Thank you for being willing to provide some insight! Since Brody is very primary care focused, am I asking for a rejection if I mention that I might want to specialize? My journey to pursuing medicine has a strong genetics and developmental disabilities theme, and I have an interest in clinical genetics as a result. I'm finding it difficult to address the part of the secondary essay that asks about future aspirations without giving myself away.
I'm not on the admissions committee so please don't take anything I say as gospel, but I would be deeply, deeply surprised if Brody rejected you on the basis of specialty interest. I have plenty of classmates who have always been interested in non-primary-care specialties, and admin takes pains to emphasize that they don't discourage anyone from specialization and sub-specialization. more important, to them, from what I can tell, is that you care about serving the underserved and trying to change things for the better to some extent. again, please take with a grain of salt because I have no decision-making power, but from my experiences and those of my classmates, my personal opinion is that a focus on developmental disabilities, and a passion for a particular specialty as a result, would be a strength to your application, not a hindrance.
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1. Why have you chosen to apply to the Brody School of Medicine and how do you think your education at the Brody School of Medicine will prepare you to become a future physician? (250-300 words).
Thanks so much! Good luck!!
Perhaps you have prompted them: Admissions Update
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Update: Submitted on 7/11 just got a confirmation email today on 7/13.
how long did it take from being approved to receiving? thank you
About 2 weeks but that was in mid-June. Any update for you yet?
Thank you. There are a couple caveats to mine and I will be curious to see.
wow - they are on top of things
By any chance did you apply ED?
If they extend secondary, then that's your answer.
Cheering for you!!! Let us know how it went!
+1 Mid July complete
Thank you! LM 66.50, ORM
Seems like every Wednesday.
Where'd you get that info? I think we've only seen a small wave on Tuesday 8/9 and Wednesday 9/8 here so far, but I'm not following Reddit!
Yeah same, maybe people aren't using SDN as compared to prior years, but in prior year forums you would see more than 2 invites at a time. They have only completed 18 interviews and with this round, I'm assuming they sent another 20 or so. So let's just stay hopeful.
Just an assumption. I got mine on a Wednesday and based on previous responses here and the "prior threads" Tuesdays and Wednesdays seem the most common days to send invites. I'm sure they send them on other days.
current M3 here - apologies for not seeing the original question when it was posted (had a busy week) but for future folks with the same question I agree with this assessment. of the interview days I had, I think Brody had some of the chillest vibes, which played no small part in my eventual decision to come here. I'm sure you did great
are you an NC resident?
I haven't either. Submitted Aug 24. I'm in-state too. Lmk if you receive one!
Have you been verified? I submitted my primary in July and got my MCAT score back in mid-August and immediately applied to them after that. I got the secondary the next day.
