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dechristine said:
I'm going to be an RA over the summer! :biglove: Yay for not paying $3000+/summer semester for housing!
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Not having to pay for housing is always nice. Also, med schools love RA's. Everyone in my class at my school who was premed and an RA got into multiple med schools, a lot of them even at top 10-20 schools too. Just something I observed lol.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
Not having to pay for housing is always nice. Also, med schools love RA's. Everyone in my class at my school who was premed and an RA got into multiple med schools, a lot of them even at top 10-20 schools too. Just something I observed lol.
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Everything about this post is true. RA experiences are especially good for secondary applications. I'm pretty sure I used them for every single school.

"Tell us about how you contribute to your community" - Well, I was an RA...
"Tell us about your most meaningful leadership experience" - Well, I was an RA...
"Tell us about a difficult conflict you had and how you resolved it" - Well, I was an RA...

And so on.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
Not having to pay for housing is always nice. Also, med schools love RA's. Everyone in my class at my school who was premed and an RA got into multiple med schools, a lot of them even at top 10-20 schools too. Just something I observed lol.
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Australopithekus said:
Have fun! I RA'd for a couple years--it's a cool gig.
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Thanks! I was an RA this past semester as well but summer positions are more competitive because some buildings shut down. It's definitely nice to not have to worry about housing and food costs, especially because I took a very low-paying 6 month internship (I'm making less than half of what I made last year) for the summer/fall! I'm also super excited because I asked to be put with freshmen next year because they actually want advice and help!
 
dechristine said:
Thanks! I was an RA this past semester as well but summer positions are more competitive because some buildings shut down. It's definitely nice to not have to worry about housing and food costs, especially because I took a very low-paying 6 month internship (I'm making less than half of what I made last year) for the summer/fall! I'm also super excited because I asked to be put with freshmen next year because they actually want advice and help!
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My school has faculty RA instead of students... this is weirdddd.
 
dechristine said:
Thanks! I was an RA this past semester as well but summer positions are more competitive because some buildings shut down. It's definitely nice to not have to worry about housing and food costs, especially because I took a very low-paying 6 month internship (I'm making less than half of what I made last year) for the summer/fall! I'm also super excited because I asked to be put with freshmen next year because they actually want advice and help!
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That's mostly limited to female freshmen in my experience. An awful lot of the guys start with some notion that the school has never encountered anyone quite as bad as they are, and damn, they'll be notorious by the end of the semester.

EDIT: They settle down after a few months and everything turns out fine.
 
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Tman90 said:
Why so quiet? Jeez, it's been two days! what's everyone doing if they're not providing me entertaining posts for me to read when I'm bored? Second looks?
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I can give you a cookie!!!!
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Tman90 said:
Why so quiet? Jeez, it's been two days! what's everyone doing if they're not providing me entertaining posts for me to read when I'm bored? Second looks?
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I got into Mizzou. And it was alumni reunion weekend. Naturally, I spent the weekend going hard with my friends as a way to celebrate.
 
Cyberdyne 101 said:
Ok so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but if you were already accepted, can you still get off a wait list after April 30th?
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like if you were accepted into med school X and then med school Y steals you after april 30?
yeah can happen.
med school Y will give med school X a heads up first, and then give you like 2 days to decide. lol.
 
Cyberdyne 101 said:
Ah, so this adventure can continue for a few more months!
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Story of my life. I'm on two wls that I care about. One of which is going to be so low yield that I don't even know how to think about it so I'm just ignoring the possibility.
 
ProbablyAPenguin said:
like if you were accepted into med school X and then med school Y steals you after april 30?
yeah can happen.
med school Y will give med school X a heads up first, and then give you like 2 days to decide. lol.
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Thank god for @gyngyn having patience and willingness to explain this. I feel like the adcoms must have to do it every year
 
Cyberdyne 101 said:
Is this Einstein?
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Yeah, heading into work shortly to finish writing the letter to them and to umass. I prefer Philly to worcester by far, but I can't ignore the possibility that umass could be significantly cheaper.

