2012-2013 Quinnipiac University School of Medicine Application Thread

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Huskies88 said:
Does anyone know if they have awarded the merit based scholarships yet?? Or was this just for the FAFSA / Need Access financial aid?
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I was told that a small number of merit scholarships were already given out, but it was largely just need-based. However, I agree that the aid package I was given was also very discouraging. It's unfortunate the scholarship committee is waiting so long to give out the rest of the scholarships.
 
Don't we all have pretty much the same level of need? Unless you're non-traditional, you're a 21 year old who is financially independent from your parents and have no type of job. Can someone correct me?
 
JoshuaGuit said:
Don't we all have pretty much the same level of need? Unless you're non-traditional, you're a 21 year old who is financially independent from your parents and have no type of job. Can someone correct me?
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They required us to fill out that Need Access app which went in depth about any potential savings we had, if we had any other debt, if family was helping to pay for school, etc. and they take all that into consideration when giving out need based awards
 
Has anyone been rejected post interview or are they just wait listing everyone that's interviewed?
 
MDread said:
Has anyone been rejected post interview or are they just wait listing everyone that's interviewed?
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I've read on here that the office says they have rejected people post interview, but I don't recall seeing anyone post on here saying they were rejected post interview (maybe 1?).
 
I know for a fact people have been rejected post interview. They just are not very likely to post on here.
 
acromonkey said:
Anybody want to give a guess (or educated guess based on any other info) of how long the wait list is??
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early on the speculation was 90 acceptances and 60 WL spots (According to one user) , if this is the case we wont know. No one has been able to get more recent data from the school regarding this and what the picture is looking like. Give it one more month and the school will get a better idea and maybe we will too.

This wait list thing.....just forget about it and move on. If you get a nice surprise later on great but otherwise its really not worth getting excited over or expecting/ anticipating anything. I say this not to be downer but just to avoid disappointment in the future. Chin up and move on 🙂

any interviews prior to mid jan seemed to results in a high acceptance rate, everything since that point has resulted in WL from SDN data of course. What the picture really is we wont know.

However, i think the people heading the second look maybe could help WL people out by asking the school what the numbers are looking like?

i know a few of us on here would greatly appreciate it! 🙂
 
I am currently wait listed and just received an email from Quinnipiac about a tour of their new building on April 20th and they specifically said that they won't share any info regarding their wait list. Anyone consider going?
 
dnovikov said:
I am currently wait listed and just received an email from Quinnipiac about a tour of their new building on April 20th and they specifically said that they won't share any info regarding their wait list. Anyone consider going?
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I got it earlier as well. It actually scared/excited me for a split second. Looks like they're pretty keen on keeping waitlist information to themselves. I'd guess that even they don't know what's gonna happen.
 
I was in a physiology lecture when I got that email. HR spiked because I thought it was an acceptance, then dropped when I realized what it actually was. Bleh
 
JoshuaGuit said:
I was in a physiology lecture when I got that email. HR spiked because I thought it was an acceptance, then dropped when I realized what it actually was. Bleh
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Same, saw the email and thought I was going to have an MI!
 
Bomikepa said:
early on the speculation was 90 acceptances and 60 WL spots (According to one user) , if this is the case we wont know. No one has been able to get more recent data from the school regarding this and what the picture is looking like. Give it one more month and the school will get a better idea and maybe we will too.
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However, i think the people heading the second look maybe could help WL people out by asking the school what the numbers are looking like?

i know a few of us on here would greatly appreciate it! 🙂
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Hi folks,
It's only 60 acceptances at a time, because they would have accreditation problems if they accepted more at once and over 60 decided to matriculate. Much luck. :luck:
 
Meryl said:
Hi folks,
It's only 60 acceptances at a time, because they would have accreditation problems if they accepted more at once and over 60 decided to matriculate. Much luck. :luck:
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That's useful to know. From where do you know this?
 
fumeighan said:
That's useful to know. From where do you know this?
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I asked an admissions person at the second look weekend. (I also heard something similar at my Hofstra interview, that new schools have to be very conservative/careful not to over-accept.)
 
