For Later Submitters (Late July-Aug): What have YOU heard from schools?

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I feel you....my app was send later than yours but my lor was sent about the same time so.....our apps are practically late or later than the original submittion date because of lor which is out of our control...

I wouldn't say we are late, but we are sure cutting it close. Let's hope we hear from schools soon.
 
LOR is a drag! Mine was sent by my school on 08/17 and AADSAS received it on 08/24. It should take another "2-3 weeks to process and sent to designated dental school." That would mean a little before mid-september before school receive it.SUCKS!!
 
I'm totally with you guys about the LOR thing. My app was sent out 7/10 but I had one LOR to wait on. He didn't submit it until early Aug and it was finally sent out about 2 weeks later - I just now received app complete emails from UCSF and UNLV. Ugh. So annoying.
 
I don't know what i was thinking but I just submitted my application.
 
Submitted 8/10
Mailed 8/17
Supplement checks mailed 8/10
applied to : OSU, Upenn, Marquette, Indiana, Case, Michigan, UD Mercy, Boston, Kentucky.

Heard from: OSU, MArquette, Indiana, Kentucky

Michigan has cashed my check, but I haven't heard anything from them
 
I have some positive info for those of you freaking out about late LOR's. My mailing date was 8/10. My last LOR didn't get submitted by my dentist until two days ago...and i already had 2 interview invites.

I'm reapplying this year, but had several interviews last year. There were a few different schools that mentioned how some people at the interview needed to make sure to get their LOR's in.

The point is, I don't think many schools wait on LOR's when processing applications and offering interviews. Maybe a few do, but it seems like the majority just consider gpa/dat/extracurriculars when offering interviews.
 
I have some positive info for those of you freaking out about late LOR's. My mailing date was 8/10. My last LOR didn't get submitted by my dentist until two days ago...and i already had 2 interview invites.

I'm reapplying this year, but had several interviews last year. There were a few different schools that mentioned how some people at the interview needed to make sure to get their LOR's in.

The point is, I don't think many schools wait on LOR's when processing applications and offering interviews. Maybe a few do, but it seems like the majority just consider gpa/dat/extracurriculars when offering interviews.


You had 8 interveiws from last cycle and didn't get accepted to any school?
 
You had 8 interveiws from last cycle and didn't get accepted to any school?

yeah...and i know that makes me sound lame at interviewing, but i actually only had 1 poor interview. there just ended up being a lot of complications last year...
 
Update:

8/24 AADSAS mailing date.
8/25 Received supplemental applications from ASDOH, Midwestern, NOVA, and Louisville.
8/26 All supplemental applications have been received electronically and now I'm just waiting for invites.

Still waiting to hear from Tufts, Temple, and UF.
 
7/24 addsas mailing

Just got an interview from Midwestern in november this morning!!!!🙂🙂🙂
 
I have some positive info for those of you freaking out about late LOR's. My mailing date was 8/10. My last LOR didn't get submitted by my dentist until two days ago...and i already had 2 interview invites.

I'm reapplying this year, but had several interviews last year. There were a few different schools that mentioned how some people at the interview needed to make sure to get their LOR's in.

The point is, I don't think many schools wait on LOR's when processing applications and offering interviews. Maybe a few do, but it seems like the majority just consider gpa/dat/extracurriculars when offering interviews.

thanks for the info, turns out my teacher submitted it when she promised, last friday, but something got messed up and it didn't post, so hopefully it will work out
 
aadsas submitted 8/7 for BU, Tufts, NYU, NOVA
mailed 8/17
mailed supp fee to NYU

haven't heard ANYTHING from BU or TUFTS

I emailed NYU since on AADSAS it said it was waiting on information but the application was received, they said they got my supp fee- but my app is in batch 7 and they are currently reviewing batch 4. They need my LORs and some other paperwork that will be in that batch 7 before my application can be complete and be reviewed.

but as far as supplementary apps- how do i find out if NYU, TUFTS, or BU has it?

8/26 I also received an email from NOVA to complete my supp app and fee.
 
Update:

8/24 AADSAS mailing date.
8/25 Received supplemental applications from ASDOH, Midwestern, NOVA, and Louisville.
8/26 All supplemental applications have been received electronically and now I'm just waiting for invites.

Still waiting to hear from Tufts, Temple, and UF.

Louisville has supplemental applications? I received an e-mail from them requesting the fee, but I haven't heard from them about an application.
 
