If you want to make a lot of friends and live in a "decent" apartment, while being super close to campus then CT is the place for you. downsides: you have a decent walk from the parking lot to the elevators, this can be annoying if you have a lot of groceries. Parties can be loud and if it is a night of an exam, there will be a decent amount of them. You can't really go walking around the neighborhood and occasionally there is a homeless man yelling at your building at 3 am. Honestly I made my best friends living there. It's like the dorms but you live in on your own (if you choose). I recommend if you're looking for friends.
i'm in the process of writing a letter of intent (waitlisted, too). not to stray away from your question but if you don't mind, what did you generally say in your letter?
Yes we're still on break and you should get a confirmation
Where are you off too? MD or DO?
I am on the wait list. Does anyone know what you chances are of being accepted if you are on the waitlist? I figure with 2 campuses there should be enough space
I sent them an email sometime last week and got an automated reply that they would be back in the office today (January 2nd) and would do their best to respond to messages...I haven't heard back yet, though.
Currently off to a DO. Though still waiting for one MD school's waitlist.
I haven't officially paid my deposit, but yes! I am so excitedDid you commit to KCU yet?
Perfect. I was planning on making a trip up in March during my spring break to look at housing, but will postpone it if this is the case. Thanks!
Congrats!
They send a link a few weeks after you receive your acceptance. Don't sweat it. There haven't been many posts anyway.
You can either wait for the link as mentioned above, or just search "KCUCOM Class of 2022" on Facebook and request to join!
Okay thank you!
I was told at my interview that KCU doesn't interview for waitlist spots. N=1.
Being waitlisted is different from "interviewing for a wailist position." You were interviewing for a spot in the class and ultimately waitlisted.
That's a pretty pretentious statement. You were most likely wait-listed due to grades or MCAT, and if those line up with the averages then it was your interview performance.
Advantages of joplin: the professors will give you heavy 'hints' about what will be on the exam. When I watched some of the lectures or viewed the power point slides I saw quiz questions or exam questions basically outlined.Advantages of Joplin: I think we have fantastic basic science faculty. That being said, you can access the recordings of both campuses and can therefore pick and choose who you want to listen to (Kinde for Biochem, all the way). We also have more up to date facilities and all of our campus is contained in one building. We don't have quite as many study rooms as KC does, but housing is a bit cheaper so rent a single family home and get your own study room
Disadvantages: We do not have anatomy fellows. Our anatomy practical grades are not quite up to snuff when compared to KC (see, KC? You got us back for our Biochem win xD). Some of our instructors are new to medical school teaching, but it isn't a huge deal. I haven't noticed a lapse in quality of education. We also have 0 night life in Joplin. Not that you really have time for it anyway.
You won't be able to change campuses and they have no plans of making that available.
I just finished a write-up of rotations in the Joplin thread. Check it out here. Our equipment is all brand new and, while we have minor technical difficulties, I haven't noticed any major problems. I love the setup of the new campus and really love the faculty they hired to teach down here. KC has great instructors and Joplin has great instructors. Luckily, you get to choose which lecture you want to watch on Mediasite if one is way better than the other.
If test scores are low, they are curved up to 85%. SOme questions are thrown out of tests if a lot of people miss them and sometimes they accept multiple answers if they were vague during the lecture. The overall class grade is curved up to a mean of 85% after all grades are added.
Advantages of joplin: the professors will give you heavy 'hints' about what will be on the exam. When I watched some of the lectures or viewed the power point slides I saw quiz questions or exam questions basically outlined.
Hopefully that changes with the new BB update.Right back at ya. I don't remember the lecture, but we got a few questions that weren't even presented in Joplin
Can't we all just get along.....
First of all, I wasn't being pretentious at all. I don't know if you saw the "lol" at the beginning of my statement, but yeah "sarcasm". Like they said, KCU interviews everyone for a spot, I don't see why they would have invited me to an interview if they didn't think I had a chance, and by that I'm referring to my whole application including my GPA and MCAT. And no, I think my interview went pretty good actually though I can never know. Anyway, I already made my peace with being waitlisted at KCU as I already put down my deposit at another school, so there was really no reason for me to be pretentious.
KCU has a pretty high post interview acceptance rate.
Are you a non traditional student?
Congrats on the MD acceptance!
Just throwing out that I am
You can find the handbook on their website which has the curriculum in it. It's under the admissions tab and then student policies. I would post the link but I don't meet the requirements to post a link on here.
