2009-2010 University of Iowa (Carver) Application Thread

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SteinUmStein said:
Depends on the severity. I highly doubt you will have a single day of class cancelled due to weather, as roads in IC are quickly cleared. Maybe a current med student can speak to this. If you're not used to winter in the midwest, it gets cold. Really cold. But you will survive. :laugh:

Iowa City was hit by a very damaging flood in the summer of 2008. Things are pretty well back to normal, though they were still working on cleaning up the west side of the river when I was there this past summer. Tornadoes are also possible, although not as likely as blizzards and floods. 😛

Iowa underwater, summer 2008:
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Sunbeam said:
i'm not an iowan but go to school here. as someone who came from the west coast, here is my assessment: it gets cold. i'm definitely not a fan of the cold but it's not that bad. you wear a thick coat, dont stay outside too long, and its all good. i think your question about blizzards is actually right on- my school only gets shut down if there is an actual blizzard with whiteout conditions which make it very hazardous to drive (in one case there really wasnt much snow coming down but with wind at 50mph it was picking it up from the ground and blowing it around). snow, even in large amounts, generally results in just having to leave earlier to go anywhere so you have time to get all the snow off your car. my advice on coping- live somewhere that minimizes your need to drive. in this case, somewhere close to campus. you probably aren't used to driving in snow so it would just be easier to not have to everyday, plus it eliminates some of the time required to clean off your car, dig it out of a parking lot etc. also, talk to people who live there (ie what you are doing lol). my version of winter wear used to be a sweatshirt, so my first year here i asked friends to take me shopping and make sure i wouldnt get frostbite. so far i havent died 🙂
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Thanks for the info guys,

wow that picture reminds me of Katrina, it must have been terrible experience. I'm very worried about the weather, winter experiences like digging ur car out are completely alien concepts to me. I'll definitely look into livig as close to campus as possible. If one opts not to drive, how's the public transport... coverage area, frequency, timeliness etc??

thanks again
 
Does anyone know what the likelihood of getting in is at this final pool stage? That email def felt like the opening act for a rejection letter 🙁
 
MNF said:
Does anyone know what the likelihood of getting in is at this final pool stage? That email def felt like the opening act for a rejection letter 🙁
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yea, definitely wasn't a heart warming email. Sounded more like it was typed by a cold blooded robot.
 
MNF said:
Does anyone know what the likelihood of getting in is at this final pool stage? That email def felt like the opening act for a rejection letter 🙁
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getting in during rolling is more the exception than the rule. They made it seem like most decisions are made from the final pool rather than during rolling. I don't think your chances are any worse in the final pool than they were before. Someone last year said that they still had half the class left to fill when they went to the final pool stage last year.
 
The students here were pretty friendly and down to earth.
 
Received the rejection letter in the mail today. It seems like they sent out waves of rejections to my home state!
 
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are these pre or post interview rejections?
 
i haven't heard anything from this school since my application was completed. i'm assuming i should be looking out for a rejection letter?
 
I'm pretty sure post-interview rejections won't be sent out until that infamous day in March when mass acceptances, wait-lists, and rejections are sent in the mail.

On a related topic, I recall the final pool email telling us that decisions will NOT be sent by email. Last year, acceptances WERE sent by email to those taken from the final pool. Do you guys think this is changing, or are they just messin' with us?
 
CalCyclone said:
I'm pretty sure post-interview rejections won't be sent out until that infamous day in March when mass acceptances, wait-lists, and rejections are sent in the mail.

On a related topic, I recall the final pool email telling us that decisions will NOT be sent by email. Last year, acceptances WERE sent by email to those taken from the final pool. Do you guys think this is changing, or are they just messin' with us?
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Last year they told them they wouldn't get emailed either and then they sent emails to acceptances and letters to waitlists and rejections
 
red10 said:
Last year they told them they wouldn't get emailed either and then they sent emails to acceptances and letters to waitlists and rejections
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I'd rather it be the other way around. Don't want my folks only seeing rejection letters. Would be embarrassing.
 
Pre interview rejection 2/1 33M/4.0 OOS. Kind of disappointed, but I guess OOS hurts more than I thought?
 
OOOaF said:
Pre interview rejection 2/1 33M/4.0 OOS. Kind of disappointed, but I guess OOS hurts more than I thought?
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Its not so much that OOS hurts you, its just that all OOS students compete against each other for 1 of the 50 spots, while all in-state students compete for 1 of the 100 spots saved for in-state students.
 
DrYack said:
Its not so much that OOS hurts you, its just that all OOS students compete against each other for 1 of the 50 spots, while all in-state students compete for 1 of the 100 spots saved for in-state students.
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This year must have been really competitive.

I am OOS and last year I was wait-listed at Iowa. This year I was rejected without an interview!

