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Just wondering...as most people say that the letter is sent to the permanent address, what if I already switch my current address on the PAS account to my dorm address. Would the letter still be sent to the permanent address we stated in the AMCAS, or is it sent to our updated one on the account?? Thanks a lot guys!!!
 
pmstp21 said:
Just wondering...as most people say that the letter is sent to the permanent address, what if I already switch my current address on the PAS account to my dorm address. Would the letter still be sent to the permanent address we stated in the AMCAS, or is it sent to our updated one on the account?? Thanks a lot guys!!!
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I'm in the same situation. I changed my address on the PAS account few weeks ago, and I haven't received anything at either of the two addresses in MA.
 
kidthor said:
Where does it say that?

I see this on the right of my PAS page:
"All decisions for applicants who have interviewed for admission to the 2007 entering class are sent via the U.S. Postal Service and will be mailed from the Office of Admissions during the month of March 2007."
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So it is on your actual application in the agreement section that you sign/electronic agreement. If you open your application, scroll down past your essays and read the legal mumbo jumbo that you sign off on, it states the rejection email info and then states that all waitlists/acceptances will only be received through mail.
 
okay, so have they sent out the e-mails yet? do we know anyone that has received them? or, do they come in a separate batch later on in march?
 
last year everyone got decisions in the mail. I think the note on the front page of the PAS login is correct.
 
were we supposed to send in our fall grades? i hope not.
 
thanks AnEye, it's really nice of you to keep placating all of us with the tiniest details of your acceptance. i really hope i get to meet you in person in NC one day...
 
I wonder if those of us who interviewed late in February are doomed to waitlist spots at best? :scared:
 
You didn't have to send in fall grades, but you could have if you wanted to. If you're waitlisted, then I would recommend doing so. I think I heard that Duke can sometimes be persuaded with letters of interest from waitlisted applicants.
 
thanks for the tip john. if i'm waitlisted, i'll definitely do that. i just looked at your mdapps. congrats on your impressive acceptances!!! do you have any idea which school you're leaning towards or are you going to wait for second looks/financial aid/ etc.? I bet you get some sweet scholarships later on.
 
corranh314 said:
I wonder if those of us who interviewed late in February are doomed to waitlist spots at best? :scared:
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I interviewed February 9th and I had no problem. I don't really know how Duke handles interview invitations (i.e. whether they try to interview better applicants first) though. I submitted the secondary on Jan 1st or 2nd, whichever day was the final deadline, so that was why I interviewed so late.


EDIT: I just noticed that you said late Feb. Still, I don't think it should matter when you interviewed.
 
Thanks for the info, AnEye 🙂 I'll keep up hope... it's good to know that you had a very similar timetable.
 
aerodivya said:
thanks AnEye, it's really nice of you to keep placating all of us with the tiniest details of your acceptance. i really hope i get to meet you in person in NC one day...
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You're welcome 🙂 I'm happy to help, I know I'd be the same way if I were you. I hope you get some good news today!
 
panther42 said:
last year everyone got decisions in the mail. I think the note on the front page of the PAS login is correct.
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I know only from these boards that last year everyone who was accepted or waitlisted received decisions in the mail, but I never read anything about a duke rejectee getting the rejection in the mail. I would go with what is in the signed agreement. Rejection by email, waitlist/acceptance by snail mail.
 
but again, nobody's gotten an e-mail yet. so what does that mean? they'll reject later or all of us on the thread have just been lucky so far?
 
So I'm a mormon, and many mormon males do a two-year mission trip when they turn 19 or so. We send in an application, the leaders of the church pray about where they should send us, and then they mail back a packet containing our "calling" to a certain part of the country or world to do missionary service. I was called to serve in Philadelphia for 2 years.

Anyway, a good percentage of the Utah population is LDS (mormon) and so the whole mission-call thing is a pretty big deal. When you receive your packet in the mail, sometimes you invite over friends and family to help open and celebrate where you are going to be.

I have a few friends in small Utah towns that told everybody at church when they submitted their application. So, of course, the postal workers knew that the potential missionary would get his/her assignment back in about two weeks. They would watch the mail come in, and as soon as they spotted one of the telltale packets, they would snatch it up and call the family. Somebody would get to drive down to the post office, get the packet from the friendly postal worker and carry the treasure home. Then they would start calling friends and family so that they would all know to assemble at the house that night so that the potential missionary could share the experience with everyone.

