That's awesome! I'm also from Chapel Hill, and I remember one of my interviewers seemed to like that fact since she pointed out to me that it was often good to have a support network of family in the area. Here's hoping she liked me!
This topic was discussed earlier in this thread. The general consensus seemed to be that unless your adcom explicitly told you to contact them with any questions, or left their contact info with you (i.e. you didn't have to look up their email address), it's generally best to just be patient and wait. I personally doubt it'll hurt to send them an interest letter, but it may come off as being a little intrusive, especially since UNC tells you explicitly not to send in updates.
I'm not really sure it would help anything. It is not uncommon to wait 10 plus weeks for a decision, so it may just come across as being pushy. When other people from the thread have sent interest letters or inquiries it seems like the advice is to be patient. I know I have been waiting for 13 weeks and it is pretty rough, but hopefully we will hear good news soon!
I am not up to date with on-campus deadlines, but for off-campus apartments (still relatively close) they usually have some spots open well into March and April. 🙂 I wouldn't get too stressed over it. I'm sure there will be on-campus apartments available as well for incoming graduate students, but I'm not 100%.
Preach.
I think the consensus is that it should be avoided... UNC specifically asks for applicants not to send updates on current activities. But I think they would be more than happy to answer your questions if you wanted to call them.
I like to pretend that the only people in the class are the people who commented on SDN.
This is purely speculation (and heavily biased by the fact that I want to be accepted), but I feel like logically, if you've been reviewed this many times without being flat-out rejected, then you stand a better chance then the latest applicants who are about as competitive as you. If a late applicant is a clear stand-out, then there's no reason why they wouldn't get an acceptance quickly. But if you have two similarly competitive applicants for one spot, but one interviewed much earlier and the committee has repeatedly decided not to reject him/her, then the earlier applicant would probably have a better chance simply because the committee has had more time to think about that applicant's potential as a student. Again, this is purely speculation, but I doubt medical school admissions love making last minute clutch decisions without much deliberation.
True, but we also don't know how many post-interview rejections have been given. We are only assuming that not many have been given based on the limited responses we've seen on this thread. Personally, I feel that more people would be willing to create an account to post that they've been accepted rather than rejected.
I mean, there are 37 members. But I know a few of those people are not first years, and one of them isn't even a med student. Lol
Indeed!
I believe there has only been one reported on here, and it was through email.