Oh well, hope one of my other schools comes through. I did love Carver though...
 
Rejected pre-interview also. OOS.
 
umm.. i havent received anything from this school post secondary.. no rejection..no interview..no nothing..and ive been complete since september... shouldnt I have received a rejection or something by now?
 
I'm OOS and I interviewed on 1/29. I got this email the next day saying that my application will be reviewed in the final pool. I wonder if that is the same email that Sandey spoke about. This has been my only interview thus far and I am hopeful. Good luck to all of you who're still waiting - I deffly can relate. If it helps, when i stayed at AKK, I met a lot of students that got in off of the waitlist - they were mostly M2's.
 
bluv1212 said:
I'm OOS and I interviewed on 1/29. I got this email the next day saying that my application will be reviewed in the final pool. I wonder if that is the same email that Sandey spoke about. This has been my only interview thus far and I am hopeful. Good luck to all of you who're still waiting - I deffly can relate. If it helps, when i stayed at AKK, I met a lot of students that got in off of the waitlist - they were mostly M2's.
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I don't think anybody actually got in off the wait list last year. Maybe less than 10 if any. So the fact they were M2's makes sense.
 
koobs said:
I don't think anybody actually got in off the wait list last year. Maybe less than 10 if any. So the fact they were M2's makes sense.
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Wow that's surprising, The impression i got was that a good number of decisions were made in march and afterwards. How did you come across this info?
 
bluv1212 said:
Wow that's surprising, The impression i got was that a good number of decisions were made in march and afterwards. How did you come across this info?
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same here, even hear of some getting scholarships after getting off the waitlist at Iowa
 
bluv1212 said:
Wow that's surprising, The impression i got was that a good number of decisions were made in march and afterwards. How did you come across this info?
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I was on the OOS wait-list.
I would talk to them every couple of weeks and there would be no movement.

Keep in mind this was completely different from previous years where they would clear 70-80 people or even the entire wait list (as they did 3 years ago).

So it could go either way this year.
 
Who hit the mute button on this thread? No one is getting any news - good or bad?
 
We probably won't hear any significant news until early to mid March, when final pool decisions are sent out.
 
This is purely assumption (and you know what they say about that) but I would guess that since so many OOS acceptances have been given out already and about 2/3 of the class is usually instate, the chances of being admitted out of the large pool as a OOSer are slim to none.

Good news for the ISers though.

First post, BTW. I've stalked this thread for a long time without contributing...😳
 
Maybe, you negative Nancy. maybe many OOS acceptances have been sent out, but there is no way to determine how many of those acceptances will matriculate. Plus I don't know what the ratio is of acceptances sent/spots needing to be filled, but i doubt you can figure out if that ratio has been met. I know my state school sends out 2 acceptances for every one spot.

With that said, you don't know that all the in-state acceptances haven't been sent out either. When i interviewd on 1/29, there were no in-staters. i haven't kept track on SDN whether there are any instaters with late interviews. This MAY allude to type of students they are looking for.

So whether instate or OOS, there is still a lot to hope for. Let's stay positive, man. There's too much despairing on SDN as it is.
 
Well, at the risk of sounding extremely selfish, I'm an IS guy and I was hoping the situation I described would boost the hopes of the many other IS people who have been waiting to hear from Iowa long since their interviews.

I have no idea how representative this forum is of all UI interviewees (probably not very) but the idea I got from keeping up with this thread is that very few IS offers have been made while OOS people were hearing back not long after their interviews.

At the interview day we were told that the IS and OOS committees were separate, so maybe the OOS committee is just way faster for some reason.

Sorry though, didn't mean to come off sounding negative. I'm trying to hold on to whatever hope I have left. I think I can make it until March or so...
 
true. Okay, i can empathize with that. I too am hoping - when was ur interview?
 
Early November. I'm afraid that the combo of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years breaks by the adcom pushed me into the large pool without a preliminary review to give me a shot at earlier acceptance, which I would have loved. At least now I know I can stop worrying until March, it's a nice break for the stress every Tuesday around 3:00.
 
hawkdochopeful said:
Early November. I'm afraid that the combo of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years breaks by the adcom pushed me into the large pool without a preliminary review to give me a shot at earlier acceptance, which I would have loved. At least now I know I can stop worrying until March, it's a nice break for the stress every Tuesday around 3:00.
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did you not get the final pool email?
 
Oh no, I got into the final pool, but the way I interpreted the explanation from the Carver adcom people is that they would review you file as it came up after your interview. If they decide to accept you then, great. If not then they defer you to the large pool for the mass decisions. If they didn't have time to review your file before they made a cut-off for the large pool then you just go straight to the large pool.

