2014-2015 Stony Brook University Application Thread

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I didn't get my FA package until June, so although I know this is an inconvenience in terms of picking a school, they do it for a purpose. If you're really interested in getting an estimate, you can contact the financial aid office.
 
If anyone's planning to attend SB, I'm a 1st year and can answer any questions you may have! I'm on YouTube and have a car channel. Here's a link to a video log..



It's probably easier to get a hold of me on YouTube by commenting on the video. Best of luck to those who are still waiting to hear back!
 
Interviewed here a few days ago. Everyone was fun and chill. Had some interesting conversations during the interviews.
Now the wait begins...
 
10 weeks and 1 day later... waitlist. Pretty disappointed but I guess theres still a slim chance. Que sera, sera
 
So is it the case that people who get in find out sooner than people who get rejected or waitlisted?
 
Falconclaw said:
So is it the case that people who get in find out sooner than people who get rejected or waitlisted?
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The general trend looks like yes, but yanksfan received an acceptance later than others who interviewed on the same day. Since there's at least one exception, I would say the timelines don't matter when expecting positive/negative news.
 
Falconclaw said:
So is it the case that people who get in find out sooner than people who get rejected or waitlisted?
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ShowandTell said:
The general trend looks like yes, but yanksfan received an acceptance later than others who interviewed on the same day. Since there's at least one exception, I would say the timelines don't matter when expecting positive/negative news.
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Yup I interviewed on December 2 but didn't get accepted until February 13. So dot think too much into the wait, you just never know with the arbitrary medical school process. Remain calm and have hope that you did everything you could to get accepted. Hopefully its all good news.
 
Does anyone know if the class has been filled already?
 
What's the financial aid process here? I didn't put parental information on FAFSA because other schools require NeedAccess.org.
 
Received a Financial Application Letter
"Dear Accepted Student,
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Stony Brook School of Medicine entering class of 2015!
Attached are two documents you need to complete if you are applying for financial aid:
· Credit Policy Statement
· 2015-16 Institutional Application for Aid
...."

Interviewed 2/20.Have not received an official acceptance letter yet. Does this letter mean that I am accepted?? Or does the admission office send it by mistake??

(almost had a heart attack!)
 
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won'tstop said:
Received a Financial Application Letter
"Dear Accepted Student,
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Stony Brook School of Medicine entering class of 2015!
Attached are two documents you need to complete if you are applying for financial aid:
· Credit Policy Statement
· 2015-16 Institutional Application for Aid
...."

Interviewed 2/20. Have not received an office acceptance letter yet. Does this letter mean that I am accepted?? Or does the admission office send it by mistake??

(almost had a heart attack!)
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I received the same email. Just called admissions and they confirmed my acceptance. The financial aid office sent the email early. You should be getting an email from the office later today! Congrats!
 
won'tstop said:
Received a Financial Application Letter
"Dear Accepted Student,
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Stony Brook School of Medicine entering class of 2015!
Attached are two documents you need to complete if you are applying for financial aid:
· Credit Policy Statement
· 2015-16 Institutional Application for Aid
...."

Interviewed 2/20.Have not received an official acceptance letter yet. Does this letter mean that I am accepted?? Or does the admission office send it by mistake??

(almost had a heart attack!)
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@won'tstop Got the same email and felt confused as well due to the generic greeting. In any case, you are accepted and congrats!
c4thy said:
I received the same email. Just called admissions and they confirmed my acceptance. The financial aid office sent the email early. You should be getting an email from the office later today! Congrats!
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After replying to the email, they confirmed my acceptance. Now it is time to figure out this financial aid and housing situation.

Anybody set for the 2nd look?
 
Accepted yesterday by email! Interviewed 2/17. IS. Congratulations to everybody who's already been accepted and good luck to those still hanging in there!
 
tdubst said:
@won'tstop Got the same email and felt confused as well due to the generic greeting. In any case, you are accepted and congrats!


After replying to the email, they confirmed my acceptance. Now it is time to figure out this financial aid and housing situation.

Anybody set for the 2nd look?
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Ill be there for 2nd look.
 
On the monthly rent line in the financial aid application, would that determine the cost of living budget the school would submit to FAFSA? Or do they submit the same cost of attendance budget for all students?
 
For all the people accepted, first off, CONGRATS, and were you IS or OOS? I interviewed 2/12. No word yet
 
g-baby said:
For all the people accepted, first off, CONGRATS, and were you IS or OOS? I interviewed 2/12. No word yet
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Oos. It might just be your interviewers are still out for spring break and have not met with the committee yet!😉
 
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c4thy said:
I received the same email. Just called admissions and they confirmed my acceptance. The financial aid office sent the email early. You should be getting an email from the office later today! Congrats!
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what a way to find out! congrats
 
This year I happen to have been fortunate enough to have gotten into more than one medical school. I have it narrowed down to SUNY Upstate or SUNY Stony Brook but I’m having a tough time making the final decision. I have a couple of questions for current medical students or recent grads, and any insight into what would make Stony Brook a better (or worse) fit would be greatly appreciated.

