2009-2010 Ohio State Application Thread

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BlueElmo said:
Same!!!!
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Hahaha at least you have an acceptance somewhere! I'm sitting on three waitlists, no acceptances, and I'm waiting to hear back from Harvard (but that's almost certainly not going to happen). I'd love to get off of any of those waitlists!
 
anriar said:
Hahaha at least you have an acceptance somewhere! I'm sitting on three waitlists, no acceptances, and I'm waiting to hear back from Harvard (but that's almost certainly not going to happen). I'd love to get off of any of those waitlists!
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Keep up the hope. Who knows, you might become a Harvard man!:luck:
 
Do they evaluate deferred applications on a weekly or monthly basis? The deferred letter on medSTAR said weekly, but I've heard people say only monthly.

I've already sent of letter of intent. Was this too early? Maybe I should send another one closer to May, too?
 
anriar said:
Hahaha at least you have an acceptance somewhere! I'm sitting on three waitlists, no acceptances, and I'm waiting to hear back from Harvard (but that's almost certainly not going to happen). I'd love to get off of any of those waitlists!
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Sorry for your luck, but I feel your pain. However, I have you beat with the bum luck story: 6 waitlists, waiting to hear back from 3 schools, an interview tomorrow, and one next Tuesday (for a waitlist spot, of course). I forgot to mention: no acceptances. I never that thought with relatively good numbers, ECs, and people skills (at least I'd like to think so) that I'd be sitting with 11 interviews and no acceptances in mid-March. What a process....
 
MikeJY said:
Do they evaluate deferred applications on a weekly or monthly basis? The deferred letter on medSTAR said weekly, but I've heard people say only monthly.

I've already sent of letter of intent. Was this too early? Maybe I should send another one closer to May, too?
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Yeah something tells me they don't really review deferred people every week. But have they actually started to pull people from the deferred list, or do we wait until May?
 
I was accepted outright at OSU 13 days after my interview in December. I was kind of surprised as I was OOS and even though Ohio shows out-of-staters a lot of love, I wasn't expecting any miracles.

Lest any of you think that I was "lucky" to find out in December that I would definitely be going to medical school, let me temper this a little: this is my third year applying to med school. As in, last-time-through-AMCAS-without-an-appeals-process time. I'm not sure what was holding me back the other times (kind of suspect a vindictive LOR from someone in my department whom I had confronted over work issues...), but I just stuck with the hospital work, did a full-time research job and got my name on a few publications, had my professors and friends double-check all of my essays and had all my letters rewritten. And it worked! I was also much more pragmatic in my applications. I was interviewed and waitlisted at Wash U, but not really in a position to make me want to wait any longer and pray the wait list moves about 200 places.

So this Thursday, I sent in my acceptance (and $25 processing fee 🙂). A happy ending to my long and winding road! And to anyone worried about not getting in, or who doesn't get in this time around: if you stick with it, it'll happen. As long as you have something to show for it, reapplication is just an affirmation that you are serious about pursuing medicine as a career and gives you a one-up in experience. Hope to see some of you there next fall!
 
Bouldering said:
Sorry for your luck, but I feel your pain. However, I have you beat with the bum luck story: 6 waitlists, waiting to hear back from 3 schools, an interview tomorrow, and one next Tuesday (for a waitlist spot, of course). I forgot to mention: no acceptances. I never that thought with relatively good numbers, ECs, and people skills (at least I'd like to think so) that I'd be sitting with 11 interviews and no acceptances in mid-March. What a process....
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I'm in the same boat. Except make it 20 interviews at schools across the board, mostly on the East coast, and 4 waitlists, 2 rejections post-interview. I've done well on mock interviews and it was the same in the real thing. Bad GPA may be the killer (though would've thought it'd disqualify me from so many interviews in the first place). Guess my luck only applies in Vegas....
 
