**The While We Wait for Secondaries, Interviews, Acceptances, and Fast Food Thread**

[DrVanNostran]

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What's been going on in this thread?? I leave for a while and there's people fighting already 😛 !!

By the way, JackieMD is sooooooooo NOT a troll. That's all I have to say.

😍

Long time no see Baylormed, hows life?

There was a slight misunderstanding on here, but it's all good now🙂

 

[baylormed]

Long time no see Baylormed, hows life?

There was a slight misunderstanding on here, but it's all good now🙂

Meh. Life's stressful right now. It just hit me that this process is ridiculously expensive. And I still have to pay tuition for next year.
But other than that, I'm happy to be here. 😛

Holla to everyone on this thread!

 

[Bubblehead-to-MD]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=296572

Here's what went down. ^^ "Why must you troll?"

I'd like to say once more, before I move on, that I didn't call ANYBODY anything. I was simply trying to defend the OP a bit. You can't have a rational discussion by shooting everyone in the head whom you don't agree with.

Now. On with our lives?

My apologies to Jackie, who obviously was hurt by my comment.

Ahhh yes. The textbook premed returns. I think we can see from the other responses in this thread that my girl Jackie is DEFINITELY not a troll. Furthermore, a quick review of the above referenced thread will show that the OP you were "defending" was, in fact, being a jackass, and deserved a little forthright smackdown.

That will be all.

😍 ya Jackie baby!

 

[Depakote]

What scares me is A's new avatar. No one's going to be calling her a troll anytime soon.

I don't know. Those kind and sensitive Vin Diesel avatar pics were about the scariest things I've seen...

 

[Punkn]

Woohoo! I'm complete at Georgetown and OSU. More waiting! 😛

 

[jackieMD2007]

What's been going on in this thread?? I leave for a while and there's people fighting already 😛 !!

By the way, JackieMD is sooooooooo NOT a troll. That's all I have to say.

😍

Hey, Baylormed. I just love your "You Shut Your Mouth When You're Talking to Me!" on your signature. Cracks me up everytime. Some of your comments are sooooooooo awesome too. I <3 ya. This is our year! 😍

 

[jackieMD2007]

Ahhh yes. The textbook premed returns. I think we can see from the other responses in this thread that my girl Jackie is DEFINITELY not a troll. Furthermore, a quick review of the above referenced thread will show that the OP you were "defending" was, in fact, being a jackass, and deserved a little forthright smackdown.

That will be all.

😍 ya Jackie baby!

Oh, baby. I love it when you come to my rescue. 😍 😍 👍
Let's just go to Pritzker together, okay? 😉

 

[Erina]

jackie, you're just so misunderstood 😛 trolling and writing a few words in caps...what were you thinking? 🙄

 

[jackieMD2007]

jackie, you're just so misunderstood 😛 trolling and writing a few words in caps...what were you thinking? 🙄

Dude I am just a total b!tch. There is no way around it. I am the total misunderstood Alanis Morrisette of SDN.

 

[Schaden Freud]

Whenever you're in a precarious social situation, just ask yourself: What would Larry David do?

Dude I am just a total b!tch. There is no way around it. I am the total misunderstood Alanis Morrisette of SDN.

 

[jackieMD2007]

Whenever you're in a precarious social situation, just ask yourself: What would Larry David do?

This is the MOST AWESOME Advice Ever. I think it MUST go in my signature. Right now.

 

[PBandJ]

don't believe the cute strawberry. i am definitely a troll.

 

[Schaden Freud]

😍

This is the MOST AWESOME Advice Ever. I think it MUST go in my signature. Right now.

 

[DrVanNostran]

Thats it, I will no longer be eating food after 10 PM 😡

 

[jackieMD2007]

What up kids?
Anyone else audition for kaplan ever? That stuff is freaky! 🙂
I just got UIC/Mount Sinai! AH!!!
I think it is a Chipotle night. everyone

 

[Pemberley]

What up kids?
Anyone else audition for kaplan ever? That stuff is freaky! 🙂
I just got UIC/Mount Sinai! AH!!!
I think it is a Chipotle night. everyone

Yeah, I knocked out Mount Sinai, UVa, and Thomas Jefferson today. Thank goodness they were all pretty short.

