2024-2025 Pennsylvania (Perelman)

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at what point do i consider sending an update letter (new activities that have a similar theme to the ones on my AMCAS, a new project in my lab)
 
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if anyone who received an II this week could comment on how far theyre scheduling up to thatd be much appreciated!
 
OOS II today!! Complete early-mid July!

I am definitely overthinking this, but for the headshot, it says it should be from the waist up. The headshot I have is shoulders up--is that fine or should I find/take another photo from the waist up?

Shoulders up is fine! Mine was like that and they didn’t say anything on interview day
 
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+1 OOS II, Completed 07/02, LM 77

I completely gave up on this school LMAO. Congrats to everyone who received an interview today. Excited to meet you guys on interview day 🙂

Congratulations! It's refreshing to hear they're still sending interviews to people complete in July. Perelman was the first secondary I submitted, on 07/13, and I haven't heard back yet—hoping for good news soon :xf:
 
did anyone that got interview find that success after sending a letter of continued interest?

also any other schools that accept continued interest letters that I could be missing? I see Duke allows document uploads for updates but idk if that includes continued interest as well
do you have a list of schools that take letters of itnerest
 
that's what im asking 😂

I only know Penn after looking through threads last year (out of columbia/harvard/stanford/duke/penn/hopkins). don't know about the others
There's a section on each school's MSAR profile about whether they take letters or not! If you don't happen to use MSAR: Columbia, Harvard, Duke, and Penn accept letters. Hopkins accepts them only after II, Stanford only after II + Stanford only takes updates, no interest/intent letters. I've been working with some other applicants to create a consolidated spreadsheet with this and other relevant admissions info, but we're not finished yet. I'd be happy to share what we have once it's more filled out!
 
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