2015-2016 Emory University Application Thread

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1. List your entire curriculum plan for the 2014-2015 academic year. If you are not currently in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year.

2. Briefly describe your health-related experiences. Be sure to include important experiences that are in your AMCAS application, as well as any recent experiences.

3. Briefly describe your interest in Emory and the Emory degree program you have selected

4. What do you consider to be the role of the physician in the community?

5. If you have any updates or new information to report since you have submitted your AMCAS primary application, please briefly describe below.

200 words each


Good luck to everyone applying! :luck:
 
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Applying here as well. I believe it's a reach for me as I stand at 3.7/33 but hoping to get some love from this school!
 
Does anyone know how many letters of recommendation they will accept? On their website it states that you have to send in three letters, but it does not clarify if you can send in more.
 
@bentonj002 They don't recommend sending in more than the 3 required, I think - "Applicants are not encouraged to send additional letters of recommendation; however, all letters submitted to the AMCAS Letter Service and released to Emory School of Medicine by the applicant will be received by the Office of Admissions"
 
Conversely:

"May I send additional letters of recommendations?
You may submit additional letters of recommendation, but keep in mind that the Admissions Committee may not be able to read an excessive amount of letters. Please limit additional letters to just a few."

Any previously successful applicants or current students have input/experience with sending >3 letters?
 
nih15hopeful said:
Conversely:

"May I send additional letters of recommendations?
You may submit additional letters of recommendation, but keep in mind that the Admissions Committee may not be able to read an excessive amount of letters. Please limit additional letters to just a few."

Any previously successful applicants or current students have input/experience with sending >3 letters?
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I'm applying this cycle so I don't have prior experience with Emory, but if they say "please limit additional letters to just a few" I would imagine it would be okay to send 4 or 5, but not any more than 5.
 
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panda16 said:
If our committee letter packet was required to have five letters, can we assume that's okay for Emory? i.e they won't penalize us because our school legit required us to have five before they would write our packet.
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Do you write inane questions because you're bored or because you are seriously curious ?

Edit to try and avoid the wrath of Colonel Sanders: you'll be fine
 
Jimmy Jones said:
Do you write inane questions because you're bored or because you are seriously curious ?

Edit to try and avoid the wrath of Colonel Sanders: you'll be fine
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*pretends to understand the Colonel Sanders reference*

I was just asking because I remember an advisor warning that another school actually did object to too many letters in a committee packet...although now I can't remember which one so probz doesn't matter
 
I'm trying to pre-write this secondary based on last year's prompts and I just had a question about one of them:

"List your entire curriculum plan for the 2014-2015 academic year. If you are not currently in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year."

I know my fall courses for sure and can list them, but I was wondering about spring courses. I only know about 1-2 courses that I am certainly taking in the spring, but I would have to make my best guess on the rest. I was wondering if its better to take my best guess and list those courses or if I should just list the courses I'm definitely going to take and say "Additional courses TBD" or something like that? Also how big of a deal is it if these courses change; I'm assuming we have to notify them of any changes but wondering if this would actually affect admission?

Thanks! Appreciate the help!
 
NJvincanity said:
I'm trying to pre-write this secondary based on last year's prompts and I just had a question about one of them:

"List your entire curriculum plan for the 2014-2015 academic year. If you are not currently in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year."

I know my fall courses for sure and can list them, but I was wondering about spring courses. I only know about 1-2 courses that I am certainly taking in the spring, but I would have to make my best guess on the rest. I was wondering if its better to take my best guess and list those courses or if I should just list the courses I'm definitely going to take and say "Additional courses TBD" or something like that? Also how big of a deal is it if these courses change; I'm assuming we have to notify them of any changes but wondering if this would actually affect admission?

Thanks! Appreciate the help!
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I just put down the courses I think I'm going to take. Maybe put a disclaimer on it like "courses subject to change due to potential schedule alternatives" or something.

Highly doubt it would affect admission unless it was a required prerequisite course. And even then they would probably just tell you to take it before matriculating.
 
nmusdposter said:
Did it come to the email address you used for your application?
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yup. If you haven't gotten it yet I wouldn't worry. Emory doesn't pre-screen so they're probably just slowly working their way through the whole pile of July 1st transmissions.
 
wanderyonder said:
yup. If you haven't gotten it yet I wouldn't worry. Emory doesn't pre-screen so they're probably just slowly working their way through the whole pile of July 1st transmissions.
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Emory actually does screen- nothing lower than 27 or 7 in one section
 
When did you submit your primary @wanderyonder? And do all of the verified primaries up to this point go out today or do they send them out in waves?
 
DrDorianTurkleton said:
When did you submit your primary @wanderyonder? And do all of the verified primaries up to this point go out today or do they send them out in waves?
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All AMCAS verified before July 1st should be sent out today. Whether they go out all in the morning or in waves throughout the day, I have no idea. But AMCAS says they should all go today. I did mine toward the beginning
 
I was verified 6/10 and haven't received a single secondary...hopefully they'll be coming soon!!
 
