2011-2012 Howard Application Thread

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If you have interviewed, and your file hasn't reached the committee yet, just wanted to say, hope and pray for the best! May you get to hear the good news of an acceptance!

If you have an interview coming up, hope your interview goes well and you will love it!😍😍

Prayers, hope, and good luck everyone!!!
 
Hey everyone,

I called the admissions office on Friday to see if I could find out my decision and they told me I was accepted!!!! 🙂 I am ecstatic and have been all weekend 😀 This is such a huge relief and I am so excited at starting at HUCM this July.

I wanted to thank everyone on here for providing support, helping out, and being an all around great community. I pray and hope that everyone else on here receives an acceptance as well and we are classmates come July 🙂 I interviewed at the end of February so everyone else waiting should not lose hope! A favorable decision will, God willing, be right around the corner for you. Thank God! 🙂

Congrats aaamir89!!!!! :soexcited:. You must be so relieved!! Enjoy your summer and RELAX before medical school 😎
 
Congrats aaamir89!!!!! :soexcited:. You must be so relieved!! Enjoy your summer and RELAX before medical school 😎

Congratulations!!! Did you receive an email saying that you were out of committee and could call you to get your decision or did you just call and see if you could find out? Thanks!
 
Hey everyone,

I called the admissions office on Friday to see if I could find out my decision and they told me I was accepted!!!! 🙂 I am ecstatic and have been all weekend 😀 This is such a huge relief and I am so excited at starting at HUCM this July.

I wanted to thank everyone on here for providing support, helping out, and being an all around great community. I pray and hope that everyone else on here receives an acceptance as well and we are classmates come July 🙂 I interviewed at the end of February so everyone else waiting should not lose hope! A favorable decision will, God willing, be right around the corner for you. Thank God! 🙂
Congrats aamir89!!!
 
Hi donsingh88,

Thanks for sharing this. I think it brings up the interesting point that everyone's experience is different and that Howard, like many other schools, isn't perfect. I think its important when deciding on a medical school to make sure that not only is the school a good fit for you, but that you're a good fit for the school. ( Ms. Walk mentioned this to me in my interview, and it really opened my eyes.) Over the years I've thrived in atmospheres similar to the one I encountered at Howard on interview day and this only solidified that Howard is where I want to be. 🙂

THIS! I've grown up, worked, and studied in communities similar to that in which HUCM is situated and CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE going elsewhere for medical school.

This person must have had a really bad experience at Howard. In my opinion, the school is what you make of it. Even though Howard administration can be slow at times but the faculty are excellent especially the Anatomy department. Howard college of Medicine is very flexible to changes. They listen to the student and try to make changes each year to make the school better. I can only speak so far as a first year here at Howard but my experience have been humbling and wonderful. I live my life by this quote: "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them".

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Hey everyone,

I called the admissions office on Friday to see if I could find out my decision and they told me I was accepted!!!! 🙂 I am ecstatic and have been all weekend 😀 This is such a huge relief and I am so excited at starting at HUCM this July.

I wanted to thank everyone on here for providing support, helping out, and being an all around great community. I pray and hope that everyone else on here receives an acceptance as well and we are classmates come July 🙂 I interviewed at the end of February so everyone else waiting should not lose hope! A favorable decision will, God willing, be right around the corner for you. Thank God! 🙂

Congrats aamir89!

I spent the past week and weekend excited to hear some news this week and have not been able to stop thinking about an HUCM acceptance, my future life in DC, and planning for an HUCM education.

I just got home from a pre-operation appointment with my mother, who's undergoing surgery for her shoulder this upcoming Friday, and checked my email. I received an email telling me that I was placed on the Super Alternate list. I'm in tears over this email, but am trying not to lose hope. Does anyone know what it means relative to those in the Alternate status? I am really thankful, but bummed out by this status update. I've reached a point where I don't want to settle for anything less than HUCM because of the legacy, the social mission it is executing so well, the faculty, the camaraderie of the students, the physical location in DC, etc. As I said earlier, my whole family was extremely eager about this decision because attending HUCM will give me the opportunity to realize our dream of me becoming a physician, while still being in close proximity at home. As I've said in the past, my family, especially my mother, needs me. I've been staying up with her the past few nights as she suffers from pain in her shoulder and migraines that last several ours through the night trying to comfort her. I'm thankful that she is in the position to finally receive surgery for her pain and hopefully relieve some of our family's suffering.

