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Okay, I'm stopping by the admissions office tomorrow to ask if the waitlist will be coming soon. I'll post results before 10am.
 
InvitroDerm said:
Okay, I'm stopping by the admissions office tomorrow to ask if the waitlist will be coming soon. I'll post results before 10am.
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Good! I'm hoping you have something to report because we clearly need something else to talk about on this post. :help:
 
lol - Okay we'll stop saying Protein is dreamy. Hey, if the below trend is correct, then it will be really cool when Phx accepts a full class. So for those of us who will apply forever, we have that to look forward to.


tmdman said:
Well do you guys see the pattern,

30 in 2006 No Phx campus
50 in 2007 PHX class size of 24
65 in 2008 PHX class size of 48

That corresponds to the opening of the Phoenix Campus. So with the Phoenix Campus now operational, waitlist acceptance will be bigger.

My source come from Tara at the Phx campus. I did a revisit of the campus today. She didnt say anything about the waitlist per se. But her comment about the overlap was very intersting.

She also wants everyone on SDN to know that they are watching and are all knowing. haha.

Hope this helps
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How awesome would that be, when Phoenix gets to 150 students, if they were still only considering 550-600 students? After the waitlist acceptances, that's gotta be around a 50% acceptance rate. That means they gotta accept me sooner or later 🙂!

Does anybody know when they are gonna be able to expand their class size? I thought it was supposed to be by 2013 or so, but with budget cuts that may change significantly.
 
Not so fast....the dean has already said he will allow 10-15% OOS in the coming years. Not sure when it will start though...but it is in the works.
 
Just saw Ann and Tanisha: Definitely next week but more toward the middle.
 
On a side note I just called Miwestern and found out that I got in.....
I should be :laugh:

But instead I'm 😕
 
It is wonderful that you don't have to go to the Caribbean...I was pretty sure you would get in. Congrats.
 
InvitroDerm said:
It is wonderful that you don't have to go to the Caribbean...I was pretty sure you would get in. Congrats.
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I can't make up my mind!

I'd say I'm still only 75% DO and 25% Caribbean MD. But 100% U of A!!!!!

I hate to say it but it's just how I feel. My heart says and wants MD after my name. My head says DO might be a better career option. But that is changing. Everyday I feel a little better about the DO option but its hard to erase 25 years of social programming. Either which way at the end of the day I want to be a physician.

I don't know I guess I always pictured this happy moment in my head when I got into Arizona. Calling my Dad and then racing down to Tempe and banging on my favorite professors door and giving her a big bouquet of flowers to say I got in while I grin from my eyelids to my chin.
At the moment though I feel similar to how I felt after I got into Ross (ok a bit better) and it's a question of now what? What is my best option? I had always planned on going to UA and planned around that. I didn't even sell my condo down there at the peak of the real estate boom hoping to keep it for med school one day.

But in the interim I think I have found out that being a DO might be a better option than Ross and is a great option in itself. I just want a top 5 spot on that UA waitlist baby!
 
I know exactly how you feel. I want UA very badly. So many doors would be opended to me...to the opportunity to do a PhD or JD + MD if I so desire. I also have strong ties to the school (I remember looking at the class picture on the wall and saying to myself...I'm going to be in that one day (I was 13). But, I guess this is life. There comes a point when one might have to change direction.
 
It's still so early in this process, who knows what will happen. From looking at older threads a lot of crazy stuff can happen to anyone.
 
How many times have you guys applied to UofA?

This is my 4th time. I applied to DO schools for the first time this year and was accetped to AT Still in Mesa. I know I should be happy, but UofA is still my #1 choice. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for the waitlist. :xf:
 
So last year, the weekend before the waitlist came out, my wife's company had their annual softball game, and I did horribly. Then I got rejected a couple days later. Today, I hit two home runs. I'm gonna go ahead and take that as a good omen. Here's to high waitlist numbers for all of us faithful SDNers!
 
kamebr1 said:
How many times have you guys applied to UofA?