Meryl said:
I asked an admissions person at the second look weekend. (I also heard something similar at my Hofstra interview, that new schools have to be very conservative/careful not to over-accept.)
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Can somebody who attended 2nd look weekend comment on how many people were there and if the admissions mentioned any other statistics ? Thanks!
 
There were 45 or 47 accepted students there. I would expect wait list movement to begin when we find out about scholarships which they said will be before may 1st. They said wait lists are very active and people could come off the wait list even two days before Orientaion as general information. I also heard there will be a second look day for anyone- I think it was sometime in the next two weeks.
 
so 60 total acceptances, what are we thinking? maybe 20 people will go elsewhere?

what do you think is a practical number of people to have on the wl?

are they giving a lot of scholarships out to make accepted students stay?

im probably way off with the numbers
 
Unfortunately, they're only giving out about 10 scholarships, which accepted students had to apply for separately.
 
And, I should add, these scholarships are far from full rides.
 
I ended up not filling out the merit scholarships because there were just too many different things I had to have in before even being sure which school I was attending. I had too many interviews, too much schoolwork, etc to go send official transcripts from multiple schools, get new LORs, and basically re do everything in AMCAS. I'm seriously regretting it because I was offered an admissions scholarship. Had I been offered a merit as well it might have made this an offer I couldn't refuse.

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HeyNumber2 said:
I ended up not filling out the merit scholarships because there were just too many different things I had to have in before even being sure which school I was attending. I had too many interviews, too much schoolwork, etc to go send official transcripts from multiple schools, get new LORs, and basically re do everything in AMCAS. I'm seriously regretting it because I was offered an admissions scholarship. Had I been offered a merit as well it might have made this an offer I couldn't refuse.

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If you don't mind me asking, what did your admissions scholarship look like?
 
Academic (merit based are application only, and rather exhaustive applications at that). I guess there are academic, merit, and need options.


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anyone want to estimate the number of wl positions they have?
i guess they could have any number they want ie 150+?
 
Did anyone else think that the April 20th open house was only for wait list students?? I'm a little bummed to know that it's just a general open house.

As far as the wait list goes, I don't think anyone can have an estimate on that number. The only thing I can think of is counting the people on this forum that are wait listed and then add more for people who don't post here! lol
 
acromonkey said:
Yes, I was hopelessly wait listed like many on here lol
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welcome to the club....lol

yea the April 20 is a general session for anybody. Seems like a pretty big wait list to me but thats just my speculation
 
Bomikepa said:
welcome to the club....lol

yea the April 20 is a general session for anybody. Seems like a pretty big wait list to me but thats just my speculation
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Yes, seems pretty large, and we don't know an official position or how they will be selecting from the wait list once students withdraw, so I think there's no way at all to tell how this will go. I wanted to go to the April 20 open house, but now not sure that I will. Anyone plan on going?
 
From the extreme frustration being expressed about poor financial aid in the FB group, I'm guessing there is going to be significant movement. Many people staying if aid doesn't increase to more half and full scholarships they are out.

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Although it makes us feel better (maybe) to try and speculate how things will work, we have no idea of rank, how many people are on the wait list, how the will pull from the wait list etc. I wish they could give us just an idea of HOW they will pull from the wait list, not when, how much they will, etc. But at least knowing how people come off the wait list would give us something! Not knowing anything is so difficult
 
^Exactly. For those of you on the waitlist, I would not worry too much. All of us accepted students recently found out that the amount of scholarships available are significantly less than we were originally led to believe. Most of us are still hanging on until May 1 in the off chance that we are that one person who will be offered a full ride, but if not I will be turning down my acceptance. So I would expect significant waitlist movement after this date for those of you wondering!
 
LMF said:
^Exactly. For those of you on the waitlist, I would not worry too much. All of us accepted students recently found out that the amount of scholarships available are significantly less than we were originally led to believe. Most of us are still hanging on until May 1 in the off chance that we are that one person who will be offered a full ride, but if not I will be turning down my acceptance. So I would expect significant waitlist movement after this date for those of you wondering!
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Why do you think this happened? At my interview they made it sound like 85% of the class would be funded somehow. When did they make it seem that you would be receiving a full ride or large amounts of money? Was it suggested in the acceptance package? I'm just curious, because I have seen this complaint and I'm curious to see what how this happened?
 
