Plus a full year to do whatever the heck you want to without the pressure of “resume building!” Guaranteed to be a doctor + a stress free year! Keep your head up!
Yes, please let us know what they say. I interviewed there on 1/30 and at the time, the dean said there were still well over 65 seats that needed to be filled.
I am sure of it. There are plenty of excellent candidates that interviewed in January including on the 30th.
Daumier, 777, helix are all the super close options albeit pretty expensive for what you get. A lot of students live in Claremont, Ontario, montclair, chino, chino hills, other surrounding cities. There should be a housing page for those looking for roommates, prob be active til closer to May/June.
LOL probably the exact logic they had. Sad part is I applied early .The dean at nearly every other school: Hmm, I've got more good applicants that I know what to do with. I've already got a full class and a fat wait list. These late interviewees are pretty good, but they were late in their apps. Oh well, I'll just give a few more seats in this year's class and just dump everyone else on the wait list in the meantime. Everyone knows to apply early. Tough luck.
The dean at WesternU: Man, I've got so many good candidates that I don't know what to do. I've already got a full class and long wait list. These late interviewees were a little late in their apps, but they're just too good to pass up. Holy crap, I'll just borrow a few seats from next year's class so I get as many of these awesome candidates I can. Hopefully they don't dump me in the meantime.
For those with deferred admissions, I think you should see it like this
I can’t say that for sure. If you interviewed on Jan 9 or 16 with others getting their deferral already, probability is high. For the 30th, I don’t think anything is decided yet.
The deferral message says that if spots are to open, the deffered acceptances will be the first to be considered.
The waitlist has multiple tiers. I believe the deferred ones are in the highest tier. How deep we get into the waitlist differs greatly from year to year. I know that last year we went VERY deep.
Hi, I received my deferred admission status on 02/06 at around 6 PM. Interviewed 01/09.
I never got one either. Didn’t really bother trying to figure it out after that though, so if you figure out what to do let us know
What are our Western emails and how do we sign into them? (Ex: [email protected]) ?
Looo at your application portal and admitted student web page. It gives you instructions on how to set it up and access it
[email protected] typically
Well this is a just great question.
True. But I heard from my mentor, a professor in radiation oncology at the UWSOM that the step 1 is the key determinant.
Yes, but that was before it was p/f. People are speculating the emphasis could change to step 2 to stratify applicants for residency after the changes. To be fair nobody knows yet how things will work, but hopefully it gets figured out by the time we're applying
I'm also curious about this. From what everyone here is saying though it sounds as if the class is already full.
Apparently the last interview is in March but I’m only going by what ICanHelpYou mentioned earlier in the threadI'm also curious about this. From what everyone here is saying though it sounds as if the class is already full.
I am curious to see whether residency programs will look at COMLEX as a secondary metric in addition to passing the USMLE (for students taking COMLEX+USMLE, which is a lot of us lol). Since the COMLEX is still scored and has been shown to have a strong correlation with USMLE percentiles, I can see a p/f USMLE with a good COMLEX score being a potential benefit to DOs compared to lower tier MD students who just take the USMLE.
Nobody takes COMLEX seriously, and it is viewed as a less competent exam compared to Step 1. Getting a high score in COMLEX will not mean a thing to MD residencies, maybe a little to ex-AOA programs.
I think we were told the 10th/11th the day of the int. But since it seems no one has heard back it might be pushed to next week. Also, reading through the thread it seems that the class might have filled up, which is weird considering how our interview cohort was told there were seats available
Yeah, makes sense. I wish I had picked 1/16 instead of 1/30
