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HOLDENc said:
Sorry, this is one of the more irrational things I have heard on this board.

Why would A&M waitlist you when they know you matched at a school you ranked higher on match day (I presume Southwestern)? They know they would be wasting their time with you. While it may seem like they were the ones that rejected you b/c you are a holding a piece of paper stating just that, trust me, you rejected them.
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I may be confused, but I thought the schools did not get your rank list. For all they know you did rank them #1. Is this right?
 
Michelle823 said:
I may be confused, but I thought the schools did not get your rank list. For all they know you did rank them #1. Is this right?
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I don't think schools know until after the match. and then after match I thought they only knew if you ranked them higher than where you matched. That way they could put you on the waitlist if they wanted too.
 
MullieWins said:
Hopefully Texas can finish the job by beating Kansas so the Aggies can have their deserved number one Big 12 seed.
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The best part about it is, A&M must root for UT for shot at a title, but in rooting for UT to win, UT would take your #1 seed.

Actually, if we beat Kansas, we would win the Big XII, if you beat Mizzou there will be a two way tie, but no matter what TEXAS would get the #1 seed in the conference tournament by fault of having the best record amongst southern division teams...whole story here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=2783841

We might just steal your thunder. But that implies that we beat Kansas...
 
TexMED said:
Actually, if we beat Kansas, we would win the Big XII, though there is potential for a three way tie, but no matter what TEXAS would get the #1 seed in the conference tournament by fault of having the best record amongst southern division teams...whole story here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=2783841

We might just steal your thunder. But that implies that we beat Kansas...
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Both of you are correct. Basketball uses football's tie break system. It's unfair in basketball because we play the same conference schedule. It makes sense in football because of different Big 12 north opponents. If Texas wins at Kansas I have no problem with Texas as number one. A&M's share of the title is more important to me.
 
I do agree with the North/South breakdown. It really doesn't serve the same purpose in basketball as it does in Football...
 
sunnyjohn said:
Thanks Sarah.

I don't think they will move UTMB to Austin, but I do think Austin may get it's own school.

I thought the University of Houston was "semi-private"? I'm sure they will eventually get a school if some big wig will cough up an endowment.
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UTMB IS moving to Austin -- it is currently in year 5 (or maybe 6 now) of a 12 year plan to move it to Austin. I am not sure if the Galveston will remain as a satellite campus.

El Paso is definitely opening soon (I thought it was supposed to be EC '08, but maybe that has been pushed back)

A&M spoke about plans to gradually open a school in Corpus Christi when I interviewed there.
 
whoa... UTMB's moving here?

I knew we were getting a 'new medical school' in Austin, but I thought it was going to be a NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL.
 
TexMED said:
whoa... UTMB's moving here?

I knew we were getting a 'new medical school' in Austin, but I thought it was going to be a NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL.
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Someone posted all the details around a year ago (with links, etc -- or the information from the links was copied.) Like I said most/perhaps all of UTMB is moving to Austin is pretty much the bottom line from what I remember.
 
Do schools at this point of time know how you ranked their school ?. I mean it might reduce the utility of LOI's or such, if they know their school wasn't your first choice.
 
My bad, from that post (search for utmb move austin, and there is a thread about being a premed in TX) it looks like UTMB RESIDENCY programs are gradually moving to Austin.
 
Waitlisted at UTMB, UTSW and TAMU.. any news from UTH and UTSA??
 
trevagandalf said:
Waitlisted at UTMB, UTSW and TAMU.. any news from UTH and UTSA??
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you can call up UTSA and find out if you are on it, if you haven't gotten a letter yet you probably aren't on the waitlist which is what I found out on tuesday 🙁
 
future_dr_house said:
you can call up UTSA and find out if you are on it, if you haven't gotten a letter yet you probably aren't on the waitlist which is what I found out on tuesday 🙁
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I am too scared to call and I think that mail gets lost in my sorority all the time (or at least that's what I hope). I thought UTSA has only sent out rejection letters.. they sent out WL letters too??? and i thought that i did so good in their interview 🙁
 
AHH! what's up with the server!? How am I supposed to avoid studying??
 
