PCOM Discussion thread 2008-2009

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I'm not sure when I was complete exactly, but I think it was probably late Oct...and still havent heard anything from them. :scared: I wonder if they have even gotten to my app...who knows.
 
whateva07 said:
I'm not sure when I was complete exactly, but I think it was probably late Oct...and still havent heard anything from them. :scared: I wonder if they have even gotten to my app...who knows.
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I'm having the same dilemma...when I call ask about my status, they just tell me I'm complete. No word yet on whether or not I've even been reviewed.

brucecanbeatyou said:
PCOM is a great school, but is just not my great school. I don't think I'm going... It's really sad to turn down that "YES!"
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I'll take that acceptance off your hands, no prob.
 
brucecanbeatyou said:
PCOM is a great school, but is just not my great school. I don't think I'm going... It's really sad to turn down that "YES!"
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I hear ya there. I'm still deciding what to do. PCOM is amazing but I already live 3 min away from LECOM. Ahhh I don't know what to do! :scared:

Haha sorry about that I just had to get it out
 
I sent in my secondary application in mid-Oct. but I still haven't heard anything.
 
I was complete Oct. 7th, and still no word on an interview. Worst part about it, I have to let LECOM know what I'm doing by Dec. 15th. There's no way I will know if I'm accepted to PCOM by then, so it looks like I'm just going to pay the $1500 deposit to LECOM. PCOM is my #1 choice, so if I get accepted after this date, then I've decided that it's worth it to lose the $1500 to be happier at my top choice. It'd would be really nice though to use this money to go to the Rose Bowl and see Penn State whoop the Pac-10 team.
 
DrMaz said:
I was complete Oct. 7th, and still no word on an interview. Worst part about it, I have to let LECOM know what I'm doing by Dec. 15th. There's no way I will know if I'm accepted to PCOM by then, so it looks like I'm just going to pay the $1500 deposit to LECOM. PCOM is my #1 choice, so if I get accepted after this date, then I've decided that it's worth it to lose the $1500 to be happier at my top choice. It'd would be really nice though to use this money to go to the Rose Bowl and see Penn State whoop the Pac-10 team.
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big ten gets pounded on every year...wont even be close.!haha, maybe if it was oregon st, but not sc.
 
DrMaz said:
I was complete Oct. 7th, and still no word on an interview. Worst part about it, I have to let LECOM know what I'm doing by Dec. 15th. There's no way I will know if I'm accepted to PCOM by then, so it looks like I'm just going to pay the $1500 deposit to LECOM. PCOM is my #1 choice, so if I get accepted after this date, then I've decided that it's worth it to lose the $1500 to be happier at my top choice. It'd would be really nice though to use this money to go to the Rose Bowl and see Penn State whoop the Pac-10 team.
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Yeah I just sent off the 1500$ to LECOM. Like you said, its worth it for the promise of going to med school in august.

beachblonde said:
I'll take that acceptance off your hands, no prob.
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I want that acceptance. Step in my way and I will take you down :diebanana:
 
lol..don't worry i'm sure there will be positive movement after people turn down Dec 15th deposits..
 
beachblonde said:
I will fight you for it.

PCOM is worth that to me.
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Bring it on.


Warning though... I bite

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Ack. Still waiting for an interview. It's so funny how people with similar stats as mine have the exact opposite results from schools!!!! (Rejections where I am accepted and Accepted where I am rejected...)

This process is CRAZY.
 
Man this is taking forever. I submitted Sept 26th and called in early october to see if my application was complete and was told they couldn't give me that information til they actually looked at my application. So I waited for a few more weeks and in early november I called again and was told the same thing. Then I called again two weeks ago and was told that a recommendation was missing. I totally missed that they needed a letter from my undergraduate institution even though I got my post-bacc certificate from another institution. I just wish they had let me know a letter was missing. I had no idea. I'm so nervous that I am really behind now. This is really frustrating.
 
I found a picture of some PCOM students the other day.

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I emailed the two on top. They told me they wished they'd gone to NSU.
 
So I called a number of weeks ago, wanting to make sure that I was good to go as far as submitting all my application material and was told they would get back to me in a week.

