2011-2012 University of New Mexico Application Thread

[anthrovagabond]

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Yeah I would love to know this too... not holding my breath tho!

We can wish 🙂

 

[anthrovagabond]

We can wish 🙂

Anyone brave enough to call on Monday? I nominate someone else 🙂

 

[Duke1804]

you guys are lucky because your done with the process, just waiting to see if you get in. I am working on secondary and hoping to get an interview before the end of the year. What was time span between secondary submission and interviews?

 

[anthrovagabond]

you guys are lucky because your done with the process, just waiting to see if you get in. I am working on secondary and hoping to get an interview before the end of the year. What was time span between secondary submission and interviews?

4 weeks, but I interviewed a while ago. Seems like the process is picking up now, with a lot only waiting a week or two

 

[ABQ9988]

Anyone brave enough to call on Monday? I nominate someone else 🙂

I would give it a week. then call. my guess is the acceptances would go out a bit closer to the holiday break. I wouldn't mind emailing, but I dont want the admissions committee to get annoyed.

 

[anthrovagabond]

I would give it a week. then call. my guess is the acceptances would go out a bit closer to the holiday break. I wouldn't mind emailing, but I dont want the admissions committee to get annoyed.

Yeah, I think you're right; waiting another week sounds best.

 

[ABQ9988]

Yeah, I think you're right; waiting another week sounds best.

It would be awesome to find an acceptance in the mail though. I wish UNM emailed acceptances also; other schools seem to do email acceptances and snail mail a letter.

 

[anthrovagabond]

It would be awesome to find an acceptance in the mail though. I wish UNM emailed acceptances also; other schools seem to do email acceptances and snail mail a letter.

Yup and yup. Here's to waiting & hoping!

 

[anthrovagabond]

Snow day...

 

[anthrovagabond]

Here's to hoping a few letters go out this week 🙂

 

[ABQ9988]

Here's to hoping a few letters go out this week 🙂

how about hoping we get one of the few letters they may send out soon.

 

[anthrovagabond]

how about hoping we get one of the few letters they may send out soon.

Ha! Yeah, good point! Here's to hoping they send them out, and that we are the recipients 🙂

 

[anthrovagabond]

Maybe they'll send some out next week, and maybe we'll be the lucky ones?

 

[ABQ9988]

I emailed the SOM to ask about the dual degree MD/MPH program. At the end of the email, I threw in a question about the acceptances. Here was their response

"We will be sending out our first wave of rolling admissions acceptances at the end of the month. The second wave will be sent out at the end of January, and final notices will be distributed on March 15, 2012."

The admissions office will be closed from Dec 23 through Jan 2, if they follow the UNM holiday calendar. So my guess is letters would go out on Thursday of next week.

 

[nmgal]

Accepted!! Interviewed 10/13. Notified by email with a letter coming by snail mail as well. 😀

 

[Sirach38]

Congatulations nmgal! Any other acceptances? I interviewed November 15 so my guess is I won't be considered until the second waive of rolling admissions. What do you guys think?

 

[Duke1804]

Accepted!! Interviewed 10/13. Notified by email with a letter coming by snail mail as well. 😀

congratulation ! Now you can relax until July! If you don't mind, can you share some of your stats or non-cog experiences?

 

[Sirach38]

congratulation ! Now you can relax until July! If you don't mind, can you share some of your stats or non-cog experiences?

I believe her stats are on the first page of this forum.

 

[nmgal]

I believe her stats are on the first page of this forum.

Yep, they are. I also included a short description of ECs on MDapplicants. I'm a few years out of school with a somewhat non-traditional background (bioengineering, startup company)

I hope you guys hear back soon, good luck!

 

[ABQ9988]

Yep, they are. I also included a short description of ECs on MDapplicants. I'm a few years out of school with a somewhat non-traditional background (bioengineering, startup company)

I hope you guys hear back soon, good luck!

Congratualtions NMgal! You have quite the exceptional application. Looks like the rest of us won't be hearing anything from UNM until end of January ....or March. 🙁

 

[Sirach38]

ABQ9988 you stated in your post earlier that you are a reapplicant. Would you mind sharing with us what the exit interview is like if we don't get accepted? Also what are some things that you recommend we do to improve our application if we do not get accepted? What do you feel was the area of your application that benefited or improved most from last application cycle to this one? I apologize if the questions are too personal and I understand if you don't want to answer them. I just think they would be very helpful for those that do not get accepted this round.

 

[akdas988]

Does anybody know where to find the match list for UNM?

 

[ABQ9988]

ABQ9988 you stated in your post earlier that you are a reapplicant. Would you mind sharing with us what the exit interview is like if we don't get accepted? Also what are some things that you recommend we do to improve our application if we do not get accepted? What do you feel was the area of your application that benefited or improved most from last application cycle to this one? I apologize if the questions are too personal and I understand if you don't want to answer them. I just think they would be very helpful for those that do not get accepted this round.

I will send you a PM.

