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2014-2015 New York University Application Thread
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Sort of new to this, but does an "in the area" email basically ask for a decision from the admissions committee cuz you'll be interviewing in that area for another place? Could this also be done through a phone call?
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Yeah...basically you're asking them to look at your app faster--it's pretty nice of schools to actually do this haha. I'm sure you could call as well but I would imagine that emails are nice because then they can refer back to the email to see the dates you'll be in the area. We've got a list going of which schools are receptive.
I think it depends of your wording. I basically said, "hey if you decide to invite me for an interview, I'm here these dates and would appreciate it if I could schedule my interview for while I'm in town!"
Also, I'm getting so so so so excited to visit NYU in a few days!!!! Is anyone interviewing on Monday?
Sweet! I think that as long as it is worded well, the worst thing they could say is no!
I am!! I'm actually on my plane to New York right now and it has wifi lol. So excited!
NO SUNFLOWER NOOOO. I'm interviewing on Tuesday. I was THIS CLOSE to meeting you in person 🙁
NOOOOOO!!!!! Change it!!!! I'm actually really disappointed about that aaargh!!! 🙁 🙁 although if we were on the same day, my app might get more directly compared to yours... That wouldn't turn out well for me!
Ugh well now I'm just thoroughly upset. I would have worn a wreath of sunflowers in my hair to celebrate the occasion.
Ugh well now I'm just thoroughly upset. I would have worn a wreath of sunflowers in my hair to celebrate the occasion.
Oh my god haha that would have made my entire life so much better!!! Dangit!!! Maybe we will cross paths someday....
Definitely true. You're an application goddess. But here's to hoping that we don't both fail senior year from missing so much school hahaha 👍
Who else got that "fake" interview email
I LOVED MY INTERVIEW HERE. I knew NYU was awesome going in but oh my god. It was beautiful and amazing and wonderful. Everyone seemed really great and ahhhh wow. I'm thoroughly impressed, and I can't wait until December!
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Wait, what happened?
Wait what?!
How do you know it was an accident? Did they send a follow up apology email?
Oh man..... That's rough. I'm so sorry!
NYU sounds great - I'm happy to be visiting there very, very soon!
After doing an MMI, do you agree with NYU's advice that you can't really prepare for that kind of interview? Are there any preparations you wish you could have done or will do before a future MMI interview?
Dang, first they accidentally gave certain applicants a "Rejected Status" on their profiles, and now this? Man, that's really rough.
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I hope you love it!!! 🙂
Ummm yeah, I think it'd be hard to prepare. I think it's good to have a working knowledge of appropriate medical ethics and be able to concisely organise and communicate your thoughts. But that's all I can think of.
Does everyone who gets an interview get an email from the Office of Diversity Affairs sometime before their actual interview?
Strange. I wonder what group of applicants was sent the error II.
Yes, I believe so.
Me too!!! This school stole my heart in a day. I cannot believe how great it was. Good luck I'm hoping we hear great news in a few months 🙂
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Did you get a formal rejection?
Completely concur with those who interviewed before me: NYU is awesome. Also, I highly recommend staying with a student host if you can -- mine was super helpful, accommodating, and informative. It also helps that their med student housing is essentially a 3 second walk from the admissions building (3 seconds if you're in Greenberg, 15 seconds if you're in Vilcek).
Does anyone know how NYU grades its students? I know that they do pass/fail, but does anyone know if they have stuff like honors vs. regular passing?
They give one preclinical honor grade to the student who got the highest score over all 18 months. Other than that, it's P/F.
Congrats!! When were you complete?
Do you mind sharing stats and complete date? Congrats.
Interesting. Perhaps the fake IIs went out to people who were ultimately going to be getting one anyway. Congrats!
Unfortunately, I think it's worse than this.
Per this document: http://webdoc.nyumc.org/nyumc/files/studentaffairs/u9/Alpha_Omega_Alpha_Medical_Honor_Society.pdf
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The preclinical curriculum at the NYU School of Medicine is graded and recorded by the Office
of Registration and Student Records on a pass/fail basis. In order to inform discussion of students
for election to membership in AOA, the Office, at the conclusion of each curricular module, asks
each module director for a list of the students who performed in the top quarter of the class for
that particular unit of study.
Students are assigned a number of weighted "points" that correspond to the number of
times he or she appears in the high-performance group for each module. Those points, divided by
the total number of points possible for any one student to achieve, constitute a "pre-clinical
percentage."
(emphasis mine)
Thus, NYU is seemingly a "fake" P/F school in that it does give honors (of a sort) to the top 25%. In my opinion, this greatly decreases the utility of the p/f grading scheme.
That was what I was afraid of. I'm not sure how I feel about pre-clinical grades.
EDIT: But it also seems like grades might only be used to determine selection into the AOA.
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I agree. And so the question becomes, does AOA membership matter?
What do residency directors think of AOA membership? Are clinical grades still much more important?
Hmm, weird. I was directly quoting what the dean told us in her presentation this week. Maybe they've changed it, because she very strongly emphasised that it was entirely P/F other than that one student.
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I'll make sure to bring up AOA membership when I'm there later this month. It's possible that the document I referenced is out of date.
That'd be great!! Please report back what they say!
Did they apologize at all about the initial false interview, or was the email they sent inviting you practically the same?
Sure, 3.77/38, complete 8/1 (submitted secondary ~7/17, LOR processing delayed completion).
The email they sent this time around was identical. Here's the error email they sent following up the fake II email:
NYU said:
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