2011-2012 Albany Application Thread

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Accepted! Super stoked! Interviewed 1/26
 
Just received word that I am placed on the U.C. list... Disappointed to say the least.
Just accepted from the U.C. waitlist...so there is hope 🙂

Interviewed back in October....
 
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Accepted !!! So excited :laugh:

Interviewed 1/11 and was placed on the UC list last week.
 
Awesome! Any idea whether you'll attend or not?

No, I've been accepted into another school that I've had my heart set on for awhile...so there will be another spot opening up 👍
 
ACCEPTED FROM THE UC LIST TODAY!!!!!!! Completely shocked to hear from UC so early and absolutely ECSTATIC! First acceptance... love this school.. and very good chance I'll be here next year. WOW. Good luck to those waiting to hear!
 
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congratulations!

hopefully more of us on the UC list will be graced with early movement off of the list in the very, very near future
 
Accepted! Super stoked! Interviewed 1/26

Just accepted from the U.C. waitlist...so there is hope 🙂

Interviewed back in October....

Accepted !!! So excited :laugh:

Interviewed 1/11 and was placed on the UC list last week.

ACCEPTED FROM THE UC LIST TODAY!!!!!!! Completely shocked to hear from UC so early and absolutely ECSTATIC! First acceptance... love this school.. and very good chance I'll be here next year. WOW. Good luck to those waiting to hear!

Wheeeeeeeeeee!
 
congratulations!

hopefully more of us on the UC list will be graced with early movement off of the list in the very, very near future

Hang in there! Hope you will hear good news soon 🙂

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:soexcited:MD Class of 2016!! :soexcited:
 
If you flew, did you fly into Albany or LaGuardia? I'm considering flying into LaGuardia because it's cheaper and renting a car to get there.

Also, when I got my invite, I didn't get any hosting information so I'm assuming they were already full (it's not one of the restricted days). Has anyone had experience with any hotels in the area?
 
Interview invite today! Complete early November...6 available dates in March.
 
If you flew, did you fly into Albany or LaGuardia? I'm considering flying into LaGuardia because it's cheaper and renting a car to get there.

Also, when I got my invite, I didn't get any hosting information so I'm assuming they were already full (it's not one of the restricted days). Has anyone had experience with any hotels in the area?

Better to fly into Albany, it'll be more convenient. Alternative would be to fly into LaGuardia and take the Megabus (cheap!) or Amtrak into Albany-Rensselaer station.

The Hilton Garden Inn at AMC is right across the school. Try that!
 
I'm excited to see all of the early movement on the UC list! Last year there was absolutely none until April! I hope this bodes well for our chances of getting off! 🙂 It looks like their plea for applicants to withdraw the application sooner has been very effective.
 
Flights are so expensive if I want to get in the day before in the early afternoon, and leave in the evening after my interview 🙁. Around $650 flight!
 
Try Southwest, they have a reputation of cheaper flights to Albany. I got mine for around $325 with your same times.
 
Try Southwest, they have a reputation of cheaper flights to Albany. I got mine for around $325 with your same times.

$496 without taxes right now, and that's assuming that I'll be done by 3ish (I have an 11:15am check-in time and the departing flight is at 4:50)
 
mind posting your stats and complete dates?
 
Me too! I've gotten as many interviews today (two, lol) as I did my entire first application cycle!
 
Invite today. Complete in August.

This school was my one interview last year - and I languished on the UC list.

Happy to be going back, tho!
 
I also got an interview invitation this morning! The thing is, though, I never completed the secondary app for this school. I thought some sort of miracle had happened, so I logged in using the credentials they sent. An hour later, I got another email stating my application had been "withdrawn from consideration" due to an incomplete secondary.

So I called the admissions office to see what the deal was. It turns out someone made a typo entering the AMCAS ID on the interview invitation 🙁. I suppose that's good news for one of you out there...
 
I'm excited to see all of the early movement on the UC list! Last year there was absolutely none until April! I hope this bodes well for our chances of getting off! 🙂 It looks like their plea for applicants to withdraw the application sooner has been very effective.

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Interview invite today! Whoo. I was complete in September. It was a long wait, but I'm genuinely excited to check the school out.
 
