2015-2016 University of Nebraska Application Thread

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Hey everyone! I'm thinking we should all say whether we are in-state (IS) or out-of-state (OOS), what our LizzyM score is (GPA*10 + MCAT), and if we're applying regular or early decision. That way those prospective applicants for the next cycle have something to hold on to when deciding if they should apply. I'll start this one off!

IS, LizzyM ~70.3, early decision

Can't wait to get this application cycle started (and over with). Happy applying everyone!
 
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HEY EVERYONE! Incoming M1 here, let me know if anybody needs a place to stay for interviews or has questions. I hardly get on here anymore, but hopefully my app would let me know if someone PMs me or not. If someone wants to send me a test PM I would appreciate it 😛
 
HCHopeful is the bomb dot com.

If you guys PM me, I will get an email in my private email account. Quoting my posts will not do that I think, so you can still quote me, but if you want me to respond, shoot me a PM. I am more than happy to help, I just don't get on here a lot anymore. Busy with other stuff.
 
musicalscientists said:
LizzyM is 70.1.

I'm an OOS applicant, but I went to school at Creighton. I guess they like ties to Nebraska, and I knew many Creighton people who received interviews despite being OOS.
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Ahh finally another applicant! Yeah, going to college in Nebraska is often seen as a large enough tie! I'm guessing you'll be doing regular decision?
 
HCHopeful said:
Ahh finally another applicant! Yeah, going to college in Nebraska is often seen as a large enough tie! I'm guessing you'll be doing regular decision?
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Yup! You're spot on.

This is, objectively, a pretty fantastic school! Had a job interview in 2013 that I just barely lucked out on. I was pretty gutted... I would've been doing pancreatic cancer research with a former Scripps PI. Blast!
 
musicalscientists said:
Yup! You're spot on.

This is, objectively, a pretty fantastic school! Had a job interview in 2013 that I just barely lucked out on. I was pretty gutted... I would've been doing pancreatic cancer research with a former Scripps PI. Blast!
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That does sound like a heartbreaker. Hopefully this time there's a better result. Good luck during the cycle!
 
73.8 LizzyM score applying EDP. I'm from Nebraska, lived here pretty much all of my life, and would like to continue to! I will also be graduating from UNL.
 
JT522 said:
73.8 LizzyM score applying EDP. I'm from Nebraska, lived here pretty much all of my life, and would like to continue to! I will also be graduating from UNL.
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I assume you went to SMDEP @ UNMC in 2013?

Glad to hear you are applying EDP! Always awesome to hear of those wanting to stay in Nebraska like myself!
 
JT522 said:
73.8 LizzyM score applying EDP. I'm from Nebraska, lived here pretty much all of my life, and would like to continue to! I will also be graduating from UNL.
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Sounds like you'd be a good fit for EDP assuming your other affairs are in line. When in doubt, or even if there isn't doubt, I'd suggest to meet with Gigi and see what her opinions are of you applying EDP. She will give you an honest answer. If there is anything outside of your numbers that may make you a slightly less than fantastic EDP candidate, you are doing yourself a big disservice by applying EDP. Like I said, based on numbers you seem like a good EDP candidate, however.

Gigi is seriously fantastic in her willingness to meet with prospective applicants and giving them the over under... if anybody else is reading through this in the future and only takes one thing from this thread, I hope it is that.
 
baxt1412 said:
Sounds like you'd be a good fit for EDP assuming your other affairs are in line. When in doubt, or even if there isn't doubt, I'd suggest to meet with Gigi and see what her opinions are of you applying EDP. She will give you an honest answer. If there is anything outside of your numbers that may make you a slightly less than fantastic EDP candidate, you are doing yourself a big disservice by applying EDP. Like I said, based on numbers you seem like a good EDP candidate, however.

Gigi is seriously fantastic in her willingness to meet with prospective applicants and giving them the over under... if anybody else is reading through this in the future and only takes one thing from this thread, I hope it is that.
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Dr. Hill was very helpful for me during a phone meeting I had with him. Told me what they generally look for and if it was a wise idea for me to go the EDP route. If ever Gigi is busy, I highly recommend Dr. Hill. He is always more than willing to help out prospective applicants with questions.
 
