2016-2017 West Virginia University Application Thread

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libertyyne said:
I wrote a mission driven essay. I remember seeing some documents stating they were planning on updating it. I didn't want to look like an idiot while my interview.
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Yeah I felt crazy when I reviewed my essay before my interview and realized the mission on their website and the mission I mentioned in my essays were not the same...
 
nobletea said:
Yeah I felt crazy when I reviewed my essay before my interview and realized the mission on their website and the mission I mentioned in my essays were not the same...
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I'm glad I am not the only one who felt this way.
 
Interviewing next week and very excited 🙂 I'm OOS with no ties but hoping for the best!
 
StarsHallow said:
Interviewing next week and very excited 🙂 I'm OOS with no ties but hoping for the best!
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I'm also interviewing in a couple weeks as someone who is OOS with zero ties. It just seems to me like people like us with no ties are a tough sell versus students from nearby states or other ones with decent connections especially since it seems that the school is focused on keeping students in this state.
 
There's a fair number of students from my class (and other classes) from far away states with no previous ties so don't lose hope! I'd bet almost all of them were on the waitlist, but it seems like they like to get some geographic diversity in the class at least when they start looking at the waitlist.


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Rejected post interview back in October; just got an email inviting me to complete the secondary! :eyebrow: I'm defintely not paying them another $100 for a second secondary!
 
Veggie_Girl said:
Rejected post interview back in October; just got an email inviting me to complete the secondary! :eyebrow: I'm defintely not paying them another $100 for a second secondary!
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Lol. That is so weird. You already applied , completed secondary, interviewed and got rejected and now they are asking for another secondary?
 
FutrDoc22 said:
Open. They'll discuss your scores along with activities so be prepared
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Yep. One interviewer asked about my multiple MCAT score D: know your application forward and backwards.
Dr. Cheddar said:
I'm also interviewing in a couple weeks as someone who is OOS with zero ties. It just seems to me like people like us with no ties are a tough sell versus students from nearby states or other ones with decent connections especially since it seems that the school is focused on keeping students in this state.
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Ditto. I was the only non-east coaster at my interview. For what it's worth, one of the student guides for my group was from Oregon. Interview in March, waitlist and accepted in may.
 
libertyyne said:
Lol. That is so weird. You already applied , completed secondary, interviewed and got rejected and now they are asking for another secondary?
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Yup haha, maybe if they wanted me so badly they should have waitlisted me! I'm only slightly curious as to what would happen if I sent in another secondary, but not enough for the fee!
 
Anybody that interviewed on Monday getting anxious??
 
Waitlisted. Interviews went better than I could ever hope but that seems to be the trend.
 
libertyyne said:
Money! I worked hard to make my application competitive, once schools show what the scholarships and final cost of attendance will be I will withdraw from other schools.
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I would consider my app competitive as well and I'm sure everybody else on this page is competitive and I also worked hard and i understand what you're saying about money but that is totally holding the lives and futures of others in your hands.
 
premed574 said:
I would consider my app competitive as well and I'm sure everybody else on this page would as well and I also worked hard and i understand what you're saying about money but that is totally holding the lives and futures of others in your hands.
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Well if they are truly that competitive they should have multiple acceptances by now as well. Plus schools send out 3x as many acceptances as they have seats because they know applicants will matriculate elsewhere. I am not holding back the lives of other applicants. It is the other applicants that are holding their own lives back.
 
libertyyne said:
Money! I worked hard to make my application competitive, once schools show what the scholarships and final cost of attendance will be I will withdraw from other schools.
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Everybody is competitive. Everybody has worked hard. Acceptances are based on luck and politics among other things as well as an application. Don't be pretentious. Be respectful.


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libertyyne said:
Well if they are truly that competitive they should have multiple acceptances by now as well. Plus schools send out 3x as many acceptances as they have seats because they know applicants will matriculate elsewhere. I am not holding back the lives of other applicants. It is the other applicants that are holding their own lives back.
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That is definitely a low blow. For you to anonymously say that I and many others are not competitive is rude, untrue (I have been told many times that my app is stellar), and uncalled for
 
libertyyne said:
Well if they are truly that competitive they should have multiple acceptances by now as well. Plus schools send out 3x as many acceptances as they have seats because they know applicants will matriculate elsewhere. I am not holding back the lives of other applicants. It is the other applicants that are holding their own lives back.
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While I agree with you actually mostly, so long as you notify the schools right when you know which one you want to go to, saying that in order to be "truly competitive" people should have multiple acceptances by now is incredibly insensitive and just not true.
 
TheyCallMePledge said:
Everybody is competitive. Everybody has worked hard. Acceptances are based on luck and politics among other things as well as an application. Don't be pretentious. Be respectful.


