Class of 2019!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nonsense on the new thread category. WE ARE ACCEPTED! We are class of 2019. We can start a 2019 in allo med students and no one will bat an eye! No doubt now. We are part of the club. We made it through the first part and now we are medical students.
Not to crush the fun, but come on, we're not medical students until orientation. That doesn't mean we can't post in Allo, but still.
 
I think I i just gave this girl I know from work a heart attack when I told her she should apply to like 20 schools when she said she was planning on doing 16.

She has a 30 and a 3.7 and hadn't looked at MSAR.

Also, she said that pre med advisor told her that schools can see how many places you apply to. Is it just me or is that total bs?

No that would be horrible...



OMG WHY IS EVERYONE GETTING ENGAGEDDDDDD
IS ANYONE ELSE NOTICING THIS TREND

Wedding season is starting!!!! 😀 😀 😀
 
No that would be horrible...





Wedding season is starting!!!! 😀 😀 😀


Indeed

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First day of class on August 24th haha! #oneupped (jk! 🙂)
I think we move in for pre-orientation activities on the 13th, though, with actual orientation week starting on the 17th 🙂
Sweet!! 🙂 Yeah similar schedule with orientation, ours start on the 10th!
 
I think I i just gave this girl I know from work a heart attack when I told her she should apply to like 20 schools when she said she was planning on doing 16.

She has a 30 and a 3.7 and hadn't looked at MSAR.

Also, she said that pre med advisor told her that schools can see how many places you apply to. Is it just me or is that total bs?
Like most pre-med advisors, he's also full of doodoo. No. They can't.

I don't even want to know how sad my financial aid will be... But like I'd said, it's just money. I'm happy to be in this dilemma.
 
My orientation starts last week of July, classes start August 3rd 🙁 I

I'd love to start later in the summer, but I'm so grateful for the opportunity that I'd start tomorrow if I had to!
*High five* We basically start at the same time. Let's make this last summer count!
 
Everyone here is so lucky! Choosing between two schools... orientation at one is the last week of July, the other starts orientation the 2nd week of July 😱
 
As many of you know, I resell clothes every now and then to make some extra dough.

Having a killer month so far including selling some of my personal stuff. Seriously wish I'd had more time to do this over the last year. I probably could have paid for all my interview expenses this way!
 
Been away from here for a while but thought I'd drop back in. Glad to see everyone has had awesome success.

I myself will be matriculating at Pitt!
Pitt is so good. Maybe me and @hellanutella can both ask to be taken back and then we can all buy a beautiful old house together and live and learn happily ever after...:
 
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Just bought my one-way ticket to medschool-land. It's happening guys! It's exciting and terrifying and expensive and causes all sorts of feelings. Most of the time I'm pretty emotionally numb to the fact that I'll be going back to studentdom and moving across the country, but there's those little moments when the reality hits me. It'll feel weird not to have a "job" for the next 4 (or more?) years, but I think it'll be a change for the better.

Good luck to everyone waiting right now!
 
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Just bought my one-way ticket to medschool-land. It's happening guys! It's exciting and terrifying and expensive and causes all sorts of feelings. Most of the time I'm pretty emotionally numb to the fact that I'll be going back to studentdom and moving across the country, but there's those little moments when the reality hits me. It'll feel weird not to have a "job" for the next 4 (or more?) years, but I think it'll be a change for the better.

Good luck to everyone waiting right now!

One-way ticket!! Wow talk about finality
 
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Just bought my one-way ticket to medschool-land. It's happening guys! It's exciting and terrifying and expensive and causes all sorts of feelings. Most of the time I'm pretty emotionally numb to the fact that I'll be going back to studentdom and moving across the country, but there's those little moments when the reality hits me. It'll feel weird not to have a "job" for the next 4 (or more?) years, but I think it'll be a change for the better.

Good luck to everyone waiting right now!
Wait are you flying or driving? If flying how are you getting your stuff across the coasttttt?
 
Wait are you flying or driving? If flying how are you getting your stuff across the coasttttt?

Flying! I'm getting a car carrier to ship my car out (I have a small enough amount of stuff that it can be put in the trunk without incurring extra fees). Blessedly, my place is furnished, so I'm basically just shipping winter clothes, kitchen stuff, and bedding out. Oh, and my oversized stuffed narwhal.

And praise thee lord for Southwest's two free checked bags. 😍

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You know she's taking the Oregon trail.

Hopefully I won't die of dysentery.
 
I have to begin the task of putting all of my life's belongings into the back of my Honda Civic.... Yikes.

Unrelated, what do you guys recommend in terms of note taking apps? I have an iPad and a MacBook Pro, so something that syncs between them is important. I imagine that I'll want to annotate PowerPoints and PDFs, and I want to have a really good organisational system within the app so I can refer back to things with ease.
 
hey guys, i have a question about financial aid. if i have an EFC of 0, how much in need based grants/scholarship (not merit or loans) is it reasonable to expect? also, if my EFC is 0, would schools still expect "family contribution" to be anything above 0?
 
hey guys, i have a question about financial aid. if i have an EFC of 0, how much in need based grants/scholarship (not merit or loans) is it reasonable to expect? also, if my EFC is 0, would schools still expect "family contribution" to be anything above 0?
It depends on what the school wants to give you. I had an EFC of 0 and have received loans only, but I'm a bleh applicant haha. If you have great numbers or other aspects of your application and a school feels inclined to give you money to steal you away from other schools, you'll likely receive need based grants/scholarships.

Edit: Also they likely won't expect a family contribution of anything above 0
 
It depends on what the school wants to give you. I had an EFC of 0 and have received loans only, but I'm a bleh applicant haha. If you have great numbers or other aspects of your application and a school feels inclined to give you money to steal you away from other schools, you'll likely receive need based grants/scholarships.

Edit: Also they likely won't expect a family contribution of anything above 0

ahh really. so admissions and fin aid are unfortunately linked together? i ask because i just received a fin aid package from a top15. they expect my parents to contribute 25k (with our family income <45k), and then i received about 25k in scholarship and 30k in loans. is this normal? am i considered lucky or is the expected family contribution oddly high?
 
ahh really. so admissions and fin aid are unfortunately linked together? i ask because i just received a fin aid package from a top15. they expect my parents to contribute 25k (with our family income <45k), and then i received about 25k in scholarship and 30k in loans. is this normal? am i considered lucky or is the expected family contribution oddly high?
180k in loans including undergrad debt is the national average. I'd say you're on the luckier side but not by a lot.
 
I have to begin the task of putting all of my life's belongings into the back of my Honda Civic.... Yikes.

Unrelated, what do you guys recommend in terms of note taking apps? I have an iPad and a MacBook Pro, so something that syncs between them is important. I imagine that I'll want to annotate PowerPoints and PDFs, and I want to have a really good organisational system within the app so I can refer back to things with ease.

not sure about annotating PDFS, but the app Pages works great for me for taking notes (kinda like word, but easily transferrable between iPad and Mac).
 
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