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Waitlisted....Happy St. Patty's Day though guys, hopefully luck will be with all of us and we'll hear some good news soon :luck:.

Also, I've been a silent reader of this thread but I thought I'd start posting because I know its going to be a long next few months and its nice to have a group of people to help you get through all this tiresome waiting...
 
waitlisted as well...oh geez I really thought I was going to be rejected. Ok now heres hoping to some movement on the waitlist...
 
waitlisted alsooo. I was actually happy that i wasn't rejected. But then i came here that some ppl were asked to come to the second look weekend and I wasn't one of them 🙁
 
was the second look in a separate email or is that on the status site? when is second look by the way?
 
digitlnoize said:
Waitlisted.

What are you guys' thoughts on the Alternate List Form? Why do they care if we have another acceptance or not? Do you think this will help or hurt our chances?

I do have another acceptance and was honest about that, but I had no choice since Dr. WC already knows about it.
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I've heard that when the choice is between two students, one that has other acceptances and one who doesn't, they will offer the acceptance to the one who doesn't have any other offers.

As a note to everyone, remember, eventually they will know if you're holding acceptances or not and lying about it on the alternate list can only hurt you in the future.
 
I don't! I don't have any other acceptances. Oh please, let me in...
 
So, i'm waitlisted (OOS). Although I'm holding several osteopathic acceptances, so not that big a blow. Lets hope for some movement soon. I'd like to know where i'm going by May. Good luck to all. Anyone else OOS?
 
Thisbitterpill said:
So, i'm waitlisted (OOS). Although I'm holding several osteopathic acceptances, so not that big a blow. Lets hope for some movement soon. I'd like to know where i'm going by May. Good luck to all. Anyone else OOS?
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yep, OOS right here. here's to waitlist movement:zip:
 
luckycharms08 said:
i didn't get one, but can you post the text of the email?
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Please join the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine for
our first Annual Second Look Program. This event is designed to give you
an opportunity to get a closer look at our school.

Because you will be on our Wait List, and the program will be held in less
than three weeks, we want to give you the opportunity to participate. This
invitation is not a guarantee for acceptance, but allows you to
participate in case you are accepted. Please note that acceptance from
the Wait List is based totally on withdrawals. However, we want to give
you this opportunity in any case.

The School of Medicine?s Second Look Program will be held on April 5,
2008, with registration at 9:00 a.m. The location of the event will be
the Medical Science Building, 1217 E. Marshall Street.
http://www.vcu.edu/maps/mcvmap/medsb/medsb.htm

Our speaker will be one of our own esteemed alumna, Susangeline
Strickland, M.D., Humanism in Medicine Award, Class of 2006, ER Resident,
and Founder of C.H.A.T. (Church Hill Academy and Tutoring). She also
received the Riese Melton Award, the capstone award given to the
university member who has done the most to promote VCU's mission of
diversity. She was recognized for her work tutoring disadvantaged
inner-city children in the Church Hill neighborhood.

During this program you will meet representatives from our Financial Aid
Office, Student Support Services, our Computer Based Instruction Lab, and
our Simulation Center. There will also be a special student panel, a
unique tour of Richmond, Mock Lectures, and much, much more.

In order to reserve a spot for you, please RSVP to Ms. Laura Yu (
[email protected]) by March 18, 2008. With your RSVP, we are also requesting
your T-Shirt size. The options are small, medium, large, X-large,
2X-large and 3X-large

We all look forward to seeing you on April 5th.
 
This is great. I didn't get one either but I would if I did. You should definitely go.
 
I was also waitlisted, but I'm going to be pulling my application. Hopefully any potential acceptance can go to someone who really wants it.
 
Does everyone get the same message about being a fine applicant and reapplying next yr? not sure if they're being nice or just want our money again next yr...
 
i wonder if we will all get the email about second look 😕 i want one!
 
Waitlisted.

I feel like being waitlisted is just like on Conan when Max (or anyone else) gets stamped with "A$$."
 
i want to email dr. wc about the waitlist and second look email but i'm not sure...i'm sure she's being bombarded with emails..anyone emailed her/gotten a response back? thanks! time for some zzzZ's 😴
 
MedDream said:
i want to email dr. wc about the waitlist and second look email but i'm not sure...i'm sure she's being bombarded with emails..anyone emailed her/gotten a response back? thanks! time for some zzzZ's 😴
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Yep. We've been in contact though...
 
Does anyone know when VCU starts taking students off the waitlist? Since they've already made all their offers, is it possible that enough students will decline their acceptances between now and May 15 to cause some waitlist movement?

