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[MikeTheGipper]

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Just wondering if anyone has interviewed at a school, gotten accepted, and then had to decided on whether or not they would attend that school before even having interviews at other schools that they are interested in? If so I'm just wondering what people have done in this type of situation.

 

[dragonfly99]

This doesn't make much sense to me. Usually the schools will ask that you not hold on to multiple admissions offers for more than a couple of weeks, and there is a deadline in the spring by which you need to give up your multiple admissions offers (except the top 1). Is a school pressuring you to accept their offer and decline interviews at other schools? I didn't know there was such a thing as "early admissions" in med school. I'm 32 though...this definitely didn't exist when I was a premed.

Is there a way for the school to even know if you are interviewing other places? How would they know? could they stop you?

 

[p30doc]

Just wondering if anyone has interviewed at a school, gotten accepted, and then had to decided on whether or not they would attend that school before even having interviews at other schools that they are interested in? If so I'm just wondering what people have done in this type of situation.

Yes, I put the deposit down and now it looks like I will be eating the $2k, I might be eating another $2k before the end of all of this. It sucks but in the long run it is a drop in the bucket.

 

[deleted172531]

Yes, I put the deposit down and now it looks like I will be eating the $2k, I might be eating another $2k before the end of all of this. It sucks but in the long run it is a drop in the bucket.

Yup. I've already put down 2K as well that I will most likely never see again. Small price to pay to guarantee a seat.

 

[MikeTheGipper]

Yup. I've already put down 2K as well that I will most likely never see again. Small price to pay to guarantee a seat.

So it sounds like the only option is to fork over the deposit and if you end up getting accepted at a school you'd rather attend than the one you've already paid a deposit to then you just eat the deposit and accept the preferred offer of admissions? I guess there's really not much else one can do.

 

[Chocolate Bear]

So it sounds like the only option is to fork over the deposit and if you end up getting accepted at a school you'd rather attend than the one you've already paid a deposit to then you just eat the deposit and accept the preferred offer of admissions? I guess there's really not much else one can do.

Well, if finances are tight, some Deans of Admissions will cut you a little slack while you gather the funds together. That takes a little of the financial pressure off, even if it doesn't give you enough time to get the acceptance from your first choice (plus, I'm not advocating lying to deans...just saying that the two possible benefits might overlap).

If you're forced to make a deposit or two, try to get a credit card with no interest for a year. Then budget to pay it off right after you get your first wad of borrowed cash in August.

 

[Eudjinn]

Just wondering if anyone has interviewed at a school, gotten accepted, and then had to decided on whether or not they would attend that school before even having interviews at other schools that they are interested in? If so I'm just wondering what people have done in this type of situation.

nope. yours is the first time this has ever happened.

/sarcasm

pay the deposit if you have to and eat it later if you get in to a higher choice. it's a small price to pay in the long run.