Should I?

[Lorko]

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Hi guys. I have a couple questions on whether or not these things are worth sending in an update for:

I realized that I left off some clinical related volunteering from my primary application by accident. I did around 50 hours of volunteering at an AIDS clinic where we would go into poor neighborhoods and try to get people to take HIV tests and educate about safe sex. Is this something I could submit by update, or is it too late for that? This would be the only clinical volunteer experience on my application.

I am starting some research with a physician I work with. The project hasn't started yet but I'm wondering if I should include an update describing what I will be doing. This would be my only research on my application.

I work as an OR RN and I started after I applied. Would sending in a LOR from one of the head physicians I work for be a good idea?

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

Yes to all.

I'm a nurse also, I put everything I could on my app. And I had a LOR from the VP Doc at my hospital (he moonlighted in the ER and i met him there). No idea if it had anything to do with me getting in, but a well known name is a well known name... So get a letter from one, two, or three of the attendings. I had 8 LORs 😕.

good luck.

p.s. my wife is an OR RN, you guys develop a relationship with attending docs that most people do not. Exploit that to your advantage.

 

[Lorko]

Yes to all.

I'm a nurse also, I put everything I could on my app. And I had a LOR from the VP Doc at my hospital (he moonlighted in the ER and i met him there). No idea if it had anything to do with me getting in, but a well known name is a well known name... So get a letter from one, two, or three of the attendings. I had 8 LORs 😕.

good luck.

p.s. my wife is an OR RN, you guys develop a relationship with attending docs that most people do not. Exploit that to your advantage.

Hi Nick, nice to meet a fellow nurse on here! Are you applying this cycle as well?

The problem is I have already submitted my primary and secondaries months ago so would these type of things be appropriate for an "update" to schools?

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

I applied this cycle to osteopathic schools and have already got accepted for a 2017 start.

I never messed with the allopathic app service but with osteopath you can update your file and it auto resends it to the schools. As long as it's free(or a small fee) to update your file then I would do it. I updated mine with some small stuff after I did secondaries.

 

[sullen-burger]

I applied this cycle to osteopathic schools and have already got accepted for a 2017 start.

I never messed with the allopathic app service but with osteopath you can update your file and it auto resends it to the schools. As long as it's free(or a small fee) to update your file then I would do it. I updated mine with some small stuff after I did secondaries.

You have to pay for updating your app to some DO schools? Wow.

Does that hold true for any allopathic schools?

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

You have to pay for updating your app to some DO schools? Wow.

Does that hold true for any allopathic schools?

No, they don't. I just didn't know about allopathic schools and their system.

 

[sullen-burger]

No, they don't. I just didn't know about allopathic schools and their system.

Okay thanks.

And. Is it true some DO deposits are in the thousands? Sorry but all these questions just started coming to me.

 

[LizzyM]

An up-date with a new job in a clinical setting would be a legitimate update. Describing something you plan to do in the future is not. Being sloppy and leaving something important off of the application is not worth drawing attention to.

No clinical volunteering is not a deal breaker if you have clinical experience on the application in other ways. No research puts you in a small minority of applicants but might not be a deal breaker at schools where research is not a priority. At least you'll have a better application the second time around if that becomes necessary.

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

Okay thanks.

And. Is it true some DO deposits are in the thousands? Sorry but all these questions just started coming to me.

My initial deposit is $500 by 12/31, then $1500 sometime next spring. But it does go to tuition. You would pay it regardless.

 

[sullen-burger]

My initial deposit is $500 by 12/31, then $1500 sometime next spring. But it does go to tuition. You would pay it regardless.

Wow. Why is it so high? I don't think I've heard of an MD deposit being more than 200. Most are 100 and some are moving away from deposits all together. Is there a strategy behind this?

 

[Lorko]

An up-date with a new job in a clinical setting would be a legitimate update. Describing something you plan to do in the future is not. Being sloppy and leaving something important off of the application is not worth drawing attention to.

No clinical volunteering is not a deal breaker if you have clinical experience on the application in other ways. No research puts you in a small minority of applicants but might not be a deal breaker at schools where research is not a priority. At least you'll have a better application the second time around if that becomes necessary.

Thanks you for your response. When I was writing my primary I did include that I would be starting an RN position at a surgery center. Should I now update exactly what my role is and what my responsibilities include? Also, would a LOR from a physician be worth sending in as an update?

 

[LizzyM]

Well, if the school has been informed of what you are doing during this glide year, then you've already informed them and writing again to add more details is not necessary. Unless the LOR from the physician is going to add something that was missing (no one ever wrote in a letter already submitted that you have the attributes necessary to succeed in school) it is kow unlikely that an additional letter will make any difference. Of course, you don't know what's in the letters already submitted but, for the most part, additional letters don't push a candidate from the "no-interview" to "interview" column.

 

[Goro]

Not newsworthy. I't a pre-med delusion that "I just start this activity" is worth an update.

And yet one more LOR isn't going to help either.

Hi guys. I have a couple questions on whether or not these things are worth sending in an update for:

I realized that I left off some clinical related volunteering from my primary application by accident. I did around 50 hours of volunteering at an AIDS clinic where we would go into poor neighborhoods and try to get people to take HIV tests and educate about safe sex. Is this something I could submit by update, or is it too late for that? This would be the only clinical volunteer experience on my application.

I am starting some research with a physician I work with. The project hasn't started yet but I'm wondering if I should include an update describing what I will be doing. This would be my only research on my application.

I work as an OR RN and I started after I applied. Would sending in a LOR from one of the head physicians I work for be a good idea?

 

[Lorko]

Well, if the school has been informed of what you are doing during this glide year, then you've already informed them and writing again to add more details is not necessary. Unless the LOR from the physician is going to add something that was missing (no one ever wrote in a letter already submitted that you have the attributes necessary to succeed in school) it is kow unlikely that an additional letter will make any difference. Of course, you don't know what's in the letters already submitted but, for the most part, additional letters don't push a candidate from the "no-interview" to "interview" column.

I'm concerned the letters may not have explicitly said that these a

Not newsworthy. I't a pre-med delusion that "I just start this activity" is worth an update.

And yet one more LOR isn't going to help either.

Ok thank you. I was hoping there was still something I could do to improve my odds but I guess all that's left is to wait.

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

Ok thank you. I was hoping there was still something I could do to improve my odds but I guess all that's left is to wait.

Waiting sucks. If all else fails go again next year! And add in osteopathic schools too.