2009-2010 Rosalind Franklin Application Thread

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absolute8 said:
I was wondering about the same thing- let us know if you find out anything. 🙂
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emailed rfu and asked them. she responded saying that
As long as you are passing your classes for this year, you will be fine.

so just pass your classes, probably with atleast B's and i would think it should be ok??
 
Has anyone been small-pooled recently? Haven't heard of it in a while.
 
I assume that if you make a D you shouldn't get into medical school anyways...I know that sounds harsh but that's my thoughts 😉
 
DRMRL said:
I assume that if you make a D you shouldn't get into medical school anyways...I know that sounds harsh but that's my thoughts 😉
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Thank God you werent the one reviewing my apps. I had quite a handful of D's 😀
 
DRMRL said:
I assume that if you make a D you shouldn't get into medical school anyways...I know that sounds harsh but that's my thoughts 😉
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well i would generally agree, however we are talking about already being accepted to med school, so just wondered what the minimum was to not lose your spot
 
Been small-pooled here for awhile.

Any recent interview invites lately? I know they interview until May, but by when do you think those dates would be filled?
 
niner4life13 said:
Been small-pooled here for awhile.

Any recent interview invites lately? I know they interview until May, but by when do you think those dates would be filled?
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Small pooled as well and wondering the same thing... I checked last year's thread and the last interview day was May 11. Invites given in the first week of April could schedule from late-April to the last date in May.
 
DRMRL said:
I assume that if you make a D you shouldn't get into medical school anyways...I know that sounds harsh but that's my thoughts 😉
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I once got an F in college and I still got into 3 Med schools.
Take that! lol
 
Ari1584 said:
On my interview day, I asked an M1 that same question and she said that they only have actors come in as patients. They don't have actual mannequin simulators. But then i noticed that same picture so now I am confused? Unless they used to have them but dont anymore...
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M1's can't provide a concrete answer to this because we have not gone that far in the curriculum.
 
You're application is still in the screening process, however you should be hearing something in the next couple of weeks. We will notify you via email once you've completed this process. So you are aware we are interviewing through mid May. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.


Sincerely,

 
marchgal86 said:
You're application is still in the screening process, however you should be hearing something in the next couple of weeks. We will notify you via email once you've completed this process. So you are aware we are interviewing through mid May. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.


Sincerely,
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Hmm, I'm not sure how to read that. I'm guessing you're still in the pre-small pool phase. So maybe within the next couple weeks, anyone who hasn't been small-pooled by then, gets rejected. Wow, I really hope that's not it. I also need to stop trying to read into every email I get.
 
marchgal86 said:
You're application is still in the screening process, however you should be hearing something in the next couple of weeks. We will notify you via email once you've completed this process. So you are aware we are interviewing through mid May. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.


Sincerely,
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Yeah I agree with the post above. Pretty sure you're in the pre-small pooled phase. After review, if your application is found acceptable, you're stuck in a group of applications from which an interview "may be extended". At least that's how it was explained to me when I emailed to check on my status.
 
I would expect them to wrap up the applications for this year pretty soon in terms of whom they might grant an interview or not. I think what they will do now with the applications that haven't completed the screening, to look at it one more time to see which applicants will be granted an interview or be small-pooled. I would expect that those who are in the pre-interview screening that they will either receive an email indicating a small pool or a rejection mail. Although they do interview until May, I would think that most spots would be filled up by April. Usually students that have multiple acceptances, tend to choose the school they want to go to by the middle of May. In most medical schoosl, if the class hasn't filled up by May, there tends to be more acceptances given towards the end.
 
what i think they mean - you guys are correct in interpreting it - is that i will soon know if i am rejected or getting small pooled or interviewed.

oh well.
 
I got an interview invite in early Feb. and am interviewing on March 1. I was just wondering if someone knows if they accept most of the people they interview. a.k.a. are my chances good to be accepted as long as I have a decent interview? I looked through this thread a little bit and it seems like almost everyone who interviewed got in or are at least on hold?

Thanks
 
Jimbo John said:
I got an interview invite in early Feb. and am interviewing on March 1. I was just wondering if someone knows if they accept most of the people they interview. a.k.a. are my chances good to be accepted as long as I have a decent interview? I looked through this thread a little bit and it seems like almost everyone who interviewed got in or are at least on hold?

Thanks
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I think US News gives about a 66% post interview acceptance rate, including those who are accepted after being initially placed on hold. I don't know if that varies depending how late you interview.
 
Awesome ill take those odds! Do you know if that was for instate and OOS combined? If it was I would bet that the acceptance rate is even higher for instate interviewers.
 
Interview invite today. Tons of dates throughout March and into the beginning of April.
 
