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Essay prompt will go here. PM me when it's available. GL all!
Hi guys! I am currently finishing up my first year here at SUNY Downstate and I - along with a few of my classmates - will try to follow this thread to answer any questions you'll have about the application, student life, the curriculum, or anything else you can think of.
I'll post a short blurb about my experiences later, but I just wanted to say hi and wish you all the best of luck this cycle. Applying to med school is pretty stressful and the long periods of time spent waiting around for decisions doesn't help, so make sure you're also enjoying the last year before you start medical school!
SUNY Downstate is definitely on my list and I just wanted to know more about the school. I understand that you haven't done MS3 and further, but I still would like to know what you know and have heard so far. Thank you in advance for your time!
How many students do you know who conducted research as a MS1? In other words, how easy is it to get involved in research as a MS1?
I understand that Downstate has many immigrant patient populations as well as diverse exposures to cases. From what you saw and heard, can you describe the volume and diversity of patients?
How were your schedules like for MS1 (and 2)? Are your afternoons completely open, like the schedules at Case?
What would you have done differently if you could do the whole medical school (MS1 as well as application cycles) again?
What were the things you wish you would have known?
Can you describe your transition to med school from college? Or describe your MS1 experiences in general, both good and bad things about curriculum and etc.
Does anyone have the secondary essays? Please post it.
Downstate accepts students on a rolling basis, interviews start as early as August
Do you know around when in August?
Can anyone post the prompt?
You can bet that as soon as they're available, this will be the first place you'll find them. I'm really not trying to be sassy, but asking repeatedly for the prompts will not make them come faster. I replied to your last request with last year's prompts if you want to take the chance on pre-writing without the certainty they'll be the same.
I don't see anything wrong with asking for the prompt again a couple of days after I asked about it. If a person get 20 secondaries, will he necessarily remember that he has to post one for this school? Putting this post on first page of the forum serves as that reminder. This is especially true since last application cycle the secondary for this school was out already.
Chill dude.
You'll get the secondary the same time as everyone else (MSAR says they don't screen), and if you don't, most likely whoever gets it first will post here that they received it, and everyone will +1 him if you really want to be ahead a few hours.
So... I went to their admissions seminar, I overhead a conversation with Dean Gerber and a student as I waited on line. There will be different questions this year.
I'm chill bro, don't worry about it.
If there were periods longer than 3 months, from the time you graduated from high school to now, when you were not employed full-time or in college full-time, please briefly describe your activities. (Limit 150 words)
If you are not attending college full time as of September 15, please describe your activities for the period September 2013 to July 2014. Please enter none if there are none. (Limit 200 words)
If you are not from the 5 boroughs of New York City, describe what personal experiences prepare you to live and study in New York City, and what will be your personal support system. (Limit 150 words)
If you have a specific reason why you wish to attend SUNY Downstate or a medical school in New York City, please explain. (Limit 100 words)
Are these questions part of the secondary?
"Question:
Describe briefly an extended scholarly activity in which you either worked independently or contributed significantly within a small group. Include information on how results were presented and what you learned from the experience. Subject areas may include any field - the sciences, social sciences, humanities. If you did not have such an experience, do not answer this question and write None in the text box. (Limit 150 words)
Question:
List any full time or part time peer teaching experiences that lasted a minimum of one academic year (give dates). Include the number of hours per week spent in this activity. If you did not have such an experience, do not answer this question, and write "NONE" in the text box. (Limit 100 words) "
Question for this (and other) applications:
If a school asks you which biology classes you've taken to fulfill their requirements, are you also listing other additional advanced biology classes in the same area?
Goodluck to all applying.
Do we really have to submit course descriptions for every one of our prerequisites?
"Submit any course descriptions, any information about accelerated course sequences, or non-traditional course sequences as a scanned PDF to [email protected]."
Seriously? The fact that course title is Biology 101 - Intro to Biology isn't enough?
Hey! No, only the ones that specifically fulfill their requirements. Do not list any additional courses. Goodluck!
Has anyone found out if we actually need to submit course descriptions?
I took this to mean only if the course title is misleading/some kind of explanation is required. Y'all are being neurotic
Yikes I'm a nontrad and my earliest basic premed courses (the bio ones) were taken about 7 years ago as a freshman...I listed them in the bio section but also listed some more recent classes that were on their list of 'recommended' courses (like anatomy and genetics that I took in the past year) just in case the early bio ones "expired."
I only entered the minimum required classes for every other section. Hope they don't shred my application- Downstate's one of my top 2 choices!
good luck to all applying!
complete email today
This may be a stupid question, but in the section where we list all the pre-req's if the class was a combined lecture and lab (received one grade, 4 credits), do we list the lab separately? I think not, but the instructions confused me.
Got an email from Downstate today asking for upcoming fall 2013 grades to be forwarded to them as soon as they are available. Anyone have insight into this or know if this is good news?
are you non-Trad? I think it is good news for non-Trad, but maybe less so for current undergrads...
I'm a non-Trad, currently in grad school