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Everybody is not competitive. 2.5, 500 is not competitive.
There is some luck involved in acceptances but applicants with higher numbers and better ECS tend to have e better luck.
I have no idea what you mean when you say politics plays a role, are you criticizing URMS.
I was being respectful. I didn't start criticizing other people just because of their success this cycle so far.
 
libertyyne said:
Money! I worked hard to make my application competitive, once schools show what the scholarships and final cost of attendance will be I will withdraw from other schools.
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I don't know if you remember what WVU said during the interview but I do... They said they do not give out many scholarships and that your best chance is with FAFSA....
 
premed574 said:
That is definitely a low blow. For you to anonymously say that I and many others are not competitive is rude, untrue (I have been told many times that my app is stellar), and uncalled for
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You are also anonmously criticising people who are holding multiple spots. I never accused you of not being competitive, I don't know what is going on with your app.
 
damich said:
I don't know if you remember what WVU said during the interview but I do... They said they do not give out many scholarships and that your best chance is with FAFSA....
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That is untrue. They said 75%~ of their class gets some sort of scholarship. And that you are automatically added to the list of people they evaluate to give scholarships to.
 
libertyyne said:
Everybody is not competitive. 2.5, 500 is not competitive.
There is some luck involved in acceptances but applicants with higher numbers and better ECS tend to have e better luck.
I have no idea what you mean when you say politics plays a role, are you criticizing URMS.
I was being respectful. I didn't start criticizing other people just because of their success this cycle so far.
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You DID start criticizing people that were not holding multiple acceptances and you said we were not competitive and we were holding ourselves back - that is not true and uncalled for just as other people have pointed out as well. I, on the other hand, was anonymously pointing out the facts. Holding multiple spots is stringing along other applicants. That is a fact - and I was respectful in that I told you that I completely understand the scholarship thing but the facts are still there: as long as you have that spot, you are taking someone else's place.
 
damich said:
Why are ppl that have multiple acceptance still holding onto spots...! you can only go to one school ppl be kind!!
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You have the right to hold all acceptances until April 30th. And if people want to hold them/pay deposits than that is totally fine. They aren't being rude or inconsiderate by doing so. Schools have a deadline to send financial aid packages to accepted students by April 15th (they can send it earlier if they are on top of things). Then you have until the 30th to let go of all offers but 1. This is definitely a factor in where I will be attending.

It's just how the system is set up. "Don't hate the player, hate the game".

In the long run it doesn't matter whether someone drops the acceptance now, or in April. If you are the next one on the waitlist you will get that spot. Ya it sucks to have to wait 3 more months, but once again that's just how the game is played.
 
premed574 said:
You DID start criticizing people that were not holding multiple acceptances and you said we were not competitive and we were holding ourselves back - that is not true and uncalled for just as other people have pointed out as well. I, on the other hand, was anonymously pointing out the facts. Holding multiple spots is stringing along other applicants. That is a fact - and I was respectful in that I told you that I completely understand the scholarship thing but the facts are still there: as long as you have that spot, you are taking someone else's place.
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Look, here is a simple fact. Schools don't look at two applicants and say which one of these are we going to select. They look at you individually and evaluate you against a set of standardized criteria. Once you have been internally scored they tend to give you an acceptance or a rejection or a waitlist. It is not my fault that schools are waitlisting or accepting other applicants. You can believe what ever you want , but go talk to an adcom. If the school felt like the person met their criteria for acceptance, they would accept that person. If the school felt like that person doesn't meet the threshold they waitlisting that person. You are behaving as if schools have already handed out all the acceptances for this cycle already. That is verifiably untrue because people just got accepted as well.
 
fball22 said:
You have the right to hold all acceptances until April 30th. And if people want to hold them/pay deposits than that is totally fine. They aren't being rude or inconsiderate by doing so. Schools have a deadline to send financial aid packages to accepted students by April 15th (they can send it earlier if they are on top of things). Then you have until the 30th to let go of all offers but 1. This is definitely a factor in where I will be attending.

It's just how the system is set up. "Don't hate the player, hate the game".

In the long run it doesn't matter whether someone drops the acceptance now, or in April. If you are the next one on the waitlist you will get that spot. Ya it sucks to have to wait 3 more months, but once again that's just how the game is played.
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It's about being considerate, not about holding multiple spots until the final day just because you have that right. Even schools urge you to drop your spot the moment you know you won't be attending.....it is about being considerate to that school and their applicants. If it is about scholarship money, like i said, i get it but be considerate about it.
 