UTH waitlist has had more movement, heard about someone getting in today...

I'm afraid to call UTSA tomorrow, but I'm sure it's a no-go on the waitlist... 🙁 C'mon UTH, make it 3 for 4!

EDIT: Oh, and congratz to my Horns 🙂 Good job, guys!
 
It seems like everyone and their dog (or cat) is on UTMB and TAMU's waitlist, but not so much for UTSA.

edit: congrats on best avatar armybound
 
TexMED said:
AHH! what's up with the server!? How am I supposed to avoid studying??
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I know, it freaked me out too. I just got out of an all-in-a-row combo of an afternoon lecture followed by 2 exams, and I wanted to procrastinate on SDN for the rest of the night. Imagine my disappointment when I couldn't open the page....sad, sad indeed. 🙁
 
DianaUT06 said:
UTH waitlist has had more movement, heard about someone getting in today...

I'm afraid to call UTSA tomorrow, but I'm sure it's a no-go on the waitlist... 🙁 C'mon UTH, make it 3 for 4!
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hmmm... that is SO strange. My friend just got an email from Dr. Kellaway yesterday that said the waitlist wasn't even finalized........
 
I met baylormed today
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cmon utsw u can do it...

pick up the phone and call me!!!!

anyone know if these post waitlist acceptances are being done via phone or email?
 
I wanted to share something that happened today because it really shook me up. I'm a gymnastics coach and today at practice one of my gymnasts broke her humerus, just above her elbow. She's going into surgery tonight to have pins put in. I've been involved in gymnastics for over a decade as a gymnast and coach. I've seen countless injuries: broken arms, backs, necks, and legs; sprained wrists, and ankles; torn ACLs, etc etc. I've been fortunate enough never to have experience any traumatic injury myself or have any of the girls I coach experience a traumatic injury while under my supervision.

However, tonight, this poor girl's foot slipped as she was jumping up on the low bar. She had a very large, soft mat, directly underneath her but as she was falling toward it her arm struck the bar breaking it. I saw the accident and I keep hearing the bone crack over and over in my head.

I keep thinking too myself... Did I follow the proper progressions when I was teaching the skill (in other words, did I teach it step by step in the proper sequence, not skipping over any important learning steps). Were there proper safety precautions in place? Was there proper supervision?

I feel like I did everything right. She had been working on the skill at ground level on a ground bar for many weeks. I hand spotted her on the skill before she tried it on her own. She had successfully performed the skill on her own before and there was a large, large safety mat positioned underneath her. Furthermore, she was instructed to work on that skill and wasn't off task or unfocused. Also, I was watching her when it happened.

I guess what makes it really horrible is that she's only been back in gymnastics for about two months after having broken the radius and ulna of the same arm at recess during school. She worked so hard to keep up her strength when she had her cast on from that incident and then worked so so hard to get caught up to and eventually exceed the other girls after she got her cast off. She loves gymnastics so much and her first question after the doctors verified that it was broken was if she would be able to come back to gymnastics. It just breaks my heart that this happened and I can't help but feel guilty even though it was just one of those fluke things...the risks of participating in gymnastics.

The only thing I'm not sure about is what actually broke the arm. I could have sworn that I heard the bone break when her arm struck the bar. From my vantage point it seemed like she landed flat on her back on the soft mat. But it all happened so fast that I can't rule out the possibility that she didn't land flat on her back and that the arm was twisted underneath her on the mat when she landed... which is what actually broke it, and not the impact on the bar. I guess at this point it's not important. But I really want to know because I feel if I know maybe I can do something in the future to help avoid it. There is another coach that I coach that team with and she thought that just striking the arm on the bar wouldn't be enough to break it since the height of the fall was rather trivial. But I think that if the impact with the bar occurs in just the right way and all the forces ad up just right it's more than possible. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I know most of you don't have any gymnastics experience and may have trouble visualizing the incident.

