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2017-2018 SUNY - Downstate

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If there were periods longer than 3 months, from the time you graduated from high school to now, when you were not employed full-time or in college full-time, please briefly describe your activities. (Limit 150 words)

If you are not attending college full time as of September 15, please describe your activities for the period September 15 to July 1. (Limit 150 words)

If you are not from the 5 boroughs of New York City, describe what personal, urban experiences prepare you to live and study in New York City, and what will be your personal support system. (Limit 150 words)

If you had a completed application to the College of Medicine in a prior application cycle, please highlight any changes since your previous application in a list with dates. (Limit 150 words)

If you have a specific reason why you wish to attend SUNY Downstate or a medical school in New York City, please explain. (Limit 150 words)

Good luck to everyone applying!
 
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Also unable to login, got this message "The username, password, or application year you entered is incorrect"
 
This is like the 3rd school so far that has had some kind of glitch with their secondaries this cycle, University of Michigan sent out broken links last night but then sent out working links in the morning, should be the same for this!
 
One of the few times SDN has alleviated my anxiety. I really thought they had my birthday wrong, thanks guys!
 
They haven't sent out an email saying the system is working yet, but I can now get into the secondary

Seems that the prompts are all the same minus a few word limit deductions. Also, there are added prompts for reapplicants (what have you changed?) and a new prompt for why Downstate/med school in NYC
 
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2018 prompts @WedgeDawg @Lucca @Ismet @gyngyn
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If there were periods longer than 3 months, from the time you graduated from high school to now, when you were not employed full-time or in college full-time, please briefly describe your activities. (Limit 150 words)

If you are not attending college full time as of September 15, please describe your activities for the period September 15 to July 1. (Limit 150 words)

If you are not from the 5 boroughs of New York City, describe what personal, urban experiences prepare you to live and study in New York City, and what will be your personal support system. (Limit 150 words)

If you had a completed application to the College of Medicine in a prior application cycle, please highlight any changes since your previous application in a list with dates. (Limit 150 words)

If you have a specific reason why you wish to attend SUNY Downstate or a medical school in New York City, please explain. (Limit 150 words)

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To my knowledge, these are the same as last year's except for the reapplicant question, which I haven't seen before.
 
Help! I just rewrote my answer to make it longer, and now it's telling me my 148 words exceed the limit of 100 even though the question now says 150? Anyone else having this problem?
 

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marcopolo411 said:
Help! I just rewrote my answer to make it longer, and now it's telling me my 148 words exceed the limit of 100 even though the question now says 150? Anyone else having this problem?
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Yeah, I cut my answer down to 100 - I'm sure they will either fix it, but figured it would be safer to cut it down in case they actually did mean to make it out of 100 max and didn't just mess up the text box coding and make it 100 on accident
 
marcopolo411 said:
Help! I just rewrote my answer to make it longer, and now it's telling me my 148 words exceed the limit of 100 even though the question now says 150? Anyone else having this problem?
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Wow these folks really should get it together. I just called the office and they told me to leave the entry blank and to send them an e-mail with an attachment of my answer to that question...
 
sss1219 said:
Yeah, I cut my answer down to 100 - I'm sure they will either fix it, but figured it would be safer to cut it down in case they actually did mean to make it out of 100 max and didn't just mess up the text box coding and make it 100 on accident
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They did say it was an error and meant to leave it at 150, but I don't know if it's better to err on the side of caution? My 150-worder is way better than my 100-worder lol
 
marcopolo411 said:
Wow these folks really should get it together. I just called the office and they told me to leave the entry blank and to send them an e-mail with an attachment of my answer to that question...
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I think I'll just wait for them to fix it haha
 
Oh boy, I thought you just meant the reapplicant question, I had no idea the why downstate prompt has the same issue. That's actually way more of a problem, I hope they fix it soon :\

marcopolo411 said:
Wow these folks really should get it together. I just called the office and they told me to leave the entry blank and to send them an e-mail with an attachment of my answer to that question...
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Yeah, I think this may delay your app considering the volume of emails they're going to be getting in the coming weeks. Hopefully the number of calls they're getting about this makes them fix it soon!
 
This school needs to get their secondary together lmao. So everyone touched on the 100 v 150 word limit issue. But also once u go to submit the thing won't let u log in to pay. like :punch:
 
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Anyone with a feewaiver able to submit? I only get "Since you have an AMCAS fee wavier, you supplemental application fee will be waived." and no real "SUBMIT" or "CONFIRM" button. Does this mean it's been submitted?

EDIT: emailed admissions and said i was submitted!
 
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For the coursework section - If we were on a quarter system, do they want us to do the credit conversion (so I guess I multiply all my credits by .67?) or do they want us to just put in what it says on our transcript?
 
So I'm not getting the error about the word limit anymore, but for my "Why SUNY/ why NYC" question I have a full answer under 150 words but the website is telling me my app is incomplete, with that answer in red. Anyone else have this issue?
 
Finally submittable! Looks like they fixed it

I paid my fee, but whenever I try to login again it takes me back to the payment page and says 'app will be forwarded to the office when you pay'. I even have the payment confirmation email in my inbox. Anyone else see this?
 
Submitted mine on Wednesday and did everything with the 150 word limit. Can someone clarify if it was meant to be 100? Should I email them my responses? -- because now that it's submitted I can no longer go back and see if anything was truncated in the app.
 
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