libertyyne said:
Look, here is a simple fact. Schools don't look at two applicants and say which one of these are we going to select. They look at you individually and evaluate you against a set of standardized criteria. Once you have been internally scored they tend to give you an acceptance or a rejection or a waitlist. It is not my fault that schools are waitlisting or accepting other applicants. You can believe what ever you want , but go talk to an adcom. If the school felt like the person met their criteria for acceptance, they would accept that person. If the school felt like that person doesn't meet the threshold they waitlisting that person. You are behaving as if schools have already handed out all the acceptances for this cycle already. That is verifiably untrue because people just got accepted as well.
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Yeah, I get that but you even said that part of it is luck....so before you go around calling people uncompetitive, you need to think about how you would feel in their situation and be respectful of other people's situations.
 
premed574 said:
You DID start criticizing people that were not holding multiple acceptances and you said we were not competitive and we were holding ourselves back - that is not true and uncalled for just as other people have pointed out as well. I, on the other hand, was anonymously pointing out the facts. Holding multiple spots is stringing along other applicants. That is a fact - and I was respectful in that I told you that I completely understand the scholarship thing but the facts are still there: as long as you have that spot, you are taking someone else's place.
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Holding multiple acceptances is not "stringing along other applicants." Most schools give out X number of acceptances, and with this they fully intend to fill a class. In a perfect world they would not pull off of a waitlist because they give out the correct number of acceptances to fill the class based on algorithmic data from the past.

your whole "As long as you have that spot, you are taking someone else's spot" is completely false
 
premed574 said:
It's about being considerate, not about holding multiple spots until the final day just because you have that right. Even schools urge you to drop your spot the moment you know you won't be attending.....it is about being considerate to that school and their applicants. If it is about scholarship money, like i said, i get it but be considerate about it.
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Here is an anecdote. I interviewed at a school after recieving my first acceptance. The second school offered me 40k in scholarship and accepted me. If I had been "considerate" I would have not gone to the interview after the first acceptance. I will excercise my rights as an applicant until April 30th.
 
Frogger27 said:
Holding multiple acceptances is not "stringing along other applicants." Most schools give out X number of acceptances, and with this they fully intend to fill a class. In a perfect world they would not pull off of a waitlist because they give out the correct number of acceptances to fill the class based on algorithmic data from the past.

your whole "As long as you have that spot, you are taking someone else's spot" is completely false
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No, its not. Even schools say that exact line. There wouldn't be waitlists if it was in fact false.
 
libertyyne said:
Here is an anecdote. I interviewed at a school after recieving my first acceptance. The second school offered me 40k in scholarship and accepted me. If I had been "considerate" I would have not gone to the interview after the first acceptance. I will excercise my rights as an applicant until April 30th.
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I said, I get the whole scholarship thing. But I'm talking about those that choose to hold spots just because they can. If you know you aren't going to a certain school for any reason, the considerate thing to do would be to give up that spot.
 
premed574 said:
I said, I get the whole scholarship thing. But I'm talking about those that choose to hold spots just because they can. If you know you aren't going to a certain school for any reason, the considerate thing to do would be to give up that spot.
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I wouldn't even interview at a place where I wouldn't go. And I have turned down interviews already.
 
premed574 said:
I said, I get the whole scholarship thing. But I'm talking about those that choose to hold spots just because they can. If you know you aren't going to a certain school for any reason, the considerate thing to do would be to give up that spot.
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then why would I give up an acceptance right now if you get the scholarship thing?
 
premed574 said:
No, its not. Even schools say that exact line. There wouldn't be waitlists if it was in fact false.
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libertyyne said:
I wouldn't even interview at a place where I wouldn't go. And I have turned down interviews already.
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I have never heard a school say that a candidate is stealingsomeone's spot by holding an acceptance. That is not how this process works. Schools give out 1.5-3x more acceptances than spots. How does that correlate to stealing a spot when there are more acceptances than spots?

I think going on interviews when there is 0% chance you are going to go to the school is inconsiderate to other candidates. I have withdrawn from a couple of interviews because I know I would not attend it over the current schools I have been accepted at. I interviewed and was accepted at WVU early in the cycle. I paid money to apply and travel, and I sure as hell am going to wait to see if I get a financial aid package from the school before I make a decision. I do not feel bad at all.

I understand it is frustrating to be on a wait list, but calling people inconsiderate when they are weighing options is pretty ridiculous
 
tskiihii said:
Have an upcoming interview here that I can't decide if to attend or not because it is a long trip for me to get waitlisted but we will see. I can understand the frustration but for as long as amcas/aamc say the deadline is april 30, then everyone should be allowed to guiltlessly keep their acceptances and attend as many interviews as their heart desires. Hell, I have schools that have been silent that I know I won't attend no matter what, but I paid for the app and took the time to fill out the annoying secondaries as well so they will be processed one way or another. Not withdrawing or relinquishing anything before I have to. This is such a permanent decision, not living with whatifs.
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Do you have other accepts? If you think there is a very small chance you would attend this school over a current accept, probably not worth it to go.
 
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