I'd appreciate any advice you guys can give at this point 🙁. Thank you.
 
THIS! I've grown up, worked, and studied in communities similar to that in which HUCM is situated and CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE going elsewhere for medical school.



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Congrats aamir89!

I spent the past week and weekend excited to hear some news this week and have not been able to stop thinking about an HUCM acceptance, my future life in DC, and planning for an HUCM education.

I just got home from a pre-operation appointment with my mother, who's undergoing surgery for her shoulder this upcoming Friday, and checked my email. I received an email telling me that I was placed on the Super Alternate list. I'm in tears over this email, but am trying not to lose hope. Does anyone know what it means relative to those in the Alternate status? I am really thankful, but bummed out by this status update. I've reached a point where I don't want to settle for anything less than HUCM because of the legacy, the social mission it is executing so well, the faculty, the camaraderie of the students, the physical location in DC, etc. As I said earlier, my whole family was extremely eager about this decision because attending HUCM will give me the opportunity to realize our dream of me becoming a physician, while still being in close proximity at home. As I've said in the past, my family, especially my mother, needs me. I've been staying up with her the past few nights as she suffers from pain in her shoulder and migraines that last several ours through the night trying to comfort her. I'm thankful that she is in the position to finally receive surgery for her pain and hopefully relieve some of our family's suffering.

I'd appreciate any advice you guys can give at this point 🙁. Thank you.

Hi MWB,

While I can understand your disappointment in not hearing about an acceptance, don't lose hope just yet. Ms. Walk explained to us that the Super Alternate list is given first preference when they need to fill a spot. May 15th is the date when accepted applicants have to inform the medical school of their choice about their decision. With that being said, many applicants have acceptances to more than once school and so that will open up spots for people on the alternate list, and being on the SUPER Alternate you have a better chance of being picked to fill that spot.

Keep your head up and congrats on still being in the running! I pray everything goes well with your mom's surgery🙂
 
I spent the past week and weekend excited to hear some news this week and have not been able to stop thinking about an HUCM acceptance, my future life in DC, and planning for an HUCM education.

I just got home from a pre-operation appointment with my mother, who's undergoing surgery for her shoulder this upcoming Friday, and checked my email. I received an email telling me that I was placed on the Super Alternate list. I'm in tears over this email, but am trying not to lose hope. Does anyone know what it means relative to those in the Alternate status? I am really thankful, but bummed out by this status update. I've reached a point where I don't want to settle for anything less than HUCM because of the legacy, the social mission it is executing so well, the faculty, the camaraderie of the students, the physical location in DC, etc. As I said earlier, my whole family was extremely eager about this decision because attending HUCM will give me the opportunity to realize our dream of me becoming a physician, while still being in close proximity at home. As I've said in the past, my family, especially my mother, needs me. I've been staying up with her the past few nights as she suffers from pain in her shoulder and migraines that last several ours through the night trying to comfort her. I'm thankful that she is in the position to finally receive surgery for her pain and hopefully relieve some of our family's suffering.

I'd appreciate any advice you guys can give at this point 🙁. Thank you.

Hey MWB and I hope that your mother feels better. Don't lose hope!!!! You still have a very good chance of being accepted and I hope that you get accepted!

I love this school as well and many of my family and friends are awaiting the decision with me. I hope and pray that God blesses me with an acceptance to HUMC. This is where I want to go for medical school! Prayers helped me throughout in this process and in all of life. Put your trust in God, and hope things turn well. Presently, my file hasn't been reviewed yet. I hope and pray that I will share with you all the news of an acceptance in the coming days. Keep me in your prayers my friends! God bless! 🙂
 
Hi MWB,

While I can understand your disappointment in not hearing about an acceptance, don't lose hope just yet. Ms. Walk explained to us that the Super Alternate list is given first preference when they need to fill a spot. May 15th is the date when accepted applicants have to inform the medical school of their choice about their decision. With that being said, many applicants have acceptances to more than once school and so that will open up spots for people on the alternate list, and being on the SUPER Alternate you have a better chance of being picked to fill that spot.