I got one too...anybody know if they are interviewing for actual spots or waitlist spots?
 
Sleight said:
I got one too...anybody know if they are interviewing for actual spots or waitlist spots?
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Last year it was actual spots at this time.

Either way my best friend goes there so I'm going on this invite lol
 
i was complete in mid-jan. does this mean i'll small pool in like... mid-apr if at all?
 
Do students get emails if they are small pooled? 😕 :scared: 🙁
 
medhearter said:
i was complete in mid-jan. does this mean i'll small pool in like... mid-apr if at all?
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It can take 1-2 months to be small pooled. But I don't think it's required to be pooled before receiving an interview invite.

Yes small pool messages are via email.

Can anyone who has interviewed here and really loved the school share a bit about what makes RFU special or stand out from other schools? My interview invite was kind of a shock. I was looking forward to being done with traveling and am just wanting to know if it's really worth it. I am holding acceptances at other schools but totally undecided on where to go at this point. Thanks in advance. 🙂
 
MiniMoo said:
It can take 1-2 months to be small pooled. But I don't think it's required to be pooled before receiving an interview invite.

Yes small pool messages are via email.

Can anyone who has interviewed here and really loved the school share a bit about what makes RFU special or stand out from other schools? My interview invite was kind of a shock. I was looking forward to being done with traveling and am just wanting to know if it's really worth it. I am holding acceptances at other schools but totally undecided on where to go at this point. Thanks in advance. 🙂
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I interviewed here 2/8, right smack before the snowstorm, so I think I was more worried about catching my flight back to NY.

Anywho, it's a nice suburban area, about 45 minutes away from Chicago. Most of the teaching hospitals are near the downtown area, so most 3rd-4th year students start to live down there. Otherwise, as a first year at least, you can live on campus. The facilities are nice and up-to-date (I like the computer media in the anatomy lab). The curriculum just changed to bring in more clinical practice on dummies and patients. And the school keeps its promise on interprofessionalism, because you take classes with podiatry and nursing students.

Otherwise, a down side, is that it's isolated in that area. I think one of the student leaders said it's in the smack middle between a good and bad neigbhorhood. When I drove out there, I swear the nearest civilization was Walmart and Office Max... it's definitely quiet and peaceful, a contrast to the NY environment I dwell in now.
 
Small pooled today. Don't totally know what this means. At least it's not a rejection!! How many interview invites come out of the small pool, does anyone know?
 
anybody have an idea when people who interviewed in the past few weeks would hear about decisions?
 
z963124 said:
I'm guessing March 15th. Isn't that when med schools have to send out enough acceptances?
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Do you mean May 15th? The day when all acceptees have to decide on one school? I also heard that schools find out about other schools where you have been accepted to on March 15th, but I don't know if this is true.
 
z963124 said:
I'm guessing March 15th. Isn't that when med schools have to send out enough acceptances?
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Actually, I just saw the following post by the AAMC that I think would interest the group. By March 30, the full number of students should be admitted. But this is a recommendation...

AAMC Recommendations for Medical School and MD-PhD Admission Officers
The following recommendations are promulgated by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to ensure that MD and MD-PhD applicants are afforded timely notification of the outcome of their applications and timely access to available first-year positions and that schools and programs are protected from having unfilled positions in their entering classes. These recommendations are being distributed for the information of prospective MD and MD-PhD students, their advisors, and personnel at the medical schools and programs to which they have applied.

The AAMC recommends that:

Each school:
Publish annually, amend publicly, and adhere to its application, acceptance and admission procedures.
Utilizing an application service abide by all conditions of its participation agreement with that application service.

Each school:
Between August 1 and March 15 notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within four weeks of those actions being taken.
Between March 16 and the first day of class, notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within seven days of those actions being taken.

Each school notify all applicants - other than Combined College/M.D., Early Decision Program (EDP), and deferred matriculation applicants - of acceptance to medical school only after October 15 of each admission cycle. It may be appropriate to communicate notifications of decisions other than acceptance to medical school to applicants prior to October 15.

By March 30 of the matriculation year, March 15 for MD-PhD programs, each school or program have issued a number of offers of acceptance at least equal to the expected number of students in its first-year entering class and have reported those acceptance actions to the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services.
Prior to May 15 of the matriculation year (April 15 for schools whose first day of class is on or before July 30), April 30 for MD-PhD programs, each school or program permit ALL applicants (except for EDP applicants) - including those to whom merit or other special scholarships have been awarded:
A minimum two-week time period for their response to the acceptance offer.
To hold acceptance offers from any other schools or programs without penalty.

