2012-2013 University of Washington Application Thread

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DrSolus said:
CONGRATS again to everyone who's been accepted! For those of you who haven't heard yet, don't give up hope! I knew someone who got holds all over the place, then got accepted to his top choice in July (a top 10 school).

I'm curious - did many of you apply to schools out East? If so, what would be your reasons for choosing UW over schools there, or vice versa?
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It's UW's proximity to home, regional access to numerous clinical sites, and reputation that has made it my dream school since high school. Also, the west is full of women, whiskey, and gold.
 
Graywolf said:
It's UW's proximity to home, regional access to numerous clinical sites, and reputation that has made it my dream school since high school. Also, the west is full of women, whiskey, and gold.
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That is why I applied. 👍
 
trangility said:
I interviewed 2/1 at uwsom...does anyone know when the committee will meet again to decide for that batch of interviewees? I'd much appreciate it 😛
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I interviewed that week and haven't heard anything 🙁
 
Hey guys, is there any sort of facebook/networking set up for accepted 2017 students? I've been in Boston the past two years so I'd love to get to know some people before classes start!
 
hey WWAMI alaska folks,

i got waitlisted in a pretty good position. does anyone know on average how many they take from the waitlist per year? has there been a year where they took no one? it's so close i can almost taste it!
 
mcloaf said:
In state tuition at a school of UW's caliber will be hard to say no to, but I'd sort of rather live somewhere other than where I grew up.
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+1, except I'm from the east coast so I'd have to fight for instate tuition here...
Graywolf said:
It's UW's proximity to home, regional access to numerous clinical sites, and reputation that has made it my dream school since high school. Also, the west is full of women, whiskey, and gold.
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🤣 I thought it was mostly timber, gas, and oil. 😀

Seriously though, my dilemma exactly...I have this fear of being stuck where I've lived my whole life...for the rest of my life, and therefore the west coast, Seattle, and the great outdoors sounds to me to be aweesomee 👍 I think I'll start a new thread about this once I find out if I can even get into the UW! In the meantime, thanks everyone for your responses, it's good to hear your guys' reasons - it's helped me a lot.

For now, :luck: to everyone!
 
I decided to cancel my interview here and withdrawal my application for this awesome school. Good luck to everyone on this thread and on your future endeavors!
 
Rejected from Alaska WWAMI today. I now have no choice but to go to New Orleans for med school, listen to live Jazz, eat shrimp jambalaya and drink daquaris from the drive-thru while you guys are freezing in Anchorage. Shuckydarn.
 
Chip N Sawbones said:
Rejected from Alaska WWAMI today. I now have no choice but to go to New Orleans for med school, listen to live Jazz, eat shrimp jambalaya and drink daquaris from the drive-thru while you guys are freezing in Anchorage. Shuckydarn.
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Sorry about the rejection. Good luck to you!
 
cg2812 said:
I decided to cancel my interview here and withdrawal my application for this awesome school. Good luck to everyone on this thread and on your future endeavors!
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Why?

***Blessings ***
 
globalferver said:
Why?

***Blessings ***
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I've basically run out of money and paid time off from work. Additionally, I am very lucky to currently have an acceptance so it made the decision a little easier to deal with.
 
hockeyguy20 said:
hey WWAMI alaska folks,

i got waitlisted in a pretty good position. does anyone know on average how many they take from the waitlist per year? has there been a year where they took no one? it's so close i can almost taste it!
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I got the 4th wait list spot for Alaska WWAMI last year and they ended up taking 3. The year before 6 people declined spots. I got the sense that 2-3 is closer to normal though. Good luck! Hope this is good news!
 
spearfisher said:
I got the 4th wait list spot for Alaska WWAMI last year and they ended up taking 3. The year before 6 people declined spots. I got the sense that 2-3 is closer to normal though. Good luck! Hope this is good news!
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you know what they say.....all you need is one
 
Can any current or former students comment on how difficult it is to place into the Seattle TRACK? My wife is hoping to go to school full-time once we move to Seattle, and we have a small child, so life would be much easier if I didn't have to go gallivanting across the WWAMI region during my third year.
 
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Anyone who interviewed in mid January hear back with results yet?

***Blessings ***
 
Interviewed OOR 1/22. I recall they said the reply would be in about 3-4 weeks. At this point, I'm going to assume they intend to inflict the maximum level of anxiety possible (therefore, I expect to not hear until Friday next week) :meanie:

I also just realized that in my naiviety, my first post in this thread used the words "SO happy to still be under consideration." Let me just clarify that No, I never got any SUC letters and No, one would most certainly NOT make me happy at this point. lol.
 
