2016-2017 Pennsylvania State University Application Thread

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whatre the chances of receiving an II after being put on hold?! been on hold for a long time haha anyone else in this boat?
 
wahoowa2017 said:
whatre the chances of receiving an II after being put on hold?! been on hold for a long time haha anyone else in this boat?
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I was checking out last years thread and a couple of people got IIs after January. Do you have the "under review/interview" tab under your status? Im on hold as well
 
itsallgood92 said:
I was checking out last years thread and a couple of people got IIs after January. Do you have the "under review/interview" tab under your status? Im on hold as well
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mine just says "interview hold - Your application is on hold"...ive been on hold since beginning of october lol

is that what youre talking about @itsallgood92 ?
 
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does anyone know what dates they are currently offering for IIs?
 
born2run said:
Anyone know if psu has a place to store luggage during interview day?


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the admissions office was really nice and i don't think they would have a problem finding a place for you to put it that day. maybe you could call ahead and ask just so they have a heads up about it.
 
Hi everyone! I'm currently a MS1 attending Penn State College of Medicine. For those that have been accepted, congratulations!! We are excited to meet you if you do decide to matriculate this upcoming Fall. An official Facebook group has been created for you to meet your prospective class, have discussions, and ask questions:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408196925871838/

Best of luck to everyone and for those who may still be waiting!
 
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Mrlewy said:
A facebook page has already been created:
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Thank you for pointing that out and letting us know! We were unaware that another Facebook group was created prior to making the official one. We will work with the few people in the first Facebook group transition over to the new one. As of now, please use the newer group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408196925871838/) as current MS1's are acting as the Admins.

We apologize for the inconvenience and any confusion we may have caused!
 
At this point, I am convinced that my application has fallen behind a desk somewhere. Complete since late July, no II, no hold, no rejection. Lol.
 
Any interview on 12/5? I know its too early but I really hope to heard back soon!
 
Any folks who interviewed in November still waiting to hear back?
 
I interviewed 10/21 and haven't heard anything yet. Haven't gotten any acceptances so fingers crossed that will know by February so I can keep building my resume for next year!
 
mcj119 said:
I interviewed 10/21 and haven't heard anything yet. Haven't gotten any acceptances so fingers crossed that will know by February so I can keep building my resume for next year!
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I interviewed that same week and still haven't heard anything. Today marks the 11th week post-interview. I really want to know what's going on behind the scenes for this school.
 
For any current students, is there a focus on internal medicine at penn state? I am trying to interpret their match lists and it seems like there are a fair amount of specialties. I see derm, ophtho, neurology, anesthesiology, ortho, etc. It looks like a mixed bag, all in pretty "good" locations.

I know penn state isn't regarded as a top medical school, but it looks like it sets students up to match into competitive residencies
 
To anyone who's been accepted, did you receive any kind of confirmation that the office received your acknowledgement of acceptance form?
 
mlg109 said:
To anyone who's been accepted, did you receive any kind of confirmation that the office received your acknowledgement of acceptance form?
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Yeah, I got an email saying they received it.
edit: within the week that I mailed it in.
 
JPSmyth said:
For any current students, is there a focus on internal medicine at penn state? I am trying to interpret their match lists and it seems like there are a fair amount of specialties. I see derm, ophtho, neurology, anesthesiology, ortho, etc. It looks like a mixed bag, all in pretty "good" locations.

I know penn state isn't regarded as a top medical school, but it looks like it sets students up to match into competitive residencies
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There is no explicit focus on internal medicine (or any other specialty) at Penn State at either campus. Internal medicine is relatively popular, but no more so than at other medical schools. As you say, people end up in all sorts of fields. I would agree that the match lists look good and that was a factor in my deciding to come to Penn State.
 
Penn State UPRC MSDP said:
There is no explicit focus on internal medicine (or any other specialty) at Penn State at either campus. Internal medicine is relatively popular, but no more so than at other medical schools. As you say, people end up in all sorts of fields. I would agree that the match lists look good and that was a factor in my deciding to come to Penn State.
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Thanks! Follow up question. For students shooting for competitive specialties like derm or rad onc, is there AOA or a ranking system at penn state? Pre clinical years are strictly pass fail? Or pass fail honors?
 
I was reading last year's thread. I haven't seen anything about it this year, but did accepted students see the additional info tab at all this year, or have they fixed that?

I on 11/15, still no word.
 
eff1745 said:
I was reading last year's thread. I haven't seen anything about it this year, but did accepted students see the additional info tab at all this year, or have they fixed that?

I on 11/15, still no word.
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You still get the additional info tab prior to being accepted via mail 🙂
 
JPSmyth said:
Thanks! Follow up question. For students shooting for competitive specialties like derm or rad onc, is there AOA or a ranking system at penn state? Pre clinical years are strictly pass fail? Or pass fail honors?
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Yes I'm pretty sure there is AOA. There is not a ranking system (they seem to be falling out of favor at a lot of medical schools). Pre-clinical years are strictly pass/fail, yes.
 
eff1745 said:
Ayy, that's pretty neat. Seems like they're hella backed up anyway tho so not hold my breath.
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Yeah. Im guessing that they're about to get back to people who interviewed the first two weeks of October at least! My interview was the end of September.
 
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