Thanks! Gonna be living near fishtown/east kensington area? Will def have to transfer to patco if i take the septa down to market. But I dont know much about the parking situation near the school. Is it a monthly fee/is it a secured area/is the parking area close to the school itself?
Hm, might not be that bad if you're just taking the MFL to the patco! You'll probably want to try both out and then decide. I'm not sure whether the parking situation will be different next year, but right now it's a fenced lot right behind the school with a first come, first served policy and no fee. There's a garage across from the school, but that costs money.
We're on a block system, so we generally have one big exam every 4-6 weeks at the end of the block. The exams are all for credit, although second year you do some practice step exams. Otherwise, every week there's a formative quiz that gives you some practice questions to do on your own time. We're the standard sort of pass/fail. M2s are currently in the middle of their hardcore Step prep and take Step 1 before beginning 3rd year. They get a chunk of time for dedicated study, but I don't know the details, and I haven't heard much of anything about Step 2. I'm pretty sure there are some clerkships that are elsewhere, but almost everything is at the main hospital here.
Similar to all but the most stodgy! The big difference for us is that we do our anatomy alongside our blocks. We don't start with cadavers until skeleto-muscular systems, and then we do the relevant dissections as we move through the organs.
I think LOIs are usually not all that useful, but I can't speak to that with any authority. As for waitlist movement, it usually starts mid-May. Most years have seen a good amount of waitlist movement, but last year saw very little. Hopefully last year was a fluke and you'll get a call, but I wouldn't expect to hear anything for a couple months.
15 is maybe not that many, and keep in mind there's a difference between 15 accepted and 15 matriculated. But I'm not judging by number of people I know who got in off the waitlist. The admissions folks are the ones who told me (and others) that there was not much waitlist movement last year. They try to be pretty conservative with the number of acceptances they offer off the bat - it's such a small school so the percent of accepted students who matriculate can vary quite a bit, and you do not want to go over your enrollment number - so their plan has been, in years prior, to make good use of a waitlist. Can't promise that that hasn't changed, but I do know that last year didn't see much waitlist movement.
I’m going business casual. Dress pants (or khakies), button down shirt, belt, decent shoes. I feel like you can’t really go wrong with that
Congrats! Super jelly.Accepted!! Got the call about an hour ago
No, I received my institutional scholarship aid email today. Last week I received the award package with loans via snail mail.
no I got an e-mail today with the need based scholarship info. They will be following it up with a snail mail updated award letter
According to last year's thread it was April 25
I don't know for sure, but I don't think they got all the way through the priority list last year, although it may be different IS/OOS.