A little bit about me first: I’m a non-trad, married and have an 18 month old son. I work as a paramedic and paramedic instructor, spent 4 years in the military and have completed a Master’s Degree in biomedical sciences. My greatest interest lies in emergency medicine. I am IS and plan to use my post-9/11 GI bill to pay for school, so cost is not a major concern. Research is not a major interest of mine, but I might be interested in clinical research in EM.

Here are my questions:

1. How do you like the new curriculum? Pros? Cons?

2. How are the clinical rotations? Strengths? Weaknesses?

3. How are the faculty? Are there any really great/inspiring faculty members? Any lackluster ones?

4. How are/were your classmates? Are they mostly right out of undergrad or are there a lot with diverse experiences outside of academia?

5. Any benefits or drawbacks of being at a medical school associated with a larger university as opposed to being at a stand-alone medical school?

6. Any other thoughts or opinions that might help me make the decision?

I really appreciate any advice you can provide. Thank you!
 
WarrenH said:
This year I happen to have been fortunate enough to have gotten into more than one medical school. I have it narrowed down to SUNY Upstate or SUNY Stony Brook but I’m having a tough time making the final decision. I have a couple of questions for current medical students or recent grads, and any insight into what would make Stony Brook a better (or worse) fit would be greatly appreciated.

A little bit about me first: I’m a non-trad, married and have an 18 month old son. I work as a paramedic and paramedic instructor, spent 4 years in the military and have completed a Master’s Degree in biomedical sciences. My greatest interest lies in emergency medicine. I am IS and plan to use my post-9/11 GI bill to pay for school, so cost is not a major concern. Research is not a major interest of mine, but I might be interested in clinical research in EM.

Here are my questions:

1. How do you like the new curriculum? Pros? Cons?

2. How are the clinical rotations? Strengths? Weaknesses?

3. How are the faculty? Are there any really great/inspiring faculty members? Any lackluster ones?

4. How are/were your classmates? Are they mostly right out of undergrad or are there a lot with diverse experiences outside of academia?

5. Any benefits or drawbacks of being at a medical school associated with a larger university as opposed to being at a stand-alone medical school?

6. Any other thoughts or opinions that might help me make the decision?

I really appreciate any advice you can provide. Thank you!
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MS1 here. Will give my opinions. You should PM the other students in this thread if you haven't already.

1) New curriculum was a little tough at first since we are the first class at SBU to go through it. It's very fast-paced and challenging. Some courses are better than others. At this point, we first years are pretty accustomed to it and have more or less settled in. The cons can be summarized by a long post somewhere earlier in this thread--be aware that this represents a pretty negative view in my opinion. Overall, when you shorten a 2 year preclinical curriculum into 1.5 yrs it becomes a grind and this is true for any school with such a curriculum. The pro is that we have 6 more months of clinical years. This means more time in the clinic working with real patients and doctors and not being buried in your books in the library. Also, more time for electives, research and away rotations, all three of which are arguably extremely important for not only figuring out what you want to do but for improving your residency placement. I strongly believe that the pros will outweigh the cons once my class graduates and looks back.

2) I cannot comment on this as I am only a first year.

3)There are both lackluster as well as inspiring faculty members. One on one, every teacher is excellent. If you meet with a professor to discuss your specific questions about the material, you will see that his/her knowledge is very impressive and he/she will be very helpful. In a lecture setting, unfortunately, this doesn't hold true for everyone. A majority of my teachers were good but there were a select few whose classes I preferred not to attend. Even in your pre-clinical years you will interact with physicians and not just lecturers for the purposes of shadowing, research or maybe something else. I have found most physicians that I have interacted with thus far to be very inspiring people. They are definitely role models for me.

4) my classmates are one of the best if not the best parts of my med school experience. We're all friendly with one another and very supportive. the split is roughly 50/50 with traditional vs non-traditional. Half are 22/23 while many have other experiences such as time off, career changes, some are married and a couple of students have children.

5) I can only see benefits in being a medical school associated with a larger university. In fact, I find it difficult to name many medical schools that are stand alone. With a larger university, there's often more funding for research and I would imagine there's a larger amount of faculty in all the disciplines. Being a large university, SBU is very well recognized and respected in the long island area. We're also Suffolk county's only tertiary care and level 1 trauma center. That is, we have the specialists that primary and secondary care providers refer to and we treat the most critically ill patients within a large area of the island. This is not to say that other medical schools lack these features, but being part of a large university system seems to be a good thing in my opinion.

6) I would think we are a good choice if you know you're very interested in EM. Partly for reasons above (see 5) and also because our intro to clinical medicine course director is an emergency medicine physician. Shadowing and getting involved in the EM department should be very easy for you. I'm a bit biased being a student here so definitely get more opinions from other MS1s at both SBU and upstate. Most important advice is you'll be fine at either school, there's no wrong choice.

Hope this helped
 
WarrenH said:
This year I happen to have been fortunate enough to have gotten into more than one medical school. I have it narrowed down to SUNY Upstate or SUNY Stony Brook but I’m having a tough time making the final decision. I have a couple of questions for current medical students or recent grads, and any insight into what would make Stony Brook a better (or worse) fit would be greatly appreciated.

