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PCOM-GA Discussion Thread 2011-2012
Started by ShyRem
Congrats! 🙂 It's a good feeling. Join the FB group.
Hopefully this is the first of many SDN'ers who will get acceptances.
Sorry to hear that. I think we're all beating ourselves up over applying late in the cycle...Why must we torture ourselves so when it's already stressful enough? Never again! Keep your spirits up! 😀
Anybody not heard ANYTHING (delay, waitlist, acceptance, rejection)?
I'm wondering if I fell through the cracks after my interview.
I'm wondering if I fell through the cracks after my interview.
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As far as I know, the school does not offer any kind of aid until you've been accepted and fill out the financial aid application. The application consists of FAFSA, PCOM's own application form and a signed copy of your parents' tax return or your own signed tax return (if you're trying to apply for PCOM institutional aid as an independent).
What about scholarships?
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To my knowledge, no institutional scholarships/grants are offered until you follow the financial aid application process I mentioned above.
Don't get your hopes up about scholarships. They don't have much, if you qualify, ppl only get about $3000-5000.
Yeah, it's not a lot but I definitely can't complain. Between the scholarship PCOM just gave me and and an outside scholarship I have, that's about $11,000 I don't have to borrow for my 2nd year 🙂
Thank you. Now I know (from you) that they have offered some form of scholarship in the past.
They do, you just have to demonstrate financial need. PCOM has a few merit-based scholarships but they tend to be for upperclassmen or are offered only to students of the Philadelphia campus. I don't completely agree with their policies for applying/demonstrating need but, with aid as limited as it is, there has to be some method of determining who needs the money the most.
Really upset about this because my fiancé is a first year in the PharmD program and we just got an apartment.
I'm going to apply for the boomed program but I hope I'm not too late. It took them so long to tell me if I was accepted or rejected I'm afraid I may be too late for the biomes program.
I'm going to apply for the boomed program but I hope I'm not too late. It took them so long to tell me if I was accepted or rejected I'm afraid I may be too late for the biomes program.
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What is her email
I've been placed on the alternate list as well. Received the mailed letter last night, but no email. I didn't even know there was going to be an email, and it's now a bit too late to ask for it to be resent. lol. Do you mind either posting or PMing the contents of the email?
Means the same thing
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The email did not say anything but had an attached form that you had to return in order to confirm that you wanted to be on the waitlist. You had to fill it out with your contact info- I am pretty sure that it was the same form sent out with the mailed letter but if you didn't get it here is what the form said:
"Return the enclosed response form indicating your intention to remain on the alternate
list. Be sure to provide us with an address and telephone number(s) where we may
contact you during the next few weeks. If you plan to be on vacation do not hesitate to
call to give us any updated information.
Please be advised that if you are selected from the Alternate list, you will be required
to remit $1750 as a deposit to hold your seat in the class.
We are hopeful that we will have a place for you in the Class of 2016 and appreciate
your continued interest in Georgia Campus - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine and in the osteopathic profession.
Very truly yours,
Walter Ehrenfeuchter, D.O.
Chairman
Faculty Committee on Admissions
Enclosed: Alternate List Intention Letter
Alternate List Intention Letter
By returning this letter by April 23 , 2012, you are indicating your intention to remain
on the Alternate List for Admission to Georgia Campus Philadelphia College of
Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2016.
Name: _______________________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________
City & State: __________________________________________________
Phone: (Home) _____________________ (Cell) _____________________
Email: ________________________________________________________
Alternate Contact:
Name: ________________________________________________________
Phone: (Home) _____________________ (Cell) _____________________
Please Return to:
[email protected]"
Thanks for that. I wonder why most of us didn't get the email. I frequently check my spam just in the case and have not had anything form PCOM. The return date listed is different from the mailed letter I received (Apr.30th)...wonder if that means something...hmm...
No problem, she told me to ignore the return date because I didn't receive the form till much later, I have a feeling this is a generic format and the date doesn't really mean anything.
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I got my acceptance today!!!! 😍😍😍
Hey when did you interview? Congrats by the way! 👍
I interviewed early March, and my wait list letter was sent out April 23rd.
I looked through the older threads, and it says it is a ranked wait list system. Makes sense.
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Thank you! This was my #1 choice so I am so relieved and happy. I interviewed March 23rd.
Iwas placed on wait list as well on the 20th. Spoke with trena today, people who've been accepted have to make their deposits again tomorrow. So by friday more people from waitlists will be pulled in to acceptances. I m thinking their cycle is ever 15 days. Because apr 15 was tge day the previous accwpted peoples deposit was due. Hmmmmm.... Keep waiting/praying I was placed on hold, then waitlisted, hopefully acceptance is the next step ?!?!
More good to know news! Guess the mad dash to the mailbox recommences this weekend! 😀
Hahahah!!! hey hey! I missed talking to you lol... I know no news= good news. But yea, I would call and check on my status next Monday, hopefully they will have more insight then?! Just hope you are not out of the waitlist a week before classes. I will not be a happy camper then!
No news here.
Do you know if Nucleus still says how many seats have been filled? I know in an older thread, someone said you could check that, but I do not have access. It would be interesting to check.
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AHHHHH just got a call from Trena today! I was accepted off the waitlist! I'm beyond excited!!! To all of you waitlisters out there...there is still hope! 🙂
Huge Congrats! 🙂
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does anyone know when classes/ orientation starts and how large the class is?
awesome!! Thank you! haha i'm glad i'm not the only one who's just figuring this stuff out....whoops
Oh, I've been accepted since December. If you have any other questions I'll try to answer them!
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