2010-2011 Dartmouth Application Thread

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Good question. I still haven't heard anything. Were you waitlisted or have you also not heard anything yet?
 
i'm part of what i think is the majority of those who haven't heard anything.
 
anyone flying in to manchester tomorrow (3/9/11) around one want to find their way to Hanover with me? 🙂 PM me, though I'm not sure how to do that.
 
drphat3 said:
At this point, what does it mean if you have been put on the waitlist vs. you haven't heard anything back from admissions?
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Rejection < Wait List < Nothing < Accepted

You're more or less ranked based on a "score." If you're on the lowest end, you get rejected. If your score is high enough but they have a lot of people with scores higher than you, you're wait listed. The "hearing nothing" category means you have a higher score than wait listed folk, but whether or not you're offered an acceptance depends on how many spaces they have as the interview season progresses. It's their way of trying to prevent over-filling the class so they have to wait a while before sending out acceptances, while giving back some feedback (wait list / rejection) as soon as they're completely sure of where things stand.
 
Has anyone found a link to the 2011-12 academic calendar? When do we actually start orientation?
 
Just got pre-interview rejection today after waiting since 9/15
 
Prateek said:
Just got pre-interview rejection today after waiting since 9/15
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+1 (except I've been waiting since my MCAT score came out on 9/22). Unfortunate, but I guess I'm glad I can move on from this school now.
 
jew said:
Rejection < Wait List < Nothing < Accepted

You're more or less ranked based on a "score." If you're on the lowest end, you get rejected. If your score is high enough but they have a lot of people with scores higher than you, you're wait listed. The "hearing nothing" category means you have a higher score than wait listed folk, but whether or not you're offered an acceptance depends on how many spaces they have as the interview season progresses. It's their way of trying to prevent over-filling the class so they have to wait a while before sending out acceptances, while giving back some feedback (wait list / rejection) as soon as they're completely sure of where things stand.
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Hm... based on this... would it be reasonable to assume that if you interviewed early in the cycle (Oct/Nov) and haven't heard back yet, the worst fate you can have at this point is a waitlist (as opposed to straight out rejection)?
 
BullDog4Eva said:
Hm... based on this... would it be reasonable to assume that if you interviewed early in the cycle (Oct/Nov) and haven't heard back yet, the worst fate you can have at this point is a waitlist (as opposed to straight out rejection)?
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Unfortunately, I don't think so. I believe this is the way it works:

Reject < Nothing < Wait List < Nothing < Acceptance.

They're moving the reject, wait list and acceptance thresholds throughout the season.
 
Accepted yesterday (small envelope, kinda scared me at first). Complete first week of August, interviewed first week of Feb.

Has the 2nd look weekend been officially announced? Any idea what sort of events are planned?
 
90minIPA said:
Accepted yesterday (small envelope, kinda scared me at first). Complete first week of August, interviewed first week of Feb.

Has the 2nd look weekend been officially announced? Any idea what sort of events are planned?
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Congratulations! Regarding to the second look visit, here is the email I received in January:

It is my pleasure to congratulate you on your acceptance to Dartmouth Medical School!

This brief e-mail is to alert you to Visiting Days, our DMS second-look weekend for admitted students on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30. You will meet many members of the Dartmouth community who will welcome you to the medical school and life in the Upper Valley. Our Visiting Days program will also be filled with practical pointers about Hanover, housing, and how to make this important transition a smooth one for you.

I am also pleased to announce that Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of Dartmouth College, is scheduled to speak on Friday, April 29th. Dr. Kim, who also holds a faculty appointment at the Medical School and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is the first physician to serve as Dartmouth's president. President Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization.

I hope that you will mark your calendar for Visiting Days 2011 on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30. Our check-in at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will begin on Friday from 10:30 a.m. and our program ends on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. You will be receiving an official invitation, including a tentative schedule of events, in March.
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Sally Hillman Redman
Associate Director of Admissions
 
schlieren said:
Congratulations! Regarding to the second look visit, here is the email I received in January:

It is my pleasure to congratulate you on your acceptance to Dartmouth Medical School!