How nice would it be if it worked that way? Of course, nobody gets turned down for a mission so you always want your friends and family there. But still, if only a friendly postal worker could just give me a call and let me know...
 
that's so wonderful! if would be nice if the post-office in my city cared as much about my med school admission. sadly, then don't.

what did you end up doing in philly?
 
ryandote said:
So I'm a mormon, and many mormon males do a two-year mission trip when they turn 19 or so. We send in an application, the leaders of the church pray about where they should send us, and then they mail back a packet containing our "calling" to a certain part of the country or world to do missionary service. I was called to serve in Philadelphia for 2 years.

Anyway, a good percentage of the Utah population is LDS (mormon) and so the whole mission-call thing is a pretty big deal. When you receive your packet in the mail, sometimes you invite over friends and family to help open and celebrate where you are going to be.

I have a few friends in small Utah towns that told everybody at church when they submitted their application. So, of course, the postal workers knew that the potential missionary would get his/her assignment back in about two weeks. They would watch the mail come in, and as soon as they spotted one of the telltale packets, they would snatch it up and call the family. Somebody would get to drive down to the post office, get the packet from the friendly postal worker and carry the treasure home. Then they would start calling friends and family so that they would all know to assemble at the house that night so that the potential missionary could share the experience with everyone.

How nice would it be if it worked that way? Of course, nobody gets turned down for a mission so you always want your friends and family there. But still, if only a friendly postal worker could just give me a call and let me know...
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LOL. It would be nice.
 
aerodivya said:
that's so wonderful! if would be nice if the post-office in my city cared as much about my med school admission. sadly, then don't.

what did you end up doing in philly?
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That's a funny question. If you were on an admissions committee, you would catch plenty of returned mormon missionaries extolling their time as "humanitarian work." In all reality, it was a proselytizing mission. The goal was to find people who were interested in learning about the Book of Mormon / LDS church and teach them about it, hopefully convincing them to join the church. We knocked on doors, delivered bibles and videos that were ordered from television, and helped current church members who had friends interested in the LDS church. More interestingly for most people, we are assigned a "companion" that we stick with 24 hours per day. We didn't date or watch TV for 2 years and I wore a suit every single day.

In addition to the personal spiritual strengthening, in really contributed to me as an individual. It was hard and took a lot of determination. I learned how to talk with people and share my beliefs and build relationships. I eventually had the opportunity to be in responsible for all 150 missionaries in Phildelphia (and with differing levels of commitment, that was no cakewalk). It's kind of hard to sum up in a paragraph on a discussion board....
 
haha. luckily the duke secondary essays have no character limit! that must have been great interview fodder!
 
aerodivya said:
haha. luckily the duke secondary essays have no character limit! that must have been great interview fodder!
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Sometimes. Sometimes people avoid the subject like I am some kind of religious nut. Then again, I'm a mormon...so I probably am a religious nut. :laugh:
 
touche. but your two year stint is over now right? do you still have to proseletize?
 
aerodivya said:
touche. but your two year stint is over now right? do you still have to proseletize?
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hmmmm....So I didn't have to go on a mission (definitely strongly encouraged, but it's probably only 3/4 American mormon males that go) However, because I chose to go, I was expected to proselytize. I'd even say proselytize aggressively.

Now, however, it isn't a full-time preoccupation. I don't deliver bibles, I don't talk to people in the street, and I definitely don't go knock on doors. However, if I talk to somebody who is interested, I'm more than happy to tell them about it. And if I talk to somebody who might be interested, I'm pretty comfortable asking them if they want to hear about it. I'm happy to do that because my spirituality has made me happy, and I feel like it is a Christian commandment to share the "gospel."

However, I'm definitely not "aggressive" these days. I do more than just church, now. I finished school, I have obviously applied to medical school and plan on medicine as a profession, I have a wife and I want to have kids some day.
 
you said mormon males. are females not required to go on the mission?
 
aerodivya said:
you said mormon males. are females not required to go on the mission?
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Nobody is required. Males are strongly encouraged, females are less strongly encouraged. Men generally go around the age of 19 for 24 months and women typically go around the age of 21 for 18 months. Many retired seniors go on missions, too, although they generally do much less stressful proselyting. Out of the 150 missionaries in Philadelphia, there were probably 15 females at any given time.

Did you interview in Nov? Is it possible that I will be able to put a name with a face from nov 30?
 
yes i interviewed in nov. but not the 30th.
 
Nothing in Wisconsin today. And I was really hoping that I'd have a wonderful bday gift from them. 🙁
 
Nothing in SW although I stalked my mail lady for a while to get her to put out the mail.
 
it is kind of wierd after the string of acceptances from the weekend to have silence today....hmm I wish I could crack duke's mailing method...
 
no word here in texas 🙁
 
wait, so are letters sent to

A) what you listed on Duke's PAS?
B) your preferred address listed on AMCAS?
C) your permanent address listed on AMCAS?
 
