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Mine too. Looks like 2 more weeks before I'm verified.
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Western U - Pomona (COMP) Discussion Thread 2012 - 2013
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Mine too. Looks like 2 more weeks before I'm verified.
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Just incase anyone else is in my position: Everything is marked as received on the online app system, however I have not received a 'complete' email. It's been about 2 weeks. I called and admissions said I am complete and under review. So I guess it means we don't need the complete email to be under review. This may be common knowledge to some of you but it was new to me lol.
If you guys need to know where to call to inquire about your application, this link gives all the contact information. You can get someone directly on the phone who is in charge of your app according to your last name:
http://prospective.westernu.edu/ost...-rcvd-d&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=appplan
I had an error in my LOR's so I had to call today. They were really nice. She was able to confirm that I was complete.
http://prospective.westernu.edu/ost...-rcvd-d&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=appplan
I had an error in my LOR's so I had to call today. They were really nice. She was able to confirm that I was complete.
It looks like 8/23 was the first one last year and 9/10 the year before. I would say we'll be waiting another couple weeks.
So I called last week because they hadn't posted that they received my MCAT scores online. The ladies in the admissions office that I spoke to were so sweet! All of my materials are now posted as received, so I think that makes me complete as of yesterday. Hoping for some Western love! I literally went to school right down the street and I live less than 20 minutes away. Great school, great people, and close to family? What more could I ask for?!
Are you guys getting all these emails about information sessions and preview days?
I hear my phone beep with an email, see it's from Western, and then the first sentence always starts with, "You have been invited to..."
Then I freak out thinking it's an interview invite..... only to realize my emotions were played, yet again... 😏
Sigh...
I hear my phone beep with an email, see it's from Western, and then the first sentence always starts with, "You have been invited to..."
Then I freak out thinking it's an interview invite..... only to realize my emotions were played, yet again... 😏
Sigh...
+1 it's such a tease
Haha this is exactly how I feel
I submitted my secondary and my letter of recs 7/29 through interfolio.
Should I just wait a few more days before calling?
I submitted mine before you and called yesterday. they told me that I just need to wait longer before they change my status.
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The staff at the Lebanon campus told me that it can take up to 10 days to process letters from Interfolio.
Be patient.
Wait.
Calm.
AAAAAAAAAAH! I can't stand it any more!
dsoz
You have got to be kidding? What other factors outside of your gpa and mcat do you have going on? Your stats are not that bad for such an early rejection
I am so sorry. Mind sharing how you were given this news?
best of luck with other schools.
I got a masters degree, 3.9 gpa there. Submitted in mid July. No do letter but 3 md letters. Shadowing in and out of the country. And I got an email saying "no thanks" from them.
Best
Z
Sounds pretty close to what my app looks like, stats wise... Uh oh...
Sorry to hear that! I hope you end up somewhere that fits you really well. Good luck!
they do say on their website that they prefer a DO letter. This is the only reason why I can think why they rejected you so early.
as my health career adviser said, strongly recommended = unspoken requirement
Don't give up. If I were you I would call (or email) the admissions office and ask about the reasons that you were rejected. My experience with the COMP is that the admissions people are really nice and answer all your questions promptly. At the very least they can give you a heads up that there may be something wrong with your application that you don't know about.
Don't go out easy! Fight tooth and nail against a bad decision.
dsoz
Sage words indeed.
I certainly hope this isn't the case. I have 5 letters available to me, all from allopathic physicians with whom I've worked and that know me very well. I don't know any DOs in my area. I saw a DO anesthesiologist in our operating room one day, but that's about it. I certainly didn't want to ask a complete stranger to write me a letter. *sigh*
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Here is what I would do ... Call and ask why you were rejected. First it could be unintended and second they could tell you why. You may have written a bad essay, got a bad lor, marked something incorrectly on your app, the do lor maybe more of a requirement then first thought . Call them
Call them and ask why. Could be an error
I have talked extensively with one of the professors at the Lebanon campus. He is the leader of a pre-med club that is sponsored by OPSO (Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Oregon). He has said that Western is very forgiving about the DO/MD letter. As long as the letter is from a physician that is most important.
That being said, the school does want you to know about what a DO does, and how the philosophy is different from the MD track. How are you going to truly learn about this if you don't shadow a DO?
I don't think it is the LOR that warranted the rejection this early in the cycle.
dsoz
I was accepted and didn't have a DO letter. I only had one MD letter.
Sarlack and MADNEMO, I'm really sorry for your unfortunate news. I wish you the best of luck with other schools. Seeing you guys get outright rejected this early, I'm sure, is scaring the crap out of the rest of us with comparable or lower stats. One last thing I want to ask you both is, are you CA residents or OOS?
Im a Nevada resident, but last year UNLV had 10ish people get into Western so they seem to take students from here. Ill call Monday and see if they will give me some details. Again Good Luck to the rest of you applying!!! Keep up hope!!!
I'm also a Nevada resident but I haven't heard anything yet.
Wait! Did u get a secondary from them though? Coz I'm on the same boat as you! Now, I'm worried.
Sarlack What kind of masters program did you do was it a hard science or a formal SMP program?
Western U. is a private school. There are no state funds associated with the school, so there is no preference for IS/OOS. They take money from all without discrimination based on location. It does look like they do have discrimination based on lower GPA.
I am so sorry to hear about the rejections from all you fine folk. I really hope that you can get in to some school this year.
dsoz
I hope that are done with rejections.... I am getting enough MD rejections I don't care to add DO rejections too.
Can someone please comment on what the word limits are for these secondary prompts? I'm pre-writing as I await verification and MCAT scores. I have the prompts, just no word limit (and searched). Feel free to guide me to a previous post with the limit if I missed it.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Search the word "limit".... but yeah it's 1650 characters for each essay.
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Thanks! I must've made a typo, 'cause I searched for "word limit" first then tried "limit"...or thought I tried "limit," lol.
That's not a given by any means.
In the case of Western, 83% of the class of 2015 was IS.
Heh, is it wrong that I imagined your avatar reading that sentence while looking at his paper?
Just got an Interview Invite!!
Exciting! Congrats! When were you complete?
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