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Does anyone know how to reach admissions?? Or have a specific person I can email? I was accepted a few months ago, but I never paid the deposit to hold my seat. I've even emailed them saying that I would like to withdraw my application. However, I am still receiving emails from them as if I am attending and they are still listed on my AMCAS. I want to make sure I am down to 3 by the April 15th deadline. Pls let me know if anyone has gotten a response from them. Thanks.
 
cupcake81 said:
Does anyone know how to reach admissions?? Or have a specific person I can email? I was accepted a few months ago, but I never paid the deposit to hold my seat. I've even emailed them saying that I would like to withdraw my application. However, I am still receiving emails from them as if I am attending and they are still listed on my AMCAS. I want to make sure I am down to 3 by the April 15th deadline. Pls let me know if anyone has gotten a response from them. Thanks.
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I suggest sending your withdrawal email to both [email protected] and [email protected].
 
vanessaPR33512 said:
Did you receive any previous emails from Meharry prior to this rejection? Like did they send you a "thank you for applying" email?
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I received this same email but I did not get an official rejection. I think they sent this application out to everyone who’s still under review in case they actually want you but think you need a stepping stone. Also, the deadline for the MHS program is about a month away so I think since they are taking so long, they want to be safe and have everyone apply so at least the possibility of you doing the program is there, in the event they think you’d be perfect for it. Rather than miss out on the chance of having you altogether. At the pace Meharry is going, who knows when they’ll be done. I’m sure there are many more brilliant applicants they’d like to interview.
 
GodHelpMe2MD said:
I received this same email but I did not get an official rejection. I think they sent this application out to everyone who’s still under review in case they actually want you but think you need a stepping stone. Also, the deadline for the MHS program is about a month away so I think since they are taking so long, they want to be safe and have everyone apply so at least the possibility of you doing the program is there, in the event they think you’d be perfect for it. Rather than miss out on the chance of having you altogether. At the pace Meharry is going, who knows when they’ll be done. I’m sure there are many more brilliant applicants they’d like to interview.
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i didn't get any letter but nor did i get a rejection yet. hm..
 
When Did you apply? What is your stats?
GodHelpMe2MD said:
I received this same email but I did not get an official rejection. I think they sent this application out to everyone who’s still under review in case they actually want you but think you need a stepping stone. Also, the deadline for the MHS program is about a month away so I think since they are taking so long, they want to be safe and have everyone apply so at least the possibility of you doing the program is there, in the event they think you’d be perfect for it. Rather than miss out on the chance of having you altogether. At the pace Meharry is going, who knows when they’ll be done. I’m sure there are many more brilliant applicants they’d like to interview.
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Anyone emailed them asking if they will be sending more interview invites?
 
vanessaPR33512 said:
Anyone emailed them asking if they will be sending more interview invites?
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hey i noticed you've been asking a lot of questions about interview invites and all that. this is a tough time for everyone and i think anyone that hasn't received an II yet is anxious. when we do receive an II we will respond to your post.
 
MD2BEEE24 said:
I've heard an invitation to MHS is synonymous with a rejection... but I'm obvi not for sure since I'm not an admin rep

I think I may sift through past years threads to see if there is a trend?
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I have heard that as well.
 
vanessaPR33512 said:
Can you post a copy of the email you received?
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I hope this message finds you well and you are safe. With the recent pandemic and considering health services still being provided on campus with Meharrians on the front lines to assist those in need of help, thank you for your patience as we work diligently to respond to email and phone inquiries.



Many are inquiring about future admissions implications of the pandemic. Please refer to guidelines set forth by AAMC. Admissions committee review is still in process and the interest in your application is sincere. Additional guidance will be sent to you as soon as possible. Please understand that your health and safety is our primary concern.



Please continue to operate in alignment with maintaining social distance and other COVID-19 guidelines according to the CDC. We are working diligently to maintain our commitment to you and to Meharry. Please take care and be well.

Kind Regards,

Office of Admissions and Recruitment
Meharry Medical College

[email protected]

This is what they sent me.
 
Just to echo that email, I'm a current MHS student at Meharry. I know this process and the waiting is frustrating. Unfortunately, between the recent tornado in Nashville and then dealing with Covid 19, the school, like many schools across the country, as a whole has been busy. (I know this is still different from the other schools you maybe in communications with.) Meharry is also one of the 3 COVID 19 testing centers in Nashville right now. It's unprecedented times and admin is trying their best to deal with this process and their current students.

The best advice I can give is to be patient and if you're a believer, have faith. What's for you, will be for you.

