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"Please complete your essay and include your responses to the following questions: (Please use font size 12 and limit your essay to one page. You may attach your essay to the application if additional space is needed.)"
To me it sounded like they wanted 1 essay answering both questions limited to one page. That's what I did and was accepted.
I received an email today saying that UMDNJ received my primary and would like to invite me for an interview. This is before I have even sent in my secondary and they are requesting that I send it before they officially schedule an interview.
Previous applicants or anyone that knows, is this a good sign or is it common for them to do this?
Is the secondary snail mailed? Also, is the essay supposed to be typed right under the question (that large blank space)?
I received an email today saying that UMDNJ received my primary and would like to invite me for an interview. This is before I have even sent in my secondary and they are requesting that I send it before they officially schedule an interview.
Previous applicants or anyone that knows, is this a good sign or is it common for them to do this?
IMO, UMDNJ-SOM seems like they are trying to grab people as quickly as they can, more so than other schools; as if they are trying to strengthen their student body or something. I donno.
This happened to a friend of mine that decided not to submit secondaries. He got a call during the Fall telling him that he would get an interview if he submitted.
You have your MCAT score in, right? IMO, UMDNJ-SOM seems like they are trying to grab people as quickly as they can, more so than other schools; as if they are trying to strengthen their student body or something. I donno.
Be very careful what you post. It is very well known that many, if not all, adcoms from medical schools read SDN. It is not as anonymous as you may think.
Yes, my mcat scores are in and I submitted my secondary last week. Let's see what happens.
That is good advice.
Although, I didn't mean to critisize. I was just suggesting that UMDNJ - SOM seems especially intent on building a strong class - more so than other schools. That's a good thing, right??
No worries. You just have to realize that people may take what you write the wrong way because in this type of communication you lose body language, facial expression, and tone inflection.
UMDNJ-SOM is a strong program and keeps striving to making it stronger. I do not know why they are recruiting as that is not information I am privy to. But there is nothing wrong with recruiting the best and the brightest. Heck, they do it in college all the time for sports.
My point is, be careful what you say and in a forum, be careful how you word things. They may not be taken the way you intended it to be.
It's best to send in the secondary and just get the LORs in as soon as you can.
Thanx Bunches, I sent it in priority mail yesterday! I finally have the $90.00. I hope I do not lose out for waiting so long...
This is so true.
BTW, has anyone been able to send letters via interfolio!? I still can't get it to work and Interfolio has been entirely unhelpful. I need to get my letters in!
No! I haven't either and it's really frustrating. And it seems to be a problem only with UMDNJ-SOM all of the other schools worked....
YupI was born, raised, educated (all the way through college) in Jersey. Lived there until my late 20s. I've been in NYC for 4 years now. Will UMDNJ still consider me to be an OOS student?
"Please complete your essay and include your responses to the following questions: (Please use font size 12 and limit your essay to one page. You may attach your essay to the application if additional space is needed.)"
To me it sounded like they wanted 1 essay answering both questions limited to one page. That's what I did and was accepted.
Thanks! I don't know why I was having so much trouble understanding directions!!!
I have to confess, I apparently don't know how to read either..lol. I started to write them as 2 essays, and all I kept thinking was "I feel like this should really be one essay" haha..thanks for the clarification!
Don't worry. It'll be coming soon.
I just received an email today saying that we will be having a tour guide orientation on September 7, so that we can show you around the day of your interviews. Also, unlike the other schools that schedule you for an interview months away, when UMDNJ called me, they asked if I would like to come in that week.