2012-2013 Tulane University Application Thread

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Interviewed in september but didn't hear anything monday night when others from my group were accepted. No email, call, or snailmail. Am I hoping to be waitlisted at this point?
 
for people who have interviewed/been accepted here --

how much did they stress/ask about volunteer experience? i'm interviewing here in a week and a half and have very little college/postgrad volunteering (lots in high school). i know this is a huge part of their mission so i was surprised when i actually got an interview and am now worried about how i should respond if they question it.
 
Interview invite today! OOS 3.7 and 38. Interview is not until 1/25 though, kind of later than I hoped for.
 
Interview Invite! ~3.75, 34. Also late January date. I'm glad it isn't earlier, or I may have had to reschedule (which I hear they don't easily do). Anyway, I'm happy 🙂

Edit: I was complete 9/12 for those who are interested.
 
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II just now too! OOS, 3.6 c, 3.8 s, 35R
Complete 7/26, interview 1/28/13
 
samuelj said:
Interviewed in september but didn't hear anything monday night when others from my group were accepted. No email, call, or snailmail. Am I hoping to be waitlisted at this point?
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Same here. Interviewed 9/21. In state. Not that that matters really.
 
everyone got january interviews today and i got late feb 😕😕😕
 
Got placed on the acceptance range aka waitlist. Really upset, Tulane was my top choice :/
 
Whoops. Posted twice somehow. See below.
 
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BNHWC2009 said:
When did you interview? Sorry to hear, but at least you still have a shot! Don't give up hope 🙂
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October 8th. I feel like I'm the only person that hasn't gotten in and now I'm questioning all my other interviews/application :/
 
golfguy671 said:
October 8th. I feel like I'm the only person that hasn't gotten in and now I'm questioning all my other interviews/application :/
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I interviewed in September and haven't heard a thing.
 
golfguy671 said:
Hmm ok you win. That's strange, I wonder what's causing the wait? Well keep us posted, I'm sure you'll hear soon!!
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I can only guess that maybe one of my interviewers took a long time to turn in my review. It's killing me!
 
I gave up my acceptance today! Hope it goes to one of you guys!
 
Golfguy, How did they let you know, email? Letter? I only ask because I have not heard anything.

I have been stalking the past Tulane threads for the last few months and a good chunk of people are put on the acceptance range and later accepted.

I know of 3 people from around my Sep interview date alone from SDN who were not accepted, there has to more that are not posting.

So don't beat yourself up and let it get to your head, lots of us are and will be in your situation. 😳
 
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PGons said:
Golfguy, How did they let you know, email? Letter? I only ask because I have not heard anything.

I have been stalking the past Tulane threads for the last few months and a good chunk of people are put on the acceptance range and later accepted.

I know of 3 people from my Sep interview date alone from SDN who were not accepted, there has to more that are not posting.

So don't beat yourself up and let it get to your head, lots of us are and will be in your situation. 😳
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Hey Pgons. Thanks for the encouraging words, it seemed like everyone was getting an acceptance so naturally, as a rational premed, I overreact and think I'm worthless haha. I got an email Friday around 6 eastern?
 
Hey for you guys who got an acceptance: we wait until AFTER we get the physical letter of acceptance in the mail to notify them that we want to confirm our spot...correct? That is how I interpreted the email, but I wanted to make sure.
 
Hey all - long time lurker, first time poster.

I am definitely an atypical applicant, but I got an interview:

Tulane secondary received: 2012.07.13
Tulane secondary submitted: 2012.07.06
MD to PhD interview invite received: 2012.09.20
Regular MD interview invite received: 2012.10.04

Personally, I think what really helped me get my foot in the door was 1) a decent amount of distance (time-wise) from my atrocious undergrad GPA, 2) a (relatively) early secondary submission, 3) my service trip to post-Katrina New Orleans, 4) my research interest in infectious diseases, and 5) my recs and MCAT scores (which are decent and most of which were achieved after my poor undergrad showing).

I saw some people say stuff about stats and what does or doesn't work. More than just the GPA/MCAT assessment, strong post-high school extracurriculars, early secondary submission, and strong MCAT scores (which are the easiest thing in your application to improve in the shortest amount of time) are perhaps more important in a medical school's choice to accept or reject an applicant (if you look only at my MCAT and undergrad GPA, my magic number* is nowhere near 70).

This appears to be the case not just for Tulane either. I interviewed at UIC last Friday (not quite sure how it went, to be honest; guess I'll find out next month).

*For those of you who are unaware of what this "magic number" is, multiply your overall (or just your science) GPA by 10 and add that to your composite MCAT score. The closer you get to 70 (or if you can surpass that number), the more likely you are to get the attention of admissions committees. At least that's what *they* say.
 
