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Thank you! Can you remark on how easy is it to get involved with research at VCU? On their website they have a lot of resources and contacts for getting involved, so I'm guessing it's fairly easy?
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goldenretriever99
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Is Casper required for this school? I can't find anywhere that it is required?
Pre II Rejection 🙁
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PRE II Rejection... rip
Hyun Chong
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pre-II rejection 5 days after submission. I'm honestly impressed how quick the decision came.
For me I assume it’s my GPA. I have a very strong mcat and EC’s (and am confident in my writing)…my gpa is in their previously accepted range but is absolutely the weak point of my app.
Like another said below, I was at a T5 in a hard stem major
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Hyun Chong
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MCAT 519, cGPA 3.92, sGPA 3.95. I think in the "why us" essay I was trying to hard to sell myself and not my enthusiasm for the school. I told them about how I want to address health disparities and wrote about an experience I had an EMT, but my mention of the school was a cliff note in the last paragraph.
TOcookiemonster
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For those that got rejections, do you mind sharing what time the email came in? And were you IS or OOS?
Hyun Chong
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I guess my vision did not align with the school... all good though!
Edit: MCAT is within range, lower end on the GPA, but hard STEM degree from T10
we have a deans summer research program where they give u a 3k stipend over M1 summer to do research, so its definitely something the medical school puts a priority in, they also recently created a website of all the PI's looking for student, that being said, it still took me about a month or so after cold emailing to lock down research, it all really comes down to timing - almost everyone i know that has wanted research has gotten research
clubpenquin_beast
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OOS R, L74, 7/15, Q4 Casper
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tryingmyverybest
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When did u submit?
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QuantumPhoton
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When choosing the specialties, if I want to do something beyond internal medicine (e.g., endocrinology), do I choose Undecided or Internal Medicine?
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Internal medicine, to be an endocrinologist you have to do internal medicine residency
systematicX
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Im curious why they ask this when so many students have no idea so early on
I understood it as them just collecting the data for themselves? Since it mentions 60% of students changing their mind during medical school.
They say its to match you up with interviewers that match your interests. So you can ask more specific questions about the curriculum and opportunities from that lens.
kitchencabbage
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OOS R this evening !
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deleted1194271
sorry to hear that, do u mind sharing when you submitted your secondary? good luck on ur other apps!
kitchencabbage
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Submitted 7/5 complete 7/7, no worries there’s more R’s to come throughout the cycle gotta get used to it 🙂
applyingthiscycle
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For those that have applied to VCU's MSTP program, what are the LOR requirements/recommendations? I cannot find information about them anywhere... Are they just the same as MD only?
ribonucleoprotein
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p4th2g0a1s
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+1 INTL secondary received 7/18
cycletracker says someone got an interview today 👀
Ubiquinolenthusiast
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Nice ! Hopefully they send more out in the next few days ! [emoji102]
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ribonucleoprotein
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mines been ready since i submitted
GroovyFlower
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Does anyone have Casper show up as a required material in the Status Page? I sent my score but I don't see a row for Casper.
flowerplant2000
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for question q regarding how our mission/values align with VCU's missions/values, did yall select just one to focus on? it seems hard to include more than 1 without fully developing that idea/value
SoCalDocta
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Same here. I double checked the Casper website, and I saw that I did send my score over to them.
youngdumbandbroke
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I wonder if they do this so that your application is marked "complete" and they can review it before they get your score, but they might hold off on sending an interview invite before your score comes back? idk just a guess
I got pre Casper R’ed 🙁
SoCalDocta
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Did you get a rejection email?
Yeah weeks ago now
antiquekitkat
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pre ii rejection on a Sunday night!? brutal
ribonucleoprotein
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antiquekitkat
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complete 7/11
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Ubiquinolenthusiast
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Looking at the VCU discussions from the past 2 years it seems like a good amount of people reported IIs in the first week or two of August so hopefully more will be sent out soon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
disgracedowl
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Pre-II IS R. LM 71 complete 7/17, received R 8/4 around 8pm EST
I'm sorry :/, with that LM you will have plenty of options though!
I can't tell if they are going in order by secondary submission or just sending these things out randomly
Its *probably* a mix of both. Id assume they go in order ranking applicants (with whatever metrics they use), and every week or two they cut the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Trying to guess these things is a total crapshoot, though.
Yeah that makes sense, bc by all metrics I submitted my secondary on 7/6 and have far worse stats. So it just seems to be very random and a crapshoot on how these things are approached.
