2016-2017 University of Miami (Miller) Application Thread

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mysankofa said:
i submitted a month ago and still not scored..... :eyebrow::eyebrow::eyebrow:
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Oh then you should 100% freak out and worry.

lol jk don't the application pile is large, especially for a school as desirable and awesome as Miami.
 
@ those who already scheduled for an interview, did you get an email confirming your interview date after you picked out the four dates that would work for you?
 
GrumpyGus said:
To comfort some applicants, I had been "scored" for like a month now and just got my II today. Patience is virtuous.
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I submitted relatively early and still haven't been scored. Does anyone know if the process is ranked my scores or is it by first come first served basis?
 
How long did it take your LORs to get sent from AMCAS? I sent mine on the 22nd and my status says they're still not received
 
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your community service/volunteering.

does volunteering as a research assistant count for this? what about being president of a pre-health club?
 
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your employment.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your community service/volunteering.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your clinical experiences/shadowing.

are you guys simply just writing the date and the activity name? i.e. May 2011-June 2014: Volunteer at X organization
since it says "List" im hesistant to add more considering they already have our primary app with all that info on there
 
medbunny56 said:
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your community service/volunteering.

does volunteering as a research assistant count for this? what about being president of a pre-health club?
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I would think not. There are specific sections on the secondary dedicated to those types of activities (i.e the research, leadership, and student organization questions).
 
medbunny56 said:
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your employment.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your community service/volunteering.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your clinical experiences/shadowing.

are you guys simply just writing the date and the activity name? i.e. May 2011-June 2014: Volunteer at X organization
since it says "List" im hesistant to add more considering they already have our primary app with all that info on there
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The pdf they sent along with the secondary email explains exactly what to do...
List each applicable activity with a brief (1-2 sentence) description.
 
MDhopeful324 said:
The pdf they sent along with the secondary email explains exactly what to do...
List each applicable activity with a brief (1-2 sentence) description.
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Thanks! Haven't received the secondary yet just got the "amcas received email" today
 
Just added Miami to my list earlier today.

Was wondering if anybody could share if there were any additional instructions for the "optional" essays? I already describe my fine art and athletic endeavors pretty thoroughly in my main application, wondering if they just want even more details or if I'm supposed to be repeating myself.
 
Dirtybird said:
Just added Miami to my list earlier today.

Was wondering if anybody could share if there were any additional instructions for the "optional" essays? I already describe my fine art and athletic endeavors pretty thoroughly in my main application, wondering if they just want even more details or if I'm supposed to be repeating myself.
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I think the consensus here is that we should not be repeating the info on our primary apps, only expanding if necessary.
 
Dirtybird said:
Just added Miami to my list earlier today.

Was wondering if anybody could share if there were any additional instructions for the "optional" essays? I already describe my fine art and athletic endeavors pretty thoroughly in my main application, wondering if they just want even more details or if I'm supposed to be repeating myself.
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Only include them if they really enhance the application.
 
Also, for those invited to interview here...I never got the email for the IntervU app...anyone else in this boat?
 
"If you are a Permanent Resident of the United States, you must send a copy of the front and
back of your green card"--is this only for international students?

also, how long did you guys wait from seeing "application under review" to your application has been scored?
 
This is for people who have a green card. If you don't know what they are talking about dot worry about it.




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My application was scored today for both MD and MD/MPH. Hoping for some good news soon.
 
medbunny56 said:
"If you are a Permanent Resident of the United States, you must send a copy of the front and
back of your green card"--is this only for international students?

also, how long did you guys wait from seeing "application under review" to your application has been scored?
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I've been under review since June.
 
app was scored two days ago and then status reverted to "under review" yesterday.... not sure what this means
 
For everyone who has not received a secondary yet: Miami will send out an initial e-mail stating that they have received your primary application and are deciding whether to send you a secondary or not (at least, this was the case last year). I think, though I could be wrong, that every US citizen or green-card holder gets a secondary. If you did not receive this first email, then something is missing from your primary preventing you from being entered into the system, probably the fee for the primary. Go back to AMCAS to check that out.

If you received the email that your primary application was received more than 2/3 weeks ago without getting a secondary, I would check your spam folders, then CALL the admissions office. Looking back on my records, it took about a week between the school receiving my primary application to sending me the secondary. UM is notoriously difficult/slow to reach by email, a call to the office would clear the situation up much faster.

Good luck to everyone!
 
Is there a difference between complete and scored?
 
greaterwing said:
Is there a difference between complete and scored?
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Yes. I am not sure how they do the scoring. Someone else might be able to help more in answering this. But I have not been scored yet, and I submitted back in June.
 
The Knife & Gun Club said:
Oh yea not sure if its been noted here yet but the class of 2020 is 57% women and 43% men.