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ecthelion said:
Hey all - long time lurker, first time poster (I just registered today because I'm getting prepped for my interview on 10/25).

I am definitely an atypical applicant, and when you read the following, you'll see why:

Legal residence: Illinois native

Education:

BS (Biomedical Engineering), Northwestern University, class of 2006; overall GPA below 2.5 (freshman and sophomore years: below 2.5; junior and senior years: around 2.7/2.8); I was in fact dismissed for poor academic performance from Northwestern and later readmitted

MPH, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, class of 2009; GPA 3.59

incomplete PhD program, Epidemiology, Michigan State University (withdrew in June, partly because I wasn't going to be finished before 2014; this disqualified me for the MD to PhD program interview, to which I was, strangely, invited on 9/20 - I had already let them know that I had withdrawn before I got the invite, so when it happened they must have realized that there was a communication snafu, so they just put me back in the running with the regular MD folks, and I got an interview invite for 10/25 on 10/4)

MCAT: 34R (08/2005: 13 phys, 11 verb, 10 bio sci); 32R (01/2009: 11 phys, 12 verb, 9 biol sci); 34P (07/2010: 12 phys, 11 verb, 11 bio sci)

extracurriculars (non-paid, selected):

undergrad - IM sports, Catholic Undergrads (including a service trip to post-Katrina NO in December 2005; my AMCAS personal statement was about this too), quiz bowl (didn't list this in AMCAS though), elderly home musician (piano and violin),

MPH - student government president, VOICES (student volunteer group), American Mensa (not listed on AMCAS)

PhD - Knights of Columbus, Triple Nine Society (not listed on AMCAS)

beyond - tutoring elderly for citizenship interviews

extracurriculars (paid, selected):

undergrad - U.S. Marine Corps reserves (discharged April 2005), Northwestern University IT, lifeguard (YMCA)

MPH - Kaplan (MCAT, PCAT teacher/tutor)

PhD - grad assistant, temp staffer

beyond - temp staffer

Assorted details:
trilingual (Korean, German, English)

Tulane secondary received: 2012.07.13
Tulane secondary submitted: 2012.07.06
MD to PhD interview invite received: 2012.09.20
Regular MD interview invite received: 2012.10.04

Personally, I think what really helped me get my foot in the door was 1) a decent amount of distance (time-wise) from my atrocious undergrad GPA, 2) a (relatively) early secondary submission, 3) my service trip to post-Katrina New Orleans, 4) my research interest in infectious diseases, and 5) my recs and MCAT scores (which are decent and most of which were achieved after my poor undergrad showing).

I saw some people say stuff about stats and what does or doesn't work. I think I might be the poster child for the case that more than just the GPA/MCAT assessment, strong post-high school extracurriculars (I had a lot in high school too, but those don't really count for much beyond undergrad), early secondary submission (this is crucial because schools tend to send more interview invites early on; only if your stats + extracurriculars are stellar - by which I mean 3.7+ GPA and 33+ MCAT or a magic number* at or above 70 - do you stand a chance of getting one despite submitting later, i.e. beyond late September, in the cycle), and strong MCAT scores (which are the easiest thing in your application to improve in the shortest amount of time) are perhaps more important in a medical school's choice to accept or reject an applicant (if you look only at my undergrad GPA, my magic number* is nowhere near 70).

This appears to be the case not just for Tulane either. I interviewed at UIC last Friday (not quite sure how it went, to be honest; guess I'll find out next month), and while I think my legal residence had a lot to do with my interview invite, it couldn't have just been that (we actually discussed my personal statement, which talked primarily about my service trip to NO in 2005, at the interview).

*For those of you who are unaware of what this "magic number" is, multiply your overall (or just your science) GPA by 10 and add that to your composite MCAT score. The closer you get to 70 (or if you can surpass that number), the more likely you are to get the attention of admissions committees. At least that's what *they* say.
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Rejected this morning. Pretty disappointed!

OOS, 33S (11, 11, 11), 3.9 GPA

Secondary Submitted: 8/20
Notification of Secondary Complete: 9/18

Good luck to everyone!
 
II this afternoon (for February 🙄)!! SO excited! Complete 9/18, OOS
 
Anybody interview on 10/1 or earlier and still waiting on any word from Tulane? Not sure if silence means "acceptance range."
 
I also received an II todayf or late February. Do you think if I ask for an earlier interview date they will allow it?
 
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Well, they can't have you come the first half of February. That's Mardi Gras!
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LoL "Why, I don't know how I managed to walk here with no pants and beads for a tie, Dr. X..."

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Acceptance range 🙁

Is this a school where we need to update like crazy to get off the wait list?
 
Email from Tulane today...

Complete

Really?! I've been complete for a month and a half now!
 
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