2012-2013 Wayne State University Application Thread

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Congrats to those who were accepted!

Are they favorable to interest letters if your on alt list? Or do we just wait it out?
 
Accepted!! IS/34/3.9

I was so surprised since I wasn't supposed to find out until the Dec 19 date, I just interviewed last Tuesday! So excited!!!!
 
SIGINT said:
Congrats man. Are you leaning towards Wayne or UKY?
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Thanks! Not sure yet, I think I may have to make one of those massive wall charts and figure out which one appeals to me more, they're both great schools, I guess it'll come down to city life in Detroit vs a more small town feel in Lexington?

Also Maple7 I did send an update letter 2 weeks after being put on hold and they said it would be added to my file.
 
Waitlisted last month, but acceptdd today! Good luck to everyone waiting. Waitlist is not a "no".

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hey guys sorry if it was asked before but is the alternate list = waitlist? like theres just one wait/alternate list not two separate waitlist and an alternate list? make sense? i know some schools have an alternate and a waitlist.

anyways, alternate listed oos 3.75/31M
 
arroyo2208 said:
Accepted!! IS/34/3.9

I was so surprised since I wasn't supposed to find out until the Dec 19 date, I just interviewed last Tuesday! So excited!!!!
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congrats!

did anyone else have this issue--not supposed to find out until dec 19 but found out today?
that's what happened to me as well. i interviewed last week and found out today although i was told i wouldn't until dec. 19.

canadian, waitlisted. cgpa 3.8x, sgpa 3.9x, 34S
 
peacemak3r said:
hey guys sorry if it was asked before but is the alternate list = waitlist? like theres just one wait/alternate list not two separate waitlist and an alternate list? make sense? i know some schools have an alternate and a waitlist.

anyways, alternate listed oos 3.75/31M
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there is just an alternate list. the alternate list = waitlist.
 
shadows16 said:
congrats!

did anyone else have this issue--not supposed to find out until dec 19 but found out today?
that's what happened to me as well. i interviewed last week and found out today although i was told i wouldn't until dec. 19.

canadian, waitlisted. cgpa 3.8x, sgpa 3.9x, 34S
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Hmm I find that very odd that you were waitlisted early, seems like since you can get pulled off the waitlist on a following date that they would just wait till the dec 19 date anyways. I just figured if they needed more acceptances to fill that batch they'd pick a few more from the next batch that had already interviewed. And the title of the attachment is "decletter" so yeah I am very confused about why we got decisions today..strange. Hopefully you'll get good off-the-waitlist-acceptance news on the actual date! 🙂
 
arroyo2208 said:
Hmm I find that very odd that you were waitlisted early, seems like since you can get pulled off the waitlist on a following date that they would just wait till the dec 19 date anyways. I just figured if they needed more acceptances to fill that batch they'd pick a few more from the next batch that had already interviewed. And the title of the attachment is "decletter" so yeah I am very confused about why we got decisions today..strange. Hopefully you'll get good off-the-waitlist-acceptance news on the actual date! 🙂
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yeah that's what makes sense to me as well. maybe they just got overzealous and felt like looking through a lot of files after the long weekend? idk. i find it pretty odd as well. i can't decided whether this is a good, bad, or neutral thing. 😕 le sigh. anyways, congrats again! hopefully dec. 19 will be a good day 🙂
 
shadows16 said:
yeah that's what makes sense to me as well. maybe they just got overzealous and felt like looking through a lot of files after the long weekend? idk. i find it pretty odd as well. i can't decided whether this is a good, bad, or neutral thing. 😕 le sigh. anyways, congrats again! hopefully dec. 19 will be a good day 🙂
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Mustve been something like that. With your stats I'm sure you'll be fine. One thing I noticed in the email is that it definitely says 1/7th of the class is accepted every round... is it possible that we're wrong about it being 1/6th a round this year?
 
salim271 said:
Mustve been something like that. With your stats I'm sure you'll be fine. One thing I noticed in the email is that it definitely says 1/7th of the class is accepted every round... is it possible that we're wrong about it being 1/6th a round this year?
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It's strange, because this email said 1/7, but the last one said 1/6. There are only 6 offer dates, though, so I'm guessing it's actually 1/6
 
shadows16 said:
yeah that's what makes sense to me as well. maybe they just got overzealous and felt like looking through a lot of files after the long weekend? idk. i find it pretty odd as well. i can't decided whether this is a good, bad, or neutral thing. 😕 le sigh. anyways, congrats again! hopefully dec. 19 will be a good day 🙂
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Yeah who knows, maybe they miscalculated the amount of applicants they had for that match or told us the wrong day on accident or something. And with the whole 1/7 vs. 1/6 thing too, clearly what they tell us is not necessarily true in actual practice haha.
 
3 mo. here. Just have to keep waiting - it helps to look at last year's thread and see that II were still going out this time of the year.
 
it has been one month for me !
Show many of us some love baby Wayne ! Give it to me tonight,,,, because we might not get tomorrow... Finger, Toes, Hands and legs are crossed !
 
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Hopefully you guys hear something soon and don't end up waiting on the alternate list, because I feel as though this is an even more dreading wait.
 
