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Rochester is where I will most likely be headed in the Fall and I was wondering who my future classmates might be. Go Double Helix! :clap:
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I'll bump this up for you....the SDNer Michelys is going to Rochester too. :D Maybe she'll see this now...
 
Gracias, Foxy! Eres una muchacha con mucha energia y espiritu! Yo se porque he leido mucho de lo que has scrito (soy un "lurker" por mucho tiempo)!

Anyways, just wanted to show off (and hopefully accurately) my spanish skillz <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> Let me be the next, and not last person I'm sure, to congratulate you on your recent acceptance to Med School! Vas a ser un medico!! :clap:

JerBear
 
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I will be there for sure.....mailed my housing application weeks ago! Email me or something....it would be great to have some friends right from the get go! Double Helix Booyah!
 
Hey yall! Hey Jerbear! Thaaaaanks for buuuumpin' this one on up Dra. Foxy! AND CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN! I'm so thrilled for you :D ! But yep, Jerbear I'll be goin' to UR (WHOO HOO!) next year for sure...matter of fact as soon as I got accepted there I just stopped interviewing all together! LOL...I got all excited I guess! Anyways, feel free to email me too and EW you can too...take care you guys :p
 
BUUUMP! I mean is there nobody else?! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
 
Ew, and Michelys, check you private messages :D
 
So...I Interviewed at Rochester around march 28th...and I am in at another school already however I will be attending Rochester most definitely if I get in. I have a good feeling about this one too. I will be finding out next week I hear. So know that I could be one of your wild and crazy classmates next year. I will let everyone know what my status is as soon as I find out...that is if my fraternity brothers don't get to me first and take me out right away. Wish me luck!

Anthony :wink: :wink: :wink:
 
Hey Anthony--good luck! I heard about a month after my interview...which in your case should be coming up any day now! Keep those fingers crossed and your bible open!!! <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />
 
Hey have you guys all received your financial packages? how are they? i only sent mine last week. I took a long time to get stuff in. let me know, please... if you would.
 
What's up Quake :D ! Ehm, I sent that thing in like a LONG time ago and haven't heard anything! I mean I was done like the third week in March! Have any of you guys? I called and they said they were still figuring out the tuition and would have something about mid-May? :confused:
 
Michleys,
I think the schools are not being fair at all. They shd give us an opportunity to know the cost of attendance before the May 15th Deadline. However, i hear for some schools your letter has to be postmarked May 1st.
I guess I'll call the schools I'm considering next Monday to see what is up :)
Well, good luck to us all
 
Good luck to you, Dr P! :)

Quake, I got my financial aid package just today actually; i got two scholarships from Rochester (one of which was quite generous) but mostly loans (Perkins and Stafford). Overall, I'm satisfied... the packages from my SUNYs had zero scholarships, all loans. My parents won't have to pay a dime, which is exactly how I wanted it :clap:
 
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Thanks Jerbear. My eyes shall be glued to my mailbox this week.
Cheers. Congratulations! We might be classmates depending on the extent of Rochester's generosity to me :D
 
Hello everyone!
I'm not one hundred percent certain I will be attending Rochester next year, but I am accepted, and I absolutely loved the school when I interviewed there. I'm currently waiting to hear whether or not I got into my state school and I'm also waiting on my financial aid packet from Rochester.
I just wanted to introduce myself since I might be a member of Rochester class of 2006!
 
Welcome to SDN Kristy! :clap: Good luck on hearing from your state school too! Did they tell you when about we should be getting our financial aid stuff? :confused:
 
The brochure that I was given during my interview said that if we had our financial aid applications complete by April 15 we should hear from them by May 1. So hopefully we will all hear something soon!
 
Has anyone gotten off the waitlist or were you all accepted outright?
 
:D ...lmm I got in without being on a waitlist--they got back to me a month after my interview on Jan. 18th--so I heard about exactly mid-February :)
 
A hearty welcome, Kristy :wink: I'm still not 100% sure I'll end up at Rochester (depends on waitlist movement)... it's about 90% right now.

To Imm: good luck! I was lucky enough to be accepted straight.

I hope your financial aid package comes soon, Michelys!
 
