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Still in the same boat haha. See you guys next week 🙂
gobucs21
Full Member
I would venture to guess that refers to the quality of the picture and your appearance. I would think a quiet background with some flowers should be okay...Is this for the secondary or related to an interview?
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Wth!!!!!!!!!
All the people completed end of July are still not in holistic review yet!!
Also I just checked. The box above “holistic review” says “complete and under review”. So essentially I’m under review, just not holistically??!?
Do the people going into holistic review above the median or below?
There has to be some method to what they do cause I was complete July 31 and went into holistic review maybe a week later. Maybe cause I’m IS and from the Chicago suburbs?
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I was complete 7/23 and went into holistic review last week, for what its worth
I'm below and OS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol I’m 7/25
So close yet so far...
I heard from a friend who got an email yesterday from Northwestern law school. I told her that they are probably testing you to see if you are really interested in medicine and not just Northwestern per se. But I guess it could mean they liked her but not enough to admit her to the MD program which I didn't pass on to her.
Haha! Ive been getting those too.
I unsubscribed from their list (but careful to not select the “all emails from NW option”) although by this point, Ive lost faith during this whole “Holistic” waiting period
Those emails have nothing to do with anything except that you clicked yes to opt in to marketing emails when you took the MCATS. They are generated by marketing firms and not even the schools and are just spam. They mean less than nothing. You can unsubscribe from them... it won’t affect your ability to get emails from admissions offices.
Butterknut
Full Member
IN HOLISTIC REVIEW! Please be thorough!
Update:
Not sure when I was complete since there was no email and I didn't check the site daily. So it was sometime between 7/22 and 7/29
Update:
Not sure when I was complete since there was no email and I didn't check the site daily. So it was sometime between 7/22 and 7/29
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Care to provide exact complete date? I’m still not in holisthicc
Sad reacts only...
Butterknut
Full Member
The date's on my spreadsheet at home so I can update the first post later this evening.
When were you complete? Im still not in review and was complete 7/24.
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I was complete a day prior to you and went into holistic review last week (I'm not sure of the exact day)
Yeah I was complete 7/25.
At this point, I'm mostly saying this out of habit, but... tomorrow's the day I (and others) go holistic! It's gotta happen soon.
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deleted972488
I have my interview there soon so I’ll tell them to review your app.
Mine too plz thanks
Mine too, EC!
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deleted972488
Them: “Do you have any questions for me?”
Me: “Yes. Why aren’t @Enterococcus and @sourpatch fetish in holistic review yet?”
Edit: and @jecki46 !
Good luck!!!!
🙁 Still waiting for my status to change, too
As in it changed this afternoon? Sooooo jealous! Congrats!
I finally entered holistic review today too! Any idea how long it usually takes to hear back?
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When did you submit?
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deleted976595
I’ve been in holistic review for ~2 months and haven’t heard back. Others have heard anywhere from a few days to several weeks. I’m treating it like a soft-R but you never know where in the pile your app actually goes so whatever
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deleted972488
Guys, I made it into holistic review. It’s been fun coming back every week.
that leaves myself the only one behind....
oh no... you are far from the only one!
Your time will come 🙂
Just went into holistic review, complete 9/4
Does the button get checked or does it disappear?
RJGladstone
Full Member
Holistic review today. Complete mid-august.
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deleted996731
Yea I was about to say. My holistic check mark is just gone
Disappears!
This means you went into Holistic review, I believe. It disappears and the complete checkbox changes to "Application complete and under review (final decisions communicated exclusively via email on a rolling basis throughout the season)"
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+2 Does this mean bye-bye NW?
That complete checkbox was always there and checked off from the time I submitted, only the holistic one wasnt checked. Now holisitc is just gone. The complete one did not change.
Northwestern got tired of everyone on SDN looking at that button and updated everyone at once?
For me, holistic review had "final decisions communicated exclusively via email on a rolling basis throughout the season)," next to it, and this is now next to complete.
I have a feeling we are reading too much into this, lol.
Haha, I'm pretty sure this is it
