Hey @BABSstudent how long do they wait to send secondaries to OOS students? Also in MSAR it looked like the % of OOS has risen for UW. Is that the really the case? Hope to get some OOS love!
Not sure about confirming residency though..
@BABSstudent thank you so much for all your advice! I've been reading last years forum and you are super helpful
I was wondering if you had any idea when UW starts sending out Secondaries for IS students?
Also, what is the process for confirming residency and how long does it take?
Thanks for your help!! It's my dream school and I'm so excited to be applying!!!
I have 24 hours. I liked shadowing but was told there was a diminishing return after a while and to seek out patient contact experience over just shadowing. I know for most schools 24 hours is fine, but bummer I didn't see that for UW
Not everyone's personal statement perfectly lines up with their prompt so some people have more to write about. If you feel like you absolutely cannot come up with something new to write about, don't fret. Take a few more days to try to figure something out. UW doesn't do online payments for the secondary fee so you have the whole snail mail and processing time to finish up stuff. That means write, read and then rewrite!
I just saw the required hours of shadowing
Good to know! I'll call them then!
Trying to pre-write the secondary but really struggling with the second prompt:
anyone have any advice?
- How do you imagine your personal and professional lives intersecting 10 years from now?
Trying to pre-write the secondary but really struggling with the second prompt:
anyone have any advice?
- How do you imagine your personal and professional lives intersecting 10 years from now?
Well, it looks like they finally changed the secondary essays. I will update my original post with the new prompt for the additional short essays. Luckily, it only seems like one of the questions has been changed. This question may have been eliminated, but I definitely recommend to keep thinking about it because this is a question brought up in interviews. So I will still answer it even though this may not be a question this year on the secondary.
UW is definitely my top choice!
Honestly, I am jealous of the people that get the new curriculum. Classroom time shortened to 1.5 years, more clinical experience from the beginning, neuro clerkship moved to third year from the normal fourth, and all the classes will be intertwined together. For example, no longer will you learn about the heart over the course of classes spaced over two years like we do now where we take anatomy, then the next quarter histology, then two quarters later the cardio and pharmacology course. In the new curriculum, you will just take all them together and only deal with the aspects that are important for that system. That just sounds so more logical than how we do it now. Sure, the classes will be tougher but I think it makes much more sense to do it this was for the retention purposes.Any idea how the new curriculum is shaping up? I've been liking what I've seen on the website so far! Any insight is welcome
There definitely is some overlap in my PS and experiences, but when there was an overlap, I made sure I was covering it from a different angle, or going more in depth.
The primary applications haven't even been sent to the schools yet! That happens tomorrow, so you may have a little while to wait before people respond.
Although for admission purposes, WWAMI residents count as IS, I believe the stats AAMC uses only counts Washington residents as IS. So the OOS stats are artificially high on MSAR.
This is correct, but you have to subtract the other WAMI places from that and you end up with like, 35 OOS students. This more correctly represents the people that were in my Seattle class (out of 100, there were like 20+ OOS students with even more MD/PhD people from out of the area), like @persumas stated.
If you fit their mission statement, you have a good chance of getting in. It's the same at all medical schools. That's why you should only apply to schools after doing some research on them. I learned my lesson the hard way too (I applied to Howard University).
The prompts for the autobio from UCSD and UW are somewhat different. UCSD asks you to talk about anything related to you, your family, starting from childhood until now. UW asks for events which have driven you towards medicine. I would be careful with reusing the same autobio without editing.
I feel like they have the support of all of Eastern Washington, not just Spokane. University of Washington has really been dragging their feet in establishing a medical campus there that adequately supports their needs. I am still under the impression that WSU's desire to have a medical school is beneficial because it forces UW to move faster to actually do their job. Don't take this as support that there should be a medical school in Spokane run by WSU. I am still under the impression that it would be more beneficial for all if UW ran the school and just increased the number of seats (no more administration costs and you still have the rank/curriculum set up that works for residency). This seems much more doable with the new curriculum that is starting since everyone will do their second year at their first year campus.