Keep your head up and congrats on still being in the running! I pray everything goes well with your mom's surgery🙂

Well said Pinny! 🙂
 
Hi MWB,

While I can understand your disappointment in not hearing about an acceptance, don't lose hope just yet. Ms. Walk explained to us that the Super Alternate list is given first preference when they need to fill a spot. May 15th is the date when accepted applicants have to inform the medical school of their choice about their decision. With that being said, many applicants have acceptances to more than once school and so that will open up spots for people on the alternate list, and being on the SUPER Alternate you have a better chance of being picked to fill that spot.

Keep your head up and congrats on still being in the running! I pray everything goes well with your mom's surgery🙂

Thanks, Pinny. I appreciate the explanation. I am very thankful to be in this position, like you said. Thanks for reminding me of that. Thank God.

Thank you Sweetness, appreciate it! I'm praying that you hear some good news soon. You seem incredibly passionate about attending this institution and I cannot wait to be classmates with folks like you who genuinely want to be at HUCM and appreciate the blessed opportunity to study medicine in the context of HUCM's culture!
 
Thanks, Pinny. I appreciate the explanation. I am very thankful to be in this position, like you said. Thanks for reminding me of that. Thank God.

Thank you Sweetness, appreciate it! I'm praying that you hear some good news soon. You seem incredibly passionate about attending this institution and I cannot wait to be classmates with folks like you who genuinely want to be at HUCM and appreciate the blessed opportunity to study medicine in the context of HUCM's culture!

Amen MWB!! 🙂
 
As both Pinny and Sweetness have stated, do not give up or lose faith in what you have worked so hard to achieve!! I can definitely attest to feeling distraught when things don't work out "perfectly" or how we'd hoped they would. MWB, the Lord did not bring you this far to leave you. Remember Jeremiah 29:11-13 in your times of despair and meditate on all of the wonderful things that He has already done🙂 I will keep you and your family in my prayers as you go through this trying time with your mother's surgery. Super Alternate List is a very big accomplishment so continue to pray and have faith and watch God move on your behalf🙂


I spent the past week and weekend excited to hear some news this week and have not been able to stop thinking about an HUCM acceptance, my future life in DC, and planning for an HUCM education.

I just got home from a pre-operation appointment with my mother, who's undergoing surgery for her shoulder this upcoming Friday, and checked my email. I received an email telling me that I was placed on the Super Alternate list. I'm in tears over this email, but am trying not to lose hope. Does anyone know what it means relative to those in the Alternate status? I am really thankful, but bummed out by this status update. I've reached a point where I don't want to settle for anything less than HUCM because of the legacy, the social mission it is executing so well, the faculty, the camaraderie of the students, the physical location in DC, etc. As I said earlier, my whole family was extremely eager about this decision because attending HUCM will give me the opportunity to realize our dream of me becoming a physician, while still being in close proximity at home. As I've said in the past, my family, especially my mother, needs me. I've been staying up with her the past few nights as she suffers from pain in her shoulder and migraines that last several ours through the night trying to comfort her. I'm thankful that she is in the position to finally receive surgery for her pain and hopefully relieve some of our family's suffering.

I'd appreciate any advice you guys can give at this point 🙁. Thank you.[/QUOTE]
 
As both Pinny and Sweetness have stated, do not give up or lose faith in what you have worked so hard to achieve!! I can definitely attest to feeling distraught when things don't work out "perfectly" or how we'd hoped they would. MWB, the Lord did not bring you this far to leave you. Remember Jeremiah 29:11-13 in your times of despair and meditate on all of the wonderful things that He has already done🙂 I will keep you and your family in my prayers as you go through this trying time with your mother's surgery. Super Alternate List is a very big accomplishment so continue to pray and have faith and watch God move on your behalf🙂

Amen! 🙂

And He is the best of planners! 🙂
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!
 
