2010-2011 Tufts Application Thread

[rogerthaat]

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Accepted this afternoon! I interviewed for the MD program Feb 1, so they are not necessarily going in order of interview date.

 

[RAP117]

Also accepted Monday afternoon. Interviewed 2/17.

 

[ERmedic]

No I am still waiting, on the interview day, I was told it should be early March, so I'm pretty anxious.

So the Maine Track invites have already gone out? Any idea if they are still sending more in the near future? Good luck on hearing back great news!

 

[MySonTheDoctor]

Hey Roger and Rap -- Did you find out via phone call?

 

[WuMedic]

Interviewed 8 Feb
Accepted 6 Mar!

🙂

I'm still not sure how I like Boston though...

Scrambling to get financial aid info in now! They weren't kidding when they said start working on it before you are accepted!

 

[RAP117]

I cannot speak for Mr. Rogers, but yes they called me and left a message.

 

[0707]

Has anyone who interviewed for the Maine Track received an acceptance call recently?

Yes. Got the call March 3rd, interviewed Feb 4th.

 

[Obliquity]

I'd like to know too!

Also, I am working on re-grouping and preparing to re-apply this year. I was wondering: folks that applied really early last year (i.e. AMCAS done almost immediately after it was opened for the season and secondaries completed asap) when did you start hearing back? Have any of you been put on hold this whole time or have they given you all some form of decision by now (waitlist, accepted, rejected)?

I completed my primary in late June... I think Tufts began sending secondaries out in late July/early August, and I completed my secondary within 2 weeks of receipt, yet I still haven't heard from Tufts! (I've been much more successful hearing back from other schools, but I would love to interview here! I hope there are still invites...)

 

[girlinthegarden]

I completed my primary in late June... I think Tufts began sending secondaries out in late July/early August, and I completed my secondary within 2 weeks of receipt, yet I still haven't heard from Tufts! (I've been much more successful hearing back from other schools, but I would love to interview here! I hope there are still invites...)

I called admissions and they said that they are still giving out interview invites until the end of March. I haven't heard anything from them either 😡

 

[WuMedic]

To whom it may concern,

According to their online interview scheduler, the following dates are still open for interviews:

March 22
March 24
March 29
March 31

 

[miami28]

so do we think this is it for acceptance calls then?

anyone get a letter saying they were deferred or rejected, or know when we should get them? its been almost a week since the update contact info email....

 

[Trojan50]

To whom it may concern,

According to their online interview scheduler, the following dates are still open for interviews:

March 22
March 24
March 29
March 31

Seems like quite a few spots available for so late in the game...thanks for the update!

 

[punkedgepc]

so do we think this is it for acceptance calls then?

anyone get a letter saying they were deferred or rejected, or know when we should get them? its been almost a week since the update contact info email....

I'm wondering if maybe they aren't sending out emails about deferral yet because they haven't contacted all the accepted folks yet. At least that's what I'm hoping, having interviewed in February. I have a feeling the writing is on the wall, though.

 

[potpie]

I got acceptance emails today... they may be done.

 

[DoctaFuture]

Just got a deferral e-mail.

 

[Afya]

Got the call 03/07
Interview: 02/17

Good Luck everyone!

 

[Maxwell7301]

Wow so many dates open. I've yet to hear a word from Tufts though I'm not predicting getting one of those interview dates with my stats. I can only dream though. But seriously that's quite a few dates. Wonder what is taking it so long to fill.

Yeah, it seems that Tufts doesn't send out invites very often, just based on reading this board. I also have yet to hear one word from them.

 

[Akaandykay]

Is this school still giving out interview invitations? or is it pretty well done at this pt.?

I just called the admissions office and they said if we don't receive an invitation to interview by the end of next week we should expect to receive notice that our application has been "closed" in early April.

Looks like we still all need to fill out those financial aid forms after all!

 

[DoctaFuture]

hey guys i forget, in the interview packet, was there a sheet or booklet about Tufts' curriculum?

 

[WuMedic]

Wow so many dates open. I've yet to hear a word from Tufts though I'm not predicting getting one of those interview dates with my stats. I can only dream though. But seriously that's quite a few dates. Wonder what is taking it so long to fill.

When they send out interview invites, they get sent out for the entire cycle so I had my choice of dates between late January and Late March.

They could theoretically open more spots than they actually want to interview just to give more flexibility, and since most people want to take the earlier slot, the later ones stay open.

