2019-2020 Loyola

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@mkahr12 in general, expect at least a month until decisions. There are many rate-limiting factors to finalize your decision, especially when exactly your interviewers submit their recommendations for you. They took approx 6-7 weeks to get my acceptance out.
 
cke11 said:
Yoooooo applicants, I'm a current first year, if you all have any questions about legit anything I can help you out to clear up some misconceptions about negatives or positives of Loyola. Congrats on those that have been accepted!
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What are the negatives you have seen and heard from your peers? What are the positives? What was your application timeline when applying for Loyola (ii, acceptance, etc.)? How is the curriculum so far for you? Thanks!
 
cke11 said:
Yoooooo applicants, I'm a current first year, if you all have any questions about legit anything I can help you out to clear up some misconceptions about negatives or positives of Loyola. Congrats on those that have been accepted!
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Can you clear up to rumors that I will not be receiving a II from Loyola this cycle? lol.

In all seriousness, any chance youd be able to find out the hard cutoff date for interviews?
 
mj123456 said:
What are the negatives you have seen and heard from your peers? What are the positives? What was your application timeline when applying for Loyola (ii, acceptance, etc.)? How is the curriculum so far for you? Thanks!
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1. I think one of the biggest negatives that I hear from students is the lack of NBME style questions on exams. Since we have in-house exams from professors, especially in our first course, there is so much minutia that just seems irrelevant that we will be tested on, but from what I'm told and what I've seen, the administration really has responded to this criticism in the past and in our new courses, professors are doing very well pointing out board related material and creating questions that are more board style.

2. Positives - there are really way too many because of how much I love this school. I will point out what drew me to Loyola and why I chose to come here.

- 1. The student's happiness - THIS IS HUGE and I really challenge you to remember on your other interviews how the students seemed. At Loyola, community is really big and everyone is very happy to be here. It is not a facade at all. It is a very very cooperative environment and I have yet to meet anyone that I or others in my class do not get along with. The administration does an amazing job with choosing students that will reflect the mission here.

- 2. Central location - On campus we have a VA, Children's hospital, Adult hospital and surgery center which is great because you don't have to travel to other states for rotations.

- 3. Residency programs - don't quote me on this and try to do your own research but I believe Loyola has most, if not all, of the residency programs you can pursue after an MD. I'm sure there are some smaller ones, Med-Genetics comes to mind that may not be here, but Loyola has neurosurgery, dermatology, ortho, plastics all the way down to your primary care specialties. And that is also huge because if, at the end the day, you don't do as well as you want on Step 1 and you are gunning for a competitive specialty, your connections here can help tremendously to match at our home institution.

I tried to pick some positives that aren't really talked about too much so I hope that helps!

3. My interview timeline was in December and I was accepted the beginning of January. I believe interviews are not yet filled up, but should be ending in mid-feburary.

4. Personally I love the curriculum and it's going very well. Yes its challenging, but is completely doable and the majority of my class is doing very very well. One thing I also wanted to point out was the pro-sected cadavers that we have, I am telling you right now this is a huge life saver. I was very weary of it coming in, but you're only in lab for 40 min a day watching the dissections being done and you get to actually see everything. People always say they want to do the dissection, but in actuality you have no idea what you're doing and 90% of the time you end up cutting the tiny nerves and arteries you're looking for. So not having to be in lab for 4 hours a day is incredibly time efficient. And Loyola keeps the cadaver lab open 24/7 in case you do want to come down and dissect!


Hope that helps!
 
osamine said:
Can you clear up to rumors that I will not be receiving a II from Loyola this cycle? lol.

In all seriousness, any chance youd be able to find out the hard cutoff date for interviews?
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Just talked to admissions and your file is being reviewed tomorrow.


Nah jk jk, but I think that it is within the next couple weeks although I am not certain and administration doesn't usually share that with us. I do think they end their interviews mid-late February so potentially could be sending more II out?
 
cke11 said:
Yoooooo applicants, I'm a current first year, if you all have any questions about legit anything I can help you out to clear up some misconceptions about negatives or positives of Loyola. Congrats on those that have been accepted!
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I was wondering if you knew more specifics about average board scores and residency placement. At my interview they were very vague and only said that most students match in the mid west and 14 percent in Loyola but not much else. Anything else you could add would be great!
 
