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Does anyone remember when they send out the zoom link for the town hall?
 
Are our faculty and student interviewers visible on the portal prior to the interview? I see a schedule but no names!
 
Y'all think we will get our decisions before or after the next town hall?
 
Do the two faculty interviews target different types of questions from each other? (behavioral questions vs. conversational vs. etc)
 
spottedcory said:
Do the two faculty interviews target different types of questions from each other? (behavioral questions vs. conversational vs. etc)
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Nope. Student interview was a bit less conversational because it's closed file but this also will depend on the student.
 
medicinesaveslives said:
Are they still sending out interviews 🙁 Complete late July and radio silence. RIP?
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Back in my day when I was applying, I got my interview in early January, it was scheduled for 3 weeks later, then in mid to late February I was accepted.

I imagine there is still hope as there are interview dates in Jan and Feb.
 
Hi guys, I'm still submitting my secondary to Northwestern (I know super late) and was wondering how to interpret "First in family to pursue a professional degree." I'm under the impression that professional degree means a program that prepares you for a specific profession like MD or JD. Does this include a PhD or no? I'm the first in the family to pursue a medical degree but I have a family member who has a PhD so not sure
 
ankiim said:
Hi guys, I'm still submitting my secondary to Northwestern (I know super late) and was wondering how to interpret "First in family to pursue a professional degree." I'm under the impression that professional degree means a program that prepares you for a specific profession like MD or JD. Does this include a PhD or no? I'm the first in the family to pursue a medical degree but I have a family member who has a PhD so not sure
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My understanding of professional degrees is they include MD, MBA, JD, PhD, etc etc. Basically all the degrees you get post undergrad with a specific field in mind.
 
ankiim said:
Hi guys, I'm still submitting my secondary to Northwestern (I know super late) and was wondering how to interpret "First in family to pursue a professional degree." I'm under the impression that professional degree means a program that prepares you for a specific profession like MD or JD. Does this include a PhD or no? I'm the first in the family to pursue a medical degree but I have a family member who has a PhD so not sure
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Wow I submitted mine already but I totally interpreted that as a bachelor's rip
 
Complete mid/late July and nada.
 
Feinberg's site says that updates are accepted, but are they like... actually wanted? I don't want to send an annoying/useless update letter.

My potential update letter basically talks about how our lab submitted a manuscript to a journal, and it's currently undergoing review. And I'll talk about 2 new volunteering experiences.

Does anyone have experience sending update letters in general/to Feinberg? Do you think this update would be useful? Thank you!!
 
brobamacare said:
Feinberg's site says that updates are accepted, but are they like... actually wanted? I don't want to send an annoying/useless update letter.

My potential update letter basically talks about how our lab submitted a manuscript to a journal, and it's currently undergoing review. And I'll talk about 2 new volunteering experiences.

Does anyone have experience sending update letters in general/to Feinberg? Do you think this update would be useful? Thank you!!
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I sent an update saying my paper got accepted for publication to a decent journal (impact factor: 11.8). Don’t send them an update if you only submitted one.
 
TOP_applicant said:
I sent an update saying my paper got accepted for publication to a decent journal (impact factor: 11.8). Don’t send them an update if you only submitted one.
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I have a paper that got accepted that I'm like 14th author on loll cause I'm just an RA but I'm the only RA with a ton of professors on it since it's a pretty big paper. Is that worth updating schools about? Probably not right?
 
ankiim said:
I have a paper that got accepted that I'm like 14th author on loll cause I'm just an RA but I'm the only RA with a ton of professors on it since it's a pretty big paper. Is that worth updating schools about? Probably not right?
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a paper is a paper. If you can say what your contributions were then you’re fine to update.
 
ankiim said:
I have a paper that got accepted that I'm like 14th author on loll cause I'm just an RA but I'm the only RA with a ton of professors on it since it's a pretty big paper. Is that worth updating schools about? Probably not right?
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congrats man! as long as it's accepted and you can talk about what you had contributed, then update THAT. but not the submitted paper lol
 
Has anyone who was completed in late October heard anything back? Lol.
 
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TOP_applicant said:
Im complete first week of october and I have not heard anything yet!
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Thanks for the feedback! I was complete the second to last week of October, and nothing here either. I hope that being complete later doesn't affect us.
 
MAJ123 said:
Thanks for the feedback! I was complete the second to last week of October, and nothing here either. I hope that being complete later doesn't affect us.
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same here! complete early october and still haven't heard back. By the looks of it, they are bouncing back between june/july and september in recent posts. Hopefully, they start sorting through october soon 🙂
 
InsipidConch said:
same here! complete early october and still haven't heard back. By the looks of it, they are bouncing back between june/july and september in recent posts. Hopefully, they start sorting through october soon 🙂
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Ugh, I hope so! And, I mainly hope we get those interview invites once they start :arghh:
 
Based on last year... are we expecting post interview news this Friday? or nah?
 
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