Hey, I'm going back to look at the school once more tomorrow...i got my financial aid this week as well and it wasn't what I hoped for...now i have to decide between a nice deal at Upstate or lots o' loans at Rochester...I'm pretty set on Rochester regardless because I love it...and it's cool to hear others are in the same boat of having to make the same kind of decision. Good luck to you all, BingGirl
 
Hey everybody! Hope your weekends are off to a decent start with finals coming! Boo! Anyways, I didn't forget so I'm letting you know (especially quake :) !) I got my 'financial aid' (read: <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> indebtedness! j/k!!! it's worth it right!) today--my mom called and told me. Lots of loans of course, but I'm used to it coming from UM :p :D ! LOL...good luck on hearing from them--it should come soon!
 
I also received my financial aid packet in the mail today. I was really impressed with how fast they got back to me, I finished filling out my need access application on April 10 and the letter I got today is dated April 19! Mine is also lots of loans, subsidized and unsubsidized, and also a scholarship! I do have a question..does anyone know what the Federal Perkins loan is?
 
I might be a member of the Rochester class of 2006....either Rochester or SUNY Stony Brook, still can?t decide! Rochester is a great school, although I?m not too thrilled about the area and think I might not like the amount of group study (I learn best individually). We?ll see though!
 
Hey Kristy...ehm, I got a few Perkins loans as an undergrad...here they're usually reserved after you're given Stafford loans. But I think they're mostly need-based loans. The Princeton Review book says you're allowed to aggregate $30,000 with those...including the ones you may have taken out for undergrad :) .
 
Wow, this forum really exploded and I missed it somehow. It's great to see that there are so many cool people going to Rochester. I have an idea.....let's get a list going so we know how many of us there are....I'll start...

SDN handle/real name/where living @ roch/where from

ew1779/emmett/goler (prolly)/buffalo, ny

make it cumulative so we have a working list! by the way, i got my FA package like a week ago....very generous, it sealed the deal for me!! it really seems that orientation is right around the corner...

ps....jerbear, i never got your PM
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by EW1779:
•I have an idea.....let's get a list going so we know how many of us there are....I'll start...

SDN handle/real name/where living @ roch/where from•••••EW you crack me up! :D How have you been doing?

ew1779/emmett/goler (prolly)/buffalo, ny

Michelys/Illena/Henrietta(10 minutes away from Strong...it's the suburbs :) )/Orlando/Miami FL
 
For those of you choosing Rochester, are you mostly from the western ny area (buffalo, rochester, etc)? Are you concerned at all about the PBL and the amount of group study?
 
So I went back for another visit on Friday and i'm defintly going to Rochester next year. Admissions arranged for me to meet with some students and some doctors. Dr. Ruth Lawerence was the coolest person i met. She does clinical toxicology and neonatology...graduated from Medical School at Rochester in 1949 before the field of Neonatology existed...she got into the fields because as a woman physician back then, noone else wanted to work with the babies or with poison control so she got the assignments...says they go well together now because a lot of people wonder about how different meds will be transmitted to babies during lactation and she has the answers. Her husband and daughter are also physicians at Strong. Anyhow, she was so great to talk to and many of the students I spoke to said she was a great mentor for them. Over 50 years under her belt at Strong...now that's a resource...look out for her! One big message I got was that the money students pay for school comes right back to them with all that they get between networking resources, advising, facilities, and events...for those of you from the warmer southern climates...the parking lot students park in is 5-7 minute walk to shelter so be prepared for that in the winter! BingGirl
 
ew1779/emmett/goler (prolly)/buffalo, ny

Michelys/Illena/Henrietta(10 minutes away from Strong...it's the suburbs )/Orlando/Miami FL

BingGirl/Michelle/University Park or Goler/ Schenectady, NY (near Albany)
 
hey bing girl! I'm from Guilderland, and I graduated from bing last may! I'm a predent though :rolleyes:
 
Hey BingGirl...welcome to SDN and congrats on coming to Rochester :D ...you made it! Anyways, I had Dr. Lawrence for my interview!!!! I kept on thinking that I had never seen so many breast-feeding books in my life! My fave was "Breast is Best"...I just couldn't help being amused <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> !
 
...hey you guys...aren't we the class of 2007?! :confused:
 
It's awesome how this thread is just growing and growing! I'm gettin all excited thinking about meeting all of you and wondering about housing.

