Texas Interviews 2007 - Part 2

Discover Your Odds of Getting into Medical School
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yourmom25 said:
my RCW changed again on 02/03/07, no change in LMFU (01/05/07), and validation date is still 000000. i'm scared no validation date change means no match...
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I'm thinking the same thing. Over all, it's probably best not to get ones hopes up. I don't think I'll be disappointed because I know the people that interviewed with me would all make great doctors. There's no reason to feel bad. Of course, if I don't get in next year I'll set the building on fire. :meanie:
 
yourmom25 said:
my RCW changed again on 02/03/07, no change in LMFU (01/05/07), and validation date is still 000000. i'm scared no validation date change means no match...
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I had a validation date just a few days before the big match so I wouldn't worry about that.
 
Has any of you been sleeping, eating, drinking, studying thinking about the match? Because I am. My friends are getting irritated because when I talk to them, I always change the subject to the match and I really don't wanna talk about anything else. This is what usually happens when I start having a crush on a guy 😛
 
trevagandalf said:
Has any of you been sleeping, eating, drinking, studying thinking about the match? Because I am. My friends are getting irritated because when I talk to them, I always change the subject to the match and I really don't wanna talk about anything else. This is what usually happens when I start having a crush on a guy 😛
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First rule about the match...don't talk about the match.

I did however dream a couple of days ago that I was talking to the dean of admissions at Tech who sort of winked when I asked him if there was a spot for me. I was all really excited when I woke up, just to be immediately pissed that it was a dream.
 
i'm planning a special valentine's day, and i've decided not to look at the match until the next day (when my valentine is elsewhere). it's going to be the ultimate test of will.
 
See, the problem is that I think I scared my last valentine off with "med school is my life" attitude. 🙁
 
well at least you get to see your valentine...mine will be 200 miles away 👎 i just pray he gets a good phone call that night! 🙂
 
future_dr_house said:
I did however dream a couple of days ago that I was talking to the dean of admissions at Tech who sort of winked when I asked him if there was a spot for me. I was all really excited when I woke up, just to be immediately pissed that it was a dream.
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this is funny. i hope we're classmates soon.
 
future_dr_house said:
First rule about the match...don't talk about the match.

I did however dream a couple of days ago that I was talking to the dean of admissions at Tech who sort of winked when I asked him if there was a spot for me. I was all really excited when I woke up, just to be immediately pissed that it was a dream.
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I had a similar dream except that Mr. T and Biggie Smalls were my interviewers. All we did was get drunk. I thought it was pretty counter-productive but went along with it. Then Biggie started taking his clothes off and the kool-aid man busted through the wall. Then I realized it wasn't a dream at all and that the match really is driving me to insanity.
 
potato51 said:
I had a validation date just a few days before the big match so I wouldn't worry about that.
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hahaha there are only 3 business days left!!!!!! what does a validation date mean anyway? that they validated my courses? i haven't finished my postbac program yet. hahaha, i'm going to sign off of SDN now. this is killing me and i have a lot of crap to do haha.
 
I've told my girlfriend that Valentines day has been postponed until further notice.
 
TMDSAS Website:
What is validation ?

Validation is a process that TMDSAS does for those applicants who have received at least one interview. We go through each applicant's Record of College Work and verify that what has been entered matches exactly to what is on each transcript. In order to validate your coursework, we must have all of your transcripts (from every university/college ever attended).

I had an interview at UTH. Validation date is 000000. I'm hearing something about a correlation between validation date and matching. Is this another myth, like that damned LMFU, or should I prepare for next year's cycle. Could anyone with any insight, please give some feedback? Otherwise, I just may lose it over the next 4 days. 😎
 
just logged into my old TMDSAS account. I had a validation date of Friday, 01-27-06, just 2 business days before the match.
 
After coasting through this thread and reading everyone's wonderful experiences in dealing with the personnel at TMDSAS, two questions came into my mind...

1. What would you do if you if you encountered that certain TMDSAS employee whom you've had multiple encounters with?

2. What in the hell do you think these 'people' (and I use this loosely because I'm not exactly sure they have the emotional characteristics to catagorize them as people) look like?