Cool! That's what I figured since I submitted 6/3, verified 6/12 and have not received anything from any of the schools. Granted my last cycle I didn't have to worry about this since I submitted wayyyyy too late but this time I get to be neurotic about when I get secondaries 😛
 
MarcyTweets said:
I was verified 6/10 and haven't received a single secondary...hopefully they'll be coming soon!!
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I was verified the 17th and have yet to receive any either, so I believe that there are more variables at play. Best of luck!
 
@Ismet

1. List your entire curriculum plan for the 2014-2015 academic year. If you are not currently in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year.

2. Briefly describe your health-related experiences. Be sure to include important experiences that are in your AMCAS application, as well as any recent experiences.

3. Briefly describe your interest in Emory and the Emory degree program you have selected

4. What do you consider to be the role of the physician in the community?

5. If you have any updates or new information to report since you have submitted your AMCAS primary application, please briefly describe below.

200 words each
 
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Also, in one section they ask you to list courses which fulfill their requirements. What do you guys think...list the minimum for each to show that I've met the reqs, or list everything which fulfills them?

Aka if it asks "Biology with lab (8hrs): Which courses fulfill this requirement? "
Do I list
BIO101, BIO102

or do I list

BIO101, BIO102, BIO201, BIO202, BIO301, BIO302, etc.?

I'm thinking the former, but just checking...
 
mehc012 said:
Also, in one section they ask you to list courses which fulfill their requirements. What do you guys think...list the minimum for each to show that I've met the reqs, or list everything which fulfills them?

Aka if it asks "Biology with lab (8hrs): Which courses fulfill this requirement? "
Do I list
BIO101, BIO102

or do I list

BIO101, BIO102, BIO201, BIO202, BIO301, BIO302, etc.?

I'm thinking the former, but just checking...
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Just do the minimum
 
mehc012 said:
Also, in one section they ask you to list courses which fulfill their requirements. What do you guys think...list the minimum for each to show that I've met the reqs, or list everything which fulfills them?

Aka if it asks "Biology with lab (8hrs): Which courses fulfill this requirement? "
Do I list
BIO101, BIO102

or do I list

BIO101, BIO102, BIO201, BIO202, BIO301, BIO302, etc.?

I'm thinking the former, but just checking...
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I agree. The former. Make it easier for them!
 
So they request a PROFESSIONAL photo to be uploaded, and do you guys think a photo taken in business casual will be fine? Literally this is my passport photo.
 
mehc012 said:
1. List your entire curriculum plan for the 2014-2015 academic year. If you are not currently in school, please briefly describe your plans for the coming year.
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Is this a typo or do they want to know what we did this past year? I'm guessing typo...
 
Also... do you guys think there's any point in submitting the secondary if the letters are not in yet? Maybe it shows Emory I care about them, a lot? My school has been notoriously slow this year and none of my letters are up 🙁
 
ejay19955 said:
Also... do you guys think there's any point in submitting the secondary if the letters are not in yet? Maybe it shows Emory I care about them, a lot? My school has been notoriously slow this year and none of my letters are up 🙁
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No, I don't think so. They won't review your application until all your materials are in. Unless Emory gives interviews without requiring all the materials (which I've heard happens at some places). Anyone know anything about this?
 
wanderyonder said:
No, I don't think so. They won't review your application until all your materials are in. Unless Emory gives interviews without requiring all the materials (which I've heard happens at some places). Anyone know anything about this?
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I was wondering the same thing. I'm waiting on a committee letter from my school, which they won't send until early August (I really do wish the committee would think about meeting earlier in application cycle, given that they require all of our materials before 5/1).
 
For the curriculum question, are you guys strictly writing down only what classes you're going to be taking for the upcoming year? Or are you writing down what you're going to be doing as well (i.e. extracurriculars, research, etc.)
 
Hum. When they say "health-related" do you think they mean professional/volunteer/shadowing/whatever experience and your own experiences as a patient or caregiver? Or just professional ones?
 
coatiboti said:
Hum. When they say "health-related" do you think they mean professional/volunteer/shadowing/whatever experience and your own experiences as a patient or caregiver? Or just professional ones?
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I'm sure it can be interpreted either way, but given the short word limit, I would me more inclined to focus on the former type of experiences you mention.
 
For those selecting MD/MPH or MD/MA, do you know if you can put something in the extra essay box as filler and go back and change it later? I want to spend some quality time with the "Please describe your interest in public health and how you wish to combine this interest with a career in medicine (500 words or less)" question but still be able to see the rest of the application.
 
Not to be too neurotic, but if I was verified 6/2 (36/3.86) and still haven't received the secondary do you think its worth emailing them, or should I wait a couple more days?
 
tiger330 said:
Not to be too neurotic, but if I was verified 6/2 (36/3.86) and still haven't received the secondary do you think its worth emailing them, or should I wait a couple more days?
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I was actually doubting whether I had selected Emory on my primary and since AMCAS is acting up I can't check. Thank God someone else hasn't gotten it.
 
@tiger330 @Dr. Retractor AMCAS just started to send out primary applications to medical schools yesterday... I do not think it is time to worry yet... I definitely would not email the school
 
For the curriculum plan question, did you guys just write a list of the classes you're expecting to take, or did you write a "plan" in essay format that includes your expected schedule?
 
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