This is my 4th time. I applied to DO schools for the first time this year and was accetped to AT Still in Mesa. I know I should be happy, but UofA is still my #1 choice. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for the waitlist. :xf:
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Holy crap. This is only my second time. But my second time too many. There is no way whatsoever I am doing this again. I commend you for your perseverance and I really hope you get one of the WL spots!!
 
So how many of you were waitlisted last year? I just got advice from someone close to UA that said if you get waitlisted, you would be making a big mistake to not reapply the following year.
 
rennykim said:
Holy crap. This is only my second time. But my second time too many. There is no way whatsoever I am doing this again. I commend you for your perseverance and I really hope you get one of the WL spots!!
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Me either. I am done this year. I am not sure if I am considered a re-applicant or not. I submitted primaries last year (2007-2008 cycle), but had to withdraw from all my schools a few days after my AMCAS was verified as I wasn't ready to matriculate in 2009. So this is the first time I am going through the whole cycle, and it will also be my last as I can't go through this again. It's too expensive, time consuming and mentally taxing. I was accepted to both AZCOM and ATSU-SOMA (in Mesa), but put down my deposit at AZCOM. Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a high waitlist position at UA. :luck:
 
Good luck to all of you guys, SDN friends. Also, I think I'm going to give up my Tucson seat on Monday, so I'm really hoping one of you posts next week that you got it!
 
Hey, was it Alexis Harnandez or Stuart Flynn who had the daughter also applying to schools this year?
 
This is my first and last time applying. It looks like a good number of us have been accepted to AZCOM...For those of us rejected or high-waitlisted, we should all get together and celebrate the fact that we are going to medical school this year and at a great school. Or we can all get waitlisted super low and celebrate that! Good luck-looks like most of us will be classmates whether it is in Glendale or at UA!
 
Cuddy420 said:
This is my first and last time applying. It looks like a good number of us have been accepted to AZCOM...For those of us rejected or high-waitlisted, we should all get together and celebrate the fact that we are going to medical school this year and at a great school. Or we can all get waitlisted super low and celebrate that! Good luck-looks like most of us will be classmates whether it is in Glendale or at UA!
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Too bad you live in Tucson there buddy 🙂
I was out enjoying the free vodka drinks in Scottsdale last night. Yes I said free 🙂
Oh the poor girls that were next to me...they had no idea that the guy standing next to them is the future Dr. Christian Troy 🙂

Edit - Wow I didn't notice I had used three smiley faces until after I posted this.
 
Proteinpowda said:
Too bad you live in Tucson there buddy 🙂
I was out enjoying the free vodka drinks in Scottsdale last night. Yes I said free 🙂
Oh the poor girls that were next to me...they had no idea that the guy standing next to them is the future Dr. Christian Troy 🙂

Edit - Wow I didn't notice I had used three smiley faces until after I posted this.
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Can i be your Sean McNamara? Wed pull so many girls 😀
 
Dr Frankenstein said:
Can i be your Sean McNamara? Wed pull so many girls 😀
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Oh man trouble. It's amazing some nights. I forget who I meet sometimes. Last week I was talking to some girl and next thing she goes "I know you!"
I'm like really. And she busts out here camera where there are a couple pictures of us together at 230am lol.
Or even last night. Some person goes I know you and recites three digits of my phone # ?????
 
merryjoulton said:
I remember Dr. Flynn saying something about his daughter who went to Michigan and was applying to med school.
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I'm not sure but think he said his daughter started her first year in med school this school year, in Michigan. What does it matter to any of us?

I also recall him saying something like, we're all type A personalities in the room. Huh? I thought that was a negative term for stressed-out over-achievers. My informal mnemonic was "A" for Achieving and a**h***. Later on, I checked on wiki:

Type A: "impatient, excessively time-conscious, insecure about their status, highly competitive, hostile and aggressive, and incapable of relaxation.[1] They are often high achieving workaholics who multi-task, drive themselves with deadlines, and are unhappy about the smallest of delays. Because of these characteristics, Type A individuals are often described as "stress junkies." Type B individuals, in contrast, are described as patient, relaxed, and easy-going. "

-impatient, unhappiest about the smallest delays? hah! sounds like lots of the kids on this thread

-insecure about their status? check

-highly competitive? I hope not but don't doubt it

-hostile and aggressive? I surely hope not but wouldn't press anyone here. okay, I prolly come off as hostile here, but it's just to be in character.