Just curious.

oh, and LMFU 122806 RCW 121906 Validation 121906, prematch, hoping for a better match
 
I play electric guitar and over the course of last night and today have developed a song about the match and validation dates and such. It's pretty good. Is there any way to share it? I don't think this site lets you attach anything audio...
 
adamMD said:
I play electric guitar and over the course of last night and today have developed a song about the match and validation dates and such. It's pretty good. Is there any way to share it? I don't think this site lets you attach anything audio...
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Hmmm... I think you can use Yahoo briefcase. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home

But I don't think there's a way to do it through SDN.
 
VY_Smart.jpg
 
That's quite funny... Thanks for posting it... I was going out of my mind with the match and I really can't concentrate for my biochem test tomorrow
 
But when I look up in the sky the moon is only about the size of a quarter. An elephant is SO much bigger than a quarter! Duh! 🙂
 
Last Master File Update: 100406 Last RCW Update: 121906 Validation Date: 121906

I've graduated, no prematch offers and am sick of trying to guess what it all means. I'll let you venture any guesses based off my info though.

Zolaash I hope I'm a classmate to someone at all, but if we match to the same school we just may have to uncloak the online anonymity.
 
I've just been occasionally logging on so I'm a little behind: Validation and an apparent computer fluke with those that pre-matched seeing their matches moved to different schools?

Last Master File Update: 020107 Last RCW Update: 011907 Validation Date: 120806

What is the assumption behind the 000000 vs validation date matching correlation?

Are we assuming that TMDSAS doesn't bother to validate those whom they now know are without a match?---Seems reasonable I suppose

I had 4 Texas interviews and no pre-match but my validation date is 12-8-06 and that validation must have been done before match lists were submitted. So are we hypothesizing that only Feb validation dates are a good sign or rather that any still posted validation date is a good sign?

Did anyone go from an old validation date to "000000" ?

Or did anyone who pre-matched now have a "000000" date? If not then perhaps there is something to this particular myth?
 
joj884 said:
I've just been occasionally logging on so I'm a little behind: Validation and an apparent computer fluke with those that pre-matched seeing their matches moved to different schools?

Last Master File Update: 020107 Last RCW Update: 011907 Validation Date: 120806

What is the assumption behind the 000000 vs validation date matching correlation?

Are we assuming that TMDSAS doesn't bother to validate those whom they now know are without a match?---Seems reasonable I suppose

I had 4 Texas interviews and no pre-match but my validation date is 12-8-06 and that validation must have been done before match lists were submitted. So are we hypothesizing that only Feb validation dates are a good sign or rather that any still posted validation date is a good sign?

Did anyone go from an old validation date to "000000" ?

Or did anyone who pre-matched now have a "000000" date? If not then perhaps there is something to this particular myth?
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*curls up in the fetal position*
 
imo opinion the validation date theory is a lot stronger than the lmfu theory.... why would tmdsas waste time updating someones grades if they don't have to... those tmdsasers im sure don't like to do work for no reason.
 
There is no reason why they woulndt just validate everyone that had 1 interview like they said on their site. It's not like they've been doing that much these last couple months.

ANd if they started validating since pre-match offers began, that gives them a good 3 months to validate some thousands of interviewees which isnt too bad.
 
well , for instance my LMFU is 2-1-07 which is good to see but who knows.

but I agree that the validation correlation may be more real. But for people like me who had no pre-match offers and a Validation date back in December or earlier then they were validating someone without a matched school back in Dec. and it seems unlikely that match lists were submitted in December so who knows?
 
or maybe they validated those who sent in their fall transcripts to keep the profile more accurate... My validation date changed 01/26 which was about the time that i sent in my updated transcript
 
I didnt send in anything new and my validation date is 1/26 so i dont think fall transcripts matter that much. Why would they have to validate those anyways, they arent factored into your GPA that you applied with.
 
well my fall transcripts were sent in 1/25 and my validation date was 1/26 and my GPA (which went down by a lot) was updated in my new profile
 
Dunno then, none of any of this makes any sense. I guess there is a reason why the other 99% of US med schools use AMCSAS.
 