Hey all,

the second time posting on this thread but I need some of that SD TLC 🙂 I called last Friday and was told my application was still in consideration and that they had one more interview slot to fill...however from what I have read in this thread, it seems HUCM only interviews on Tuesdays/ Wednesdays and if they only interview until the end of April..that would mean the last interview day is tomorrow? I am so nervous. The few interviews that I have been on have greater reaffirmed my desire to attend HUCM, I truly cannot see myself anywhere but here. Any advice/info you all can provide me with would be greatly appreciated.
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!!

Congratulations!! I have been lurking on this thread for a while, reading all of the uber-supportive and inspirational posts. I will likely be in the Howard applicant pool this coming year, and I love seeing that my potential schoolmates are such amazing and warm people. Best of luck to all still waiting for that acceptance!
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!


Congrats!!!!!!!!! Now get rested up.......July is near.
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!

Congrats MWB!! I hope and pray to be your classmate as well!!! 🙂
 
Keep me in your prayers!! Remember this brother!!! I love this school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!
Congrats MWB!!!
 
Congrats MWB!!! See you in July man!

Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!


Wow!!! Didn't I tell you to watch God work? SOOOO happy for you😀:clap:🙂
 
Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!

Congrats MWB!!!!!:soexcited::banana: Seeeeeeeeeeee you had nothing to be worried about!. God was and is always working. Remember that in medical school
 
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Accepted. Thank GOD!!!! I can't even begin to tell everyone how blessed I feel right now! I'm incredibly excited to matriculate and cannot wait to make everyone who believed in me proud. Thank you guys for your support. You all have amazing hearts and I can't wait to share my time with you as classmates!

Congrats!!!!!


Congrats!!!!!!!!! Now get rested up.......July is near.

VERY near! I'm sooo excited!
 
Congratulations!! I have been lurking on this thread for a while, reading all of the uber-supportive and inspirational posts. I will likely be in the Howard applicant pool this coming year, and I love seeing that my potential schoolmates are such amazing and warm people. Best of luck to all still waiting for that acceptance!
Thanks! good luck!

Congrats!!!!!!!!! Now get rested up.......July is near.
Thanks! It's not that far off!

Congrats MWB!! I hope and pray to be your classmate as well!!! 🙂
Thanks! I pray you hear back soon!

Congrats MWB!!!
Thanks Naille!!

Congrats MWB!!! See you in July man!
Thanks, Kaji! You're awesome 😀

Wow!!! Didn't I tell you to watch God work? SOOOO happy for you😀:clap:🙂
Thanks! You did and God works in amazing ways. 😀😀😀

Congrats MWB!!!!!:soexcited::banana: Seeeeeeeeeeee you had nothing to be worried about!. God was and is always working. Remember that in medical school
Thanks, Pinny. He sure is! I was so shocked.

Congrats!!!!!




VERY near! I'm sooo excited!
Thanks! See you in July!
 
hi all,
i had my interview and i think it went well, but it was weird in the beginning i felt like my interviewer was pointing out to all of my weaknesses and barely saw anything good about my application. I had to really defend myself. i left the interview with a positive note though (it was hard to do).
My interviewer also told me that the class is full and the chance of getting accepted with this late interview is minimum....what do you guys think? I mean some of you interviewed a while ago and haven't heard from them yet...then im thinking what are my chances when I just completed the interview.
 
hi all,
i had my interview and i think it went well, but it was weird in the beginning i felt like my interviewer was pointing out to all of my weaknesses and barely saw anything good about my application. I had to really defend myself. i left the interview with a positive note though (it was hard to do).
My interviewer also told me that the class is full and the chance of getting accepted with this late interview is minimum....what do you guys think? I mean some of you interviewed a while ago and haven't heard from them yet...then im thinking what are my chances when I just completed the interview.

Hope your interview went well. 🙂

As far as your chances, I think it depends on several things. Hopefully if there are more spots available, it may give applicants a better chance of getting in. Hope you hear something well! 🙂
 
Just got the email that a decision has been made on my file and my application is out of committee!!!
 
Just got the email that a decision has been made on my file and my application is out of committee!!!


Yay Sweetness! Can't wait to hear of your acceptance! You've been prayerful and faithful🙂 Good news is coming👍👍👍
 
Hey SDNers,

I got an email today saying i was placed on the alternate list. It's funny because although I was telling MWB to remain positive, I couldn't help but feel disappointed when I saw it. I also realized that it just said i was on the alternate list and not the "super" alternate, so I don't know if that diminishes my chances of an acceptance.

