2024-2025 Hackensack Meridian

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Basalganglia4life said:
March 2025

You did the hard work and submitted early. Worrying about it will do nothing for you now
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thanks! 5 interviews nice work!! just starting to get a little disheartened having submitted most apps in july and haven't heard anything yet from basically most schools
 
reddevilfan97 said:
thanks! 5 interviews nice work!! just starting to get a little disheartened having submitted most apps in july and haven't heard anything yet from basically most schools
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You will hear back from more, just keep up the faith in your application. All it takes is one school to give you an A at the end of the day. It is still early, you got this
 
Did everyone get prelim review complete before complete email at all or just complete. I just got "prelim review complete" but just completed the Duet may be that's why it was not complete. But hopefully they have my results now as took 2 days ago.
 
Hi everyone, I'm also an M1 here. I'm a little late to the game, but I wanted to make myself available if you have any questions about the school, the application process, moving from OOS, etc. Feel free to DM or tag me.

Just some n=1 perspective: from what I can tell, most of the action happened pretty late in the cycle for us last year. I was accepted in April, as were many of my classmates (regardless of their II date). There seemed to be a lot of WL movement. This school was an add-on for me later on in the cycle, and here I am attending it <1 year later. I have a friend who applied in Dec and was accepted. If you're still thinking of applying, it might be worth it.

The cycle is inhumane and long, so if (like me), you find yourself checking SDN daily, I'd encourage you to go get some fresh air and touch some grass. Your M1 self will thank you for it.
 
For anyone that's done it already, what was the interview like?
Have mine coming up soon and looks like it's with an m4 and they don't say MMI so I'm assuming traditional open file interview?
 
@BiomedEngr18 This is the first that I have heard about this, the figures don't make much sense to me. I am happy to follow up on this if this is of big concern to you, feel free to DM. I can say that the admin likes to tout their "above average" step scores when they get the chance, and it seems like most 4th years that I talk to here have done well enough on STEP to match well.
 
BiomedEngr18 said:
@stillnotjaded thanks for the offer. I just stumbled upon this doc from the Hackensack website when looking up STEP results. If I'm reading the chart on the first page correctly, it seems to indicate that 20% of the class of 2024 didn't graduate yet? Do you know anything about that?

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it says the school didn't get accredited until Feb 2023, so maybe people took a research year or something in case the school didn't get accreditation? idk lol just speculating that is somehow involved
 
stillnotjaded said:
@BiomedEngr18 This is the first that I have heard about this, the figures don't make much sense to me. I am happy to follow up on this if this is of big concern to you, feel free to DM. I can say that the admin likes to tout their "above average" step scores when they get the chance, and it seems like most 4th years that I talk to here have done well enough on STEP to match well.
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I would definitely be curious what you could find out about this and I have been asking around with some of the connections I do have. The results definitely speak for themselves, the school seems very academically robust but it is a bit concerning if up to a fifth of students don't finish the program in 4 years, especially considering the personalized 4th year opportunity to do anything that people would typically take a 5th year for.
 
for those who already interviewed, when you initially replied and accepted to attend admissions day was it directly through email or did you email through portal?
 
i was complete 8/21 and not under review still is that normal
 
lsg-premed said:
Received an OOS second II. Does anyone know if a second II is a good or bad indicator?
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Damn people out here getting seconds when some of us are starving and waiting for the first II here lmao. I wouldn't think its a bad thing, but I am not sure how their process typically goes
 
premedgal444 said:
u think 7 IIs is starving? 😭
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I was more making a joke that they've gotten 2 here while others haven't even gotten 1... I might not have been the best person to make that joke though lol. TBF I have good ties to NJ and would like an II here too to add to the collection I guess
 
OOS. I submitted my secondary 8/11, and it's still showing that the "application review is pending." I contacted the office about it, and they didn't answer so I'm kinda confused on what's going on
 
anyone know when they're going to send decisions after interview?
 
So is our 30 minute interview scheduled to be on a different day than the assigned admissions day? That’s a struggle to schedule around with work :/
 
Midnightpop said:
So is our 30 minute interview scheduled to be on a different day than the assigned admissions day? That’s a struggle to schedule around with work :/
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I had the option to sign up for timeslots on the admissions day! Hopefully you can too
 
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