EW, I basically PMed you and Michelys asking if you use IM. My AIM is "Rocketchao."

Here's everyone's info (adding Vixen, albeit incompletely) and adding my own:

1) ew1779/emmett/goler (prolly)/buffalo, ny

2) Michelys/Illena/Henrietta(10 minutes away from Strong...it's the suburbs )/Orlando/Miami FL

3) BingGirl/Michelle/University Park or Goler/ Schenectady, NY (near Albany)

4) Vixen/?/?/Guilderland, ?

5) JerBear/Jerry (big surprise there)/goler (most likely)/New York, NY (Flushing, Queens)

BingGirl and Michelys, Dr. Lawrence sounds really cool. She reminds me of one of my interviewers, Dr. Manning, who has retired but volunteers his time to the Admissions Committee as an interviewer, if I remember correctly. On second thought, he might still be intimately involved in Admissions, I don't remember for sure. Anyway, he started the Pediatric Cardiology unit at Rochester! We talked about everthing from his the time he spent in China during his youth (cause his dad was a businessman) to baseball and the Yankees! Did anyone speak with Dr. Kaufman? He actually teaches some of the first year PBL lectures... such a nice man.

About PBL and group work, judging by how well Rochester students do on the boards (which is very well, if I remember correctly), I think even for the most independent of studiers, the Rochester system works. Maybe there'll be an adjustment period but there's no doubt that PBL works... it's the most intuitive way to learn too. In the future, we'll be gathering information about new diseases longitudinally, not in discrete units like genetics, systems, etc. So I guess I'm not too worried about PBL even though I've definitely been more of an independent learner historically.

Anyway, let's get a big chat going sometime! Talk to you all later.

And Vixen, check out my new signature <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />
 
1) ew1779/emmett/goler (prolly)/buffalo, ny

2) Michelys/Illena/Henrietta(10 minutes away from Strong...it's the suburbs )/Orlando/Miami FL

3) BingGirl/Michelle/University Park or Goler/ Schenectady, NY (near Albany)

4) Vixen/?/?/Guilderland, ?

5) JerBear/Jerry (big surprise there)/goler (most likely)/New York, NY (Flushing, Queens)

6) Kristy/Kristy :) /I think either University Park or Goler, will send in my housing application tomorrow/Colorado Springs, CO but go to school in Missouri
 
Is anyone going to be living with a roommate next year in Goler House? How would we go about finding a roommate?
 
sorry for ruining you fun guys, I don't know if you read my post, but I'm a PREDENTAL STUDENT! Sorry! :)

I posted cause binggirl is from albany and went to bing (Just like me!) :)
 
I'm not absolutly positive about finding a roommate but i think the way it works is you request a 2 person in goler and then when you get it, you find your own roommate and the identify them to the school...that wasn't too clear from the info though. Gina is in charge of the graduate housing and she is really helpful to talk to, her number is 585-275-5824 if you wanted some definite clarification. Also, Goler is really really tough to get into because not many people will be leaving...that is from her mouth. Let us know if you figure it out, binggirl
 
HEY kids.....

before i go any further, i will give my AIM name...

DrEmmett

i know i am going to get heckled for that one....

anyways, we should definitely try to get a chat going oen time if everyone has AIM. i am going to throw you guys on my buddy list if you post your names, and maybe we can chat. i am kinda upset to hear that goler is hard to get into....i don't know what i will do if i don't get a place there...but on the bright side, i have a friend who is a grad student and she has never had trouble getting a 1 BR in goler, so we shall see.we will all have to get to talking and then go out for a beer orientation week or something....

talk soon

~e
 
Hey everybody...hope your finals are going fine. I'm writing a 20 pg paper on human papillomavirus and oncogenes <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> ...UUUUUUUUUGH! So Jerry, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you from the PM's! I'm swamped! Pray for me! <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" />

Anyways, I have yet to turn in my housing thing. See at first I thought I would live with my aunt and uncle in Henrietta but I have no car so I think I'll have to work all summer for some jalopy at least! Decisions decisions...what would you guys do in my situation?!

I really want to stay with them since it's close and if I have a heart attack after classes my family is there...and I need a car anyways for our preceptorships!
 
