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Cakepop514 said:
Not trying to refute this at all because I BADLY want it to be true but.... how do you know? Is it based on invites/acceptances from previous years?
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Why do you want this to be true? Nobel prize or 3 nature pubs - these expectations don't apply to 99.9999% of applicants in medicine if not 100%.

The ones that do get you in - Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshalls etc - their starting point for nomination is excellence in academics. There are 30+ kids who make it to Rhodes and most likely only 10-15 actually want to go to medical school. So they will always get in and in a lot of cases will have a deferred admission.
 
texasvandy said:
Why do you want this to be true? Nobel prize or 3 nature pubs - these expectations don't apply to 99.9999% of applicants in medicine if not 100%.

The ones that do get you in - Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshalls etc - their starting point for nomination is excellence in academics. There are 30+ kids who make it to Rhodes and most likely only 10-15 actually want to go to medical school. So they will always get in and in a lot of cases will have a deferred admission.
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Maybe I fall into that 0.0001 percent man :shrug:
 
Cakepop514 said:
Not trying to refute this at all because I BADLY want it to be true but.... how do you know? Is it based on invites/acceptances from previous years?
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The Nobel Prize and lava weaving was a sarcastic exaggeration.

The rest are sourced from actual current and past adcoms. The quote was almost verbatim what a UCSF screener/adcom said during an “off the record no filter” social.
 
Fruitjuice said:
The Nobel Prize and lava weaving was a sarcastic exaggeration.

The rest are sourced from actual current and past adcoms. The quote was almost verbatim what a UCSF screener/adcom said during an “off the record no filter” social.
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Hahaha I figured it was sarcastic. Thank god you were serious about the missing middle fingers 😉 thanks for the info!
 
Complete late July and survived the latest R wave, is there any consensus on what surviving the R wave means (if it means anything at all)? An II would be incredible but trying not to get my hopes up
 
jcp23 said:
Complete late July and survived the latest R wave, is there any consensus on what surviving the R wave means (if it means anything at all)? An II would be incredible but trying not to get my hopes up
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I just scanned through last year's thread - people were getting interviews up through early February last cycle. However, to balance things out, there were also people who survived all the R waves throughout the cycle only to be rejected in February.
 
hailbate said:
However, to balance things out, there were also people who survived all the R waves throughout the cycle only to be rejected in February.
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I'm fine this is fine.
 
For the people who received IIs here - did any of you submit after the second week of August?
 
Congrats to those who got interviews. Anyone know where stanford is in terms of scheduling (which month)
 
the_expert said:
people who havent back yet.. pretty sure stanford randomizes the order in which they review apps (not by complete date) to maintain complete non rolling admissions.
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How do you know?
 
Have any Knight-Hennessy applicants received IIs? I know there was speculation earlier in this thread that KH applicants are more likely to hear something in January, but I am just curious if that is still likely. Especially since some KH applicants were rejected this past weekend.
 
SagaciousSequoia said:
Have any Knight-Hennessy applicants received IIs? I know there was speculation earlier in this thread that KH applicants are more likely to hear something in January, but I am just curious if that is still likely. Especially since some KH applicants were rejected this past weekend.
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I got nothing yet but I submitted my app mid August
 
Has anyone that is also submitting to the KH gotten an II yet?
 
Is it worth sending an ITA to them? I have another West Coast interview that I'm waiting to schedule for late January/early February, and am really not trying to fly out from the East Coast twice.
 
mrwup said:
Nah they dont even care if you have an interview in my experience.
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So I do have the other interview, but have just been waiting to select a date. If they don't care for the ITA, then I'll just go ahead and select a date for the other one. Thanks for the clarification!
 
TheNmaitochondria said:
So I do have the other interview, but have just been waiting to select a date. If they don't care for the ITA, then I'll just go ahead and select a date for the other one. Thanks for the clarification!
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mrwup said:
Go ahead and try, but they only gave me two options for dates, when i asked for more, i was given one other date and was told that was all they could do
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I think he meant even if you have an interview at Stanford they are not very flexible, let alone another one in the area. You can definitely try but I’ve heard from many others that they are not receptive!
 
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