 

[Duke1804]

Does anybody know where to find the match list for UNM?

I attached the match-list from last year. The match-list is posted on http://hsc.unm.edu/som/oss/ for only several weeks then removed soon after graduation. Hope this match-list helps you with what you were looking for.

 

[Sirach38]

I attached the match-list from last year. The match-list is posted on http://hsc.unm.edu/som/oss/ for only several weeks then removed soon after graduation. Hope this match-list helps you with what you were looking for.

Thank you Duke. That was very helpful =)

 

[JcRa1d3r]

ACCEPTED! 😀
just got an email on the 13th and may be starting @ UNM next year😀

 

[Duke1804]

ACCEPTED! 😀
just got an email on the 13th and may be starting @ UNM next year😀

why is it maybe?

 

[Sirach38]

ACCEPTED! 😀
just got an email on the 13th and may be starting @ UNM next year😀

Congratulations! If you don't mind, could you share your stats and your clinical experience please? Also, when did you interview? How did the interview go?

 

[akdas988]

I attached the match-list from last year. The match-list is posted on http://hsc.unm.edu/som/oss/ for only several weeks then removed soon after graduation. Hope this match-list helps you with what you were looking for.

Awesome, thanks.

 

[JcRa1d3r]

Congratulations! If you don't mind, could you share your stats and your clinical experience please? Also, when did you interview? How did the interview go?

I interviewed November 3rd, it went very well i thought. My first interview was the best we both even lost track of time and talked for about an hour. The second one seemed a bit more stressful to me but she was very nice either way. My stats were ok, 27 MCAT, 3.83 cGPA, 3.8sGPA i think, i also shadowed 2 doctors for quite a while and worked in an influenza research lab for about a year @ UTEP. I worked full-time and volunteered pretty regularly so I think that busy schedule helped

 

[JcRa1d3r]

why is it maybe?

Well i also got accepted to UT-SOM in San Antonio so I still have a lot of thinking to do about where I want to go

 

[Sirach38]

Thanks for sharing jcra1d3r and congratulations again!

 

[JcRa1d3r]

does anyone know what the financial aid situation is like at UNM? any current students that have any insight on this woould be very helpful, how much does the financial aid office really help? anybody have trouble dealing with these things?
any insight would be very helpful

 

[Duke1804]

65 days left until everyone knows! Does anyone know when the next wave of acceptance letters go out?

 

[ABQ9988]

65 days left until everyone knows! Does anyone know when the next wave of acceptance letters go out?

65 days feels like an eternity. According to the SOM email in Decemeber, it said early February.

 

[anthrovagabond]

65 days feels like an eternity. According to the SOM email in Decemeber, it said early February.

I'm just waiting for March now ha

 

[DH1234]

Does anybody know what percentage of the class is usually filled through the rolling admissions process?

 

[Sirach38]

Does anybody know what percentage of the class is usually filled through the rolling admissions process?

I believe there are two waves of early admissions plus the early decision acceptances. Early decision accepts about four or five applicants. Each wave of rolling admission accepts about ten applicants. I believe there are around 115 - 120 total applicants accepted each year. So somewhere in the 20-25% of applicants are accepted by either early decision or rolling admissions.

 

[Duke1804]

I believe there are two waves of early admissions plus the early decision acceptances. Early decision accepts about four or five applicants. Each wave of rolling admission accepts about ten applicants. I believe there are around 115 - 120 total applicants accepted each year. So somewhere in the 20-25% of applicants are accepted by either early decision or rolling admissions.

That is about my guess also. 58 more days until everyone knows!

 

[ABQ9988]

I believe there are two waves of early admissions plus the early decision acceptances. Early decision accepts about four or five applicants. Each wave of rolling admission accepts about ten applicants. I believe there are around 115 - 120 total applicants accepted each year. So somewhere in the 20-25% of applicants are accepted by either early decision or rolling admissions.

Do you think the rolling admissions includes the BA/MD students?

 

[Duke1804]

Do you think the rolling admissions includes the BA/MD students?

To my knowledge BA/MD goes through an entirely different process and is not included in the estimates previously mentioned.

 

[ABQNM]

To my knowledge BA/MD goes through an entirely different process and is not included in the estimates previously mentioned.

The BA/MD students will occupy 25 reserved seats, so they shouldn't be on rolling admissions, as far as I'm aware. When they enter the program they're basically guaranteed a spot in medical school as long as they meet certain criteria.

 

[Sirach38]

The BA/MD students will occupy 25 reserved seats, so they shouldn't be on rolling admissions, as far as I'm aware. When they enter the program they're basically guaranteed a spot in medical school as long as they meet certain criteria.

Okay so I called to get the info. The approximately 115 student that they accept each year includes the BA/MD students (about 25), the prep program student (7 this year), and the students that deferred matriculation last year (7 this year). This means that after these students are considered there are about 76 seats available for new applicants. Of these 76 seats approximately 5 are taken by early decision applicants and 20 of them are taken by the two rolling admissions waves. This means that at the end of all the rolling admissions there are approximately 50 spots left. Hope this helps.

