AZCOM Discussion thread 2008-2009

[virya]

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That is a relief. Thanks.

 

[HCW212]

No, I wouldn't assume that. I was, in fact, rejected from AZCOM post-interview but accepted to CCOM. So I think both schools are independent, at least to some degree.

true indeed. i was rejected by ccom pre-interview and accepted to azcom. i wish it were the other way around though.

 

[pPKB]

Hey flushot and rennykim,

I'm in the masters program as well. I heard one of the two year students say that AZCOM admission puts most of the master students on waitlist (those that get an interview) till the program is over, making them wait till June to see if they were accepted. However, he said most were accepted. Anyone else heard about this?

 

[deleted172531]

Does anyone know if the lectures will be online?

 

[Dciple]

Hey, is there anyone on here living in the "on-campus" housing? If so, could you comment on which one is the best to choose:

Standard one bedroom
Standard one bedroom with den
Luxury Two bedroom
Studio

Thanks!

 

[shlifer]

should I live on campus or off? which is cheaper?

anything i should know about the housing situation ? positives? negatives?

 

[213965]

Hey flushot and rennykim,

I'm in the masters program as well. I heard one of the two year students say that AZCOM admission puts most of the master students on waitlist (those that get an interview) till the program is over, making them wait till June to see if they were accepted. However, he said most were accepted. Anyone else heard about this?

I don't think this is necessarily true. I know of three people from our program (including another who posts on this thread regularly... but I won't name him unless he wants to identify himself 😛) who got acceptances very early on.

At this rate I don't think I will be interviewing at AZCOM because waiting until March/April to interview is simply ridiculous, unless I get rejected from all 5 programs I've interviewed at by that point.

Good luck.

 

[mtanzil2]

Does anyone know the names of the interviewers at AZCOM? Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[slim78]

Does anyone know the names of the interviewers at AZCOM? Thanks a lot in advance!

They will always change. When I interviewed last year it was 2 local DOs and a 2nd year student. I've heard of other students interviewing with faculty members though. It is pretty much luck of the draw.

 

[rmsgolfer]

I interviewed with a DO who is a high ranking consultant for the school, an A&P professor, and one of the directors of admissions. There were also two other panels of interviewers so it really does differ.

 

[mtanzil2]

Thank you Slim & rmsgolfer for the info! I shadowed an AZCOM alumni and she was wondering who are gonna be interviewing me on Feb 26 so she can address the letter to specific people.

 

[Flushot]

Hey flushot and rennykim,

I'm in the masters program as well. I heard one of the two year students say that AZCOM admission puts most of the master students on waitlist (those that get an interview) till the program is over, making them wait till June to see if they were accepted. However, he said most were accepted. Anyone else heard about this?

Did you go to the meeting where they laid out the deal for the SMP people? At this rate, like rennykim says, we will probably interview very late in the cycle, i.e. last possible times (April, May).

From what you've gathered, it seems that many people in our program, both DO and dental, have received interviews and a few have already been accepted, so it's up to you on how much these next few months matter.

I wouldn't count on what you heard. If you have concerns, like AZCOM may be your one and only hope, go talk to Dr. Bell.

 

[majatoi]

I just found this post written by harmlessfun21.
I would like AZCOM students give their opinion on this post, whether it is true or not. I got acceptance and am deciding if I should go there. Thank you


When I was applying to Osteopathic schools I got a lot of feedback from SDN and current and former AZCOM students - both the good and the bad. I think it's time that I post my own opinions and contribute to information sharing. In the end, we're all responsible for our own lives and educations, but I believe that we should all contribute our best to the sharing of knowlege and opinions - so we can all make informed decisions.

I just finished my second year, and will soon be starting my third, and I do plan on taking both board exams relatively soon. When I applied to AZCOM, the school was doing quite well, the previous matchlists were quite good, students were relatively happy with their educations, and although the clinical education wasn't very strong, they did allow students to do as many out of state as they wanted - and this was a good thing because there were many residency programs that loved to take our 3rd/4th students - and they even provided housing and meals. A few things have changed.....