For example, if they want to interview 1 person a day and interview twice a week for 8 weeks, but only want to interview 10 candidates, then you are looking at 6 spots that go unfilled. I'm guessing they'll send out one more round before they close though... Just a hunch.

hey guys i forget, in the interview packet, was there a sheet or booklet about Tufts' curriculum?

There was a page somewhere about the curriculum. To be quite honest, they packed their interview day with way too much so I don't remember anything about their curriculum other than there was a sheet somewhere in there that I saw.

Seriously, when you have 8 (or more) presentations in one morning with some presenters only getting 10 minutes to present, a lot of stuff is going to go in one ear and out the other, especially when your interview is not until later in the afternoon. I'm also disappointed in the lack of a second look day since I never got to see any classes or really talk with any students outside of the structured lunch we had with them. It was a well organized interview day, just packed with too much.


Also, I got an email about my packet being sent out and them needing a hard copy, mailed response from the packet. No update on the website though. Perhaps everything from here on out is paper-based?

 

[BostonFan]

I loved it like crazy when I was there except for the fact that trains were late and a bit more like ghetto trams then the more awesome trains of DC and NYC. But its all good.

Green Line represent! 😎

 

[mauberley]

Haha. The Green Line's the only streetcar line; the others (except the Silver Line, obviously) are pretty standard trains.

 

[WuMedic]

Green Line represent! 😎

Oh! That looks like a bad day for red car...

I took the green line while I was there a couple of times and it was underground... Also, it was really slow b/c there were too many trains on it and we were stacked 3-5 deep waiting to get into each station... Why would you stick more trains on the line than you have capacity for?

 

[City]

Oh! That looks like a bad day for red car...

I took the green line while I was there a couple of times and it was underground... Also, it was really slow b/c there were too many trains on it and we were stacked 3-5 deep waiting to get into each station... Why would you stick more trains on the line than you have capacity for?

There are 4 different tracks that the green line can take. They all have to converge onto the same track when you get underground, which can cause some backup

 

[xPersephone]

I'm not from Boston, but what's wrong with the orange line? I used it on my interview day and it seemed fine. Does it get sketchy at night maybe?

 

[WuMedic]

I'm not from Boston, but what's wrong with the orange line? I used it on my interview day and it seemed fine. Does it get sketchy at night maybe?

Maybe it was me being overly paranoid but when I moved to boston my roommate scared the living daylights out of me saying she heard the Orange line is very sketchy. She said when she went on the orange line once she was near an atm nearby to it and some korean couple told her you don't want to do that because its easy to get robbed.

So she scared the living daylights out of me so I never attempted to go on it. And the closest orange line to symphony area always seemed like there were sketchy people so I got afraid.

But I could've been overly paranoid. I don't know.

I was in the Chinatown/Tufts area on the orange line at night and it seemed fine, there is a guard stationed at each platform so I didn't feel unsafe at all. I also took blue line to orange line on a Sunday night and had no issues.

The green line just went sooooo slowly...

 

[WuMedic]

WuMedic,

You are the voice of reason. makes sense. Seen u on the FAU thread too. Are you applying there by any chance? Good luck.

I heard some of my friends got Tufts rejections today so maybe there's a truth that theya re closing in towards the end. And with March 24th looking like the last date like you've stated it seems this could be the end. I guess I'll find out soon though. Good luck to the rest of you. Boston is an amazing city. I loved it like crazy when I was there except for the fact that trains were late and a bit more like ghetto trams then the more awesome trains of DC and NYC. But its all good.

With regards to bold, reason I was freaking out is because I haven't gotten in anywhere yet.

Got interviewed and waitlisted at UCF in bottom half of middle 1/3 as of the last update.

Hopefully wasn't pushed down sooo much further but I sadly have no hope with that is how I feel.

Have another interview end of this month. kind of getting worried because heard nothing from other Fl. schools.

That's ironic because the city is the one thing that is really turning me off about going to school at Tufts... Well, that and the poorly presented interview day (crammed too much stuff in one day, hardly any time to talk to current students--I actually didn't see more than probably 6 or 7 students not counting the ones that gave us tours and lunches...)

And, yes, I have been functioning as the voice of reason for my friends since I was fortunate enough to have a very early acceptance to med school about a month and a half into the school year. So I'm the big brother for everyone right now making sure everyone is keeping calm. Yes, there are schools that I would love to go to that I'm waitlisted at, but the important thing is that I have at least one choice that I would be very happy at so I'm keeping myself happy with that reassurance.

I am not applying to FAU, though I was considering it for money (something about substantial scholarships?) and state of the art facilities, but ultimately decided I didn't really want to be part of an inaugural class (no upperclassmen to look up to and learn from). I actually looked up the program just for a friend who has not had an interview anywhere yet to prevent her from freaking out too much.