HCHopeful said:
Dr. Hill was very helpful for me during a phone meeting I had with him. Told me what they generally look for and if it was a wise idea for me to go the EDP route. If ever Gigi is busy, I highly recommend Dr. Hill. He is always more than willing to help out prospective applicants with questions.
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I also met with Dr. Hill. He did let me know that since he met with me that he would have to recuse himself from voting on my application, however the advice is irreplaceable.
 
baxt1412 said:
I also met with Dr. Hill. He did let me know that since he met with me that he would have to recuse himself from voting on my application, however the advice is irreplaceable.
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Hmm. I wonder if that will be the case since we talked on the phone. He didn't mention anything of the sort.

Also, did Gigi actually ever say, "You shouldn't apply early decision" or "You should..."? Just out of curiosity. Most admissions people are pretty vague because they don't want to give false hope.
 
HCHopeful said:
I assume you went to SMDEP @ UNMC in 2013?

Glad to hear you are applying EDP! Always awesome to hear of those wanting to stay in Nebraska like myself!
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Yep! SMDEP was a great experience.

baxt1412 said:
Sounds like you'd be a good fit for EDP assuming your other affairs are in line. When in doubt, or even if there isn't doubt, I'd suggest to meet with Gigi and see what her opinions are of you applying EDP. She will give you an honest answer. If there is anything outside of your numbers that may make you a slightly less than fantastic EDP candidate, you are doing yourself a big disservice by applying EDP. Like I said, based on numbers you seem like a good EDP candidate, however.

Gigi is seriously fantastic in her willingness to meet with prospective applicants and giving them the over under... if anybody else is reading through this in the future and only takes one thing from this thread, I hope it is that.
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I met with Gigi at UNL back in March and asked for her thoughts, she told me everything looked great but I was low on clinical hours. I know they're big on that. Since then though I have upped my shadowing hours to around 110 and started volunteering at a free clinic and will have ~35 hours by the time I submit. My clinical volunteering is definitely my weakness but I chose to get very involved in on campus organizations and that limited my time.
 
JT522 said:
Yep! SMDEP was a great experience.



I met with Gigi at UNL back in March and asked for her thoughts, she told me everything looked great but I was low on clinical hours. I know they're big on that. Since then though I have upped my shadowing hours to around 110 and started volunteering at a free clinic and will have ~35 hours by the time I submit. My clinical volunteering is definitely my weakness but I chose to get very involved in on campus organizations and that limited my time.
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Basically everything you just said is exactly what she told me a few days ago. Our shadowing and clinical volunteering hours are eerily similar.

One more LOR and a transcript to go, then it's submit time!

Also, does anyone know when EDP interviews generally are? I know the decisions are made October 1st, but I'm unsure of interviews.
 
I got in with probably around 50 clinical volunteering hours. However applied with several hundred clinical work hours, several hundred shadowing hours
 
baxt1412 said:
I got in with probably around 50 clinical volunteering hours. However applied with several hundred clinical work hours, several hundred shadowing hours
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Yeah that's definitely a lot more hours than I'm gonna have. What were your other ECs like? I'm hoping my strong involvement will kinda make up for being on the lower end of clinical volunteering hours.
 
JT522 said:
Yeah that's definitely a lot more hours than I'm gonna have. What were your other ECs like? I'm hoping my strong involvement will kinda make up for being on the lower end of clinical volunteering hours.
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3.7c, 3.6s, 30 (10/10/10)
two year college athlete (medical reasons stopped me from continuing)
no pubs (small school) (but two poster presentations)
two research experiences, one was at UNMC over a summer, other was a full year outside of my major - both in medical-related fields (antibiotic synthesis and pancreatic cancer chemotherapeutics)
RA for 3 years
biology and spanish majors (semester abroad for spanish)
2 non-medical mission trips to El Salvador
Maybe a hundred hours local community service in my college town
>10 yr involvement with Omaha Relay for Life including some leadership positions and volunteering (>1000 hrs in total)
Clinical volunteering was one summer at UNMC in ER and Rad Onc
Shadowing was all specialties, no primary care, 99% MD, one experience with a DO FWIW (transplant, ortho, rheum/immuno, oral/facial, plastics, with majority on oral/facial first and then transplant second)
 
HCHopeful said:
Basically everything you just said is exactly what she told me a few days ago. Our shadowing and clinical volunteering hours are eerily similar.

