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How does the Air Force/Military/Navy know that you have been accepted? Do they get a list of students who have admitted to medical schools or do they just randomly emailed people to congratulate them? Is it just a spam? Just curious.

 

[LauraDO]

How does the Air Force/Military/Navy know that you have been accepted? Do they get a list of students who have admitted to medical schools? Just curious.

My recruiter said he just needs my acceptance letter, it goes it my file and is presented with my application at boards

 

[Bonsante]

My recruiter said he just needs my acceptance letter, it goes it my file and is presented with my application at boards

I mean I got an email congratulating me on my acceptance. How do they know that I have been accepted when I don't really know that? I just thought it was weird. Has anybody got that type of email before?

 

[LauraDO]

I mean I got an email congratulating me on my acceptance. How do they know that I have been accepted when I don't really know that? I just thought it was weird. Has anybody got that type of email before?

You got an email from the military?

 

[Bonsante]

You got an email from the military?

Air Force.

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[EEL08]

I mean I got an email congratulating me on my acceptance. How do they know that I have been accepted when I don't really know that? I just thought it was weird. Has anybody got that type of email before?

My husband and I get those quite often. I'm not sure how many have actually said congrats on the acceptance though.

 

[Bonsante]

My husband and I get those quite often. I'm not sure how many have actually said congrats on the acceptance though.

That's just STUPID!!! I hate spam emails.

 

[meggielou]

I'm guessing they get a list of people who took the MCAT...

 

[DrMattOglesby]

if it was a list of people who took the MCAT...then id get a congrats on the acceptance email....but no such thing in my inbox. just buncha stuff on how i could benefit from doing a HPSP.

 

[Tamburlaine]

Does any one think that DO student app's to the military are substantially increasing?

 

[ThisIsYourLife]

Ive been getting them ever since I was accepted... I swear I get at least one every other day..

 

[OCHO]

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[Bonsante]

Ive been getting them ever since I was accepted... I swear I get at least one every other day..

I have not been accepted and still waiting to hear back from some schools, so this leads me to conclude that the email is just a spam.

 

[307Doc]

How does the Air Force/Military/Navy know that you have been accepted? Do they get a list of students who have admitted to medical schools or do they just randomly emailed people to congratulate them? Is it just a spam? Just curious.

When you sign up for the MCAT there are boxes that can be checked. One of them is to inform organizations you have taken the MCAT so therefore must be making an attempt at medical school. So depending on if you checked that box, you will/won't recieve the military e-mails.

On a side note. They are looking hard for people that are committed to thier program. Especially after that internist that signed up for the program then decided she was against the war after she'd finished her residency and was refusing to go and do as the military was requesting. So make sure you want it.

 

[umean2tellme]

I got one same day as my waitlist acceptance. But if joining them got me off the list I'd do it lol

 

[prionsRbad]

I've been getting at least one email a day from the army/airforce/marines/navy. It's getting annoying . . . .

 

[bioteach]

I get those all the time, too. I just figured they had someone hiding in my closet feeding them intelligence.

 

[Razbrygrl3]

I've been getting e-mails like that for awhile. Certainly not as many as you all seem to be getting them, but I'd say I get about two e-mails per month from the Army and the Air Force. I've never gotten a single one from the Navy, which ironically is the one branch that I do want to hear from. I've been considering the option of doing the Navy HPSP starting my second year. Requested a DVD in the mail, but it was only about the Navy Med Corps so it wasn't particularly useful. And literally within the past two days, the Navy website that used to have a little bit of info about their HPSP has been completely overhauled and redesigned but now there is absolutely nothing about the HPSP. And of course, an old links or contact e-mail addresses I have are broken. I haven't given it enough thought at this point to want to talk to a recruiter in person but I want to e-mail someone or look online to get more info.

 

[OCHO]

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[Tamburlaine]

Hey Razby,

I have a friend in your boat--merely toying with the idea.

Here's the thing, though, you owe the same amount of service back whether they pay only for two years of your school, or they give you the full ride.

Plus, it takes at least three months--and usually longer than that--and a crap load of work to get in. It's not hard; it just takes a while, and if you miss some deadlines, you'll get shifted forward another year, and you may loose the 20G bonus.

Check out the milimed forum if you're interested, but an unfortunate fact of the issue is that time is a good deal of money.

Do your research, though, however you come down.

 

[Razbrygrl3]

Yeah, there's definitely A LOT of pros and cons and things to consider before making such a serious committment.

Thanks for the link, Ocho! Lots of great info there! I actually just found some useful info on the redesigned web site, after clicking around on a bunch of random links for awhile. Go figure. 🙄

 

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[MLT2MT2DO]

I'd just like to toss out there that if you do plan on going this route but don't want to be totally militarized (pretty sure I just made that word up), the Air Force or the Navy is your best route.

 

[Darktide]

I would love to be a military man.... but some things I just don't think I could handle (confidence course considering my knee problems, etc)

I was about 5 seconds from calling my Air Force recruiter and signing up after I looked at the paygrades....

then I i realized that i was looking at the paygrade for a General? (O-8)... not an O-3 (captain)? i think that's what you would enter as.... Yeah. i was crestfallen =)


Glad my dad (ex Airforce TI) pointed this out... and then pointed out it'd be difficult to enter considering my knee... and the whole residency "selection"...

 

[KateGia]

I've been getting e-mails like that for awhile. Certainly not as many as you all seem to be getting them, but I'd say I get about two e-mails per month from the Army and the Air Force. I've never gotten a single one from the Navy, which ironically is the one branch that I do want to hear from. I've been considering the option of doing the Navy HPSP starting my second year. Requested a DVD in the mail, but it was only about the Navy Med Corps so it wasn't particularly useful. And literally within the past two days, the Navy website that used to have a little bit of info about their HPSP has been completely overhauled and redesigned but now there is absolutely nothing about the HPSP. And of course, an old links or contact e-mail addresses I have are broken. I haven't given it enough thought at this point to want to talk to a recruiter in person but I want to e-mail someone or look online to get more info.

About a month ago, I got one of these letters in the mail, but it said "As you're about to graduate high school, consider a career in the military..." I'm an OMS-II.

 

[Toohotinvegas33]

How does the Air Force/Military/Navy know that you have been accepted? Do they get a list of students who have admitted to medical schools or do they just randomly emailed people to congratulate them? Is it just a spam? Just curious.

Two words: Patriot Act

 

[Tachymeter]

Once 3 years ago I emailed the Air force recruiter at my school about how the military scholarship works.

 

[udsoccer7]

Two words: Patriot Act

Toohotinvegas33 you stole my thunder!!! I was going to say Patriot Act!!!! I was reading down the comments just hoping no one would have that reply. Oh well....

 

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[J-Rad]

Thats simply not true. If you take the HPSP for one year you owe a minimum of two years. If you take the HPSP for two years you owe two years. If you take the HPSP for three years you owe three years. If you take it for four years you owe four years.

Actually it is almost true, at least in the Air Force (and remember it is the same scholarship just administered by separate departments, so I suspect true for the Navy and Army): http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI41-110.pdf
"1.4.4.4. Accept a minimum term of service (MTS) of three years to run concurrently with the
ADSC. If the ADSC is less that the MTS, participants remain on AD until they finish their MTS before the AF will release them. Participants receive credit toward MTS for the time they serve on
AD after completing the professional degree unless the contract specifies otherwise."
As I recall, this makes the minimum term-of-service 3yrs (I don't know of any 1yr scholarships, 2yrs are rare but incur a 3 yr obligation and 3 & 4 yr scholarships would incur 3 & 4 yr service commitments, resepctively.

 

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