So whatever was going on last year with the funky gender ratio was just a fluke. Just FYI 👍
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Hey Knife and Gun Club! Your posts have been super helpful and thank you 🙂

I was wondering if I could ask you couple questions that would probably help everyone out here. What do you love about Miami? What makes it unique as compared to other schools?

Alternatively, what do you dislike about Miami and what would you wish would change?

I think knowing good + bad from the students is very useful.

Thank you 🙂
 
GrumpyGus said:
Hey Knife and Gun Club! Your posts have been super helpful and thank you 🙂

I was wondering if I could ask you couple questions that would probably help everyone out here. What do you love about Miami? What makes it unique as compared to other schools?

Alternatively, what do you dislike about Miami and what would you wish would change?

I think knowing good + bad from the students is very useful.

Thank you 🙂
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I know you were looking for KGC's response but I'm also a first year and I'd love to answer your question as well.

I'll try to speak more generally since I'm in the MD/MPH program which is pretty different from the MD traditional track.

The atmosphere at Miller is very collaborative; people here tend to be relatively friendly and laid back; it's hard to be a dick in such nice weather haha.. I haven't met one faculty member yet who didn't care about their job or the students. There are so many opportunities for shadowing, volunteering, research, etc. For instance if you wanted to shadow trauma surgery, you have the ability to just walk in so long as you're credentialed. Also, I just volunteered at a free health clinic last week and was able to take a history and present to the attending; mind you school just started a few weeks ago. I think the MD track just did cardio exams on patients a few days ago.

As far as any negatives, keeping in mind that I've only been here since June, it's really just been a lot of logistical things that could be improved on as far class/session scheduling but once again, I'm not sure how the MD's feel about their experience. There's also a slight disconnect curriculum-wise between the MPH'ers and the traditional MD's. I'd love to have a few academic sessions with them from time to time. Socially, I'd say we get along pretty well and do cross-over from time to time. I'm actually starting an intramural flag football team with some of them.

It's kind of hard to really point out a unique character about Miller since we haven't attended other medical schools but I think being in such an urban, underserved environment plays a very strong role in the quality of education that we receive here. You have to opportunity to interact and learn from some of the sickest patients across many different cultures in addition to being exposed to people across a wide socioeconomic range. People travel from all over (including the Carribean) to come to Jackson Memorial Hospital, UMiami Hospital, and the VA. At Miller, they really teach you how to incorporate all of these influences in your practice to make you a more conscious physician...

..but hey, I may be biased. Good Luck in your cycle! 😉
 
GrumpyGus said:
Hey Knife and Gun Club! Your posts have been super helpful and thank you 🙂

I was wondering if I could ask you couple questions that would probably help everyone out here. What do you love about Miami? What makes it unique as compared to other schools?

Alternatively, what do you dislike about Miami and what would you wish would change?

I think knowing good + bad from the students is very useful.

Thank you 🙂
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Well @teeayejay pretty much hit the nail on the head, Ill see if I can expand from the MD side.

What I love about Miami (The city): In short it's one of the most vibrant cities in the US. There's always things going on (concerts, sports, etc) and the number of avenues to blow off steam is crazy. Aside from the beach (a whooping 15 minute drive from UM's campus) there are tons of awesome restaurants and bars and some people in have parents with boats too. Most med students live in brickell, which means you can take the train directly from where live to the medical campus...A traffic free commute in ~15 minutes!

What I love about Miller: The clinical setup is second to none, period. You have Jackson, one of the biggest hospitals in the nation 20 feet from the med school building. It's a 1500 bed county hospital with an insane level 1 trauma center...its so crazy that they actually train military trauma surgeons there before deploying them to Iraq/Afghanistan. I wandered into the Jackson ER a couple days ago as a 1st year med student with 0 clinical skills and was able to do basic physical exams, take histories, and talk with attendings about how they work up various complaints. Thats really not something possible at many medical schools. Theres also a million specialty hospitals and clinics on the med campus (Miami transplant institute, sylvester cancer center, Bascom Palmer eye institute, etc) along with the VA and the private UM hospital. So basically any kind of medicine under the sun that you're interested in is being practiced within walking distance of the med school building.

What I'd change: I'm not a huge fan of UM's technology service. Its sort of cobbled together out of a bunch of older systems and doesn't integrate very well. That said while its annoying that our schedule, powerpoints, and lecture recordings are on different websites it's not THAT big a deal lol. Worst thats ever happened is we had to wait an extra day to get our grades back on an exam or lecture videos delayed getting uploaded. Also the med building itself is kinda old and jenky but theyre building a new one soon, which will be beautiful.

Hope that helps!
 
teeayejay said:
I know you were looking for KGC's response but I'm also a first year and I'd love to answer your question as well.

I'll try to speak more generally since I'm in the MD/MPH program which is pretty different from the MD traditional track.

