2011-2012 University of Colorado Application Thread

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Tomorrow we will be divided into the haves and the have-nots, but today we are all equals. I think it's time for a UColorado interview experience retrospective before we all get split up. I'll start.

I stayed at the Springhill Suites across the street from the school. I must say, that's a pretty high class joint. While the rest of the hotel and the surrounding neighborhood was kind of meh, the individual rooms at Spring Hill were probably the best I've seen on the interview circuit, and I stayed at some nice hotels in other cities.

I didn't use my rental car, except on interview day to get to the school. I'm a hiker at heart and I wanted to explore the neighborhood on foot to get to know it. Honestly, there wasn't a hell of a lot there. The strip mall at Colfax and Potomac had a few chain establishments, and I had a nice bowl of noodles there, but the few other pedestrians looked a little rough. When I crossed Colfax to check out the school campus, I had to get across eleven lanes of traffic. I think the nearby interstate highway is narrower! I don't think Aurora was designed with pedestrian needs in mind.

I must have been excited on interview day; I totally missed the fact that you had to pay for parking despite the obvious signage. I had a $20 parking ticket on my car when I was done for the day. I will say they make it very easy to pay parking tickets online.

All in all it was a good first interview experience, and it gave me an excellent base line to compare future interviews against.
 
It was snowing all the day of my interview. I left lots of time for driving and barely got there on time. I felt bad for a guy sitting next to me, because right at the start time, he realized that he was in the medical school interview room and he was a dental school applicant. I felt like I stuck out, as I was the only one in a blue suit. Everyone was wearing black or grey, and most of the ties were red or yellow. Is there some place that advises that, or is that just the nature of the applicant pool?
 
tyrionlannister said:
It was snowing all the day of my interview. I left lots of time for driving and barely got there on time. I felt bad for a guy sitting next to me, because right at the start time, he realized that he was in the medical school interview room and he was a dental school applicant. I felt like I stuck out, as I was the only one in a blue suit. Everyone was wearing black or grey, and most of the ties were red or yellow. Is there some place that advises that, or is that just the nature of the applicant pool?
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Nature of the applicant pool. I went with the less traditional but equally as classy navy/charcoal combination; IMO it doesn't matter what you wear as long as you dress the part to present yourself in the best light as possible.
 
Great idea. I'll bite. . .
I hadn't had an interview since october when I got the invite on 1/13 to interview on 1/20. After scrambling for (surprisingly cheap!) plane tickets and accomodations with a student host, I was off for my first visit to Denver.
A brief driving tour of the city culminated in dinner at TheCherry Cricket. Interestingly, my host reported that of his several interviewees, I was the only one to drink the night before. Interesting, I say, because a) I'm a fairly modest drinker b) there are some fine microbrews coming out of Denver/Boulder/surrounding areas and c)y'all are supposed to be granola hippies, aren't you?
Anyway, interview day was obviously fantastic, and I knew, by the end of the day, that CU had moved up the list dramatically. Tha facilities were fantastic, the people - warm, laid-back, helpful and, most importantly, genuinely happy!
A note on blue suits: I, too, wore a blue suit to my interviews and felt out-classed by only one man. To the man with the grey, knit tie, I again compliment you. To the poster with the blue suit, I imagine you stuck out much more like a quality applicant than a sore thumb.
Good luck tomorrow, everybody!
 
MT Headed said:
Tomorrow we will be divided into the haves and the have-nots, but today we are all equals. I think it's time for a UColorado interview experience retrospective before we all get split up.
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I think the single best part of my interview day was the gelato in the Children's Hospital. 😍
 
MT Headed said:
Tomorrow we will be divided into the haves and the have-nots, but today we are all equals. I think it's time for a UColorado interview experience retrospective before we all get split up. I'll start.
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After spending about 4 grand on trips to the east coast for interviews, it was really nice to roll out of bed, get ready, and drive to an interview!

That made my day in itself. And, there is nothing like a nice pump up speech from Dr. Winn early in the AM. He woke everyone up in that room, with the exception of 1 or 2 disinterested interviewees. Overall, it was a great last interview of my application cycle.

