2012-2013 University of Iowa (Carver) Application Thread

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ACCEPTED!!!! I just received an email at 9:21 am CT. I interviewed Sept. 19 and I'm in-state. Good luck to everyone who is still waiting!

I am so ****ing excited I don't even know what to do with myself 😀
 
smhammer said:
ACCEPTED!!!! I just received an email at 9:21 am CT. I interviewed Sept. 19 and I'm in-state. Good luck to everyone who is still waiting!

I am so ****ing excited I don't even know what to do with myself 😀
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Congrats - must be super exciting!
 
Haha how receptive might they be to phone calls asking about my status? I'm guessing if I haven't heard by the end of today I'll be put in the batch to be looked at again the next time the committee meets...
 
futchadoc89 said:
Haha how receptive might they be to phone calls asking about my status? I'm guessing if I haven't heard by the end of today I'll be put in the batch to be looked at again the next time the committee meets...
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I'm not quite sure how it all works. But from what I've heard from my premed advisor, it sounds like Iowa takes relatively few students during the rolling admissions process and most acceptances come out of the final pool in March. If not accepted during rolling admissions, I think we are notified if we have been final pooled or rejected in Dec. So it may be a long wait for many of us. Good luck to you!
 
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2dogs said:
I'm not quite sure how it all works. But from what I've heard from my premed advisor, it sounds like Iowa takes relatively few students during the rolling admissions process and most acceptances come out of the final pool in March. So it may be a long wait for many of us. Good luck to you!
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Urgh haha. Good luck to you as well.
 
Does anyone know if acceptance emails for a given wave are all sent out at once, or do they trickle in one at a time over the course of a few hours or days to those selected?
 
Anybody who interviewed Sep 24 or after hear anything yet?
 
2dogs said:
Anybody who interviewed Sep 24 or after hear anything yet?
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I interviewed first week of October, and they told us that the adcom wouldn't meet again for another couple of weeks, so maybe you will be in that group?
 
MuAgonist said:
I interviewed first week of October, and they told us that the adcom wouldn't meet again for another couple of weeks, so maybe you will be in that group?
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Yeah, I'm not sure. When I interviewed they said the earliest they could start notifying applicants would be Oct 15, but that they weren't sure our group will have been evaluated by that time. Maybe I am in the next to be reviewed. More waiting, I guess...
 
Congrats to all the acceptance folks! Fingers crossed for the rest of us in the coming days!
 
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How was your interview/your trip to Iowa?
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My interview went really well. The structured questions portion was surprisingly relaxed. The facilities are really great, and the hospital is HUGE. CBL was also really fun.

The director of admissions said today that around 60-80 OOS students will receive acceptances in the rolling admissions process (that is, not the final pool) and another 10-15 will receive acceptances in the final pool. For IS, there are currently only 250 IS applications, and 100 will get accepted.
 
TipToad said:
My interview went really well. The structured questions portion was surprisingly relaxed. The facilities are really great, and the hospital is HUGE. CBL was also really fun.

The director of admissions said today that around 60-80 OOS students will receive acceptances in the rolling admissions process (that is, not the final pool) and another 10-15 will receive acceptances in the final pool. For IS, there are currently only 250 IS applications, and 100 will get accepted.
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When I interviewed, they said that they were aiming for 100 IS matriculants. So it's a safe bet that more than 100 of us from IS will actually receive acceptance. That makes for pretty good odds for us Iowans!
 
2dogs said:
When I interviewed, they said that they were aiming for 100 IS matriculants. So it's a safe bet that more than 100 of us from IS will actually receive acceptance. That makes for pretty good odds for us Iowans!
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They said after interview, whether you're OOS or IS you have roughly 1:2 odds of being accepted.
 
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MuAgonist said:
They said after interview, whether your OOS or IS you have roughly 1:2 odds of being accepted.
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I'll gladly take those odds! Hoping to hear good news over the next couple weeks.
 
Exactly! I love 1:2 versus 1:10 or 1:20!

Can't wait for 10/29!
 
One thing I thought was funny about interviewing here was how quiet and awkward the waiting room was with all the interviewees at the beginning of the day. Nobody was talking to eachother and were just sitting there in silence.
 
MuAgonist said:
One thing I thought was funny about interviewing here was how quiet and awkward the waiting room was with all the interviewees at the beginning of the day. Nobody was talking to eachother and were just sitting there in silence.
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Really? must depend on the day. Oct. 3rd got pretty wild in there.
 
MuAgonist said:
lol, yea, every other place I've been everybody was talking to each other, but here it was like dead silence.
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Did you interview recently? Everyone was probably thinking about possible acceptances elsewhere being announced on Oct 15!
 
Any word on the Sept. 24 and on batch? Were acceptances sent out only for the week before?
 
Hey everyone,

Congratulations to those accepted so far!

Two questions:

A) UoI Carver does have a selective secondary correct?
B) I completed the UoI Carver secondary, and am wondering if that means my application is "no longer a numbers game".

In other words, are my chances of getting an interview/accepted "good"?

