2016-2017 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Application Thread

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Hey guys, I have an interesting situation. I live in Albany (NYS Resident) and I've gotten two tickets that were violation offenses. According to NYS Law, these violations are not crimes. Thus on the secondary I did not mention this since they said have you been convicted of any crimes. Now that I've gotten accepted, do you think this technicality will harm me? Should I call the school and tell them about this?

P.S. I already did the Certiphi background check and these violations were not listed anywhere there.
 
zyzzkhalifa said:
Hey guys, I have an interesting situation. I live in Albany (NYS Resident) and I've gotten two tickets that were violation offenses. According to NYS Law, these violations are not crimes. Thus on the secondary I did not mention this since they said have you been convicted of any crimes. Now that I've gotten accepted, do you think this technicality will harm me? Should I call the school and tell them about this?

P.S. I already did the Certiphi background check and these violations were not listed anywhere there.
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No.
 
zyzzkhalifa said:
Hey guys, I have an interesting situation. I live in Albany (NYS Resident) and I've gotten two tickets that were violation offenses. According to NYS Law, these violations are not crimes. Thus on the secondary I did not mention this since they said have you been convicted of any crimes. Now that I've gotten accepted, do you think this technicality will harm me? Should I call the school and tell them about this?

P.S. I already did the Certiphi background check and these violations were not listed anywhere there.
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if its just a ticketed violation, there is nothing to tell them about. You passed the background check so I wouldn't worry.
 
Reason I ask is because they were not traffic tickets, one was for disorderly conduct yelling loudly- a ticket violation, and another similar one- both violations (same as civil ordinances)
 
Thanks for almost giving me a heart attack by sending me a email about completing your survey
 
Does anyone know if there's a fb page that we can become part of for the 2021 class?? and congrats to everyone who has heard back!! yayyy future doctors 🙂))
 
Hi everyone! I really did not know where to post this but I was hoping someone could help me. I am actually a Canadian premed student and I am looking to apply to albert einstein. I have been trying to find admission statistics for gpa and mcat scores but I have not been able to find any. Could someone give me an idea or point me in the right direction? Much appreciated!
 
Captrex_501stlegion said:
Hi everyone! I really did not know where to post this but I was hoping someone could help me. I am actually a Canadian premed student and I am looking to apply to albert einstein. I have been trying to find admission statistics for gpa and mcat scores but I have not been able to find any. Could someone give me an idea or point me in the right direction? Much appreciated!
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Buy the MSAR
 
Captrex_501stlegion said:
Hi everyone! I really did not know where to post this but I was hoping someone could help me. I am actually a Canadian premed student and I am looking to apply to albert einstein. I have been trying to find admission statistics for gpa and mcat scores but I have not been able to find any. Could someone give me an idea or point me in the right direction? Much appreciated!
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I'll save you the $21 or so dollars it cost to buy the MSAR. Albert Einstein applicant MCAT average is a 34. Matriculation average is a 33 with 10/90 percentile range of 32-37. Average gpa is 3.8 with 10/90 percentile range of 3.6-4.0
 
BecauseImHappy said:
I'll save you the $21 or so dollars it cost to buy the MSAR. Albert Einstein applicant MCAT average is a 34. Matriculation average is a 33 with 10/90 percentile range of 32-37. Average gpa is 3.8 with 10/90 percentile range of 3.6-4.0
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Do you mean accepted average is 34? The applicant median is much lower.
 
Ampharos said:
Do you mean accepted average is 34? The applicant median is much lower.
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The applicant average of everyone applying to Albert Einstein for the 2015 class is 34. The average of the people who matriculate in the final 2015 class is 33. That is what it says on MSAR. Somtimes the matriculate average is lower than the applicant pool for a certain school because people with higher mcat scores choose to go to a "higher ranked school" as opposed to matriculate at Albert Einstein.
 
BecauseImHappy said:
The applicant average of everyone applying to Albert Einstein for the 2015 class is 34. The average of the people who matriculate in the final 2015 class is 33. That is what it says on MSAR. Somtimes the matriculate average is lower than the applicant pool for a certain school because people with higher mcat scores choose to go to a "higher ranked school" as opposed to matriculate at Albert Einstein.
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That is a mistake on MSAR. It says "applicant average" but it actually means "accepted average." The applicant average for the school and for the nation is above that table.
 
flyingeagle said:
That is a mistake on MSAR. It says "applicant average" but it actually means "accepted average." The applicant average for the school and for the nation is above that table.
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Not sure what you mean. But here it is directly from MSAR for the person who was asking.
 

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Sooo for those awesome people who have scoured previous years threads. If we didnt hear back during that first wave, when can we expect waitlist decisions?
 
I sent in an ITA email last week and they replied by saying that the committee needs to invite me first.. is this how ITA works? I thought that the whole point of it was so that you are reviewed faster?
 
wait.... so we have no hope if we didnt make the wave of acceptances on feb 1st?


Just rejected via email.... so sad, I really liked this school......dorms...proximity of buildings...... 🙁
 
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Did AECOM start sending out pre-II rejections yet?
 
applepiemeow said:
I sent in an ITA email last week and they replied by saying that the committee needs to invite me first.. is this how ITA works? I thought that the whole point of it was so that you are reviewed faster?
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That's what I thought to... but maybe they are just tired of getting ITA emails.
 
Rejected post-interview as well, interviewed at the end of October. Good luck to those still in the running and congrats to everyone who's already been accepted!
 
Ouch I figured they wouldn't really reject post interview.

edit: ha just got one, too. What a waste of $1000 to go interview. Interviewed in January
 
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rejected post II!

