List the secondaries and interviews you have so far

[Mossjoh]

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Just to see what schools are already send out applications and inviting for interviews, I'm curious to what people have been receiving from med schools.

Here is my list so far of contacts, no interviews as of yet.....

Medical College of Wisconsin-secondary
Northwestern-Secondary
Rush-secondary
University of Michigan-secondary
Michigan State University-just wanted their application processing fee
CCOM-secondary

Thanks everyone 😉

 

[Barton]

Secondaries:
UMD
MCW
SLU
Pritzker
Iowa

 

[moo]

All secondaries, no interviews yet:

Einstein
Boston U (not a real secondary)
Dartmouth
Duke
GWU
GTown
Harvard
Jefferson (will not complete)
JHU
Mt Sinai
Nwestern
Ohio State
Penn
Pritzker U of Chicago
Washington U at St. Louis
Yale
MCW

 

[kutastha]

All secondaries:

Boston University
Dartmouth
Harvard
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Washington University
SUNY Syracuse

Andrew

 

[kspillman]

Secondaries:
GWU
Harvard
Dartmouth
UF

 

[Szkwicz]

So far, I've gotten the following...

MCW...secondary
U-M...secondary and interview
MSU-CHM...just the fee

Heard nothing from Wayne or MSU-COM

 

[coop]

secondaries:
pritzker (interview also)
washu
yale
hopkins
harvard
case
maryland
duke
northwestern
penn
vandy

from pitt I got an interview, but still have not received a secondary (they say I will have to complete one before they can officially review my file)

 

[figure five]

secondaries:

u of chicago
cornell
duke
michigan
harvard
wash. u
northwestern
penn

still waiting for contact from:

georgetown
ohsu
wisconsin

 

[Jamier2]

Secondaries:

Duke
Kentucky

(I don't know what is keeping the other schools. Maybe AMCAS wasn't being completely truthful when it put a transmittal date on those schools. 😉)

 

[rxfudd]

All secondaries, no interviews:

GWU
SLU
Rush
Loyola
UMDNJ-RWJ (no secondary, sent fee)

 

[Sarena]

All secodaries:

UPenn
Yale
Hopkins
Penn State

 

[Denilson]

Secondaries;
SUNY Syr, Buf, Down
Mt. Sinai
Jefferson
Loma Linda
U Chicago
GW
Gtown
Rochester

 

[kobe8]

Both secondaries:

Boston University
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson

Heard nothing from:
Wayne State
MCV
U of Hawaii 😕

 

[sc]

Originally posted by rxfudd:
•All secondaries, no interviews:

GWU
SLU
Rush
Loyola
UMDNJ-RWJ (no secondary, sent fee)•

rxfudd,

When and how did you get the Loyola secondary? Thanks.

 

[rxfudd]

Originally posted by sc:
•rxfudd,

When and how did you get the Loyola secondary? Thanks.•

I got it on Saturday by mail - I have posted the Loyola essay questions in another thread: Loloya Medical School question

 

[SMW]

All secondaries:
Boston ($$ solicitation only!)
Jefferson (w/o specific invite)
Johns Hopkins
Mount Sinai (w/o specific invite)
Rochester
Saint Louis U.
Tulane
U. of Pittsburgh
UVa
U. of Washington
Wash U in St. Louis (w/o specific invite)

Promised but not yet received:
Keck (sent e-mail promising link)
Geo. Washington (sent e-mail promising secondary)

 

[SMW]

Moo, why are you not returning Jefferson's secondary?

 

[moo]

Originally posted by SMW:
•Moo, why are you not returning Jefferson's secondary?•

They require four letters of rec, one from biology, one from chemistry, one from physics, and one from humanities. I have one from biochem, one from physics, and two from mathematics. None from humanities.

 

[BlackPuma]

out of curiosity...

why are you named moo? 😀

everytime I say it I think of cows...moo moo 😀 sorry hope you didnt take it offensively....its a very cute name moo

u moo ve me so lol 😉

 

[sc]

I received the Southern Illinois secondary on Saturday.

