For those of us waiting for Oct. 15

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winterwind_23 said:
I highly doubt schools will update portals at midnight. I think they will send out batch emails or updates in the morning. Good thing I'm on the west coast. I'll just wake up and check my email at 9 am.
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From my stalking of last year's threads, I saw a lot of people who got decisions in the evening on the 14th and the early hours of the 15th (~1AM).
 
Damn you got my hopes back up. I'm 3hrs behind the school so I was hoping for news tonight. Though realistically, I'm expecting tomorrow morning, when I'm in class. I really want somebody else to read my status to me haha so I might even wait until tomorrow afternoon.
 
Some of the schools said they'd call us on the phone if we got accepted. Does anyone know how common this is? Or do most of them do portal/e-mail/snail mail?
 
Lannister said:
From my stalking of last year's threads, I saw a lot of people who got decisions in the evening on the 14th and the early hours of the 15th (~1AM).
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Dang, now you're going to have me checking the portals before going to bed tonight!
 
I have a massive presentation in my office tomorrow, and am terrified they're gonna call me in the middle of it
 
Seriously wishing the school I interviewed at was giving out decisions tomorrow. They said the 1st or 2nd week of November, but they didn't send out decisions until Thanksgiving for the last two years. And I interviewed 3 weeks ago. 😢 Patience really is a virtue (one that I apparently lack).

But good luck to those of you who expect to hear something tomorrow or the next day!
 
goldy490 said:
I have a massive presentation in my office tomorrow, and am terrified they're gonna call me in the middle of it
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That's a win-win situation!! You either (hopefully) ace the presentation or have the presentation interrupted by a medical school acceptance lol
 
Miami reported a couple of acceptances just now.
 
I shouldn't even hear back for another 6 weeks but I'm super excited and nervous for tomorrow this is so crazy
 
POLL:
Is the anxiety tonight more or less severe than it was the morning before you took the MCAT?
 
Definitely worse right now. I thought the stressful wait would be over after the MCAT. Then there was the wait for an interview. Now this wait!! It never gets better, I guess.
 
md-2020 said:
Just to rile things up I'd like to propose that this moment isn't even 1% of the anxiety we will feel when Match Day comes up 😛
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Oh God. I don't even want to think about that. Seriously the thought of not matching already freaks me out lol. Hopefully none of us will be in that situation five years down the road.
 
md-2020 said:
Just to rile things up I'd like to propose that this moment isn't even 1% of the anxiety we will feel when Match Day comes up 😛
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I mean for the Match most people are basically guaranteed to get SOMETHING. Not the case for medical schools.
 
TheRhymenocerous said:
MCAT was worse for me. There'll be other schools if I don't get in tomorrow. You only have one shot (ideally) for the MCAT.
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That's true! Although I'd probably feel less stressed if I had more interviews, I only have 3, so getting rejected from 1 tomorrow would mean I'd been rejected from 1/3 of the schools I had a chance at x.x At least the school I interview at next weekend has a 77% post-interview acceptance rate.
 
md-2020 said:
Just to rile things up I'd like to propose that this moment isn't even 1% of the anxiety we will feel when Match Day comes up 😛
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Goes with my previous, comforting thought of the wait of being on the wait list.
 
Lannister said:
Oh God. I don't even want to think about that. Seriously the thought of not matching already freaks me out lol. Hopefully none of us will be in that situation five years down the road.
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Time to start #gunning. If you get in tomorrow, you better buy up those Step I books. 😀

after_the_flood said:
I mean for the Match most people are basically guaranteed to get SOMETHING. Not the case for medical schools.
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Depends on what you're trying to match into....
 
after_the_flood said:
I mean for the Match most people are basically guaranteed to get SOMETHING. Not the case for medical schools.
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Agreed. Unless you got a surprise - you have a chance to do residency in the middle of nowhere, a few thousands miles from your wife ><.
 
BphysDoc said:
Agreed. Unless you got a surprise - you have a chance to do residency in the middle of nowhere, a few thousands miles from your wife ><.
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Not for the tippy top specialties....every single spot in the United States is off the charts competitive.
 
Lannister said:
That's true! Although I'd probably feel less stressed if I had more interviews, I only have 3, so getting rejected from 1 tomorrow would mean I'd been rejected from 1/3 of the schools I had a chance at x.x At least the school I interview at next weekend has a 77% post-interview acceptance rate.
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
 
I am really debating if I should stay up until 1 am tonight....
 
Lannister said:
POLL:
Is the anxiety tonight more or less severe than it was the morning before you took the MCAT?
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MCAT was much worse. I had a low GPA, so I had to make up for it with a great MCAT. Add to that the fact I spent 8-10 hours everyday studying for the MCAT for four months...

I've interviewed at 5 schools, and have 4 more scheduled, and I'm fairly confident I will get into at least one school, so even if I get rejected at one or two places tomorrow, I'll hopefully convert at least 1 out of 9 interviews. 🙂

Good luck all!
 
Tomorrow's the big day, good luck everyone! Sending positive vibes your way..
 
nwts said:
Funny, I feel less stress for the exact same reason.
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Make sense actually. I think my anxiety wasn't as much before the MCAT but my anxiety to check my MCAT scores was definitely higher than it is now. Because I do have II's at a couple other schools and there's also not a set time that I know to expect when to hear back tomorrow.
 
This thread being 3 pages on October 14th at around 9 PM shows you how many people HAVENT gotten a IIs yet. Or they got them this month so they wont get a decision back.

Seriously, what is going on with this cycle.
 
Gandyy said:
This thread being 3 pages on October 14th at around 9 PM shows you how many people HAVENT gotten a IIs yet. Or they got them this month so they wont get a decision back.

Seriously, what is going on with this cycle.
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Or the people here are just the most neurotic psychos on SDN and everyone else who's expecting a decision is off having a life. :laugh:
But actually, the point you raise is interesting. Is there an October 15th thread from previous years? It would be interesting to compare.
 
Lannister said:
Or the people here are just the most neurotic psychos on SDN and everyone else who's expecting a decision is off having a life. :laugh:
But actually, the point you raise is interesting. Is there an October 15th thread from previous years? It would be interesting to compare.
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I havent looked for a previous October 15th thread tbh.
 
Krabbeman said:
Ok... so SUNY Buffalo gave me an acceptance today, on Oct. 14th. Isn't that illegal or something?
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Congrats! Yeah I saw maybe 2 others say they got an acceptance today so I'm not sure what's up with that
 
Argh curses for having an 8 am tomorrow so I can't just wake up and check my email. -_-
 
Lannister said:
POLL:
Is the anxiety tonight more or less severe than it was the morning before you took the MCAT?
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If my anxiety during the MCAT was the size of a grape, my anxiety now is the size of a neutrino. Because instead of myself being about to make or break my fate, someone else is now doing it for me. Pressure's off, just gotta wait.

(Besides, I'm not necessarily expecting to hear something exactly tomorrow).
 
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