No problem! I'll call Monday if no one can settle by then! I just need to know if I need to stay on top of parents or roommates. Neither are great about not throwing mail into some pile to be worried about later, if ever to be seen again.
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2014-2015 SUNY Downstate Application Thread
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My mom just kind of threw it down on the table...BTW its a small envelope...so don't freak out when you get it. When I saw it was like oh gawd rejection..and read it with one eye closed haha
Crucial info right there. I def would've waited for someone else to rush home with wine before opening a small envelope...thanks!
Also accepted today, letter came to my preferred mailing address, not my permanent one. Interviewed first half of September, OOS. Hope this helps
First acceptance!! It came to my preferred address 🙂
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+4. First acceptance! IS, received on Friday via snail mail, 10/24, interviewed early September. Relieved. Happy. So grateful to have one so early in the cycle.
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This guy right here. I'm trying not to over analyze it..."trying" being the key word.
I did a good job putting it out of my mind for a while. But now I am starting to over analyze it. I'm trying to tell myself it's because I live a ways a way that the mail may just be slow. As days go by, that is becoming a less comforting argument.
Congrats everyone accepted! When were you guys complete after the secondary?
I feel like so many qualified IS friends of mine haven't heard anything since July... So I want to figure out if this is chronological or random...
I feel like so many qualified IS friends of mine haven't heard anything since July... So I want to figure out if this is chronological or random...
Accepted! Awesome news after a 10 hr work day. Don't give up the hope yet, I interviewed 9/15 and others after that date were notified before me. I live very close to the school, so I assumed I was a hold/reject, but was pleasantly surprised tonight. LizzyM 70-75.
Conplete Mid July.... Lizzy M 68-70, IS, and a solid application with interviews from upstate..einstein..albany... Idk why Downstate is ignoring my app- its my #1 choice 🙁
Any advice?
Any advice?
On my interview they seemed to place a big emphasis on commitment to service and experience working with underserved communities. Are there ways you could get more involved volunteering with underserved communities and then write about them in an update letter? Once you write the letter, you also state why you're so interested in the school. Otherwise, it's just a big crapshoot sometimes. It seems like people can be highly qualified for 10 schools but only get interviews from a handful of them.
Just curious...Are acceptances sent by email, postal mail or a phone call? Or a combination of these?
Thanks! I got an II after all. Any recommendations of how to prepare for this interview? Is there a writing sample?
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Congratulations! I think it was a really pleasant interview and it sounds like on the thread that that's been the general experience. The questions (for me) were straightforward and all things that I had prepared to answer by reading about "common interview questions." So just the normal things--know your application, be curious about the school, and try to relax. There was a writing sample that was really no big deal...there's no way to prepare for it but it wasn't tricky or anything.
They're nowhere near done sending out interviews. Downstate has a long interview season. 🙂
Thanks for the resassuring words! Do you know if it would do me any good to send an update letter prior to any interview offers? Or should I hold onto the update letter in case I want to send it post-interview. I haven't heard from them for more than 2 months now.
It's cute that downstate uses snail mail to send out acceptances (makes it more special?)
Do we treat this like undergrad in that a heavy letter packet means acceptance and a small thin envelope = rejection? Just curious 🙂
Do we treat this like undergrad in that a heavy letter packet means acceptance and a small thin envelope = rejection? Just curious 🙂
The acceptance was a small, thin envelope. As far as I know, I think they only mail out acceptances..?
Does anyone happen to know what the maximum number of individual letter of recommendations SUNY Downstate accepts?
I don't really know, to be honest. If it's a substantial update, go ahead and send it, I'd say, but that's my personal opinion - I don't have much more information as to how the admissions office works than you guys do, apart from some timing details.
Honestly took me 5 minutes. Not something to worry about.
Also just got the hold status, LizzyM 70
Hold here as well. Complete: early Oct. Lizzy m: 68-73. IS.
With all these holds I'm getting nervous. Does anyone mind sharing if they are IS or OOS?
With all these holds when I received this one I was like
If it's meant to be then it'll happen. 🙂
Put on hold this morning. IS complete early July
I was complete Late August.
If you received a hold post-interview please post your interview date
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