Will be withdrawing my app and cancelling my II scheduled for 2/29. Hope it goes to someone who really needs it!
 
What is the post-interview acceptance rate roughly? My interview is begin of April, I'm suspicious it may be just for the waitlist...
 
What is the post-interview acceptance rate roughly? My interview is begin of April, I'm suspicious it may be just for the waitlist...

Interviews at AMC are never just for the waitlist. The decision to accept vs. place in the under consideration category is based on a score tallied from your application and your interview. If your total is above the acceptance cut-off you are offered an acceptance, regardless of when you interview. If you are below the cut-off you are placed on the UC list. The cut-off starts high in Fall and gradually lowers as they tally how many acceptance offers still need to be made. Overall I think there are 600+ interviews and they probably offer 200-300 acceptances for about 100 seats. It was a few years ago now, but I interviewed at the very end of March and was accepted the next week, so the time of year your interview really has nothing to do with your chance of acceptance.
 
hmm I don't like how that works since I have a pretty low gpa. I feel like that's just gonna be held against me and I have to swing for the fences on the interview...
 
so, what are the strengths of this school? I'm thinking, for an upcoming interview, in terms of the "why Albany" question, and was wondering if anyone has any insights.
 
so, what are the strengths of this school? I'm thinking, for an upcoming interview, in terms of the "why Albany" question, and was wondering if anyone has any insights.

If ya read through the previous pages of this thread, you find answer.

http://www.amc.edu/Academic/Undergra...Facilites.html

Note new simulation center with mock OR/ICU, clinical skills exams standard part of curriculum. Curriculum is systems-based, done mostly via lectures. Strong bioethics department. Strong cardiovascular/cell biology research, summer research fellowships avaliable through MDDR track. A crapton of service opportunities, from playing basketball with kids, health screenings for veterans, global medicine outreach, etc.

I'd say keep the "why Albany" question focused on the curriculum and numerous chances to do something outside the classroom. Don't be like me and try to espouse the benefits of having apple orchards around Albany when my California butt hasn't even been to the region at all - they can tell that kind of insincerity really quickly, since most applicants will not have close ties to the upstate NY region anyways.

A bit more than 300 are accepted, but that includes those that got off waitlist eventually. You're only interviewing for about 100 spots in the traditional admissions class, since 40 people are through joint BS/MD programs offered by Siena, Union, and Renasseler Polytechnic.
 
hmm I don't like how that works since I have a pretty low gpa. I feel like that's just gonna be held against me and I have to swing for the fences on the interview...

Your academic credentials (GPA, MCAT), mostly serve to get you to the interview stage. Once you interview, your final score is made up of a cumulative score of how you are rated in 5 or 6 different, equally weighted categories. Only one of these categories takes into account your GPA, so having a lower GPA is actually not too much of a burden to overcome once you reach the interview stage.
 
so, what are the strengths of this school? I'm thinking, for an upcoming interview, in terms of the "why Albany" question, and was wondering if anyone has any insights.
When I interviewed one of the presentations given mentioned that since Albany is not attached to an undergrad institution, you basically have the entire hospital (shadowing, volunteer opportunities, etc) all to the medical school instead of having to share all of our resources with pre-medical students.

I think this is one of Albany's great strengths and what sets it apart from other schools!
 
Interviews at AMC are never just for the waitlist. The decision to accept vs. place in the under consideration category is based on a score tallied from your application and your interview. If your total is above the acceptance cut-off you are offered an acceptance, regardless of when you interview. If you are below the cut-off you are placed on the UC list. The cut-off starts high in Fall and gradually lowers as they tally how many acceptance offers still need to be made. Overall I think there are 600+ interviews and they probably offer 200-300 acceptances for about 100 seats. It was a few years ago now, but I interviewed at the very end of March and was accepted the next week, so the time of year your interview really has nothing to do with your chance of acceptance.

just curious about what will happen if 200 people who are accepted want to go AMC cuz there are just 100 seats😕
 
just curious about what will happen if 200 people who are accepted want to go AMC cuz there are just 100 seats😕

If ya read through the previous pages of this thread, you find answer.

A bit more than 300 are accepted, but that includes those that got off waitlist eventually.

