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I did awful in PREview and still got a II and a Prime II. I can't imagine it meaning much.
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Is the Geffen Scholar program still a thing this year?
medappcrashout
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unfortunately no 🙁 a MS1 on interview day told me financial aid also is not great but they do have scholarships for PRIME students
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Their yield won’t be great. Anyone know how many they accept?
docflavorz
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iirc 300
will any more As be given out before the end of the year?
Did anyone who interviewed mid-November or onward get an acceptance?
+1 IS A by call yesterday! Will be declining this A. I hope it goes to one of you lovely people!!!
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My MS1 PRIME friends also told me this. Specifically, traditional DGSOM doesn’t give out need-based fin aid anymore, but PRIME does
when was your interview day? Congrats!
10/24
helpmegetthroughthis
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Are they done with IIs?
I don't think so. They should send out a couple more as last year they had 2 II waves in december and have only had 1 so far. Cycletrack confirms this. I would probably start moving on tho since it seems to be about 95% done.
kittytay16
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does anyone know if december is the only month when they send out prime interviews?
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deleted1223922
I think they already sent out all of their PRIME interviews in November about a month ago
internalsparkler
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+1 IS A!!! My top choice!!! Fingers crossed y'all will be there too!
(edited to include more details: I missed a call from a 213 phone number this morning - Fri, Dec 19 - at 9:48AM and I got an email with the acceptance at 9:46AM! I submitted my secondary 7/26, interviewed on 10/27, sent an update in AMP on 12/14, and was accepted on 12/19) hopefully this helps!
(edited to include more details: I missed a call from a 213 phone number this morning - Fri, Dec 19 - at 9:48AM and I got an email with the acceptance at 9:46AM! I submitted my secondary 7/26, interviewed on 10/27, sent an update in AMP on 12/14, and was accepted on 12/19) hopefully this helps!
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did this just come? Do they call or email?
medapplicant2025-26
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Major CONGRATS!!! This is HUGE, and I hope you get to celebrate this win this holiday season
medapplicant2025-26
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Wondering this too!
TheRagingNeuron123
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Congrats! When did you interview
internalsparkler
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I just edited my original post with details - they did both at about the same time for me!
internalsparkler
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see my edit for details! they both called and emailed around the same time for me!
internalsparkler
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I edited my orginal post with details - interviewed 10/27
TheRagingNeuron123
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Ah congrats, interviewed same day 🫣
juggernaut25
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To admitted folks-- anyone received a financial aid package yet?
research-girlie
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do we think they’ll be working today/tomorrow? 12/24 office hours are still listed on the website… what are the odds of more A’s coming out before the holiday break? 😭
They canceled office hours last week and this!
When did people interview here, especially those who are yet to hear back? Did anyone interview here this week or last? Curious because of the OH Cancellation if many people were off last week itself.
research-girlie
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oh got it. And 12/08
jjjdxsc
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Hi all - new here, 12/8 interviewee just waiting for the decision.
Wondering if there were any IIs from 11/17 - 12/5? If anyone interviewed between them. I scoured here, admit, reddit, and found dates earlier in November and a few Dec dates, but noth in between. Wondering if us December interviewees may actually be hearing pretty soon...
Wondering if there were any IIs from 11/17 - 12/5? If anyone interviewed between them. I scoured here, admit, reddit, and found dates earlier in November and a few Dec dates, but noth in between. Wondering if us December interviewees may actually be hearing pretty soon...
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medapplicant2025-26
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I was an 11/7 interviewee and still haven't heard back, but that could just be my case.
TheRagingNeuron123
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10/27 interview an still haven’t heard 💔
lebronjames124
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early sep II its cooked man
TheRagingNeuron123
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F our stupid chungus life 💔
jumpinghorse116
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If there are any DGSOM med students on here, could you share about the overall student culture at UCLA? Wondering how close students are/support/etc while in med school. Thank you!
MarcelinetheVampireQueen
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Is it correct to assume no more interview invites are going to be sent out next year?
I genuinely don't know, but CycleTrack has one interview invite listed as January 2025 from last cycle. They also have their next office hours on January 7th (next Wednesday).
MarcelinetheVampireQueen
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For some reason when I go to cycle track for geffen there is no graph showing that
Does anyone know if the Leaders of Tomorrow Scholars Program is still given?
Hearing there's no finaid here, for those of us from low-income families who are above the federal loan cap (very expensive COA even IS) and can't have a cosigner (doubt my parents would qualify). Can we even get loans? Obviously I will be choosing the cheapest school, but wondering if UCLA would even be mathematically possible.
The Geffen scholarship stopped in 2022 because David Geffen didn't renew his donation for the scholarship but there is another scholarship called the Leaders of Tomorrow Scholars. It's for people they deem to be future leaders of change in the field of medicine but you need to have a strong foothold in healthcare innovations for that.
You can still get loans and it's cheap if you're in-state (relatively speaking).
Is there any reason to hope that there might be more scholarships given out this cycle?? I'm just holding onto hope.
I'm in state. I see a cost of 97,916 for the school year, and then 12, 300 for that summer. around 110,000 for 3 years and 100,000 for the last year.
That's not cheap at all, even for Harvard Med School the annual COA was like 108-112k. So in staters will pay the same as a private MD school, and OOS-ers will pay more.
More importantly, it's 50-60k/year over the federal limit for IN STATE students, so a in state student will need 200-250k in supplemental loans. My question is will anyone loan that to me with no cosigner and decent but not great credit? And if they do, I bet it'll be at a high teens APR 🙁
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Nope. Not unless a big donor happens.
caffeinated_corgi
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I obviously don't know how true it is bc obviously they're going to try and make themselves sound better but at interview day they said they offer a majority of in state students some sort of aid
I'll find out next week.
lebronjames124
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Could you also ask about OOS students
If you already attended an II, you know if theyre mentioning aid. I'm not asking them anything; I"m seeing what they say during interview day.
