2012-2013 Panic Thread

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biologynerd said:
when do you prepare for the worst?
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PreMedOrDead said:
Starting Friday I'd hide the panic button, after that there won't be news until January.



Want to watch movies with me, honey? 😉
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it passes the time! 😛 I can't travel until interview season finishes up...haha, also, I never know which premedordead I'm talking to - multiple people use your account, right?

Fivo said:
Wow, 12 interviews and not a single decision huh? That sucks lol. At that point, I'd cancel my remaining interviews and wait for an acceptance to come in. If 12 interviews didn't net me at least 1 acceptance, then I don't deserve to be in medical school :laugh: Hopefully you hear good news soon :xf:
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I hope they've been here long enough to know this wasn't serious...
 
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Fivo said:
Wow, 12 interviews and not a single decision huh? That sucks lol. At that point, I'd cancel my remaining interviews and wait for an acceptance to come in. If 12 interviews didn't net me at least 1 acceptance, then I don't deserve to be in medical school :laugh: Hopefully you hear good news soon :xf:
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Same.

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2 pre-secondary rejections and a waitlist from my one good MD II...damn. feeling pretty low right now. let's hope the new year brings better luck.
 
I think it is time I pick up a hobby. The panic is subsiding into a dull longing. Maybe I'll learn to knit?
 
Fivo said:
Wow, 12 interviews and not a single decision huh? That sucks lol. At that point, I'd cancel my remaining interviews and wait for an acceptance to come in. If 12 interviews didn't net me at least 1 acceptance, then I don't deserve to be in medical school :laugh: Hopefully you hear good news soon :xf:
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Thanks, I think most of them went well, but also most of them were for MD-PhD programs... some taking only 3 students, etc. so it can be very competitive (even more so than regular admissions), and I am definitely not a cookie-cutter applicant... hence the stress and the uncertainty.

Pretty much all of the interviews took place in Nov/Dec. I guess I'll go into super major panic mode once I hit the 8 week mark and I haven't heard anything.

Yes, after Friday I will be doing a lot of movie watching.... Les Miserables, This is 40, and the Hobbit are all out in theaters... yay!

Update: Just received my first half rejection post-interview (rejected from MD-PhD program... still in the running for MD).... Not my top choice school but still, a school...arrrg! It shall not be a very Merry Christmas 😛
 
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Silence today.
I'm not panicking until the New Year rolls around.

(Happy Merry Seasons) (Holidays Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa New Year Greetings) 😀
[choose as you like]
 
No acceptances yet, but just received an ii yesterday! Have an nyc and la option now 🙂 I feel blessed!
 
Received a rejection from my top choice today. Truly crushed...6 interviews, 2 rejections, 2 waitlists...Feeling extremely low now
 
tarheel1408 said:
Sorry to hear that buddy. Where was it?
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It was at UNC...I kind of expected a rejection/waitlist since interview went poorly. Based on these other schools, looks like my interviewing skills are terrible.
 
How long do you wait to hear something before calling and seeing if your app was misplaced or something?
 
NCMED101 said:
Received a rejection from my top choice today. Truly crushed...6 interviews, 2 rejections, 2 waitlists...Feeling extremely low now
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Might be worth trying to see if anyone will give you some advice/pointers on how to interview better? Sorry to hear things are going smoothly, but I'm sure they'll work out eventually 🙂
 
Bearstronaut said:
Exclusionism is not welcome here. What is welcome: anyone who is anxious about how their process is going. 🙂



Figure out what went wrong and try to correct it 🙂 what do you think didn't go well?

In other words, I have a dirty mind. :/
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it's analogous to someone complaining how ****ty a mcburger is infront of the homeless.
 
BiologyNerd said:
it's analogous to someone complaining how ****ty a mcburger is infront of the homeless.
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Not even at all. Until you have an acceptance letter in your hands, then you still have everything to lose. The worry doesn't suddenly stop once you get interviews.