Louisville has supplemental applications? I received an e-mail from them requesting the fee, but I haven't heard from them about an application.
That's what I meant. Just sent the supplemental fee...but no written app is necessary. I wish other schools would just forget about the written supplementals...it's just a bunch of repetitious work the school wants you to do in order to make you feel better about taking your money.
 
submitted 7/31
mailed 8/10


nyu: received,waiting additional info
temple: received
tufts: got email asking for money

other schools(apprx 4 other): sent money but not a single peep from them

BU: got an email for an interview 😀 omg so excited!!

i jumped up and down when i saw that email right now lol

anyone got some advice/materials on preparing for interviews?
 
dl9006 said:
submitted 7/31
mailed 8/10


nyu: received,waiting additional info
temple: received
tufts: got email asking for money

other schools(apprx 4 other): sent money but not a single peep from them

BU: got an email for an interview 😀 omg so excited!!

i jumped up and down when i saw that email right now lol

anyone got some advice/materials on preparing for interviews?
that is so awesome! My app mailed at the same time and haven't received any word yet from BU 🙁 did you get an app complete email? What state are you from?
 
submitted 7/31
mailed 8/10


nyu: received,waiting additional info
temple: received
tufts: got email asking for money

other schools(apprx 4 other): sent money but not a single peep from them

BU: got an email for an interview 😀 omg so excited!!

i jumped up and down when i saw that email right now lol

anyone got some advice/materials on preparing for interviews?

that's awesome! good luck 🙂

quick question: for tufts and bu were there any supp apps- or will i find out when the school emails me? hopefully i'll get some interviews soon.
 
that's awesome! good luck 🙂

quick question: for tufts and bu were there any supp apps- or will i find out when the school emails me? hopefully i'll get some interviews soon.

i don't know about tufts since i just sent them money but for BU there was nothing else that i had to do. just the aadsas app

Atticus: no i don't think i got an email from them after i sent them money. i was wondering about that too but i just got an email today.

Good luck to everyone.
 
the funny thing about supp apps is that i spoke to a representative from a dental school earlier today about the length that i should write/answer some of the questions. and i was told that at this point in the application they probably wont even read the supp apps and just go by the aadsas submittion since they have so many to review. i guess they want the supp app just in case.

i am currently still working on a few supp apps as i just received them a few days ago and hope to submit them by tomorrow afternoon.
 
Update:

8/24 AADSAS mailing date.
8/25 Received supplemental applications from ASDOH, Midwestern, NOVA, and Louisville.
8/26 All supplemental applications have been received electronically and now I'm just waiting for invites.

Still waiting to hear from Tufts, Temple, and UF.

Another update:

8/28 Invited to Midwestern for interview 11/24/09.
......11/30/09 was my other option but flights seemed cheaper for the earlier date so I went with that. 😀
 
submitted 7/31
mailed 8/10


nyu: received,waiting additional info
temple: received
tufts: got email asking for money

other schools(apprx 4 other): sent money but not a single peep from them

BU: got an email for an interview 😀 omg so excited!!

i jumped up and down when i saw that email right now lol

anyone got some advice/materials on preparing for interviews?

hey dl9006 before you got the interview from boston, did boston u change the status on AADSAS???

BTW they mailed out mine at the same time as yours
 
hey dl9006 before you got the interview from boston, did boston u change the status on AADSAS???

BTW they mailed out mine at the same time as yours

just checked today. seems like they changed my status after they sent me the invite
 
hey dl9006 before you got the interview from boston, did boston u change the status on AADSAS???

BTW they mailed out mine at the same time as yours
I had nothing on Boston AADSAS page until I received email invite. THEN they updated it to invited. So no complete or under review etc
was total surprise! It seems they looked over quite a number of appl at same time as I see people from from first batch to the end of July applicants received invites.
 
Just received a Case invite via mail. The earliest date available is jan.16! Does anyone know if that date is too late to not be waitlisted if everything else goes well?
 
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mailed today (9/1)

might as well get Sept in the mix 😀
 
Interesting. I submitted mine on 8/17, but the mailing date listed is 09/08 after I sent them an email asking them about it.
Hmmm... maybe I should have send them an email sooner. I didn't think that was required.
 
aadsas submitted 8/7 for BU, Tufts, NYU, NOVA
mailed 8/17
mailed supp fee to NYU

haven't heard ANYTHING from BU or TUFTS

I emailed NYU since on AADSAS it said it was waiting on information but the application was received, they said they got my supp fee- but my app is in batch 7 and they are currently reviewing batch 4. They need my LORs and some other paperwork that will be in that batch 7 before my application can be complete and be reviewed.

but as far as supplementary apps- how do i find out if NYU, TUFTS, or BU has it?

8/26 I also received an email from NOVA to complete my supp app and fee.