Chances are still slim If they have a huge wl which is what it looks like
 
acromonkey said:
Why do you think this happened? At my interview they made it sound like 85% of the class would be funded somehow. When did they make it seem that you would be receiving a full ride or large amounts of money? Was it suggested in the acceptance package? I'm just curious, because I have seen this complaint and I'm curious to see what how this happened?
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Precedent. Most other new medical schools offered full rides to the entire charter class. Many others offered half full, half half. They said much of the class would be funded but didn't specific amounts. People assumed significant amounts because that is what other schools did.

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^Actually, no. I, as well as other people I've talked to, were directly told there would be significant aid at our interview. If you didn't hear that then maybe they told you something different. It is not really a precedent that new schools give amazing aid. UCF's first class is really the only one I know of that happening.
 
LMF said:
^Actually, no. I, as well as other people I've talked to, were directly told there would be significant aid at our interview. If you didn't hear that then maybe they told you something different. It is not really a precedent that new schools give amazing aid. UCF's first class is really the only one I know of that happening.
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I'm not sure I even understand your argument. What are you saying "actually no" to. I didn't say that financial aid said there wouldn't be significant aid anywhere in my post. The poster I quoted made the argument that they claimed they would offer significant aid as in quantity (85%) not as in large scholarships. My answer to that sentiment is that if the term significant aid is used, it's reasonable based on precedent to assume sizable aid.

I'm not sure where you did your research, but where did you get the idea that only UCF did this? I would wager that you won't be able to find a PRIVATE med school that's opened in the last 5 years that didn't offer at least a quarter of the charter class 50-100% scholarships. Commonwealth did this , Hofstra offered nearly all their outright accepted charter class members full scholarships if they met a basic threshold. I can also link to at least 3 state schools that sizable aid to most the class. Private schools at minimum usually try to match the state school for the charter class. Hofstra offered significant aid to its second class also, and to start their tuition was 10k cheaper than QU.

Despite the facts, I'm still not sure what you are saying "no" to? Your two arguments seemed at odds with each other a) we should get significant aid because they said so b) this concept has no precedent?



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Please try not to get upset. I am simply saying that I am not basing my argument out of precedent at all but purely off of what I was told. And I did not do any research, which is why I said UCF was the only school I personally knew of doing that.
 
Didn't mean to come off upset. Your POV is fine, and perfectly valid. It doesn't mean that a large group of people I spoke with weren't even more surprised because of precedent. We can both be right! 😀
I just took issue with the "actually, no" statement, that's all. Your reasoning might have been different than mine, doesn't make either of us wrong. Sorry if it seemed harsh, it was late and I slept like a combined 10 hours all week. 😱

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No problem, sorry for taking it the wrong way! 🙂
 
Zelia said:
Off topic: They said that med students here will be wearing long white coats, right? I think that's weird; I wouldn't want people to think I'm a resident/attending who knows what they're doing when I'm an M3 who's completely clueless!
Seriously, though, aren't long coats for students odd?
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I think most patients won't know the difference. Back before I looked into medical school I had no idea that the length of the coat had any significance. I always thought it was just the doctor's preference.

So if the patient is informed enough to know the difference they are also likely to read the badge and see that you are a student and not a doctor. Everyone else will just expect you to introduce yourself and have no idea what you are, resident, doctor, student, until you say so.
 
Zelia said:
Off topic: They said that med students here will be wearing long white coats, right? I think that's weird; I wouldn't want people to think I'm a resident/attending who knows what they're doing when I'm an M3 who's completely clueless!
Seriously, though, aren't long coats for students odd?
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I hadn't heard this. I think it's really weird. The short white coat is a rite of passage in medicine. It also ruins the symbolism when your residency gives you your long white coat for the first time IMHO

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