I know, wishful thinking... I just want to know whether I should be neurotically checking my status every day, or should just wait until May 15 to start freaking out. No acceptances, 6 waitlists 🙁
 
It seems like second look gives students the opportunity to become more familiar with campus and the resources with it. I don't know the criteria for inclusion, but unless the students are interviewed again, I dont think the adcomm is going to discuss that student again and then go through the voting process again (as instatewaiter explained previously) and then the student will have a different "score". From what people have been saying, your score is your score and nothing will change it now (especially since the wait list has been formed).
 
quagland said:
It seems like second look gives students the opportunity to become more familiar with campus and the resources with it. I don't know the criteria for inclusion, but unless the students are interviewed again, I dont think the adcomm is going to discuss that student again and then go through the voting process again (as instatewaiter explained previously) and then the student will have a different "score". From what people have been saying, your score is your score and nothing will change it now (especially since the wait list has been formed).
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but I think what most of us are wondering is... why are some people on the waitlist invited to second look while others are not? is it indicative of our rank?
 
Sartre said:
Does anyone know when VCU starts taking students off the waitlist? Since they've already made all their offers, is it possible that enough students will decline their acceptances between now and May 15 to cause some waitlist movement?
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It is always possible that people will drop between now and then, but traditionally there has been almost no movement until may 15th. For whatever reason people tend to hold onto their acceptances until the last minute.
 
i called today to ask about the second look; a very nice lady told me that not all waitlistees got the invite and only "high priority" waitlistees got it.

hope this still leaves some hope for the rest of us :luck:
 
RE: second look & WHC meeting.
I've been in contact with several people within the admissions committee, and as far as the Second looks go, it is given to all accepted students and the people on the waiting list that are high.
Dr. WHC currently has no appointments prior to April 29th, and it was recommended to make an appointment but email her in hopes of her finding time in her schedule or being able to answer a question via email, faster than weeks of waiting until a face-face meeting.

And as far as waiting list movement goes, it is done the following way (per director of admissions) if a female out of state leaves, a female out of state is picked, if a male instate leaves, a male instate gets picked up. Its gender for gender, instate-instate/outstate-outstate in order to keep the demographics of the class within the range it needs to be.
 
Did any of you OOS get invited to the 2nd look, and if so are you going?(It seems like a lot of money to fly out again, without any sure real acceptance)
 
Well, at least not getting invited is some signal that we are not that close to the top of the list. I know not to get my hopes up too high. Judging from all the posts, I get the feeling that the waitlist is kinda long 🙁
 
Probably really, really long. They didn't seem to take very long deciding where the cutoff would be. Perhaps they hashed it out ahead of time...

Or, they just waitlisted everyone. Did ANYONE get rejected? Anyone?
 
A few people did under 'odd rejection from MCV' thread.
 
probably no one was rejected post-interview. so i guess they will start rejecting some waitlisters during the first days of orientation in august🙁
 
they also mentioned something about applying EARLY for next year if we don;t get in. if we are not offered an acceptence by june, and have no other acceptences, then we should re-apply in june? is that correct?
 
One of my friends got rejected post-interview. And yeah, that's what I'm planning to do. Reapply again end of June maybe.
 
goodluckcharm said:
they also mentioned something about applying EARLY for next year if we don;t get in. if we are not offered an acceptence by june, and have no other acceptences, then we should re-apply in june? is that correct?
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YES, reapply early, even if Dr. WC tells you that you are close to the top of the list after 5/15. The waitlist can be pretty unpredictable-she thought I would get accepted more than a month before I actually did (7/18/07) last year because the waitlist suddenly didn't move for about 3 weeks. So if you don't have another acceptance, make sure you plan for reapplication until you have an acceptance in hand.
 
Kneige said:
One of my friends got rejected post-interview. And yeah, that's what I'm planning to do. Reapply again end of June maybe.
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Well...sorry for your friend, but that's sort of encouraging. Still, they're not rejecting many...
 
I wonder if they'd be willing to tell us how long the waitlist is...I have the feeling that its got 200+ people on it. And of course since they pull from specific IS or OOS M/F piles, it's almost impossible to tell where you might be even if they did say that you were in the bottom (unless you assume that there's the same number of OOS males or whatever in each tier).

How many of us SDNers are on the waitlist anyways? There seem to be a good amount.
 
The list does appear to be long. Think about it: on each of the four acceptance days we saw something like 5 SDNers get in at the most? Now after the waitlist has come out almost every SDNer is on it. What I want to know is how many offers, all told, they made last year. You would think there are people who applied to 20 schools and got into 20 schools who are just waiting until may 15th...
 
beachblonde said:
I wonder if they'd be willing to tell us how long the waitlist is...I have the feeling that its got 200+ people on it. And of course since they pull from specific IS or OOS M/F piles, it's almost impossible to tell where you might be even if they did say that you were in the bottom (unless you assume that there's the same number of OOS males or whatever in each tier).

How many of us SDNers are on the waitlist anyways? There seem to be a good amount.
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I think I remember someone throwing around numbers around 200 a few years back. Dont quote me on that though.