Anyway, she's resting now and has been given IV morphine and will probably be going into surgery tonight. I am a volunteer at the hospital where she was taken so I am going to see her tomorrow. This shook me up so much that I worry about my ability to handle these kinds of situations when I become a doctor (UTMSH '11). Maybe it just shook me up because she was my gymnast and so it's kind of personal. But I think that having a patient for years who then becomes ill or a young patient who develops cancer (just to name a few examples) would be just as difficult for me. I’ve always wanted to go into pediatrics and whenever anything bad happens to a child it’s really difficult for me to cope with it. I keep replaying the accident in my head, and I hear the break and her scream.

I'm sorry this got so long. I just had to get it out.
 
tkatchev said:
I wanted to share something that happened today because it really shook me up. I'm a gymnastics coach and today at practice one of my gymnasts broke her humerus, just above her elbow. She's going into surgery tonight to have pins put in. I've been involved in gymnastics for over a decade as a gymnast and coach. I've seen countless injuries: broken arms, backs, necks, and legs; sprained wrists, and ankles; torn ACLs, etc etc. I've been fortunate enough never to have experience any traumatic injury myself or have any of the girls I coach experience a traumatic injury while under my supervision.

However, tonight, this poor girl's foot slipped as she was jumping up on the low bar. She had a very large, soft mat, directly underneath her but as she was falling toward it her arm struck the bar breaking it. I saw the accident and I keep hearing the bone crack over and over in my head.

I keep thinking too myself... Did I follow the proper progressions when I was teaching the skill (in other words, did I teach it step by step in the proper sequence, not skipping over any important learning steps). Were there proper safety precautions in place? Was there proper supervision?

I feel like I did everything right. She had been working on the skill at ground level on a ground bar for many weeks. I hand spotted her on the skill before she tried it on her own. She had successfully performed the skill on her own before and there was a large, large safety mat positioned underneath her. Furthermore, she was instructed to work on that skill and wasn't off task or unfocused. Also, I was watching her when it happened.

I guess what makes it really horrible is that she's only been back in gymnastics for about two months after having broken the radius and ulna of the same arm at recess during school. She worked so hard to keep up her strength when she had her cast on from that incident and then worked so so hard to get caught up to and eventually exceed the other girls after she got her cast off. She loves gymnastics so much and her first question after the doctors verified that it was broken was if she would be able to come back to gymnastics. It just breaks my heart that this happened and I can't help but feel guilty even though it was just one of those fluke things...the risks of participating in gymnastics.

The only thing I'm not sure about is what actually broke the arm. I could have sworn that I heard the bone break when her arm struck the bar. From my vantage point it seemed like she landed flat on her back on the soft mat. But it all happened so fast that I can't rule out the possibility that she didn't land flat on her back and that the arm was twisted underneath her on the mat when she landed... which is what actually broke it, and not the impact on the bar. I guess at this point it's not important. But I really want to know because I feel if I know maybe I can do something in the future to help avoid it. There is another coach that I coach that team with and she thought that just striking the arm on the bar wouldn't be enough to break it since the height of the fall was rather trivial. But I think that if the impact with the bar occurs in just the right way and all the forces ad up just right it's more than possible. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I know most of you don't have any gymnastics experience and may have trouble visualizing the incident.

Anyway, she's resting now and has been given IV morphine and will probably be going into surgery tonight. I am a volunteer at the hospital where she was taken so I am going to see her tomorrow. This shook me up so much that I worry about my ability to handle these kinds of situations when I become a doctor (UTMSH '11). Maybe it just shook me up because she was my gymnast and so it's kind of personal. But I think that having a patient for years who then becomes ill or a young patient who develops cancer (just to name a few examples) would be just as difficult for me. I’ve always wanted to go into pediatrics and whenever anything bad happens to a child it’s really difficult for me to cope with it. I keep replaying the accident in my head, and I hear the break and her scream.