Now we wait for the next 24 to 36 hours...That seems so inconsequential at this point. I mean, we've all been hanging in there for months. What's a few more hours?
 
Well, I've just been reading up till now, but with the decision so imminent, I'll throw a reminiscence into the ring.

I interviewed on 12.19.11. It started to snow just after Dr. Winn finished his rousing introduction. I had just gotten back to Colorado after living OOS for several years, and the snow just seemed like a sign that I was home again. Follow that up with everyone being so friendly and gregarious, I knew that this was the fit for me. I interviewed a few other places and I was worried that CU wouldn't measure up. I was very happy to be proven wrong.
 
My email keeps playing tricks on me. Just got an email and I thought it was from CU. just a pre-interview rejection from U Miami which I knew was coming already. Damn you gmail!
 
TheMightySmiter said:
I think it was only sent to undergrad students from the CU schools?
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This seriously gives me some relief! haha

If anyone else that got the e-mail is not an undergrad at CU, please don't tell us.... ignorance is bliss at this point, and I don't want any more agonizing speculation before tomorrow!
 
lalalaaaaaa said:
This seriously gives me some relief! haha

If anyone else that got the e-mail is not an undergrad at CU, please don't tell us.... ignorance is bliss at this point, and I don't want any more agonizing speculation before tomorrow!
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Oops too late. It's probably of no significance.
 
lalalaaaaaa said:
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Lalala, you seem like a great applicant. I wouldn't worry about it. You'll get in. I have faith in you. The CU-Denver email was from UG Admissions and didn't look like anything CUSOM would have had sent out. It was definitely aimed at UG admissions. I'm not really sure why we got it, but I'd guess it's sort of like how I keep getting annoying emails from the DPM school attached a SOM I applied to (and later withdrew from pre-interview). I doubt it has anything to do with CUSOM admissions. Take heart!
 
music2doc said:
Lalala, you seem like a great applicant. I wouldn't worry about it. You'll get in. I have faith in you. The CU-Denver email was from UG Admissions and didn't look like anything CUSOM would have had sent out. It was definitely aimed at UG admissions. I'm not really sure why we got it, but I'd guess it's sort of like how I keep getting annoying emails from the DPM school attached a SOM I applied to (and later withdrew from pre-interview). I doubt it has anything to do with CUSOM admissions. Take heart!
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Agreed. I've gotten other weird emails from CU UG during the cycle so I wouldn't ascribe much worth to it.
 
Thanks for the encouragement! But I still stand by the exploding head. It almost seems fitting to really get worked up over nothing on the last night before fate reveals itself (potential last night that is...I guess it would actually be more fitting to get worked up, then come tomorrow there is no news lol)
 
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I got that email today, and never went to CU (undergrad out east, CSU right now for grad school). Did anyone who didn't get it already fill out that supplemental scholarship info? It could be nothing, but I'm at least feeling a bit more optimistic about tomorrow's news...
 
Verglas said:
I got that email today, and never went to CU (undergrad out east, CSU right now for grad school). Did anyone who didn't get it already fill out that supplemental scholarship info? It could be nothing, but I'm at least feeling a bit more optimistic about tomorrow's news...
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I think the real question should be: did those of you who have been accepted (and have not withdrawn) all receive the UCD scholarship email?

If yes, it could be good news. If not, it's probably totally meaningless.
 
Verglas said:
I got that email today, and never went to CU (undergrad out east, CSU right now for grad school). Did anyone who didn't get it already fill out that supplemental scholarship info? It could be nothing, but I'm at least feeling a bit more optimistic about tomorrow's news...
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I just filled out the FAFSA last week, maybe that's why.
 
So this is it, huh? 7 months after the fact, and we're presumably down to one day. One last day of waking up and checking my email compulsively and getting like 10 new ones that have nothing to do with CU. Then checking SDN to see if anybody else got news. Rinse and repeat 5 times a day. More if I'm bored. One day to say "I'm sure this will be the day - they wouldn't leave me hanging like this, right?"......


Guys.................I don't think I can handle this. Knowing would be a huge disruption to my routine.
 
I didn't go to CU undergrad, have been accepted, and did get the email. Have not filled out any financial aid forms. That said, I think it's random. There was a random happy holidays email too, wasn't there? I'd been accepted then but didn't get that.
 
