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[dienekes88]

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oh gods. i read that and my nose started to burn, which happens when i'm freaked out. i don't understand why i'm reacting this way because i've already written them off - i had a crappy interview (easily the crappiest of all of mine), and you only get one. gosh dang it. jan/most of feb were so peaceful and i wasn't even thinking about this stuff. ahhhhhh!!!

On the other hand... your stats are 😱 😱. Seriously. 🙂

Congrats on the acceptances you've already scored!

Do you guys think it'd be bad to call them up to try to talk to Dean Frantz about how much I love P&S?!

 

[toughcookies]

Anyone know how long it takes for the snail mail to get to the west coast?

You can use this to figure it out. http://postcalc.usps.gov/

 

[RandomBlackManX]

After much seduction and insinuation on my part, the admission lady said the decisions are going out on friday.

Thanks buddy 🙂. Now I'm gonna be stalking the postman Saturday/Monday haha.

 

[SnoPearl]

Wow it's really going to happen this weekend! Thanks for calling and asking! I wish I knew what time the mailman visits on Saturdays... I'll go crazy going up and down the 17 floors to check my mail all day haha. Did we ever figure out if acceptances and waitlists/rejections come in the same batch of letters?

 

[DrunkMD]

i was looking forward to march 1st, but as i lurk on this thread and the date draws closer, I am very anxious to hear.

now i'm even jealous of you New Yorkers. after using the USPS site to look up how long the mail will take, you guys are going to get it the day before me. i dont think i can sit and read about y'all's successes without knowing my own fate.

well, good luck. i wish you all the best.

 

[07mcattaker]

last night i dreamt i was walking up to my mailbox. i could just make out that this full size white envelope with the babyblue embossing was sitting, shining, in the basket, i thought to myself, "how marvelous" and went skipping up merrily to collect the contents, as i drew near i slowed because i could see that the envelope was not as fat as it had appeared and a wave of anxiety overtook me. when i opened it i found they had stuffed it with old magazines and there was a poem written in latin (which for some reason i could understand) about how i was being rejected, and there were all these graphs and figures, like a publication, to explain why. i woke up suddenly totally out of breath, and suddenly realized that it was all just a dream

no you tell me, i'm totally nuts

 

[mollie]

does anyone know when this will be, if there is one?

 

[LovelyMD]

does anyone know when this will be, if there is one?

According to the second look weekend thread, it's supposed to be on April 10-11... which of course is the same weekend that half of the schools I'm considering are having their revisits.

 

[NotMeNow]

Our fates have been sealed... literally.

Monday for me. Here we go. 5 days and counting.

 

[dienekes88]

I can't stand the anxiety... I rode my bike past P&S today, and I was about to have a heart attack. ARGH!

 

[nomoreplz]

Now I want pastries.

 

[MsJLewis]

I can't stand the anxiety... I rode my bike past P&S today, and I was about to have a heart attack. ARGH!

I suggest you exercise more or see a cardiologist.

🙄

 

[SnoPearl]

last night i dreamt i was walking up to my mailbox. i could just make out that this full size white envelope with the babyblue embossing was sitting, shining, in the basket, i thought to myself, "how marvelous" and went skipping up merrily to collect the contents, as i drew near i slowed because i could see that the envelope was not as fat as it had appeared and a wave of anxiety overtook me. when i opened it i found they had stuffed it with old magazines and there was a poem written in latin (which for some reason i could understand) about how i was being rejected, and there were all these graphs and figures, like a publication, to explain why. i woke up suddenly totally out of breath, and suddenly realized that it was all just a dream

no you tell me, i'm totally nuts

Hahaha that sounds like the type of dream I was having right before getting my mcat scores back - you're not the only crazy one! 😀

 

[dienekes88]

I suggest you exercise more or see a cardiologist.

🙄

Hahahaha! I wonder if Dean Frantz is a Cardiologist...

I've actually read that exercising for periods over 3-hours puts an athlete at high risk of heart attack! 😱 Something like 1 in 50,000 marathoners has a heart attack...

 

[toughcookies]

last night i dreamt i was walking up to my mailbox. i could just make out that this full size white envelope with the babyblue embossing was sitting, shining, in the basket, i thought to myself, "how marvelous" and went skipping up merrily to collect the contents, as i drew near i slowed because i could see that the envelope was not as fat as it had appeared and a wave of anxiety overtook me. when i opened it i found they had stuffed it with old magazines and there was a poem written in latin (which for some reason i could understand) about how i was being rejected, and there were all these graphs and figures, like a publication, to explain why. i woke up suddenly totally out of breath, and suddenly realized that it was all just a dream

no you tell me, i'm totally nuts

Wow, that's intense. I dreamed that I ran into Barack Obama at Columbia last night. And then I was running through tobacco fields being chased by pumas. I think I might be just a little stressed.

