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Just got a hold for interview status update 🙁 Despite what they say, I can't help but feel this is just a non-official rejection.
 
I got the same status but I think I saw a couple of rejections on this forum already
hack646 said:
Just got a hold for interview status update 🙁 Despite what they say, I can't help but feel this is just a non-official rejection.
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First time posting on the thread. Interview date: 10/31. Acceptance phone call 11/04. Emailed 11/05.

GPA 4.5, MCAT 33, OOS, heavy clinical, research, and volunteer experience. It can happen for the OOS! Good luck everyone!
 
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As of today, your application has been forwarded for preliminary review, and is still in the review process." You guys mean this email right ? Eh I didn't know this was being on hold
 
Dr.Jekyll75 said:
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As of today, your application has been forwarded for preliminary review, and is still in the review process." You guys mean this email right ? Eh I didn't know this was being on hold
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That's not the hold email. It means they are still reviewing you. I got that email a month and a half ago, and then again today.
 
To those of you who told me not to worry about the MMI's, you are absolutely correct! lol. They were a lot of fun! I was trying to some way prepare, but just said eh, whatever! I got there, read the first door, and was like, there is no way in H#LL one could prepare for this! lol. They were not hard, but very fun. The prompts were just so very specific there was no way to really ever prepare for them. Haha!

The interview day went great though! I absolutely loved it! 🙂

The second year that sat at my table the day of the interview was fricken hilarious! I can't remember her name to save my life, but regardless, she was amazingly funny. There were some bagels left over from the morning breakfast, and they left them out with the fruit for lunch. After she finished eating, she grabbed a bagel and came back to sit down. She started talking and wrapping the bagel in a napkin. She shoved it into her backpack, looked at all of us, realized we were watching what she was doing and said, "Hey, don't judge me guys, you learn that when medical school starts you prefer not to have to buy food constantly on campus, and every penny counts! That's my snack after class! Wait, did you see if there was any cream cheese left up there?" I died laughing, and said no. She laughed too. It was a great day!

The interviews were so laid back, and was not even close to what I was expecting them to be like. Everyone was really nice, and you could tell that just as much as they were interviewing us, we were interviewing them!
 
Oh, quick question. Dr. Maurer mentioned that 25% of the class next year will start on the new curriculum, and 75% will stay with the legacy curriculum, and the following year, the new curriculum will be the only one.

For those of us who would start the new class, what are your thoughts on the new curriculum, would you volunteer to be in the group? I'm kind of leaning against it, and hoping I don't get chosen. They say they will take volunteers first, but that then they would choose students, or if too many volunteer they would turn some of them down. Anyway, would you volunteer? What are the thoughts? I just want to gauge some of the opinions about splitting it up.

I did ask what they would do to ensure that the student body stays unified throughout the year, and he said that he didn't think it would be a problem, and it would really be up to the students to ensure that there is no division.
 
Final_stretch_med said:
Oh, quick question. Dr. Maurer mentioned that 25% of the class next year will start on the new curriculum, and 75% will stay with the legacy curriculum, and the following year, the new curriculum will be the only one.

For those of us who would start the new class, what are your thoughts on the new curriculum, would you volunteer to be in the group? I'm kind of leaning against it, and hoping I don't get chosen. They say they will take volunteers first, but that then they would choose students, or if too many volunteer they would turn some of them down. Anyway, would you volunteer? What are the thoughts? I just want to gauge some of the opinions about splitting it up.

I did ask what they would do to ensure that the student body stays unified throughout the year, and he said that he didn't think it would be a problem, and it would really be up to the students to ensure that there is no division.
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Did your group get an actual presentation on the new curriculum? He only brought it up in our group when someone asked and it was only a brief 1 minute summary. Do you know where I can find more information on it?
 
beingmortal said:
Did your group get an actual presentation on the new curriculum? He only brought it up in our group when someone asked and it was only a brief 1 minute summary. Do you know where I can find more information on it?
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Our group did get to talk quite a bit about it, but we had to bring it up. It wasn't a presentation really, but because we all kept asking questions, he just kept answering. http://curriculum.chm.msu.edu/documents.html This is the link for the webpage. There are other tabs up near the top you can go through, they can be a little hard to find if you aren't really looking for them. I passed them twice. lol.