If you look up AZCOM's accreditation report, you'll notice that for a second time in a row they have brought up the concern of high faculty turnover. During the time that I have been here, the 2 head faculty memebers in the physiology department left the school (Drs. Stanley, married), a top anatomy professor (Dr. Fischer), pathology professor (Dr. McCarver, who now does the occasional 'pity' lecture), and rumor has it that this is last year for Dr. Walters (the head of the anatomy department and and awesome professor), Dr. Mann (head of the biochemistry department), and Dr. Lovecchio (head of Clinical Correlates). Who else is leaving? THE DEAN! And the new dean? A local family practioner! Did students have any input on this? Of course not! Obviously there is something seriously wrong.....

In the past 3 years, AZCOM's tuition has increased 9k, and the number of hospital positions that they offer students has decreased. This is for a number or reason, among them, the new ASU-downtown medical school and the old UofA are eating up spots, Kirksville's new Mesa, AZ campus is staking their claim, and Creighton University (Nebraska) paid and took all of the spots at St. Joe's hospital. The average loan amount for students next year (everything included) is a little less than 70k. More expensive than USC in Southern California, and this Glendale, AZ - one of the cheapest places to live that you can think of. Obviously there is something seriously wrong.....

Please compare the matchlists from this past 2 years, to thosefrom 3-7 years ago. Now compare them to other DO schools, and CCOM http://mwunet.midwestern.edu/academic/AZCOM/azcomDean_Match.htm
http://mwunet.midwestern.edu/academic/CCOMClinEd/studentArea.htm
You will notice that competitive placements took a HUGE downturn at AZCOM. Obviously there is something seriously wrong.....
Please take a look at the 3rd year rotations: http://mwunet.midwestern.edu/academic/AZCOMClinEd_Dept/ceMSIII.htm
This is somewhat misleading, as we only get one elective, not two. Moreover, there is one rotation missing! "RURAL MEDICINE" - i.e. you WILL be going to the middle of nowhere for 4 weeks. Also please note that there are 12 weeks of family medicine, and 4 of internal, and 4 or surgery. Compare this to that of NYCOM: 6weeks family, 12 weeks internal med., 12 weeks surgery (and no RURAL MED!!!). When I interviewed at AZCOM I specifically asked if the school was going to try and 'push' me into primary care - as I already knew that I would never go into that field...I was told that AZCOM is a private school that does not receive state funding, and as such did not care what their students wanted to do and that as a 'new and small school we don't have any red-tape and tailor to each students needs.' Moreover I was told that they encouraged their students to do out-of-state residency-based rotations (without limits). All lies of course. The school is very much set on it's students going into family medicine (I'm still dumbfunded as to their reasoning), and as of my year, we are no longer allowed to do more than 3 out of state rotations!!! Keep in mind that the school doesn't have dedicated hospital sites, so the vast majority of our rotations (myself included) are with preceptors in their office - these preceptors are not paid, they are not 'designed' to teach, they have an office to run, and many have terrible student evaluations - but there aren't enough preceptors to go around, in order to weed our the 'bad ones.' Obviously there is something seriously wrong....

The school has decided to add 100 new students to the cl***** (to bring the total to 250), but it does not have basic science and clinical science resources or faculty to do this. We all know it, we've raised alarms (on deaf ears) and I feel sorry for incoming clueless freshman. Obviously there is something seriously wrong....

Let's do the math! 150 students in my class, paying 42k+ in tuition = about 6.3 million dollars. How much of that goes to pay for our clinical education? NOTHING. All clinical education sites are basically either free (volunteer preceptors, needy community hospitals), or are paid in peanuts ($50 a student) etc. OTHER SCHOOLS PAY BIG MONEY FOR THE STUDENTS TO ROTATE AT QUALITY HOSPITALS. AZCOM refuses. The Mayo clinic in scottsdale offered for our students to rotate at their hospital for 1.5 mil, AZCOM refused! Instead we have (and not enough apparently) preceptors with bad evals, and no longer allowed to do more than 3 out-of-state. Meanwhile, the school has put of 3 new buildings since the time that I've been here - and they refuse to release their line-item 'non-profit' financial statements. I wonder why... Perhaps it has something to do with a recently published article about how AZCOM's CEO (yes, you heard me right, CEO) Goeppinger's 600k+, base salary, her private jet, the absolute refusal to release line-item NON-PROFIT financial statements, and something about this article: http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2007/awsalchallenge020107.html & http://www.azcentral.com/community/peoria/articles/0131gl-midwestern27Z2.html. Obviously there is something seriously wrong.....