6. After May 15 of the matriculation year (April 15 for schools whose first day of class is on or before July 30), April 30 for MD-PhD programs, each school or program implement school-specific procedures for accepted applicants who, without adequate explanation, continue to hold one or more places at other schools or programs. These procedures:
May require applicants to:
Respond to acceptance offers in less than two weeks.
Submit a statement of intent, a deposit, or both.
Should recognize the problems of applicants with multiple acceptance offers, applicants who have not yet received an acceptance offer, and applicants who have not yet been informed about financial aid opportunities at schools to which they have been accepted.
Should permit accepted applicants to remain on other schools' or programs' waiting lists and to withdraw if they later receive an acceptance offer from a preferred school or program.

Each school's acceptance deposit not exceed $100 and (except for EDP applicants) be refundable until May 15, April 30 for MD-PhD applicants. If the applicant enrolls at the school, the school is encouraged to credit the deposit toward tuition.

After June 1, May 15 for MD-PhD programs, any school that plans to make an acceptance offer to an applicant already known to have been accepted by another school or program for that entering class ensure that the other school or program is advised of this offer at the time that the offer is made. This notification should be made immediately by telephone and promptly thereafter by written correspondence delivered by regular or electronic methods. Schools and programs should communicate fully with each other with respect to anticipated late roster changes in order to minimize inter-school miscommunication and misunderstanding, as well as the possibility of unintended vacant positions in a school's first-year entering class.

No school make an acceptance offer, either verbal or written, to any individual who has enrolled in, or begun an orientation program immediately prior to enrollment at, a U.S. or Canadian school. Enrollment is defined as being officially matriculated as a member of the school's first-year entering class.

Each school treat all letters of recommendation submitted in support of an application as confidential, except in those states with applicable laws to the contrary. The contents of a letter of recommendation should not be revealed to an applicant at any time.

Approved: AAMC Council of Deans Administrative Board, February 17, 2009
 
Maiden said:
By March 30 of the matriculation year, March 15 for MD-PhD programs, each school or program have issued a number of offers of acceptance at least equal to the expected number of students in its first-year entering class and have reported those acceptance actions to the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services.
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Yeah, thats what I was talking about. But I thought it was the 15th.

I hope everyone notices that they are recommended to send out enough acceptances equal to the number of students in the first year entering class. So all the people that rejected an acceptance still count as the ones AAMC "recommendeds" to send.
 
completed nov 9,.....small pooled today...wtf?...how could it have taken them that long?



Are my stats similar to others out there that have been interviewed/accepted from small pool?..
 
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Colonol Forbin said:
completed nov 9,.....small pooled today...wtf?...how could it have taken them that long?

3.63gpa 33q

Are my stats similar to others out there that have been interviewed/accepted from small pool?..
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I have exactly the same stats as you. was small pooled 12/15 - no word from them........
 
Hey,
Just curious as who out there will 100% be attending in Fall ???
 
Colonol Forbin said:
completed nov 9,.....small pooled today...wtf?...how could it have taken them that long?

3.63gpa 33q

Are my stats similar to others out there that have been interviewed/accepted from small pool?..
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I have extremely similar numbers and I was complete around 3 weeks later than yours, yet I was small pooled almost a month ago (but I still haven't been invited to interview yet, fingers crossed). While there are other important factors to consider, such as the strength of an applicant's essay and experiences, I think this highlights just how random much of this process is.

Every med school gets buried under a zillion applications, so it's perfectly natural that there will be random elements involved. Like maybe the printer was out of ink when your application was completed, so they couldn't print out your app that day and it got pushed to the side and got buried. These type of random events effecting applications are perfectly understandable given the circumstances that every school's ad com is dealing with.

It sucks for us, but at the same time it's a bit nice to know, because it means that if our application at a school doesn't turn out the way we hoped, then the randomness in the process means we can't take it as a reflection on who we are personally or obsess about mistakes we might've made. If an application doesn't wind up turing out the way we wanted, it could have very easily been a random event in the process that caused it. While we all would prefer the system to be perfect, having a significant amount of randomness in the process means that we can't beat ourselves up for any negative application outcomes.

In other words, I'm pointing out this very real truth in order to make you (and me) feel better about where we're currently at with some of our apps. I believe there's still enough time left that we may still be in the running, so fingers crossed! 🙂 :xf: But even if things don't turn out how we hope, it doesn't say anything bad about us, and we can still re-apply next year, older, wiser and with even stronger applications. 😳
 
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Colonol Forbin said:
completed nov 9,.....small pooled today...wtf?...how could it have taken them that long?

3.63gpa 33q

Are my stats similar to others out there that have been interviewed/accepted from small pool?..
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3.85 gpa 33Q
smalled pooled in october, interviewed in January, Accepted in Febuary

but if i learned anything from this application experience, stats are not everything.
 
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