Hey, post on here when you hear from BU because we submitted on the same day, and I'm curious as to when they start looking at "our batch"
 
Mine was mailed on 8/17 and
received interview from midwestern.
I also heard from UCSF, ASDOH, western, Loma Linda, Nova, columbia, tuft, NYU, Upenn, UOP.. did all the supp, but not interview yet...
I havent heard from UCLA, Boston Univ, Univ of Michigan and Pittsburg Univer.
checking email and aadsas everyday...haha😍
 
mailed today (9/1)

might as well get Sept in the mix 😀

Yea my letters were finally sent out 9/1. That officially makes my application complete on the sending part. Now the schools need to receive it.
 
Application mailed at 8/17 and I got e-mail from Boston telling me to pay App fee today. Mine will be finally starting to be reviewed 🙂
 
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Application mailed at 8/17 and I got e-mail from Boston telling me to pay App fee today. Mine will be finally starting to be reviewed 🙂

My first AADSAS was mailed on 7/31. Decided to apply to BU about a week later and it mailed to them on 8/17. Heard from them yesterday in email around 9am saying they received it and asking to pay the supp fee. I did that at 9:10 and then around 3pm, I got an interview invite for November 17th

All correspondence in the same day....
 
for those complete at BU, how long did it take to hear about your interview? I was complete a week ago! im getting anxious!

I was complete at UNLV and ASDOH recently. how long does it take to hear from these schools as well?
 
hey skylark...did you get an email saying that your application was complete after an application receipt email or has there been an AADSAS status change? My app was mailed on 24th and then i received an app receipt email but since then havent heard from them...
 
My application was mailed out 2 days ago, and i got 1 email asking to send application fee yesterday. XD
 
Along the lines of this post, what are your guys' experiences on wait times for AADSAS? My GPA was finally verified today after 10 days just sitting there. Was curious if it's really going to take them 4-8 weeks to put it in an envelope or if that guideline is to set our expectations low.

What are you guys experiencing in terms of wait times once GPAs are verified by AADSAS? I took my DAT a couple of weeks ago and had those scores sent off so all I'm waiting on now is my actual application (shouldn't have waited for my summer grades to post in hindsight).

-david
20/20/25
3.36 overall
3.92 science:luck:
 
I've been complete with BU since August 27th and still nothing from them! My gpa and DATs i think are pretty good for their profile...i am really freaking out nowadays!
 
im feeling the same thing mazaag, ive heard nothing about an interview from BU and ive been under review for a while...

also, ucla secondary came yesterday but i might not finish it. i didnt take a second semester of inorganic chem because of how berkeley classes are structured. hey whatsuppal, did you take chem 1b with lab?
 
for those of you who applied to NYU, does your AADSAS status still say "Application received, waiting for additional info" under school decisions?

that same msg has been there for close to a month now for me ....
 
I just got the same message this morning. From last cycle's experience, I received from them an e-mail about my application being complete after about a month. So I wouldn't worry if you got any e-mail

Are you refraining from calling them because it said something along the line of no contact necessary? Unless you took the DAT recently and they haven't received your scores, or your LOR, I would try to contact them to see what's up.
 
im feeling the same thing mazaag, ive heard nothing about an interview from BU and ive been under review for a while...

also, ucla secondary came yesterday but i might not finish it. i didnt take a second semester of inorganic chem because of how berkeley classes are structured. hey whatsuppal, did you take chem 1b with lab?
hey what do u mean "you might not finish it?" It seems not that annoying compare to one for UCSF.
yeah, i did. anything i can help u with?
 
I recieved an email today saying that I have been invited for an interview at ASDOH. My applications was sent out July 24. I took my DAT August 8, and my secondary was mailed out August 13, 2009. Interview invite 9/10/09
 
hey what do u mean "you might not finish it?" It seems not that annoying compare to one for UCSF.
yeah, i did. anything i can help u with?

i just ask cause i realized too late that they are strict with the one year of inorganic chem rule. i figured i should just save the time and money and not even bother to turn in the secondary.
 
i just ask cause i realized too late that they are strict with the one year of inorganic chem rule. i figured i should just save the time and money and not even bother to turn in the secondary.

I thought I'd contribute to all the Berkeley kids! Just got off the phone with Noemi and she said that UCLA changed their policy 2 years ago to where 1A/3A/3B did not meet the year of g-chem and a year of o-chem. There is no grace period, even if you already graduated. The good news is if you put down an expected chem course in the spring, then you will be considred for interview and admission!
 
anyone else hear from NYU today regarding application receipt?? i heard today...
 
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