There are many other things (the schools lack of support funding for basic science research), the general hostility of Phoenix physicians towards the school (I wonder why?), and most of all: the students are treated like objects - we are not heard nor listened to. Our opinions mean nothing, and change nothing...and why should they? As long as we're dollar signs, trapped, and forced to keep on giving. Sadly, I had many other offers, and chose AZCOM for what it should have been, not what it is now.

There are many other things wrong with this program. I've only given you a taste from my own personal perspective. I can't change anything at this school, and frankly I don't really care to try, as I am almost done. I didn't get from my education what I had anticipated to get, but I don't live my life with regrets either. To those of you considering coming here (especially if you see yourself as a 'gunner') - think twice. And then a third time. Then a forth. Then hit yourself with a shovel, and think again.

Lastly, a final note about the rumored boards scores etc. It's all BS and I'll explain: AZCOM has a very high pass rate, but low average board scores. In other words "we all know the bare minimum to pass, but not enough to do well." This is true for the comlex. The usmle is a different story - the average score is a fail (not-passed). Of course, neither average is ever published. Only the fact that our students 'pass' the comlex. Woopdie-doo-hurray...we all barely pass the complex, and barely anyone matched into surgery this past year, radiology, etc.

Medical school is a one time deal. Your education, board scores, and residency placements are one time deals. Think long and hard, and don't rush it. You've put in way too much time, effort, energy, and money to sell yourself short on the most important part of it all. Research carefully, talk to current students, and don't go by the 'pretty campus.' Make your first medical decision! Is this school healthy? Are their finances healthy? Will my finances be healthy? Are the current students healthy? Is their matchlist healthy? Is their clinical education (arguably the most important part of your education) healthy? Is their basic science program still healthy? Is their having the highest facualty turnover of any other school healthy? Is the lack of research funding healthy? Is the increase in incoming class sizes healthy? Are the schools resources healthy? Is this school technologically integrated (i.e. the paid to bring their resources uptodate)? Will I be where I want to be by the time I graduate from here based on the current trends? (i.e. is this patients fever increasing or decreasing over time?)

Be strong. Medicine is still a great field, very rewarding and enriching. Just do your best to prepare for your life-long journey. I wish you all the best of luck, and god bless. 😎

Well, let me introduce myself... my name is Mansoor Jatoi, I am a first year at AZCOM (Class of 2012) and I am the current Class Council President. The only reason I bring this up is because I get to participate in the Dean's Council meeting where I get to inquire on the many questions / points that were mentioned above directly with the Dean of our school and the Dean of our clinical education department.

I just like many of you, came across a post, like the one above right before getting into AZCOM, luckily, I knew a Doc that knew the previous Dean, Dr. Cole, and I got to give him a call before my interview and ask him questions about the changes of the school, rotations, board scores, etc. After reading that post, talking with him, and talking with my friends who are now fourth years at both AZCOM and CCOM, I made my choice to attend here.

I have not regretted this decision one bit since I got here. I think it is time for someone to defend the school for a change and give up to date information as to what is really going on behind the scenes as opposed to what is going on in the front.

I will do my best to address the major issues discussed above.

1) Matching is getting horrible?
http://mwunet.midwestern.edu/academic/AZCOM/azcomDean_Match.htm

Make that decision for yourself, don't look to what others have to say. In all honesty I ran the numbers it matches very closely to our only allopathic school in the state (University of Arizona). Do your own research, as anyone should, if you feel like this is not the place for you then go elsewhere. I was once told that an osteopathic physician would never make it to Harvard, we have a Doc that came from AZCOM that matched a Harvard Diagnostic Radiology program. What does this tell you? I doubt this has anything to do with the history / trends of this school, it has to do with what you put into your studies and how well you do and present yourself to the various programs. If you try hard enough you can indeed match in a competitive residencies at very competitive allopathic institutions. Bottom line, I don't think I agree with this statement, each class has its own personality, and their own will to succeed. We can't blame EVERYTHING on the school / faculty.

2) High turnover?