Not surprised. Did not enjoy interview day, didnt perform well in interview, didnt send thank youss
 
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rejected post interview. I did not send any thank you letters, I believe this school really prefers them. I recall they emphasized the mailing address for your interviewers etc. Didn't love my interview day here and have other options thankfully, phew
 
Ryuichi said:
rejected post interview. I did not send any thank you letters, I believe this school really prefers them. I recall they emphasized the mailing address for your interviewers etc. Didn't love my interview day here and have other options thankfully, phew
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I remember this as well, in addition they seemed to really stress updates of any kind. Per sdn wisdom I did not.

All in all probably would have just gotten me a waitlist spot.


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Apophis said:
Ouch I figured they wouldn't really reject post interview.

edit: ha just got one, too. What a waste of $1000 to go interview. Interviewed in January
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It is ludicrous how many people this school interviews... straight up offensive frankly. My interview group was like 40-50 people, they herded us around like cattle. They make you grovel and brown nose for an acceptance off the HPWL or even just a WL position at all. And then end up accepting the kids who are from Long Island/NYC area preferentially anyway. Might as well only just interview them off the bat as well as the Cali kids who can't get into Cali schools then and don't make other people fly across the country. A waste of everyone's resources all around.
 
Ryuichi said:
rejected post interview. I did not send any thank you letters, I believe this school really prefers them. I recall they emphasized the mailing address for your interviewers etc. Didn't love my interview day here and have other options thankfully, phew
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I send a thank you letter
 
Ryuichi said:
It is ludicrous how many people this school interviews... straight up offensive frankly. My interview group was like 40-50 people, they herded us around like cattle. They make you grovel and brown nose for an acceptance off the HPWL or even just a WL position at all. And then end up accepting the kids who are from Long Island/NYC area preferentially anyway. Might as well only just interview them off the bat as well as the Cali kids who can't get into Cali schools then and don't make other people fly across the country. A waste of everyone's resources all around.
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Yeah, it really is. I would have prefered a rejected straight away. I had to miss two days of class for this ****.

edit: and they're still sending out II. If ever you needed evidence that this is a buyers market...
 
Ryuichi said:
It is ludicrous how many people this school interviews... straight up offensive frankly. They make you grovel and brown nose for an acceptance off the HPWL or even just a WL position at all. And then end up accepting the kids who are from Long Island/NYC area preferentially anyway. Might as well just interview them off the bat then and don't make people fly across the country. A waste of everyone's resources all around.
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As much as I hate schools "over interviewing" for their class, I think it's just a product of it being a buyers market. If a diverse class composition is important to them, then it makes sense to interview a ton of people. Whether or not 1,000 interviewees is excessive is the question. I think it is excessive, but I'm not running the show here.

Schools have an interest in yield protection. When you're competing against great private and public schools in NYC, it can get rough for a school to turn acceptances into matriculants. I don't blame them for wanting applicants to show genuine interest. If you don't really want to go, then don't be disingenuous and send them a letter of interest. It only devalues "true" letters of interest.

I can genuinely relate though. My IIs have been at OOS publics or intensely poor post-II acceptance rates and no acceptances yet.
 
Shirafune said:
As much as I hate schools "over interviewing" for their class, I think it's just a product of it being a buyers market. If a diverse class composition is important to them, then it makes sense to interview a ton of people. Whether or not 1,000 interviewees is excessive is the question. I think it is excessive, but I'm not running the show here.

Schools have an interest in yield protection. When you're competing against great private and public schools in NYC, it can get rough for a school to turn acceptances into matriculants. I don't blame them for wanting applicants to show genuine interest. If you don't really want to go, then don't be disingenuous and send them a letter of interest. It only devalues "true" letters of interest.

I can genuinely relate though. My IIs have been at OOS publics or intensely poor post-II acceptance rates and no acceptances yet.
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I don't think it's reasonable to blame applicants for not showing interest. Successfully completing the prerequisites, checking off all the boxes (research, volunteering etc) and spending thousands on applications, writing a billion essays, and paying for interviews should be MORE than enough. That seems more like an excuse to cut some out than anything. The chances of getting into any particular school are too small, so it's not worth just applying to schools you really want to go to, and picking people buy that metric is insulting to those who have worked harder or performed better and got the axe for such a superficial reason. Also, all of these med schools talk about how much better they are than their competition and take every chance to rub their uniqueness into our faces. Do they not realize that they are all pretty much the same, try to be "different" in all of the same ways, and that applicants don't really care about any of that and just really want to be doctors? It's pretty self serving honestly. I do not believe the people making these decision understand the dedication it takes to compete with the current applicant pool because honestly, people who went to med school 20 and 30 years ago had it monumentally easier. An example is an interviewer getting on an interviewees case about not having shadowed or volunteered enough, despite having never shadowed or volunteered themselves. How easy it is for them to judge from where they sit despite not having the quintessential, and relatable, premed experience of trying to outgun your competition beyond academic coursework.

However, I know schools do exactly that (use expressed interest to pick applicants). I just don't really agree with it.
 
Shirafune said:
As much as I hate schools "over interviewing" for their class, I think it's just a product of it being a buyers market. If a diverse class composition is important to them, then it makes sense to interview a ton of people. Whether or not 1,000 interviewees is excessive is the question. I think it is excessive, but I'm not running the show here.

Schools have an interest in yield protection. When you're competing against great private and public schools in NYC, it can get rough for a school to turn acceptances into matriculants. I don't blame them for wanting applicants to show genuine interest. If you don't really want to go, then don't be disingenuous and send them a letter of interest. It only devalues "true" letters of interest.

I can genuinely relate though. My IIs have been at OOS publics or intensely poor post-II acceptance rates and no acceptances yet.
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I'm in the same boat. Really hoping I won't have to reapply...
 
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