 

[elle]

I already sent in the Jefferson secondary, but I thought that they accepted a committee letter? Oops. Maybe I had them confused with another school when I sent it in... I don't have letters from all those different subjects. 😱

 

[praying4MD]

Originally posted by elle:
•I already sent in the Jefferson secondary, but I thought that they accepted a committee letter? Oops. Maybe I had them confused with another school when I sent it in... I don't have letters from all those different subjects. 😱•

Uh oh. I did the exact same thing as you. 😕 I don't have letters from all those different fields either. Oh well, there's one rejection in the bag for me. 🙄

 

[pillbug]

Baylor (interview for Sept 7th)
Einstein
Rochester
Wash U
U Chicago Pritzker
Duke
Harvard
U Penn
UCSD
Northwestern
Mt. Sinai

 

[moo]

Originally posted by WatchaMaCallit:
•out of curiosity...

why are you named moo? 😀

everytime I say it I think of cows...moo moo 😀 sorry hope you didnt take it offensively....its a very cute name moo

u moo ve me so lol 😉•

I needed a nick and I LOVE milk so I just thought... hmmm... how bout "moo".

As for Jefferson, my school up here in Canada doesn't have a premed committee, but I think a committee letter will do fine.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Yea,
Jefferson requires that damn physics letter of rec. Luckily my roommate wasted his money last year on them and told me not to apply b/c I don't have a physics letter. He said he kept calling them but they wouldn't let him send ANYTHING else..HAD to be physics!

MOO: How are you applying with NO humanities letters? Almost every school I have applied to requires one. I am so glad I went back to one of my older profs and asked him for a letter 🙂 It has saved me.

 

[moo]

Originally posted by ScoobyDoo:
•Yea,
Jefferson requires that damn physics letter of rec. Luckily my roommate wasted his money last year on them and told me not to apply b/c I don't have a physics letter. He said he kept calling them but they wouldn't let him send ANYTHING else..HAD to be physics!

MOO: How are you applying with NO humanities letters? Almost every school I have applied to requires one. I am so glad I went back to one of my older profs and asked him for a letter 🙂 It has saved me.•

Schools usually ask for "non-science" letters. Mathematics at most schools is considered "non-science." (In fact, I look at math as an art, and not a science.) For instance, I've called Sinai and Harvard and they both say that math is acceptable as "non-science." Thus, unless a school asks specifically for a humanities letter, I will apply (if nothing else peeves me off about their school).

 

[elle]

So, does Jefferson require a physics letter only if you are not using a committee letter? This is so weird...

Is psychology a subject in the humanities?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Georgey]

I think psych is considered a behavioral/social science. Humanities are subjects like English, Art History, etc. Certain med schools may have a more relaxed definition of Humanities and take your psych rec. however. I think you'd have to ask them.

 

[SMW]

Jeff's application instructions ask for letters from profs in those 4 areas "if possible." I sent 3 out of the 4 and called it good enough. I'm looking for the 4th, but if I can't get it, I'll probably send them another letter from a doc I shadowed for a quarter. I think all the "requirements" should be taken with a grain of salt. A friend of mine got many, many interviews and eventually acceptance at 2 schools (Tulane and U. Dub) despite the fact that she did not have the "required" year of chemistry. And U. Dub is not making her take it (she's deferred for a year) before she matriculates.

 

[SMW]

Oh, and, Elle & praying4MD, they do take a committee letter. In fact that's their preference.

 

[SMW]

Just got Geo. Washington's secondary in the mail. No essays, just a couple of questions about 1) whether science or people will be more important in your medical future and 2) how you will decide where to go if you get multiple acceptances (!) (Like we're all giving that a LOT of thought right now). You get 5 lines to answer each.

 

[elle]

SMW: thanks for the information!

I'm still confused, though 😱 When you have a committee letter, does that just mean that the letter from the pre-med office at your school is sent out *along with* all the other letters of recommendation you have? Or is only one letter sent, that basically draws from the information from your recommendations?

 

[SMW]

Well, my school doesn't have a committee, but my understanding is that for schools that do one letter is sent that draws upon all the letters the committee has.

