2016-2017 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Application Thread

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NewGuy789 said:
Don't know about y'all but I've completely convinced myself I'm in for the axe at every school I've interviewed at that releases decisions in the coming weeks!
Goodluck to everyone, my ability to focus on any of my work over the past few weeks has gradually declined to near zero and my checking sdn every 2-minutes has increased 10,000-fold.
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I am glad I am not the only one :D
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Fortyfive said:
2014-15: Feb 11-12
2015-16: Feb 11-12

I am assuming it will be the same this year
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The 11th and 12th this year are Saturday and Sunday so I bet it will be shortly before or after that weekend
 
NewGuy789 said:
Don't know about y'all but I've completely convinced myself I'm in for the axe at every school I've interviewed at that releases decisions in the coming weeks!
Goodluck to everyone, my ability to focus on any of my work over the past few weeks has gradually declined to near zero and my checking sdn every 2-minutes has increased 10,000-fold.
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Our mindsets are identical twins.


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You joke, but I actually did this.....

walloobi said:
I feel ya, we should have gotten burner phones and new email addresses for the application cycle to avoid all the false alarms from our regular phones and email accounts :laugh:
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walloobi said:
The 11th and 12th this year are Saturday and Sunday so I bet it will be shortly before or after that weekend
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Yeah, I agree. I literally marked Feb 10 "Columbia's Day". LOL


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DocDD425 said:
Yeah, I agree. I literally marked Feb 10 "Columbia's Day". LOL
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My Columbia decision dictates whether I have to continue with my Organic Chemistry II night class. I desperately want to get in, but I also would drop it immediately if I am rejected.
Of course the deadline for any sort of refund is 2/9, lolz

walloobi said:
The 11th and 12th this year are Saturday and Sunday so I bet it will be shortly before or after that weekend
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That's my birthday week - so, legally, they have to accept me, right??
 
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voteknope said:
That's my birthday week - so, legally, they have to accept me, right??
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They better!

In all seriousness, I'm super confident that they'll accept you (pretty sure we interviewed on the same day and all my fellow interviewees were amazing!)
 
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walloobi said:
They better!

In all seriousness, I'm super confident that they'll accept you (pretty sure we interviewed on the same day and all my fellow interviewees were amazing!)
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I hope so!! Haha if we were there the same day, I loved our group! I just want to go to school with all of y'all!! Pretty plz
 
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voteknope said:
I hope so!! Haha if we were there the same day, I loved our group! I just want to go to school with all of y'all!! Pretty plz
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Same, it would definitely be a great next four years!
 
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Just got the check your contact information email, it low key has a rejected tone to it lol
 
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ShenandoahDoc said:
Got the email an hour ago an interviewed in October. That first sentence made my heart sink, what a friend zone sentence "Thank you for interviewing..."
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Wait, your email seems to be slightly different from mine. I received an email yesterday, and it started with "Thank you for your application to.." Did anyone else get this version of the email?
 
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jesus christ
 
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bee45 said:
Wait, your email seems to be slightly different from mine. I received an email yesterday, and it started with "Thank you for your application to.." Did anyone else get this version of the email?
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I got the "thank you for your application..."email
 
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the neuroticism in this thread... guys the adcoms don't meet until after all interviews are done.
 
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Mcatbot said:
the neuroticism in this thread... guys the adcoms don't meet until after all interviews are done.
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Let's take this comment as an opportunity to use this thread for what it really is: neurotics anonymous

Hello, my name is Woodbro Chillson and I'm a neurotic med school applicant.
 
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bee45 said:
Wait, your email seems to be slightly different from mine. I received an email yesterday, and it started with "Thank you for your application to.." Did anyone else get this version of the email?
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Sorry I wrote that wrong. mine also said "Thank you for your application to Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. We are nearing the end of our application review and will soon notify applicants of our decisions." I didn't mean to start a panic!
 
Visiting this thread reminds me of how nerve-wracking this time of year was for me. Hang in there guys, you are in the home stretch. Try to picture where you will be a year from now and realize that all of you will be living out your dreams, studying medicine, building lifelong friendships, and rocking your well deserved white coats.

