Anybody - if you have been accepted at UND, please feel free if you want to post if you have declined or will decline the acceptance. UND's loss will be some other school's gain, and your news could provide some hope for wait listers such as me. 🙂
Anybody - if you have been accepted at UND, please feel free if you want to post if you have declined or will decline the acceptance. UND's loss will be some other school's gain, and your news could provide some hope for wait listers such as me. 🙂
leigh00, are you IS or OOS?@elFlacco, I am declining my acceptance to UND on Monday since I plan to matriculate elsewhere. UND's a great school--I hope you get my spot! 🙂
From looking at other threads it looks like leigh00 is a NoDaker who will be matriculating at the University of Virginia. Congratulations leigh00! I am a neighbor from Minnesota so the wait lost won't "move" for me, but thank you so much for sharing your news. I don't think there is anything wrong with sharing this kind of info on SDN during this time of anxiety filled waiting for many. Since wait listed applicants know where they stand on UND's list, there could be one North Dakota resident out there that now knows an acceptance is coming.
Hooray! Accepted off the wait list this morning! Such a relief that I made the right decision.
question....
I'm thinking about applying here next year. If I am married to a 5+ year North Dakota resident does that count as being a ND resident??
do you live here permanently? and have you filed for a ND driver's license? i mean i'm sure you can "say" you're a resident if you live here, you just technically would only have "ties to ND" since you aren't technically a resident. I currently go to school here, but I'm still a MN resident despite living here for 4 years. I never switched my license over and elected to remain a MN resident.
I'm in the exact same boat as u. Lived here for 4 years to go to school but kept my MN residency
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I'm sure you're well aware of UND's point system for interviews. Based on your most current stats (though I gather they may be improving) you would get about 148 points (regardless of whether you switch your state residency). This year the cut-off for interviews was about 154-155. Last year it was about 220, though I was told this was a huge outlier statistical and really surprised the admissions committee. So if keeping your MN residency status is really important this is something I would really consider. However, although you are sitting at the cusp for interviews the benefit of switching residencies would be that you would be vying for a spot of 1 out of 70 vs. 1 out of 11.
This year the cut-off for interviews was about 154-155. Last year it was about 220, though I was told this was a huge outlier statistical and really surprised the admissions committee.
Objectively, your spouse being a ND resident and yourself having attended UND (...I'm assuming...) won't do anything for you point-wise - you'll still be allotted 50 points for residency regardless. Subjectively however it will help. The cut-off for automatic interviews is by determined by the top 100 (roughly) applicants (point-wise). After this remaining applications are re-evaluated on a more subjective basis and approximately 20 or so more students are put into the interview pile - this is where your spouse and having lived in ND for the past several years can help you. Also, the cut-off for automatic interviews is usually about 20+ points higher than the bottom end of the range for those interviewed (e.g., the 154 mentioned previously).
The disparity between last years cut-off and this years is pretty surprising, but I don't think its related to the increasing class size. They've been doing it slowly over the past several years and cut-offs in the past have generally been closer to this years. I do wonder though if the switch to AMCAS has had any effect as Psych grades are no longer included in sGPA and there's no more grade replacement.
Yeah I see what you mean even tho I won't get the points for it I think its pretty obvious that I have strong ties to ND. And I didn't even think about the AMCAS thing with no more grade replacement, ill be pretty curious to see what the gpa averages are going to be for this class.
You know my stats so its pretty unlikely that ill get into an MD school, but what the hell I think its worth trying for UND next year.
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Yeah I need to head up there to find a place to live as well. Does anyone read this board anymore? Suggestions for apartments?
It seems a little strange that we are (maybe?) 2.5 weeks from the start date, yet we have not been provided a calendar, class schedule, access to campus connection, etc... Is it just me?