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Oh, interesting. I have not gotten the Stanford secondary yet, so I will def be working on the KH scholarship.
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still waiting too!
Just submitted and got the complete email right away. Good luck everyone!!
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It is basically just a more total “whole patient” integrated curriculum revamp
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It's yuh boy Memelord.
Yah, still waiting. But oh well, more time to fill out KH scholarship and other schools.
I haven't received mine yet either.
Yes but I think its early dayz (plus holidayz). I'm not worried. I'll be ready to submit the minute I get it.
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It seems like T20 schools take their time getting secondaries out more so than the mid-upper tier schools. Not something to be worried about. Although, some schools will actually start sending invites out later next week believe it or not (at least according to last year’s charts).
So it’s basically something of a choose your own adventure curriculum. I think this page does a good job of summing it up:
Discovery Curriculum
Everyone has to do a scholarly concentration but how you do that, what you do, and how in depth you do it depends on you and your goals. For example, let’s say 4 different people want to do a basic science project but one does it concurrently through 4 years, one takes funding to do a research year and graduates in 5, one does a bigger project and does Berg so graduates in 6, and another does a full PhD and graduates in 7-9. Some people might get Masters in another field like Business or Public Health etc.
You also have the choice of “splitting” the curriculum (which all Berg Scholars have to do FYI). Splitting means you basically do MS2 at “half speed” by taking fewer courses each quarter but have a huge block of time (well at least 50% of full time) protected to do research, work on your Masters, work in the community, write, or do whatever it is that you wanted to do for your scholarly concentration. Splitting will mean that you will take at least 5 years to graduate but RA/Med Scholars funding will make your split years basically cost neutral with the full-time years. Slightly more than half of all students here will take more than 4 yrs to finish the MD curriculum. You only ever pay full price for 4 years, after that you pay the research rate which is like 15% in addition to whatever MedScholars, Berg, MSTP, finAid, tuition waivers or whatever stipend and benefits to make it easier to have cost neutral research years. The summer is usually also research rate. Nobody is going to stop you if you want to graduate in 4 but also this place attracts a lot of people with varied interests and sometimes opportunities just present themselves and you can’t pass them up. For example, I know there’s someone who works at Google concurrently while being a Med student.
Lol it won’t make much sense until second look (I’m still figuring things out), but I hope that was helpful
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I submitted a few days ago and feel similarly, but about LGBT identities + pubs.
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Hmm... did anyone still not receive a secondary yet?
Interesting; I got the invitation to apply for KH, but I didn't receive any communication about KH needing to be submitted prior to the secondary. I'll have both submitted hopefully by tomorrow, though. I already have my plans for the video, as well.
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I didn’t get the recommendation. But I am not eligible because my bachelors degree is too old.
Got my secondary.
bluekangaroo
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In the section where they ask for any publications, is there any way to indicate if we recently submitted a paper for publication (it's still pending)?
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No because Pubmed ID is required.
Nope. And they don't want updates unless you get an II too!
How would you generally differentiate strong vs marginal KH applicants? Do you know any KH scholars? I'm just trying to gauge if I should even bother
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Anyone unable to login? I tried resetting my password too, but I keep getting invalid links
So I was a college athlete, rowed on the NCAA D1 crew team in undergrad. But I did not include a specific essay about it in my AMCAS because it was a long time ago and I've done a ton of other things since then. It does show up on my AMCAS in the academic record though because we had to register sports participation as a PE credit. Should I answer yes to the Stanford app question on college sports?
Yes. You participated in a college sport, so you can answer the question. It's a good chance to get to talk about it a bit, even if you don't really participate in it anymore.
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Where are you seeing this question, is it part of the secondary?
Yes, I don't remember the exact wording but something like "did you include Intercollegiate Athletics in your AMCAS activities?" If yes, then an essay slot is provided.
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Interesting.. its just asking you to elaborate in general, or something more specific? I included it in my primary and was going to use it the secondary prompts too...
Interesting.. its just asking you to elaborate in general, or something more specific? I included it in my primary and was going to use it the secondary prompts too...
Even though I did not include an experience designated "Intercollegiate Athletics"? Maybe I can just explain that in the essay box.
It follows with:
If yes, please indicate your highest level of competition and sport.
Olympics/National team/NCAA/Other
Please list Sport(s)
It will not hurt your chances as an applicant to either the MD or MSTP. Indeed, at Stanford the MD committee has to give the green light anyway before MSTP can consider you for acceptance
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Sitting in that same boat!
I still haven't gotten a secondary either, LM >80 so I don't think it's a stats thing? Maybe they just take their time.
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Did you have any IA or anything that may trigger a manual review?
Nope, nothing. I would say I have a rather well-rounded app too. I think they're just sending things out in the order they received primaries probably. I was verified on June 19th, maybe others were verified earlier.
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I was verified the June 4th so I don't think it is that. And I know it isnt alphabetical (one of the recipients I know has the same initials as me) It isn't by stats....Maybe they are going by region of the country or length of application? I filled everything out and maybe they just don't want to read it lol Who knows....
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I know lol Not worried, have an II already at one school with similar stats so I know my app is at least satisfactory.
Everyone gets one.
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Yes I'm aware. I'm just looking forward to having it sent, since I've got everything written up.
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Me too haven’t gotten secondary yet. Lm>83
Can someone help explain the "practice settings" to me? Can I choose Physician Scientist if I'm not MSTP, but I do want to do both research and seeing patients? (it's my understanding that mstp is like 80% lab, 20% clinical and i'm looking for more of a 50-50)
I would think you can but it raises the question of but then why are you not interested in MSTP.
Would Clinical Academic Medicine be the next best thing then? I'm really just not sure what each of these options mean so I'm having trouble picking. Are there standardized descriptions of these somewhere?