A couple of weeks went by with nothing and just got an email today that they are missing a letter from the Dean of my school or counselor. My question is that I'm just taking my pre-req courses and have never really met my "counselor."

What letter do they want?? A recommendation from a counselor or Dean I've never met??
 
Bacchus said:
I was talking to a 2nd year there last year that withdrew from LECOM before paying the deposit... she eventually got into PCOM. Daring.
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That's ballsy. :scared:

I'm just going to have to eat my $950 NSU deposit if I go elsewhere. Eh, I've already dropped $7,000 on med school apps, what's another grand in the scheme of things?

RLTW75 said:
So I called a number of weeks ago, wanting to make sure that I was good to go as far as submitting all my application material and was told they would get back to me in a week.

A couple of weeks went by with nothing and just got an email today that they are missing a letter from the Dean of my school or counselor. My question is that I'm just taking my pre-req courses and have never really met my "counselor."

What letter do they want?? A recommendation from a counselor or Dean I've never met??
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Get a dean's letter from your college. You should be able to request them either through the registrar or the dean of students office. Mine basically says "beachblonde attended our school, was in good standing, and graduated" but it fulfills the PCOM requirement.
 
I feel your pain when you express your concern over the process and the lack of communication and timely responses from offices of admission. All I can say is try to be patient and verify every application/file is actually complete for your own sanity. Today I called PCOM and they were very pleasant and professional, considering the onslaught of phone calls and emails that they must be enduring. The admissions associate began her response with stating that my file was in fact complete, but that she noticed that I did not have a letter or recommendation from a D.O. and that they strongly recommend that. Come to find out, they somehow marked my file as complete without any of my letters of recommendation included in the file. I utilized an electronic transmission of all my letters via Interfolio and they received them in October. Thank goodness that I called to inquire and straightened out that mess. Now I wonder how many times they have looked over my file only to pass it by due to my letters not being included from an electronic file to my application file!!!!!!
 
So....anyone get post-secondary rejected yet?

The silence is killing me. I officially got the axe from CCOM the other day (I wouldn't have gone anyways) but I'm hoping that it's not indicative of my chances with PCOM.

And, ILikeFood, it's not that cold in Philly. :laugh: Weather.com has it in the mid to high 40's this week. Now, Chicago, that place is cold. And windy. Brrrr.
 
RLTW75 said:
So I called a number of weeks ago, wanting to make sure that I was good to go as far as submitting all my application material and was told they would get back to me in a week.

A couple of weeks went by with nothing and just got an email today that they are missing a letter from the Dean of my school or counselor. My question is that I'm just taking my pre-req courses and have never really met my "counselor."

What letter do they want?? A recommendation from a counselor or Dean I've never met??
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I never had a letter from counselor or dean. I used my research professor's letter of recommendation as my advisor's letter because he indeed is responsible for advising my career path at college. And PCOM never really asked me why I used this letter as my advisor's letter. However, I do know that my research professor specifically wrote in the LOR that he was my advisor throughout my college year. I would recommend that you ask a professor, who knows you really well and gave you valuable advice in college, to write you a letter of recommendation specifying that he had been your advisor or responsible for advising you throughout college. I believe that should be sufficient because it ain't an issue for me.
 
I'm thinking about buying a new laptop for medical school, and am seriously considering a Mac. Is Mac compatible at PCOM? And for those of you med students, would you recommend a Mac or Tablet PC?
 
beachblonde said:
So....anyone get post-secondary rejected yet?

The silence is killing me. I officially got the axe from CCOM the other day (I wouldn't have gone anyways) but I'm hoping that it's not indicative of my chances with PCOM.

And, ILikeFood, it's not that cold in Philly. :laugh: Weather.com has it in the mid to high 40's this week. Now, Chicago, that place is cold. And windy. Brrrr.
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Alright now, I got rejected from CCOM too, but I think Chicago rocks, and I'm not gonna sit here and let you talk about its weather like that....
J/k!!

but come on, is it REALLY that much colder in Chicago? And if it is, it must be cooler in the summer. Philly summer's are tough. I mean I've had more than a dozen of them, and they don't get any better. Hot hot hot.

