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Way to go!Im in! Im in! So happy right now
Way to go!Im in! Im in! So happy right now
Hey! Speak for yourself.
Sorry to hear that you can't make 2nd look. It is going to be a good time!hey everybody,
i wont be able to make it to the second look, but hope you all have a good time!...
Just a couple of questions for the currents:
Are the classes true pass fail or is there a hidden reference to them somewhere down the line?
How easy is it to get funding for a year off to do research?
One of my interviews was given by someone from a fraternity, what's the deal with those?
And last but not least, what do you guys as a class do for fun(school sponsored or not)?
Thanks everyone. Is there an admitted students facebook group or anything? I thought I read about one, but now I can't find it.
I don't think there is one actually. That's a good idea though!
They put out one every month or so. It probably doesn't contain your shining new faces though . Wait for an email and I'm sure it wil have the latest one.
Oh, I thought he was talking about a group on Facebook.com, not the "facebook" of admitted students pics that UMich has up on their website.
She And I was talking about facebook.com. But the other one sounds cool too. Im looking forward to seeing it! Thanks!
Lol, oops sorry! But if you want to see the current "facebook" of admitted students, click here: XXX
As Humble said, it's updated every month and they send out an email with a link to it, so you can look for yourself next month! In the meantime, you can scope the rest of us out
You can access it at any time by going to the admitted students website, clicking M-Pulse and then clicking the Admitted Student Profile link in the yellow box on the right side of the page. Looks like we're shaping up to be an awfully attractive bunch
No prob. Are you going to the Michigan second look?Lol, oops sorry!
As Humble said, it's updated every month and they send out an email with a link to it, so you can look for yourself next month! In the meantime, you can scope the rest of us out
You can access it at any time by going to the admitted students website, clicking M-Pulse and then clicking the Admitted Student Profile link in the yellow box on the right side of the page. Looks like we're shaping up to be an awfully attractive bunch
EDIT: Sorry Humble, it's fixed.
No prob. Are you going to the Michigan second look?
I got an email that said the second look weekend is full right now. Im sad. I was looking forward to it! Heard it is a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll get in off the waitlist.
And here I thought I was done with waitlists
I don't know that I can add a whole lot to Amandil's answer, but I'll give it a shot.Just a couple of questions for the currents:
Are the classes true pass fail or is there a hidden reference to them somewhere down the line?
How easy is it to get funding for a year off to do research?
One of my interviews was given by someone from a fraternity, what's the deal with those?
And last but not least, what do you guys as a class do for fun(school sponsored or not)?
-Really good bars that offer a quality selection of beers, at great prices.
-Several dance clubs that are reasonable (perhaps not quite up to east/west coast standards BUT cover is $0 - $10, and drinks can be < $5).
-Live music -- there are some great cover bands in AA.
-Bowling -- there's an inter-grad school league
-IM sports across the various schools -- the M1 class is pretty active (you haven't lived until you've tried inner-tube waterpolo or broomball). We had a winning team in several sports like baseball, basketball. Ultimate frisbee is really popular too.
-Karaoke! there's a place within 10 minutes that offers private rooms
-outdoor paths along the river for running, canoeing. There are a lot of joggers in the class.
-Salsa dancing -- a group of my classmates goes every 1-2 weeks.
-Squash courts at the UM gym
-Mafia & board game nights (but this might just be the M1 class). A group of us gets together to play mafia about once a month.
-Movie nights -- both at people's apartments and at the local Quality 16 theater (you can get 2 tickets for $5 on tuesday nights!)
-people have organized ski trips and trips to chicago during our CFM weekends (relatively light workload)
-there also seems to be several students in the class who play D&D and/or WoW
-lots of school extracurriculars are fun, like the Galens Smoker (play/musical) or BioRhythms (student-run/choreographed dance groups for all levels). There's also a med student rock band that's pretty good -- Ministers of Funk.
Aww, a waitlist for second look weekend? The competition never stops. Maybe later in the summer we can organize an informal weekend for acceptees to hang out in A2... I have an apartment here so I'll be in town!
Heh, that might be fun. 7 bedroom house with almost everyone leaving here...
And what's with this waitlist thing. Such a foreign concept (until I hear from Penn of course, if I'm lucky).
I don't know that I can add a whole lot to Amandil's answer, but I'll give it a shot.
There are no hidden rankings that surface sometime down the road for us. (That doesn't mean that the school doesn't track performance in order to monitor the curriculum, changes, etc. The info, however, is not relevant or apparent to us from a student perspective.)