I'm sorry this got so long. I just had to get it out.
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I'm so sorry you had this troubling experience. I'm not athletic at all, so I don't really know what to tell you about that, but it is terrible when someone with high dreams has such a big set back. And it is hard when someone you are attached to gets hurt. This is a huge reason doctors don't treat family/friends in emergencies. When you have strong emotions its very hard to put them aside. For now, don't worry about what you want to go into, you'll have plenty of time while you're in med school. Plus, you know a weakness you have that you can work on, or at least you are aware of it so you can deal with it better. Go visit her tomorrow and give her all the love and support she deserves. If she got back to her A-game once, she'll do it again. Children are resillient, and that is one reason I think pediatrics is so great. 🙂
 
aggiesarah2007 said:
hmmm... that is SO strange. My friend just got an email from Dr. Kellaway yesterday that said the waitlist wasn't even finalized........
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Yeah, Dr. K told me the same thing as well...but good news is good news, there's some movement already! *fingers crossed*
 
future_dr_house said:
Hmm now I understand how you joined in January and already have more posts than me 😎
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just trying to start conversation.

really, the reason I have so many is that I don't ignore people's "what are my chances?" threads. I also have my hand in a lot of pies, so I have opinions on a lot of different matters. for instance, I'm pre-med, an EMT, a reapplicant, took the MCAT, and a graduate student. I've been on interviews, had an upward GPA trend, realize what mistakes I made the first time around, have research experience, and clinical experience. I can give testimony on any of those subjects, so that's basically most threads on here.

who cares about post count anyway 😉
 
Okay so I posted this in the TMDSAS thread but I'll post it here too:

If I could ask you all one favor:
I am planning on linking the school name to the SDN wiki entry for each school in one of the first posts on the thread. I've started editing UT-H's wiki entry (because I know the most about it) but if you guys could enter in the information for whatever school you'll be attending in the fall, that would REALLY help me out 🙂

Texas Tech
Texas A&M
San Antonio
UTMB
Houston - if you feel like helping me out
Southwestern

I can't find the Wiki entry for TCOM 😕
Thanks guys! 🙂
 
armybound said:
it's the peanut butter jelly dance, i don't think they're pelvic thrusts.
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The most important question is...does a banana even have a pelvis? Otherwise the comment is irrelevant.
 
tkatchev said:
I wanted to share something that happened today because it really shook me up. I'm a gymnastics coach and today at practice one of my gymnasts broke her humerus, just above her elbow. She's going into surgery tonight to have pins put in. I've been involved in gymnastics for over a decade as a gymnast and coach. I've seen countless injuries: broken arms, backs, necks, and legs; sprained wrists, and ankles; torn ACLs, etc etc. I've been fortunate enough never to have experience any traumatic injury myself or have any of the girls I coach experience a traumatic injury while under my supervision.

However, tonight, this poor girl's foot slipped as she was jumping up on the low bar. She had a very large, soft mat, directly underneath her but as she was falling toward it her arm struck the bar breaking it. I saw the accident and I keep hearing the bone crack over and over in my head.

I keep thinking too myself... Did I follow the proper progressions when I was teaching the skill (in other words, did I teach it step by step in the proper sequence, not skipping over any important learning steps). Were there proper safety precautions in place? Was there proper supervision?

I feel like I did everything right. She had been working on the skill at ground level on a ground bar for many weeks. I hand spotted her on the skill before she tried it on her own. She had successfully performed the skill on her own before and there was a large, large safety mat positioned underneath her. Furthermore, she was instructed to work on that skill and wasn't off task or unfocused. Also, I was watching her when it happened.

I guess what makes it really horrible is that she's only been back in gymnastics for about two months after having broken the radius and ulna of the same arm at recess during school. She worked so hard to keep up her strength when she had her cast on from that incident and then worked so so hard to get caught up to and eventually exceed the other girls after she got her cast off. She loves gymnastics so much and her first question after the doctors verified that it was broken was if she would be able to come back to gymnastics. It just breaks my heart that this happened and I can't help but feel guilty even though it was just one of those fluke things...the risks of participating in gymnastics.