Can anyone tell me how long it took from file complete to interview invite?
 
wsumed2013 said:
Hopefully you guys hear something soon and don't end up waiting on the alternate list, because I feel as though this is an even more dreading wait.
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+1 I agree. Chillin' on the alternate list is terrible. It's a state of limbo. At least we have another decision in two weeks. I have a good feeling about this one for us on the alternate list. There is only a three week gap between the last decision date. The others were like a month (4-5 weeks) apart. It also coincides with my cmed interview decision. I need some good news coming my way, like most of us without an acceptance so far.
 
bradycardia said:
Can anyone tell me how long it took from file complete to interview invite?
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Complete 9/28, interview invite on 11/19 for 12/10. At each step I was always very surprised to hear from them because they always took so long to get back to me.
 
Rumpterfrabble said:
+1 I agree. Chillin' on the alternate list is terrible. It's a state of limbo. At least we have another decision in two weeks. I have a good feeling about this one for us on the alternate list. There is only a three week gap between the last decision date. The others were like a month (4-5 weeks) apart. It also coincides with my cmed interview decision. I need some good news coming my way, like most of us without an acceptance so far.
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I was thinking the same thing! Last year it looked like December and January had some movement, thinking it was because there is only 3 weeks between decisions dates for both months. Hoping for good news as well! :luck:
 
any OOS ii movement?

Do they accept letters of interest preinterview?
 
Interesting that some in here said they got asked an ethical/current events question in their interviews. I was really just asked stuff about myself/my family life and stuff from my app.

Accepted on 10/24: 3.97/28M/IS
 
brook183 said:
Interesting that some in here said they got asked an ethical/current events question in their interviews. I was really just asked stuff about myself/my family life and stuff from my app.

Accepted on 10/24: 3.97/28M/IS
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My interview started that way too. Family, even high school stuff. Then it drifted lol but I tried to stay on it. It's always a good idea to expect the unexpected just in case. Congrats on the acceptance btw! Your Mcat gives me some hope because my GPA is same but with a 29Q IS.
 
Anyone know how many people they have accepted yet? Or how many spots are still open? I know they usually accept ~1/7 of the class each round they send out but how many rounds of acceptances have gone out?

I am super excited about Wayne and am currently waiting to hear back about my acceptance status on the 19th. The suspension is killing me!

IS:31Q/8P/11V/12B
 
CatalyzeMe said:
Anyone know how many people they have accepted yet? Or how many spots are still open? I know they usually accept ~1/7 of the class each round they send out but how many rounds of acceptances have gone out?

I am super excited about Wayne and am currently waiting to hear back about my acceptance status on the 19th. The suspension is killing me!

IS:31Q/8P/11V/12B
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2 rounds have gone out so far, and in an email I was told they accept about 50 students each time, so about 100 acceptances so far. Last year they accepted 529 students, so there's still a ways to go (another 200 on the review dates + waitlisters in May)
 
can any current student talk about his/her experience at Wayne State? (preclinical years, clinical years, lifestyle, and etc...)

and does anyone know if Wayne State give a good amount of scholarships or awards to OOS students?

Thank you in advance
 
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first year student at Wayne taking a break from physio studying so I'll keep this briefish. I can't speak for the clinical years, but the rumor around here is that the clinical years are the reason why we are here (except for the fact that it was the only school we got into *ahem, like me*). the preclinical years are nothing special really -- expect lots of studying, obviously. Some professors are amazing, a handful are not so great. I would say that most of them are in the good-to-amazing range, so that's a plus.

Lifestyle, hmm. I would say I personally do not have much of a lifestyle outside of medical school, but a lot of my classmates do. I know some who party a lot, some who actually do other things. I wasn't a science student before coming to school so I have to work pretty hard. Although I am involved in many student organizations so I will say there's plenty of time for that. I'm just saying that *outside* of school or medicine related things I don't do much -- but I have found that there is time to do things that you want to do as long as you budget your time well and don't get behind on lectures. I live in midtown Detroit. A lot of my classmates also live in midtown or downtown. Some live in Royal Oak (which is nicer and has amenities like grocery stores).

I love living in midtown and I have to live within walking distance to school or else I start to get a little punchy. So it works for me.

I am 95% of the time a streamer, which means I never go to class but watch from home. This works for me as I can work at my own schedule and pace and not get burnt out by being in lecture all day.

I have found that given the big class size it is *very* likely that you will find your niche. I'm pretty politically involved and I've discovered that our class and the class of 2015 also has a critical mass of people who are like me, so that's exciting. I would say that the diversity of the student groups is a big plus to coming to Wayne. Within the organizations there are a lot of people who are super motivated and willing to do things that go beyond the minimum required to put that organization on his/her resume. There are resume people around too, but that happens.

Scholarships: I am OOS and understand your concern. I am not paying full tuition because of a need based grant, but it still puts me above what the instaters pay. But it takes some of the sting away so I would look into that. The way to do it is that you have to declare your parents as well as yourself on your FAFSA (not sure how old you are, but I'm a non-trad so it wasn't my first thought to include my parents' info) and they will calculate whether you qualify. As for other scholarships, I plan on applying for the ones that are available to first and second years, but I didn't see many that were available to me as an out of state resident before I came to school. I know there are some for current students.

Hope that helps. This is what I meant when I said "briefish."

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can any current student talk about his/her experience at Wayne State? (preclinical years, clinical years, lifestyle, and etc...)

and does anyone know if Wayne State give a good amount of scholarships or awards to OOS students?

Thank you in advance
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MLDM said:
Anyone had any success with post-interview LOIs?
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My interviewer told me they welcome post interview LOIs but only within the time frame of immediately after u interview and before the committee meets the following Monday to discuss applicants. Once you are put before the committee that's it...they vote on you and assign a rank. My understanding is that this rank is final but if wait listed you are compared each round to new interviewees (but again your overall rank score stays constant).
 
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