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2012-2013 Boston University Application Thread
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hopefully not 🙁 I think last year people were getting accepted until the 31st of March still
There have only been a handful of acceptances posted here. So, either pre-meds have suddenly become shy about posting acceptances, BU has drastically down-sized their class size, or they have a lot of acceptances left to send out. I'm banking on the latter
Guys... Don't any of you look at last years threads? Or even the acceptances in January? BU gives the info about accepted students to the interviewers and it is at their discretion whether or not to contact the students. Many of them don't do anything with the info. Then, after a few days the official university emails go out and everyone finds out their status, good bad or neutral.
Calm down people!
Calm down people!
Anyone hear about MD/PhD decisions?
Based on previous years and January, snail mail and status updates should come out tomorrow or Friday. Can't promise anything since I'm not on the ad com, I just think people should stop posting despaired posts about their unsubstantiated theories that make others panic!
that in itself is causing me to panic lol
does anyone know if lectures are mandatory or podcasted here?
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How much time do you have to spend working in small groups? The curriculum web site said they were "increasing" this aspect of the curriculum but didn't say to what degree.
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has anyone heard any recent decisions? Acceptances/Rejections/Wait-list/Anything?🙂
There is an PBL component to the preclinical curriculum called Integrated Problems, which meets once per week and is mandatory. The are also breakout review/lab/discussion sessions throughout the first 2 years but those aren't mandatory though most students find them very helpful. Not sure what they have in mind about increasing small group-based learning, though I will say the attitude is generally let students learn how they learn. Meaning, those who learn well in small group formats tend to form small groups, which is certainly encouraged, while those learn best holed up in the library are free to do that.
Just received the waitlist e-mail. This one hurt. 🙁
Waitlisted via status update e-mail.
Samsies
I was lazy and didn't update anything I've been doing (or any grades I've gotten) after getting into my much much cheaper state school, so I don't blame them. But I'm still a little butt-hurt after paying $$ for their MAMS program 🙄
ACCEPTED!!!!! SOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!! it's amazing how hard you work for this moment and when it finally comes it doesn't even feel real. 🙂🙂🙂
Just received the 'official' acceptance email.
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yayyyyyyy ACCEPTEDDDDDDDD!!!!! (via email!)
Really? During the interview day Dean Witzburg emphasized that the waitlist was as small as they could make it.
I got rejected post-interview anyways, not too upset since I wasn't super keen on the school.
Rejected post-interview. Sent them an update email after interviewing in mid-January, but I guess I didn't make the cut. I didn't feel too hot about my interview but I had my fingers crossed anyway. Oh well. Good luck to everyone else!
I applied to BU last cycle as an international and was waitlisted. Dug up some old threads and the consensus among people was that the waitlist was into the hundreds. Glad that I didn't apply to BU this cycle as I am sure I would have been waitlisted again. Not that it matters anyway.
Sorry to hear about your rejection though. It really sucks being an international. I completely empathize.
Congrats!!!
Nope i didnt!
ok, the email said we should, so just checking that it wasn't just me
this is probably a good sign...hang in there bud.
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BU's waitlist hasn't moved in years. Doubt this will change this year. My money is on 200 waitlists.
@Current BUSM students: Is there any internal ranking done for the preclinical years for purposes such as AOA? Or is the grading strictly Pass/Fail unranked? In other words, will residency programs see any difference between a student with a 71% average on exams and a student with an average of 99% or do they only see the "Pass"?
There's not much wait list movement here. Straight from the horse's mouth. And by horse I mean Dean Witzburg
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