2013-2014 Wake Forest Application Thread

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Wake Forest just posted this on their Facebook page:

FACTOID FRIDAY - 8,091 MD applications received for entering 2014. Only 541 interviewed for the 120 places in the class. The class is full presently and we are waiting for those with multiple acceptances to make decisions which is encouraged by May 15. Nationally there are 49,232 applications for 19,000 places! Insanely, crazy times!
 
Has anyone received email notifications of any scholarships or would this information be included with the financial aid package they will send later on?
 
Can anyone give insight on wake forest's curriculum? Is it mostly traditional, pbl heavy, or an equal mix? Info from any current med students will be greatly appreciated.
 
brittjmd said:
This is not okay. Is the whole "first of April" thing actually an April Fool's joke?
(Still no financial package if that wasn't painfully obvious.)
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Perhaps it is sometime this week
 
So I guess we won't hear back from them April 1st afterall. Perhaps it was their form of an April's fool's jokes?
 
Wait I just realized my last comment somehow changed/autocorrected "April Fool's thing" to "awesome thing". This is most definitely NOT awesome. Thank goodness Syndicate used the joke 🙂
 
Yep, I is having fun reading everyone talking like a barbarian. I think you have fun too.
 
It took me all day obsessively checking SDN on the water to finally realize this... Well played, SDN. Well played.
 
giraffesuptop said:
Can anyone give insight on wake forest's curriculum? Is it mostly traditional, pbl heavy, or an equal mix? Info from any current med students will be greatly appreciated.
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Pretty equal mix.

They have changed things up a bit since I was a 1st/2nd year, so I'm not 100% sure what things look like now, but basically there are about 4 hours per week of PBL (we call it CCL for case-centered learning) and 10-20 hours per week of more traditional lecture. There are then 3-4 hours per week of patient interviewing/physical exam type stuff. The anatomy course is being rethought and potentially reformatted so I can't really comment on that.
 
AyCaramba said:
Pretty equal mix.

They have changed things up a bit since I was a 1st/2nd year, so I'm not 100% sure what things look like now, but basically there are about 4 hours per week of PBL (we call it CCL for case-centered learning) and 10-20 hours per week of more traditional lecture. There are then 3-4 hours per week of patient interviewing/physical exam type stuff. The anatomy course is being rethought and potentially reformatted so I can't really comment on that.
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Thanks for your input! Do you feel that the pbl is overall well executed or does the experience vary among different facilitators? And that's 4hrs/week every week for 1st and 2nd year?
 
giraffesuptop said:
Thanks for your input! Do you feel that the pbl is overall well executed or does the experience vary among different facilitators? And that's 4hrs/week every week for 1st and 2nd year?
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Typically our interviewing/PE class is 2 hours per week, roughly every week during first year. I can't comment on second year yet. I feel like the CCL is overall pretty good, though it does vary considerably with different facilitators. Personally, I feel like the biggest benefit of the way we do CCL is that is prepares us to address problems that we don't know the answer to when we see them in the clinical years and beyond, i.e. it teaches us how to properly research things we need to know.
 
giraffesuptop said:
Thanks for your input! Do you feel that the pbl is overall well executed or does the experience vary among different facilitators? And that's 4hrs/week every week for 1st and 2nd year?
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Yes every week. 2 hrs on Monday, 2 hrs on Friday first year. During 2nd year the schedule was a little different but the hours were about the same.

tarheel1408 said:
Typically our interviewing/PE class is 2 hours per week, roughly every week during first year. I can't comment on second year yet. I feel like the CCL is overall pretty good, though it does vary considerably with different facilitators. Personally, I feel like the biggest benefit of the way we do CCL is that is prepares us to address problems that we don't know the answer to when we see them in the clinical years and beyond, i.e. it teaches us how to properly research things we need to know.
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Yeah I would agree with this. PBL/CCL is pretty well executed, and depends less on the facilitator and more on the other students in your group, since it is largely a student-run experience
 
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and so the long saga continues, of waiting by the phone/webs for that call/message, promised to be delivered -- only a few more weeks until your verification is complete -- now a month or so until your application has been reviewed -- now just a short two-three months max until your II arrives -- oh and just a quick three to four weeks until acceptance -- now just another week until FinAid.
 
Like @SloanSabbith, I received a scholarship for the full cost of tuition "for each of [my] 4 years of medical school" through email yesterday. Trust me, I didn't believe a word of it until I reread the letter a couple dozen times and called to accept the offer. I sat there in my office breakroom just laughing like a giddy idiot.

Also like @SloanSabbith, I'm using a throw-away account. I considered posting this using my active account but these types of things are best kept anonymous.
 
CinderellaMan said:
Like @SloanSabbith, I received a scholarship for the full cost of tuition "for each of [my] 4 years of medical school" through email yesterday. Trust me, I didn't believe a word of it until I reread the letter a couple dozen times and called to accept the offer. I sat there in my office breakroom just laughing like a giddy idiot.

Also like @SloanSabbith, I'm using a throw-away account. I considered posting this using my active account but these types of things are best kept anonymous.
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Holy cow. Amazing and congratulations! I am simultaneously green with envy and happy for a complete stranger on the Internet 🙂
 
Alright anxiety and loss of patience at all time high!
Congrats, y'all!!!! Hopefully I'm right behind ya.
 
brittjmd said:
Alright anxiety and loss of patience at all time high!
Congrats, y'all!!!! Hopefully I'm right behind ya.
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Hope yours is good. Just got mine. Officially gonna be in debt for the rest of my life. But at least I'll be an MD. End goal achieved.
 
