2011-2012 Yale Application Thread

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Snail mailed deposit form and letter came today--in NY. 😎
 
Waitlist letter came today, no mention of a tier. It says 30% of the class comes from the waitlist, but I'm not sure how many are on the list. I do know someone who received a post-interview rejection today, so it doesn't include all interviewees. At any rate, I'll be withdrawing in favor of other schools/personal factors. Congratulations to those accepted and good luck to my fellow waitlisters!
 
Fawn Leibowitz said:
Waitlist letter came today, no mention of a tier. It says 30% of the class comes from the waitlist, but I'm not sure how many are on the list. I do know someone who received a post-interview rejection today, so it doesn't include all interviewees. At any rate, I'll be withdrawing in favor of other schools/personal factors. Congratulations to those accepted and good luck to my fellow waitlisters!
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Does the letter say if there is a process to accept your place on the waiting list, like via website, and if so is this time sensitive? I ask because I anticipate being a waitlister, not rejected :xf:, but I won't be home to check my mail for several days and don't want to miss any deadlines.
 
Received post-interview rejection in the mail today. Congrats to the rest of you! 🙂
 
em12 said:
Does the letter say if there is a process to accept your place on the waiting list, like via website, and if so is this time sensitive? I ask because I anticipate being a waitlister, not rejected :xf:, but I won't be home to check my mail for several days and don't want to miss any deadlines.
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The letter came with a form that has to be mailed back to the admissions office. It doesn't list a deadline, the letter just says "To hold your place on the Waiting List, please return the enclosed form immediately." I'm sure they'll hold your place as long as they hear from you within two weeks or so. If you're worried, you could call them once you get the letter to say that you want to be on the WL, you just had to wait to check your mail.
 
Fawn Leibowitz said:
The letter came with a form that has to be mailed back to the admissions office. It doesn't list a deadline, the letter just says "To hold your place on the Waiting List, please return the enclosed form immediately." I'm sure they'll hold your place as long as they hear from you within two weeks or so. If you're worried, you could call them once you get the letter to say that you want to be on the WL, you just had to wait to check your mail.
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I think the form says within 10 days.
 
medhopefuls2016 said:
Rejected post-interview....came one week after Harvard post-interview rejection (auch) ....this was one of my best interviews south of the border (i am canadian) and I was devastated.

However, in retrospect I think that they don't think my interest and passion for family/immigrant medicine aligns with what yale has to offer, and that was probably the reason.

I guess I just wanted to come on to this thread to have a sense of closure. I am going to assume that all of us (accepted, waitlisted, or rejected ) here have at least one acceptance at hand. I am sure that our paths will cross, no matter where we end up, sometimes in the future.

See you all in the next four years and during residency interviews. Congrats to all of you who were accepted at Yale University School of Medicine!
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Good luck wherever you're going (seems like you're going back north?).

As for me, I guess I'll have to patiently wait through to weekend to know my decision. Work faster Canada Post!

edit: oh well, I'm rejected too.
 
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Is the waitlist not tiered this year? There's no mention of it in the letter. -_- #
 
lunt said:
Good luck wherever you're going (seems like you're going back north?).

As for me, I guess I'll have to patiently wait through to weekend to know my decision. Work faster Canada Post!

edit: oh well, I'm rejected too.
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Sorry about the rejection man! 🙁 I will probably still being going to the States for med. My goals ultimately are MD/MBA and going into public health management + clinical research. The States just have more resources unfortunately.
 
Hey all, I'm a current M2, if you have any questions about Yale, ask away and I will try to answer them 🙂
 
medhopefuls2016 said:
Rejected post-interview....came one week after Harvard post-interview rejection (auch) ....this was one of my best interviews south of the border (i am canadian) and I was devastated.
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lunt said:
edit: oh well, I'm rejected too.
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🙁 Sorry to hear about the rejections, my fellow countrymen. But happy to hear we'll all be donning the coats someday!
 
Is anyone else finding the aid application process monstrously convoluted?

This page tells me international students need a CSS form, but the checklist says I don't have to as a Canadian. And I really hadn't the foggiest idea how to fill out the "Budget" section of the Yale application; my parental contribution and my quest for outside private loans will all depend on how much aid Yale decides to give me. Sigh.

The website seems to point to a handbook and a bulletin for all the information we would ever need, but neither seems to have been updated in a year or two. And they recommend we have it all in to them by the 19th?

I think I'll just go by the checklist, and fill out everything I can think of, and ship it off to them in an email on Monday. And hope for the best. :laugh:
 
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TYS said:
Hey all, I'm a current M2, if you have any questions about Yale, ask away and I will try to answer them 🙂
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Awesome, thanks! I'm really excited about Yale. Here are a few questions of mine:

1. I only found a general outline of the class schedule regarding step 1 exams. What month do M2 classes end? How many weeks off do you get for studying/step1/vacation?