Do you think that filling out a selective secondary is the equivalent of being offered an interview for a non-selective secondary school? ...both would be passing the first "pool" of applicants.

Cheers!
 
gainey77 said:
Any word on the Sept. 24 and on batch? Were acceptances sent out only for the week before?
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It looks like acceptances included up to the Sep 21 interview group. I haven't heard anything about acceptances from those interviewing after that date.
 
2dogs said:
It looks like acceptances included up to the Sep 21 interview group. I haven't heard anything about acceptances from those interviewing after that date.
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They accepted 20 people from the first week of interviews? That means 2/3 of the people were accepted! Seems high..
 
516489 said:
They accepted 20 people from the first week of interviews? That means 2/3 of the people were accepted! Seems high..
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I think up to Sep 21 includes the first 2 weeks of interviews. At any rate, I haven't heard anything from people who interviewed after Sep 21.
 
Had my interview today, it was amazing!😀 everyone was incredibly nice and made us feel welcome, I really appreciated that, now the long wait😎
 
II today!!!! Very excited as I've spent a lot of time in Iowa City and am excited to learn more about the med school specifically. I had been not reading this thread as closely because I didn't want to get my hopes up, but now it looks like I have some reading to do 😀
 
Perhaps a student could clear this up for me.

1: Does Iowa rank its students? I tried Googling this, but all I get are results for usnews.
2: I'm having a difficult time understanding the difference between H/NH/P/F and A/B/C/D. How are they any different from one another?
3: Dress code?
 
At the game right now. Ugh! Come on Hawks!
 
einstein1990 said:
Hahaha I'm sorry you are having to experiencing this particular game in person
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The really sad part is that both of us are more concerned with checking SDN right now. I told you it was becoming a problem! :laugh:
 
Thought I'd start posting and stop lurking. Need a place to let things out too lol.

Applied last year, and learned that I needed more clinical experience. I shadow various doctors, I go back to my local hospital and restart my volunteering, I go on a medical mission to Peru, and I retake Gen Chem II at my undergrad institution to prove that I actually knew my stuff, while working 2 part-time jobs and taking other classes. I submitted my AMCAS the first week and received secondaries a month later, but because I thought it would be a good idea to write about the mission in the secondary, I wait until I get back mid-July. And then Chem takes up my entire time (awful excuse, I know), so I finally get the secondary out early September after that summer session of Chem is over. Of course, I triple-check my secondary in Word and have others double-check it for me, only to post it into Iowa's secondary site and submit before realizing that quite a few apostrophes are missing because they couldn't be transferred over from Word ><

So yeah, I'm nervously checking my e-mail every day (though I remember I got my rejection through snail mail last year). I dunno, fingers crossed lol. Congrats to those who have got in, and good luck to those who have II's or are still waiting 🙂

tl;dr Applied last year, got rejected, got feedback and got more clinical experience, only to submit secondary late (especially compared to SDN standards) and without apostrophes. Now nervous as heck because my perfect plan didn't work out.
 
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resbenchwarmer said:
Thought I'd start posting and stop lurking. Need a place to let things out too lol.

Applied last year. Talked with the admissions director on the phone, and she said that I didn't have enough clinical experience. uGPA was 2.92, sGPA was 2.69, MCAT was 33P, grad GPA in bio was 3.86. For some reason she said that my undergrad was what it was, but my grad GPA was outstanding, which meant that my only red flag was not having enough experience in medicine. And maybe taking another chemistry class. She was incredibly nice too, and gave me her e-mail address if I had any questions or if I needed someone to talk with. That feedback session gave me hope for Iowa (false or not, I don't know), and how pleasant she was sold me even more.

I shadow various doctors, I go back to my local hospital and restart my volunteering, I go on a medical mission to Peru, and I retake Gen Chem II at my undergrad institution to prove that I actually knew my stuff, while working 2 part-time jobs and taking other classes. I submitted my AMCAS the first week and received secondaries a month later, but because the admissions director said that it would be a good idea to write about the mission in the secondary, I wait until I get back mid-July. And then Chem takes up my entire time (awful excuse, I know), so I finally get the secondary out early September after that summer session of Chem is over. Of course, I triple-check my secondary in Word and have others double-check it for me, only to post it into Iowa's secondary site and submit before realizing that quite a few apostrophes are missing because they couldn't be transferred over from Word ><

So yeah, I'm nervously checking my e-mail every day (though I remember I got my rejection through snail mail last year). I dunno, fingers crossed lol. Congrats to those who have got in, and good luck to those who have II's or are still waiting 🙂

tl;dr Applied last year, got rejected, got feedback from adcom, did everything she said, only to submit secondary late (especially compared to SDN standards) and without apostrophes. Now nervous as heck because my perfect plan didn't work out.
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plans always get shucked out the door when the real situation occurs.

that sounds like you did well. next time, you could just copy into notepad, or another text editor and that way you can see what needs to be corrected.

good luck!
 
On a positive note, my interview is coming up 10/29. Any MS1's have any tips? 🙂
 
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