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RunningDoc55 said:
Hi everyone! I got in off the waitlist as well (received a phone call from my interviewer on Tuesday), so it's definitely moving! Good luck to everybody hoping to get off the waitlist. 😉
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Are you IS or OOS? Male or female? I'm just trying to gauge my chances.... Congrats to you!
 
A friend of a friend of mine supposedly got in off the waitlist 2 days ago. I think hes male and in state. I know hes an EMS. I don't know if he is on here though.

So, were definitely moving.

Maybe I should call the front office and remind them of my phone number again.
 
So I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I talked to Randee and she said "I don't know where that came from, but we aren't doing anything different than the other 12 years I have been here" when I asked if it is true that the waitlist is smaller this year. She wouldn't say how many are on it, but she did tell me I am 'in the middle' on the list (I don't think that bodes well if the list is huge). She also said that there has been very little waitlist movement.
 
I didn't say its smaller one year versus the next. I just said there are 35 people on it.
 
"When the new dean (Dr. Bashford) took over he made a decision to keep the waitlist a realistic length so that you aren't artificially raising the hopes of 100 odd people waitlisted"

^ I took this to mean he made a change in the size of the waitlist this year (since this is his first year as dean), but believe me, I really hope you are right that there are 35 on the list (actually less would be even better!). Here's to hoping!
 
Yea, I don't know. As so frequently happens on this site, someone will say one thing and then someone else something different a little while later from a different source. I have a source for that info, its a friend of mine. His mom is somehow associated with admissions and is the source of most of my information. That and two M2 students who also work with admissions. So I am hoping the info they give me when I grill them means something. I can't imagine them just making stuff up, though I suppose its possible. That said, everything here is rumors and hearsay and should be taken as such. I'll tell you what I hear, and hopefull everyone else will do the same and maybe we can shed a little light on this very opaque process.

That said- Randee has on several occasions given generic answers over the phone that rarely represent what is actually going on behind the scenes. I take everything from the front office with a grain of salt. Just last week she told someone that no one had gotten in off the waitlist yet, but those of us on here knew that Travelingdoc and another non-SDN member had gotten in. There are many more examples of the front office giving answers that are more placating than true. I am not sure what kind of access they actually even have, or wish to have. So, IDK. I am thinking about calling up there to see where I am on the waitlist though. I'll let you guys know.


chachi said:
"When the new dean (Dr. Bashford) took over he made a decision to keep the waitlist a realistic length so that you aren't artificially raising the hopes of 100 odd people waitlisted"

^ I took this to mean he made a change in the size of the waitlist this year (since this is his first year as dean), but believe me, I really hope you are right that there are 35 on the list (actually less would be even better!). Here's to hoping!
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I just called up there. I got someone other than Randee. He told me that they do not give waitlist positions out because the waitlist is not ranked. He also told me that the waitlist is slow moving and that he expects to see only possibly a little more movement this summer. I asked him what more information he could tell me, and he told me he was only to answer general questions regarding admissions and that he really didn't know anything. Finaly, I asked if the waitlist was moving more or less than average, and he again said he didn't know.

Ugh- so now I'm depressed. I feel like he just told me the waitlist isn't going to move much more.
 
🙁

I was looking at your old posts UNCHopeful, and you and I have pretty much the same stats and ECs. I dunno why they are hating on us. I was looking at the UNC fb group (masochistic, I know), and it looks like a good chunk of those people were from UNC. Maybe we're just not UNC-y or edgey enough.
 
avidrunner23 said:
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I was looking at your old posts UNCHopeful, and you and I have pretty much the same stats and ECs. I dunno why they are hating on us. I was looking at the UNC fb group (masochistic, I know), and it looks like a good chunk of those people were from UNC. Maybe we're just not UNC-y or edgey enough.
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I did notice it seems like half of our class or more (atleast on FB) is from UNC undergrad.
 
Where do I send my transcripts to (so I can start school in the fall)? The Office of Admissions? include that CB #9500? They didn't specifically say, tha address is just on the letterhead.
 
Lauren87 said:
Where do I send my transcripts to (so I can start school in the fall)? The Office of Admissions? include that CB #9500? They didn't specifically say, tha address is just on the letterhead.
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Yep, send to:

UNC SOM
Office of Admissions
1001 Bondurant Hall, CB# 9500
CH, NC 27599-9500
 
ChubbyChaser said:
I did notice it seems like half of our class or more (atleast on FB) is from UNC undergrad.
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Definitely the case. But, you have to remember that a very large portion of the applications that UNC medical school gets are from UNC undergrad. I have been told that proportionally, the acceptances reflect the general pool of undergrad institutions. Looking at sheer applicant numbers from an undergraduate instituion, UNC is in the top 10. Taking these two things into consideration, it makes sense that a large number of the medical school class consists of UNC undergrad's graduates.