Michelys, i don't think i'd get much work done if i had family there to hang out with but i have friends that live with their families but just in like the basement or over a garage so it is almost like having own place...if i had to share a room with my little cousins, i'd have to consider telling my aunt and uncle thanks but no thanks! ...not sure if you are going to be "renting" space from them but if it is cheaper than getting your own place and you think you'll be able to study..i say go for it and spend the money you save on some wheels...like you said, you'll need them anyhow for preceptors...

to everyone, my IM is I3ingGirl ...hence the SDN name. i agree with EW..we should all chat soon...and for those of us hoping for a place in Goler...let's hope we get in because the place is SOOO close and CHEAP;)! , BingGirl
 
HEY EVERYONE .... I JUST FOUND OUT YESTERDAY...

I GOT IN!!!! I WOULD HAVE LET EVERYONE KNOW SOONER BUT I WENT OUT TO THE PUB WITH THE GUYS LAST NIGHT AND ENDED UP GETTING INTO A HUGE GAME OF GOLDEN TEE ... and Didn't get back in till late.... so anyways... whew! I'm sober now (I think) and very excited to be going...ummmm what else... my parents are looking into maybe getting a place in the white coat ghetto for me...like an actual townhouse... well they are trying which would mean there would be space for two more students to rent in I'm guessing...I dunno we'll see how the chips fall but I will be dealing with this whole mess pretty soon. So I'll keep everyone posted. I'm going to the Kentucky Derby this whole weekend with some of my fraternity brothers so I probably won't know for another two weeks about housing -- at which point I'll probably have to skip out on some more school to go up and check out some places in Rochester. Speaking of which ... in your guys acceptance letters -- was there that whole "contigent upon satisfactory completion of your classes" clause? just wondering if they were giving only me a hard time cause I don't graduate from the Univ. of Chicago till June :( - the whole small envelope thing freaked me out. Alright sorry for the long e-mail I'm just excited that I'll be in rochester next year. :cool: :cool: :cool:

Oh yeah, here's my info:

Doctor P /Anthony /in Rochester ??? /RiverVale,NJ
 
:clap: :clap: Congratulaaaaations Anthony!!! :clap: :clap:

Oh, and yup, I just looked on my dorm door and there is a clause like that...it should go:

"Dear Anthony:

I am delighted to tell you that you have been accepted for admission to the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry for the fall term of 2002. This letter of admission is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of any remaining academic work...blah blah blah <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> Sincerely, John T. Hansen Ph.D.

:D Congratulations again! :D
 
Thanks....I'm sure we'll be hanging out during orientation week...that should be fun...

lata

ant :D
 
Hi Kristy and congrats, Anthony!!

Yeah, I still need to turn in the housing forms... the Goler situation sounds like a bummer; guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. At worst, we'll live a little farther away and have to wade our way through some snow on the way to classes in the morning! <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> Anthony, if you end up finding a nice place and the housing at Goler doesn't work out for me, I'd definitely be interested in maybe sharing a place!

Good luck with all your work, Ilena... sounds like a pain in the butt. Don't worry, I'll keep a prayer for ya :D
 
lil help with the AIM names guys.....

BingGirl and I have been chatting and it's great! we gotta get a little SDN chat deal going before orientation!!!
 
Emmett!! Illena, Michelle (who, by the way, we must all call Shell b/c that's the way she likes it :) ) and I had a big chat last night. We missed you, man! We waited for you to come online but, alas, you did not. Are you gonna be online tomorrow?

How bout you guys, Kristy and Anthony? Here are our IMs in no particular order, please add us and join in on the fun!:

Shell: I3ingGirl
Illena: Illena007
Emmett: DrEmmett
Jerry: Rocketchao
 
Hello everyone! I just heard from my state school, I am officially rejected, so that makes my decision much easier! :) Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I will most likely be at Rochester next year. I'm really excited to get to know all of you! My AIM screen name is kristy355
 
Hey guys ... sorry won't be able to chat much this weekend...I'm going to the Kentucky Derby with a bunch of my fraternity brothers and we won't be back until Sun morning at which point I must prepare for my honors thesis presentation on Tuesday... my aim name is

DrItalia3 --- ithink this is it....haven't used it much.

have a good weekend guys

ciao, :wink:
Anthony
 
Please let me know if you guys need anything, especially information. As a member of the class of 2004, I'd be happy to help.

Ed
 
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