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Just out of curiosity how did you guys show you were on a med school waitlist? Did you have to make a copy of the waitlist letter the school sent you?
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Just out of curiosity how did you guys show you were on a med school waitlist? Did you have to make a copy of the waitlist letter the school sent you?
Dont quote me on this but I think your TAing just involves helping people and picking out the most clear specimens for the exam.
A friend of my family is on the adcom at GW. He actually advised me to go to the ACP over EVMS program because he said they had taken several students based on the merits of than program, whereas the EVMS program 'won't help you anywhere but EVMS', so there's at least one other respected medical school that cares how you do in this program.
Anyway I finally decided to officially accept ACP and reject my other offers. Now its time to put together a personal statement.
I haven't heard of anything but will post when I find outAnyone heard back yet from their ACP apps? May 9th is the day of reckoning. Just wondering if we can expect something earlier.
I feel like calling but I don't want to bug them
Any news anyone
Hi Guys:
I just received an acceptance email. Keep hope alive!
Hmm...they seemed adamant about mailing out acceptances/waitlists/rejections all at once. You aren't talking about one of the other Tulane SMPs are you? I've heard they've been emailing acceptances for the pharmacology program over the last couple days...
Regardless, congrats!
I'm not sure if they've mailed acceptances only, but I received a waitlist e-mail today. Does anyone have any ACP waitlist movement insights?
Stay hopeful, that waitlist does move a decent bit.
doesn't give one much time to find a placeStill nada here.
It is a little bit different this year. Histology is over the summer this time starting early june and then anatomy in fall.
doesn't give one much time to find a place
Hmm...they seemed adamant about mailing out acceptances/waitlists/rejections all at once. You aren't talking about one of the other Tulane SMPs are you? I've heard they've been emailing acceptances for the pharmacology program over the last couple days...
Regardless, congrats!
That is really odd considering med school waitlists are still moving at that time. Do they make you pull out of all waitlists or commit to the ACP program once your in? It seems to me that if they accepted 15 people and 3 or 4 people pulled out of the program in June or July because they got into med school, it would be quite detrimental to the health of the program.
Thanks! It is actually Tulane ACP. I only applied to ACP because I'm currently on a waitlist from one school. I also applied to other post-bacs but this program has the highest linkage that I know of. Are you currently waiting ACP? Good luck!
I agree, I think it is really dumb the way they are doing it this year. They are definitely going to have problems this year with waitlisted applicants. I don't think they would (or can) make you withdraw from waitlists. At the end of the day the whole point is to get into medical school. Last year you took anatomy and histology in the fall. Apparently there are some curriculum changes this year that are causing this to happen.
Thanks. Yeah, I'm applying ACP also, but haven't heard anything yet. Again, congrats. Guess you'll be putting down the deposit if you don't get picked up off your waitlist by May 28th?
No they don´t make you withdraw from waitlists, unless they changed something this year. The new system is not a matter of "dumb", so much as "you are not their top priority". The story I´ve heard is that medical school is switching from a traditional cirriculum (histo and anatomy as seperate courses in the fall) to an integrated systems cirriculum (Anatomy remains a separate course, I think, but histo is now part of some cell/histo/fundamentals of medicine supercourse, again I think, I haven´t actually gotten a schedule yet).
I´m pretty sure the story is that they haven´t figured out how to alter the ACP program yet, so they´re just having you all take Histo in the Summer, and evaluating you on the same Histo/Anatomy combination they´ve always used. Eventually I´d bet they change the program to reflect the new cirriculum, but not this year. If that means that 3-4 kids get in off waitlists and next year´s class has to make do with only 12 Anatomy TAs, in addition to their half a dozen Anatomy professors, I think the school will find a way to live with that. Especially since most medical schools get by with one or two professors, half a dozen non-medical student TAs, and a shorter Anatomy course.
No they don´t make you withdraw from waitlists, unless they changed something this year. The new system is not a matter of "dumb", so much as "you are not their top priority". The story I´ve heard is that medical school is switching from a traditional cirriculum (histo and anatomy as seperate courses in the fall) to an integrated systems cirriculum (Anatomy remains a separate course, I think, but histo is now part of some cell/histo/fundamentals of medicine supercourse, again I think, I haven´t actually gotten a schedule yet).
I´m pretty sure the story is that they haven´t figured out how to alter the ACP program yet, so they´re just having you all take Histo in the Summer, and evaluating you on the same Histo/Anatomy combination they´ve always used. Eventually I´d bet they change the program to reflect the new cirriculum, but not this year. If that means that 3-4 kids get in off waitlists and next year´s class has to make do with only 12 Anatomy TAs, in addition to their half a dozen Anatomy professors, I think the school will find a way to live with that. Especially since most medical schools get by with one or two professors, half a dozen non-medical student TAs, and a shorter Anatomy course.
I was accepted this past week as well. I really love this program, but possibly like other potential ACPers for the upcoming year, the weird schedule is kinda disconcerting to me. So it's my understanding that we are only taking Histo in the summer, and then Anatomy in the fall, unlike previous years where they were taken simultaneously. There probably won't be M1 kids taking the same histo class as us in the summer, and thus no current average to compare to, right? Also, do you think that only taking one class at a time will result in a lot of free time?
I´d guess they´d compare you to last year´s average? Maybe? I´m sure you could call and ask. One class at a time will mean a lot of free time in the Summer, and not very much the fall. Anatomy was about 90% of the program in terms of time commitment.
It says on Tulane's site that 95% of ACP "graduates" are admitted to med school. With a rate that high, I have to assume the one person per class who doesn't get in is just a jackass and screws around during the ACP and/or doesn't apply to Tulane afterwards for some reason.
If you do the ACP program you´re going to love speculating about what the one guy did. See the problem is you´re probably never going to hear from that person again (would you keep in touch?), so there´s never any definite information about what the problem was. The rumor from my year, about the guy who didn´t get in from the year before, was that the guy actually passed the classes but was just flat out wierd, doing things like harrasssing the dean to see "how he was doing now" and trying his ID card in different locked doors to see which ones would open. However, these are the rumoriest of rumor, we never got the slightest bit of definite information. So... yeah, make grades and go way out of your way not to piss anyone off and you won´t be the guy.
Also, considering I live waaaaaaaay far away, I'm opting for Deming housing for simple ease.... but DAMN are those people hard to get a hold of. Has anybody lived in Deming who can answer some questions?