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Accepted today!!
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona so I’m a little intimidated by the idea of moving to such a small town, especially one with radically different weather than what I’m used to. Did any current students deal with a similar move and have any words of wisdom?
 
Jalvar23 said:
Accepted today!!
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona so I’m a little intimidated by the idea of moving to such a small town, especially one with radically different weather than what I’m used to. Did any current students deal with a similar move and have any words of wisdom?
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Not a student but I live in a similar small midwest town and bounced between Midwest and the south.
Meijer is a great grocery store, go there.
You drive everywhere. Walking is non existent. Sometimes people drive 30 minutes to the next town for random stuff. Not abnormal here, I like going 30 minutes aways to the next towns goodwill since it's better lol.
Have an ice scraper for your car. It won't always snow, but your windshield will ice repeatedly in the winter.
Just expect to be cold. It's like chronic pain. You won't make it go away so learn to be at peace with it. That said, you'll need a good coat and gloves.
I can't speak about Mt Pleasant, just general midwest advice
 
Jalvar23 said:
Accepted today!!
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona so I’m a little intimidated by the idea of moving to such a small town, especially one with radically different weather than what I’m used to. Did any current students deal with a similar move and have any words of wisdom?
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Congratulations! One of my M1 classmates actually moved here from Arizona. The M1 class may be holding some panels in the future so you'll most likely have an opportunity to ask questions then.
 
Jalvar23 said:
Accepted today!!
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona so I’m a little intimidated by the idea of moving to such a small town, especially one with radically different weather than what I’m used to. Did any current students deal with a similar move and have any words of wisdom?
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Hey! I'm originally from Phoenix (moved when I was a kid though to Michigan) but if you have any questions about Midwest life vs busy hot desert life feel free to DM me! I spend a lot of time with family in AZ so I can give you m ytwo cents. 😀
 
Jalvar23 said:
Accepted today!!
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona so I’m a little intimidated by the idea of moving to such a small town, especially one with radically different weather than what I’m used to. Did any current students deal with a similar move and have any words of wisdom?
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It’s not too far from larger college towns like East Lansing (50 mins) /Ann Arbor (1 hour 45 mins), and towns with decently large downtowns like Midland and Saginaw. I’m from the Metro-Detroit area and even after my 23 years living here my whole life I still am not fully used to the weather but you learn to deal with it. Just make sure you get some nice warm coats, gloves, and hats for the winters. Luckily the winters haven’t been as bad as usual these past few years, nothing like the winters I remember in middle school and high school where the temps would regularly drop below 0. I’ll be attending CMU in the fall as well, if you need any specific advice or help acclimating to the area here I’d be more than happy to help!
 
DizzyK said:
It’s not too far from larger college towns like East Lansing (50 mins) /Ann Arbor (1 hour 45 mins), and towns with decently large downtowns like Midland and Saginaw. I’m from the Metro-Detroit area and even after my 23 years living here my whole life I still am not fully used to the weather but you learn to deal with it. Just make sure you get some nice warm coats, gloves, and hats for the winters. Luckily the winters haven’t been as bad as usual these past few years, nothing like the winters I remember in middle school and high school where the temps would regularly drop below 0. I’ll be attending CMU in the fall as well, if you need any specific advice or help acclimating to the area here I’d be more than happy to help!
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For real, these last winters have been nothing. I remember in January 2014 and 2015 at MSU, windchill was like -16, and exposed skin for 10 minutes was a windchill risk. On a campus that basically requires 20-minute walks. That morning, I had my coat over my face and had frost on the inside of my coat.

From a lifelong Michigander, I have always preferred winter for sports, and I don't really feel it is cold until it is below the teens. I agree that anyone from the south should absolutely get great gear for the winter.
 
pablopizza said:
It's MMI, so just focus on being able to have a conversation. Remember to look broadly before looking deeper, you'll have a time frame that makes you look wider because you'll get caught up going deep on one point. Your MMI stations auto-load one after the other, so you're just sitting there.

The group interview is chill. Plenty of time for everyone to talk.
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Thank you sm!
 
Has anyone from 1/29/21 interview day heard from the admission committee?
 
apk137 said:
11/13 and nothing lol
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As other people said, SDN is not representative of the entire application pool, but for some reason, they seem to have only sent out decisions to those that interviewed in September and December. Me and other people that interviewed in October still haven't heard a word. Wonder what's going on there.
 
Does anyone have anyyyy insight as to when people who interviewed in 2020 that haven't heard back yet could hear? I think it seems like it'll be mostly waitlists but finding out something would be better than nothing!
 
Med20212025 said:
Does anyone have anyyyy insight as to when people who interviewed in 2020 that haven't heard back yet could hear? I think it seems like it'll be mostly waitlists but finding out something would be better than nothing!
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Wish I did. I interviewed back on 9/11 and heard back about a waitlist a month ago and that was the first communication since interviewing
 
does anyone know how long they interview til? I sent all of my updates (complete since sept), but I was just curious if I should still hold hope for receiving a II from them...
 
yaynaypt said:
People who interviewed from Oct... have you heard back yet? my confidence fades every passing day 😳 considering it's been 4 months-- it's pretty low now
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Yo, join the October club. I wouldn't let your confidence go to waste yet, though. Even though sdn is not representative of the rest of the applicant pool, you'd think that there would be more acceptances for Oct and Nov, especially considering the amount for Sept./Dec. There aren't even decisions for us yet.
 
When is the right time to send a letter of intent? At this point, even if all remaining schools gave me an A, I would want to go here, so I'm trying to time this properly. I interviewed in December, and I haven't heard anything since (which seems to be pretty normal). Should I wait a sec or not?
 
Rosiris Fleetfoot said:
When is the right time to send a letter of intent? At this point, even if all remaining schools gave me an A, I would want to go here, so I'm trying to time this properly. I interviewed in December, and I haven't heard anything since (which seems to be pretty normal). Should I wait a sec or not?
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I think it'd be wise to first send an update letter (if you have a substantial update), or just update them on new grades from the past semester if you have some. Letters of intent are really just Hail Mary's and they're more useful as it gets close to the end of the cycle.
 
Rosiris Fleetfoot said:
When is the right time to send a letter of intent? At this point, even if all remaining schools gave me an A, I would want to go here, so I'm trying to time this properly. I interviewed in December, and I haven't heard anything since (which seems to be pretty normal). Should I wait a sec or not?
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Rosiris why are we the same person, I did 19 secondaries, 2 interviews, 1 waitlist, 12 pre II Rs, and still waiting on central!
 
Anyone think CYMS going live Friday will result in more decisions being released sometime soon?
 
D Swiecz said:
Is CMU participating in it?
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Not sure, I kinda just assumed all schools were. Did see on CMU's website they want a response within 2 weeks though. CYMS is Choose your medical School through AAMC
 
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