Somewhere in the past two paragraphs, I've decided I'm adopting you as a new little sister... Perhaps that sounded a little creepy...?

Anyway, the reason that we do things as people who are just waiting around is that we are premeds who have been used to taking initiative our entire lives. So in a process that makes us sit around a lot, we naturally get uncomfortable. So when we do something, it makes us feel better about ourselves because we have done all we can do, exhaustively, sometimes ridiculously. Nevermind that some of the things we do won't make an ounce of difference, it's something that makes us feel better.

For example, at most schools, letters of interests don't make anything more than a dent. But we hear sensationalized reports of people who write a letter of intent and get in and we think that even if it does have a minuscule chance of improving our chances, we'll do it. Anecdotally, yes, letters of intent work, but people don't realize that it's more of a story when they work than when they don't work so we don't hear about the times they don't work (which is most of the time). Also, we focus on the last thing we did making a false assumption of proximate temporal location ==> proximate cause. I got my Tufts interview 2 weeks after sending in a letter of interest, therefore, I got the interview b/c of my letter, not because of the 100's of other things on my primary and secondary...

Statistically, very, very few letters of interest work (excluding schools that TELL you to send one or that say they do). But we still send them to other schools because they make us feel better. My premed advisors (who have all worked on the adcoms of different schools) say that at these schools, very few are accepted because of the letter of interest, they either we going to be accepted off the waitlist anyway, or were not. But the reason advisors still tell students to send letters in is because it reduces the stress on the student.

So, go ahead an apply to FAU I told my friend, not that it will necessarily increase her chances of an acceptance this cycle (she is OOS so it'll be tough for her) but at least she can feel like she is doing something.

By the way (slightly off topic, but related), me and a couple of non-premed systems, electrical, and computer science friends were working on the undergraduate to medical school selection process after identifying that the residency match is essentially a stable marriage problem, candidate favored, with a few quirks for couples matching. Of interest to us, can the "problem" of matching undergraduates to medical schools be predicted by a computer model much like the match can (and is!)?

We determined, that as soon as everyone has selected the schools they are going to apply to, and assuming the problem becomes immutable (that is preferences don't change, people don't withdraw from schools, and people don't suddenly get better at interviews or cure AIDS) who is going where next fall (if anywhere) can in fact be reliably predicted by a computer model. At any given school, we can figure out who will be selected for interviews, out of those, who will be accepted out right, and who will be waitlisted. After each school is computed individually, we can compile the results and see who will prefer what school and then run a model to predict initial waitlist movement. (Subsequent waitlist movements due to the initial waitlist movements are harder to calculate but sill possible, we just never came up with a model for that because we ran into a recursion problem).

The problem with this model is of course our assumptions. People's preferences do change based on scholarships, and the interview visits, and people tend to learn from their mistakes and get better at interviews as they go along. Also, when they get accepted into their first choice school, they may withdraw their application from other schools. But this limitation affects only the final person-school pairing. We still think that we can pretty reliably predict who will get into medical school at all, with reasonable accuracy and though slightly more inaccurate, we think we can predict whether a person will get into any given medical school he applied to.

The reason this doesn't work in real life? We don't have access to all the information. we would need to know what each school values as well as the entire AMCAS database of applicants, and no one person or entity has access to all of those databases of information. But, because one entity could theoretically have access to that information all at once, your fate of whether or not you get into a medical school was already sealed sometime after all the applications were due..

Just food for thought. We know there are flaws in the logic, but the original question we asked was: Will WuMedic increase his chances of getting into medical school by applying to more medical schools? (the answer was no) so this is actually a lot to get out of answering that one question!

 

[obgyny]

Rejection today. Can't say I'm surprised at this point. Good luck to all of u.

Same here. Still hoping UCF comes through for you!!!

 

[obgyny]

Thanks. Dude how did I totally miss that you got into UCI!! That is super badass!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME!!! CONGRATS!!!! I'm happy for you.

Probably breathing a sigh of relief and not caring anymore what happens with your remaining schools.

🙂

LOL thanks 😛! I definitely feel fortunate and relieved!!! I still can't believe it...

Now I'm just rooting for my fellow sdners 😍.

 

[ddalgi]

could someone pls comment on whether there are still interview slots available? thanks!

 

[BostonFan]

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[DrCox]

could someone pls comment on whether there are still interview slots available? thanks!

According to online interview calendar, I see 4 more days (Tuesdays/Thursdays until the end of March). Not sure how "official" that is though.

