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I know the feeling. Can't wait to start either.
From a first year at KU: enjoy the summer. While school is great, the novelty wears off quickly
Welcome to KU!
I know the feeling. Can't wait to start either.
Meh, I've got to keep working to pay the bills. But it's only a 9-5 M-F thing and I think July 2 will be my last day. That gives me plenty of time to do a ton of riding (equestrian) this spring and summer. And then in July I'll take a long vacation.
Although that may be a bad idea... I'm home today because we're having some repairs done and I'm hanging out with the contractors... bored to tears. Nothing even on TV. Too cold to go see my horse. Blah.
Is anybody else feeling "stuck" right now? I'm just SO BORED with life in general and July seems so far away!!!
Engineer2MD, where do you ride, I love to ride equestrian as well. I haven't done it in a while though because we had to put my horse to sleepLong story....
Meh, I've got to keep working to pay the bills. But it's only a 9-5 M-F thing and I think July 2 will be my last day. That gives me plenty of time to do a ton of riding (equestrian) this spring and summer. And then in July I'll take a long vacation.
Although that may be a bad idea... I'm home today because we're having some repairs done and I'm hanging out with the contractors... bored to tears. Nothing even on TV. Too cold to go see my horse. Blah.
Is anybody else feeling "stuck" right now? I'm just SO BORED with life in general and July seems so far away!!!
Just curious if anyone else on SDN is filling out the standard SOM scholarship application? If so, do you know the preferred length of response to each question?
We have email! I feel like a real KU med student now. I was so bored at work today that I toured almost every link within my.kumc. I'm looking forward to using this so-called "tranquility room."
Hi All,
Quick question...
Does anyone know if KU has a childcare center associated with the medical school for students/faculty, etc.?
Has anyone else been getting all the som12 emails on their newly created address?
Hi All,
Quick question...
Does anyone know if KU has a childcare center associated with the medical school for students/faculty, etc.?
So I just got my MCAT scores back (29Q) and I think that's going to keep my out of some of the top 10 schools I had naively been looking at. Since I under NO circumstances want to retake the test...and I am a pretty big fan of the great state of Kansas, I am pretty sure that I'd like to try KU early decision. Anyone have EDP experience with KU? I am really liking this idea! Do I have a chance?
MCAT: P8 V10 B11 Q
cGPA: 3.60
BCPM: 3.56
profile: e-board on peer health educator club, work 30 hours/week as administrative assistant for campus police, black belt in kempo, running the boston marathon this year, going into the peace corps for two years post graduation in west africa teaching public health, kansas resident (topeka represent!), 50 hours shadowing pediatrician, labor/delivery ward hospital volunteer experience-50 hours or so, two time post-Katrina clean up work, worked in 2 different research labs at KSU in fall 2008, independent research work in histology and breast cancer this semester, attended top 5 liberal arts college for undergrad
someone please tell me I don't have to retake the MCAT to go to medical school!! haha
You should be fine. A 29, in itself, certainly won't keep you out as an in-stater. As long as you can articulate what you took away from your medical experiences well, you should be fine. The only thing that sticks out to me is the research stuff; if it were me, I would be careful how I presented that just because (I am assuming) you didn't spend significant time in either one all in the same semester. If you are going to include those labs, make sure you know what you did, why you did it, and be ready for a PhD to question you about it.
Edit: Out of curiosity, how many years have you been in school, given that you went to a different undergrad but have been at KSU since fall 2008? (ie: if you are a grad student and those two labs were part of your rotations, my comment about justifying the short time spent in them is irrelevant)
Well, I spent a semester away from Wellesley at K-State during the fall of 2008, mostly because i wanted to work in Sue Brown's evolutionary development lab. I ended up working simultaneously at the Kansas Lipidomics Research Lab in order to supplement my income that semester. I took a couple classes at KSU also to get the general co-educational experience and lived in an apartment, etc. It was basically a study abroad semester spent in kansas instead of abroad. I went back to wellesley in the spring of 2009 and will finish up here this spring 2010. So I've done the typical 4 year undergrad stint and spent a semester at KSU. I worked about 15 hours/week in each lab for 20 weeks.
So I just got my MCAT scores back (29Q) and I think that's going to keep my out of some of the top 10 schools I had naively been looking at. Since I under NO circumstances want to retake the test...and I am a pretty big fan of the great state of Kansas, I am pretty sure that I'd like to try KU early decision. Anyone have EDP experience with KU? I am really liking this idea! Do I have a chance?
MCAT: P8 V10 B11 Q
cGPA: 3.60
BCPM: 3.56
profile: e-board on peer health educator club, work 30 hours/week as administrative assistant for campus police, black belt in kempo, running the boston marathon this year, going into the peace corps for two years post graduation in west africa teaching public health, kansas resident (topeka represent!), 50 hours shadowing pediatrician, labor/delivery ward hospital volunteer experience-50 hours or so, two time post-Katrina clean up work, worked in 2 different research labs at KSU in fall 2008, independent research work in histology and breast cancer this semester, attended top 5 liberal arts college for undergrad
someone please tell me I don't have to retake the MCAT to go to medical school!! haha
I also have NOT received the email with the student ID information yet.
The student ID was "hidden" within your temporary password. Were you given a temp password even though you already had an account set-up from working there?
Has anyone heard anything about financial aid, enrollment, the pre-matric program, second look weekend, etc?
I feel kind of out of the loop.
I have all the paperwork in to financial aid, but it's stressing me out that I still don't know how I'm going to pay for this...
For those of you that already live in the KC area, where are the best places to live for married students? My wife and I were considering Overland Park or Shawnee. Are those within a reasonable drive to KUMC? We plan to rent while there so any specific apartment/rental property suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
For those of you that already live in the KC area, where are the best places to live for married students? My wife and I were considering Overland Park or Shawnee. Are those within a reasonable drive to KUMC? We plan to rent while there so any specific apartment/rental property suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
My husband works in Leavenworth and that's where our house is now. This spring we are going to *ATTEMPT* to sell and move to the Speedway area at 435 and Parallel in KCK. It's a new, nice area and is only about 20 - 25 min. I work at KU Med now and the traffic isn't bad at all.
If you live in OP - the traffic will be terrible. You'll also have JoCo taxes. Mission, Fairway, Westwood would all be nice areas. I'm too much "country" to live that far in, though.![]()
The Second look day is April 30th. All the financial aid is due for new accepted students by April 15th.
I think there's going to be some talk about the tablets at the second look event that's going on this Friday.Does anyone know what tablet we are going to be getting? I think last year they got an HP tablet.
I think there's going to be some talk about the tablets at the second look event that's going on this Friday.
I won't be able to attend, but if anyone else is going and happens to learn anything about which tablet we're getting (and why it's so dang expensive), please post and let us know!
I can't believe you guys are starting soon! I remember reading through the application thread.... it all seems like yesterday.
Agreed. When I got my letter, it seemed like July 22nd would never get here. Now it seems like the last 6 months have flown by. Can't wait to get going.
BWSTW - keep with it, hope to see you there next year!![]()