The atmosphere at Miller is very collaborative; people here tend to be relatively friendly and laid back; it's hard to be a dick in such nice weather haha.. I haven't met one faculty member yet who didn't care about their job or the students. There are so many opportunities for shadowing, volunteering, research, etc. For instance if you wanted to shadow trauma surgery, you have the ability to just walk in so long as you're credentialed. Also, I just volunteered at a free health clinic last week and was able to take a history and present to the attending; mind you school just started a few weeks ago. I think the MD track just did cardio exams on patients a few days ago.

As far as any negatives, keeping in mind that I've only been here since June, it's really just been a lot of logistical things that could be improved on as far class/session scheduling but once again, I'm not sure how the MD's feel about their experience. There's also a slight disconnect curriculum-wise between the MPH'ers and the traditional MD's. I'd love to have a few academic sessions with them from time to time. Socially, I'd say we get along pretty well and do cross-over from time to time. I'm actually starting an intramural flag football team with some of them.

It's kind of hard to really point out a unique character about Miller since we haven't attended other medical schools but I think being in such an urban, underserved environment plays a very strong role in the quality of education that we receive here. You have to opportunity to interact and learn from some of the sickest patients across many different cultures in addition to being exposed to people across a wide socioeconomic range. People travel from all over (including the Carribean) to come to Jackson Memorial Hospital, UMiami Hospital, and the VA. At Miller, they really teach you how to incorporate all of these influences in your practice to make you a more conscious physician...

..but hey, I may be biased. Good Luck in your cycle! 😉
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The Knife & Gun Club said:
Well @teeayejay pretty much hit the nail on the head, Ill see if I can expand from the MD side.

What I love about Miami (The city): In short it's one of the most vibrant cities in the US. There's always things going on (concerts, sports, etc) and the number of avenues to blow off steam is crazy. Aside from the beach (a whooping 15 minute drive from UM's campus) there are tons of awesome restaurants and bars and some people in have parents with boats too. Most med students live in brickell, which means you can take the train directly from where live to the medical campus...A traffic free commute in ~15 minutes!

What I love about Miller: The clinical setup is second to none, period. You have Jackson, one of the biggest hospitals in the nation 20 feet from the med school building. It's a 1500 bed county hospital with an insane level 1 trauma center...its so crazy that they actually train military trauma surgeons there before deploying them to Iraq/Afghanistan. I wandered into the Jackson ER a couple days ago as a 1st year med student with 0 clinical skills and was able to do basic physical exams, take histories, and talk with attendings about how they work up various complaints. Thats really not something possible at many medical schools. Theres also a million specialty hospitals and clinics on the med campus (Miami transplant institute, sylvester cancer center, Bascom Palmer eye institute, etc) along with the VA and the private UM hospital. So basically any kind of medicine under the sun that you're interested in is being practiced within walking distance of the med school building.

What I'd change: I'm not a huge fan of UM's technology service. Its sort of cobbled together out of a bunch of older systems and doesn't integrate very well. That said while its annoying that our schedule, powerpoints, and lecture recordings are on different websites it's not THAT big a deal lol. Worst thats ever happened is we had to wait an extra day to get our grades back on an exam or lecture videos delayed getting uploaded. Also the med building itself is kinda old and jenky but theyre building a new one soon, which will be beautiful.

Hope that helps!
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Thank you SO much for both your responses. That's super helpful. I'm even more excited to come interview now 🙂
 
So there is a difference between complete and scored? Bc I've been complete for the past 3 weeks
 
QuentinT88 said:
So there is a difference between complete and scored? Bc I've been complete for the past 3 weeks
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REALDEAL028 said:
Yes. Complete as in their review of your secondary is complete, or your secondary was sent in 3 weeks ago? Once they go through your application, someone scores your stats, ECs, undergraduate institution, etc. on a scale out of 300 and then that is how you get ranked for the II pile. At least this is my understanding of the process.
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Yup pretty much. Your portal message will change from "application is complete and ready to be reviewed" to some variant of "application has been scored by the adcom, II's will be sent based on score" or something like that. They offer IIs to the [some number] highest scored applications in the pile every few weeks.

Important to note they dont score them in linear order, they kind of jump around based on some unknown criteria. Also you can be offered an II without ever getting the 'scored' message, so just because your portal hasnt changed doesnt mean no one has read your app.

Ok time to stop procrastinating and get back to learning the contents of the knee :arghh:
 
Anybody else get an II through portal change but not get an email about it? I selected the four dates that would work for me but just double checking to see if I need to contact the admissions office to make sure this isnt a technical error haha
 
settlerofcatan said:
Anybody else get an II through portal change but not get an email about it? I selected the four dates that would work for me but just double checking to see if I need to contact the admissions office to make sure this isnt a technical error haha
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Last year they sent out the portal link and I hadn't received confirmation of my preferences so I called a day or two later after I made my choices just to be sure it went through haha. A lot of times calling can work wonders and get you an answer. I'd say wait till about Friday and call midday if you still haven't heard back.
 
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