Chicago, I'll see you for the 2016 Olympics; but Philly, thanks for showing me the L-O-V-E. P.C.O.M. all the way: was my #1 choice and glad they chose me. I hope you hear from them sooner than later. :xf:👍
 
DrMaz said:
I'm thinking about buying a new laptop for medical school, and am seriously considering a Mac. Is Mac compatible at PCOM? And for those of you med students, would you recommend a Mac or Tablet PC?
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DUDE! Get this straight; the UNIVERSE is Mac compatible. PCOM has Dell's or gateways, I can't remember, but both are terrible terrible pieces of equipment in any event (no reflection on PCOM, I understand the whole "PC" sponsorship thing). But wait like me until Spring or summer to buy a nice new macbook, and then use Parallel or whatever its called to run windows and os x without having to even reboot. It's a PC emulator software, just released a new edition, and it's fast I hear. But hands down Mac's are vastly superior machines. I am still on my 17" Powerbook I bought almost 5 years ago, never had it serviced, and it's still fast even will all the new software it has to contend with (and no memory upgrade).

Whoosh...
:meanie:

And if I don't need the emulator, I won't even bother with it, to be honest. There may be some imaging software that I'll need it for but I doubt it.
 
I called to see if my DO letter was in my file, and they told me that although I sent it through my credentials service, they "prefer" to have the DO send it by his/herself. And hence, it somehow has not made its way into my file. Where on earth does it say that regular LORs can come electronically, yet physician LORs need to be submitted via mail?

Gah! People talk crap about NSU's admissions office, but seriously, PCOM makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes.

And the wind in Chicago is awful, just awful. And I can't imagine that Philly summers are any worse that VA. Mmmm, humidity.
 
signing off on the PCOM forum. I'm headed to SOMA - I hereby bequeath my acceptance to the winner of a cage match between beachblonde and engineeredout
 
DrMaz said:
I'm thinking about buying a new laptop for medical school, and am seriously considering a Mac. Is Mac compatible at PCOM? And for those of you med students, would you recommend a Mac or Tablet PC?
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Mac is compatible at PCOM. Most of the students in my class have a mac actually. Although tablets are cool, it is unnecessary for school. I think there is only 1 guy out of the 271 of us that have a tablet.
 
beachblonde said:
I called to see if my DO letter was in my file, and they told me that although I sent it through my credentials service, they "prefer" to have the DO send it by his/herself. And hence, it somehow has not made its way into my file. Where on earth does it say that regular LORs can come electronically, yet physician LORs need to be submitted via mail?

Gah! People talk crap about NSU's admissions office, but seriously, PCOM makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes.

And the wind in Chicago is awful, just awful. And I can't imagine that Philly summers are any worse that VA. Mmmm, humidity.
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I don't know who you talked to but that is not true. I sent my DO letter through Interfolio and they had no problem accessing it. I don't know why but people in the admissions office tell you different things when you ask the same question. It happened to me. One woman said I wasn't complete back in october and then I called a couple weeks later and it turns out I had been complete for like three weeks.
 
tallgal0523 said:
I don't know who you talked to but that is not true. I sent my DO letter through Interfolio and they had no problem accessing it. I don't know why but people in the admissions office tell you different things when you ask the same question. It happened to me. One woman said I wasn't complete back in october and then I called a couple weeks later and it turns out I had been complete for like three weeks.
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It's frustrating, isn't it?

I have yet to get word on what date I was complete. My LORs were sent months ago, yet for whatever reason only a few of them have made it to my file. Nevermind that they were sent electronically in one packet.

I'll guess I'll call back in a few days and see what other fun stuff they can tell me. I really got a kick out of the "oh, we poo-poo on using Interfolio for DO letters."
 
Be careful what you assume to be true. I have found one COM that does not have compatibility to Mac.
 
So I got accepted to LECOM (yay!) but a 1500 Non refun dep is due the 23rd (BOO). Anyway, I interviewed at PCOM on the 1st, and I was wondering what the chances are of knowing SOMETHING before I have to mail that stupid deposit.

I tried looking over this forum, but it seems that most people had their interviews later on in the month. And I know they meet once a month, but I can't imagine they wouldn't meet before christmastime, and get that batch out of the way before break.