DrBirdFriend said:
Hope yours is good. Just got mine. Officially gonna be in debt for the rest of my life. But at least I'll be an MD. End goal achieved.
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... Ok now I'm just nervous. Haha
Way to be an optimist! I'll probably be right there with you. Poor MDs, but MDs nevertheless. 🙂
 
brittjmd said:
... Ok now I'm just nervous. Haha
Way to be an optimist! I'll probably be right there with you. Poor MDs, but MDs nevertheless. 🙂
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Yes. I don't want to sound ungrateful :/ I'm grateful to be going to school in the fall and for loans, etc. I think though that despite knowing for many months how much tuition is at Wake finally seeing it on a sheet of (internet) paper as in YOU OWE US THESE MONIES soon just gave me the biggest sticker shock of my life. Am insanely jealous of people whose parents are able to help them pay. Oh well, life's unfair blah blah blah 😛
 
DrBirdFriend said:
Yes. I don't want to sound ungrateful :/ I'm grateful to be going to school in the fall and for loans, etc. I think though that despite knowing for many months how much tuition is at Wake finally seeing it on a sheet of (internet) paper as in YOU OWE US THESE MONIES soon just gave me the biggest sticker shock of my life. Am insanely jealous of people whose parents are able to help them pay. Oh well, life's unfair blah blah blah 😛
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Ahhh I feel your pain. So you found out via email? I'm still in the dark, but chances are I'll be in the exact same boat come tomorrow... Sigh.
 
brittjmd said:
Ahhh I feel your pain. So you found out via email? I'm still in the dark, but chances are I'll be in the exact same boat come tomorrow... Sigh.
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Yep email and you log in online with info they send you. I'm at Trader Joes, I think I'll buy myself a pint of ice cream to make the taste of hundreds of thousands of dollars in debtness go down easier.
 
DrBirdFriend said:
Yep email and you log in online with info they send you. I'm at Trader Joes, I think I'll buy myself a pint of ice cream to make the taste of hundreds of thousands of dollars in debtness go down easier.
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Hahaha I'll probably need something stronger than ice cream >< I'm going to hope you're at the beginning at the alphabet and my doom can come sooner rather than later. 🙂
 
DrBirdFriend said:
Yep email and you log in online with info they send you. I'm at Trader Joes, I think I'll buy myself a pint of ice cream to make the taste of hundreds of thousands of dollars in debtness go down easier.
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No scholarship at all?
 
I got a ~$3,500 entrance scholarship, which I'm assuming is not renewable. But even if it were, not quite enough to entice me to spend 4 years in Winston-Salem. Great school, but they're all pretty good aren't they? Outside of a top 10-20 school, location and price are what set places apart. Wake is not compelling enough on either.
Will be withdrawing.
 
Does anyone know if accepting the financial aid package means you are committing to the school? Or can you still withdraw before the may 15 deadline?
 
Syndicate said:
Does anyone know if accepting the financial aid package means you are committing to the school? Or can you still withdraw before the may 15 deadline?
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When do you have to accept it by? I'd probably hold off till then, just in case. You'd think the email would address that question?
 
brittjmd said:
When do you have to accept it by? I'd probably hold off till then, just in case. You'd think the email would address that question?
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I believe the deadline to accept was either April 16 or 19. Yea the email didn't really address that
 
Syndicate said:
I believe the deadline to accept was either April 16 or 19. Yea the email didn't really address that
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Very strange indeed... Honestly I have no idea. It makes sense that accepting the offer does not commit you legally to the school.

Maybe just make a quick FinAid call for sure.
 
brittjmd said:
Very strange indeed... Honestly I have no idea. It makes sense that accepting the offer does not commit you legally to the school
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Call and ask! I talked to them this morning about my package and they were very nice/willing to answer questions from yet another clueless premed.
 
Syndicate said:
Does anyone know if accepting the financial aid package means you are committing to the school? Or can you still withdraw before the may 15 deadline?
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Mine said April 28
 
Vegan said:
I got a ~$3,500 entrance scholarship, which I'm assuming is not renewable. But even if it were, not quite enough to entice me to spend 4 years in Winston-Salem. Great school, but they're all pretty good aren't they? Outside of a top 10-20 school, location and price are what set places apart. Wake is not compelling enough on either.
Will be withdrawing.
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Super low cost of living, small class size, unbeatable natural beauty to the east and west, great reputation for student and career support, great match list. Plus they beat duke this year at bball and have new coach! <3 this school hatas gonna hate
 
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panthersra said:
Super low cost of living, small class size, unbeatable natural beauty to the east and west, great reputation for student and career support, great match list. Plus they beat duke this year at bball and have new coach! <3 this school hatas gonna hate
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Ya wake is probably not too much more expensive than my state school because of the cost of living. My friends who go there pay $300 each for a huge house walking distance to the med school.
 
Not saying plenty of people won't like it there...just saying that once you've lived in a great city like NYC, or LA, and know the difference, it gets a little bit harder to contemplate 4 years in the sticks.
 
Haha trying to pick my favorite thing I love about the south was tough when I thought about the music, food, literature, beaches, and more. But then I remembered that its the manners of southern-raised gentlemen I miss the most. This being said, the great Tom Waits has chosen to make permanent residence in LA so I am aware that some cool people do dig it.
 
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