 

[cgbg]

Dean Frantz= Endocrinologist. I think he was involved in the discovery of Prolactin.

 

[USC2008Trojan]

Dean Frantz= Endocrinologist. I think he was involved in the discovery of Prolactin.

I heard one time he beat up Chuck Norris and celebrated by saving a school bus full of children from a land slide.

 

[toughcookies]

Alright, I managed to stay off this thread for a few hours by eating everything in my house. But now that my fridge is bare, I'm back. What's new? Has anyone figured out a way to make mail travel at the speed of light?

 

[Gospe1]

How about we call and angrily demand our decision over the phone, breathe extremely loudly over the phone as the admissions lady reaches for our envelope, sob into the phone once she tell us, and then whimper uncontrollably until the she hangs up on us?

 

[dienekes88]

How about we call and angrily demand our decision over the phone, breathe extremely loudly over the phone as the admissions lady reaches for our envelope, sob into the phone once she tell us, and then whimper uncontrollably until the she hangs up on us?

I love it. Except... we should do it in person. More intense that way. 🙂

Alright, I managed to stay off this thread for a few hours by eating everything in my house. But now that my fridge is bare, I'm back. What's new? Has anyone figured out a way to make mail travel at the speed of light?

Hmmm... since you have nothing in your house, you should come over to mine! I made a lot of stuff in class today. 😀

 

[toughcookies]

Hmmm... since you have nothing in your house, you should come over to mine! I made a lot of stuff in class today. 😀

Thanks for the offer, but I've come up with a new distraction. I'm going to watch every Lost episode and figure the damn thing out!!

 

[SnoPearl]

Hmmm... since you have nothing in your house, you should come over to mine! I made a lot of stuff in class today. 😀

Can I come too???? 😀 I say we all go to dienekes88's house the night before the decisions come out and we'll camp out there while he makes stuff for us and we have a big movie marathon... now how to make the mailman come to his house instead of mine... haha

 

[SnoPearl]

Thanks for the offer, but I've come up with a new distraction. I'm going to watch every Lost episode and figure the damn thing out!!

But... aren't they dragging that show out to 2010? I watched first 1.5 seasons and stopped cause it wasn't really getting anywhere fast.

 

[Halcyon440]

I'm playing WoW until my decision letter arrives . . . and in between that I'll go to work.

 

[1956Goldtop]

Soon! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE. I've lost most hope for P&S because of a crappy interview but I'm still looking forward to closure either way.

 

[dienekes88]

Holy crap. Decisions go out tomorrow.

Anybody thinking of giving Dean Frantz a call before decisions are sent out???

Can I come too???? 😀 I say we all go to dienekes88's house the night before the decisions come out and we'll camp out there while he makes stuff for us and we have a big movie marathon... now how to make the mailman come to his house instead of mine... haha

Sweet. Party at my place! I warn you... all I have to drink in my apartment is tap water and scotch.

 

[RPedigo]

Sweet. Party at my place! I warn you... all I have to drink in my apartment is tap water and scotch.

Are you providing the food? 😀

 

[toughcookies]

Holy crap. Decisions go out tomorrow.

Anybody thinking of giving Dean Frantz a call before decisions are sent out???



Sweet. Party at my place! I warn you... all I have to drink in my apartment is tap water and scotch.

The question is...how much scotch?

 

[Gospe1]

I'm about a hr away from New Haven hahaha

 

[BigRedPremed]

Good luck you guys! It's so sad to think only 1/5 or 1/4 of us will get in 🙁

 

[QTCL13]

I'm here to join the waitin' -and-anticipatin' party...😱

Good luck to everyone. Hopefully we'll all hear good news this weekend/early next week.

 

[SnoPearl]

Good luck you guys! It's so sad to think only 1/5 or 1/4 of us will get in 🙁

Yeah, I don't know any of you but everyone in this thread has been so nice and supportive that I would love it if we could all go to school together (and eat pastries every day...) Good luck!!!

 

[toughcookies]

Yeah, I don't know any of you but everyone in this thread has been so nice and supportive that I would love it if we could all go to school together (and eat pastries every day...) Good luck!!!

Yeah, me too! SnoPearl, I'm also waiting on Wash U with you, so hopefully we'll hear good news from them soon!

