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So, you can only send one letter of intent to a school - and it's bounded by your honor and integrity. You can, however, send multiple letters of interest. Just know that, if you send a letter of intent to a different school, even if you get off the waitlist at Colorado, you have to honor your letter of intent to the other school (if you get into that one too). Essentially, you have to think carefully about which school to send it to that you know you will follow through with the letter.
Not as many people got off the WL last year (2019-2020) as compared with the 2018-2019 WL. A good friend of mine is finishing is first year at CU and he said they ended up going with a class size of 160-165 last year instead of the normal 180. He did not say why, but it may have been due to right sizing for anatomy lab due to COVID.
Do we know if they've gone back/are planning on going back to normal capacity this upcoming year?
Are you IS or OOS? If you don’t mind me asking
OOS!
I'm currently on the high priority wait-list, but CU is probably my top choice and I'm hoping I get off. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a little concerned about the curriculum reform though. When I go to the schools website they don't really give much information about the new curriculum. Just a rough timeline. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but I don't see anything about specific courses, clinical skills stuff, etc. Just a very rough timeline.
Ah thank you! How much of this is mandatory? I'm guessing the clinical skills/preceptorship/service learning?
monday afternoon block is anatomy, tuesday half the class has clinical skills in the afternoon (the other half has it wednesday morning), wednesday everyone has IPE and health in society in the afternoon, thursday afternoon is TBL (no new info just reviewing what you've done this week already), and friday morning you have a weekly exam and patient presentation until 12. you have two half days that are unstructured (thursday morning and friday afternoon). starting in week 6 you begin preceptorship which will be a half day a week (so whenever you DON'T have clinical skills)
I suggested reaching o it to admissions if you really want to know. They have more that isn’t online and has been shared with students via email
Colorado doesn't accept only letters of intent? Or does that also apply to letters of interest/updates post-waitlist?
They don't accept anything. Letters of intent, letters of interest, or updates. I called and asked and they said they don't accept anything. They said if a space opens up and you're next on the list you'll get an email ASAP
Thanks for calling them. Did they mention anything about when they expect to start calling or if they expect to many few/many calls? Any little tid bit of hope for us WLers to grab? 😛
Lol no 🙁 I only called because I really wish I could send them an LOI haha and then once they told me they'd email if a spot opens up i just said ok thanks bye!
I guess waitlisters don’t rate a call from Dean SooHoo for the good news, just a piddly email 😂
Ooh gosh, I wish. However, looking at previous years' threads for various schools, it looks like they start in the first week of May after they've got a chance to review the class list?
Thanks for the detailed explanation! That's definitely a lot of extra required things... While I do think that they are all important, I'm worried that it might make the already condensed 1 year preclinical even more stressful/difficult.
Oh thanks! I will have to email them and ask. I definitely would like to understand the new curriculum better.
yes the 4 months of advanced science courses after LICs are right before step 1 which is actually nice
Ah that's great actually. What are these courses again? I believe one was something to do with cancer and immunology I want to say?
I had also thought that, but I feel like earlier in the cycle, that may have been due to having the admissions committee meet during the week, and then turning around decisions at the end of the week. Whereas now, they've already built and ranked their waitlist, and informed everyone where they fall on it, and I don't think they have much left to talk about or discuss, so... **what are they waiting for**
But potentially wishful thinking lol
HEY!! Congratulations!! 🙂 Are you IS or OOS, if you don't mind sharing?
IS and top tier WL
alright time to neurotically keep checking my phone for calls
Trying to imagine Dean Soohoo's warm, happy voice on the phone... But robocalls are all I get today