Chicago's going to be nightmarish, but I need to get it done.

 

[CavalierMD]

w00t w00t. Just sent off my UVa secondary! That is all.

 

[Pemberley]

w00t w00t. Just sent off my UVa secondary! That is all.

I just got Stony Brook... THREE ONE-PAGE ESSAYS! 😱

Including a question about the most important non-science college course to my intellectual development... unfortunately my most recent non-science college course was 10 years ago.

 

[jackieMD2007]

Hey kids,
Anyone else real jumpy with the email? I see in my toolbar that I have a new email, click like crazy and then realize it is just from ANN TAYLOR LOFT or whatever and get so steamed! Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all. Heh. 🙂

 

[PBandJ]

Hey kids,
Anyone else real jumpy with the email? I see in my toolbar that I have a new email, click like crazy and then realize it is just from ANN TAYLOR LOFT or whatever and get so steamed! Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all. Heh. 🙂

hmm, yes! that is my experience every five minutes! i'm getting stressed just waiting to get verified!

gotta love the ann taylor loft though! 😛

 

[DrVanNostran]

Hey kids,
Anyone else real jumpy with the email? I see in my toolbar that I have a new email, click like crazy and then realize it is just from ANN TAYLOR LOFT or whatever and get so steamed! Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all. Heh. 🙂

I am still waitin for my gmail to work, but other than that every new email makes me excited!

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

Hey kids,
Anyone else real jumpy with the email? I see in my toolbar that I have a new email, click like crazy and then realize it is just from ANN TAYLOR LOFT or whatever and get so steamed! Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all. Heh. 🙂

I created a new email account that I ONLY gave out to Med. Schools + AMCAS + TMDSAS just for that purpose. I get so much spam (even filtered) on my "normal" accounts that I would've had a heart attack by now because of what you describe.

 

[Robizzle]

I created a new email account that I ONLY gave out to Med. Schools + AMCAS + TMDSAS just for that purpose. I get so much spam (even filtered) on my "normal" accounts that I would've had a heart attack by now because of what you describe.

that's what happens when ya sign up for too many *u know what* sites. 👍

anyway, excuse me while i delete my full inbox.

jk 😀

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

Nah. I learned a long time ago to create a new hotmail account when I sign up for Internet porn. 🙂

 

[Pemberley]

Hey kids,
Anyone else real jumpy with the email? I see in my toolbar that I have a new email, click like crazy and then realize it is just from ANN TAYLOR LOFT or whatever and get so steamed! Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all. Heh. 🙂

The minute people first reported getting interview invites, I created a bunch of new filters for my inbox... now any ads that I get regularly go to a different folder so I don't get all excited about them. 🙂

 

[Caristra]

What up kids?
Anyone else audition for kaplan ever? That stuff is freaky! 🙂
I just got UIC/Mount Sinai! AH!!!
I think it is a Chipotle night. everyone

Yep, I auditioned about three days after I got my MCAT score. Need money to fill out secondaries... It was retty easy at my center. i think I'm going to train in August

and woohoo on the receipt of secondaries.

 

[CavalierMD]

So, I'm kind of anti- starting new threads for specific questions... so I'm gonna post this here and see how far it gets me. Anyone whose file is complete at UVa: When you got the e-mail, was it a year off? As in... "Dear 2006 applicant..." and "If you plan on taking the August 2005 MCAT." The practical, non-pre-med version of myself says that this is a form e-mail that they churn out and they just didn't change it from last year. But the uber-paranoid version of myself is making me post this. I'm such a sucker. Please save my sanity. Thanks.

 

[jackieMD2007]

Gosh Cav, I wish I applied at UVa so I could help you out. Everyone go look at my LOR post, seriously it is funny (but true).