Full disclosure: no, I do not work nor am I affiliated with admissions at all. This is just from my experience through the process last year and being a student at the school for the last 9 months
 
MD2BEEE24 said:
I've heard an invitation to MHS is synonymous with a rejection... but I'm obvi not for sure since I'm not an admin rep

I think I may sift through past years threads to see if there is a trend?
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You’re right. People who have been offered the MHS in the past are rejected from SOM


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Theprofessor’sprofessor said:
They put a hold on interviews due to covid
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How long are they going to put a hold on interviews until? If they were gonna send more interviews, they would have sent it already.
They need to give some time to send acceptances to people. They didn't even mention if they were gonna do more interviews or not. Its very frustrating, I understand why people are starting to withdraw their app
 
vanessaPR33512 said:
How long are they going to put a hold on interviews until? If they were gonna send more interviews, they would have sent it already.
They need to give some time to send acceptances to people. They didn't even mention if they were gonna do more interviews or not. Its very frustrating, I understand why people are starting to withdraw their app
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They haven’t done a good job at communicating. At this point there should have been an email sent explaining what their plan is moving forward. I will say I’m truly disappointed and while I understand all that is happening and what they are dealing with, I don’t feel like it’s a good enough reason to leave us in the dark. We’ve put some much time and money into this process. It’s truly not fair so i totally understand your frustration. Continue to have faith and I’ll keep us all in my prayers tonight.



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vanessaPR33512 said:
How long are they going to put a hold on interviews until? If they were gonna send more interviews, they would have sent it already.
They need to give some time to send acceptances to people. They didn't even mention if they were gonna do more interviews or not. Its very frustrating, I understand why people are starting to withdraw their app
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I understand this is a big deal for you and all of us but there is a pandemic going on and people are dying a minimal 100,000-200,000 people the cdc originally said . So if Meharry is pausing because of them being overwhelmed as a testing center , as future physcians we should understand. You can get another chance to apply to Meharry but people can’t get the ones they lost back.
It will all be fine if this is the school for you it will all work out but don’t stress yourself out. If we don’t get interviews here it happens if we do great but the pandemic is a priority and as mentioned before as future physcians we should understand
 
GodHelpMe2MD said:
They haven’t done a good job at communicating. At this point there should have been an email sent explaining what their plan is moving forward. I will say I’m truly disappointed and while I understand all that is happening and what they are dealing with, I don’t feel like it’s a good enough reason to leave us in the dark. We’ve put some much time and money into this process. It’s truly not fair so i totally understand your frustration. Continue to have faith and I’ll keep us all in my prayers tonight.



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Thank you very much my friend for your sincere and thoughtful message! Greatly appreciated! Most importantly, stay safe & practice social distancing! 😉
 
Theprofessor’sprofessor said:
I understand this is a big deal for you and all of us but there is a pandemic going on and people are dying a minimal 100,000-200,000 people the cdc originally said . So if Meharry is pausing because of them being overwhelmed as a testing center , as future physcians we should understand. You can get another chance to apply to Meharry but people can’t get the ones they lost back.
It will all be fine if this is the school for you it will all work out but don’t stress yourself out. If we don’t get interviews here it happens if we do great but the pandemic is a priority and as mentioned before as future physcians we should understand
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Thank you for your considerate message! I definitely agree with you, as future physicians, we have to prioritize the pandemic. Please stay safe!
 
Theprofessor’sprofessor said:
I understand this is a big deal for you and all of us but there is a pandemic going on and people are dying a minimal 100,000-200,000 people the cdc originally said . So if Meharry is pausing because of them being overwhelmed as a testing center , as future physcians we should understand. You can get another chance to apply to Meharry but people can’t get the ones they lost back.
It will all be fine if this is the school for you it will all work out but don’t stress yourself out. If we don’t get interviews here it happens if we do great but the pandemic is a priority and as mentioned before as future physcians we should understand
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I totally understand where you are coming from. And while I agree, I think people have the right to be frustrated. I think the biggest issue everyone is having is that the lack of communication isn’t new for Meharry. If you read previous sdn message threads from the last two years, it looks exactly like ours and there wasn’t a pandemic going on. Meharry has a history of being disorganized and not communicating well. Peoples concerns and frustrations are valid and we shouldn’t dismiss them. Some people aren’t just moving themselves (some are moving with kids, family, etc). This is why we have this community page so that we can lean on each other because times like this are stressful and sometimes only the people that are going through this process can understand. I appreciate your positivity and being able to step back and look at the entire picture, especially when a lot of us can’t right now.


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Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.
There are also 4 Canadians in our class of 120, so Meharry does accept students from Canada.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Off topic, but do most students live on campus or off campus?
 
I was checking out the Nashville crime map and it's telling me that there was a homicide that occurred on campus on the 12th. Can anyone speak about the safety of the area? Cause yikes if true...
 
FrankLake said:
I was checking out the Nashville crime map and it's telling me that there was a homicide that occurred on campus on the 12th. Can anyone speak about the safety of the area? Cause yikes if true...
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Lol if it's true, they didn't tell any of us. Could it have happened near the campus? definitely but nothing on campus.
 
youdontknowmynameee said:
Lol if it's true, they didn't tell any of us. Could it have happened near the campus? definitely but nothing on campus.
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The map is showing that it happened next to the hospital -https://www.crimemapping.com/map/tn/nashville-. Idk if that's considered on/off-campus, but either way, too close for comfort.
 
FrankLake said:
The map is showing that it happened next to the hospital -https://www.crimemapping.com/map/tn/nashville-. Idk if that's considered on/off-campus, but either way, too close for comfort.
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And I literally live right next to the hospital, on campus. There was nothing lol
 
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