What are your thoughts?
 
They know they might lose excellent applicants if they don't get the decision out. I'd wait until Monday of next week and give the office a call to see if they'll release decisions soon enough for you to make a choice.
 
khen7513 said:
So I got accepted to LECOM (yay!) but a 1500 Non refun dep is due the 23rd (BOO). Anyway, I interviewed at PCOM on the 1st, and I was wondering what the chances are of knowing SOMETHING before I have to mail that stupid deposit.

I tried looking over this forum, but it seems that most people had their interviews later on in the month. And I know they meet once a month, but I can't imagine they wouldn't meet before christmastime, and get that batch out of the way before break.

What are your thoughts?
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There's no way you can find out their decision on your acceptance because you just have to wait for the admission committee to meet. However, I haven't heard any post-interview rejection either in this thread or in the rejection thread thus far. I only give myself an 8 out of 10 for my performance at the interview and still received an acceptance. I remember the admission dean was telling us that they are only interviewing twice a week (with 5 to 6 people per day). So they will try not to reject anyone because the interviewing process is time-consuming and rejecting interviewees is highly cost-inefficient. So unless you perform extremely poorly at the interview, I think your chance of an acceptance is high for anyone interview before Dec 15th.
 
For those of you going to the accepted student lunch tomorrow, are you guys dressing up? Like are the guys wearing slacks and a button up, or a suit?
 
To those who have interviewed, how long after you were complete did it take for you to get an invite?
 
I'm a girl and I'm not dressing up. pants and a long sleeve sweater. I figured I can't go wrong with that. I dont think a suit is necessary though.

phillybum said:
For those of you going to the accepted student lunch tomorrow, are you guys dressing up? Like are the guys wearing slacks and a button up, or a suit?
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phillybum said:
For those of you going to the accepted student lunch tomorrow, are you guys dressing up? Like are the guys wearing slacks and a button up, or a suit?
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This has been discussed on the FB group that you obviously haven't been following. I emailed admissions and rarely does somewhere wear interview attire. That said, I'm wearing a sweater with button up underneath and khakis.
 
So I found out that my DO didn't write me a LOR because of a misunderstanding. I am complete aside from that letter. I know that I don't have the greatest MCAT but will I be considered without that LOR?
 
mcp5016 said:
So I found out that my DO didn't write me a LOR because of a misunderstanding. I am complete aside from that letter. I know that I don't have the greatest MCAT but will I be considered without that LOR?
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hmm if you were to call PCOM I bet they would tell you that you won't be considered complete without the LOR. I can't say for sure though. LECOM interviewed me w/o one but they said it was b/c it was early in the interviewing process and a lot of people didn't have everything in. Now that it is December, I wouldn't count on something like that from PCOM. Just get it in ASAP and good luck!



-I was looking at the list of PCOM's affiliated hospitals and only saw one in Pitt (Shadyside) UPMC-Horizon is NOT in the city. Are there any more that I missed? I was hoping for more, but maybe electives can give me my Pittsburgh fix?
 
I just got my interview invite (5 minutes ago haha) with PCOM for late January. I'm really nervous because I honestly wasn't expecting this, even though PCOM is my first choice. I'm excited nonetheless because I've been able to visit the school and really enjoyed it.

Do most students who interview get accepted? And since I have over a month before the interview, is there anything I can do to prepare?

Congrats to all who have been accepted!
 
Woooooo! I got an interview invite for late January! Finally now I know some info as to what's going on with my status. Now I just need to patiently wait some more.
 
rugger14 said:
hmm if you were to call PCOM I bet they would tell you that you won't be considered complete without the LOR. I can't say for sure though. LECOM interviewed me w/o one but they said it was b/c it was early in the interviewing process and a lot of people didn't have everything in. Now that it is December, I wouldn't count on something like that from PCOM. Just get it in ASAP and good luck!



-I was looking at the list of PCOM's affiliated hospitals and only saw one in Pitt (Shadyside) UPMC-Horizon is NOT in the city. Are there any more that I missed? I was hoping for more, but maybe electives can give me my Pittsburgh fix?
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There is a massive amount of elective time for you to get your PCOM fix, both third and fourth year.
 
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