They don't dole out all the acceptances at once. They hand out some, and put others 'under consideration' until they start hearing back from students that have chosen to attend other schools. They've already either had more students decline their acceptances this year, or they've been too conservative with their acceptances because they've already pulled some people in from the under consideration list. After the May 15th deadline after which students can only hold 1 acceptance, they will start opening up even more spots.

They do this year after year and it's a year-round endeavor (they'll start getting applications in June for the next cycle before they've finished filling the class of 2016 from this cycle) so I'm sure they have statistics from previous years about how many students tend decline acceptances and have a good idea of how many acceptances they can typically afford to offer at any given point in the cycle.
 
Invite today. Complete in August.

This school was my one interview last year - and I languished on the UC list.

Happy to be going back, tho!

I completed back in august as well but still no word... 3.47/31Q. (and a really crummy personal statement or something)...

Did you ever call or inquire to get their attention?.. last I recall they weren't open to updates.
 
I completed back in august as well but still no word... 3.47/31Q. (and a really crummy personal statement or something)...

Did you ever call or inquire to get their attention?.. last I recall they weren't open to updates.

I have called like 8 times. 3.9/37Q. Submitted mid October. Last time I called (end of last week) they told me they had not reached my app yet- nothing negative, just hadn't looked at me. So calling to get their attention has done nothing for me :-/. Boo, cause I grew up in Albany.
 
so, i was talking to a friend who is currently 1st year in med school (not albany). i mentioned amc, and he said "oh, that's a bad school." i asked what he meant. he said "it's just not a good program." he didn't really give any reason. i visited there early last year and thought it was amazing.
anyone have any insights into this? i know it's not harvard, but it's an md school, so it can't be that bad. why would someone say this
 
so, i was talking to a friend who is currently 1st year in med school (not albany). i mentioned amc, and he said "oh, that's a bad school." i asked what he meant. he said "it's just not a good program." he didn't really give any reason. i visited there early last year and thought it was amazing.
anyone have any insights into this? i know it's not harvard, but it's an md school, so it can't be that bad. why would someone say this


Possible but unlikely case reason as to why their response is that is: they didn't get in. But anyhow I've heard its on the smaller size as far as medschool/hospital entities go in NY since there's the SUNY, IVY leaguers, and now Touro presence. Still... it looks like an amazing school on its own that.. I haven't heard ANYTHING from since being complete in August lol........ 😕
 
Anyone interviewing on 2/23 next week Thursday morning? Any tips about the place, such as what to visit stuff like that or any tips at all is appreciated. Thanks.
 
Anyone interviewing on 2/23 next week Thursday morning? Any tips about the place, such as what to visit stuff like that or any tips at all is appreciated. Thanks.

I'll be there, but my check in time is at 11:15am. I'll be getting in on the 22nd and leaving the 24th morning, so I'd also be interesting knowing about anything interesting in the area.
 
Cool, same here. Will be there on the 22nd and leaving at Friday morning as well. Just that my interviews in the morning of Thursday. Since there will be some down time, was wondering what kind of stuff there is to see in Albany. But I am open to more interview tips as well 🙂
 
Cool, same here. Will be there on the 22nd and leaving at Friday morning as well. Just that my interviews in the morning of Thursday. Since there will be some down time, was wondering what kind of stuff there is to see in Albany. But I am open to more interview tips as well 🙂

For tips, I would look at the SDN interview feedback here :http://studentdoctor.net/schools/school/amc. Click on View Survey Results under Interview Feedback. Hope that helps 🙂
 
how does AMC send rejections, or do they not until the end?.. I feel like either I missed a letter or email or something. Dead silent since august completion.
 
I just received an interview invite this morning! I am trying to schedule the date online (only four April dates left) but when I try to submit my date choice the site redirects me to an error page. Is anyone else having difficulty scheduling their interview? I tried on both Safari and Firefox and still no luck.
 
I'm going up tomorrow for the info session and then interviewing on the 23rd with an 11:30 check in time. Anyone know when I could expect to be done? I'm going to be taking either the train or the bus back to NYC so I'm trying to figure out a range of options. I know that on the website it says 5-6 hours for the tour/interview but I was just curious how reliable that was.
 
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