What he told our group was that it was basically going to blur the lines of the years. There wouldn't be anymore, "M1, M2, M3, or M4's." Instead, the students will be either "early, middle, or late" clinical years. In the early years, you will start from the first week in clinical exposure. The goal being to help you be a little less fearful and useful when you reach your actual clerkships. Basically, you'll be working as a medical assistant. To learn the material, they will start presenting diseases instead of having a set class that you're learning in. So, basically what happens is that the small groups (this will replace the regular lecture that most students are familiar with), will be presented with a patient who has a cough. At this point, you start learning the anatomy of the neck, the physiology behind a cough, the biochemistry behind a cough, and then the pharmacological aspect of how to treat the cough. The goal is to have everything integrated so that you're learning early on how the basic science classes come together to give you you're overall symptoms and diagnosis in patients.
 
Final_stretch_med said:
Our group did get to talk quite a bit about it, but we had to bring it up. It wasn't a presentation really, but because we all kept asking questions, he just kept answering. http://curriculum.chm.msu.edu/documents.html This is the link for the webpage. There are other tabs up near the top you can go through, they can be a little hard to find if you aren't really looking for them. I passed them twice. lol.

What he told our group was that it was basically going to blur the lines of the years. There wouldn't be anymore, "M1, M2, M3, or M4's." Instead, the students will be either "early, middle, or late" clinical years. In the early years, you will start from the first week in clinical exposure. The goal being to help you be a little less fearful and useful when you reach your actual clerkships. Basically, you'll be working as a medical assistant. To learn the material, they will start presenting diseases instead of having a set class that you're learning in. So, basically what happens is that the small groups (this will replace the regular lecture that most students are familiar with), will be presented with a patient who has a cough. At this point, you start learning the anatomy of the neck, the physiology behind a cough, the biochemistry behind a cough, and then the pharmacological aspect of how to treat the cough. The goal is to have everything integrated so that you're learning early on how the basic science classes come together to give you you're overall symptoms and diagnosis in patients.
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Thank you for the link!

So, it sounds like PBL with a emphasis on clinical exposure? It will be interesting to see where they take it, there is certainly potential for a fantastic curriculum. In one of the documents where they evaluate the feasibility of having M1's in the clinic setting they seem to be pointing towards M1's working as scribes, not sure how I feel about paying 60k/year to be a scribe.
 
beingmortal said:
Thank you for the link!

So, it sounds like PBL with a emphasis on clinical exposure? It will be interesting to see where they take it, there is certainly potential for a fantastic curriculum. The issue is being a guinea pig class is tough, will the benefits make up for the expected bumps in the road?
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They're claiming that it will. They also claimed that they have tested it on students already so we wouldn't be "guinea pigs". But I'm not so sure about that. I think it would be cool to say that you were one of the classes that pioneered the new curriculum, but at the same time it is exactly just that. A new curriculum. It makes me very nervous. I'm not sure how I feel, and if I would actually want to be in that group. I can't help but think that there is going to be a division in the new incoming class. What are your thoughts on it? What are you thinking? Would you volunteer or stick with the Legacy curriculum?
 
Has anyone interviewed and not found out on the decision date they were expecting to?

I interviewed last Friday, and was curious if they will actually have my decision by the Dec 3rd date?
 
Final_stretch_med said:
Has anyone interviewed and not found out on the decision date they were expecting to?

I interviewed last Friday, and was curious if they will actually have my decision by the Dec 3rd date?
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They told us 6-10 weeks when I interviewed, not sure where you got the <2 week turnaround from.
 
Final_stretch_med said:
I was told that it could be possibly at the next decision date! Thats why I was shocked!
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I guess there is always the possibility but I wouldn't bank on it. It is more likely that it'll be more than the usual 4-6 weeks due to all of the upcoming holidays.
 
For anyone who's on the alternate list, when are you guys thinking of sending updates? Not sure if I should wait all the way until May 15th

Dr.Piano said:
I apologize if this is the wrong thread for this question. I'm just not sure where to ask this!

For MSU's English and Math pre-requisite courses requirement, is just one semester of each OK? In another words, they don't have to be full-year courses, do they? I'm looking at their website (http://mdadmissions.msu.edu/premedreqs/premed_reqs.php) and just wanted to double-check.
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You should be good
 
stigus said:
For anyone who's on the alternate list, when are you guys thinking of sending updates? Not sure if I should wait all the way until May 15th



You should be good
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Going to send one at the end of the term with grades and spring plans
 
Anyone else crazy nervous for phone calls and/or emails tonight and tomorrow? Ahhhh!
 