This brief e-mail is to alert you to Visiting Days, our DMS second-look weekend for admitted students on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30. You will meet many members of the Dartmouth community who will welcome you to the medical school and life in the Upper Valley. Our Visiting Days program will also be filled with practical pointers about Hanover, housing, and how to make this important transition a smooth one for you.

I am also pleased to announce that Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of Dartmouth College, is scheduled to speak on Friday, April 29th. Dr. Kim, who also holds a faculty appointment at the Medical School and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is the first physician to serve as Dartmouth's president. President Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization.

I hope that you will mark your calendar for Visiting Days 2011 on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30. Our check-in at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will begin on Friday from 10:30 a.m. and our program ends on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. You will be receiving an official invitation, including a tentative schedule of events, in March.
***********************************
Sally Hillman Redman
Associate Director of Admissions
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Thanks for the info! I'm really looking forward to checking out Dartmouth in more "temperate" weather. When I interviewed, it was a complete snowpocalypse. It's pretty tough to get a feel for the area when it's under 8 inches of snow.
 
90minIPA said:
Thanks for the info! I'm really looking forward to checking out Dartmouth in more "temperate" weather. When I interviewed, it was a complete snowpocalypse. It's pretty tough to get a feel for the area when it's under 8 inches of snow.
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Some of us like the snow. 😉 I'm in Southern India at the moment and I would definitely trade the snow of Hanover for the 100 degree "spring" that's going on here right now.

P.S. I enjoy your SN. Have anything to do with Dogfish Head?
 
rejected today 🙁

34 MCAT and 3.96 GPA CAN app
good luck to those still interviewing!
 
physicsnerd42 said:
Some of us like the snow. 😉 I'm in Southern India at the moment and I would definitely trade the snow of Hanover for the 100 degree "spring" that's going on here right now.

P.S. I enjoy your SN. Have anything to do with Dogfish Head?
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Agreed, a little snow ain't so bad in the grand scheme of things.

And my SN is indeed an unofficial ad for dogfish head. The 90 and 120 min IPAs are my celebration beers, and thanks to Dartmouth I'll enjoy a case of the 90 tomorrow. Are there any nice microbreweries in northern NH? I've tried smuttynose before (pretty solid), and I get the feeling there's lots of other good stuff hiding in northern new england.
 
Yes, there are a few places not too far...

Harpoon has a second site (the first is in Boston) in Windsor, VT which is only 20 miles from Hanover.

Magic Hat is a little farther away in Burlington, but definitely worth the trip!
 
90minIPA said:
Agreed, a little snow ain't so bad in the grand scheme of things.

And my SN is indeed an unofficial ad for dogfish head. The 90 and 120 min IPAs are my celebration beers, and thanks to Dartmouth I'll enjoy a case of the 90 tomorrow. Are there any nice microbreweries in northern NH? I've tried smuttynose before (pretty solid), and I get the feeling there's lots of other good stuff hiding in northern new england.
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I enjoy those and the Indian Brown Ale.

NH, not as much. VT, on the other hand, has quite a few very good microbreweries. Many of them have fun activities, like the Harpoon (a 20 minute drive) Oktoberfest 6k run dressed in lederhosen (which a Dartmouth crew did this year) followed by bratwurst, beer, cake and music. You can actually get a "passport" which you can get stamped at all the microbreweries in VT and then send in for some stuff.
 
waitlist email today 🙁 pretty bummed cause i loved it here! interviewed in sept
 
crystelle said:
rejected today 🙁

34 MCAT and 3.96 GPA CAN app
good luck to those still interviewing!
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I can't believe that you didn't get an interview with those marks. Others with lower marks have already been accepted and you didn't even get an interview.

