2012-2013 Dartmouth Medical School Application Thread

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II today! Cannot express in writing how ecstatic I am! 😱 😀 😍

Dates offered: end of February and first week of March.
 
If anyone else on here is interviewing on March 5 and is flying into Boston or Manchester, I may be able to give you a ride out to Hanover, since I will be driving from Seacoast NH (on March 4). PM me if you are interested. 🙂
 
i completed my application in December (kinda late due to a family illness) and obviously haven't heard back from them. Is there any hope for an II or should send them a LOI?

Thanks! (panicking right now because no II from states yet 🙁 )
 
My interview at Dartmouth is this Tuesday, but I will be in the Boston/hanover area Sunday-Wednesday. If any other interviewees want to meet up beforehand and explore the area together (this will be my first time in New Hampshire/massachusetts), PM me!! So excited! 🙂
 
How effective would a LOI be after getting waitlisted? I'm debating whether I should send one now or just until somewhere around May 15th.
 
does anyone having any new insight or info concerning whether or not everybody who is not accepted gets waitlisted rather than some rejections?
 
silverman23 said:
does anyone having any new insight or info concerning whether or not everybody who is not accepted gets waitlisted rather than some rejections?
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On my interview day Mr. Welch stated that once the list of "batting averages" is compiled they begin to "accept from the top and reject from the bottom, and construct a waitlist in-between, and at some magic point in March, the three points all come together" and they have acceptances, rejections, and a waitlist.

So yes, they do reject post-interview. Try to remember that student doc is a small sample size (and potentially a little more on the better side when it comes to strength of applicants) and that some people who are here may choose not to post rejections.
 
Interview invite this morning! Complete end of August/early September. Dates offered end of Feb/early March so it looks like there are many more interview dates still available. Fingers crossed everyone still waiting!
 
waitlisted this morning. Interviewed late Sept =| it was a long wait... now... some more waiting...
 
Taco Truck said:
On my interview day Mr. Welch stated that once the list of "batting averages" is compiled they begin to "accept from the top and reject from the bottom, and construct a waitlist in-between, and at some magic point in March, the three points all come together" and they have acceptances, rejections, and a waitlist.

So yes, they do reject post-interview. Try to remember that student doc is a small sample size (and potentially a little more on the better side when it comes to strength of applicants) and that some people who are here may choose not to post rejections.
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I don't mean to be a downer here, but last year, the admissions office confirmed having released wait lists before any rejections were sent out. If the same pattern holds, the fact that some people have gotten waitlisted does not mean that the rest of us who haven't heard back are in the top half. :scared:
 
Waitlisted this morning as well

#firstworldproblems

#whitetears
 
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fox916 said:
I don't mean to be a downer here, but last year, the admissions office confirmed having released wait lists before any rejections were sent out. If the same pattern holds, the fact that some people have gotten waitlisted does not mean that the rest of us who haven't heard back are in the top half. :scared:
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That's what I'm afraid of.

I'm trying to not think about it, but it's so hard not to.
 
Hey - I know many of you guys are still stressed about not having heard back yet and sorry if this isn't exactly what you want to hear right now .... anyways:

Just wanted to alert you all to a FB group for accepted students for the class of 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/203355649803318/) .... A lot of the class of 2016 are members so don't let that put you off - they're just there to answer any questions you might have now that you're in. Feel free to join any time!!! 😀
 
wish they would hurry up and reject me already, been complete since late July....got no time to be worrying about them 😀
 
silverman23 said:
does anyone having any new insight or info concerning whether or not everybody who is not accepted gets waitlisted rather than some rejections?
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Yes, there are many straight rejections, not just waitlists. i.e. waitlist is not a bad place to be
 
Does anyone have travel recommendations for Hanover to Manchester the day of the interview? There isn't a late enough flight so I'm planning on spending a night in either Manchester or Boston. Thanks!
 
Cinta said:
Does anyone have travel recommendations for Hanover to Manchester the day of the interview? There isn't a late enough flight so I'm planning on spending a night in either Manchester or Boston. Thanks!
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What day are you interviewing? If its the same as mine, I can drop you off in Manchester on my way home, since it's on my way.
 
Cinta said:
Does anyone have travel recommendations for Hanover to Manchester the day of the interview? There isn't a late enough flight so I'm planning on spending a night in either Manchester or Boston. Thanks!
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If their interview day ends at 3pm, the last Dartmouth Coach from Hanover to Boston leaves campus at 5pm and arrives to Boston's South Station at 7:30pm. It costs around $30 one way. From South Station, you can get pretty much anywhere in Boston for $2 using the MBTA (subway). If you continue on the coach you'll get to Boston Logan Airport, and a lot of nearby hotels have airport shuttles if you stay at one of those.

