2016-2017 University of South Carolina - Columbia Application Thread

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Hope everybody finds something out soon. I just received an email from Dr. Thornhill asking to call him. Now I have to weigh USC vs MUSC, but I am thinking USC may win on this due to logistical reasons (house, family, wife with job, etc). Both are great schools! Either way, a spot will be opening somewhere between USC and MUSC for somebody.
 
Those of you who got in today, when did y'all interview?
 
The fact that I haven't gotten an e-mail yet is really concerning me.
 
What time did you guys that got accepted today get an email at? Trying to gauge if there's still a chance at getting an email today or if they were all sent at one time
 
premed14302025 said:
What time did you guys that got accepted today get an email at? Trying to gauge if there's still a chance at getting an email today or if they were all sent at one time
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I'm pretty sure they call with acceptances. So I'm imagining they just go down the list of people and call one by one. That's just my perception of it though.
 
No call by now makes me think I'm either wait-listed or didn't get in.
 
Did all those who were accepted yesterday have the words "highly rated" in their hold letter?
 
Skeedalisk said:
Did all those who were accepted yesterday have the words "highly rated" in their hold letter?
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I had it in mine. I was under the impression is was a canned letter with everybody receiving the same thing. Not sure of the validity of this however. I am IS as well.
 
Campb443 said:
I had it in mine. I was under the impression is was a canned letter with everybody receiving the same thing. Not sure of the validity of this however. I am IS as well.
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Mine said this as well but still no word.
 
When can we expect to hear about the waitlist? It will be April tomorrow so it seems due
 
If anybody is on the MUSC IS waitlist, I have decided to withdraw my seat. Good luck to all!
 
Does anyone remember if you have to dress up everyday for class at USC Columbia? I remember there was one in state school where you did not but I couldn't remember which one!
 
SherbertLemon said:
Does anyone remember if you have to dress up everyday for class at USC Columbia? I remember there was one in state school where you did not but I couldn't remember which one!
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I'm not sure, but I don't believe it is this one. When we interviewed and did the ultrasound tour, there were many students wearing regular clothes (unless they changed after class).
 
SherbertLemon said:
Ok and I know it is at MUSC so Columbia must be the one that doesn't have it!
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Didn't know about musc either. Our tour guides were in plain clothes but again they were not in class. Not that it is a deal breaker by any means.
 
SherbertLemon said:
Ok and I know it is at MUSC so Columbia must be the one that doesn't have it!
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Yes, MUSC does have a dress code however you do not have to dress up in business casual or whatnot. It is more or less using common sense and don't look like a rag bag. It is on their site.
 
Really starting to sweat about not getting an email.....are they done sending out acceptances & only doing wait list now?


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Science is cool said:
Really starting to sweat about not getting an email.....are they done sending out acceptances & only doing wait list now?


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Yeah. There shouldn't be any more straight acceptances. You'll have to get in through the wait list. All 100 positions have been offered and accepted according to the wait list mail. Now every position available will be because someone has dropped their spot in favor of another school.
 
Heybustamove said:
Yeah. There shouldn't be any more straight acceptances. You'll have to get in through the wait list. All 100 positions have been offered and accepted according to the wait list mail. Now every position available will be because someone has dropped their spot in favor of another school.
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Bit of a bummer but thanks for the info!


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Top 3rd of IS seems to be when not if, Middle 3rd is maybe, Bottom 3rd good luck-going by previous years. I'll be emailing Shelley tomorrow to find out where I sit
 
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Science is cool said:
Bit of a bummer but thanks for the info!


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Tell me about it. But according to last year's thread, you can contact them and they'll tell you where you fall in the wait list. I'm not quite as optimistic as skeedalisk, but top third would be some mighty good news. They didn't reply to me today though.
 
Skeedalisk said:
Top 3rd of IS seems to be when not if, Middle 3rd is maybe, Bottom 3rd good luck-going by previous years. I'll be emailing Shelley tomorrow to find out where I sit
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Does this mean there are multiple waitlists for IS and OOS? She did not specify for me, but I am OOS
 
desiremed1 said:
Does this mean there are multiple waitlists for IS and OOS? She did not specify for me, but I am OOS
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Past threads have said there are 2 wait lists. IS and OOS. It makes sense because they always accept around the same proportion year to year, but nobody, or at least, none of the schools I've applied to, release their waitlist statistics, so it's hard to be sure.
 
I'm apparently in the middle third of the waitlist. According to the MSAR, the waitlist has 50-75 people on it (that number could be a combination of the IS and OOS list?), but there is no info on how many they accept.
 
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