WildcatS11 said:
You have had TWENTY (20!!!) interviews?!? and only heard back from 6???? That's amazing. So within the next three weeks, you're about to get 14 more post-interview decisions?
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Yep, and most of the MIAs/holds are rolling schools so it doesn't look pretty at this point in the game. 3 of them I can understand since they were recent and I have one this Monday likely for a waitlist spot. I don't know if I'd say it's amazing but more like a mix of depressing (in terms of expenses especially) and confounding.

I hope something good happens within the next 3 weeks because I'm starting a job in April and putting med school in the rear-view mirror indefinitely by then.
 
rwongega said:
Yep, and most of the MIAs/holds are rolling schools so it doesn't look pretty at this point in the game. 3 of them I can understand since they were recent and I have one this Monday likely for a waitlist spot. I don't know if I'd say it's amazing but more like a mix of depressing (in terms of expenses especially) and confounding.

I hope something good happens within the next 3 weeks because I'm starting a job in April and putting med school in the rear-view mirror indefinitely by then.
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You know, there are such things as waitlists.... I smell troll.
 
noshowl said:
You know, there are such things as waitlists.... I smell troll.
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I do recall saying I'm sitting on a few...plus my luck in terms of waitlists has never been good dating back to applying as an undergraduate, so I'm not expecting anything good there...if you're smelling troll, it's not from this corner...
 
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I have an interview March 31st which I'm pretty sure is the last interview day. Does anyone know if they are interviewing anyone this late for actual spots or are they just interviewing for waitlist positions?
 
saucydave said:
I have an interview March 31st which I'm pretty sure is the last interview day. Does anyone know if they are interviewing anyone this late for actual spots or are they just interviewing for waitlist positions?
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I think everyone is given a fair shot at acceptance regardless of when you interview.
 
BlueElmo said:
I think everyone is given a fair shot at acceptance regardless of when you interview.
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Fair in which sense. By this late in the cycle all schools have already made enough offers at least equal to their class size.
 
amine2086 said:
Fair in which sense. By this late in the cycle all schools have already made enough offers at least equal to their class size.
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I think that at this stage they are deferring a lot of applicants so that they still have acceptances left to give, even on the last interview day. I know that OSU has not given out all of their acceptances yet, and they won't until two weeks after the last interview date.
 
WildcatS11 said:
Hey you go to cedarville?? we play you guys all the time in soccer, I always wondered if anyone else on here went to a small school like that besides me haha
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Haha yep I go to Cedarville. Where do you go?
 
Hey Cedarville and IWU people! I'm at Taylor! I run cross country and track though...not a soccer person. Nice to see other small Christian school people on the forum! Best wishes to you guys! I interviewed last week and am waiting on a reply. 🙂
 
Doc Maverick said:
Hey Cedarville and IWU people! I'm at Taylor! I run cross country and track though...not a soccer person. Nice to see other small Christian school people on the forum! Best wishes to you guys! I interviewed last week and am waiting on a reply. 🙂
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Haha that's awesome! My parents went to Taylor and my sister goes there now.
 
any news for when ppl start getting off holds?
 
flyoverstates said:
No call last night, can I assume it'll be waitlist or rejection?
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Hopefully that's not necessarily the case 🙂 When I called the admissions office just now about some other things, I asked when I might hear and they said "hopefully before the end of this week." Seems odd, but we'll see!
 
So has anyone who interviewed March 8th heard anything yet? Or is that the group that should know by the end of this week?
 
He2 said:
any news for when ppl start getting off holds?
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I would love to know this too. Anyone have an estimate for the timeline of when those of us who are deferred might hear back?
 
