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2010-2011 Boston University Application Thread
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you don't have to shove it in our faces by saying it twice ed
just kidding dude 🙂 congrats!!
😛 Lol I was thinking crap, everybody will think I'm some narcissistic jerk who just had to post twice. Although, with an interview in february, I'm not sure how great my chances are. I was looking online at the viewbook and 1st round interviews go from beginning of oct to end of dec while the 2nd round go from beg of jan to end of feb so theres still hope people.
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There was once a legend that Boston sent interviews out at the 60 day mark. I once believed that legend. Then, a new story mentioned 70 days, and again, I believed. I was silly and juvenile then. Now, I have come up with a precise formula (involving the moon, the temperature and complex calculus) which I believe proves conclusively that I will hear back at the 100 day mark. You are all free to praise my brilliance.
They provide a hosting service with current students, but I'm not sure about the flight costs part of your question. I drove up to BU, so that wasn't an issue for me.
Be warned I think their hosting service is fairly popular, so if you want a student host contact them as early as you can after you get an interview. I didn't contact them until 3 weeks before my interview and couldn't get a host
Invited today, complete in early September.
complete aug 23rd, invite just now, on day 114 i think? hmmm dates given were jan 5, 7, 10, i think, around there
this gives me a lot of hope. i was completely slightly after you. did you just get the invite yesterday??
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+1. Thank you gujudoc. You have been so supportive and helpful. It's such a stressful process and having people like you definitely makes it more bearable.
Forgot to post, but I got an invite about a week ago after being complete since aug 24, interviewing Jan 12.
Thank you so much for the information. I interviewed in mid-October and really enjoyed my stay in Boston. However, I didn't interview too well. So, I am not counting on a Jan acceptance
Same here!!!!!
me too
they probably just want to make sure our rejection letter gets to the right place. i've been complete for a while now... but let's hope for the best
ouch...hopefully that is not the case 🙁 nearly leapt out of my seat when i saw that e-mail and then started thinking about what it meant...because contact information updates are never harmless right? ...right... 🙁
I interviewed November 1 and the Dean was pretty firm that our decisions will be released circa the first week of January. If so, this message seems fitting to come right about now as they want to make sure that the communications in January get to the right places. I wouldn't read too much into it.
fair enough, it is amazing how much excitement can come out of an impersonal and automated e-mail lol
out of curiosity are invites/rejections given by e-mail or snail?
Wait first week of january, not january 15th???
BU told my group in November it would be around January 15th. I haven't received any messages from them asking if my contact details were still up to date. What does this mean now, ugh?
I got it too, but I have an interview next month (I was invited sometime in mid Nov.) Maybe there was some anomaly the webmasters found and they're just checking their system by asking the applicants. Whatever the case, good luck you guys.
That's pretty pessimistic, although I guess I don't blame you since the application process can be a terrible experience. Anyway, I don't think it means anything (although I'm hoping it's a positive sign!). I got the email as well, and I interviewed there a month or so ago. Sounds like everyone received the email, pre-interview or post interview.
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Yep, I don't think BU or any medical school would leak their admissions decisions by any means.
Just to comment on those numbers, these are taken from http://medicalschoolsinusa.com/Boston_University_School_of_Medicine.html
2008: 10870 applied, 1034 interviewed, 531 were accepted, 178 enrolled
Keep in mind some people are admitted through various linkage programs, but that's still a very high rate of acceptances if you are interviewed.
Best of luck to everyone!
2008: 10870 applied, 1034 interviewed, 531 were accepted, 178 enrolled
Keep in mind some people are admitted through various linkage programs, but that's still a very high rate of acceptances if you are interviewed.
Best of luck to everyone!
Does anyone have the most recent figures from US news? It would be helpful to see the trend.
I was told we'd hear back on January 10th, now it's the 15th?
Ayyy Dios mio 🙁
Ayyy Dios mio 🙁
for you md/phd people, supposedly the committee meets on monday.
So did anyone else get the contact information verification email?
Yeah I know it doesn't mean anything. Just thought I'd mention it.
At first I thought that since I got this email too, and haven't been interviewed (and sounds like they send invites via email), that it might mean they are, in fact, making sure they know where to send the rejection letter. X-P
But more rationally, it's nearing the end of the academic term and it seems like these notifications all went out at once (and this hasn't happened before now with interviewees?), so they're probably just making sure that the address they have on file will still be your address after December.
Hey gujuDoc, I have seen your posts in many of schools I applied to .. just wondering, how are you doing this cycle? Any schools made a strong impression on you?
Just got an interview invite for Jan 28!..complete 8/24...and I recently got the contact verification email so I thought I was done for here...glad to get the good news! 😀
That's good news. I was complete 9/28 and am feeling a little neglected after nearly 3 months with no invitation (or rejection).
that is awesome! Was it by phone or e-mail?
Yeah it was by email. What a great way to start the day lol.
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I remember that feeling...it felt amazing to get the invite. You're going to love BUSM! My top choice hands down. 😍
Hope you get in my fellow Floridian. 🙂.
Thanks Guju, I appreciate your support. Everything you've said in various threads about BUSM has made me love it even more
.Good luck as well. I hope UCF went well.
Shall find out in mid January. 🙂. I'm crossing my fingers
I was supposed to find out today, now its tomorrow.
Can't...stand...the...torture! 😱
Just curious, did everyone get an ethical question during your interview?
I heard it is a required element for your interview score.
However, I didn't get one. Hope that doesn't mean I was already evaluated as unfit for the school during the interview.
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