Just my 2 cents...
 
so what's the deal with the hep B vaccination? what if you don't have all three of those by the time med school starts?
 
travelingdoc said:
so what's the deal with the hep B vaccination? what if you don't have all three of those by the time med school starts?
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You should have gotten those in middle school or thereabouts. If not, or if you can't find your records, then you should probably contact the Student Affairs office.
 
Thama said:
You should have gotten those in middle school or thereabouts. If not, or if you can't find your records, then you should probably contact the Student Affairs office.
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yeah that was about the same time I had moved to NC....checked records and emailed Ms. Tinfo....
 
talkalot24 said:
Yep, send to:

UNC SOM
Office of Admissions
1001 Bondurant Hall, CB# 9500
CH, NC 27599-9500
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Thanks!

Did anyone have to get extra shots to complete the health requirements? I'm sorry I keep asking for help...I just find all of this paperwork so boring and I have neurotic friend who is also going to UNC who keeps calling me for help. If I understood the forms right, not every shot listed on paper and online was required and most people raised in NC have gotten them all? I hope so.
 
Lauren87 said:
Thanks!

Did anyone have to get extra shots to complete the health requirements? I'm sorry I keep asking for help...I just find all of this paperwork so boring and I have neurotic friend who is also going to UNC who keeps calling me for help. If I understood the forms right, not every shot listed on paper and online was required and most people raised in NC have gotten them all? I hope so.
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You'll probably need a Tdap injection, as well as 2 TB tests and some blood draws, and that's if you are already up to date on all immunizations (i.e. you already had your Hep B and Varicella, etc).
 
Thama said:
You'll probably need a Tdap injection, as well as 2 TB tests and some blood draws, and that's if you are already up to date on all immunizations (i.e. you already had your Hep B and Varicella, etc).
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Yep. I would assume that you've gotten all of the immunizations required by the University (MMR, etc).

But you may need a few things for the SOM: Two TB tests within like a week apart, Hep B shots, possibly Tdap, Varicella titer, and Hep B titer (quantitative).
 
talkalot24 said:
Yep. I would assume that you've gotten all of the immunizations required by the University (MMR, etc).

But you may need a few things for the SOM: Two TB tests within like a week apart, Hep B shots, possibly Tdap, Varicella titer, and Hep B titer (quantitative).
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if you guys have any questions, talk to the woman they referred us to - Jessica Tinfo. (though it seems like you've already answered all the questions already)

She's really nice and knows just about everything one might have questions about, including getting hep B vaccinations many years apart (long story)...haha, but yeah, gotta get my third shot next week and then do the titer about a month after that. It's only 51 dollars for a Hep B shot at student health, FYI.
 
I'm almost sure it's free for all vaccinations done at the health center if you're on the UNC student insurance (Hill, Chesson and Woody). I've saved a lot of dough there over the past few years!

I was in the same boat for Hep B (way behind), and Jessica Tinfo was great about it. Doesn't seem to be a problem if your last vaccinations happen after term starts, as long as she's in the loop about it.
 
Globizen said:
I'm almost sure it's free for all vaccinations done at the health center if you're on the UNC student insurance (Hill, Chesson and Woody). I've saved a lot of dough there over the past few years!

I was in the same boat for Hep B (way behind), and Jessica Tinfo was great about it. Doesn't seem to be a problem if your last vaccinations happen after term starts, as long as she's in the loop about it.
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really? The letter from Dr. Dent didn't say it's okay to have them done after term starts.....

I mean, until the first ICM week (or a few weeks before that first community week so you've built up immunity), I don't see the need for having these vaccinations so early. (or even as a requirement to attend orientation)

to the WLers - keep hope, there will be movement. They take their time in deciding who to take off the WL. Keep the office informed of any new developments, too.
 
Hey everyone I'm a new member to the thread. I got off the waitlist today, it's definitely moving so don't lose hope! I'm IS, female.
 
^congratulations!

thanks guys for your help...yup I need to go to the doctor...I'll make an appointment! Has everyone secured housing in CH yet? I'm going out with my real estate agent tomorrow, my roomie comes up next week! We're looking at townhomes on the busline in Chapel Hill/Carrboro and I really hope to have one secured in the next 2 weeks.