 

[anthrovagabond]

And...the waiting continues. It's going to be long 7 weeks.

 

[anthrovagabond]

Any idea when the second batch of rolling admissions goes out? It seems like some are saying more towards late January while others are saying February. Any clues??

 

[Duke1804]

Okay so I called to get the info. The approximately 115 student that they accept each year includes the BA/MD students (about 25), the prep program student (7 this year), and the students that deferred matriculation last year (7 this year). This means that after these students are considered there are about 76 seats available for new applicants. Of these 76 seats approximately 5 are taken by early decision applicants and 20 of them are taken by the two rolling admissions waves. This means that at the end of all the rolling admissions there are approximately 50 spots left. Hope this helps.

Great research! PREP isn't a bad option, just not the first option. With there being more applicants the before I am pretty concerned! The next 55 days will be tough

 

[anthrovagabond]

Great research! PREP isn't a bad option, just not the first option. With there being more applicants the before I am pretty concerned! The next 55 days will be tough

I thought Prep is specifically for students that want to get a Phd...

 

[Duke1804]

I thought Prep is specifically for students that want to get a Phd...

"The Premedical Enrichment Program is a post-baccalaureate curriculum offered to educationally-disadvantaged New Mexicans with a bachelor's degree who exhibit exceptional non-cognitive characteristics but are not eligible for admission into medical school due to low MCAT scores or undergraduate GPA. An educationally disadvantaged person is defined as an individual who has been exposed to family, school, or community experiences that have impeded the development of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to enroll in and graduate from the UNM School of Medicine. Students from families living in poverty, from homes where English is not the primary language, from homes with poorly educated parents, and/or from homes with only a single parent are at particular risk for having a level of educational readiness below that of their peers. Although there may be some overlap between groups of "educationally disadvantaged students" and groups of "under-represented minorities," these terms have distinct meanings and should not be used interchangeably. The term "under-represented minorities" (URM's) refers to students from several ethnic minority groups such as Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans who are not yet adequately represented on the UNM campus. Therefore, a student who is an underrepresented minority does not necessarily qualify as an "educationally disadvantaged student".

Applicants who apply to the Regular MD program and do not meet the minimum requirements will be prescreened for PrEP. Applicants who do not meet the 22 MCAT score threshold may be accepted into the program, but must obtain a 22 or better composite score in order to matriculate into the program. To be considered for this program, applicants must first apply to the UNM School of Medicine Regular MD program utilizing the AMCAS application."

Only the admissions committee can nominate you for this program and you have to do a third interview in late march. They will inform you that you were declined for normal admission but are being considered for PrEP.

 

[anthrovagabond]

"The Premedical Enrichment Program is a post-baccalaureate curriculum offered to educationally-disadvantaged New Mexicans with a bachelor's degree who exhibit exceptional non-cognitive characteristics but are not eligible for admission into medical school due to low MCAT scores or undergraduate GPA. An educationally disadvantaged person is defined as an individual who has been exposed to family, school, or community experiences that have impeded the development of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to enroll in and graduate from the UNM School of Medicine. Students from families living in poverty, from homes where English is not the primary language, from homes with poorly educated parents, and/or from homes with only a single parent are at particular risk for having a level of educational readiness below that of their peers. Although there may be some overlap between groups of "educationally disadvantaged students" and groups of "under-represented minorities," these terms have distinct meanings and should not be used interchangeably. The term "under-represented minorities" (URM's) refers to students from several ethnic minority groups such as Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans who are not yet adequately represented on the UNM campus. Therefore, a student who is an underrepresented minority does not necessarily qualify as an "educationally disadvantaged student".

Applicants who apply to the Regular MD program and do not meet the minimum requirements will be prescreened for PrEP. Applicants who do not meet the 22 MCAT score threshold may be accepted into the program, but must obtain a 22 or better composite score in order to matriculate into the program. To be considered for this program, applicants must first apply to the UNM School of Medicine Regular MD program utilizing the AMCAS application."

Only the admissions committee can nominate you for this program and you have to do a third interview in late march. They will inform you that you were declined for normal admission but are being considered for PrEP.

Ah, so this is different from PREP (big "R"): http://biology.unm.edu/PREP/index.asp
So the MD-track one is PrEP; the PhD-track one is PREP. Sweet.

 

[ABQ9988]

Okay so I called to get the info. The approximately 115 student that they accept each year includes the BA/MD students (about 25), the prep program student (7 this year), and the students that deferred matriculation last year (7 this year). This means that after these students are considered there are about 76 seats available for new applicants. Of these 76 seats approximately 5 are taken by early decision applicants and 20 of them are taken by the two rolling admissions waves. This means that at the end of all the rolling admissions there are approximately 50 spots left. Hope this helps.

You're awesome. Thank you for this post; it really clarifies things.