Is anyone else feeling the $$ strain throughout interview season?

[musicalfeet]

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Each time I purchase flight tickets..especially cross country ones, I die a little inside. Especially the multi-leg ones...the price + strain of travelling makes me feel a gigantic pit in my stomach whenever I type in my CC info. *cries* This last leg is about 700 dollars 🙁

Please someone accept me early in the cycle so I can stop this madness! (But on the other hand, DON'T STOP I LOVE GETTING IIs...)

 

[Spinach Dip]

I wish I could afford any flights.

 

[Munty]

Explains why I drove 12 hours to my last interview haha

 

[musicalfeet]

Explains why I drove 12 hours to my last interview haha

Don't think I'd be able to drive from CA to Chicago and then back within 3 days T_T

 

[urbanninja]

Right there with you. I had to take on a second job to pay for this cycle

 

[Munty]

Don't think I'd be able to drive from CA to Chicago and then back within 3 days T_T

Ah yes, the ever so unfortunate west-coast applicants. I'm thankful I live within a 12 hour drive of 80% of the schools I applied to.

 

[bshap000]

I personally love the jacked up airfares and hotel rates that come with booking like a week in advance...

 

[mrspecialist]

Invest in your future 🙂

 

[Glazedonutlove]

Definitely feeling it. The cost of secondaries was a joke compared to flights

 

[Spinach Dip]

Invest in your future 🙂

Wish I had money to invest in anything outside of rent and meals.

*sigh*

 

[LuluLovesMe]

Look into credit card sign up bonuses. Specifically Chase Sapphire Rewards, Capital One Venture Miles and Citi Thank You Premier. With a decent credit history and credit score >740 you should be easily approved. Hello $1000 worth of free tickets ;> You can sign up for all 3 at the same time.

I have enough points for multiple flights, I just wish I had any II

 

[moisne]

If you are accepted - I'll be expecting another post about the outrageous tuition around August/September next year.

 

[musicalfeet]

Yea, I'm self-supporting and it's been brutal even if with me saving up for a while. last minute flights are so costly, and flight attendants are seriously rude. not to mention constant jet lag.

Yeah and cross-country travel takes place at the oddest times (especially if you pick the cheapest flight). On my first interview, I basically didn't sleep on the night I got there and the night I left due to jet lag. Lo and behold, got sick immediately after I got home. Then proceeded to freak out for 1.5 weeks about trying to get better before my second interview.

I'll bet someone 10 bucks that I'm going to get sick again on this next leg(2x) coming up in the next week..gonna invest in some EmergenC and Airborne. Although supposedly those don't do anything except placebo effect.

 

[Glazedonutlove]

yeah I didn't get to sleep much the night before one of my interviews because of a flight delay

 

[RogueUnicorn]

Sorry guys, feel your pain. The grass is greener on the other side for real though, it'll be over soon enough.

 

[bararaboi]

I come from a household that makes $500k+ and I'm feeling the strain myself....wondering what others are feeling right now.

 

[LuluLovesMe]

I come from a household that makes $500k+ and I'm feeling the strain myself....wondering what others are feeling right now.

How is this even possible?

 

[bararaboi]

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[deleted718115]

Each time I purchase flight tickets..especially cross country ones, I die a little inside. Especially the multi-leg ones...the price + strain of travelling makes me feel a gigantic pit in my stomach whenever I type in my CC info. *cries* This last leg is about 700 dollars 🙁

Please someone accept me early in the cycle so I can stop this madness! (But on the other hand, DON'T STOP I LOVE GETTING IIs...)

I feel exactly the same as well so I wish one day we could have the option to interview via Skype or something... That may be just wistful thinking :/

 

[musicalfeet]

I feel exactly the same as well so I wish one day we could have the option to interview via Skype or something... That may be just wistful thinking :/

Not sure if that'll be good. In music, we were allowed "local" auditions, where they will record your audition and send it to the main panel. What they didn't tell you though, was that opting for a local audition vs the live audition was a near-automatic rejection. Their reasoning was that you must not care enough about that school to even bother making a trip out there to see them in person--therefore not taking it seriously enough. In the end, everyone who wanted a reasonable chance had to make the journey anyway.

 

[takeurmeds02]

If you are accepted - I'll be expecting another post about the outrageous tuition around August/September next year.

At least you don't have pay out of pocket right then and there lol. I'm worked like a slave between scribing and TA'ing on top of still having classes. Lol what life?

 

[Theseus]

Wish I had money to invest in anything outside of rent and meals.

*sigh*

At least somebody else is in my position. I will probably drive everywhere.

 

[moisne]

At least you don't have pay out of pocket right then and there lol. I'm worked like a slave between scribing and TA'ing on top of still having classes. Lol what life?

This is assuming your have nothing. Otherwise, you first dump your entire bank savings to decrease interest.
- you can take out loans right now too...
- I work during med school so... yeah I hear you

 

[Dr. Death]

Living in a flyover state makes applications all that more expensive. There is one med school I applied to within 12 hours of my house. Have to fly almost everywhere

 

[deleted718115]

Not sure if that'll be good. In music, we were allowed "local" auditions, where they will record your audition and send it to the main panel. What they didn't tell you though, was that opting for a local audition vs the live audition was a near-automatic rejection. Their reasoning was that you must not care enough about that school to even bother making a trip out there to see them in person--therefore not taking it seriously enough. In the end, everyone who wanted a reasonable chance had to make the journey anyway.

Some lead actors in famous movies got their roles through video auditions.

 

[Oh_Gee]

Some lead actors in famous movies got their roles through video auditions.

our chances at "making it" are probably a lot higher than aspiring actresses/actors, though

 

[aztlannation]

I am already close to $6k in debt due to my application/interview expenses. I see this number going up to $10k in a month or two

 

[Oh_Gee]

the schools have solved that problem for me by not offering me any more II's.

thanks, schools. good looking out