One more LOR and a transcript to go, then it's submit time!

Also, does anyone know when EDP interviews generally are? I know the decisions are made October 1st, but I'm unsure of interviews.
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Also incoming M1. Off the top of my head, last year they were in the last week of August and first week of September. Decisions are supposed to be out by October 1st, I believe.
 
Hi everyone,

I will be applying this cycle as well, good luck to everyone.

Non-traditional student here, IS, cGPA 3.52, sGPA 3.41, 7/8/11 :dead:, 1000+ hours of patient care, have volunteered at UNMC-SHARING clinic since 2009, did research while in undergrad (a few yrs ago). I am aware that my stats are not too impressive but I guess i have a little hope.

I work at a community clinic and i have met several UNMC med students, they do their ICE there. Two of them told me that UNMC COM had rejected them but also offered them a special 1 yr program and as long as they maintained a 3.5 GPA, they were guaranteed a seat. I have never heard of such program but i am guessing UNMC does not want to make this info public. All I know is that it exist since i met those students last year and they were M1s.

I am hoping to submit my application by mid August! good luck everyone!
 
Medschoolboy88 said:
Hi everyone,

I will be applying this cycle as well, good luck to everyone.

Non-traditional student here, IS, cGPA 3.52, sGPA 3.41, 7/8/11 :dead:, 1000+ hours of patient care, have volunteered at UNMC-SHARING clinic since 2009, did research while in undergrad (a few yrs ago). I am aware that my stats are not too impressive but I guess i have a little hope.

I work at a community clinic and i have met several UNMC med students, they do their ICE there. Two of them told me that UNMC COM had rejected them but also offered them a special 1 yr program and as long as they maintained a 3.5 GPA, they were guaranteed a seat. I have never heard of such program but i am guessing UNMC does not want to make this info public. All I know is that it exist since i met those students last year and they were M1s.

I am hoping to submit my application by mid August! good luck everyone!
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get your app in ASAP, finish it with a vengeance so that you can have the best shot possible. you can't change any other aspect of your app at this point besides the date you submit.
 
Medschoolboy88 said:
Hi everyone,

I will be applying this cycle as well, good luck to everyone.

Non-traditional student here, IS, cGPA 3.52, sGPA 3.41, 7/8/11 :dead:, 1000+ hours of patient care, have volunteered at UNMC-SHARING clinic since 2009, did research while in undergrad (a few yrs ago). I am aware that my stats are not too impressive but I guess i have a little hope.

I work at a community clinic and i have met several UNMC med students, they do their ICE there. Two of them told me that UNMC COM had rejected them but also offered them a special 1 yr program and as long as they maintained a 3.5 GPA, they were guaranteed a seat. I have never heard of such program but i am guessing UNMC does not want to make this info public. All I know is that it exist since i met those students last year and they were M1s.

I am hoping to submit my application by mid August! good luck everyone!
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Baxt is right. With your stats, you want to submit as early as you possibly can to increase your chances.
 
You guys are right, I will go ahead and submit asap. According to the MSAR, the 10th percentile mcat score is 27, which is why i am applying. Maybe there's one or two individuals that get accepted with a 26 every year so I am assuming they do take everything into consideration. maybe, just maybe....

The CMO at my clinic introduced me to Jeffrey Harrison at UNMC, i have a meeting with him this upcoming Friday at 7AM 😴 whoop! He's on the adcom
 
Medschoolboy88 said:
You guys are right, I will go ahead and submit asap. According to the MSAR, the 10th percentile mcat score is 27, which is why i am applying. Maybe there's one or two individuals that get accepted with a 26 every year so I am assuming they do take everything into consideration. maybe, just maybe....

The CMO at my clinic introduced me to Jeffrey Harrison at UNMC, i have a meeting with him this upcoming Friday at 7AM 😴 whoop! He's on the adcom
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Best of luck! At this point, just focus on putting yourself in a good light as best you can.
 