2. How early do YSM students typically seek out research mentors for their thesis project? How easy is the commute to the new West Campus if your lab is over there?

3. How late are you on campus, usually? Does the majority of the class live in East Rock? Do you know of any classmates who commute from west of Bridgeport?

4. What's the most common way that your M2 class socializes? (e.g., organized activities, study groups, pub crawls, etc.)

5. Regarding pizza: Pepe's, Sally's, or other? 🙂
 
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eHombre said:
Awesome, thanks! I'm really excited about Yale. Here are a few questions of mine:

1. I only found a general outline of the class schedule regarding step 1 exams. What month do M2 classes end? How many weeks off do you get for studying/step1/vacation?

2. How early do YSM students typically seek out research mentors for their thesis project? How easy is the commute to the new West Campus if your lab is over there?

3. How late are you on campus, usually? Does the majority of the class live in East Rock? Do you know of any classmates who commute from west of Bridgeport?

4. What's the most common way that your M2 class socializes? (e.g., organized activities, study groups, pub crawls, etc.)

5. Regarding pizza: Pepe's, Sally's, or other? 🙂
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1. This year classes end April 10th and transition week for third year begins June 5th. So that's exactly 8 weeks in between for Step 1 & vacation. Most people in my class are planning to take Step 1 after about 6 weeks of studying and taking the last 2 weeks off.

2. Most people started looking for summer research mentors in December-February of first year. There's a shuttle to West Campus; I've not been there but according to Google Maps it's a 10 minute drive.

3. We have 2 weekly afternoons free after 1 pm, and pre-clinical clerkship activities 2 times a week which end at 4 pm (class starts at 9). Most first years live in the Harkness dorms, and everyone else either in East Rock or apartments close to the medical campus. East Rock is generally much nicer, but then you have to bike/drive in the morning 🙄 I would not recommend living further away than the surrounding suburbs (Guilford/Milford/Orange) though it's still doable, especially in the pre-clinical years.

4. Our class has very diverse interests and the social opportunities range from pub crawls to board games to movie nights to potlucks. Every month the first years throw a med school party called Club Med, and the upperclassmen regularly host apartment parties. There's also a really nice grad student-run bar that people hang out at.

5. My favorites are the fresh tomato pie at Pepe's (only available in the summer, so when you come here it should be one of the first things on your radar 🙂) and the mashed potato white pizza at BAR (which is actually delicious; I was a doubter at first too).
 
Does Yale offer merit scholarships or match financial aid offers from other schools?
 
Thanks for the tips/advice.

Did you live in Harkness? If so, what was your experience there? Is it similar to the average undergraduate dorm?

I'm thinking about living in a nearby apt and am weighing the pros of not living in a dorm against the social aspect of living in one (especially first year).
 
Question for a current student:

Is it true that YSM will allow students to take courses in any department on the Yale campus and complete additional degrees at no expense? Who would I talk to in order to confirm or deny this at revisit? Program flexibility and being able to explore are big decision pieces for me. Thanks.
 
justgo said:
Question for a current student:

Is it true that YSM will allow students to take courses in any department on the Yale campus and complete additional degrees at no expense? Who would I talk to in order to confirm or deny this at revisit? Program flexibility and being able to explore are big decision pieces for me. Thanks.
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From the Yale Bulletin:
Joint Academic Programs
Students from the Yale School of Medicine accepted into another Yale degree program
will be considered to be participating in a “Joint-Degree Program” and will receive the
benefit of sharing tuition between the medical school and the other program’s school so
that each program gives up a half-year of tuition. For example, a student accepted to the
M.D./J.D. Program will pay three and one-half years’ tuition to the School of Medicine
and two and one-half years’ tuition to the Law School, completing seven years of school
in six. This arrangement holds for Yale schools only. A student wishing to create such
an arrangement at a school outside of Yale must receive permission from the associate
dean for student a≠airs at the School of Medicine and, of course, must have the consent
of the other school.
School of Medicine students enrolled in a joint-degree program or in a program to
obtain a degree at another school must complete three years in the School of Medicine
and pass Steps I and II of the USMLE before beginning in the other program.

Additional information can be found here: http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/pdf/index.html
 
beckerism said:
Thanks for the tips/advice.

Did you live in Harkness? If so, what was your experience there? Is it similar to the average undergraduate dorm?

I'm thinking about living in a nearby apt and am weighing the pros of not living in a dorm against the social aspect of living in one (especially first year).
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I did and thought it was a blast hanging out with everyone first year. That being said, Harkness is definitely a dorm :laugh: The rooms all have sinks though which was nice, and rolling out of bed 5 minutes before class was great.
 
I lived at harkness for 3.5 months during the summer and although there are a number of pros a major con is that the north side is right on the interstate and floors 4-7 have a fantastic view of the parking lot.
 