Anastasis said:
Hmmm... I think you can use Yahoo briefcase. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home

But I don't think there's a way to do it through SDN.
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Well, I put my song about the match on Yahoo briefcase but it says I have to subscribe to the premium membership in order to share it. Is there any way around paying money? This song is decent at best and not worth me spending a dime on.
 
adamMD said:
Well, I put my song about the match on Yahoo briefcase but it says I have to subscribe to the premium membership in order to share it. Is there any way around paying money? This song is decent at best and not worth me spending a dime on.
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yousendit.com
 
Ok, I found a way to display my song on the internet. If you're on myspace you can go to http://www.myspace.com/texasmedschoolsong. Before you do, there are some things to mention. One, I'm not a singer and I can barely play guitar even when not singing. So, no, it isn't a great song. It's something I came up with while I was drinking last night. All disclaimers aside, it is a song about the Texas match and is therefore the BEST song about the Texas match ever created (I'm guessing no one else has ever written about the Texas match). I guess in all fairness it is also the worst song evr written about the match...
 
adamMD said:
Ok, I found a way to display my song on the internet. If you're on myspace you can go to http://www.myspace.com/texasmedschoolsong. Before you do, there are some things to mention. One, I'm not a singer and I can barely play guitar even when not singing. So, no, it isn't a great song. It's something I came up with while I was drinking last night. All disclaimers aside, it is a song about the Texas match and is therefore the BEST song about the Texas match ever created (I'm guessing no one else has ever written about the Texas match). I guess in all fairness it is also the worst song evr written about the match...
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nice man! That's pretty awesome and is far better use of this terrifying time than what I do [play sudoku and watch episodes of House (I'm narcissistic, so I watch my own show)] I loved the chorus, 000000000 so lmfu. :laugh:
 
hahaha....hilarious song!

I understood most of it...but missed some of the words....lyrics please? 😀
 
You're from San Marcos? They have a really nice outlet shop there.. I get all my name brand stuff from there...
 
adamMD said:
That would work but I'd have to hand-type everyone's email. That's too much work.
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nope... at the end it will give you a link, which if you paste here, anyone can click on it for so many days, and download it.

edit: didn't see the other post.
 
haha.. the song is hilarious... it's a little depressing though...
 
ahhh, i don't think i'm getting in this year either. my validation date hasn't changed, which probably means they haven't bothered to make sure my grades match my transcripts.
 
I hear a strong punk influence. Completely Rad! Thanks for a hellava stress reliever. 000000000 death to lmFU!!!!!! 😎
 
Here are the lyrics. Words in parantheses are to clarify what I mean but are not sung.

VERSE 1

23 (my age),
on the verge of destiny,
but the choice isn't up to me (it's up to ad. com)

i did my best,
all i could do,
and now I wait for the verdict to my life

they call it the match,
I know it best as 'hell',
I check everyday but there's nothing I can tell

and now I wait,
3 more days,
for the greatest disappointment of my life

CHORUS

TMDSAS, why do you give me stress,
validation date 000000
death to LMFU
still don't know what you do

I don't want to do it again
the whole process I dread

but it's ok
the white coat will be my reward

VERSE 2

it's really quite funny,
some people think we do it for money

if they only knew, all the work we go through
we pay all our dues

I'm standing here, at the door,
just begging for more ('more' refers to work. A doctors life is very tough)

worst case scenario, is that they say no
i guess there's always next year

CHORUS

same as before

I know the quality is terrible. I recorded it using a set of headphones that attach to me lap top.
 
Adam.... awesome song 😉

Waiting is def not fun I'll agree with that. Fortunately I'll be working until 11pm that night so when I get home it'll be almost time! Though, working in the hospital, I'm seeing the residents constantly, making me think even more than when I'm home!!!!!!!
 
WannaDoc said:
Adam.... awesome song 😉

Waiting is def not fun I'll agree with that. Fortunately I'll be working until 11pm that night so when I get home it'll be almost time! Though, working in the hospital, I'm seeing the residents constantly, making me think even more than when I'm home!!!!!!!
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I work at a hospital too; my next shift is Friday. That's going to be an interesting day.
 
yourmom25 said:
ahhh, i don't think i'm getting in this year either. my validation date hasn't changed, which probably means they haven't bothered to make sure my grades match my transcripts.
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Many of your fellow SDNers (including me) are cheering for you! 😍 Good luck!
 
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