I took this to mean that if you interviewed early enough your file would be reviewed twice, which I thought sounded like a good thing.
 
I think that everyone on this forum needs to relax a little bit. The hard part (applying) is done already, and the ad com is going to decide on our files whether we understand their mystical selection process or not. Just be confident and enjoy yourselves. When you get in, you'll wonder why you didn't drink more beer this semester because next year there won't be time for it!
 
DrYack said:
I think that everyone on this forum needs to relax a little bit. The hard part (applying) is done already, and the ad com is going to decide on our files whether we understand their mystical selection process or not. Just be confident and enjoy yourselves. When you get in, you'll wonder why you didn't drink more beer this semester because next year there won't be time for it!
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Haha, thanks Yack. I needed the reminder. All the waiting makes me crazy. I'm far more tense about it now that at any other point in the cycle. I think I just suck at the waiting game. 👎
 
hawkdochopeful said:
Haha, thanks Yack. I needed the reminder. All the waiting makes me crazy. I'm far more tense about it now that at any other point in the cycle. I think I just suck at the waiting game. 👎
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I've got to agree with you on that one. I've been waiting since 9/30. But hey at this point its only 40 days left or so, that is assuming we don't get put on the wait list. :xf:
 
Come on, March!!! This waiting really is awful but I agree we should all hold out hope. Things will work out in the end. In the meantime, I'm going out for a drink with friends to enjoy my free time while I have it 😉

(IS, interviewed November)
 
I don't think I'm going to be able to look at this thread during march until i know where I stand. Last year decisions went out before the "at the latest" date they gave and people who got accepted got emails while waitlists and rejections got snail mail.
I know that if I look on here in march and someone posts that they got an email and I didn't I'm going to be all gloomy for days until the snail mail comes. If I just pretend this thread doesn't exist, then I can just deal with the decision as it comes. Hopefully not having that stress will keep me from losing days off my life.
 
red10 said:
I don't think I'm going to be able to look at this thread during march until i know where I stand. Last year decisions went out before the "at the latest" date they gave and people who got accepted got emails while waitlists and rejections got snail mail.
I know that if I look on here in march and someone posts that they got an email and I didn't I'm going to be all gloomy for days until the snail mail comes. If I just pretend this thread doesn't exist, then I can just deal with the decision as it comes. Hopefully not having that stress will keep me from losing days off my life.
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ditto... sdn worked out for me with my first acceptance but I'm too stressed/neurotic to put myself through that again.

Good luck to everyone though...and stay positive! I hope that it's not as dire for us OOSers as some of you would think. I would think that they probably accept a higher number of OOS/actual class seat available because less would accept right?
 
So, I need to get my fix of Hawkeye SDN, but this thread seems like it will probably be pretty slow over the next month-ish. So here is some conversation fodder to pass the time until March:

What programs/organizations were you all planning on participating in at Iowa?
Does anyone know about the housing situation? (Am I going to be able find a good, close apartment in 3 months time?)
Anyone have all their eggs in the Carver basket?
 
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I stayed at AKK, and i learned that members pay 295 a month at a flat rate, including breakfast cereal. The house is pretty old but they have great people and all the necessities.
 
hawkdochopeful said:
So, I need to get my fix of Hawkeye SDN, but this thread seems like it will probably be pretty slow over the next month-ish. So here is some conversation fodder to pass the time until March:

What programs/organizations were you all planning on participating in at Iowa?
Does anyone know about the housing situation? (Am I going to be able find a good, close apartment in 3 months time?)
Anyone have all their eggs in the Carver basket?
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I'm trying to get a class of thread, not too much said yet. check out http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=683487

I'm doing MD/MPH, hope to get into some of the organizations (peds, obgyn, free clinics, etc.) but don't know how many time will allow for of course😛. I think the housing situation is pretty good from what I know from friends I have there at carver or who went for undergrad. They do have a list on ICON.
 
bluv1212 said:
I stayed at AKK, and i learned that members pay 295 a month at a flat rate, including breakfast cereal. The house is pretty old but they have great people and all the necessities.
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yea, there is another medical school frat, closer to campus, charging 500 a month including all meals.

Didn't meet those people, but the ones at AKK were very friendly.
 
has anyone in the final pool heard anything? I know in the e-mail it said that final decisions would be going out by mail, but I didn't know if they were making all the decisions at once in march or if the final notices would be trickling in until then?
 
TAJgoesMD said:
has anyone in the final pool heard anything? I know in the e-mail it said that final decisions would be going out by mail, but I didn't know if they were making all the decisions at once in march or if the final notices would be trickling in until then?
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According to last years forum the last date to know was by March 30th, and people heard on the 10th. It also said that they heard on the 10th the previous year as well. Everyone seemed to find out on the same day however.
 
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