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Any tips on where to stay? Most things I see need more $$$ than I have at this point in the process...
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2016-2017 Weill Cornell Medical College Application Thread
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Any tips on where to stay? Most things I see need more $$$ than I have at this point in the process...
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Ask the admissions office about student hosts. They don't advertise it well but it's a thing.
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When do rejections from this school typically occur?
Congrats! When were you complete?
Rejected. Oh well, it was probably the biggest reach on my list. Bye Cornell, I would have loved to interview here but I guess there are too many great candidates. No hard feelings.
If you don't mind, when were you complete/stats?
Complete in early Aug. And my stats are probably worse than 95% of the people applied to Cornell so you shouldn't have any worries.
6/29, but my mcat was lower than what this school usually accepts
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Was it an email rejection?
Yes
Did you ever get a complete email?
Yes I did
+1.
LM 70-75; mid-July
I haven't gotten an interview here, but I know cornell is receptive to in-the-area emails. Has anyone had any luck with them?
Sorry to all who were rejected, but did your status change on the portal, or was it simply an email? I am just sitting here waiting for my rejection lol
You get an email, and on the portal it says that an admissions decision has been sent to you.
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Can anyone who interviewed already shed some light on what the day is like? Thanks!
Got the axe. Complete 7/12. Can't say I'm surprised lol.
It'll make you fall in love with the school which makes the ensuing rejection in March all that more difficult.
They have a 39% post-II acceptance rate though, doesn't get much better than that for the top 20.
I'm worried about falling in love and then needing to eat the cost of living in NYC... I usually try to book an Airbnb within walking distance of the school, but I saw people posting living room couches there for $150+/night and thought "what am I getting myself into?" 😱
Vandy doe
Northwestern has ~75%
This school is definitely worth the $$$ though.
What is Vandy's??
It will probably be lower this year because they've over-filled their matriculating class the last few years...
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The rent (utilities included) is only ~$750/month for their dorms for the first year (~$950/month for the 2nd-4th year apartments). That's insanely cheap when you compare the price of that rent with many other schools located in urban areas (e.g. Northwestern in the super nice part of Chicago, UCSF/Stanford in the bay area, Columbia for a not so nice area, heck you're not even gonna find that many places cheaper to rent in Baltimore near Hopkins/UMaryland after you factor in utilities)
Take a look on MSAR at the estimated cost of attendance of various schools, and you'll notice that Cornell is one of the lowest cost schools in a big city (aside from public schools for in-staters). They also have practically no merit based aid, so they are extremely generous with their need-based aid.
Of course, NYC is a very expensive city to live in, but the reduced cost of tuition/fees/rent really does even the playing field by giving you all the goods that NYC has to offer without having to chew up all the costs in the big picture of things
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Good luck to everyone still in the running 🙂
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Rejected just now. Complete 8/19, LM 71.