The Dartmouth Coach schedule is available here: http://dartmouthcoach.com/
Basically leaves Hanover 5am, 7am, 9am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm
2 hours 30 minutes to South Station, 2 hours 50 minutes to Boston Logan Airport.

Going from Boston to Manchester (if that's where your flight is out of), there are 2 Greyhounds listed on 2/28, one at 7am and one at 1:30pm. It's a 1 hour commute and costs $14. See http://www.greyhound.com/. I think there's some other bus service (Boston Express?) that has more frequent trips to and from Manchester, but I haven't looked into it carefully before.

Going from Hanover to Manchester, I believe Greyhound only has 1 bus per day; I looked on an arbitrary day (Thursday 2/28) and the one bus that day leaves Hanover at 2pm and arrives to Manchester at 3:40pm. Visit http://www.greyhound.com/ for more information. You'll probably miss this bus though because of the interview.

My two recommendations are:
1) Reserve a flight sometime after 9:15pm out of Boston on your interview day, if they even have flights that late. If you finish before 3pm, you can make the 3pm coach and get to Boston Logan by 5:50pm. If you finish after 3pm, you can make the 5pm coach and be at Boston Logan by 7:50pm.
2) You could stay in Hanover for the night and depart early in the morning and take a morning flight out of Boston the day after your interview.

If you need any more info, please PM me! 🙂

PS- I should've posted that 6 months ago when interviews started, sorry!!!
 
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Finally got rejected pre-interview from dartmouth today. Email was worded very nicely though by the director of admissions. Goodbye geisel!

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dartmouth2014 said:
If their interview day ends at 3pm, the last Dartmouth Coach from Hanover to Boston leaves campus at 5pm and arrives to Boston's South Station at 7:30pm. It costs around $30 one way. From South Station, you can get pretty much anywhere in Boston for $2 using the MBTA (subway). If you continue on the coach you'll get to Boston Logan Airport, and a lot of nearby hotels have airport shuttles if you stay at one of those.

The Dartmouth Coach schedule is available here: http://dartmouthcoach.com/
Basically leaves Hanover 5am, 7am, 9am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm
2 hours 30 minutes to South Station, 2 hours 50 minutes to Boston Logan Airport.

Going from Boston to Manchester (if that's where your flight is out of), there are 2 Greyhounds listed on 2/28, one at 7am and one at 1:30pm. It's a 1 hour commute and costs $14. See http://www.greyhound.com/. I think there's some other bus service (Boston Express?) that has more frequent trips to and from Manchester, but I haven't looked into it carefully before.

Going from Hanover to Manchester, I believe Greyhound only has 1 bus per day; I looked on an arbitrary day (Thursday 2/28) and the one bus that day leaves Hanover at 2pm and arrives to Manchester at 3:40pm. Visit http://www.greyhound.com/ for more information. You'll probably miss this bus though because of the interview.

My two recommendations are:
1) Reserve a flight sometime after 9:15pm out of Boston on your interview day, if they even have flights that late. If you finish before 3pm, you can make the 3pm coach and get to Boston Logan by 5:50pm. If you finish after 3pm, you can make the 5pm coach and be at Boston Logan by 7:50pm.
2) You could stay in Hanover for the night and depart early in the morning and take a morning flight out of Boston the day after your interview.

If you need any more info, please PM me! 🙂

PS- I should've posted that 6 months ago when interviews started, sorry!!!
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Thank you so much for this travel info! It looks like there are more options to get from Hanover to Boston than from Hanover to Manchester. I have a flight out of Manchester the day after my interview , but since its with southwest, I can always change it to Boston (its strangely more expensive though..)

sk15731 said:
What day are you interviewing? If its the same as mine, I can drop you off in Manchester on my way home, since it's on my way.
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I'm interviewing 2/28 Thursday. I might just have to take you up on this offer if we're interviewing the same day!
 
UrbanRiver said:
Finally got rejected pre-interview from dartmouth today. Email was worded very nicely though by the director of admissions. Goodbye geisel!

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wish dartmouth would just decide on my file.. need to make travel plans ASAP for two other interviews on the east coast.
 
Cinta said:
Thank you so much for this travel info! It looks like there are more options to get from Hanover to Boston than from Hanover to Manchester. I have a flight out of Manchester the day after my interview , but since its with southwest, I can always change it to Boston (its strangely more expensive though..)