JEBUS! WHEN IS ANN TAYLOR LOFT and AMAZON GOING TO STOP SPAMMING ME?

So my account for MedSchool is through GMAIL but I have it forwarded to my Yahoo! Mail (which I use for work)....I am going to just have to STOP having heart attacks already. I will be hairless and having heart palpitations by the time we interview....

 

[Dr Durden]

Amongst all that spam, I'm sure you can find an offer somewhere for hair restoration.

 

[PBandJ]

Gosh Cav, I wish I applied at UVa so I could help you out. Everyone go look at my LOR post, seriously it is funny (but true).

JEBUS! WHEN IS ANN TAYLOR LOFT and AMAZON GOING TO STOP SPAMMING ME?

So my account for MedSchool is through GMAIL but I have it forwarded to my Yahoo! Mail (which I use for work)....I am going to just have to STOP having heart attacks already. I will be hairless and having heart palpitations by the time we interview....

i'm going to start sending you spam with YOUR MD APPLICATION in the title, jackie. 😛

just kidding of course... 😍

 

[jackieMD2007]

Amongst all that spam, I'm sure you can find an offer somewhere for hair restoration.

Haha. So f-ing funny. But it has a ring of truth to it....

Come on Interfolio writers! Let's DO THIS THING! 😀

 

[CavalierMD]

Haha. So f-ing funny. But it has a ring of truth to it....

Come on Interfolio writers! Let's DO THIS THING! 😀

Good Luck Jackie!!!

 

[jackieMD2007]

Good Luck Jackie!!!

Thank you. In other news, I am file complete at a couple of schools. The first batch of letters made it a few places, unadulterated. Where? You ask. WELL!

Ohio State University "YOU GO OSU!! WOO!"
Medical College Wisconsin "YEEEEEE HAW!"

I am reminding myself that if my LOR writers get their stuff into Interfolio this week or next, that I could overnight whatever's missing and go complete in early August. Early August is not as "early" as I had wanted but it will have to do I guess. 😎

 

[CavalierMD]

Isn't "file complete" the best? I keep envisioning these suites with their coffee and danishes, picking up my packet, rubbing their chins, and saying "hmmm, CavMD, what a remarkable lack of research experience..." 😛

 

[jackieMD2007]

Hey Cav, so true. So true.
When are you shooting to be file complete at your schools? It makes me pissed (I am sure I am the FIRST one to feel this way, too!) that you can hustle out an April MCAT, get your LOR's sent, send in secondaries, pay the $$, just to find that a letter is missing. Mother-f! Dude.

I am betting that early August is pretty average, right?

I am trying to remember that the August MCAT group can't be file complete anytime before October!
I am also feeling grateful that I can work on things here in my office, use the copier, the fax, etc...if I didn't have these things this would be harder, or I would have to live at Kinko's...

 

[CavalierMD]

Hey Jackie-
Early August is still golden, in my opinion.
I'm only "file complete" at VCU and UVa, currently. Hopkins and G-town should be there by the end of this week/early next (I just sent the snail mail pieces today). Then I have this huge gap: Tufts and Duke haven't sent out their secondaries, I haven't heard anything about the screen from EVMS (although that one will be ready to go within a day), Harvard is notoriously late in releasing its secondary, and UNC only sends secondaries to people who get interviews, so that'll probably be later, too. So, in short, I won't be file complete at half of my schools until early August myself, and that's without an LOR snag. So the fact that you're still in that time-frame is pretty good!

 

[jackieMD2007]

WHew. You sure know how to make a girl feel better. LOR snags are the worst, though! Good thing I am anal enough to check my status and call schools early. I sent out my IF requests yesterday (by fax and mail) so the mail version should reach my undergrad school probably by Friday, and if they could fax in that **** on Monday the 24th, I could have that stuff rollin'....I sent an email to the prof I really, really need to do it the most (he is the one holding up TWO right now) and I think I will put in some phone messages on Friday.... what do you think?