 

[grasshopper]

My school, which likes to go overboard with everything in order to have an excuse to charge lots of extra random little fees, both writes a committe letter and arranges a little packet thing containing all other letters. Apparenlty, this whole packet is sent out to all schools you apply to, regardless of how many the schools ask for. This concerns me. My very unhelpful advisor's only consolation is, "we're providing you a great service. " Nice to know.

 

[SMW]

That would concern me too, especially as some schools specifically say DO NOT SEND ADDITIONAL LETTERS. Maybe they just throw the little packet away? My school has what's called a confidential letter file. They keep all the letters on file, and I get to tell them which letters I want put into the packet for each school.

 

[BlackPuma]

SMW now which schools exactly said DONT SEND ANY ADDITIONAL....

cuz I did that we all of them I think 😉 there goes a couple of rejections...

 

[eeee]

ut southwestern by snail mail for 9/15
processed about a month ago

 

[SMW]

Originally posted by WatchaMaCallit:
•SMW now which schools exactly said DONT SEND ANY ADDITIONAL....

cuz I did that we all of them I think 😉 there goes a couple of rejections...•

Tulane only wants 3. They say "Additional letters are not necessary and are discouraged." Mount Sinai only wants 2. Keck urges you to think long and hard before sending more than the 2 they ask for.

 

[sng33]

The nature of a commitee letter is not simply one letter, but more accuratly described as a commitee packet. At my school, and at most schools in order for the commitee to make a fair assesment they usually require 5-7 outside reccomendations, and then they pick the best two or three and use them as support for thier reccomendation. The thing about a commitee letter that schools like is the fact that it is an unbiased assesment of your credentials and commitment compared to other pre-med students for that years applicants. Schools are well aware that within a commitee letter other specific reccomendations are included.

 

[spacecadet]

Secondaries:

Baylor (also had to send printed copy of my AMCAS app + MCAT scores)

Interviews:

UT Houston for 9/14 (just got the letter last night!)
TMDSAS sent out my application on 8/3.

Pam

 

[lamyers]

FYI,

USA just mailed secondaries yesterday, mine came today...finally!

 

[Mystique]

Alright, I just got an e-mail from Tennessee-Quillen saying that they've received my "verified" AMCAS application. They'll let me know in the next few days if they want supplemental info from me (they screen out-of-state).

Also, I got South Alabama's secondary in the mail today.

BTW, has anyone heard from Creighton or Finch??

 

[kafka79]

I just got an e-mail from Rochester requesting an interview. They don't provide a date. I'm just supposed to call in and schedule for an available slot on Mon, Thurs, or Fri. Interviews start Sept. 17th.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Actually,

I called MT. Sinai and they were extremely nice and urged me to send more than just 2 if I wanted to. They said the more strong recommendations you can send, the better it is for your file. Same with Yale..same with Washington Univ., and a couple others...all want more!
I have sent in a good amount to many of the schools... like 5 on average each..

 

[grasshopper]

I got the Rochester interview invite today also. May try to go 9/20. Anyone else?

 

[Chunk-ee]

Hi folks,

my secondaries so far have been, UMD, UVA, MCW, Duke, UPenn, JHU, GTown, GWashington, Mount Sinai, Albert Einstein, EVMS, Dartmouth, Yale, Baylor, Case Western.

I just got my first interview from G. Washington today 🙂. Yay! (I was getting worried)

good luck to all...

 

[md2be06]

Hey UVA premed, congrats on your George Washington interview! Is that your first choice? My file was complete a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything from them. Do you know when your file was complete? Also, if you don't mind sharing your approximates stats, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[SMW]

Apparently Columbia has started scheduling interviews.

 

[Chunk-ee]

ok, well, hmm... i go to a public school with an acronym strikingly similar to my alias 🙂 and have the following:

GPA: 3.9
MCAT: 11-11-11-R
Lots of extracurricular
No research!

I'd love to go to GW, but I'd also love going to just about any med school that takes me. At this point, I just want to get in somewhere, y'know?

Best of luck with your application!

 

[saffron]

ut houston...sept 7...snail mail 🙂