2013-2014 Rosalind Franklin University Application Thread

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Did anyone get interview invites recently?
Is there still a chance, at this point, for an int. invite.....
 
I'm a BMS student. We haven't heard anything either. I think external applicants who have been waiting many weeks will be notified after the first batch of BMS students finds out if they are accepted. The admissions committee is waiting for our Neuro/Physiology grades from next week's test. Thus, I believe acceptances/rejections will start rolling out for everyone around the end of march/start of April. This is all my conjecture.
 
TonySoprano said:
I'm a BMS student. We haven't heard anything either. I think external applicants who have been waiting many weeks will be notified after the first batch of BMS students finds out if they are accepted. The admissions committee is waiting for our Neuro/Physiology grades from next week's test. Thus, I believe acceptances/rejections will start rolling out for everyone around the end of march/start of April. This is all my conjecture.
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When did most of the BMS students interview for CMS this cycle? Do you think if they put more priority for their BMS students over external applicants?
 
DH0209 said:
When did most of the BMS students interview for CMS this cycle? Do you think if they put more priority for their BMS students over external applicants?
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We were all interviewed in December and January. Yes, I think they do give us more priority since we already attend the school and are more likely to attend CMS for medical school. They say every BMS student has a chance to be admitted to the medical school, but some BMS students will be rejected for bad grades or they just drop out voluntarily, so out of about 115 student, 70 are admitted to the medical. CMS incoming classes are 190 according to the website, but around 120 were external applicants.
 
TonySoprano said:
We were all interviewed in December and January. Yes, I think they do give us more priority since we already attend the school and are more likely to attend CMS for medical school.
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It's not really a matter of priority; rather, there are a certain number of spots that generally go to BMS students, and you can reasonably expect that a good number of those spots will go to BMS students every year.
 
TonySoprano said:
We were all interviewed in December and January. Yes, I think they do give us more priority since we already attend the school and are more likely to attend CMS for medical school. They say every BMS student has a chance to be admitted to the medical school, but some BMS students will be rejected for bad grades or they just drop out voluntarily, so out of about 115 student, 70 are admitted to the medical. CMS incoming classes are 190 according to the website, but around 120 were external applicants.
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did all 70 admits matriculate? Im sure that if you did well in the BMS, that would open doors to other med schools.
 
VolunteerMoose said:
did all 70 admits matriculate? Im sure that if you did well in the BMS, that would open doors to other med schools.
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4-5 students each year get accepted to other medical schools. Truth be told, most BMS students matriculate to CMS if they're accepted because the M1A year is far easier than a typical M1 year; you don't retake the basic science courses you already took at RFUMS; you only take Embryology, histology, and anatomy.
 
I wonder how much of the 120 seats are filled as of now….sighhhhh….sooo nervous waiting for the results…..RFU is my only hope this cycle for MD school…. 🙁
 
tantacles said:
Key points:

1. The small pool isn't small

2. The e-mail is nothing to get excited about; you are required to be small-pooled to receive an interview, but being small-pooled does not guarantee an interview by any stretch of the imagination

3. No pre-interview updates

4. No one in this thread knows how big the small pool is, and the admissions office definitely won't release that information.
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Thanks. I luckily got an II a few days after I posted this question so I can finally relax... if only just slightly.
 
Approximately 100 ppl have been accepted according to the Facebook group.
 
jeffreylei said:
Approximately 100 ppl have been accepted according to the Facebook group.
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The facebook group includes at least 20 current CMS students as well as the RFUMS admissions staff. The number of students in the Facebook group is by no means an indication of how many have been accepted.
 
Yes sorry totally forgot to subtract those. you are right!
 
jeffreylei said:
Yes sorry totally forgot to subtract those. you are right!
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Keep in mind also that some students may elect not to join the Facebook group because they know they're going somewhere else.

At accepted student day, I saw at least 50 admitted CMS students, but I can't hazard a guess as to how many were there because we were all split up into groups, many of which had parents or loved ones present.
 
@tantacles

I have another quick question. Since it's a P/F, system-based curriculum, do you know any MS1 who uses pathoma/FA (corresponding chapters for each system) alongside the courses? In other words, I am just curious what supplemental materials people usually use alongside during MS1 and MS2, respectively.

(I know it is early to think about it now, but I just want to think ahead and see what I should expect.)
 