And you're right, some places haven't even released secondaries yet, but the ones that have, I want to be complete at.

 

[CavalierMD]

Yes. Be aggressive. Let your writers know that once they get their stuff into IF, you'll never have to bug them again- that'll get them going. Also, if some of your schools allow electronic deliveries from IF, you can get your missing letters in same-day, which will buy back some time. You'll be fine; I have faith!

 

[jackieMD2007]

Yes. Hyperventilating never solved anyone's problems.
And all I need is to be hairless at my interview.

I guess I am terrified about submitting late because when I've seen people with okay or good stats that don't get in, it is usually because they didn't submit AMCAS until August and then were probably complete Sept/Oct. You know?

I know I submitted in June, but it doesn't do me any good if I can't get all of my S together in July and pull it off for August! 🙂

 

[jackieMD2007]

:crickets:

 

[jackieMD2007]

Anyone thinking of re-adding their MD Apps to their signature? I'm thinking that when/if I get interviews I just might. We'll see.

 

[DrVanNostran]

Anyone thinking of re-adding their MD Apps to their signature? I'm thinking that when/if I get interviews I just might. We'll see.

If I get accepted, Ill post my mdapps 👍

 

[jackieMD2007]

I'm still using it for record keeping, what was sent when, what I did what day, etc. 🙂

 

[CavalierMD]

I'll put it up after I get in... I think it's helpful... and we're probably all just being paranoid... but such is life. I'm keeping a mini-version going on my AOL screenname profile... just to minimize questions and prying from friends/fam 🙄

 

[PBandJ]

Anyone thinking of re-adding their MD Apps to their signature? I'm thinking that when/if I get interviews I just might. We'll see.

I'll probably add mine back at some point. I'm keeping track of everything still on there, though, and people who are interested can always find it by tracking me through other SDNers' profiles or through the profile search

 

[PBandJ]

Ok, to those who are farther along in this process than I am, I have a question for you: Should I request for my pre-med committee to send their letter to every school that I applied to via AMCAS before I hear about secondaries? Here's why I'm asking:

1) It takes approximately 4 weeks from my request for my school to write and submit the letter
2) It doesn't cost me anything extra to submit more letters, but I'd feel silly if I asked them to submit a letter to a school if I ended up getting rejected there pre-secondary.

Any thoughts? Thanks! 🙂

 

[Pemberley]

Ok, to those who are farther along in this process than I am, I have a question for you: Should I request for my pre-med committee to send their letter to every school that I applied to via AMCAS before I hear about secondaries? Here's why I'm asking:

1) It takes approximately 4 weeks from my request for my school to write and submit the letter
2) It doesn't cost me anything extra to submit more letters, but I'd feel silly if I asked them to submit a letter to a school if I ended up getting rejected there pre-secondary.

Any thoughts? Thanks! 🙂

I would for the schools that don't screen. If anything, it'll show keen interest in the school. I wouldn't send them to schools that screen, though, until those schools invite you to apply; they might see it as presumptuous.

 

[jackieMD2007]

SO I just got an email from a prof saying that he faxed in his stuff to interfolio....now I am anxiously awaiting the update from Interfolio where they say they have it.

I am imagining the things that could go wrong, like if he didn't put the barcode page FIRST or whatever. I am sure it is fine but until I see it I will be nervous. I know. I need to calm down. I can't. His letter is the one I need for Pritzker. And I just can't be calm when it comes to Pritzker.

 

[Anastasis]

I'll probably add mine back at some point. I'm keeping track of everything still on there, though, and people who are interested can always find it by tracking me through other SDNers' profiles or through the profile search

I messed with mine to make it more anon. I'm tempted to change a whole bunch of stuff (like make my MCAT 24 and my GPA 2.90) just to mess with people. Or is that mean?

 

[jackieMD2007]

Anastasis. Girl. I think you should leave it the way it is, with your real numbers. I refuse to change my numbers.

On the LOR front: SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!