Just at a time when the Canadain dollar is worth more than the
American dollar. Go figure
 
Interviewed back in September and haven't heard a peep since. At least schools like Penn have the decency to give you an email "bump" every once and a while.

My non-rolling schools supposedly let us know this upcoming week. If Dartmouth isn't too far behind them, I think I'll be giving up on the idea of life in rural New Hampshire. They have to know by now whom they're going to offer.

But the trees were so pretty! 🙂
 
Slum dog said:
I can't believe that you didn't get an interview with those marks. Others with lower marks have already been accepted and you didn't even get an interview.

Just at a time when the Canadain dollar is worth more than the
American dollar. Go figure
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Not everything is about stats.
 
flatlandhiker said:
Interviewed back in September and haven't heard a peep since. At least schools like Penn have the decency to give you an email "bump" every once and a while.

My non-rolling schools supposedly let us know this upcoming week. If Dartmouth isn't too far behind them, I think I'll be giving up on the idea of life in rural New Hampshire. They have to know by now whom they're going to offer.

But the trees were so pretty! 🙂
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Way to be a passive aggressive little bitch.
 
jew said:
Way to be a passive aggressive little bitch.
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Yikes, was only trying to poke fun at myself. I liked the place (and the natural surroundings), but I don't wager my chances are too high now.
 
physicsnerd42 said:
I enjoy those and the Indian Brown Ale.

NH, not as much. VT, on the other hand, has quite a few very good microbreweries. Many of them have fun activities, like the Harpoon (a 20 minute drive) Oktoberfest 6k run dressed in lederhosen (which a Dartmouth crew did this year) followed by bratwurst, beer, cake and music. You can actually get a "passport" which you can get stamped at all the microbreweries in VT and then send in for some stuff.
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Sounds like a lot of fun, glad to hear the medical students are finding the time (and energy) to partake in the festivities. Between the Oktoberfest crew and the elaborate "mustache contest" I learned of during my interview, it seems like there's no shortage of personality at Dartmouth. It's good to hear, and I'm hoping to see more of the same at second look.

I do have a couple questions regarding the pre-clinical years at Dartmouth though. This was the one aspect of the school that wasn't covered very thoroughly on the interview day. Could you comment on your schedule during your first 2 years? I've heard 1st year is pretty time-consuming, with labs/lecture/small-group running from 9am-5pm-ish on average, and second year having more free time for independent study or w/e. Is this accurate?

Also, would you say that the Dartmouth curriculum prepared you well for the boards? I heard mention of a relatively shorter time period for personal step 1 prep (4 wks vs. the typical 6 wks I've seen on the interview trail), and my tour guide only studied ~1 wk for the board and allegedly crushed them, so I consider him an outlier. A quick search of SDN yields a thread circa 2005 which mentions some low-yield activities/assignments in 2nd year, and I'd be curious to hear your perspective on how everything felt during MS1 & MS2. Thanks again for following this thread and fielding questions, your contributions are invaluable.
 
I was waitlisted this weekend...interviewed in December. Might go crazy waiting until May to find out more info!
 
90minIPA said:
I do have a couple questions regarding the pre-clinical years at Dartmouth though. This was the one aspect of the school that wasn't covered very thoroughly on the interview day. Could you comment on your schedule during your first 2 years? I've heard 1st year is pretty time-consuming, with labs/lecture/small-group running from 9am-5pm-ish on average, and second year having more free time for independent study or w/e. Is this accurate?

Also, would you say that the Dartmouth curriculum prepared you well for the boards? I heard mention of a relatively shorter time period for personal step 1 prep (4 wks vs. the typical 6 wks I've seen on the interview trail), and my tour guide only studied ~1 wk for the board and allegedly crushed them, so I consider him an outlier. A quick search of SDN yields a thread circa 2005 which mentions some low-yield activities/assignments in 2nd year, and I'd be curious to hear your perspective on how everything felt during MS1 & MS2. Thanks again for following this thread and fielding questions, your contributions are invaluable.
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I've attached a screenshot of the second week of the upcoming term for the first year students. This is a pretty typical week. On every second week, one afternoon will be dedicated to going to your On Doctoring preceptor. Basically, you have most afternoons off. The same is true in second year.

