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lilyz said:
Did anyone get a confirmation email after submitting their secondary. The email I received after submitting my secondary stated “ Once your application is complete, we will send you a confirmation email. “ I haven’t received any email since.
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Yes. I got a confirmation email that my app complete the same time as the confirmation of submission email.
 
For those of you who have gotten interviews, what days were available?
 
qwerta said:
from what people have posted I think they’re mostly going after high stats applicants first... hopefully they stay true to their “holistic review” and consider applicants with lower scores
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Yeah, because April 1, 2, 3 are the only being offered (or so it appears?) I'm hoping that they save later dates for us lower stat holistic applicants!
 
Would you have any chance here if your application doesn't have any focus on primary care? lol
 
Man, didn't know the app opened 3/1 :/

Hoping I didn't shoot myself in the foot.
 
qwerta said:
from what people have posted I think they’re mostly going after high stats applicants first... hopefully they stay true to their “holistic review” and consider applicants with lower scores
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Let’s be real...the vast majority of those accepted to this “primary care” centric program will be very high stat applicants, with most of their clinical experience and demonstrated interest being geared more towards various sub-specialties than family medicine. Maybe a few will have spent a few days shadowing a primary care doc.

So...the school will email rejected applicants late in the cycle, as if they’re being recruited, giving false hope to those who haven’t had much luck in order to squeeze a few more dollars out of them. Competitive applicants will lie in their essays about wanting to practice internal medicine in order to get free tuition at a top school. The circle of life continues. Lol.
 
Dhokla said:
Would you have any chance here if your application doesn't have any focus on primary care? lol
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Potentially if you can feign enough interest in primary care in your secondary essays but I personally think it's unfair to take a spot from applicants who are actually interested in primary care
 
Toomuchtuna said:
Let’s be real...the vast majority of those accepted to this “primary care” centric program will be very high stat applicants, with most of their clinical experience and demonstrated interest being geared more towards various sub-specialties than family medicine. Maybe a few will have spent a few days shadowing a primary care doc.

So...the school will email rejected applicants late in the cycle, as if they’re being recruited, giving false hope to those who haven’t had much luck in order to squeeze a few more dollars out of them. Competitive applicants will lie in their essays about wanting to practice internal medicine in order to get free tuition at a top school. The circle of life continues. Lol.
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got an II here as well, low gpa but high mcat, and i picked IM! i was complete really soon after the application came out. the only available dates were april 2 and 3, so i guess april 1 got filled up pretty quickly.
 
Toomuchtuna said:
Let’s be real...the vast majority of those accepted to this “primary care” centric program will be very high stat applicants, with most of their clinical experience and demonstrated interest being geared more towards various sub-specialties than family medicine. Maybe a few will have spent a few days shadowing a primary care doc.

So...the school will email rejected applicants late in the cycle, as if they’re being recruited, giving false hope to those who haven’t had much luck in order to squeeze a few more dollars out of them. Competitive applicants will lie in their essays about wanting to practice internal medicine in order to get free tuition at a top school. The circle of life continues. Lol.
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They’re really only hurting themselves if that’s the only reason for applying there.... but whatever c’est la vie
 
premed1980 said:
For you and others who received an interview- what specialty did you select?

I can't remember where I saw this, but I think these essays are reviewed by the specialty leaders to select separate interview candidates?
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I chose pediatrics
 
lilqt123 said:
Potentially if you can feign enough interest in primary care in your secondary essays but I personally think it's unfair to take a spot from applicants who are actually interested in primary care
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my application is centered around an internal medicine sub specialty so technically i'm still telling the truth about wanting to do internal medicine.
 
diazonium said:
I'm wondering if the surgery option was a screen...
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Hey there friend, I'm in the same boat as you for surgery. They're probably going to interview and accept a really low number of surgery students since it's not really primary care.

Just some friendly words of advice. I feel like disconnecting from the internet and focusing on distracting yourself might be in your best interest. Constantly refreshing sdn, email and portals put me in a toxic place until I realized what it was doing to me. I'm hoping to go out and get lost in photography all weekend cuz I have an engagement party, model and a much-needed hike all scheduled. TGIF.
 
Chose pediatrics. Submitted my essays last night at like 10:30 pm, got an II this morning! ORM LM ~75, quite low GPA but very high MCAT, also from the nearby area and coincidentally one of the LORs in my committee letter packet is from a doctor whose private practice works with Winthrop.

Available dates were April 4th and 5th for me! Very pleasantly surprised at the turnaround for this one.
 
should i bother putting an app in here? could probably finish the secondary by this Sunday
 
I just feel stupid for writing a 2500 character essay instead of a long paper. I bet they went through my app and were like yea she doesn’t seem interested even though I’ve always wanted to do internal medicine. Oh wellllll it is what it is
 
Ferry Boats said:
I just feel stupid for writing a 2500 character essay instead of a long paper. I bet they went through my app and were like yea she doesn’t seem interested even though I’ve always wanted to do internal medicine. Oh wellllll it is what it is
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I don't think they really take the length of the essays into consideration, mine were around 2500-3000 characters long (received II)
 
Otoco said:
Chose pediatrics. Submitted my essays last night at like 10:30 pm, got an II this morning! ORM LM ~75, quite low GPA but very high MCAT, also from the nearby area and coincidentally one of the LORs in my committee letter packet is from a doctor whose private practice works with Winthrop.

Available dates were April 4th and 5th for me! Very pleasantly surprised at the turnaround for this one.
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Just how high of a MCAT are we talking here?
 
All these people saying they're screening for high stat applicants and I have high stats but no II. I think they're looking for tons of primary care related experience.
 
I received II Thursday evening. I submitted March 4th. Average GPA, good MCAT. I chose internal medicine. I’m a little bit of a different candidate, I come from a public health background and really enjoy longitudinal medicine/internal medicine. Interview options were April 4, 5, 7. I’m going April 5th.
 
NerdTheRaging said:
Just how high of a MCAT are we talking here?
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100th percentile, my gpa is not the greatest because of a specific high credit science course but there were extenuating circumstances that I’ve been able to successfully communicate to other schools this cycle.
 
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