Hey everyone. I just got in off of the waitlist. Interviewed 2/22; waitlisted into the top 20. PM me if you want to know more.
Don't give up just yet.
Don't give up just yet.
2008-2009 Univ South FL Medical (USF) Secondary Application Thread
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Congratulations, Cytosis! Did you already have an acceptance or is this your first med school acceptance?
This is my first and only acceptance. USF was the only school to even put me on a waitlist.
Woooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo I'm glad it worked out after we talked. I knew with what you told me it would. 🙂
It is ranked but they are not revealing that rank. Does that make sense? Its like this if it isn't ranked you have the potential to go up in the waitlist like at UF. This was not the case here at USF. However, they did not want to give people false hope so they did not reveal what the positioning or ranking was for individual waitlistees this year. but to my understanding it is still ranked.
True... But if they did not reveal the rank how did cytosis know he/she was in the top 20 of the waitlist?
Send me a PM for more details about that.
I am willing to share the information, but do not know if the admissions office would be pleased with my doing so in a public forum. I hope you understand.
I think what you are doing is appropriate. It is not appropriate to put some things in a public forum. PM is a better mode of communication. do keep in mind adcoms can figure out who people are so that's one reason to not make things so public.
By being resourceful with who they talked to. One word of advice: Be resourceful with who you talk to. Actually a second piece of advice: Be proactive about your situation.
That's how you find out information.
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Okay. I can see gujudoc's point.
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I just got in off the waiting list. What a blessing!
Don't give up!!!
I had no idea I would be accepted. Because I was certain I needed to reapply this summer, I: retook the MCAT, took a CNA course, volunteered at a homeless clinic, shadowed physicians, wrote a new personal statement, became a substitute teacher, got all new LORs, and reworked my AMCAS in the hopes of being accepted next cycle. I was actually planning on submitting my new AMCAS tomorrow. Now I won't have to wait another year and be tortured by the application process.
Good luck to everyone else on the waiting list. I will be praying for you all and hope to see you when school starts.
Don't give up!!!
I had no idea I would be accepted. Because I was certain I needed to reapply this summer, I: retook the MCAT, took a CNA course, volunteered at a homeless clinic, shadowed physicians, wrote a new personal statement, became a substitute teacher, got all new LORs, and reworked my AMCAS in the hopes of being accepted next cycle. I was actually planning on submitting my new AMCAS tomorrow. Now I won't have to wait another year and be tortured by the application process.
Good luck to everyone else on the waiting list. I will be praying for you all and hope to see you when school starts.
damn that's a lot of stuff to have done this summer. At least you won't have spent hundreds of dollars on amcas.
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It's been a crazy/exciting summer. I wanted to cram as much in to increase my chances next cycle. Funny thing is that USF had no idea that I did all theis stuff.
Instead I'm looking at ~ $200,000 in debt for medical school
It's been a crazy/exciting summer. I wanted to cram as much in to increase my chances next cycle. Funny thing is that USF had no idea that I did all theis stuff.
Instead I'm looking at ~ $200,000 in debt for medical school
are you an out of stater? I thought debt at Fl. schools was more like 160,000 in all roughly.
also it could be worse, 200,000 next year plus the thousands extra wasted on interviewing and applying again.
Also it wouldn't have mattered for this cycle anyways if you had done all this stuff cuz it would not be factored in as waitlist is fixed once it is finalized, meaning that once the waitlist is full where you are is your spot and that's that. LOIs and updates post interview at USF are pretty much useless. but you were waitlisted high enough to get off still. that's still pretty good esp. since this year it is like 1-2 people per week. Last I heard they were 20 down and expected only another 10 or so to get off of it. They told my friend who was 20 spots down on the w/l that there was little chance of getting off. But that person had gotten 2 other acceptances out of this cycle of which one was at a school that is a better fit for them in the long run despite being more costly and not in the home state. I think it was fates way of telling them something. Same goes to my other friend who got in elsewhere that wanted to be at USF. I think the other school will make them happier in the end and it will be a blessing in disguise for them.
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They didn't plan on surfing vacation three times a year to Hawaii and Costa Rica.........just kidding.
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It's funny because I jumped through all of these hoops knowing that none of them matter for my wait list spot. I was thinking about how much stronger of an applicant I would be next year. Looks like my old app and interview was good enough! Glad to hear your friends had success. I got some buddies that will end up reapplying so pray for them.
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You didn't answer how you came up with 200,000 vs. 160,000? Or is that cuz of the planned trips??
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I was just joking. I just guessed at the cost when i wrote that.
I just looked the financial aid site and it estimate the cost at $196,000 for instate applicant living with a roommate.
Another site had a letter from the dean's letter sating the the average debt was only $128,000.
My guess would be somewhere between those two figures.
Yah my guestimate was based on the 160,000 figure given as the amt for scholarship at UCF med which I'd imagine not to be that much cheaper or more expensive then USF med. They say about 20,000 a year for tuition and all that stuff and 20,000 a year for living expenses. that sounds about right if you live frugally. So that's where my guess came from.
yes, adcoms do look at this forum
true that.
I would call them. apparently the new admissions director Jonathan Perez is finally meeting with people cuz my friend had an appt with him the other day to discuss admissions issues. So perhaps now he is better situated and might be able to help you better.
When my friend called she heard that the rate they were moving was like 1-2 people per week. she was 20 spots down at that time. That was several weeks ago. Since then I've not seen but 1-2 people at most on here say they got off the w/l. Like I said call the med school and see if they can help you at least know your chances at this point.
I didn't say she was ranked 20th from the top of the waitlist. She was 20th from where they were at that point in waitlist movement which meant she was probably more like 40 or 50 or something like that depending on how many were taken off the w/l at that point.
And no she's going to another school that is a better fit for her anyways which truth be told she liked better anyhow. Some things work out for the better the way they end up.
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