Medicalmelon said:
I was wondering if you knew more specifics about average board scores and residency placement. At my interview they were very vague and only said that most students match in the mid west and 14 percent in Loyola but not much else. Anything else you could add would be great!
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So this is a weird one and I have no idea why they don't send out Match Lists because I was able to receive them last year, but it may be a new policy and if I could I would share them, but I have to respect their decision to keep them private. With that in mind, Loyola matches very very strongly, some off the top of my head (Mass Gen - gen surg, Mayo - Ortho x2, Pediatrics - Children Hospital of Philadelphia, etc). These are institutions that are regarded as top of their field for those specialties so I really am unsure why the school doesn't share that excitement, but there may be other things were not aware of. There are matches in neurosurgery, derm, ortho, and plastics so you really won't be limited. A large portion of primary care specialties as well, but I would not be concerned at all about residency placement at Loyola.
 
cke11 said:
1. I think one of the biggest negatives that I hear from students is the lack of NBME style questions on exams. Since we have in-house exams from professors, especially in our first course, there is so much minutia that just seems irrelevant that we will be tested on, but from what I'm told and what I've seen, the administration really has responded to this criticism in the past and in our new courses, professors are doing very well pointing out board related material and creating questions that are more board style.

2. Positives - there are really way too many because of how much I love this school. I will point out what drew me to Loyola and why I chose to come here.

- 1. The student's happiness - THIS IS HUGE and I really challenge you to remember on your other interviews how the students seemed. At Loyola, community is really big and everyone is very happy to be here. It is not a facade at all. It is a very very cooperative environment and I have yet to meet anyone that I or others in my class do not get along with. The administration does an amazing job with choosing students that will reflect the mission here.

- 2. Central location - On campus we have a VA, Children's hospital, Adult hospital and surgery center which is great because you don't have to travel to other states for rotations.

- 3. Residency programs - don't quote me on this and try to do your own research but I believe Loyola has most, if not all, of the residency programs you can pursue after an MD. I'm sure there are some smaller ones, Med-Genetics comes to mind that may not be here, but Loyola has neurosurgery, dermatology, ortho, plastics all the way down to your primary care specialties. And that is also huge because if, at the end the day, you don't do as well as you want on Step 1 and you are gunning for a competitive specialty, your connections here can help tremendously to match at our home institution.

I tried to pick some positives that aren't really talked about too much so I hope that helps!

3. My interview timeline was in December and I was accepted the beginning of January. I believe interviews are not yet filled up, but should be ending in mid-feburary.

4. Personally I love the curriculum and it's going very well. Yes its challenging, but is completely doable and the majority of my class is doing very very well. One thing I also wanted to point out was the pro-sected cadavers that we have, I am telling you right now this is a huge life saver. I was very weary of it coming in, but you're only in lab for 40 min a day watching the dissections being done and you get to actually see everything. People always say they want to do the dissection, but in actuality you have no idea what you're doing and 90% of the time you end up cutting the tiny nerves and arteries you're looking for. So not having to be in lab for 4 hours a day is incredibly time efficient. And Loyola keeps the cadaver lab open 24/7 in case you do want to come down and dissect!


Hope that helps!
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That does! Thanks for sharing. The more I learn about Loyola the more I want to go here. Please admins, accept meeeee
 
Medicalmelon said:
I was wondering if you knew more specifics about average board scores and residency placement. At my interview they were very vague and only said that most students match in the mid west and 14 percent in Loyola but not much else. Anything else you could add would be great!
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When I was accepted last year, I emailed admissions and they shared the match lists with me within a day or so. I second how impressive the match lists were and it made me wonder why they didn't share them in the first place.

Second look is April 3rd and they will be posting match lists from the last few years on the admissions doors so you can take a better look at those.

The last interview day will be Thursday, February 13th. If you are interested in Loyola and still have not heard anything, it wouldn't hurt to send in any updates or call the admissions office. They really like hearing from applicants because they get so many applications, and any additional interest that you show makes their lives easier 🙂

Edit: Just saw some comments about the portal counting. Loyola and most other medical schools have metrics to determine interest, one of them being your activity on their portal (AKA how many updates you have uploaded or other ways of expressing interest like if you've called the admissions office, etc.). This is kept in mind as it makes their process easier of determining who would like to come to the school. That being said, the admissions team is small and is not sitting there counting how many times you have logged onto your portal. 🙂 But they ARE very appreciative of anyone who makes it clear they want to attend the school and continues to do that throughout the application cycle (They get 15,000 apps and there are ~4 adcom members, so you get the picture). If you want to hear more about the admissions process, Dean Nabers is extremely transparent on the Accepted podcast as someone mentioned previously.

Good luck everyone with the rest of the cycle and let us know if any questions come up!
 
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esyabelmd said:
When I was accepted last year, I emailed admissions and they shared the match lists with me! I second how impressive the match lists were and it made me wonder why they didn't share them in the first place. Second look is April 3rd and they will be posting match lists from the last few years on the admissions doors so you can take a better look at those.