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elevenses said:
Can any current or former students comment on how difficult it is to place into the Seattle TRACK? My wife is hoping to go to school full-time once we move to Seattle, and we have a small child, so life would be much easier if I didn't have to go gallivanting across the WWAMI region during my third year.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no Seattle Track. It is possible to do most of your rotations in Seattle, however, you will have to do at least three rotations elsewhere (and that's the bare minimum). Tracking, at least in Spokane, means you take all but one of your rotations at that site.

If you want to be settled in one place, you may do better with the Spokane campus which should (nearly 100% positive at this point) be offering second year by 2014 (current plan is to start offering it 2013), and which has the option to Track. Of course, that depends on whether Spokane as a location would work for your family.
 
imperfection said:
To the best of my knowledge, there is no Seattle Track. It is possible to do most of your rotations in Seattle, however, you will have to do at least three rotations elsewhere (and that's the bare minimum). Tracking, at least in Spokane, means you take all but one of your rotations at that site.

If you want to be settled in one place, you may do better with the Spokane campus which should (nearly 100% positive at this point) be offering second year by 2014 (current plan is to start offering it 2013), and which has the option to Track. Of course, that depends on whether Spokane as a location would work for your family.
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I have MS1 friends that are doing the track program in Spokane (signed up for it last year when they were offered admission) and they are staying there for their second year. I also talked to two WWAMI Spokane/Pullman anatomy professors about it in passing and they said everything is/should be ready by then.
 
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BABSstudent said:
I have MS1 friends that are doing the track program in Spokane (signed up for it last year when they were offered admission) and they are staying there for their second year. I also talked to two WWAMI Spokane/Pullman anatomy professors about it in passing and they said everything is should be ready by then.
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+1 My 2nd year student host did her 1st year at Spokane and says that she'll be back in Spokane for the next 2 years through the new track program.
 
Tomorrow is 4 weeks since my last SUC email. Think it's that time again? :xf: :xf:
 
rachelkj said:
Tomorrow is 4 weeks since my last SUC email. Think it's that time again? :xf: :xf:
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Dang, I did t realize how much time has passed. However, their website says they meet at least once a month. Maybe they mean once in January and once in February? So technically it could be 59ish days between votes (like the 1st of January is one vote and 28th of February for the next).
 
imperfection said:
To the best of my knowledge, there is no Seattle Track. It is possible to do most of your rotations in Seattle, however, you will have to do at least three rotations elsewhere (and that's the bare minimum). Tracking, at least in Spokane, means you take all but one of your rotations at that site.

If you want to be settled in one place, you may do better with the Spokane campus which should (nearly 100% positive at this point) be offering second year by 2014 (current plan is to start offering it 2013), and which has the option to Track. Of course, that depends on whether Spokane as a location would work for your family.
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BABSstudent said:
I have MS1 friends that are doing the track program in Spokane (signed up for it last year when they were offered admission) and they are staying there for their second year. I also talked to two WWAMI Spokane/Pullman anatomy professors about it in passing and they said everything is/should be ready by then.
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DrSolus said:
+1 My 2nd year student host did her 1st year at Spokane and says that she'll be back in Spokane for the next 2 years through the new track program.
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For the 2012-2013 academic year, there was a Seattle TRACK option listed on the TRACK application, but it says that you have to obtain approval from the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. It certainly sounds like it was neither popular nor heavily advertised, which does not raise my hopes about being able to do it myself.

In any case, because I'm an Alaskan, I have to (and want to) do my first year up here in Anchorage. Once we move down to Seattle for second year (also required so far as I know), we'd really like to avoid moving again the following summer, and the educational options are much better for my wife in Seattle than anywhere else in the WWAMI region.
 
elevenses said:
For the 2012-2013 academic year, there was a Seattle TRACK option listed on the TRACK application, but it says that you have to obtain approval from the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. It certainly sounds like it was neither popular nor heavily advertised, which does not raise my hopes about being able to do it myself.

In any case, because I'm an Alaskan, I have to (and want to) do my first year up here in Anchorage. Once we move down to Seattle for second year (also required so far as I know), we'd really like to avoid moving again the following summer, and the educational options are much better for my wife in Seattle than anywhere else in the WWAMI region.
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I remember reading about the Seattle track thing somewhere else that I can't seem to find now. However it said you have to have extreme restriction and special permission. It also said most requests were denied.