I'm also contacting Einstein alums (med school and residency) that I have worked with to write letters of support. These are all people that know me professionally and can speak to my work, so it's not just calling in randos that are famous to talk me up when they can't speak regarding my work at all.

Let's see how it goes.

I'm not sure if I can wait till after early June so I might pull the plug then, but maybe not. Who the hell knows...
 
Tman90 said:
Why so quiet? Jeez, it's been two days! what's everyone doing if they're not providing me entertaining posts for me to read when I'm bored? Second looks?
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I'm writing a letter to my waitlist school (that's my super-duper number 1 :x) to send sometime later this or next week (right around the time they supposedly start reviewing waitlisted candidates)

Aside from that, catching a plane in a week to hang out with college friends for a couple weeks 🙂
 
ridethecliche said:
Story of my life. I'm on two wls that I care about. One of which is going to be so low yield that I don't even know how to think about it so I'm just ignoring the possibility.
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Yeah... only WL I was really interested in was Pitt, I was gonna write a letter, but the second tier status discouraged me so much I didn't even bother. I hate the "everything happens for a reason nonsense", but if I had gotten into Pitt, I never would have considered stepping outside of my comfort zone and moving to Chicago.
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Also, the weather in the city was amazing... this weekend was the perfect time for a spring beer.
 
jsquared91 said:
the second tier status discouraged me so much I didn't even bother.
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At least you were told your waitlist position status. Miami doesn't tell me squat; it's hard to keep up hope sometimes when you know you weren't near the top these past few months but aren't sure if you're at the bottom of the barrel...
 
jsquared91 said:
Yeah... only WL I was really interested in was Pitt, I was gonna write a letter, but the second tier status discouraged me so much I didn't even bother. I hate the "everything happens for a reason nonsense", but if I had gotten into Pitt, I never would have considered stepping outside of my comfort zone and moving to Chicago.

Also, the weather in the city was amazing... this weekend was the perfect time for a spring beer.
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Ah, so Pitt was your first choice, but you decided to say screw it and not keep waiting? I'm so torn about how to go about this still. What's crazy is that the hpwl at Einstein has started moving and some people don't even have a final decision yet!

Where in chi town will you be matriculating?

I actually decided to move up my end date at work and move my trip up by a week to give myself more time to travel.

Hilariously, that puts me at a wash for May, ie I'm going to break even on living expenses etc for the month, but so it goes. It's kind of hilarious because financially it's the same thing as moving out at the end of this month.

Egad, I need to put the planning and packing on overdrive!
 
Ace Khalifa said:
At least you were told your waitlist position status. Miami doesn't tell me squat; it's hard to keep up hope sometimes when you know you weren't near the top these past few months but aren't sure if you're at the bottom of the barrel...
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Well it's Miami. Do you expect them to be nice or something?

😛
 
ridethecliche said:
Well it's Miami. Do you expect them to be nice or something?

😛
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No, just expressing my discontent. Mizzou told me I was top 1/3 of waitlist, so I stayed and remained positive...and that ended up being fruitful.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
No, just expressing my discontent. Mizzou told me I was top 1/3 of waitlist, so I stayed and remained positive...and that ended up being fruitful.
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Right, but your positivity or lack thereof has no impact on the outcome here, so might as well send in letters if you have anything interesting to add and go from there.

Again, I was told at my miami interview that the deans will let you know in the summer if they think you're going to come off the wl. That's only once it starts moving though.
 
ridethecliche said:
Right, but your positivity or lack thereof has no impact on the outcome here, so might as well send in letters if you have anything interesting to add and go from there.

Again, I was told at my miami interview that the deans will let you know in the summer if they think you're going to come off the wl. That's only once it starts moving though.
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I have nothing else to add since my original LOI said everything I wanted to about why I want to go there. Also, the waitlist has already started to move.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
At least you were told your waitlist position status. Miami doesn't tell me squat; it's hard to keep up hope sometimes when you know you weren't near the top these past few months but aren't sure if you're at the bottom of the barrel...
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Yeah, I like tiers idea, it's simple and gives you an idea of where you are. Especially when a school says the majority of first tier gets in, but the second tier is pretty much a rejection except in rare years.

ridethecliche said:
Ah, so Pitt was your first choice, but you decided to say screw it and not keep waiting? I'm so torn about how to go about this still. What's crazy is that the hpwl at Einstein has started moving and some people don't even have a final decision yet!

