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2010-2011 The Commonwealth Medical College Application Thread
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Hooray! Finally sent to screeners for evaluation! 👍 Hopefully I'll hear back from them soon (and hopefully good news!) Been complete since 8/10 and the inactivity was starting to get to me.
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I don't get their screening process.. I submitted my secondary back in July and have been listed as complete since 8/2 and still have not been sent to screeners...
Good luck though in getting an interview...
I believe i Submitted around July 8th... not entirely sure when I was sent to screeners, havent followed my secondaries with too much scrutiny. I wouldnt worry if you havent heard from them yet. As a newer medical school, I am sure they are interviewing so early because of the need to fill their class as competitively as possible.
It took exactly 7 days for me to get my invitation.
took almost two weeks for me.
ha thanks. you know what though, i wouldn't start worrying. maybe their system is still kinda messed up or something. or maybe they'll just get to you later on for some reason. but dont worry yet.
Good advice. That's the most hopeful thing I've hear all day. Let us all know how it goes!
ha def. just stay cool for awhile. im sure commonwealth will be nice to you if they were nice to me. can't wait for the interview!
haha i would tell them to interview you but there's proly not much weight in what I say lol...
and I was sent to review I think early September I'm
not sure exactly...
man I'm not sure which date to pick for interview... is earlier better? and lol I'm still looking for someone who would wanna room together in a hotel... oh and what's the closest airport to TCMC?
Closest airport is AVP -- Scranton Wilkes-Barre-- about 15 min. Philly is 2 hrs as is Newark, can also look at Allentown (1 hr). For all of you who have not heard dont worry lots of applications out with screeners.
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Thanks for the info.
I guess you've been heard, sneakyrocker! Now let's see if Boggvir gets that interview.
Anyone interviewing on oct 8th? I'd be happy to room with someone and save ourselves some moola.
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I believe what I heard from the interview was that the adcom meets every Tuesday for 2 hours. They said we should expect to hear back in around two weeks (more or less).
I assume they follow the Oct. 15 earliest notification thing.
You're the man. Mind saying that in the thread of every single school I applied?
haha sure... but congrats on your invite... and good luck!
CONGRATS, Bogg! Sneakyrocker, can you work your magic at Georgetown and a couple of others for me?!?!
rejected 🙁
32O, OOS, 3.5
32O, OOS, 3.5
REJECTED. 3.4, 32, OOS.
I think there is a lot more state preference here than what meets the eye. Too bad. I really liked the primary care aspect...
I think there is a lot more state preference here than what meets the eye. Too bad. I really liked the primary care aspect...
I think they take a good look at secondaries too. So I'm sure that was a factor too.
I wasn't trying to undermine anybody's interview...I was just saying that (as usual) the process seems pretty tough to follow. That said, I thought my secondary rocked 🙁 .....
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32S, OOS, <3.2 gpa (Engineering/smp)
yeah, if OOS has only 30, then my chances weren't great. damn, when I emailed the Dir. of Admissions, i explained my stats and asked for some words of encouragement to apply or not.
I guess, they should pay a bonus to them, the lady said Thank you for your interest in TCMC. We do look at each application individually so your application would be reviewed regardless of your scores. We do not eliminate applications solely based on scores. If you have any other questions please let us know.
but if she could have taken into account, each secondary costs 100$ and this student might be in a not a great spot as OOS only get 30 seats....she might have said, past precedence doesn't look at you gently.
man. oh well, done with my rant 🙂
I guess, they should pay a bonus to them, the lady said Thank you for your interest in TCMC. We do look at each application individually so your application would be reviewed regardless of your scores. We do not eliminate applications solely based on scores. If you have any other questions please let us know.
but if she could have taken into account, each secondary costs 100$ and this student might be in a not a great spot as OOS only get 30 seats....she might have said, past precedence doesn't look at you gently.
man. oh well, done with my rant 🙂
yeah, email
i think they really do look at the entire application. it's a smaller school too. that's just my 2 cents.
Yeah... I'm out of state with a not-so-great sGPA so I was very pleasantly surprised to get an invite. This is just a random thought of what they may be looking for, since I don't have primary care activities per se: Since it's a relatively new school that's kind of broken up into clinical campuses, they might be looking for people with strong leadership experience. But then again, who knows what any school is looking for 
Yay Interview invite - totally unexpected!
Complete 8/10
Sent to screeners 9/15
OOS
Complete 8/10
Sent to screeners 9/15
OOS
lulz reads you have two interviews! you're fine. sorry though.
You sound fine to me! I'm not exactly an authority on what TCMC or any med school wants though
I definitely think you have a good chance of receiving an interview, I have similar stats (lower gpa, 3.72) and also PA resident and I'm interviewing Oct 8th.
Okay so this is odd. My friend who also applied to commonwealth never even sent in a letter in addition to the pre-health committee package letter and his application has been verified including his LOR's and they are reviewing his app.
How can this be? We have the same pre-health letter set up. 😕
How can this be? We have the same pre-health letter set up. 😕
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Hey guys, I've been complete since 8/25, was sent to committee on 9/3, and still have not heard a peep from TCMC. I am noticing that people are getting interviewed/rejected that were complete around the same time. Do you think it's a good sign I haven't heard or a bad sign? If only I could read their minds...😀
For those of you who got rejected? Did you get interviews? And when was your interview?
I believe these were all post-secondary, pre-interview rejections. I don't think they will send post-interview rejections or acceptances until Oct. 15 or after.
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