Lya said:
@tantacles

I have another quick question. Since it's a P/F, system-based curriculum, do you know any MS1 who uses pathoma/FA (corresponding chapters for each system) alongside the courses? In other words, I am just curious what supplemental materials people usually use alongside during MS1 and MS2, respectively.

(I know it is early to think about it now, but I just want to think ahead and see what I should expect.)
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I don't believe any 1st years do that. We expressly discourage that. You don't need to study for Step I in your first year.

In the second year, almost everyone uses pathoma and first aid throughout the year.
 
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tantacles said:
I don't believe any 1st years do that. We expressly discourage that. You don't need to study for Step I in your first year.

In the second year, almost everyone uses pathoma and first aid throughout the year.
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Thank you! That's what I expected. A few people from allo said something about using pathoma along with system-based courses, so I was curious.
 
Lya said:
Thank you! That's what I expected. A few people from allo said something about using pathoma along with system-based courses, so I was curious.
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Because we're not strictly systems based and we do normal the first year and abnormal the second, it's better to focus on learning for your first year courses in your first year. It would be useful to go through, say, the physio section of first aid, but I really wouldn't suggest it. Our courses don't test out of First Aid. Plus, I felt pretty swamped by many of our first year classes, particularly anatomy and physiology. And I likely experience the least stress of any of my classmates.
 
Lya said:
@tantacles

I have another quick question. Since it's a P/F, system-based curriculum, do you know any MS1 who uses pathoma/FA (corresponding chapters for each system) alongside the courses? In other words, I am just curious what supplemental materials people usually use alongside during MS1 and MS2, respectively.

(I know it is early to think about it now, but I just want to think ahead and see what I should expect.)
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As an M1, I own first aid, but haven't opened it once. The amount of other material to get through and review is just too much to use supplemental materials in my opinion. The class notes here are good, and that's all I really use to learn everything. But keep in mind, I'm by no stretch of the imagination a gunner. Depending on your aspirations (family med vs number 1 in the class future neurosurgeon), you may want to look into those supplemental materials for M1 year.

From what I've heard by asking older students, many of them use a combo of two or more board prep programs come January or so. And the school is paying for a free year trial of firecracker for everyone this year (but I'm not sure they'll continue that).
 
I am wait listed pre interview. Any chance to get interview invitation or too late?
 
BlackBox said:
14 weeks and counting .... Post-interview silence...
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Damn that's rough. I'm entering six weeks post interview silence and I feel anxious. Can't imagine what you're going through. I'm sure decisions will come out soon. Hang in there bro.
 
MDreamaker said:
I tried to get in touch with them and twice again they told me my application is complete and is still "under review". What ever the heck that means. We are in limbo land my friend haha
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I emailed and received a kinda generic response that it typically takes 6-8 weeks, but sometimes longer... Continue to monitor your email...

Something tells me that we'll hear near the end of this week-beginning of next.
 
BlackBox said:
14 weeks and counting .... Post-interview silence...
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Hang in there!!!! on my 9th week here...LOL I guess they will decide soon and give the seats to the BMS kids and then give us the leftover 🙁
 
Wonder if we'll hear back this week. Read on last year's thread that the Committee meets every third monday of each month.
 
neuronal2 said:
Wonder if we'll hear back this week. Read on last year's thread that the Committee meets every third monday of each month.
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If they do meet once a month...they have quite a lot of workload for them to review this Monday...I just want my final decision so this nightmare can be over already!!! I'm sick of checking my email obsessively everyday....sighhh
 
It's been over 3 months of silence post-interview .. If i get rejected, which is fine, I would just have to laugh. Why not reject at week 5 or 6 or 10 and just be done with it? I mean, c'mon, we're not picking the pope here.
 
CMS says they are on a rolling admission…but yet, they are sending out acceptance to people interviewing later in the cycle and putting the earlier interviewees in silence. I guess theres no benefit of interviewing early in the cycle for this school…LCME shuldve made them fix this issue too LOL
 
DH0209 said:
CMS says they are on a rolling admission…but yet, they are sending out acceptance to people interviewing later in the cycle and putting the earlier interviewees in silence. I guess theres no benefit of interviewing early in the cycle for this school…LCME shuldve made them fix this issue too LOL
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Maybe they haven't found who they want yet. Why is it always a race?
 
jorjorswens said:
Maybe they haven't found who they want yet. Why is it always a race?
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If they haven't found who they want, then they should at least update the status to "hold or rejection." Not leave people hanging for three months without an update. In my opinion, medical school admission cycle IS a race and there is nothing wrong with that.
 
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