My birthday's coming up (Monday) and I'm celebrating with my girlfriends on Franklin Street this Saturday...party starts at Chipotle and heads East from there...so if you see me, drunk and in a one-shouldered short dress, buy me a drink! 👍
 
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WannabeinNC said:
Hey everyone I'm a new member to the thread. I got off the waitlist today, it's definitely moving so don't lose hope! I'm IS, female.
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Nice. If you don't mind me asking, what were your stats? MCAT? GPA? Age?
 
yay!

hm. seems like the last couple of people were forum lurkers, which leads me to think the waitlist is >~35
 
I wouldn't use that little observation to completely discount the possibility. If you go back and count there are 13 people on the waitlist here on SDN. So that leaves 22 people who are either lurkers or have never found this thread, or a 63% chance that whoever got in will not be on here. Since we have had a few people get in that were members, and the ratio is very roughly 1:2 member vs. non-member ratio, I think there is actually more support than discredit in the observation that most of the people who have gotten in are not on SDN.

I leave for Bolivia for a month on Saturday. I am going to be working in a hospital with a group of students from USC's medical school. I was down there last month with a number of residents from Bowman Gray Medical School at Wake Forest working in a burn clinic for poor children. I observed over 50 cases and I was able to scrub in on a number of them to help suture and hand instruments. Next week when I am down there, I will be again observing and helping where I am able in the emergency room, the maternity ward, NICU, and the burn center again.

I told all this, along with my experiences working in clinics and operating rooms in Nicaragua to my interviewer at ECU. His response: "But you don't have any real clinical experience, as in the United States"

I wish I knew why medical schools hated me so much. I don't understand even what I can do to improve my application.
 
UNCHopeful said:
I told all this, along with my experiences working in clinics and operating rooms in Nicaragua to my interviewer at ECU. His response: "But you don't have any real clinical experience, as in the United States"
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Don't worry about anything those cretins at ECU picked on you for. I've never encountered a more negative, asinine group than the one that school chooses to do interviews. Far better schools were practically recruiting me during the interviews, and ECU was picking through any tiny hole in my resume and trying to ask me any question they could think of that would make me say something to justify their negative recommendation. Any school with non-brain-dead interviewers would love someone whose clinical experience came in a third-world environment.
 
Thama said:
Don't worry about anything those cretins at ECU picked on you for. I've never encountered a more negative, asinine group than the one that school chooses to do interviews. Far better schools were practically recruiting me during the interviews, and ECU was picking through any tiny hole in my resume and trying to ask me any question they could think of that would make me say something to justify their negative recommendation. Any school with non-brain-dead interviewers would love someone whose clinical experience came in a third-world environment.
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They also want a very specific kinda of person who is from NC and will stay in NC forever and ever. From what I can tell, credentials have little to do with it. I've been shadowing since high school, worked as a nurses aide and in a physician's office and they told me that I needed more experience.
 
UNCHopeful said:
I wouldn't use that little observation to completely discount the possibility. If you go back and count there are 13 people on the waitlist here on SDN. So that leaves 22 people who are either lurkers or have never found this thread, or a 63% chance that whoever got in will not be on here. Since we have had a few people get in that were members, and the ratio is very roughly 1:2 member vs. non-member ratio, I think there is actually more support than discredit in the observation that most of the people who have gotten in are not on SDN.

I leave for Bolivia for a month on Saturday. I am going to be working in a hospital with a group of students from USC's medical school. I was down there last month with a number of residents from Bowman Gray Medical School at Wake Forest working in a burn clinic for poor children. I observed over 50 cases and I was able to scrub in on a number of them to help suture and hand instruments. Next week when I am down there, I will be again observing and helping where I am able in the emergency room, the maternity ward, NICU, and the burn center again.

I told all this, along with my experiences working in clinics and operating rooms in Nicaragua to my interviewer at ECU. His response: "But you don't have any real clinical experience, as in the United States"

I wish I knew why medical schools hated me so much. I don't understand even what I can do to improve my application.
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I agree with Thama. This program you do in Bolivia sounds absolutely awesome. Although my interview experience at ECU was very nice, don't let anything that happens get to you. Admissions is a crapshoot (trust me - after three years of it, I know). Keep doing what you're doing and it will work out for you!
 
WannabeinNC said:
Hey everyone I'm a new member to the thread. I got off the waitlist today, it's definitely moving so don't lose hope! I'm IS, female.
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Congrats!

Although all the other IS girls getting in off the waitlist is kinda depressing.... I guess my chances of getting the next IS female spot is better than yesterday 😎
 
All I have to say is, what about us dudes? It seems like they are only taking women these days. What the devil? 😎
 
I've noticed for some of the other schools that they take people off the waitlist if they have high stats and they either have no accepts or an accept at a lower tiered school, which makes going to the school a sure thing. It's just my speculation though, and may not apply to unc. UNC has kinda a weird admissions process.
 