 

[cgbg]

waitin on Wash U. as well. good luck to you guys, we best be carefull though, do not need another Wash U thread.😉

 

[FutureDoc4]

Good luck everyone!

 

[toughcookies]

waitin on Wash U. as well. good luck to you guys, we best be carefull though, do not need another Wash U thread.😉

Haha, I won't say another word. Besides, who knows how long Wash U is going to string us along?! At least with Columbia I have a date I can freak out about! 😛

 

[Gospe1]

A current Columbia med student wrote this to me, which should be pretty informative:

Well, let's see.. last year, decisions were sent out on Friday, March 2nd and I received mine (in Philly) March 3rd. All acceptances are priority mail and I'm pretty sure that most all east coast people heard by March 3rd (well, maybe not Florida). It seemed pretty spotty in the Midwest and West Coast... some people had it, some people had to wait for Monday. But from last year, yeah, it seemed to mostly take 2 days or less to get to people.

Rejections/ WLs were regular mail. Some people received rejection/WL letters the next day, but if I recall correctly, most of these were received a little bit later (i.e. the following week).

 

[SnoPearl]

Wow that's kind of nervewracking... if we don't get letters on Saturday or Monday, it could mean we were waitlisted/rejected rather than just getting mail slowly... ahhhhh!

 

[1956Goldtop]

I can't wait. Closure = bombness
anyone know what other decisions are coming out this next week? I know off the top of my head that NYU is.

 

[dienekes88]

Ah well, I just got waitlisted at Mount Sinai. I'm not too hopeful about scoring at Columbia.

The question is...how much scotch?

1.5 bottles of Johnnie Walker Black Label
1 bottle of Lagavulin 16-year

Lagavulin 16-year goes down like water. Very very tasty water.

Are you providing the food? 😀

Heck yeah! I have a bunch of stuff I brought home from class... cayenne palmiers, hazelnut bear claws, langues de chat, madelines, pate de fruits, nougat... the list goes on.

All you guys have to do... is write letters to Dean Frantz in support of my application!

 

[Gospe1]

Keep your chin up dienekes. Not exactly being the bravest spartan there. Only 2-4 more days until decisions come out. Don't count yourself out yet.

 

[RPedigo]

Heck yeah! I have a bunch of stuff I brought home from class... cayenne palmiers, hazelnut bear claws, langues de chat, madelines, pate de fruits, nougat... the list goes on.

That's the sound of my diet going out the window.

 

[dienekes88]

Keep your chin up dienekes. Not exactly being the bravest spartan there. Only 2-4 more days until decisions come out. Don't count yourself out yet.

Truth. I'll be alright. Thanks. I have to keep reminding myself that each decision has no effect on the other decisions.

Sorry about being negative.

 

[cgbg]

Truth. I'll be alright. Thanks. I have to keep reminding myself that each decision has no effect on the other decisions.

Sorry about being negative.

Really? My waitlists are coming in in bushels. (Mount Sinai included). I feel like one breeds another. Jeez I hope your right. I fel like all the committees meet and decide to take specific students and just screw them. (am i coming off as a little bitter, i mean at least i have an acceptance)

 

[07mcattaker]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

🙂😀😍😀😎😛

 

[Gospe1]

seriously, this weekend is going to be rough. Why do they send it on a friday? Grrrr.

 

[dienekes88]

Really? My waitlists are coming in in bushels. (Mount Sinai included). I feel like one breeds another. Jeez I hope your right. I fel like all the committees meet and decide to take specific students and just screw them. (am i coming off as a little bitter, i mean at least i have an acceptance)

Don't worry, dude. You don't seem unreasonably bitter. I'm in the same situation. Not many interviews, 1 acceptance, 2 waitlists. Columbia's the only school I have left. While I thought UMass was great, I felt like the other schools had a little more to offer, so I feel like I'm missing out on something each time I get waitlisted. Each time that waitlist letter comes, I just feel my world getting smaller.

I really don't think waitlists are related unless there's something glaringly wrong with your app. Maybe that's just irrational hope speaking, though.

 

[jackson123]

does anyone know if columbia gives decisions over the phone?

 

[ess]

would most people say that columbia is their top choice? i get the feeling that some people feel that way (me personally), but others' mdapplicants profiles make me think that this is just another top school in their acceptance pile from which they will be choosing.

 

[toughcookies]

does anyone know if columbia gives decisions over the phone?

Clearly, you're new to this thread. I give you credit for not freaking out for the last week like the rest of us. Columbia will not give out decisions over the phone. Acceptances are sent via priority mail, and waitlists/rejections are sent via regular mail. Good luck!