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Hopefully this is true. I'm not sure if I should give up hope or try to keep it alive at this point :/
2013-2014 Weill Cornell Medical College Application Thread
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Hopefully this is true. I'm not sure if I should give up hope or try to keep it alive at this point :/
Although I have been accepted to a higher ranked or equally reputed school, I want to go to Cornell or Columbia because I grew up in NJ close to NYC.
I guess it's not worth wasting my time thinking they would call me one day. I am extremely grateful to be accepted to my top choice, but want to reiterate the point that applying to med school is a crapshoot process. You never know what each school look for... if you are aiming to go to top tier schools. Putting all my eggs in one basket now 😀
I guess it's not worth wasting my time thinking they would call me one day. I am extremely grateful to be accepted to my top choice, but want to reiterate the point that applying to med school is a crapshoot process. You never know what each school look for... if you are aiming to go to top tier schools. Putting all my eggs in one basket now 😀
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It's starting to feel real guys! Just checked the site for accepted students and they uploaded information about white coat sizes.
So exciting! Does anyone know about when the White Coat Ceremony is normally?
Last year it was August 29th.
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What makes you think so? At least at some schools, White coat ceremonies are held after 1-2 weeks of classes; it's not like they have to be held before classes start.
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You're right, I missed it somehow. Thank you for the information!
In other news, did you just get accepted to Cornell and didn't tell us? 🙂
Yes, thank you to the person who asked and answered about the white coat- i couldnt find that stuff anywhere!
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Yay, group hug!!!
Congrats to you too! Let's start a Wash St. Louis/ Weill Cornell Consortium!
My future classmates are one of the reasons I chose Cornell 😉
Once again, congrats on WashU!
I am so sad that I won't get to hang with you all...why is Michigan so far away....whine. 🙁
Based on your avatar, I fixed that for you😉
can anyone comment on how you think the new curriculum will change the culture of WCMC? I was looking at our schedule and it seems like we are gonna have class/lab until 5pm 3 days a week. Im scared that ill end up studying the whole time and not be able to have a social life ( which seemed very possible for those who are students now) with the afternoons off.
Thoughts??
Thoughts??
It does look like the first semester is going to be more stressful than the current MS1, though at the second look we were told that this example schedule you're referring to was not representative of the real thing, we were told we would only have 1-2 afternoons a week of anatomy labs in the first semester and the rest of the afternoons would be free, not 3 afternoons a week as in this example schedule (you can see that one of the afternoons is actually a lab orientation, which only needs to happen once). The next 2 semesters will likely be similar to the current MS2, which, by the way, also includes something like 1-2 afternoons a week of things like learning neuro exam or practicing taking psych histories (concurrent with the neuro block) etc. (You can check out current block schedules posted on Cornell website.)
I fully expect the first semester to be hard, given its condensed nature. Will it change the school's culture? I dunno. It seems like "the culture" may fluctuate from class to class depending on the kind of students in each class. At the second look I interacted with several absolutely awesome MS1s and met a couple of (very tired but friendly) MS3s who mentioned that there seemed to be a pattern of alternating a "chill" class with a "gunner" class, i.e. the current MS1s and MS3s are the "chill" ones, and the current (awesomely matched) MS4s and MS2s (I didn't meet a single one, by the way, they were all studying for Step 1) are the more study-focused ones etc. So we'd be the next "gunner" class - and I was like "uh-oh" when I heard that - but I believe that in many ways it's up to us to set the culture for our class.
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@Amygdarya I think you should be the official face of Weill Cornell admissions! In all seriousness, are you going to be involved in admissions at Cornell? You've been so incredibly helpful to many posters on this board in discussing Cornell's curriculum, culture, and opportunities. Also, I've seen your posts this past year on many schools' threads, which were always just as helpful. I just wanted to say a big congrats to you on picking Cornell--they're getting a great person!! 🙂
So SDN Appointed Official Student Representative of Weill Cornell (formerly known as @Amygdarya 😛), do you think there will be crowded clerkships in our 2nd year? I'm realizing there will be an overlap with our class when we're MS2s and the Class of 2017 MS3s.
Hey I think I can provide an answer to that! The Dean of Admissions said that they were looking into placing extra students into rotations at Columbia's or NYU's hospitals to help alleviate the strain. Apparently Cornell took on some of Columbia's extra rotating students back when Columbia switched from 2 year to 1.5 year preclinical, so he was optimistic they would be able to work something out with Columbia at least. But this was something he said a few months ago, so perhaps the recently crowned Official Student Representative of Weill Cornell will have a more recent answer. 😀
Thanks snowflakes!! That makes a lot of sense and seems rather easy to do since we're only two-thirds their size.
Hey, if they want some students to go to the other NY-Pres or Bellevue...
Awww, you guys are making me blush 
Thank you! I'm a lot less conspicuous in person... or so I hope 😀
Thank you! I'm a lot less conspicuous in person... or so I hope 😀I'm actually considering it. If I don't get overwhelmed by anatomy and stuff, I'll probably try to get involved with admissions.
Haha, I'm hardly anonymous here, but it's OK with me.
I had absolutely no idea about this very important topic, so I'm passing the Official Student Representative of Weill Cornell crown to:
Sounds good to me! Thank you for the info snowflakes!
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Nice, 👍
but no heavy bag?
Is that the gym in the basement of Olin?
w here is this? is this lasdon? it doesnt look like olin
Nice, 👍
but no heavy bag?
Spoke to a 4th year who started a wine and cheese club her first year and got $200 to fund it for the semester. Interested in starting a boxing club?
Would anyone happen to know what "Opening Exercises" consists of besides the White Coat Ceremony? Is orientation week generally busy and filled with many activities?
A friend of mine is considering visiting me during orientation week, as I definitely don't think I'll have time to host and explore NYC with them when med school starts, but I'm not sure how busy (or not busy) I will be. Anyone have any idea? Please help!!! Thanks.
Oh yeah, and hello future classmates!
A friend of mine is considering visiting me during orientation week, as I definitely don't think I'll have time to host and explore NYC with them when med school starts, but I'm not sure how busy (or not busy) I will be. Anyone have any idea? Please help!!! Thanks.
Oh yeah, and hello future classmates!
Pero I don't have a Facebook.
Someone asked this question on Facebook, and I'm going to quote the response:
get a Facebook account!
Yes, it's quite useful for communicating with your classmates and upperclassmen, if nothing else.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll have plenty of time to bond with y'all, but this is probably the only time I'll be free to show my buddy around the city. 🙂
Eh, I'll consider it.........
Neither do I. Have you ever had one? I deleted mine about 5 years ago and I've only been thinking of rejoining to keep in touch with our class.
But I'm still pretty sure I won't. My plan is to just be @lalalapartay012 's best friend and she'll tell me all the updates. 😀
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Haha. Soon we'll all know each other. 😏
Nope. We haven't met in real life, yet. But it doesn't make our friendship any less real. *singing* "My little pony, my little pony, friendship is magic". Haha. I should stop. My inner 10-year old is showing.
Have you gotten through all the forms? The student health ones are incredibly thorough.
Yes, I mailed them lat week. Very thorough indeed.
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