does anyone know how strict case western is about the 2 week deadline for submitting your secondary app? i may be a little bit behind.......
This is one of the few times in life when a deadline is "suggested" rather than "required." Don't get too used to it.
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Seriously, just submit the secondary as soon as you can. It won't be a problem if it takes you two weeks and one day, or even three or four weeks, to get it in. But remember that interview invites go out on a rolling basis, so the longer you wait to submit, the fewer invites will be left. So I wouldn't suggest waiting three or four months to submit it if you can help it!
I applied to the College Program, and submitted my secondary last Thursday night, but still hasn't been marked Complete yet. How long does that usually take? When shall I call the admission office?
I would give them a week or two, then call. When I applied, I still wasn't complete after a week, and it turned out that Case hadn't downloaded my LORs from online. Once I called, they downloaded the letters and I was complete.
Soooo I used to be a BME, switched to bio and did some ecology stuff, pretty much none of my research is medically-based. Any ideas on how to tackle the last essay on research? I know it says it doesn't have to be related to medicine but I'm still a little leery. Anyone in a similar sich or have advice? Thanks
My research was not medically related either. It's not a problem. Just focus your essay on the relevance of your work (i.e., the bigger picture of why you're doing this research), the hypothesis you're testing, and your role in the project. You don't have to get hardcore into your methods.
I'm hoping to be among the 2 humanities major accepted every year
I do have research experience in my major, it's definitely more culturally oriented though (have a bit of science research too).
There aren't only two humanities majors accepted per year--we don't have quotas for humanities majors.
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Oops I guess I wasn't clear.. I was talking about CCLCM since the research expection is a lot higher. The numbers that I remember said 6% of the class was humanities, but of course I can't find that statistic after searching on the site again 😛 But 6% of 32 is 2. I don't even know whether to believe myself now though since I couldn't find the statistic!
Well, but consider that who shows up on that list is a factor of who applies, who interviews, who is accepted, AND who chooses to matriculate. If we accepted 20 humanities majors but only two matriculated, then you wouldn't ever know about those other 18, right? Plus, you're talking about the stats for the current first year class only. Our classes are so small, and it takes so few people to skew the statistics, that it's entirely possible for next year's class to have six or seven humanities majors, which would be 20% of the class. Next thing you know, you'll see people posting all over SDN next year about how CCLCM gives preference to humanities majors.
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The research requirement for CCLCM is that you should have a significant research experience and a desire to have an academic medicine type of career. That doesn't mean that your research experience has to be biomedical, or even natural science necessarily. Yes, many people will have done biomedical research in a lab, but a lot of other people will have done other things too, including clinical research, engineering, physical sciences, social sciences, etc. It also doesn't mean that you have to have a decade of lab experience in order to be competitive. The two most common scenarios are that people do research for 1-2 years during college, or they take a glide year to do research in between college and med school.
For the record, I was a liberal arts major and have a BA.
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