The curriculum definitely prepares us well for the boards. I studied for two weeks and a couple of days and did better than my target score, and I was a pretty average student in the first two years. The school holds reviews for all of the subjects and we do a timed, practice test a few months before the end of the year organized by DMS. Some people will have to study less than I did and some more, which would be true at any school. I'd say that if you did okay in the first two years (did not approach failing any class) you could probably pass Step I without studying. Studying, however, is what gets you a score that will not hold you back when applying to competitive residencies. Honestly, though, I think a lot of schools will prepare you well for the boards (and I think that how well you do may be more a function of your ability than the school's).
 
I was wondering how much rent is for North Park? And also whats the average rent for off-campus housing?
 
luckys said:
I was wondering how much rent is for North Park? And also whats the average rent for off-campus housing?
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In the 4br/2bath/kitchen/living room North Park suites the rent (with utilities) is (I believe) a little bit more than $700/month per person and the suites are really nice. That's pretty typical for Hanover. If you live in a place of comparable quality outside or Hanover in Lebanon, West Lebanon, White River Junction, VT a place of comparable quality will be $50-100 per month less. Norwich, VT is also a little less than Hanover. I lived in 2br place in West Leb with another MD/PhD my first year. It wasn't as nice as North Park but we each paid about $450 per month plus utilities (maybe another $100 in the winter and half that in the summer but we had no cable).

If you're MD/PhD I strongly suggest living in NH because VT has an income tax and NH doesn't. Otherwise, VT is a good option for people.
 
does dartmouth give out merit scholarships? is there a way to apply for one?
 
Slum dog said:
I haven't seen one Canadian on this blog get an interview. How about that stat!!!
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FTR, I know of a few canadians who don't post here but received interviews and/or acceptances.
 
Accepted Today via snail mail! Interview first week of February!
 
does anyone know if writing a letter of interest (post-interview) is helpful at dartmouth? will it hurt/help?
 
Slum dog said:
I haven't seen one Canadian on this blog get an interview. How about that stat!!!
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I'm Canadian.

I interviewed with three other Canadians in January.

And I know of at least one other Canadian who got an interview later on.
 
ddalgi said:
does anyone know if writing a letter of interest (post-interview) is helpful at dartmouth? will it hurt/help?
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Will it hurt? No (unless you write something completely ridiculous/offensive).

Will it help? Probably not all that much. The LOI may help you a bit if you're wait listed because they reevaluate the entire wait list to choose who will receive the offer of acceptance (your score doesn't really matter on the wait list). Post-interview, however, you have a score and that score doesn't change by writing a LOI.


About the Canadian thing: probably about a tenth of every class is Canadian (not deliberately, that's just my experience). Heck, I was born in Canada, although I did have permanent US residency when applying. Dartmouth doesn't particularly care about your nationality as long as you did your undergrad in the US or Canada.
 
physicsnerd42 said:
Will it hurt? No (unless you write something completely ridiculous/offensive).

Will it help? Probably not all that much. The LOI may help you a bit if you're wait listed because they reevaluate the entire wait list to choose who will receive the offer of acceptance (your score doesn't really matter on the wait list). Post-interview, however, you have a score and that score doesn't change by writing a LOI.


About the Canadian thing: probably about a tenth of every class is Canadian (not deliberately, that's just my experience). Heck, I was born in Canada, although I did have permanent US residency when applying. Dartmouth doesn't particularly care about your nationality as long as you did your undergrad in the US or Canada.
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thanks! 🙂
 
Accepted!! Letter sent out March 11, and I interviewed in mid January.
 
Withdrew, hopefully my interview spot opens up for one of you! Good luck; I was really sad to withdraw from here.
 
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