The only thing I'm not sure about is what actually broke the arm. I could have sworn that I heard the bone break when her arm struck the bar. From my vantage point it seemed like she landed flat on her back on the soft mat. But it all happened so fast that I can't rule out the possibility that she didn't land flat on her back and that the arm was twisted underneath her on the mat when she landed... which is what actually broke it, and not the impact on the bar. I guess at this point it's not important. But I really want to know because I feel if I know maybe I can do something in the future to help avoid it. There is another coach that I coach that team with and she thought that just striking the arm on the bar wouldn't be enough to break it since the height of the fall was rather trivial. But I think that if the impact with the bar occurs in just the right way and all the forces ad up just right it's more than possible. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I know most of you don't have any gymnastics experience and may have trouble visualizing the incident.

Anyway, she's resting now and has been given IV morphine and will probably be going into surgery tonight. I am a volunteer at the hospital where she was taken so I am going to see her tomorrow. This shook me up so much that I worry about my ability to handle these kinds of situations when I become a doctor (UTMSH '11). Maybe it just shook me up because she was my gymnast and so it's kind of personal. But I think that having a patient for years who then becomes ill or a young patient who develops cancer (just to name a few examples) would be just as difficult for me. I’ve always wanted to go into pediatrics and whenever anything bad happens to a child it’s really difficult for me to cope with it. I keep replaying the accident in my head, and I hear the break and her scream.

I'm sorry this got so long. I just had to get it out.
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I can be sympathetic. I competed as a male gymnast for 6 years in my youth. However, I got to a point that I hated having to ice down my entire body every night when I was only 13-14 years old. As an experienced gymnast you know that what happened is just gymnastics. I think that the people that make it to the top are sometimes not the most talented, but the ones that are able to avoid injury. I have known several gymnasts that have had some amazing talent and could do some incredible things; however, they just kept getting injured. Break a leg...recover..break their neck...recover...tear their bicep...etc... Thus they were unable to get on the national team because they were injured so damn much. But I do have to say that gymnastics teaches one how to deal with pain. No other sport that I have participated in compares to what I put my body through during my 6 years as a gymnast.

A funny story:

A friend of mine broke his arm doing a yurchenko. Open arrival at the hospital the physician asked him to rank his pain on a scale from 1-10, one being the lowest and 10 being the highest. My friend responded with a 3. The physician then replied saying that if your arm is broken, you should be at a 9 or 10. My friend then said, when you have broken your leg, torn ligaments, broken your neck, and broken your back, a broken arm feels like a 3.

I think the hardest thing for this kid, is going to be how she handles her fear. Fear is what will dictate if this child will be able to continue with gymnastics or quit because they cannot handle the sport anymore. I have seen people so to often get so scared that they could not safely participate in the sport anymore. I then have also seen, like the person I described above, people not care and still go at it, time and time again.

Good luck to you. If there is one thing that I have learned is that gymnasts are always hurt or breaking something. Don't feel bad, it is not your fault. It is just the nature of the sport. I hope she has a speedy recovery and can mentally get over what happened to her. I would say that you need to learn how to not blame yourself for things that are out of your control. People get hurt, sick, die, etc… If you do the best job that you can, then there is nothing that you should feel bad about. Sad yes, but guilty never.
 
2-3 zone doesn't seem to work for us. I don't know why we insist on defending that way. KU picked us apart in the second half. 🙁
 
dangit! At least A&M is second seed in the Big XII tournament (at least I think that is how it was supposed to work out, and if we beat Mizzou today, which I think we should 🙂)

sorry t.u. Good game though 🙂




Again! I said t.u. and STILL haven't died from my own stupidity! man its a miracle!
 
spurrss that was a nice post. i hope it helps tkatchev feel better.

btw, did you get in anywhere this year? i know you were a postbac last year (at least i think so). just curious as to your progress.
 
You have to give it to Texas, they played a pretty good first half. But in the end, KU was just too much!

Also, does anyone know when UTSA will start offering scholarships? (I asked this before, but with no response)
 
Congrats to the Jayhawks.

Horns have no reason to sulk, they played like men tonight.

As an Aggie I'd prefer to not meet either team again this year upon the completion of the Big 12 tournament.
 
bump before this thread disappears in oblivion
 
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