Best of luck to all of you here waiting for decision, it was really a pleasure to meet all of you who interviewed on 10/24 and I hope this cycle goes well for everyone. Such amazing group of people!!!!
 
Accepted via phone call around 7 pm ET! OOS, interviewed Nov 20th, complete 8/20
 
Just got the hold for interview decision email :/.. Pretty bummed.. Anyone know when I could expect to hear about their decision? Don't know if I should chalk this up as a probable rejection..Has anyone been put on this (or know anyone that has) and still recieved an interview invite?
 
JS2525 said:
Just got the hold for interview decision email :/.. Pretty bummed.. Anyone know when I could expect to hear about their decision? Don't know if I should chalk this up as a probable rejection..Has anyone been put on this (or know anyone that has) and still recieved an interview invite?
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This is all about perspective. Think of it this way. They only have so many seats in a class, and only so many interviews to offer. They are sending out rejections left and right honestly. They didn't do that to you. They said, hold for interview decision. That means that there is something there that they like. At this point, they don't want to offer you an interview, but they want to compare you to a larger group as well. They offer interviews all the way through March, I believe. Last year, I had a friend who received the same e-mail. She was offered an interview in February, and was accepted less than a week after her interview. It does happen. Keep up hope.
 
I'm really hoping that I hear tonight. (Interviewed 11/21).

I'm anxiously waiting. I know it's a long shot because that's such a quick turn around, but it would be great if I did.
 
Final_stretch_med said:
I'm really hoping that I hear tonight. (Interviewed 11/21).

I'm anxiously waiting. I know it's a long shot because that's such a quick turn around, but it would be great if I did.
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From previous admissions dates it seemed like calls would go out on Tuesday nights and then emails with rejections/alternate list decisions went out during the day on Wednesdays. I didn't hear anything last night or today so I'm hoping I just have to wait til next week.
 
HCMVresearcher said:
From previous admissions dates it seemed like calls would go out on Tuesday nights and then emails with rejections/alternate list decisions went out during the day on Wednesdays. I didn't hear anything last night or today so I'm hoping I just have to wait til next week.
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AHHHHH! That's super depressing. I was really hoping to hear today. Oh well. I've waited this long, so whats another couple of weeks (again, hopefully.)
 
Hold for interview...29/3.89 anyone think I have a chance here?
 
Literally haven't heard a word since I was complete in late August. Should I call? Lol anyone else in the same boat?
 
Can we call admissions to see if they reviewed our file in the most recent committee meeting?
 
UPchaps said:
Can we call admissions to see if they reviewed our file in the most recent committee meeting?
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I would suggest not doing that at all! They put so much information saying NOT to call because they won't know about it until the committee looks at it. Plus, they don't even want to hear from students until they are denied or alternate listed about their application status. They even said so in the interviews with us. So I would suggest to holding out until you hear something from them.
 
So, I've talked to a few people from my interview date, and every single one of them have heard already, whether it be waitlisted or rejected. We interviewed on 11/21. I haven't heard, but I know that they have a release date today. Is it safe to assume that I will be included in this one? I'm starting to get a little worried......
 
Final_stretch_med said:
So, I've talked to a few people from my interview date, and every single one of them have heard already, whether it be waitlisted or rejected. We interviewed on 11/21. I haven't heard, but I know that they have a release date today. Is it safe to assume that I will be included in this one? I'm starting to get a little worried......
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I interviewed 10/24 and I haven't heard yet.. Hopefully this week!
 
I'm gonna be checking my phone like crazy. The terrible part is that I'm in the middle of nowhere in Appalachia (visiting family) and the spotty cell service here leaves a bit to be desired--at least they'll leave a message if I miss it right?
 
HCMVresearcher said:
I'm gonna be checking my phone like crazy. The terrible part is that I'm in the middle of nowhere in Appalachia (visiting family) and the spotty cell service here leaves a bit to be desired--at least they'll leave a message if I miss it right?
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Yes! I missed my acceptance call and was left a voice message 🙂 Good luck!!
 
You and I both! It's getting closer and closer to their normal times and I'm getting neeeerrrrrvous!
 
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