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Do you have any insight into things like in state MCAT avg vs oos? When do interviews conclude? Is there a holistic review or is it truly more MCAT driven? Given that USF is ranked by US news as tier 2 in both primary care and research, does the school value ppl w future plans in primary care? Is the student body collaborative and community oriented? Thanks in advance.
I shared the MCAT averages above. See comment #547
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Sad that a state public school will not take more of its own
Goodness. Not sure how I missed that.
hillbillybuck
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Do they actually enforce this? This is probably the dumbest, most anal thing I’ve seen a school do
george5433
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It also says non-ARM Intel CPU required. I guess some software requirement but that will exclude most if not all Macs.
detailgranola_
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Does anyone know what the turnaround time is for decisions after interviews? I interviewed 3/19.
Our class size is 130 and we have like 79 IS people (usf website says 61% of our class)
No clue when interviews finish. I don't talk to admin at all so idk how much they push to get people who want to go into primary care, but they do put a lot of emphasis on how many of their students matched into primary care so they probably are looking for that to some degree.
Student body is super collaborative for sure. People are out here posting their own anki decks and study guides for the lectures, idk how they find the time for that but they do. I'm not sure what exactly you mean by community oriented, but a lot of people volunteer pretty regularly at TBSM, Bridge clinic, Red Crescent clinic, etc
Yes and yes. Luckily I haven't rly had issues with admin generally but this is a very dumb rule that they do enforce
I would call or email them. I doubt they'd actually enforce that but who knows
kiwisun
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They said 6-10 weeks i believe
Seems like mostly WL right now. Curious how your interview went? 1 or 2 interviews?
Seems like it’s all waitlists. Did anything stand out to you about the interview(s)?
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2 interviews, one faculty and one student. I felt it went well
Looks like all waitlists lately. Hopefully there will be mvmt later. What did you think of the interview(s)?
wonder why some ppl only get 1 interview.
filterfeeder54321
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Has anyone received a merit scholarship / financial aid package? Wondering when they are suppsoe to arrrive.
penguin-banana
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I interviewed 3/18, and I was simply told they will review applicants at the end of the month.
Wanted to bump this comment to see if any current students have experience with the laptop requirements (and if we can just ignore them) - "software incompatibility" seems like a silly reason for me to have to swap out my 2-year-old Mac, especially since rosetta allows for software compatibility between legacy programs and the ARM chips.
If you're accepted and esp if you haven't committed yet you should email admissions and ask for scholarships and stuff, they prolly won't give it by default
USF does this thing where they prefer not to release scholarships until after commitment for most students lol
george5433
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Does anyone know how generous they are with financial aid/scholarships? Are there differences for IS/OOS students?
regbev
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Yeah I’m a current M1 and they had us show our receipt of purchase at the start of the year to prove we bought it within the window. I had to buy a completely new laptop which sucked. I don’t think they were super strict about the actual ARM/tech requirements though, more just about the date of purchase.
really.... very childish and micro managing the MD students as kids..
curlydoctor
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does USF only accept letters of intent and not interest? and does anyone know from experience how much of a difference that tends to make with actually coming off the WL?
I sent a letter of interest (did not explicitly state i would absolutely matriculate if accepted) and included some updates in my application. I emailed it to the office of admissions and they said it was added to my file. unfortunately i have no idea how much of a difference it makes with the WL, but i think it’s worth a shot especially if you have additional updates
curlydoctor
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thank you will do this for sure!!
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george5433
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I remember during my interview the faculty member I spoke to definitely did make it seem like they put a decent amount of weight on the letter of intent. For letter of interest I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt and if anything would help.
george5433
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USNWR now ranks USF tier one and research.
Their insta page is flexing that like crazy LOL
Their insta page is flexing that like crazy LOL
Black box, wouldn't hurt tho
filterfeeder54321
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any current students have a rough estimate of how many people get merit scholarships. It is kinda hard to decide when the money is released after the CTE deadline?
george5433
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Based on the previous two years threads, it looks like people start getting accepted off the waitlist final week of April or early May
homersimpsonfan12
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For those of you who have spoken with Morsani students or are current students, how are the clerkships and general culture surrounding them? TGH seems like a great place to rotate at, but was curious if there have been reports of feeling like a small fish in a big pond and having to compete for attention/good letters from physicians there/attendings/etc?
bumblebee108
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Looking at last years posts, there were people who didn’t write one who were accepted off the wl. not sure if they were is or oos tho
homersimpsonfan12
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Has anyone emailed them about a GroupMe yet?
homersimpsonfan12
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Discord, damn--that's fancy haha. I think it might be a good idea to start looking for roommates and finding a good apartment and price. If anyone is in the same boat, feel free to DM me and we can chat and see if we might be a good fit. I'm a guy btw. I'll post something a bit later about my roommate preferences.
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filterfeeder54321
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there is a facebook group for the class of 2029 in the canvas pre-matriculation course. I saw someone was already trying to sublease a place. that may be a good place to find roommates. If I dont get off my in state schools waitlist ill be in the same boat lol
Just out of curiosity, how many people in here with an A intend to matriculate? I'm trying to get an idea of how much waitlist movement there's going to be this year.
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I might be wrong but I dont see anyone instate with an acceptance in this thread. So I hope we will hear from them soon
ApexAiden
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I’m instate with an A. At second look a couple weeks ago, it may have been 2/5 of the accepted students were instate. I don’t know exactly, and this number may be high since it was an event in Florida.
I meant in this thread. Ok now that you said this, I have lost hope. About how many there at second look?
ApexAiden
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I think a little over 60.
USF usually has a ton of waitlist movement
