They mentioned during my interview that financial aid decisions won't come out until June at the earliest... apparently because they have to work on all the other graduate programs first since they begin sooner :/
Oh my gosh! That's so late. I thought most schools sent out financial info before Commit to Enroll day.
Idk if admissions made a FB yet. I'll check about Groupme with our president later today.
Uncharacteristically sparse this year, but that's only going off SDN. Even just going off SDN though, there have been at least 3 decent waves of movement last cycle before 5/1 so don't know what's going on.
Well then I guess I can get my hopes high?
Hey. Congrats on finishing STEP 1!
RFU has always had good movement every year so just gonna trust in the process. Got my fingers crossed for all of us lol
Thanks, feels good to be done.
What’s the research funding for students like (funding to travel and present at conferences)?
Unfortunately, I don't know the exact answer to this question as neither me nor my friends have done something like this. The Office of Medical Education is pretty supportive of this however, so I would expect that they would provide aid. Apologies for not having a better answer.
Is the financial aid/scholarships here comparable to other similar schools. I’m leaning towards picking RFU with the CYMS dates coming up but nervous about not knowing aid and other financial info.
I would say it's similar to other lower tier private MD schools which is to say not that great. There is an annual general scholarship which every student is encouraged to apply which gives up to half tuition I believe. The Office of Financial Aid also sends also scholarship opportunities regularly, but I wouldn't expect much directly from the school if you don't get a reward from the general scholarship.
I'll just add my two cents since I live in Woodlands. They are older, but my partner likes it more just because it has that off-campus vibe. The clubhouse, outdoor grilles, and pool are also cool. But I have friends in student housing who love it too, so I'll also recommend them too.
They have a number of paid summer in-house research opportunities through federal work study grants, Advocate Aurora, Sinai Urban Health Institute, and other affiliates. Tougher in this regard compared to your research powerhouse programs. For travel, back in the day students were granted 1 award for travel during the 4 years of med school- the status of that program is relatively unknown following pandemic and financial changes they made in recent years (e.g. as of this year, the General Scholarship is only available to M2s-M4s). However, there are supplement awards on fall and spring research fairs for top studies to get travel funding, and some of the other programs like those with Advocate pay internally for travel. Wish I had more insight.
Yes I believe all who interviewed got one
Hello thank you for answering! Did you mind too much that rotations are spread throughout the Chicagoland and is there a lottery system where you get put or do you just kind of rotate all over?
wondering the same thing
I emailed a few weeks ago and was told to expect movement around May 1st
To add on as someone who recently just went through this process, you can generally plan your preferences to be close to the city (outside of FM). With the exception of FM, all of my rotation sites are within 30 minutes drive of my Chicago apartment. Even if I were to fall to my 3rd/4th choices, my commutes would not have exceeded 40 mins one way. There were a couple of rotations (particularly surgery that I remember but probably a couple others) where if I had fallen further the commute might've been a bigger PITA.
Not yet, but I also think the 3/21 group needs to hear back as well
Not sure on this, but I’m going with business casual.
The Dean says they've accepted people up until the first day of classes so I wouldn't expect a formal rejection until after then
I just got a reply from my admission counselor! They are meeting this Friday and are expecting to release decisions next week Monday or Tuesday for this group of interviews.
You are a lovely person thank you for reaching out
Hello,
Thank you!
1. We have weekly quizzes. The quizzes are timed for 2 minutes per question, so you would get 30 minutes on a 15-question quiz (most are 15-20 Q's). IIRC, scientific foundations (SFoM) is open-book and you drop your 3 lowest quiz grades (out of 8 total quizzes). Anatomy is closed book and you drop your 4 lowest quiz grades (out of 11 total quizzes). Everything else is closed book pass/fail (i.e. if you score > 50%, or >60% in some classes, you get a 100% but anything under the cutoff is scored as such). In my opinion, they're very manageable of you stay on top of the material. They're more than doable if you fall a bit behind, too.