This may indeed be true, but in the recent time this school has been going through many changes as well. There is a change in leadership, the inaugural Dean, Dr. Cole, was retiring and the new Dean, Dr. Kemper was taking over. I believe he retired last year (2007) to be precise. Therefore, with any change in power, as we have seen with many medical schools across the nation, you get changes in faculty. It could be due to a number of reasons, but what I can speak of is the faculty that we currently have. They are amazing teachers, caring, and have a great open door policy. Unlike many other medical schools, they at least listen to what their students have to say and implement changes the next year for our next incoming class. Our class has already been responsible for changes in the curriculum and we are still actively working to make it better for the class of 2013. You can thank our class, our great Class Council, and our faculty for being willing to listen.

Dr. Cole our previous Dean was a pathologist / general practitioner. The point of that is who cares what specialty our Dean has? Does the Dean have to be a Neurosurgeon to be a good Dean? What makes this medical student qualified to pick our next Dean, I will leave that in the hands the people who have been running medical schools under the guidance of our parent school which has been in operation for 100 years.

3) OMG This school is expensive? What about the clinical rotations? Third year rotations, in state out of state?

This is absolutely true, this school is expensive, but you all knew that coming into that when you interviewed here. If this school is indeed too expensive for you, go elsewhere, you can't blame that on anyone. The counter argument is that well they should be paying for rotations. I am told that the previous Dean, Dr. Cole, was a bit strict on whether or not we should be paying for rotations for our medical students, since Dr. Kemper has taken over, I can tell you that our school is aggressively seeking additional rotations and sites in the state of Arizona and out of state. There is a great rotation program called the Ohio CORE program that the Class of 2011 will be rotating at (currently 20 students, to expand to 40 students for the class of 2012), where MWU is paying for those slots. It is an excellent opportunity for those who are willing to relocate for a year or two (optional year 2) and do a bunch of rotations at various hospitals in the Ohio CORE program (www.ohiocore.org). There are many specialty residency programs at the hospitals that you will essentially audition rotation at (diagnostic radiology, dermatology, etc). Our Clinical Education department has gotten 7 new residency programs approved in the state and are working on many more while significantly decreasing the number of preceptor based rotations and trying to get many more ward based rotations. This is all new information straight from my Dean's Council meeting last month.

We do indeed have to stay in state or go to Ohio (currently, maybe more state programs to be added for us by the time we hit third year) because they are doing away with letting medical students arrange their own CORE rotations. The problem with allowing students to design their own CORE rotations is that some would get excellent rotations while others would not. If MWU takes over the CORE program and still give us the freedom fourth year to do what we want, they can ensure that we are getting a quality third year rotation that will better prepare us for fourth year. Honestly, I would rather give credit to a school for doing such a task rather than bring them down. I could understand if this changed after you get in and you were told something else in your interview, but I am telling you up front this is the case, so please don't hop on student doctor in the future and cry about this if you have already been informed. 🙂

As for rural medicine, many osteopathic medical schools require you do to rural medicine, but as of our last meeting this allows us to practice out in a rural area, but not necessarily in just Family Medicine. They are looking to expand it to a few options, one which may be General Surgery. It is Family Medicine and Internal Medicine right now, but Yuma, Arizona is considered a rural area. You aren't really out in a uncivilized part of the world, Yuma has a nice hospital there.

Furthermore, for those who have interviewed here, you know that the school spends money on itself. It is indeed a non-profit institution and it does re-invest its money in itself (just look at our auditorium and new buildings) and its students by loaning money to their students. The cost of education a physician in itself is not cheap (when you take into account facilities, cadavers, faculty, medical rotations, research, etc) and honestly that is the cost of going to a private school that doesn't get money from many other sources.


4) OMG THE CLASS IS REALLY 250 STUD..ENTS?

Yes the class is 250 students and I am a proud member of the inaugural class of 250. I have spoken with the Class Council before us and they were very worried about our class coming in, but the funny thing is, the true guinea pig in this situation is the Class of 2011. The school is trying a variety of things with them to see if it will work out for the inaugural class. I thank the Class of 2011 for this and we will keep our pulse on their reactions and they are adamant about making it better for our class. The Class of 2012 is very close knit class and we all will have our beefs with any medical school that we chose, but in all honestly, all in all, this school is pretty awesome. I love it, I don't mind the class size. I think I know more people in this class than I did of my much smaller class in Business School (University of Arizona) for my major (Management Information Systems).

When your class gets here, do events that will bring your class together and make you tight knit. Our Class Council is looking to do more things to engage the entire class and get us more tied together, but we have Facebook and a class website that we all share notes / recorded lectures (www.azcom2012.com).

