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Perfect because I actually am a giant, human sized flower!!! I think it'll bring diversity to my med school class.
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2014-2015 Albany Medical College Application Thread
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Perfect because I actually am a giant, human sized flower!!! I think it'll bring diversity to my med school class.
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Did everyone get their II in the morning or has it been spread across the day?
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Same here
Mine was just about noon EST.
So if our application is not "complete" even though we turned in all our stuff weeks ago, should we give the admissions committee a call?
It's awesome. The faculty is extremely involved and accessible, and it's clear they care a great deal about the students. The MS2s are incredible.
The only bad thing is driving to campus in the morning. The roads and traffic patterns are a mess and very backed up in the morning.
The only bad thing is driving to campus in the morning. The roads and traffic patterns are a mess and very backed up in the morning.
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I have a room with 2 queen beds for 9/29 at the Hilton Garden Inn on campus. Anyone interested in sharing?
If you can convince the committee to give my application a look and send me an invite, count me in
If you're staying at a hotel, check if they have a free shuttle service. I know that when I interviewed a year and a half ago, I stayed at Hilton Garden Inn, which had a shuttle service 😀
Oh awesome! Thank you for the suggestion. Did you tip the driver or is that not necessary?
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hey back to the complete question. all my letters and secondaries were in to AMCAS by 8/5/14, but according to my status, they say that they haven't received my LORs yet. should i be worried yet? or should i be waiting longer for the status page to update to be complete?
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I don't remember how long it took them to update my status, but i'd suggest emailing or calling them about. Doesn't hurt to double check.
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I think they are just very backed up. I'm in the same situation
Honestly I don't remember.. I might have but not heavily. Mostly I just remember chatting with them about what it was like to live in Albany, etc :x
I called yesterday, been complete since like 8/8, they say they haven't got to app yet to make it complete, can be until the end of next week. It probably takes a while
Yes please! This step is so expensive...
If any female is interested in sharing a hotel the night before 10/06 interview, please PM me. 🙂
I submitted 8/5 as well (after deliberating for two weeks...) and I have just been marked complete (everything says yes finally!).
I waited eleven days after getting the payment confirmation e-mail, and it still said incomplete.
Gave a call (let them know I was just checking in because even though I knew it was a busy year, it had happened to me in the past where a school didn't let me know they were still waiting for something/sort of glitch, and I wanted to make sure... just not trying to sound too demanding).
She let me know that my profile was fine. She also decided to just put in in the stack of profiles she was working on that day because she had it up already. So... bonus.
Gave a call (let them know I was just checking in because even though I knew it was a busy year, it had happened to me in the past where a school didn't let me know they were still waiting for something/sort of glitch, and I wanted to make sure... just not trying to sound too demanding).
She let me know that my profile was fine. She also decided to just put in in the stack of profiles she was working on that day because she had it up already. So... bonus.
I also have a room at the Garden in on campus with two Queens for the nights of 9/29 and 9/30 if anyone wants to share! Message me!
I called them and they said they weren't offering to stay with medical students this year.
You wouldn't believe how competitive admissions are in 2153 😉
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And John finally getting on his pile of applications in 2152 did not make it any easier. 😛
I used my nicknames and the meaning behind them to describe myself and how the meaning changes over time.
That's pretty sick. lol
Some how I thought this is VCU thread?
By 2153 John's winning approach will be adopted by most schools.
We will be sitting at our retirement chair, 160+ years old, at the beach of Hawaii, telling our great great grand children, how much fun we had gone through of taking MCAT and had the once of life time experience to know John wherever the school you applied.
You must have had a good time with the famous USC "Nickname" secondary essay
Didn't apply! I might be naive since I've never heard about that prompt, but then again there are no UC schools in my future 🙂
I think it took over a week, maybe close to 2, but I don't entirely remember. But it changed to an interview invite pretty quickly after that!
So are MMI interviews at schools all the same? Do they all use scenarios, or do some use regular questions? What will Albany do?
They say 10 business days, but mine was a few days after... If you feel like you should call, call! (One school didn't mark me complete bc they needed another document from me but the school never contacted me about it... Sometimes it's worth it to call)
I posted this earlier, but I was in the same boat. I waited 11 days (as their site says to give them 10) before I called. When I called I asked about the status of my application, asking if anything was missing (explaining that I know this year is very busy but I wanted to check, as another medical school had had an issue with my application that lead to delays).
She assured me it was fine, but because I called in the morning she decided to just grab my application and add it to her afternoon stack. I did this last Friday, and when I checked this morning everything was complete.
Thank you, I called and left a message, it's times like these where I begin to doubt all the secondaries I sent in and whether they've been received (even after seeing complete messages several times over on their sites). The things that waiting can do to you...
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I was complete on 7/25 and still don't have a yes for Complete. Thank you for the info. I will give them a call tomorrow.
Again, anyone looking to share a room in Albany the nights of both 9/29 and 9/30?
Anyone submit their app around the second week of August and is marked complete on their status?
I submitted 8/13 and was complete on 8/21