Alright guys, I met with Dr. Harrison today and he is awesome! He gave me a lot of advice and we went over my transcripts (I took a copy) and shared my mcat score. He said that my gpa was fine since I went to UNO ( he said that some schools like to give out A's but not UNO :heckyeah:) He also said that while my mcat is not the best, they have accepted a few 26's in the past (including last year) as long as they have something else that stands out.
Anyways, he said that I should have a shot since I have a lot of EC, medical and non-medical volunteer exp. He does want academic LOR and I told him that It's been a while since I have been in school. He said that they will need at least one good one where someone can write about my academic performance, it does not need to be very detailed since they are also aware of non-traditional applicants who have been out of school for quite some time.
Looks like I may have a chance, time to go back to campus and reconnect with my bio professors. whoop! :soexcited:
 
AnophelesGambiae said:
NE resident applying this year (LizzyM ~ 77). Any input on how they view research heavy candidates?
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With a LizzyM of 77... Favorably.

On the real, though. This is my first time applying, but with a school like Nebraska focusing on primary care in rural areas, I'd imagine they'd like to see other activities mixed in. I don't think they'd dock you for having too much research (I have about 624 hours currently and will have 1,200 by the end of May 2016, so I hope they don't anyway). I think UNMC is looking for a well-rounded applicant more so than most medical schools (AKA willing to overlook low stats if EC's show great potential), so if you have activities that show you are an involved person, a leader, and academically gifted (check), you should be good to go.
 
HCHopeful said:
With a LizzyM of 77... Favorably.

On the real, though. This is my first time applying, but with a school like Nebraska focusing on primary care in rural areas, I'd imagine they'd like to see other activities mixed in. I don't think they'd dock you for having too much research (I have about 624 hours currently and will have 1,200 by the end of May 2016, so I hope they don't anyway). I think UNMC is looking for a well-rounded applicant more so than most medical schools (AKA willing to overlook low stats if EC's show great potential), so if you have activities that show you are an involved person, a leader, and academically gifted (check), you should be good to go.
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Thanks for the input! I have reasonable clinical exposure and volunteering, but these are heavily out-shadowed by research involvement. I just hope they don't put that against me. I would really enjoy a favorable response from UNMC, especially since I've been interacting with the campus since high school (and really like it!).
 
AnophelesGambiae said:
Thanks for the input! I have reasonable clinical exposure and volunteering, but these are heavily out-shadowed by research involvement. I just hope they don't put that against me. I would really enjoy a favorable response from UNMC, especially since I've been interacting with the campus since high school (and really like it!).
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I think you'd have a favorable response, because those stats just aren't common for a kid from the state. But that's just me 😉
 
I would say you'll be getting an II at 77 IS, i wouldn't sweat getting in too much as long as you have good social skills and tend to click well with most people and no red flags in your app
 
It's pretty quiet here.....

I saw from previous threads that UNMC does not do secondary essays, you just pay the fee and automatically get an interview? is this true?
 
Medschoolboy88 said:
It's pretty quiet here.....

I saw from previous threads that UNMC does not do secondary essays, you just pay the fee and automatically get an interview? is this true?
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Still rather early, hopefully it picks up a bit. Yes that was true of last year if I remember correctly. Hard to keep track when you apply via shotgun approach lol
 
Medschoolboy88 said:
It's pretty quiet here.....

I saw from previous threads that UNMC does not do secondary essays, you just pay the fee and automatically get an interview? is this true?
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UNMC has not, in SDN-posting history (that I could uncover), ever had an essay. It's just a pay and send a photo type of thing.

There are not automatic interviews; however, if you're in-state with even a below-average application, you will be interviewed. According to MSAR, 284 in-state people applied and 240 received interviews.

That said, yes, I believe if you pay the secondary, you get an interview. I could be wrong though.

I am bummed. Last year the EDP candidates had their interview dates set up on July 1st if they'd been verified. I've been verified since June 9th, applied EDP, and haven't received a thing 🙁

It sure makes for a long day at work when you're consistently waiting for that email.
 
Secondary received, although I'm having trouble logging into the portal. Keeps giving me an error.
 
Could try giving the office a call. They have always been very helpful and kind when I called
 
HCHopeful said:
Annnnd back to not being able to access the portal.

Here is the question: Why do you want to attend the University of Nebraska College of Medicine? (1000 character limit)
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Anyone know if the 1000 includes spaces or not? Couldn't tell since they don't have a counter.
 
If anyone needs a place to stay for interviews, PM me
 
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