I'm interviewing 2/28 Thursday. I might just have to take you up on this offer if we're interviewing the same day!
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I interview March 5. Missed you by one interview day!
 
FINALLY got my rejection email...thanx for the long wait a**holes...goodbye Dartmouth
 
bearintraining said:
feel your pain.. i'm still waiting 🙁
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good luck man...to be honest, i really don't care.. i'm just bewildered as to why schools can't let us know in a timely fashion. I am almost 100 % sure that my file has been lying around in a rejection pile, and was not "still under review" as admissions reps often claim. I'm fortunate to have gotten in to one of my top choices, but this process needs to be heavily reformed
 
Got the waitlist email today, interviewed early September.
 
Does anyone know what Dartmouth's pass rate for step 1 of the board exams is? And how it compares to the national average?
 
turkalurkey said:
Does anyone know what Dartmouth's pass rate for step 1 of the board exams is? And how it compares to the national average?
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2. PERFORMANCE ON STEP 1 OF THE BOARDS: In March each year, we receive a detailed breakdown of how our students did on Step 1 of the Boards taken during the previous calendar year (2010). Last June, July, and August, all 82 of our students at the end of Year 2 took Step 1, which is based on all of the courses they take during Year 1 (organized by basic science discipline) and Year 2 (organized by organ system). We had great results again this year. 100% of our students passed (versus 91.3% nationally); we scored significantly above the national average on mean overall score, with our second highest class mean score ever (231, vs. a national mean score of 222); and we scored significantly higher than the national average in all 20 areas reported. If you want to see more details, they are included in my annual report 2
attached. (This will be of most interest to those of you who teach in any of the Year 1 or Year 2 courses.)

http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/insi.../Nierenberg-Spring-2011-letter-to-faculty.pdf
 
When I interviewed at Geisel, the feel was much more relaxed than any other interview I've ever been to (completely serious). Both of my interviews were closed-file as well - I would recommend practicing your elevator speeches people. Cafeteria food was not bad, and it was extremely cheap. You could get basically 2 lunches (no drink) with the voucher they give you..

I must note that 3 of the medical students I met were waitlisted -> accepted. Waitlist movement varies each year - but as Andrew Welch said, they do some batting average calculation to each file.

Good luck to all!
 
Haven't been able to secure a host for my stay, can anyone recommend a hotel/place to stay the night before?
 
futuredr08 said:
Haven't been able to secure a host for my stay, can anyone recommend a hotel/place to stay the night before?
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The Hanover Inn which is a 10 min walk from campus makes for a low stress stay--right on Main Street near a bunch of restaurants and conveniently it's at a stop for both greyhound and upper valley shuttle. Unfortunately it's on the expensive side and there is no complimentary breakfast. Mention you are interviewing at Geisel and you can get a room rate of $159, instead of the usual $210. I ended up getting upgraded to a campus view top floor room with a king size bed so I was pretty happy! I know a lot of people stayed in Lebanon, which is only ~15 min away by car. Good luck! It's an amazing school!
 
Cinta said:
The Hanover Inn which is a 10 min walk from campus makes for a low stress stay--right on Main Street near a bunch of restaurants and conveniently it's at a stop for both greyhound and upper valley shuttle. Unfortunately it's on the expensive side and there is no complimentary breakfast. Mention you are interviewing at Geisel and you can get a room rate of $159, instead of the usual $210. I ended up getting upgraded to a campus view top floor room with a king size bed so I was pretty happy! I know a lot of people stayed in Lebanon, which is only ~15 min away by car. Good luck! It's an amazing school!
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In addition to Hanover Inn (on Dartmouth's campus), basically any hotel that's near an Advance Transit bus stop is a good bet. Check in West Lebanon (near the AT orange line) or Lebanon (near the AT blue line)
http://www.advancetransit.com/

Despite being in a rural area, the AT is super reliable and always on time! Of course, time it such that you get to the "Vail/DMS" stop on time for your interview, which is right next to the Admissions Office. Definitely don't bother getting a rental car; once you get to Dartmouth's campus, the AT can get you where you need to go!
 
I called the admissions office today and they said they had been sending out post interview rejections since "the information became available". I am not sure if that was recently or if that has been going on all along. Just and FYI for people who interviewed a long time ago and haven't heard anything like me!
 
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Hi friends,
I just interviewed at Dartmouth last week and I absolute loved it! Does anyone know when the next round of acceptances and such might be going out? Also, do they usually inform you over email/status update, or only by snail mail? Sorry if these questions were answered earlier!
 
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