they screen the primaries....and then offer you a secondary and the opportunity to pay 85 dollars if you make that cut???
maybe you have to pay them in order to even get the secondary??? Who knows, whats another 85 dollars.Probably, I have no clue. I thought I remember hearing people complain that you had to pay to even get them to look at your primary. Maybe I'm way off though.....
Secondary Application Required: NoHas someone checked the recent MSAR? Does it say there is a secondary application fee for Mayo in there? I'd go by that....
Secondary Application Required: No
Fee: Yes, $85
Estimated Number of New Entrants: 50
They don't break it down in the MSAR. Were there 42 total matriculants last year, or just 42 MDs? Looks to me like there were 42 total.50 = 42 MD, 6 MD/PhD, 2 MD/OMS
They don't break it down in the MSAR. Were there 42 total matriculants last year, or just 42 MDs? Looks to me like there were 42 total.
What about the number of letters? As in, how many letters of recommendation does Mayo require?
This might seems like a strange question to me, but:
If I need three letters, and I'll have one from a professor I've had in about 4-5 classes (included a month abroad in a history/philosophy of science class), my research and academic advisor in the department, and one more... Problem is, I'm worred about the third person I'd ask: He is my supervisor for my computer help desk job I've been at now for three years and a full-time summer (and in another area near him another full-time summer), but I'm worred about his GRAMMAR, of all things. Would the admissions committee(s) frown upon letters from people who may have slight grammar issues? Or do they focus mainly or solely on the content of the letters?
Other than him, I don't have anyone that I would feel ABSOLUTELY comfortable asking, or someone I know and with whom I've worked for a while...
Is he foreign? If he is, or has a foreign sounding name, I imagine they'll overlook it so long as it doesn't sound like it was written by a small child. If it's a great letter though, obviously written by someone that knows you well and thinks highly of you, I imagine they'll be able to overlook a few grammatical errors.
P.S.: Phoenix, when you say you hope to have hands-on Mayo experience upcoming, what do you mean? I'm just curious, haha.
Its probably a bad idea to get your sights set on one school, even if you were a 4.0/43....just keep your mind open and youll be fineI dunno guys, my practice MCAT sections are lower than I'd like (10-11 or so)... Hopefully if I get a 30 Mayo can look past that...
P.S.: Phoenix, when you say you hope to have hands-on Mayo experience upcoming, what do you mean? I'm just curious, haha.
Its probably a bad idea to get your sights set on one school, even if you were a 4.0/43....just keep your mind open and youll be fine
My advisor is trying to discourage me (and everyone else) from applying to Mayo, saying that you can only get in if you "know people..."
Not true. There's a good number of the class that et in without knowing people at Mayo. I'm not saying that it doesn't help...but I know people in the med school that got in that definitely had no connections to the school (I work there right now).