Even more so in that poster's case where they are sitting at 4 missed shots, including the top choice, and no successes. Anyone would be rattled up after that.
 
Bearstronaut said:
Exclusionism is not welcome here. What is welcome: anyone who is anxious about how their process is going. 🙂



Figure out what went wrong and try to correct it 🙂 what do you think didn't go well?
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Im not entirely sure. I honestly didn't expect a rejection from my top choice before new years. The fact that I got it early makes me think I blew the interview badly. I stumbled on a few questions and didn't express myself as well as I would have wanted though. But this decision is casting a huge doubt on the last two schools I am waiting to here back from. Both of those were MMI, which makes it even worse, since I have no idea how I did on them
 
BiologyNerd said:
6 interviews?! are you even allowed to be in this thread?
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We don't like your kind round these parts :meanie:

TheShaker said:
Not even at all. Until you have an acceptance letter in your hands, then you still have everything to lose. The worry doesn't suddenly stop once you get interviews.

Even more so in that poster's case where they are sitting at 4 missed shots, including the top choice, and no successes. Anyone would be rattled up after that.
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Definitely this. People panic for different reasons. It sucks you don't have an interview (I think?), and hopefully you hear some good news soon, but keep in mind that it's possible for you to get 1 interview and get accepted while the other guy might have 6 interviews and get waitlisted/rejected at all of them. So as posted above, until you get dat dere acceptance, you can panic all you want. And even after you get an acceptance, if it's at a school on the bottom of your list and you're still waiting on a decision from your baby daddy school, then you're still welcome to panic!

Good luck to everyone still waiting on interviews and acceptances :xf:
 
NCMED101 said:
Im not entirely sure. I honestly didn't expect a rejection from my top choice before new years. The fact that I got it early makes me think I blew the interview badly. I stumbled on a few questions and didn't express myself as well as I would have wanted though. But this decision is casting a huge doubt on the last two schools I am waiting to here back from. Both of those were MMI which makes it even worse since I have no idea how I did on them
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All you need is that one yes NCMED101...hope you get that acceptance. Good luck!
 
NCMED101 said:
Im not entirely sure. I honestly didn't expect a rejection from my top choice before new years. The fact that I got it early makes me think I blew the interview badly. I stumbled on a few questions and didn't express myself as well as I would have wanted though. But this decision is casting a huge doubt on the last two schools I am waiting to here back from. Both of those were MMI which makes it even worse since I have no idea how I did on them
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Well remember that MMI is conducted by multiple people and so it is likely a better representation of who you are as opposed to one single interviewer. Law of large numbers or something like that. Sorry about those rejections, let's hope the next two are kinder to you.
 
Thank you guys, really needed some support now. I really hope one of these next two fall through.
 
Fivo said:
We don't like your kind round these parts :meanie:



Definitely this. People panic for different reasons. It sucks you don't have an interview (I think?), and hopefully you hear some good news soon, but keep in mind that it's possible for you to get 1 interview and get accepted while the other guy might have 6 interviews and get waitlisted/rejected at all of them. So as posted above, until you get dat dere acceptance, you can panic all you want. And even after you get an acceptance, if it's at a school on the bottom of your list and you're still waiting on a decision from your baby daddy school, then you're still welcome to panic!

Good luck to everyone still waiting on interviews and acceptances :xf:
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This. This is why I'm still in the thread. Indiana isn't at "the bottom" of my list, but Rush is my baby daddy...
 
Irish Football said:
This. This is why I'm still in the thread. Indiana isn't at "the bottom" of my list, but Rush is my baby daddy...
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Sorry man, I just don't buy it. There are approximately 40,000 applicants every year to medical schools, and over half of them won't be accepted anywhere, and you're in here complaining every day, despite having an acceptance.
 
tarheel1408 said:
Sorry man, I just don't buy it. There are approximately 40,000 applicants every year to medical schools, and over half of them won't be accepted anywhere, and you're in here complaining every day, despite having an acceptance.
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You're entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to my own kind of panic as well as the right to post in this thread.

