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BBender716 said:
Call about that. You should be getting $8500 total. Then you max out the rest of the unsubsidized stafford $32000, then make up the remainder in crappy crappy GradPlus loans.
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Wait, I might be being dumb.

That's per semester.

I am getting 8500.

D'oh.
 
JJMrK said:
EFC affects the total amount of aid you can get (in loans + grants). It's based on your income only (+ your spouse's income).
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ok. so then the schools can use parental income to decide if that aid is scholarship or loans?
 
Well, I think the gov't can give some grants also, and schools decide if they want to give need-based stuff based on parental info also.
 
hello friends. fun to see all this talk of planning the actual attending med school part of the madness.
 
bleargh said:
hello friends. fun to see all this talk of planning the actual attending med school part of the madness.
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i know, weird, right? hey, have you decided where you're applying? or whether you want me to read your PS? 😛
 
i have used some version of the word "weird" in my last 3 (and now 4) posts.
 
dw2158 said:
i know, weird, right? hey, have you decided where you're applying? or whether you want me to read your PS? 😛
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i have a preliminary list.. it hinges on how i do in the smp, which will probably cut out all the safeties and i'll be left with ~10 reaches. you're definitely reading my PS as soon as i finish it.. i had a great eureka moment yesterday and have the framework down. i just have to write it now
 
bleargh said:
i have a preliminary list.. it hinges on how i do in the smp, which will probably cut out all the safeties and i'll be left with ~10 reaches. you're definitely reading my PS as soon as i finish it.. i had a great eureka moment yesterday and have the framework down. i just have to write it now
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woot! that is a good feeling. and my advice is to err on the side of fewer applications... although i know people will probably disagree (Blue?)
 
dw2158 said:
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okay, there are no good 4444 pictures on the whole internet 🙁
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thats a very unlucky number in china. 4 = death, and uve got 4 of them :scared:
 
dw2158 said:
woot! that is a good feeling. and my advice is to err on the side of fewer applications... although i know people will probably disagree (Blue?)
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id def disagree. i think hes like me with high mcat but low gpa, and i didnt get in last yr.
 
dw2158 said:
woot! that is a good feeling. and my advice is to err on the side of fewer applications... although i know people will probably disagree (Blue?)
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But you were a superstar to begin with, so you were okay. I was not, so I had to shotgun my applications to various places.
 
bleargh said:
ferreal? explain?
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dingyibvs said:
id def disagree. i think hes like me with high mcat but low gpa, and i didnt get in last yr.
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BlueElmo said:
But you were a superstar to begin with, so you were okay. I was not, so I had to shotgun my applications to various places.
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ksmi117 said:
Even I'd say to apply to more rather than fewer. It's just not worth the risk.
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well, i didn't mean fewer like 7 applications. i meant like 20 or 25 instead of 40. idk, i know it's easy for me to say, but i feel like if you apply early and smartly, you can narrow it down to that many? maybe i'm wrong. Blue probs knows best here.
 
dw2158 said:
well, i didn't mean fewer like 7 applications. i meant like 20 or 25 instead of 40. idk, i know it's easy for me to say, but i feel like if you apply early and smartly, you can narrow it down to that many? maybe i'm wrong. Blue probs knows best here.
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Oh, well I'd agree with that.
 
BlueElmo said:
But you were a superstar to begin with, so you were okay. I was not, so I had to shotgun my applications to various places.
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oh, and thanks. but FWIW, i'd hardly describe my app as "superstar." and i think my results this cycle are pretty much what i expected-- solid, but not super amazing. i'm satisfied 👍
 
dw2158 said:
well, i didn't mean fewer like 7 applications. i meant like 20 or 25 instead of 40. idk, i know it's easy for me to say, but i feel like if you apply early and smartly, you can narrow it down to that many? maybe i'm wrong. Blue probs knows best here.
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Oh okay, got you. I agree then.
 
dw2158 said:
well, i didn't mean fewer like 7 applications. i meant like 20 or 25 instead of 40. idk, i know it's easy for me to say, but i feel like if you apply early and smartly, you can narrow it down to that many? maybe i'm wrong. Blue probs knows best here.
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yea, i think thatd be fine. your app was really good tho, no hole anywhere.
 
dw2158 said:
well, i didn't mean fewer like 7 applications. i meant like 20 or 25 instead of 40. idk, i know it's easy for me to say, but i feel like if you apply early and smartly, you can narrow it down to that many? maybe i'm wrong. Blue probs knows best here.
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ohhh... yea. even 25 is too much for me.
 
metallica81788 said:
Which class of antibiotics should I write my paper on? I was thinking quinolones. Anybody with input here?
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I vote aminoglycosides!

Ok seriously tho, this thread moves way too fast for me to keep up. It's like 10 pages of posts a day. I might just have to cancel my subscription. 😛
 
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