5) 1.5 Million Dollars for Mayo, WTH? Other schools buying out slots?

It is true, May did indeed offer that, but at that time and leadership we were not ready to spend that much money for what .. 4 slots? Come on, what this person fails to tell everyone is the limited number of slots Mayo offered to the school, it was not a large amount and definitely not worth it to the few students that would get to rotate there and the rest of the class will be paying for them to go there? If you are going to tell the story, please provide more details. There are other schools (ie: Creighton) that have been buying slots at various hospitals. These schools have additional funding than our school, therefore, I don't think it's fair to compare them to us. I think if we are going to compare, let's compare apples to apples. We are in talks with a number of new hospitals that are coming up for slots for our MS II and MS I class, rest assured that we will have excellent rotations come third year. I HAVE NO DOUBT OF THIS. I have spoken with a number of people, including the previous Dean, I bring it up every month so that I can inform my class of the updates in our clinical curriculum come third year and I love what I see. The direction this school is going is a good one, and in a couple of years when I am experiencing it, I will be happy to provide you those updates.

6) Bitterness of preceptor based rotations, treated like objects?

This is precisely why they are revamping the curriculum education, limiting the out of state rotations, and trying to be VERY involved in the setup and reservations of our third year / fourth year. They want to ensure that EVERY student, not just a few, get an excellent third year clinical education. They have already remove the preceptor program in the first two years because they were realizing that students were not being treated equally across the class. I am sincerely sorry that this particular medical student was a part of that change, but be thankful that we will not be a part of that change. Most of the dramatic changes are already under way and I suspect will be solidified by the time we get to third year.

7) Pseudo board scores? Pass rate versus USMLE?

I have yet to ask the Dean what our COMLEX average is and honestly I am not sure it truly matters. You study your tail off for your boards. This school will teach you what you need to know to pass your exams, but you have to put in the time and effort to get yourself up farther. I do know that our USMLE average is 205. This is not anywhere near the national average of 220, but remember, about 80% of our students take the USMLE and I am sure there are those that prepare for the COMLEX, not the USMLE, and decide just to take the USMLE to take it. Unfortunately, they score horrible and don't care because they did just fine on the COMLEX. The USMLE and COMLEX are two different beasts of a test. They are a completely different style of a test, although the core of the material is the same. As we all learned with the MCAT, the MCAT does not test you over the material like our undergrad, they are two different tests. You must prepare for the appropriate test. The allopathic students that take the boards, they don't have the COMLEX to fall back upon, they are studying to PASS and do well on the USMLE because that is ALL they have. So, with that in mind, our averages will be a little off because of people doing this and I am sure this is true universally of many Osteopathic schools across the country. Honestly what matters for most people, including allopathic schools, is just PASSING! We still have more than 50% of our class that specializes, when you look at many osteopathic medical schools across the country, our numbers are much higher than those. I think most schools are slowly turning away from family medicine sadly, but of course, many osteopathic schools still favor family medicine. I have never felt this way EVER nor has my colleague who is a fourth year here at AZCOM.

Now for my wrap up, just do your research before attending any medical school. For those who indeed do decide to come here, there will be things that you dislike, but you will learn to deal with it. But if you went to another medical school, you would've have had issues with things in that school too. All in all, this school is a great school with a great history. I have heard this a number of times from the different physicians that I worked with at Northwest Medical Center in Tucson (I worked there for 3 years) and Physicians that I know in Yuma (I went to high school in Yuma and my parents live in Yuma). Do your research so at least you are brought up to speed on the things that are important to you. The things that were important to me, was staying in Arizona (school wise), clinical education, a structured curriculum that doesn't allow me to fall behind (tests ALL THE DANG TIME.. this school will do that to you.. 🙂, and a school that is willing to listen to their classes to make changes to their curriculum.

If you have any further questions regarding anything, please let me know, you can email me at: [email protected] or post it here and send me an email saying that a question has been posted so that others can benefit from the question as well. 🙂 Take care and good luck on making your decisions on a medical school.

 

[bohicaboy]

Hey I noticed quite a few of you had interviews at AZCOM already.

I interview Jan-23rd.

Any clues on interview questions?
(i.e. what type of kitchen utensil I think I am....)

 

[meghalo05]

My application was put on hold before I got an interview. Is anyone else in the same boat as me? Anyone know my chances of getting an interview?