Thanks for the reply! Darn it though. I've been living "off campus/apt" for the past 2 years and don't think I want to return to a dorm lifestyle. We'll see. 🙂
 
What do most people do for food in Harkness? Is it a meal plan or are there kitchens?
 
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What do most people do for food in Harkness? Is it a meal plan or are there kitchens?
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(Yale undergrad who lived in Harkness over a summer)

Harkness is definitely dorm-style, but rooms are quite spacious, and the bathrooms/shower stalls are nice and clean (aka not Reed Hall at JHU). There are 2 shared kitchens located on certain floors in Harkness. I believe you can also get a partial meal plan in either the YNH Hospital cafeteria or Yale Dining (there's the cafe downstairs and dining halls all around campus), but that isn't a particularly cheap option. Nearby, there are Stop-n-Shop (large grocery store/supermarket) and Hong Kong (smaller Chinese market), both about 20 min walking/10 minutes drive or via free Yale Shuttle. And carts. So many carts.

Fellow foodies willing to walk 5-10 minutes: make sure you check out La Cosinita (Cocinita, but I think they spell with an S). We're talking serious, huge $5 burritos and $2.50 tacos that are loaded to the brim and are among the best, most authentic Mexican food I've had outside of Mexico (and I'm from LA). 2 tacos will fill you up; 3 will kill you. There's also pizza everywhere. Ethiopian. Indian. One of the best burger pubs ever, ever. Surprisingly good Chinese food. An AYCE sushi place. About 562 Thai restaurants. And a cheese truck.

tl;dr You won't starve. Welcome to the Haven.
 
How do students generally get over to the Haven Free Clinic? I'm looking at some housing options over there and wondering what the public tranist situation looks like.

Also, I know the neighborhood is technically a bit "sketchy" but I grew up poor and have lived everywhere in the world so I think I'll be alright with most anything the Haven can throw. At least its not Baltimore!
 
sharpie1006 said:
(Yale undergrad who lived in Harkness over a summer)

Fellow foodies willing to walk 5-10 minutes: make sure you check out La Cosinita (Cocinita, but I think they spell with an S). We're talking serious, huge $5 burritos and $2.50 tacos that are loaded to the brim and are among the best, most authentic Mexican food I've had outside of Mexico (and I'm from LA). 2 tacos will fill you up; 3 will kill you. There's also pizza everywhere. Ethiopian. Indian. One of the best burger pubs ever, ever. Surprisingly good Chinese food. An AYCE sushi place. About 562 Thai restaurants. And a cheese truck.

tl;dr You won't starve. Welcome to the Haven.
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YES. This is exactly what I wanted to hear. 😀
 
justgo said:
How do students generally get over to the Haven Free Clinic? I'm looking at some housing options over there and wondering what the public tranist situation looks like.

Also, I know the neighborhood is technically a bit "sketchy" but I grew up poor and have lived everywhere in the world so I think I'll be alright with most anything the Haven can throw. At least its not Baltimore!
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There's a bus line between downtown New Haven (where the green is) and Fair Haven. Most students get to Haven by carpooling and occasionally biking. I've never felt unsafe in Fair Haven, but I've only been there during the day and on Grand Ave so I can't vouch for or against living there.

East Rock is about as far away and I know the Yale shuttle runs there, so take a look there too. Good luck!
 
So like you all I waited anxiously by my computer on March 13, and heard nothing. Then I waited for the mail to come on the 15th, 16th, 17th....nothing. Called today and my letter was sent to the wrong address. Now I find myself spending another lovely Tuesday waiting for the email they promised to send me with a scan of whatever letter I was meant to receive. Whewww. Let's hope after all this I don't get a rejection.


Edit: Waitlisted! Good luck to my fellows waiters.
 
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Exact same thing happened to me, except it was my fault. (I didn't resubmit my AMCAS after changing my address-which I've done now.)

Sounds like you need some more things to fill your Tuesday afternoon!
 
haha tell me about it. this was a bad day to have not a lot going on
 
Congratulations on your acceptances! I am a current first-year student and would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Look forward to seeing you at Second Look!
 
We all seem to be interested in food 🙂 One of many reasons this class will be AMAZING😀
 
Rejected today pre-interview via snail mail

3.7/35 complete mid-August
 
Hey all, 1st year student here. Congrats to everyone who was admitted. I owe a lot to SDN so here's some insider information - there were 232 accepted students based upon the phon-a-thon we just did.
 
232 accepted already? What happened to 30% of the class coming off of the waitlist?
 
The admissions committee expects 70-80 of these students to matriculate.
 
Naijaba said:
Hey all, 1st year student here. Congrats to everyone who was admitted. I owe a lot to SDN so here's some insider information - there were 232 accepted students based upon the phon-a-thon we just did.
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How much of a change is this number from previous years? I think earlier in this thread someone mentioned the adcom would make 180 offers initially. Are they hoping to use the waitlist less this year?
 
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