This is all from memory, so I could be wrong. I will try to find the link to it later when I am not teaching.
 
http://www.uwmedicine.org/Education...iculum/Clinical-Curriculum/Pages/default.aspx

Because of the regional nature of the University of Washington School of Medicine and the value of seeing health care delivered in different settings, it is expected that ALL students will take at least three clerkships outside the Seattle area.
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However, even if you do three clerkships away from Seattle, that doesn't mean you can't still live in Seattle and commute. Or your wife could stay and you leave for a few weeks.

On a different note, how many people are nervously awaiting the next EXCOM meeting? I would love to get some closure and be able to know exactly what is going to happen in a few months.
 
BABSstudent said:
I remember reading about the Seattle track thing somewhere else that I can't seem to find now. However it said you have to have extreme restriction and special permission. It also said most requests were denied.

This is all from memory, so I could be wrong. I will try to find the link to it later when I am not teaching.
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I'm aware of an acquaintance who was able to do this because of a terminally ill relative. As you said though I believe it's quite rare.
 
It is official! I am accepting my spot at UWSOM AK WWAMI Program! I am still so blown away!
 
does anyone know the date that WWAMI students have to make a decision by? does it vary by state?
 
elevenses said:
I believe it is May 15 for almost all medical schools, UWSOM included.
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Well you have to pay the deposit by a certain date. The shortest I have had was 5 days to respond to an offer of admission and pay the deposit.

I don't know what the policy for UW is. However, May 15th is the date to pick a single school by.
 
BABSstudent said:
Well you have to pay the deposit by a certain date. The shortest I have had was 5 days to respond to an offer of admission and pay the deposit.

I don't know what the policy for UW is. However, May 15th is the date to pick a single school by.
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Yep, just wanting for more details about UW's deposit from the school now. I already put down another deposit at another school unfortunately, but the good news is I make that money plus roughly $30,000 at least in saved tuition by accepting UW's offer.
 
big study said:
Yep, just wanting for more details about UW's deposit from the school now. I already put down another deposit at another school unfortunately, but the good news is I make that money plus roughly $30,000 at least in saved tuition by accepting UW's offer.
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Congratulations Big Study on your acceptance! From the people I've taked to and from my own experience UW does not seem to require a deposit to save a seat.
 
Does anyone know when Scholarship/Financial Aid information is released for admitted students?

Thanks and good luck to everyone!
 
Member2488 said:
Does anyone know when Scholarship/Financial Aid information is released for admitted students?

Thanks and good luck to everyone!
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You have about 8 days, I believe, to get in your FAFSA into their office to be considered for a UWSOM need based scholarship. Outside of that date, I bet we will be receiving more info in May.
 
Interviewed on Jan 24th, WA resident. This is so nerve-racking, they haven't said a word!!!
 
rachelkj said:
I would imagine there is probably a committee meeting this week.
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Every day that I don't get a call, I turn on SDN to make sure nobody else got one.

Does that make me a bad person?

On a side note, I checked out the mdapps for everyone that has UW listed that they applied to. I was shocked by how many in state people were already rejected. Some of them had very high GPAs and MCAT scores.
 
BABSstudent said:
Every day that I don't get a call, I turn on SDN to make sure nobody else got one.

Does that make me a bad person?

On a side note, I checked out the mdapps for everyone that has UW listed that they applied to. I was shocked by how many in state people were already rejected. Some of them had very high GPAs and MCAT scores.
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Nah your not a bad person, the anxiety is killer.
 
Should we be expecting any acceptances to be handed out to Idaho applicants (besides TRUST applicants) before the second interview session in March? I know a few Idaho students were accepted right after January interviews last year but I'm not sure if the admissions staff will follow the same pattern this cycle.
 
SpacemanSpifff said:
Should we be expecting any acceptances to be handed out to Idaho applicants (besides TRUST applicants) before the second interview session in March? I know a few Idaho students were accepted right after January interviews last year but I'm not sure if the admissions staff will follow the same pattern this cycle.
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Yeah I believe only TRUST applicants have been accepted thus far. I've been stalking the Facebook already haha (sry im not sry).
 
I believe next week is the 2nd week of Montana applicant interviews, so at least those 20 people should know their fate by March 2.
 
I wonder if we have a higher chance of getting a call on Friday vs other weekdays?
And BABSstudent, I do the same thing, lol!
 
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