 

[Chocolate Bear]

Hey I noticed quite a few of you had interviews at AZCOM already.

I interview Jan-23rd.

Any clues on interview questions?
(i.e. what type of kitchen utensil I think I am....)

Interview Feedback 👍

 

[time2go]

for those of you who have submitted their secondary recently, how long did it take to receive an interview invite?
How do you find out about it, phone call, email? check your profile?>

 

[cliquesh]

The best place to check is their portal website, and then click on "interviews" or something. It will usually be posted there first.

 

[kdstephy]

for those of you who have submitted their secondary recently, how long did it take to receive an interview invite?
How do you find out about it, phone call, email? check your profile?>

Check your email- that's where I received my invite...

 

[partydoc]

i was complete mid november and i just got the interview invite this past week
so im going to say about a month

the earliest spot i got to interview was march 30, anyone else having to wait that long to interview?

 

[Kishkinde]

I was complete around September 29th. I received an interview invite for multiple dates from Nov 3rd-January 10th. Interviewed in early November
and accepted🙄

So yeah I thought the January dates offered were pretty late as well. But no worries! Interview well, know your CV/Resume, and your PS, well, and you'll do great! Project confidence!!!!

 

[Kishkinde]

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[TeamZissou]

I just withdrew my acceptance. Congrats to everyone! The AZ heat takes some getting used to but once you do you will love it! Wish you all the best!

 

[meganmarie]

I withdrew my acceptance today also. AZCOM is a great school and I wish you all good luck and congrats to the class of 2013 👍

 

[Flushot]

Yeah, so who dropped the deposit yesterday? Anyone attending for sure come Aug 09?

 

[matlabsux]

Like many of you out there, The high cost and lack of stability in clinical rotations`sealed the deal for me. good luck to anyone who gets my spot!!

 

[Cuddy420]

Well, let me introduce myself... my name is Mansoor Jatoi, I am a first year at AZCOM (Class of 2012) and I am the current Class Council President...

Thanks for all the input! I'm about to be an Eller Alumni this May (Mgmt major) and was excited to hear from a business major! I have been accepted to AZCOM, put down my deposit, and most likely will be attending in August! What suggestions do you have on living arrangements..on-campus or off?

 

[Flushot]

I would vote on campus. It's cheap (everything covered except electricity, including internet and TV) and as you would guess very close. It's gated with plenty of parking and proximity to the amenities the school will have in 09.

That said, I'd drop that deposit for the place now if you want. I hear that it is fully refundable if you change your mind by March 15th.

If you're interested in off-campus, I've been staying at San Lagos Apartments (I'm at AZCOM's SMP right now). It's a decent place and within 5 minute walk if you live in the right place, since the entire complex itself is huge.

 

[kdstephy]

That said, I'd drop that deposit for the place now if you want. I hear that it is fully refundable if you change your mind by March 15th.

I was told by the admissions office that once the deposit is submitted, you are only eligible to receive $100 back if you drop your acceptance... Has anyone else heard the same?

 

[213965]

I'm pretty sure he meant a deposit for the on-campus housing (for fall 09).

 

[kdstephy]

I'm pretty sure he meant a deposit for the on-campus housing (for fall 09).

Oh thanks- that makes much more sense!

 

[waitwhat]

I've been complete since the 1st of Dec. Is this pretty typical before hearing of an interview? What's the usual waiting period? I'm getting antsy....

 

[213965]

I've been complete since the 1st of Dec. Is this pretty typical before hearing of an interview? What's the usual waiting period? I'm getting antsy....

I'm not sure what the usual waiting period is, but I received my invite about 13 days after being complete. However, I still haven't scheduled yet because the first available date is in March, so still waiting for people to withdraw soon and hopefully interview earlier.

 

[waitwhat]

The first available date is in MARCH?!!!!.....oh man.....I guess I don't have much to worry about right now.

 

[Flushot]

I'm pretty sure he meant a deposit for the on-campus housing (for fall 09).

Oh thanks- that makes much more sense!

Yeah, that's what I meant, sorry. The deposit is $500 dollars and you can do it online at online.midwestern.edu on your Student Services tab.