The10101 said:
Hopefully that's not necessarily the case 🙂 When I called the admissions office just now about some other things, I asked when I might hear and they said "hopefully before the end of this week." Seems odd, but we'll see!
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Yeah, still no update on the status page...guess their timeline gets weird this close to the end of interview season. I interviewed March 1st, so I'm guessing they were referring to that group when you called, right?
 
flyoverstates said:
Yeah, still no update on the status page...guess their timeline gets weird this close to the end of interview season. I interviewed March 1st, so I'm guessing they were referring to that group when you called, right?
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Yup I also interviewed on March 1st. Still no update for me either. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one though, so thank you for posting 🙂
 
lstone13 said:
Really?? We have to wait that long?? Why did the letter tell us they'd be reviewing us so frequently then?
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I think they try to let you in as soon as they know they have spots open.

As of today 391 people are accepted for roughly 210 spots(I know from second look info). So they have to wait for people to decline their acceptance and go to other schools etc. May 15th is the day when applicants can only hold one more acceptance...so that's when all the action starts to happen.

Don't worry it'll get below 210 eventually👍
 
anyone else get an email asking for parental marital status because you are being considered for a scholarship? anyone know about this?
 
makeshift123 said:
anyone else get an email asking for parental marital status because you are being considered for a scholarship? anyone know about this?
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Yeah, I got one. I think it's for the up-to-$6000 need-based scholarships. Since the FAFSA doesn't require you to report both your biological parent's income if they're divorced, OSU is asking for this information from those with divorced parents.
 
The Enchanter said:
Yeah, I got one. I think it's for the up-to-$6000 need-based scholarships. Since the FAFSA doesn't require you to report both your biological parent's income if they're divorced, OSU is asking for this information from those with divorced parents.
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Hey I got one too. Just out of curiosity, how did you know it was for the $6000 scholarship?
 
did anyone get an e-mail confirmation when they registered over medstar? or did it just say that you were confirmed on medstar?
 
rg871 said:
did anyone get an e-mail confirmation when they registered over medstar? or did it just say that you were confirmed on medstar?
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I didn't get an email, so I think we're just confirmed on medstar. Can't wait!
 
The10101 said:
Yup I also interviewed on March 1st. Still no update for me either. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one though, so thank you for posting 🙂
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Just talked to admissions on an unrelated note, and they said the decisions for our group were finalized today and that we'll get an email tomorrow. Good luck!
 
He2 said:
any news for when ppl start getting off holds?
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I talked to the admissions office the other day and asked about this. She said that some people are going to be getting admitted off the deferred list in mid-April, after the last interviews are finished. After that, anyone who was still deferred will be officially waitlisted. If that's the case, then you probably won't hear anything back until May 15th.

Good luck getting off! I just sent a letter of intent in today.
 
anriar said:
I talked to the admissions office the other day and asked about this. She said that some people are going to be getting admitted off the deferred list in mid-April, after the last interviews are finished. After that, anyone who was still deferred will be officially waitlisted. If that's the case, then you probably won't hear anything back until May 15th.

Good luck getting off! I just sent a letter of intent in today.
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Thanks man.
 
lackli said:
I think they try to let you in as soon as they know they have spots open.

As of today 391 people are accepted for roughly 210 spots(I know from second look info). So they have to wait for people to decline their acceptance and go to other schools etc. May 15th is the day when applicants can only hold one more acceptance...so that's when all the action starts to happen.

Don't worry it'll get below 210 eventually👍
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Where did you get that 391 number? I'm a little bit confused -- MSAR data says that OSU interviewed 652 people total last year. If 391 have already been accepted, then that leaves only 261 interviewees not accepted (assuming the total interviewed number stays the same). I heard that the waitlist was probably going to be about 200-300 people. Does that mean that almost everyone who wasn't accepted was waitlisted? Or was there a dramatic increase in interviews from last year? Or is that 391 figure including both acceptances and waitlisted students? Do you know how many people were outright rejected post-interview?
 
Oh my god.. got the call from Dr. Capers tonight! I was completely stunned and could actually feel my conversational skills slipping away.. pretty sure I did a clever mix of babbling and silence. What an awesome, awesome man. 99.999% sure I will be a Buckeye next year!!!
 
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