The last interview day will be Thursday, February 13th. If you are interested in Loyola and still have not heard anything, it wouldn't hurt to send in any updates or even call the admissions office. They really like hearing from applicants because they get so many applications, and any additional interest that you show makes their lives easier 🙂
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Do you when Loyola tends to send out official information regarding second look? I assumed it would by on April 3rd this year, but I didn’t want to book flights just in case I guessed the weekend wrong. Thanks!
 
SeaHusky said:
Do you when Loyola tends to send out official information regarding second look? I assumed it would by on April 3rd this year, but I didn’t want to book flights just in case I guessed the weekend wrong. Thanks!
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Last year, I received the second look invitation in mid-March. Not sure if that will change this year or not. I know the date of second look because they just emailed all of us about it so we can come say hi and hangout with you all 🙂
 
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esyabelmd said:
When I was accepted last year, I emailed admissions and they shared the match lists with me within a day or so. I second how impressive the match lists were and it made me wonder why they didn't share them in the first place.

Second look is April 3rd and they will be posting match lists from the last few years on the admissions doors so you can take a better look at those.

The last interview day will be Thursday, February 13th. If you are interested in Loyola and still have not heard anything, it wouldn't hurt to send in any updates or call the admissions office. They really like hearing from applicants because they get so many applications, and any additional interest that you show makes their lives easier 🙂

Edit: Just saw some comments about the portal counting. Loyola and most other medical schools have metrics to determine interest, one of them being your activity on their portal (AKA how many updates you have uploaded or other ways of expressing interest like if you've called the admissions office, etc.). This is kept in mind as it makes their process easier of determining who would like to come to the school. That being said, the admissions team is small and is not sitting there counting how many times you have logged onto your portal. 🙂 But they ARE very appreciative of anyone who makes it clear they want to attend the school and continues to do that throughout the application cycle (They get 15,000 apps and there are ~4 adcom members, so you get the picture). If you want to hear more about the admissions process, Dean Nabers is extremely transparent on the Accepted podcast as someone mentioned previously.

Good luck everyone with the rest of the cycle and let us know if any questions come up!
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Just to clarify @SeaHusky and no offense @esyabelmd the first look is typically the first weekend of april. My m1 friend said they sent out an email yesterday saying the TENTATIVE date is april 3 but that is still TENTATIVE -- and this was only sent internally. So I would wait everyone before booking for that date. Also last year the facebook group was created in early FEB so I imagine that is when most info is disseminated.
 
tensor fascia latte said:
Last year, I received the second look invitation in mid-March. Not sure if that will change this year or not. I know the date of second look because they just emailed all of us about it so we can come say hi and hangout with you all 🙂
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Do you happen to remember the layout of second look day? Just wondering what to expect
 
SinglePayerNow said:
Kind of, I sent them an ITA in the Fall and received a generic non-answer reply, but then 10 days later I had an II! Worth a shot
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Same expereince. Sent ITA 10 days later (11 to be exact) II. I also Cc'ed someone on admissions i had talked to before. I think if anything it got my file looked at an extra time.

But to be fair we both got accepted so they obviously liked our applications. I think if anything it could get an extra set of eyes, but you still need a good app.
 
Talldoctor96 said:
Same expereince. Sent ITA 10 days later (11 to be exact) II. I also Cc'ed someone on admissions i had talked to before. I think if anything it got my file looked at an extra time.

But to be fair we both got accepted so they obviously liked our applications. I think if anything it could get an extra set of eyes, but you still need a good app.
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Loyola's admissions staff is about to hate you both lol.
 
Does anyone else's app still say your application is under review? I'm surprised I haven't been put on hold yet but I wonder if they just really didn't care about my app and are just planning to silently reject me or something lol
 
sfdoctor96 said:
Does anyone else's app still say your application is under review? I'm surprised I haven't been put on hold yet but I wonder if they just really didn't care about my app and are just planning to silently reject me or something lol
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I'm in the same boat and I think there is probably a thousand more of us haha
 
amarandi said:
I'm in the same boat and I think there is probably a thousand more of us haha
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On the podcast dean nabers does he says they narrow down the 12000 complete apps to about 5000 that are competitive for interview and narrow that to 700. So the thousand number is probably accurate.
 
NIKK234 said:
Does he comment on people who are put on hold? I’ve been on hold since October :/
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I know some users on this thread are dead-set that people on hold don't get II's, but I'll repeat what I said before: I was placed on hold in August, received an II in January, and was accepted in February. So yes, you still have a chance! There are no absolutes in this process.
 
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