 

[partydoc]

hey, to all those of you that already interviewed, i have a couple of questions...

im interviewing on jan 29th,

what is the best way to get from the airport to the hotels? has everyone been taking cabs, or are there shuttles depending on the hotel?

and what time does the interview get done? im trying to see what time i should book the return flight

thanks

 

[rmsgolfer]

I took a shuttle. Not quite sure what the name of it was. It was really easy without the hassle of having to find your way around. I got to the campus around 730 and the final tour ended around 2 or 3. Id make sure you have plenty of time to get to the airport. Mine was scheduled for like 630 and I had time to relax before my flight. Hope this helps.

 

[bastula]

I just dropped my interview on Jan 30th. Hopefully one of you can get it now.

Good luck to all you AZCOM applicants! Hope you can get in!

 

[213965]

Thanks, bastula. That really helped me out a lot. Now I can interview before my second quarter ends, which I think will definitely be to my advantage. Do you mind sharing which program you will be attending this fall?

 

[bastula]

Thanks, bastula. That really helped me out a lot. Now I can interview before my second quarter ends, which I think will definitely be to my advantage. Do you mind sharing which program you will be attending this fall?

That's great! I am glad you got the slot. I got accepted to CCOM. I'm from the Chicago area and I really wanted to go there. Good luck in your interview! 😀

 

[213965]

Congrats!! Midwestern is a great school - I know you'll be happy there, too!

 

[majatoi]

Thanks for all the input! I'm about to be an Eller Alumni this May (Mgmt major) and was excited to hear from a business major! I have been accepted to AZCOM, put down my deposit, and most likely will be attending in August! What suggestions do you have on living arrangements..on-campus or off?

Fellow Eller Alumni, I would recommend living on campus. It is definitely cheaper and 100 times more convenient! At least for the first year then you can decide if you want to move off campus later.

 

[Flushot]

Yes, on-campus is definitely worth it. It appears they cover everything except electricity (including internet and TV) and your roommate does not have to be a student. They will make a separate badge for them so they can get in the gates.

They're also building 96 new apartments it seems so that means there's a better chance to get a place. They take preference over current residents so it's good to lay down that housing deposit ASAP.

 

[rkaz]

Hey guys, I was wondering... for those of you accepted, how long did it take to find out your acceptance after your interview? Perhaps some of you already mentioned this in this thread, but I will have to dig...

I am just wondering, since my AZCOM interview is on Jan 26th, and then I have a DMU interview on Feb 5th. I most likely would prefer to matriculate in Arizona, so I am wondering if I should push my DMU interview back a few weeks if I will most likely hear an answer from AZCOM before then. I figured this way I can save some money by not having to fly out to Des Moines and pay for hotel/airfare if I already have an Arizona acceptance. I don't want to be presumptious by thinking that I will likely get in... I am just wondering about things...

 

[213965]

I am interested in rkaz's question as well. My interview is on 1/30 and I hear back from two of my top choices on 3/16, so making the huge assumption that I do get into AZCOM, approximately how long would it take to get a response after the interview, and also, if anyone accepted can post how many days they were given until the $1000 deposit was due? In addition, are they extremely strict about receiving the deposit on whatever date is in your letter, or does any kind of "grace period" exist?

Thank you.

 

[Flushot]

They say it's about 2 weeks. You can call often to check, because your online status will take time to check.

I called about 10 days after my interview and found out. The status changed about a week later, additional tabs and all.

I hope this helps.

 

[boggle]

Has anyone had success trading days on here? Something has come up and I need to move my interview from early Feb (2/2) and I'd like to do it in late Feb or early March, especially a Monday or Friday. Do the dates show up immediately after dropped? If anyone is interested in trading let me know.

 

[creekfreek24]

anyone know if there's been any waitlist movement? I'm on it. pretty sure i'm gonna do nova, but ya know. Happy holidays!!

 

[Flushot]

Has anyone had success trading days on here? Something has come up and I need to move my interview from early Feb (2/2) and I'd like to do it in late Feb or early March, especially a Monday or Friday. Do the dates show up immediately after dropped? If anyone is interested in trading let me know.

Yeah, usually dates show up when people drop so if you can find someone interested in swapping with you, get them on AIM or something and time it right. I think renny get her interview from someone who just canceled their interview date earlier in this thread.


creek, I doubt there will be movement in the next two months, but that doesn't stop you from sending extra materials i.e. grades or anything to help your situation, but it sounds like you're set already.

 

[rkaz]

Waitlisted? Is the class already full?