Where in chi town will you be matriculating?
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It was Pitt/Duke for my #1, but after the low priority wl and rejection, respectively, the SO and I had to start making moves so she could get a job etc.
I'll be a wildcat!! TBH Northwestern reminded me of Pitt in all but location (great school, huge hospital network, opportunities at public, private, and VA settings, research project, flexible curriculum), so I'm pumped.

I've been pretty vocal about my love for the Einstein community on the school specific thread, but the communication from admissions etc was somewhat frustrating.

Cyberdyne 101 said:
I can buy you one if you come to NYC!
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Was it from Levain bakery?
 
Ace Khalifa said:
I have nothing else to add since my original LOI said everything I wanted to about why I want to go there. Also, the waitlist has already started to move.
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So it goes.

jsquared91 said:
Yeah, I like tiers idea, it's simple and gives you an idea of where you are. Especially when a school says the majority of first tier gets in, but the second tier is pretty much a rejection except in rare years.

It was Pitt/Duke for my #1, but after the low priority wl and rejection, respectively, the SO and I had to start making moves so she could get a job etc.
I'll be a wildcat!! TBH Northwestern reminded me of Pitt in all but location (great school, huge hospital network, opportunities at public, private, and VA settings, research project, flexible curriculum), so I'm pumped.

I've been pretty vocal about my love for the Einstein community on the school specific thread, but the communication from admissions etc was somewhat frustrating.
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Yeah, I honestly don't see a huge difference between NU and Pitt so kudos for ya! I totally agree with the making moves bit and I feel similarly since coming back from 2 months abroad and into a scramble sounds like the worst thing ever. And I know people in philly so I could probably make living arrangements and set them up before I leave. Coming back to an actual apartment would be so much better than coming back and feeling overwhelmed about everything.

And yeah, Einstein's not the best about communication. Their admissions office staff is super nice and pretty responsive to email etc.

The flip side about all of this is that I genuinely love philadelphia and think I totally lucked out with Jeff, especially due to location... keeping on pushing with other stuff feels like cheating almost haha.

Oh first world problems.
 
ridethecliche said:
So it goes.

Yeah, I honestly don't see a huge difference between NU and Pitt so kudos for ya! I totally agree with the making moves bit and I feel similarly since coming back from 2 months abroad and into a scramble sounds like the worst thing ever. And I know people in philly so I could probably make living arrangements and set them up before I leave. Coming back to an actual apartment would be so much better than coming back and feeling overwhelmed about everything.

And yeah, Einstein's not the best about communication. Their admissions office staff is super nice and pretty responsive to email etc.

The flip side about all of this is that I genuinely love philadelphia and think I totally lucked out with Jeff, especially due to location... keeping on pushing with other stuff feels like cheating almost haha.

Oh first world problems.
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True that, we're lucky to have these problems. Specific schools aside, Philly, Pittsburgh, and Chicago seemed ideal for me for medical school: huge diversity in patient population, great hospitals, affordable (relative to DC/LA/NY), solid public transit, fun social scenes.

Cyberdyne 101 said:
Random coffee shop in Gramercy Park.

Dude, Northwestern is amazing! I know you'll love it!!
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Thanks! Check out Levain if you're on the UWS, it's a really dense moist cookie... sort of like cross between fudge, brownie, cookie, and scone.
 
New York is really awesome for the patient population too, as is Miami. They're both way more expensive though, I think.
 
I want to put in all the songs by the roots that say anything about philadelphia right now.

I'll settle for this one:



(Studio version sounds much better)

 
Tman90 said:
It warms my heart knowing someone is as excited about Philadelphia as I am. I just wish I wasn't leaving 🙁 there a LOT of cool thigs coming next year! I'm jealous of everyone who's gonna be in philly next year
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I thought you were going to drexel?
 
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