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veggiepremed
Full Member
any 1/20 folks hear back 
geckogirl99
Full Member
Thoughts on submitting letters of interest/update letters in between interview day and hearing back? I see online it says "Deferred and waitlisted applicants may submit updates," but I interviewed early January and haven't heard anything back yet.
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They strongly recommend sending updates after the interview! I think they said to send on after 6 weeks, but I’m sure it doesn’t hurt to send them earlier!
Anybody who interviewed on 2/3 hear back yet??
PatricktheSponge
Full Member
Does anyone know when we find out which campus were assigned to?
They told us April in the open house
What were your stats if you don’t mind me asking?
Ya no problem - 3.2 cgpa, 3.5 s gpa, 3.9 grad gpa; 513 mcat - non-traditional and research-oriented app
I'm sorry new here what is a hold mean
Hold means they are not yet offering you an interview now but may offer it to you later in the cycle of a space is available. Ppl have been offered an II in as little as 1 week where as some are still waiting. It is one step closer to A and a better place to be in then rejected
has anyone tried submitting their campus preference recently and the page does not finalize after hitting submit? i submitted it a few weeks back and it went through, but then logged in again today and it wasn't grayed out anymore but now the page doesn't change when i try to re-submit.
loveangel2206
Full Member
Same thing happened to me
Yeah that happened to me as well... On the Accepted students page on Facebook Brian from Admissions said they were having some tech problems and that your campus selection most likely went through but you can email him to confirm
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Got a WL yesterday after a second week of Jan interview!
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I'm sort of conflicted on which campus is the better decision. The Philly campus is obviously the more established campus located in a really nice city. However, the Reading campus offers state-of-the-art facilities as well as the guarantee of knowing you will be doing your clinical rotations at Tower Health as opposed to the uncertainty of the lottery system used on the main campus. Doesn't help that there is little information available to us about the Reading campus before we have to submit our preference 🙁
veggiepremed
Full Member
So it says that waitlisted applicants can send up to 3 update letters. Is this including ones previously sent, or can you send up to 3 AFTER being waitlisted in addition to previous letters?
flyers1517
Full Member
If you are anxious about rotations, I would choose Reading because Tower Health is a great hospital system and the facilities at the Reading campus are really nice
premedjazz
Full Member
How long are the faculty interviews usually? Any unusual questions that anyone came across during the interview?
I didn't come across any unusual questions during my interview, but I will say a lot of the questions I got were VERY specific to my application -- I didn't really find that they asked many of the standard "Tell me about your path to medicine" type of questions but much more like "Tell me about how you changed your study habits to go from a 50* MCAT when you took it two years ago to a 51* when you took it last year" sort of questions. That may have just been my interviewer, but they asked a lot of very specific questions, rather than more vague, general ones.
Interviewed end of January, no decision yet, but I just withdrew - hopefully it helps someone!
The interview link is not available in the agenda tab (where it says zoom link, it has blank in front of it). Would they provide the link on last minute ?
pisgahhome
New Member
Sorry if this has been answered before, but what Facebook group is this?
You're fine! It is an accepted students page run by DUCOM admissions and current students. If you should be in the group I think you can email admissions for the link
flyers1517
Full Member
Wow congrats! Do you know if it was a merit or need-based scholarship?
They made it sound like merit, which is surprising bc my need is much, much greater than my merit hahah
where do we see our campus decision?
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It usually shows up the night before or the morning of the interview.
tryingmyhardest
Full Member
omg wow! were you put on hold?
I was never placed on hold!
soccerdoc3333
Full Member
Omg congrats! That's amazing! What dates were available? IS or OOS?
I'm OOS (NYC area). They were currently scheduling for the next two weeks, with the 16th as the latest date available.
premedjazz
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wondering the same
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I was just emailed that I have been placed on hold
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deleted964256
Withdrew my app on the portal, do I need to email them as well/will they auto refund the deposit? Wanting to give me spot to another one of you fine folks !!!
II yesterday. Really shocked with my stats being low AF and complete back in mid-August. I think I will be declining, however, so hopefully one of ya'll get it!
floridaheatkills
Full Member
Congrats! Were you ever on hold?
Hold for an interview or hold like on the waitlist?
Also, if it's for the waitlist when did you interview?
Easter egg hunt = II
purgatory = wait list
it’s an Easter thing and will hopefully end by Monday 😭
Edit: NOT an Easter thing. They are pranking us for 4/1
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OH wow makes so much more sense. You meant a p r i l f o o l s right
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Thankk you 😃 and no I was never on hold
II! Complete late August, OOS
What time? Trying to figure out if these are scheduled in batches or manually sent on a case by case decision
NoEyeEyeGuy
Full Member
congrats, straight up? or were you ever on pre ii hold
I got the email around 2pm today!