I also do not know about year-long research funding, but I know they had a series of presentations/info sessions on it this year (I didn't go because I'm not doing that) so the information is definitely out there. I suspect Robert Ruiz could provide you with an answer fairly quickly. I don't know if you'll be at 2nd look, but the MSTP coordinator will probably give a brief presentation on research in general and will be able to answer all of the questions you might have.
I'm not sure if it was mentioned that the medical school fraternities are co-ed, some more women than men (I think.) I don't live in one, but they seem like a pretty fun option that is also quite cost-effective.
There are definitely tons of fun things to do. I won't bore you with the "not quite non-school related, but check out what great people we are" ones , but there are a lot of medical and community service activities that are a lot of fun, as well as interest groups exploring various specialties and areas of practice.
-BIG TEN Athletics! (Including great seats with a big group of classmates for football games.)
-We have a good group of people (of all experience and ability levels) who play Ultimate Frisbee both in pick-up games right here by the med school and at various locations around Ann Arbor through Ann Arbor Ultimate.
-There is a group of people who rock climb at the University's climbing wall every Tuesday.
-Dance groups, Singing Groups, Life Science Orchestra and other musical groups,
-Med Student Book Club (fun reading, not med-related stuff)
-Great films at the Michigan Theater (The League of Historic American Theatres 2006 Outstanding Historic Theatre Award Winner.)
-Tons of outdoors stuff in the arb and botanical gardens.
-The Ann Arbor Art Fair, Film Festival, and Folk Festivals.
-Performances through the University Musical Society
-The Royal Shakespeare Company (just ended the third of three residencies in Ann Arbor and is in negotiations for another 3 - their only visits to the US!) We also had a med school exclusive "Breakfast with Shakespeare" series through which the lucky participants received copies of, and tickets to, the 3 plays as well as a free breakfast and lecture from a "rockstar" undergrad professor who is a world-renowned Shakespearian expert.
I'm sure I missed a bunch of obvious things, but that's what you get off the top of my head... and what I lacked in quantity I tried to make up for with URLs.
So I know they had sent out e-mails about being waitlisted for the second look weekend, but has anyone received any sort of confirmation or anything for the second look weekend if they got a spot? I had emailed Sandy to confirm that I actually was on the the list to attend (so I could confirm the date in my planner), but has anyone received any word? I wonder because back in October I actually never received a secondary application invite until I called - I happen to have a history of UMich emails getting lost in cyperspace.
Never heard of them. I did a quick google search, and they seem a bit farther away than most students choose to live. If the price is right, they're nice, and there is a good bus connection that could be a good option though.Anyone know anything about Village Park apartments? I'm going to take a look at them this week...
2007 match list is up:
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I'm pretty sure it's public information since it's not on a password protected page.
Never heard of them. I did a quick google search, and they seem a bit farther away than most students choose to live. If the price is right, they're nice, and there is a good bus connection that could be a good option though.
So would 700 be a good deal for a one bedroom in ann arbor? It includes heat, has a washer/dryer and allows pets. I can't decide. It seems like so much money, but maybe it's all a matter of perspective...should I just suck it up and do it? My current lease is coming to an end soon and I need to decide where I want to live.
Thanks in advance for any advice
They could... but they won't. $5M might sound like a lot, but when you throw out full rides for folks paying out of state tuition (or in state tuition for that matter) the totals add up pretty fast. There will definitely be some people getting some great offers, but they'll still be the minority. Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to discourage anyone before the good news comes out on the 30th, but reading some of the posts on here might set some unrealistic expectations for the majority of us who choose to come to Michigan becasue it is a great school with great, happy students, often despite better financial aid offers elsewhere.Five Million Dollars?!?! With that much money they could cut the price for every single incoming M1 by almost $7,500/year, assuming a final class size of about 170 like in previous years.
They could... but they won't. $5M might sound like a lot, but when you throw out full rides for folks paying out of state tuition (or in state tuition for that matter) the totals add up pretty fast. There will definitely be some people getting some great offers, but they'll still be the minority. Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to discourage anyone before the good news comes out on the 30th, but reading some of the posts on here might set some unrealistic expectations for the majority of us who choose to come to Michigan becasue it is a great school with great, happy students, often despite better financial aid offers elsewhere.
Current Students: Med Center Court or Island Dr. Appts; honestly, which is nicer? Are there any other nice places to live that you can think of??
It's nice to see that we've clawed our way back to the top 10 although I privately suspect not being top 10 allowed us to recruit a more layed-back class...
hey everybody,
just wishing you all good luck on (what is supposedly) scholarship announcement day! hopefully we'll hear in the next few hours...
How do we hear about those?
Very true. I definitely agree on the laid back thing.(is it layed or laid BTW?)