2014-2015 Boston University Application Thread
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Not all people who are accepted get called/emailed some people just have to wait for the portal update so we may still be in the running
Is there a set time the portal update is supposed to happen?
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I just called and the admissions office informed me that they do not have a set date, but it should happen within the next few days...
For those who have been accepted today, did your interviewer mention when official emails would go out?
I'd almost be happy with a deferral email at this point, this is grueling.
I work just across the street from the med school and I'm fighting the urge to run over to the admissions office right now and get down on my knees to beg for a response.
Awesome! congrats! Did she send a personalized email? Silly question I know, but I'm sitting here over thinking whether my BU ship has sailed.
Does anyone else keep "hearing" phantom vibrations from their phones?
Only every other minute
Thanks! Yes, she sent the email herself yet it seemed like a general acceptance email. Dont give up hope yet, I think the emails go out for a few days!
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Well, I don't know what the cut-off for late afternoon is...Dr. Witzburg told someone all e-mails would go out today late afternoon. In my book it's 5 p.m. No official e-mails, no portal changes yet. No one on SDN had my interviewer. I've been refreshing my portal every two minutes for the last hour. I am going to try to walk away from my laptop. I'm a nervous wreck.
They will have weekly website maintenance from 7pm to 2am today. The MyApp homepage says so...
Couldn't resist stopping by the admissions office on my way home just now...the door was locked and the place looked empty. Hope this doesn't mean we're in for the longest weekend of our lives 🙁
The person who does the announcements can easily send the email from home/another office though. they could be doing it pretty much anywhere else.
to add to that, during the 2013 cycle, people found out they were "deferred" on a saturday... and I am guessing that was via status change (or generic email from admissions). I highly doubt they got a personal... hey you've been deferred! better luck next time! 😏
let the waiting continue....
Was this after or before general acceptance emails were sent?to add to that, during the 2013 cycle, people found out they were "deferred" on a saturday... and I am guessing that was via status change (or generic email from admissions). I highly doubt they got a personal... hey you've been deferred! better luck next time! 😏
let the waiting continue....
i looked at the thread again and it appears that people also got accepted and rejected on that saturday... via a "status email" as one person called it... I am guessing that is the general acceptance that you are referring to?
Yes thank you!
Official or from interviewer?
I got an official e-mail. It was from the medams email through which other notifications are sent.
Deferral of Final Disposition to March.
I hate waiting so much.
*edit. Nvm just got the MEDADMS email
I hate waiting so much.
*edit. Nvm just got the MEDADMS email
and.....I...am... deferred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Deferred! Email sent out 10pm
Interview early Nov
Interview early Nov
Officially deferred!! So glad to not be rejected. This place is a reach for me so I'm happy to still be in the game 😀 congrats to all those with acceptances the last couple of days though
I'd like to know that too.
Deferred... But at least no rejection after a week of obsessive forum/email/portal checking....
Deferred until March.
Defferred until March as well! Anyone know when in March we should be looking forward to?
Accepted via email for MD/PhD tonight. I don't know if I missed the call (we were driving out to a competition and had poor reception), or if I never got one. Congrats to everyone else accepted, and best of luck to those still waiting!
Deferred as well. Interviewed early October. Been a long wait but better than a rejection! 😀
Did anyone else notice how ridiculously scripted and fake the Dean's enthusiasm was during interview day? He sounded like a total used car salesman.
I thought he sounded like a very earnest, enthusiastic, albeit eccentric, man who loves his job and the institution of which he is a part.
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someone's bitterrrrrrr
Received an II here a few days ago!
Sorry if this has been asked before but does BU release decisions in waves? I assume from all the March references that the next one will be then?
Sorry if this has been asked before but does BU release decisions in waves? I assume from all the March references that the next one will be then?
Yep! About a third of the acceptances are given out in January, and two thirds at the end of March
And congrats on the II!