A little bit about me first: I’m a non-trad, married and have an 18 month old son. I work as a paramedic and paramedic instructor, spent 4 years in the military and have completed a Master’s Degree in biomedical sciences. My greatest interest lies in emergency medicine. I am IS and plan to use my post-9/11 GI bill to pay for school, so cost is not a major concern. Research is not a major interest of mine, but I might be interested in clinical research in EM.

Here are my questions:

1. How do you like the new curriculum? Pros? Cons?

2. How are the clinical rotations? Strengths? Weaknesses?

3. How are the faculty? Are there any really great/inspiring faculty members? Any lackluster ones?

4. How are/were your classmates? Are they mostly right out of undergrad or are there a lot with diverse experiences outside of academia?

5. Any benefits or drawbacks of being at a medical school associated with a larger university as opposed to being at a stand-alone medical school?

6. Any other thoughts or opinions that might help me make the decision?

I really appreciate any advice you can provide. Thank you!
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If you're interested in EM, stony brook has a great program and matches well every year. Check out EMCrit podcasts, the creator, Dr. Weingart is a SB physician. Good luck in your decision
 
Anyone know when we should expect to get our Financial Aid Award letter?
 
sbu 2018 student said:
MS1 here. Will give my opinions. You should PM the other students in this thread if you haven't already.

1) New curriculum was a little tough at first since we are the first class at SBU to go through it. It's very fast-paced and challenging. Some courses are better than others. At this point, we first years are pretty accustomed to it and have more or less settled in. The cons can be summarized by a long post somewhere earlier in this thread--be aware that this represents a pretty negative view in my opinion. Overall, when you shorten a 2 year preclinical curriculum into 1.5 yrs it becomes a grind and this is true for any school with such a curriculum. The pro is that we have 6 more months of clinical years. This means more time in the clinic working with real patients and doctors and not being buried in your books in the library. Also, more time for electives, research and away rotations, all three of which are arguably extremely important for not only figuring out what you want to do but for improving your residency placement. I strongly believe that the pros will outweigh the cons once my class graduates and looks back.

2) I cannot comment on this as I am only a first year.

3)There are both lackluster as well as inspiring faculty members. One on one, every teacher is excellent. If you meet with a professor to discuss your specific questions about the material, you will see that his/her knowledge is very impressive and he/she will be very helpful. In a lecture setting, unfortunately, this doesn't hold true for everyone. A majority of my teachers were good but there were a select few whose classes I preferred not to attend. Even in your pre-clinical years you will interact with physicians and not just lecturers for the purposes of shadowing, research or maybe something else. I have found most physicians that I have interacted with thus far to be very inspiring people. They are definitely role models for me.

4) my classmates are one of the best if not the best parts of my med school experience. We're all friendly with one another and very supportive. the split is roughly 50/50 with traditional vs non-traditional. Half are 22/23 while many have other experiences such as time off, career changes, some are married and a couple of students have children.

5) I can only see benefits in being a medical school associated with a larger university. In fact, I find it difficult to name many medical schools that are stand alone. With a larger university, there's often more funding for research and I would imagine there's a larger amount of faculty in all the disciplines. Being a large university, SBU is very well recognized and respected in the long island area. We're also Suffolk county's only tertiary care and level 1 trauma center. That is, we have the specialists that primary and secondary care providers refer to and we treat the most critically ill patients within a large area of the island. This is not to say that other medical schools lack these features, but being part of a large university system seems to be a good thing in my opinion.

6) I would think we are a good choice if you know you're very interested in EM. Partly for reasons above (see 5) and also because our intro to clinical medicine course director is an emergency medicine physician. Shadowing and getting involved in the EM department should be very easy for you. I'm a bit biased being a student here so definitely get more opinions from other MS1s at both SBU and upstate. Most important advice is you'll be fine at either school, there's no wrong choice.

Hope this helped
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Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions!
 
How was the match list this year? Is it public? Can some existing students help and provide some information...Thanx in advance.
 
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Vaccinator said:
How was the match list this year? Is it public? Can some existing students help and provide some information...Thanx in advance.
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sorry for the weird formatting, this was the best I could do.
 
I interviewed Feb 6, still haven't heard back, any chance that it'll be good news? Not the most intelligent question I know but what can I say haha
 
Interviewed around a month ago, waitlisted today :penguin:
 
High priority wait list. based on the wording of the email, it made it sound like it's quite likely il get in. what do you guys know about this? around what time do people who get in from the HPA find out?
 
Falconclaw said:
High priority wait list. based on the wording of the email, it made it sound like it's quite likely il get in. what do you guys know about this? around what time do people who get in from the HPA find out?
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When I applied 2 years ago the HPWL was exhausted by the last week of May.
 
Sorry if I missed this...do we know what movement from the regular waitlist looks like?
 
I wasn't even aware there was a HPWL. Oh well. I'm just a regular. Feels bad, man.
 
Anyone else choosing between here and downstate?
 
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