FulfilledDeer said:
Guys.................I don't think I can handle this. Knowing would be a huge disruption to my routine.
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Agreed. I will have so much free time next Monday when I'm not checking email and SDN every hour, on the hour.
 
If after 6 months of waiting, my decision came in the form of not receiving a financial aid email, I am going to be so. freaking. mad. :boom:
 
SamSam22 said:
Perhaps the scholarship email was to those of us in-state...
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I'm in state, went to CU Boulder, work at the med school, and didn't get it if that's anything. Can someone give more info as to what the e-mail said? Maybe copy paste it if it's not too long. Seems like more than a coincidence in my conspiracy driven mind.
 
FulfilledDeer said:
Guys.................I don't think I can handle this. Knowing would be a huge disruption to my routine.
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haha! this is totally true. Maybe I will still lurk around this thread if I'm rejected.... just so I can reminisce about old times with you guys, when the world was a simpler place....
 
lalalaaaaaa said:
I'm in state, went to CU Boulder, work at the med school, and didn't get it if that's anything. Can someone give more info as to what the e-mail said? Maybe copy paste it if it's not too long. Seems like more than a coincidence in my conspiracy driven mind.
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If you PM me your email I can forward it to you. I really think it was unrelated, all the information in the email is for undergraduates. I had to fish it out of my trash bin because I thought it was spam when I first saw it.
 
Oh and I just noticed that it was sent to an email address NOT attached to my AMCAS. 🙂 No idea how they got that email, but it isn't the one that the med school has. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that I sent my financial aid information to CU Denver when I filled out the FAFSA.

Edit: Yep, that was the email address I had used for FAFSA. That must be what it's from. We can all relax, sort of.
 
TheMightySmiter said:
I think it was only sent to undergrad students from CU? I did my post-bacc there and am still technically enrolled.
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lalalaaaaaa said:
This seriously gives me some relief! haha

If anyone else that got the e-mail is not an undergrad at CU, please don't tell us.... ignorance is bliss at this point, and I don't want any more agonizing speculation before tomorrow!
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rmnanon said:
Negative soldier. I did not go to CU.
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Verglas said:
I got that email today, and never went to CU (undergrad out east, CSU right now for grad school). Did anyone who didn't get it already fill out that supplemental scholarship info? It could be nothing, but I'm at least feeling a bit more optimistic about tomorrow's news...
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kexy said:
If after 6 months of waiting, my decision came in the form of not receiving a financial aid email, I am going to be so. freaking. mad. :boom:
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So I'm way behind on replying to all of these things. I did get the email, did not go to CU for undergrad, am instate, and think that the email doesn't have anything to do with medical school acceptance (at all). It said undergrad and took you to a generic link on the CU denver site. As happy as I would be for it to be a sign of things to come, I think it's a strange (and perhaps cruel..) coincidence.

Good luck to everyone! Hopefully tomorrow will be a great day for at least some of us!
 
Based on the previous e-mail related posts, I'm pretty sure we have all become totally insane, and I think we need serious professional help. Maybe we can find a psychiatrist to give us a group discount.
 
lalalaaaaaa said:
Based on the previous e-mail related posts, I'm pretty sure we have all become totally insane, and I think we need serious professional help. Maybe we can find a psychiatrist to give us a group discount.
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The UCLA thread should get in on that deal too.
 
lalalaaaaaa said:
Based on the previous e-mail related posts, I'm pretty sure we have all become totally insane, and I think we need serious professional help. Maybe we can find a psychiatrist to give us a group discount.
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I know of a great med school nearby...doh!!!

I really think that if we DO need professional help after this, we should send the bill directly to the CU admissions office. 😀
 
Well tomorrow we will know if the email meant anything. If everyone who received it gets in, it was significant. I didn't get the email and I'm sweating. I also need to do my taxes so I can fill out FAFSA. Maybe I'll do my taxes if I get in, otherwise I might be in a cell with Wesley Snipes.
 
My hunch is that it meant nothing.

Either way, good luck everybody waiting. For those without an acceptance, better luck to you than to the rest of us.
 
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