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Woah TRN. Welcome 🙂 But I totally just got done looking at your MDApps and am so confused? What's going on with that! Your stats are really good....
welcome everyone! so if any of you are still in school, or affiliated with one, you can go to your advisor. My friend went to mine and told her her story and she kinda guided her on what to write. For my school, we're required to write 7 3-page essays for the committee, which is supposed to get us thinking about what to write, but i havent actually started the PS. I was thinking of doing it spring break before my mcat review starts. But as long as you get a few drafts out over the next few months and write a good one by june, you'll be fine.
Another 2014'er here! I held off on applying during the last cycle, so I have a personal statement and all of the AMCAS app filled out, but I'll still need to do quite a bit of editing. I haven't started asking for LORs yet, or even looking through the MSAR. 2010 AMCAS application opens in early May!
When do the med schools need your LORs? At the same time as they receive your secondaries? So I won't be considered "complete" until med schools have everything, including LORs, right?
At this point, I can ask for a LOR from one science professor, one humanities, and my P.I, but I'm still short on the science LORs. And I probably will be short on the science LORs until this summer...
anyone have committee writers/composite writing through your schools? I have a group who collects the various letters and makes a composite and sends that to amcas. Does interfolio mostly apply to people who do not have a composite writer?
anyone have committee writers/composite writing through your schools? I have a group who collects the various letters and makes a composite and sends that to amcas. Does interfolio mostly apply to people who do not have a composite writer?
c/o 2014 hows it going?
yup. i didn't take the MCAT in undergrad just for that reason. never found the time when it came down to it. had to wait till i graduated.I'm trying to fit in some time for the MCAT this quarter, but it's not exactly working out like I had intended. My regular classes are taking up all my time. Anyways, good luck w/ that PR course
yup. i didn't take the MCAT in undergrad just for that reason. never found the time when it came down to it. had to wait till i graduated.
i just gave my 2 week notice at my full time job (geek squad at best buy). gonna get my life back and enjoy whatever free time i have left. pretty excited.
good morning 2014ers!
anyone else suffering complete, 100% PS writers block?? i forget who said this, but like someone, i also had to write a bunch of stuff for my school's pre-health committee. so i technically have a bunch of stuff started, but i am getting NOWHERE! blah.
PS, LORs, MCAT, GPA, ECs... so many letters to think about!!! 😱
Aw! I love the Geek Squad! lol.
But yeah.... I don't blame you for wanting to quit and get your life back. I wish I could quit my job... but I need the moneys for my applications... 😱
BLAH! I'm taking Animal Physiology right now and am so over studying. I would much rather be studying for the MCAT. It was my life for the past two months... I never thought I would say something like that!
As for LORs... we have a HPAC committee at my school that wants us to submit our LORs so they can combine it into one really amazing letter. I dont really know if that's a good idea or how that works... but I'm doing it anyway? lol
oops. i def meant geek squad was my PART time job. no way I can quit my full time job. i signed a contract. haha
is the combined letter you speak of the composite letter? my college requires every med school applicant to have a composite letter. they wont allow you to apply otherwise.
i just got my 2 year member sticker...man, thats sad. all those times I was almost in the application cycle. hopefully it finally happens.
does anyone know the AMCAS timeline? When it opens/when we can start sending stuff in/any other date that is important?
on a completely different note, I did my taxes today. pretty cool feeling. will get a nice check in a few weeks.
our letters of rec go through the school's own "interfolio" type system, and then the pre-med advisors release them to the composite writer, and then when the school gets the composite, they send the whole thing to AMCAS themselves...and all the profs comply, so it would be reaaaalllly iffy to try and go around that.How can your school stop you from applying?? The only thing they really have control over is your transcript, but I doubt they can withhold that from you.
but I need the moneys for my applications... 😱
our letters of rec go through the school's own "interfolio" type system, and then the pre-med advisors release them to the composite writer, and then when the school gets the composite, they send the whole thing to AMCAS themselves...and all the profs comply, so it would be reaaaalllly iffy to try and go around that.
nope, no requirement like that. they may highly discourage one from applying, but that's it.I see, well it's better to use the composite letter anyway, but I think it's messed up that they force y'all to use it. Do y'all have any requirements to use it? At my school we have to have a 3.0, I think. So if that were the case, then people with a 2.99 at your school couldn't even hope to apply. But I guess if it's open to everyone, it's not so bad.
This is just a suggestion, but you should have an outline or a rough draft of your own personal statement before looking at samples. Otherwise, your ps might not seem genuine and may even be eerily reminiscent of someone else's ps.Ahhh personal statements. I don't even want to begin worrying about that 🙁
Here on SDN you can find a lot of information about them and maybe a few samples. The thing is though that every sample is different because it's unique to the person... so you don't really get much out of that. I think when I decide to get started on it I'm just going to write what I feel... & then refine it to make it sound "more better"... lol
i like reading memoirs and short tiny stories from various places (def check out the last page in the NYTimes Sunday Magazine) which is the best way to understand what a personal statement could be.
Never liked the sweeping grand generalization types of essays, and so I focused on one small tiny incident in my life and really fleshed it out. Turned out great I think, and it speaks a lot more about my character than having said that I spent my life around doctors, blah blah blah.
Official AMCAS website says AMCAS 2010 will open in May. That's probably when we can start filling out the app, but I don't know when we can start submitting it. Hmm...I'm also not sure when is the earliest we can have transcripts sent in by. If I recall correctly, I believe some past applicants may have had problems with sending in transcripts too early.
Morning. Getting out of bed was so hard this morning...