-incapable of relaxation? doubt it. not me

So, Dr. Flynn, speak for yourself. :laugh: It's not a compliment to be called a Type A. I'm more of a Type B who'd probably not hang out with A's except in work and school. that is, if you subscribe to this type A-B characterization - which I think is as meaningful as the FDA food group pyramid from the seventies.
 
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If I'm waitlisted 50 or higher I will celebrate at Level...but if it is lower than that, forget it.

PS - I think some of you forgot that the adcom might be reading this!
 
biteMeAdCom said:
I believe that possibility motivates some posts here, especially from those whose profiles aren't exactly anonymous.
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I should also add that, hey, AdCom, y'all are misleading yourselves and wasting time if you take any of this chatter and noise on this one thread into consideration into any one applicant file's decision. think it through. think about Facebook profiles. and the validity of what's on the web, and about identity theft. Think about equal and fair treatment to all applicants.

And not least of all, usernames that might randomly seem to suggest a message or command should be taken with a grain of salt. What's the meaning of a flower? What's the sound of blue? What is the significance of my username? Nothing.
 
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biteMeAdCom said:
sorry, wasn't talking about you! no offense meant
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none intended! your posts actually crack me up every time. but really that post did apply to me, since i placed a pretty clear picture of myself up and a relatively unique mdapps linked right underneath... since i am not reapplying under any circumstances, i feel this strange sense of liberation and freedom of speech... :laugh:
 
Proteinpowda said:
Oh the poor girls that were next to me...they had no idea that the guy standing next to them is the future Dr. Christian Troy 🙂
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Proteinpowda said:
Oh man trouble. It's amazing some nights. I forget who I meet sometimes. Last week I was talking to some girl and next thing she goes "I know you!"
I'm like really. And she busts out here camera where there are a couple pictures of us together at 230am lol.
Or even last night. Some person goes I know you and recites three digits of my phone # ?????
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I think some people forget the adcoms know about SDN...
 
Isn't Christian Troy a fictional character from Nip/Tuck?

Either way I don't think Protein is planning on reapplying either, at least not here... (or are you?)
 
I really do not think the ADCOM people would go throught the trouble of trying to connect the stuff on here, with a name, and then with their file. They probably have enough stuff to do as it is. I am sure they read it, but probably just for amusement.

rennykim said:
Isn't Christian Troy a fictional character from Nip/Tuck?

Either way I don't think Protein is planning on reapplying either, at least not here... (or are you?)
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rennykim said:
Isn't Christian Troy a fictional character from Nip/Tuck?

Either way I don't think Protein is planning on reapplying either, at least not here... (or are you?)
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You're right. Shows how much nip/tuck I watch.
 
MedMan25 said:
I think some people forget the adcoms know about SDN...
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For the most part I don't drink when I go out; one or two at most (unless I'm celebrating a med school acceptance). I'm always the DD driving people home. But I am social and I have a good time being amongst people and making new friends. But sadly it's Scottsdale and people kinda look similar...(Scottdale stripes on guys and bleached blonde hair and really big sunglasses for girls...sometimes a chihuaha died pink like Paris Hilton's too) so it's hard to remember who you meet. Personally I don't see why there would be an issue with the adcoms knowing that were social and not developing vampire-like features from never leaving the castle, I mean cave, wait I mean library 🙂 Although my Dr. Christian Troy comment might have been over the top he is a fictional character on Nip-Tuck which is an awesome show by the way. While Sean is the perfectionist on the show he can't handle stress. He got the yips and almost killed a patient; pretended he was crippled and stayed in a wheelchair to be coddled. Christian on the other hand operated when he was so sick he was puking in the OR (not that I would reccomend this either).
But I think I alluded to something like worrying about the adcoms reading this in a previous post.
While yeah I would not go on here posting "Hey guys so today I went to class, came home, called my drug ring leader in Venezuela and ordered a few kilos of cocaine to be turned into some dudes cast and shipped to the US (read cnn today). Then I loaded a few bowls while listening to Bob Marley on my Ipod, started feeling tired so I popped a couple Adderall, and then went to a rave that turned into the festival of love at 3am. Then I realized I had an Ochem test in the morning, forgot to study and I could not PICK C b.c. it wasn't multiple choice! So I slipped the professor a nice sized bribe under the table and was able to re-take it open book and got an A! I hope the professor doesn't realize the check is going to bounce before he posts my grade!" I think a lot of people think in that direction though: we want to get into med school so lets do what we think the adcoms want us to do rather than something we're really passionate about. I'm sure a lot of people like to say go to Africa and help with HIV related projects but I had a couple buddies do that at UofA and their main reason was "it'll get me into medical school," or so they thought. It's like volunteering just to volunteer vs. doing what you're really passionate about. For example I started volunteering at a childrens hospital b/c I've always enjoyed kids and they had a teaching facility there. And I got lucky b/c from working there I figured out that I hated leaving at the end of the day and found my calling in PEDS (or who knows if that will change in my third year or not).