You think most SDNers are waitlisted now? My year we had so many that the tread got to over 100 pages! You're at 15 now, you have some work to do.

quagland said:
The list does appear to be long. Think about it: on each of the four acceptance days we saw something like 5 SDNers get in at the most? Now after the waitlist has come out almost every SDNer is on it. What I want to know is how many offers, all told, they made last year. You would think there are people who applied to 20 schools and got into 20 schools who are just waiting until may 15th...
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I think through the course of the year and summer they made around 300-350 offers.
 
Instatewaiter said:
I think through the course of the year and summer they made around 300-350 offers.
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I wonder how many of these offers were given to waitlisted applicants? Based on what Dr. Whitehurst-Cook said on interview day, it did sound like VCU makes up a large portion of its class with applicants pulled from the waitlist. Has anyone ever heard how many?
 
At my interview, Dr. WC told us that last year they interviewed 800 and accepted nearly 400. This year, they said they were hoping interview 1000, though i have no idea if they actually reached this number, since I was told this in 2007. They are not increasing the class size very much, so I expect they will still accept about 400.
 
LGamble said:
At my interview, Dr. WC told us that last year they interviewed 800 and accepted nearly 400. This year, they said they were hoping interview 1000, though i have no idea if they actually reached this number, since I was told this in 2007. They are not increasing the class size very much, so I expect they will still accept about 400.
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That makes feel somewhat better. I guess shall be cautiously optimistic😱
 
LGamble said:
At my interview, Dr. WC told us that last year they interviewed 800 and accepted nearly 400. This year, they said they were hoping interview 1000, though i have no idea if they actually reached this number, since I was told this in 2007. They are not increasing the class size very much, so I expect they will still accept about 400.
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She said this year that they were interviewing ~800 this year (up from 650 last year). So I guess we got different numbers from her. I just wonder how many of the 800-850 people who interviewed were rejected (it's fair to assume that 200 already got acceptances, but would the waitlist really have 600 people on it?).
 
i'm debating between vcu and gw( but in all honestly leaning toward gw. i was pretty set on withdrawing my acceptance from vcu for gw but to be safe thought i should wait as to not rush a very important decision.) not considering tuition, as gw is basically double the price, which one would i be more likely to get a better education? (higher step 1 score, better match, etc.)

which one has a better reputation? i realize posting this in a vcu thread may not be the best option for neutral info.
 
Spartan123 said:
i'm debating between vcu and gw( but in all honestly leaning toward gw. i was pretty set on withdrawing my acceptance from vcu for gw but to be safe thought i should wait as to not rush a very important decision.) not considering tuition, as gw is basically double the price, which one would i be more likely to get a better education? (higher step 1 score, better match, etc.)

which one has a better reputation? i realize posting this in a vcu thread may not be the best option for neutral info.
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What are you reasons for preferring GW at this point?
 
the student opps were amazing, 4th year international electives, track program, washington DC- the cultural events, diversity, variety of significant events that take place daily, technology that is integrated in the curriculum.

so my reasoning is that academically they (vcu/gw) are pretty comparable. i can't really see the advantage for vcu other than low tuition. to be honest, i was a little turned off on interview day by the richmond area. although i heard it is improving, it lacked some of the big city appeal while still having the big city problems. the mha/md program looked nice but don't know how useful it would be. seemed to be more frills than application. i am from va and like the city of richmond but don't really think i could spend 4 years there. the main draw is tuition, which i have been told should not be a major factor (don't know how much i agree with that and i don't know how much electives and extracurriculars are worth a significant amount more of debt).
 
What is the tuition difference?

If you have specific questions feel free to PM me I am a second year at MCV/VCU.
 
did all the people on the waitlist receive a waitlist email or a status change on their VCU page? Did anyone NOT get on any list? I didn't get accepted, nor rejected, nor did I get on the waitlist. I called VCU and they said I am in limbo and committee is yet to make a decision. What does that mean?
 
Spartan123 said:
the student opps were amazing, 4th year international electives, track program, washington DC- the cultural events, diversity, variety of significant events that take place daily, technology that is integrated in the curriculum.

so my reasoning is that academically they (vcu/gw) are pretty comparable. i can't really see the advantage for vcu other than low tuition. to be honest, i was a little turned off on interview day by the richmond area. although i heard it is improving, it lacked some of the big city appeal while still having the big city problems. the mha/md program looked nice but don't know how useful it would be. seemed to be more frills than application. i am from va and like the city of richmond but don't really think i could spend 4 years there. the main draw is tuition, which i have been told should not be a major factor (don't know how much i agree with that and i don't know how much electives and extracurriculars are worth a significant amount more of debt).
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Med schools are all pretty much the same...if the tuition difference is really double as you say (and you've gotten financial aid offers from both schools) then you would be CRAZY not to let that make your decision for you. Take this from a current med student who's paying $60k+/year.

Richmond's not bad. I'm coming from LA and SF, so I've seen better, but really it's a lot better living here than I thought it would be from the visit. Most of the other stuff you mentioned is really pretty superfluous. Ultimately med school is all about you and the material. And your massive debt at the end, limiting your choices of what specialty you can go into and where you can live 😀
 
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