Also, I would add that I am not "complaining." I am not mad at anyplace or any person. I am simply voicing my still unfulfilled desire for an acceptance at one of several schools that I really want to go based on many factors, including but not limited to, their location.
 
I think we need separate panic threads based on your place in the cycle:

The Pre-Application Panic Thread
The Pre- Interview Panic Thread
The Pre Interview Hold Panic Thread
The No Interview Panic thread
The One-Two Interview Panic Thread
The Three -Four Interview Panic Thread
The Five Interview Panic Thread
The Above Five Interview but Lousy Interview Skills Panic Thread
The Multi-Waitlisted/Deferred/Hold Panic Thread
The Accepted- but- Don't- Like- School Panic Thread
The Accepted but Want Better School Panic Thread
The Accepted and Happy About School But Want to Complain Anyway Panic Thread

Problem Solved.
 
SilverCat said:
I think we need separate panic threads based on your place in the cycle:

The Pre-Application Panic Thread
The Pre- Interview Panic Thread
The Pre Interview Hold Panic Thread
The No Interview Panic thread
The One-Two Interview Panic Thread
The Three -Four Interview Panic Thread
The Five Interview Panic Thread
The Above Five Interview but Lousy Interview Skills Panic Thread
The Multi-Waitlisted/Deferred/Hold Panic Thread
The Accepted- but- Don't- Like- School Panic Thread
The Accepted but Want Better School Panic Thread
The Accepted and Happy About School But Want to Complain Anyway Panic Thread

Problem Solved.
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Haha exactly! I feel like we've had this exact debate many times on this thread. It's as if people expect that there is only one type of panic and that anyone who has had a better application cycle than them has no right to post in "their" panic thread.
 
If you don't want to be supportive of people at all stages of the process, then go somewhere else. This process is stressful enough without people bickering and being jealous of people they don't know on the Internet.

This can be a supportive environment or a bitchfest, and snipey comments, an obsessive desire to have the last word and be "right," and exclusionism, are of the second.

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Anyway, hopefully we all get some good news tomorrow 🙂 for tonight, rice wine! 😀
 
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Bearstronaut said:
If you don't want to be supportive of people at all stages of the process, then go somewhere else. This process is stressful enough without people bickering and being jealous of people they don't know on the Internet.

This can be a supportive environment or a bitchfest, and snipey comments, an obsessive desire to have the last word and be "right," and exclusionism are of the second.

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Anyway, hopefully we all get some good news tomorrow 🙂 for tonight, rice wine! 😀
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Well said!
 
Bearstronaut said:
If you don't want to be supportive of people at all stages of the process, then go somewhere else. This process is stressful enough without people bickering and being jealous of people they don't know on the Internet.

This can be a supportive environment or a bitchfest, and snipey comments, an obsessive desire to have the last word and be "right," and exclusionism, are of the second.

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Anyway, hopefully we all get some good news tomorrow 🙂 for tonight, rice wine! 😀
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Im choosing to be an ass and not be supportive of this post.


:meanie:
 
Bearstronaut said:
Rice wine really says itself 🙂 mmmmmm
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My parents make their own rice wine. You get a ball of starter culture, dunk it in water and rice, and let that stuff ferment for a few weeks. Not a total expert, but that stuff comes out really sweet.
 
OwlPower22 said:
My parents make their own rice wine. You get a ball of starter culture, dunk it in water and rice, and let that stuff ferment for a few weeks. Not a total expert, but that stuff comes out really sweet.
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Is it cloudy? I think the sweetness can be eliminated by filtering at some point. I'm not all that clear on the differences between rice wine and sake, if any.

If people feel a need to panic: I'm trying to decide whether to call up schools and ask about my apps - lot of schools known for making decisions quickly have been completely silent. But I'll probably just be patient. Maybe.
 
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