In a lot of ways it's good that the adcoms are this selective though and that you have to go through all of this hard stuff to become a doctor...b/c being a doctor is not easy. If you think it's tough now wait until you have to deal with the govt and insurance companies trying to run your practice. Not to mention patients that feel WebMd or something takes the place of a physical diagnosis. It's why the attrition rate for MD schools in the US is so low. I know one guy on the board at NYU and from what he told me whenever a student flunks out or does bad they personally go through the application file and say "where did we go wrong?" and take it as sort of a personal failure.

Anyway my buddy just texted me and his mom is not doing so well so I'm going to run and be as supportive as possible. That's the one thing that I think will really hurt me down the road...you can't save everyone.
 
Dear AdCom,

I know you're reading this, not in the manner for professional evaluation but perhaps scanning it for your lunchtime entertainment. I would bet you to be incapable of not reading this post and of avoiding the subsequent implantation of subconscious cues to help me possess that which I hotly desire, which isn't in the slightest a roundabout Freudian-motivated means for picking up future bar flys.

First, note the time and date of my post. Saturday night. I am in front of a computer writing a post to some f*ing useless dead-end thread instead doing something hot I could report on that'd display my well-rounded personality and social aptitude. But no, I have discipline. and time-management. And altrusim for the thousands of future homeless babies' lives that I would be saving by eschewing present fun for my important pre-medical studies. That is maturity beyond my years. Those are the attributes that have made me what I am today, moreso than having been born&raised in a log cabin and what not. Those attributes are what would make me successful both in medical school and in my high-paying, golf links-walking future life.

**** yeah! I'd like to be out there tonight, sowing my wild oats. But I am waiting and saving myself. Saving myself for my future and for the University of Arizona School of Medicine.

Sincerely,
-biteMeAdCom
 
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So one of the suggestions is to Google yourself to make sure nothing scandalous pops up. Well, I've done this before to make sure nothing inappropriate about me comes up, and today was the first time that my MySpace link came up. WTF?! How does that even happen? I don't even log in ever. So...I cancelled it.

So, Google yourselves...now.
 
I think it's hilarious you guys think the admissions committee would waste their time on here. I've been following this thread and personally I'd rather engage in conversation and be myself than sound like a tool who is perpetually stuck in interview mode. So props to everyone who is speaking their mind and not censoring their true opinions.
 
Hopefully, any adcom reading our posts would understand that we are all qualified applicants to medical school. From reading the posts I see people who have great qualities for being a doctor.
 
WannabeDoctora said:
So one of the suggestions is to Google yourself to make sure nothing scandalous pops up. Well, I've done this before to make sure nothing inappropriate about me comes up, and today was the first time that my MySpace link came up. WTF?! How does that even happen? I don't even log in ever. So...I cancelled it.

So, Google yourselves...now.
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Yeah I did that a long time ago... I show up for a lot of my EC's, but..... I also show up in the daily wildcat for a quote about food and also a "overheard on campus"... I wish I could remove some things, but I can't... Boo google.
 
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