You have 5 IIs, there must be something great about your app. If you don’t mind me asking, do you think you have any special “wow factors”?
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The wow factor is he/she is a world class master. Just look at the name.
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I thought it was a reference to the beer...
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I thought the 5 IIs was due to casting the net very broadly and applying to 44 schools lol. I don't really think i have "wow factors"? or maybe I'm just too critical of myself. I have 2 basic science pubs and a presentation at a professional conference might be the most "wow factor"? However my app is focused mostly on serving the community rather than academic medicine so i have no clue lol
This made me laugh a lot LOL I was not aware of that
It might be because you are applying broadly. However, I still think there is something unique about you, which earned you the UCLA II.
Thanks for sharing. Just trying to see where I'm lacking compared to those drowning in T20 IIs (I know this is taboo on SDN but whatever lol)
This one is actually my first T20! So don't worry, still early in the cycle! Lets be patient together
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Because employers want their employees to not be absent from work regardless of reasoning. Their boss is likely happy for their success, but unhappy that one of their employees needs to miss so much work.
That is how the professional world works....
I think it's also a luck of the draw. I have been grateful to have a mentor who is understanding and extremely supportive (even for people escaping academia for the private sector/consulting/biotech/finance etc) but I realize that not all are the same. Do agree that bosses have other obligations/deadline to meet and so wince at the thought of students missing a lot of work. To each their own I suppose!
My boss is an MD and while hasnt specifically stated she is mad about my missing work, she did ask “is this going to continue past september????” she then followed that with “i guess its important what medical school you go to.” So idk. Either way, i feel bad about it. Wish I was not working so I could be completely happy about each new II i get and not worry about my stupid boss. (Sorry for the vent lol)
Wow that is beyond lukewarm/bad vibes. "I GUESS it could potentially alter the trajectory of your life" is what that sounds like to me.
But yes, think of each new II as an opportunity to delve into a brighter future. Best of luck this cycle
@Laix or anyone else, any thoughts on how UCLA views reapplicants? I interviewed here early in the cycle last year and thought the interview went really well (but...subjective viewpoint means almost nothing), but obv was not accepted. I did not have much clinical experience, and I think that's what hurt me (was told this by other schools). Have added a couple hundred hours of meaningful experience, and significant application rewrite, but no word from UCLA so far. Are they hard on reapplicants?
Deep dark fear that I somehow stuck both feet in my mouth during the interview last year and didn't even realize it and now they are blacklisting my application...
I’m a current MS1 and was a reapplicant. I didn’t interview at UCLA during my first cycle so I can’t speak to that part, but I will say being a reapplicant didn’t even come up in my interview. I personally know of 1 other reapplicant who is also a current MS1. Not sure if there are a ton of us but we do exist!
I will say for both of us though that we had pretty big changes from our first application cycle to our more recent one. I think UCLA is amenable to reapps if you can show growth from one cycle to the next. Hope that helps a bit - feel free to PM me if you have any other specific questions.
Hi, I was just wondering if you put your academic probation as IA on your app.
It looks like UCLA is moving to a curriculum similar to Duke’s (one year preclinical, third year dedicated to research).
Any current students know anything about this?
Any current students know anything about this?
Third yr research yr would be amazing if true!!
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Thanks! Good to know! :’)MD Curriculum Redesign - David Geffen School of Medicine - Los Angeles, CA
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This is a game changer for me. Was loving the yale system, but this sweetens the deal at ucla for sure!MD Curriculum Redesign - David Geffen School of Medicine - Los Angeles, CA
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Do you know if UCLA is receptive to secondary extensions? My application is still available but it's past the due date.
Just had my interview. This is actually not true! There will be changes but third year will be clerkships. The full implementation of the new curriculum will be for incoming class of 2021.
But its still an amazing school nonethless!
Oh, so weird, at my interview in August they told us it would be used for class of 2020!
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They gave us a handout that says it will be for 2020 but in the actual presentation they made the clarification. And the handout also says “information provided in this document may be modified in the coming months....”
Perhaps they’re not quite ready to roll out the new curriculum
Perhaps they’re not quite ready to roll out the new curriculum
does anyone know if they have a policy regarding thank you notes post interview? I know some schools have very specific ways they want you to submit them
Not sure if it was for this school but i think the consensus was dont send it
There are schools that strongly suggest one, ucla is not one of them I believe.
I am not entirely certain so just check this thread’s other pages
I asked the interview coordinators and she said that I could email them to the admissions office and they would be forwarded to my interviewers! She seemed to be positive about me sending them. But then I sent them and didn't get a reply. So! Who knows!
For people who interviewed - did you use the schedule that was on your portal email or the schedule that was on the original pdf that they asked you to save when you scheduled the interview that disappeared after you closed the interview date selection page? Portal email says 9:45 but the original doc said 8:15. The addresses listed for the interviews are also different.
Really scared to show up 1.5 hours late to the wrong building lol
Most of us are not too happy about this. Most of us don't want to share our 3rd year clerkship with MS2, especially this is the first time the clinical sites are taking double the studentsMD Curriculum Redesign - David Geffen School of Medicine - Los Angeles, CA
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If the implementation is delayed as suggested, wouldn't the incoming/currently interviewing class be the ones with the first overlapping clerkships? Is this something to be concerned about as an applicant?
Ok just to make sure everyone is on the same page
After I selected my interview date, the portal page refreshed and gave me my interview date instructions.
But I never received a followup email confirming my date. Is that normal
Email and instructions on the portal are the same for me so you should be fine
I never got an email either. I emailed them to see whether there was an interview day schedule avaliable