2023-2024 Belmont (Frist)

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Going to loosely monitor my emails till after new years. Assuming most schools going on Christmas break. Cant wait to see the good news here
 
I just want to give some insight into what the culture at Belmont is like for all of you applying. I graduated from Belmont last year as an undergrad, so what I have to say will be different than what the experience of an MD program will be. But I think since Belmont is not a well-known school, this might could be helpful.

1. I can't find the comment, but something was said about Belmont being a religious institution. That's true. While I think that there has been a shift toward being more religious since they hired a new president, I personally did not feel like I was going to religious school. Belmont is really as religious as you want it to be. If you want to go to chapel and find Bible study groups, you can. I do think that my friends who were Jewish or Muslim felt this differently than me as someone who is relatively areligious.

2. Belmont values community more than anything. That's a lot of the reason why I went there.

3. I saw another comment about what it's like living in Nashville. Yeah, the driving here sucks. The rent can be expensive, but that depends on where you live. If you want to live in the Gulch or downtown, yeah, that's absurdly expensive. However, there are cheaper areas where one could live for <$2000/month by yourself and still be a decent area. It's a perk to Belmont of where in the city it's located. You really are about 15 minutes from anywhere (without traffic). It's not too far from downtown and East Nashville where a lot more of the fun stuff is. It's not as terrible living in Nashville as people make it out to be. There's like 100+ music venues of all kinds, lots of sports things, and you aren't too far away from actual nature either. If you want to be in a city with public transit though, maybe this isn't the place for you.

4. My experience at Belmont was mostly positive. Belmont attracts a certain type of professor who value teaching since they don't really have a lot of graduate programs. My only negative spot of my experience was interacting with admin. Belmont likes to move forward with good intentions but sometimes with half-formulated ideas which means they can't tell students much - because they don't know either. I would hope that this would be different for the MD school since a lot of admin will be different by then. Additionally, admin at Belmont are more likely to listen to the Board of Trustees than to students. I don't necessarily think that this is uncommon for universities, but it's a common theme there.

5. My only concern with the med school now would be how are they going to deal with their HCA affiliation. I worked at an HCA facility in Nashville, and the conditions aren't the best I will say with some of the same issues being the lack of listening to people working there. I would just be wary of doing clerkships at these locations. Hopefully, since HCA desperately want this school to be successful, they will manage this part so that it is positive for students.

6. While in point 4 I did trash Belmont a little, I want to reiterate that I had a good time there because of the community that is built by the students and faculty. My words of wisdom to folks who go to Belmont for MD is to be open to that community mission to your fellow students, and I think that will set the tone for your experience since it did for me.

I'm open to answering any questions about Belmont that anyone has!
 
I honestly wonder for II if they will send some out this week. I mean technically Belmont is on Winter Break already, but we still have people getting the emails saying their application got moved to Interview Review Stage. Makes you wonder.
 
cj557 said:
I honestly wonder for II if they will send some out this week. I mean technically Belmont is on Winter Break already, but we still have people getting the emails saying their application got moved to Interview Review Stage. Makes you wonder.
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Their website says they'll start interviews in early January so I feel like they will send their first batch very soon
 
groundhog21 said:
Yeah but they also said the were estimating starting to send IIs by 12/15 and I haven’t heard of anyone getting one yet
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Let’s hope they start sending them soon. I’m in much need a holiday miracle at this point lol.
 
The listed first interview date on MSAR is January 12th. Hopefully that means they will send out IIs starting either end of this week or on January 2nd. I guess it all depends on how many apps they've managed to get through up to this point.
 
MitoMan19 said:
The listed first interview date on MSAR is January 12th. Hopefully that means they will send out IIs starting either end of this week or on January 2nd. I guess it all depends on how many apps they've managed to get through up to this point.
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You would think it would be sometime tomorrow. Don’t med schools usually give like 3+ weeks before an interview.
 
cj557 said:
You would think it would be sometime tomorrow. Don’t med schools usually give like 3+ weeks before an interview.
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I hope so! This wait has been killer. There are universities that are closing down their administration for the holidays starting today, so Belmont's administrative calendar will impact things as well I'm sure.
 
Maybe they have sent out interviews and we just weren’t the lucky ones lol
 
Banana364 said:
Does anyone know what Frist's policies are on update letters? I wasn't sure how to go about submitting one about grades and updated activities
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I sent an update last Friday and it was recieved/ added to my app file.
 
sandi229 said:
I sent an update last Friday and it was recieved/ added to my app file.
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Did they reply back and say it was added to your file? Or did you see it on the portal? Frist has one of those portals that doesn't show a status page so jw
 
For people that got IIs, when did you guys get the under review email?
 
Sandman23 said:
Did they reply back and say it was added to your file? Or did you see it on the portal? Frist has one of those portals that doesn't show a status page so jw
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they replied back via email!
 
I just found out about this school through this thread. Do you guys think it’s too late for me to submit here? OOS 71 LM
 
puppies789 said:
did anyone receive a confirmation email after choosing II date?
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I didn’t either! I picked the first date, what time is it? I thought there would be a confirmation email automatically sent with the details
 
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sandi229 said:
I didn’t either! I picked the first date, what time is it? I thought there would be a confirmation email automatically sent with the details
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It starts 1pm CT I believe and ends at 4! It said they would send information one week before i think
 
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