I'm still hopeful and trying to keep my faith throughout this whole process. I'm going to send my grades from this semester and keep them up to date on my progress. But I now know EXACTLY how you felt MWB...... HOWARD IS WHERE I WANT TO BE and that's the reason why it takes such a toll on my emotions.

Best of luck to you all who are still waiting on decisions! 🙂
 
Hey SDNers,

I got an email today saying i was placed on the alternate list. It's funny because although I was telling MWB to remain positive, I couldn't help but feel disappointed when I saw it. I also realized that it just said i was on the alternate list and not the "super" alternate, so I don't know if that diminishes my chances of an acceptance.

I'm still hopeful and trying to keep my faith throughout this whole process. I'm going to send my grades from this semester and keep them up to date on my progress. But I now know EXACTLY how you felt MWB...... HOWARD IS WHERE I WANT TO BE and that's the reason why it takes such a toll on my emotions.

Best of luck to you all who are still waiting on decisions! 🙂

It's good to send updates and keep your faith and hope strong! I hope that you hear good words soon. 🙂
 
Hey SDNers,

I got an email today saying i was placed on the alternate list. It's funny because although I was telling MWB to remain positive, I couldn't help but feel disappointed when I saw it. I also realized that it just said i was on the alternate list and not the "super" alternate, so I don't know if that diminishes my chances of an acceptance.

I'm still hopeful and trying to keep my faith throughout this whole process. I'm going to send my grades from this semester and keep them up to date on my progress. But I now know EXACTLY how you felt MWB...... HOWARD IS WHERE I WANT TO BE and that's the reason why it takes such a toll on my emotions.

Best of luck to you all who are still waiting on decisions! 🙂
We're all rooting for you Pinny. I interviewed 3/6 also, but have not heard anything. I don't think that God is in the business of setting up His children for failure. Let's keep praying, keep hoping, keep believing, and keep praising. He'll come through. He always does, even if it's not in the way that we want Him to. Sometimes He takes His sweet 'ol time to prove that you do trust Him!
 
Hey SDNers,

I got an email today saying i was placed on the alternate list. It's funny because although I was telling MWB to remain positive, I couldn't help but feel disappointed when I saw it. I also realized that it just said i was on the alternate list and not the "super" alternate, so I don't know if that diminishes my chances of an acceptance.

I'm still hopeful and trying to keep my faith throughout this whole process. I'm going to send my grades from this semester and keep them up to date on my progress. But I now know EXACTLY how you felt MWB...... HOWARD IS WHERE I WANT TO BE and that's the reason why it takes such a toll on my emotions.

Best of luck to you all who are still waiting on decisions! 🙂

Don't worry I was placed on the super alternate list and might be withdrawing soon because I got accepted somewhere else. So as people withdraw your chances will increase and you have just as much a chance of leaving the alternate list as anyone else. Don't worry!
 
hi all,
i had my interview and i think it went well, but it was weird in the beginning i felt like my interviewer was pointing out to all of my weaknesses and barely saw anything good about my application. I had to really defend myself. i left the interview with a positive note though (it was hard to do).
My interviewer also told me that the class is full and the chance of getting accepted with this late interview is minimum....what do you guys think? I mean some of you interviewed a while ago and haven't heard from them yet...then im thinking what are my chances when I just completed the interview.

Well I interviewed in early March and when I got the e-mail that I was put on the super alternate list, they said the committee has voted to accept me however due to the fact that so many people have accepted their offers they had to place me on the super alternate list. They say there will be movement in mid-May though. Trust me people always drop. They get into other schools etc. I might even withdraw because I got into a school of my choice already. Still deciding. Don't worry!
 
We're all rooting for you Pinny. I interviewed 3/6 also, but have not heard anything. I don't think that God is in the business of setting up His children for failure. Let's keep praying, keep hoping, keep believing, and keep praising. He'll come through. He always does, even if it's not in the way that we want Him to. Sometimes He takes His sweet 'ol time to prove that you do trust Him!

Thanks Naille!! 🙂 Hopefully you'll be hearing good news soon!
 
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