To the pessimists who don't picture this at P&S because you are concerned you won't get in, I'll just say that there is significant wait-list movement. So it's not over in February. Spare some of your nerves because the wild ride continues through the rest of winter, spring, and into the summer.
 
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PS2020 said:
Visiting this thread reminds me of how nerve-wracking this time of year was for me. Hang in there guys, you are in the home stretch. Try to picture where you will be a year from now and realize that all of you will be living out your dreams, studying medicine, building lifelong friendships, and rocking your well deserved white coats.
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I want to frame this, it's beautiful
 
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Do you guys think they've made the decisions already, or are still going over them?
 
The Real McCoy said:
Any ideas on what date they might release?
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The past two years it was February 11/12. That's a weekend this year so we're not sure what they'll do. I like to imagine they won't literally send out rejections on Valentine's Day... so I'm going to optimistically predict February 9/10.
 
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Well...on February 5th last year they emailed applicants asking them to double check their info etc because decisions will be released soon. We got that email on January 23rd-ish this year...so maybe we'll hear even sooner than February 10th?


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billbillbillbill said:
Well...on February 5th last year they emailed applicants asking them to double check their info etc because decisions will be released soon. We got that email on January 23rd-ish this year...so maybe we'll hear even sooner than February 10th?


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I love the optimism lmaoo
 
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walloobi said:
Conspiracy theory: since rejections and waitlists are released the day after acceptances, maybe those who received the email yesterday will be accepted and those who received the email today will be rejected or waitlisted

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not to bring this neuroticism up again (lol) but I got it on the second day and my last name starts with W. My ~conspiracy theory~ is that they were sent out alphabetically
 
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Nah bruh, I got it on the second day, and both my last names starts with an A lol
 
walloobi said:
Conspiracy theory: since rejections and waitlists are released the day after acceptances, maybe those who received the email yesterday will be accepted and those who received the email today will be rejected or waitlisted

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On first day, Admissions sent it to everyone who's accepted, then the next day someone came on to SDN, saw people starting to freak out and thought "oh **** we should probably send it to everyone so there's no pattern"

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billbillbillbill said:
The email was completely impersonal and it had no congratulatory words in it. I've gotten emails from other schools that have been suggestive of 'interest' and this was nothing like them. I'm sorry for bringing this up to begin with because I highly highly doubt the email is at all meaningful. At least, I don't feel any reassurance for having gotten it, but that's probably easier for me to say... anyway, good luck everyone


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Along the lines of "interest" note, did anyone's thank you email from the Dean talk about the admission committee keeping "you very strongly in mind"? Or was that a generic statement?
 
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ready2go2 said:
Along the lines of "interest" note, did anyone's thank you email from the Dean talk about the admission committee keeping "you very strongly in mind"? Or was that a generic statement?
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I think it's generic. I sent two thank you notes and got two identical emails.


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ready2go2 said:
Ah that sucks, I thought because he mentioned my interviewer by her name that it might have been personal. Grasping for straws haha
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I don't think everyone got an email from the dean (I didn't at least) so it might have been personal


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ready2go2 said:
Ah that sucks, I thought because he mentioned my interviewer by her name that it might have been personal. Grasping for straws haha
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yep i was super stoked when i got that but then I realized everyone else probably also gets the whole "thank you for ___, [something about interviewer], keep you strongly in mind" email for submitting the thank you letter
 
Did anyone else's thank you note responses close with a sentence "...from a purely personal point of view..."
 
HopefulPilot said:
Yes. It seems to be a form letter.

Dr. Nicholas wasn't at my Interview day because he was sick. My interviewer's response was great. Then this thing showed up in my email 6 weeks later.
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looks like there are two versions of the email, one that has the "from a purely personal point of view" at the end and one that doesn't.
 
hey everyone i know it's an anxious time for a lot of people but i don't think we should read into all this letter wording and timing- pretty sure it has no bearing on the decisions whatsoever. let's all try to relax for the next couple wks!
 
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