So I hear that the admissions office is sending acceptances in three waves. One wave was sent Friday, one was sent yesterday, and one today. It's a pretty reliable source but I still wouldn't want anyone to stake their life on it🙄 . So if you haven't heard yet, don't fret, your time may come yet🙂 :luck: :luck:
 
CaramelDlite said:
So I hear that the admissions office is sending acceptances in three waves. One wave was sent Friday, one was sent yesterday, and one today. It's a pretty reliable source but I still wouldn't want anyone to stake their life on it🙄 . So if you haven't heard yet, don't fret, your time may come yet🙂 :luck: :luck:
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Hmmm... well this changes everything now doesn't it. 🙄
 
Last year rejections went out via snail mail. The waves seemed to be acceptances first, followed by rejections and waitlists.
 
JohnMadden said:
You didn't have to send in fall grades, but you could have if you wanted to. If you're waitlisted, then I would recommend doing so. I think I heard that Duke can sometimes be persuaded with letters of interest from waitlisted applicants.
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I wrote an LOI and got in off the waitlist.
 
CaramelDlite said:
So I hear that the admissions office is sending acceptances in three waves. One wave was sent Friday, one was sent yesterday, and one today. It's a pretty reliable source but I still wouldn't want anyone to stake their life on it🙄 . So if you haven't heard yet, don't fret, your time may come yet🙂 :luck: :luck:
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So I second this info. I happened to be in duke med center today right by the admissions office and worked up the nerve to walk in and ask at the desk...of course they could not tell me any information about my particular application but a really nice lady in the admissions office told me that the acceptances will be going out in batches "throughout this week" with the waitlist letters as well(i.e. acceptances were not all sent out first)...i wanted to hug her for easing my anxiety at least a little bit..but that's all I could get out of her :luck:
 
CaramelDlite said:
So I hear that the admissions office is sending acceptances in three waves. One wave was sent Friday, one was sent yesterday, and one today. It's a pretty reliable source but I still wouldn't want anyone to stake their life on it🙄 . So if you haven't heard yet, don't fret, your time may come yet🙂 :luck: :luck:
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mwah!😍
 
Thank you, Husky & Caramel for the hope ... was getting a bit dejected after not getting anything today. It's hard to make sense of all the conflicting sources of information about what's going out and has already gone out when. I think I'm just going to have to sign off of SDN until this is all over 🙂 and I don't think I can put myself thru all this again next week with Harvard. Good luck to all of you.
 
stoppushingit said:
wait, so are letters sent to

A) what you listed on Duke's PAS?
B) your preferred address listed on AMCAS?
C) your permanent address listed on AMCAS?
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I believe it's what you listed on Duke's PAS, which is your permanent address listed on AMCAS by default. At least, that's what it was for me, but I may have changed it manually and forgotten about it.
 
diosa428 said:
Last year rejections went out via snail mail. The waves seemed to be acceptances first, followed by rejections and waitlists.
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I really hope this isn't the case...for myself and the rest of the sdners who haven't heard anything :scared:
 
I'm in! I just opened my P.O. Box thirty minutes ago to find that lovely envelope. While I was walking towards my box at the back of the post office, I convinced myself that whatever the letter, it wouldn't have arrived by today. As I turned my key, though, I noticed that the door wasn't as shaky on its hinges as it had been the past couple days. I opened it and gasped when I saw yellow. I quickly pulled out the mail to read "Duke University School of Medicine" on the top left, to say hello those four red faces on the bottom right, and, of course, to whisper the wonderful line in the center -- "(the future) Dr. ____."

Feeling incredibly blessed right now~ Hang in there, folks! They're coming!

Best Wishes With Everything,

dreamersmelody
Northern California
 
CaramelDlite said:
So I hear that the admissions office is sending acceptances in three waves. One wave was sent Friday, one was sent yesterday, and one today. It's a pretty reliable source but I still wouldn't want anyone to stake their life on it🙄 . So if you haven't heard yet, don't fret, your time may come yet🙂 :luck: :luck:
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Thanks. That's good to hear. I also have to keep reminding myself that my mail is so freakishly slow at my house that it took my acceptance letter from Pitt over a week to show up in Wisconsin. I'm hoping that doesn't happens with Duke as well (I think my mailman would not like me if I stalked him for a week), but that's better than the alternative.
 
Congrats to all accepted!!! I've got my fingers crossed for everyone else. I'd love to see those of you super stoked about Duke getting in!!! I'm definitely pulling for Femalessuckatdriving..... He seems to be the most stoked of all!

*Drinks out of 24 oz bud light can and picks up guitar while saying screw homework b/c I am finally free from my study grind....*
 
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