UNCHopeful said:
I told all this, along with my experiences working in clinics and operating rooms in Nicaragua to my interviewer at ECU. His response: "But you don't have any real clinical experience, as in the United States"

I wish I knew why medical schools hated me so much. I don't understand even what I can do to improve my application.
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Yeah I had the worst interview ever at ECU too! My student interviewer was permanently on the defensive about Greenville, and the faculty member was just not interested that day. Don't let them get you down.

My stats were kind of average, ~3.5/30, good research experience and international(!) clinical experience, and I did have two other acceptances but I don't think Chapel Hill knew that. But I emailed my final transcript to Randee and my interviewer last week and sent an LOI in late April.

Also I'm not originally from NC, I'm from another country so I really made it clear in my interviews that I planned to stay here forever and ever🙂
 
I have been "lurking" this thread for about a week or so now, trying to figure out if I have any hope of getting off of the wait list or if I should give up the dream and start planning out the next year of my life. Has anyone heard of an OOS student getting into UNC off the waitlist? It seems like the only posts are from IS students.
 
ohmemd said:
I have been "lurking" this thread for about a week or so now, trying to figure out if I have any hope of getting off of the wait list or if I should give up the dream and start planning out the next year of my life. Has anyone heard of an OOS student getting into UNC off the waitlist? It seems like the only posts are from IS students.
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Im not sure how UNC works, but i know this is how the waitlist at some other schools work (Vandy for one). When one person declines they try to fill the void with a similar candidate so (OOS for OOS...male for male.....high mcat for high mcat, etc.) THis is all speculation of course. I wouldnt give up hope yet, the fact that UNC is 85% instate might have something to do with the fact that the only ppl who have posted about getting in off the WL are IS.
 
WannabeinNC said:
Yeah I had the worst interview ever at ECU too! My student interviewer was permanently on the defensive about Greenville, and the faculty member was just not interested that day. Don't let them get you down.

My stats were kind of average, ~3.5/30, good research experience and international(!) clinical experience, and I did have two other acceptances but I don't think Chapel Hill knew that. But I emailed my final transcript to Randee and my interviewer last week and sent an LOI in late April.

Also I'm not originally from NC, I'm from another country so I really made it clear in my interviews that I planned to stay here forever and ever🙂
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what country are you from?
 
ohmemd said:
I have been "lurking" this thread for about a week or so now, trying to figure out if I have any hope of getting off of the wait list or if I should give up the dream and start planning out the next year of my life. Has anyone heard of an OOS student getting into UNC off the waitlist? It seems like the only posts are from IS students.
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I've been waiting to hear something positive from the waitlisted OOSers, too (as I am one🙁). Just wanted to let you know that you're not alone!
 
Thanks for the support guys. I just need to get some feedback on where I went wrong in my application. I know it was one of the soft sections- i.e. my essay, my LOR's, or my interview because I know the rest of my app is solid. So, hopefully I can find the leak in my ship and make it in next year. I think next year I am going to apply to Hopkins and when I get in (haha) I will send the acceptance letter to them with a "suck it" written in sharpie accross the middle of it. Ahhhhh... Dreams.

I am starting to get nervous about this trip though, I have been going over my packing list trying to see if I am leaving something out or if I am bringing too much. Check out the program here-
http://ms4bci-bolivia2009.blogspot.com/
Were gonna be doing some cool stuff.

I plan on founding a chapter at whatever school I end up at so that I can bring more M1 students down there. Its a great experience. The doctors down there really believe in hands on training and you really get more like a 1st year resident experience. Last time I went with a bunch of residents who were really good about teaching me what they were doing. They explained each procedure and let me step in on the easy parts.
This time though I am going with first year medical students. Which is actually more intimidating since the doctors down there will be asking questions they expect us to know, and while I might know some since I've been doing this sort of thing for years, I haven't had the formal education the two M1 students have had.

If anyone is interested in going next year though, PM me and maybe we can put something together. I was trying to find more people to go this year, but its hard to find people that are willing to embark on such an amazing adventure.
 
UNCHopeful said:
apply to Hopkins and when I get in (haha) I will send the acceptance letter to them with a "suck it" written in sharpie accross the middle of it. Ahhhhh... Dreams.

I.
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Hopkins??? What is that like 65K a year?? Thanks, but no thanks😉
 
This board is so quiet these days. Every day that I wake up, I pray that today will be my phone call day to get off the waitlist. I hope there are a bunch of sandbaggers out there that are finally going to let UNC know they are going elsewhere.
 
anyone know where we go to enter all the vaccination dates? something about student central.... I've got all the paperwork done but we're supposed to put it online somewhere if I remember correctly...
 
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