 

[Sonic008]

has anyone stuck in deferred land hear anything?

 

[DoctaFuture]

has anyone stuck in deferred land here anything?

ha stuck in d-land w/ ya. I assume not much will be known until April/May.

 

[ddalgi]

According to online interview calendar, I see 4 more days (Tuesdays/Thursdays until the end of March). Not sure how "official" that is though.

thnx! 🙂

 

[moneymill4569]

Just received an email. Will not be selected to interview. Best of luck to everyone else.

 

[jeepy]

Just received an email. Will not be selected to interview. Best of luck to everyone else.

same, rejected! this was the last school I was waiting to hear from, and honestly it feels great to finally know I'm done with this loooong application cycle. I don't think I would've had energy to interview at Tufts even if they wanted me this late in the game.


anyway, good luck to everyone else!

 

[korsian]

same, rejected! this was the last school I was waiting to hear from, and honestly it feels great to finally know I'm done with this loooong application cycle. I don't think I would've had energy to interview at Tufts even if they wanted me this late in the game.


anyway, good luck to everyone else!

*start needy rant*

didn't get it thus far -- crossing fingers? was complete in early September. how long will they be stringing me along for?! If they called me 2 hours before the interview (as happened to a poster in the Jefferson thread), I would totally go in a heartbeat given I live in Boston... please interview me!

*end needy rant*

 

[Obliquity]

Rejected pre-interview today... finally.

 

[letsgomedical]

Tufts.... what are u doing with all the deferred people?? I know that it probably means waitlist/rejection, but why did you have to state that deferred does not mean waitlist??? (unless it means straight out rejection...) you are giving us false hope!!!

 

[DoctaFuture]

Tufts.... what are u doing with all the deferred people?? I know that it probably means waitlist/rejection, but why did you have to state that deferred does not mean waitlist??? (unless it means straight out rejection...) you are giving us false hope!!!

letsgo, i think it's basically this. anyone who doesn't get straight up accepted is in this "in the air pile" where we can be accepted/WL/rejected. This all depends on how many people drop their acceptances before their May deadline. So we're in the air and won't know what's going to happen until May.

 

[Kuune]

Hey everyone! Revisit weekend has been scheduled for April 28!!

 

[matterotime]

Just got rejected pre-interview via email. Expected, getting pretty late in the season for schools.

 

[blujhae]

just got rejected pre-interview via email. Expected, getting pretty late in the season for schools.

+1

 

[Maxwell7301]

Just got rejected pre-interview via email. Expected, getting pretty late in the season for schools.

Same here. Very expected. Tufts is too expensive anyway.🙂

 

[mindthegap]

Just got rejected pre-interview via email. Expected, getting pretty late in the season for schools.

+1, didn't like boston anyway.

 

[KelMD]

*start needy rant*

didn't get it thus far -- crossing fingers? was complete in early September. how long will they be stringing me along for?! If they called me 2 hours before the interview (as happened to a poster in the Jefferson thread), I would totally go in a heartbeat given I live in Boston... please interview me!

*end needy rant*

Stay optimistic. I was invited last Tuesday. No interviews at all this week but two days each for next two weeks.

 

[korsian]

Stay optimistic. I was invited last Tuesday. No interviews at all this week but two days each for next two weeks.

Thanks KelMD! I wasn't included what seems to have been the latest round of pre-interview rejections this morning. I'm hanging in there for the homestretch. I'm glad to have an acceptance, but I would love to stay in Boston for a whole host of reasons (family, friends, wanting to live in the area forever, etc.).

 

[miami28]

those of us who are deferred, do you think we will hear about a rejection/waitlist/acceptance before or after may 15th? if they are going to "continue to review" our applications, will a decision be made before may 15th, or you think it could be anywhere into the summer, or the normal waitlist period for other schools? any thoughts?

 

[curleigh]

those of us who are deferred, do you think we will hear about a rejection/waitlist/acceptance before or after may 15th? if they are going to "continue to review" our applications, will a decision be made before may 15th, or you think it could be anywhere into the summer, or the normal waitlist period for other schools? any thoughts?

I would *guess* we'd hear SOMETHING before May 15th. In my mind, the difference between "deferred" and "waitlist" is that "deferred" can expect to hear something before May 15th and "waitlist" can expect to hear after. It seems to me like a school that "defers" doesn't have a waitlist until the end of interview season, when they take a look at everybody that hasn't been accepted yet and decide what to do with them. But that's just my impressions from the places I've interviewed and certainly not necessarily correct for every school out there. 🙂