when you found out you got in, how did you react ?

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Didn't do anything. Read the email, decided to skip class. Called mom, pretty quiet. Went on about day as usual and told my siblings and dad. Very anti climactic
 
Bear Grylls said:
Didn't do anything. Read the email, decided to skip class. Called mom, pretty quiet. Went on about day as usual and told my siblings and dad. Very anti climactic
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Would expect nothing different from bear Grylls, except maybe then eating some bugs for survival
 
Man... I want to be able to post here so bad. With October 15th looming I will hopefully get my chance!
 
I applied DO only, but Ill throw my reaction in with the mix.

This is my first year applying, and I wasnt sure how well it would go for me. In my undergrad, I was laughed at by my health professions committee when I asked for a composite letter, and with the grades and MCAT I sported I guess I cant really hold that against them. While maybe I knew I was a hardworking student, how could I ask them to believe me with nothing to back that up? In the end, I was told medical school was never going to happen for me and that I shouldnt bother. It really broke my heart.

I went to Hopkins and entered a 1 year masters of health science in cancer & reproductive biology and got a 3.91, started applying to schools and hoped for the best. I never would have thought Id get ANY interviews on the first attempt, nonetheless *3*. When I finally got an interview at my dream school VCOM, I already had an acceptance under my belt, but I didnt want to give up hope. The other acceptance was very surreal, and the idea of living out my dream had never actually hit me. They told me Id get a call on Friday after their meeting, so when I was running on the treadmill thursday night and my phone rang with a VA area code, I was thrown through a loop.

I was hysterical with joy and loudly shouting praises of thanks into the phone, so much so that I was asked to get off the treadmill and leave. Which was totally cool with me because I had to call everyone I knew. I always imagined that I would cry... but a crowded gym definitely isnt ideal so I just cheesed it.
 
Well, this is my favorite thread on SDN, and I'm honored to finally be able to write on it.

I waited with baited breath all day for UMichigan's 12:01 am acceptance deadline. When it finally came, I pressed refresh on the status page, and....nothing. Nothing for another couple minutes. Then I learn they're actually giving most acceptances at 12:05, so I wait. When 12:05 rolls around, I click refresh. The page takes forever to load and I'm starting to lose hope. Finally, it loads: "interview scheduled". Damn. Same as before.

At this point I'm feeling really down, but I'm hopeful to be one of the few people deferred (waitlist is essentially a rejection at UMich).

I let my friends and family know via text message that I didn't get in, and lay back on my bed to listen to music.

There I am, surprisingly composed yet very much crestfallen, receiving occasional text-message encouragements from a couple friends, when my phone starts to buzz. I look over at it, and the caller ID has been blocked. It's 12:40 am though, so I get really excited. Could this be Michigan?

Surprisingly, no.

It was Ohio State, my alma mater. I was stunned, as I was expecting to hear from them on the 16th!

I was even more stunned that I managed to keep it together on the phone.

It still hasn't hit me. I'm like David after the dentist: "Is this real life??"
It is, and I am thrilled 🙂
 
member1029 said:
Well, this is my favorite thread on SDN, and I'm honored to finally be able to write on it.

I waited with baited breath all day for UMichigan's 12:01 am acceptance deadline. When it finally came, I pressed refresh on the status page, and....nothing. Nothing for another couple minutes. Then I learn they're actually giving most acceptances at 12:05, so I wait. When 12:05 rolls around, I click refresh. The page takes forever to load and I'm starting to lose hope. Finally, it loads: "interview scheduled". Damn. Same as before.

At this point I'm feeling really down, but I'm hopeful to be one of the few people deferred (waitlist is essentially a rejection at UMich).

I let my friends and family know via text message that I didn't get in, and lay back on my bed to listen to music.

There I am, surprisingly composed yet very much crestfallen, receiving occasional text-message encouragements from a couple friends, when my phone starts to buzz. I look over at it, and the caller ID has been blocked. It's 12:40 am though, so I get really excited. Could this be Michigan?

Surprisingly, no.

It was Ohio State, my alma mater. I was stunned, as I was expecting to hear from them on the 16th!

I was even more stunned that I managed to keep it together on the phone.

It still hasn't hit me. I'm like David after the dentist: "Is this real life??"
It is, and I am thrilled 🙂
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Sorry about Michigan bro, but congrats on OSU! You didn't want to switch allegiance anyway 😉
 
thought it was a voicemail from my pharmacy reminding me of a refill so i almost deleted it... then i listened and got a HUGE smile on my face. Had to listen about three more times before believe it was real🙂
 
member1029 said:
Well, this is my favorite thread on SDN, and I'm honored to finally be able to write on it.

I waited with baited breath all day for UMichigan's 12:01 am acceptance deadline. When it finally came, I pressed refresh on the status page, and....nothing. Nothing for another couple minutes. Then I learn they're actually giving most acceptances at 12:05, so I wait. When 12:05 rolls around, I click refresh. The page takes forever to load and I'm starting to lose hope. Finally, it loads: "interview scheduled". Damn. Same as before.

At this point I'm feeling really down, but I'm hopeful to be one of the few people deferred (waitlist is essentially a rejection at UMich).

I let my friends and family know via text message that I didn't get in, and lay back on my bed to listen to music.

There I am, surprisingly composed yet very much crestfallen, receiving occasional text-message encouragements from a couple friends, when my phone starts to buzz. I look over at it, and the caller ID has been blocked. It's 12:40 am though, so I get really excited. Could this be Michigan?

Surprisingly, no.

It was Ohio State, my alma mater. I was stunned, as I was expecting to hear from them on the 16th!

I was even more stunned that I managed to keep it together on the phone.

It still hasn't hit me. I'm like David after the dentist: "Is this real life??"
It is, and I am thrilled 🙂
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A school called you past midnight?
 
Got the voicemail this morning about an acceptance. I was completely elated and had to replay it twice to make sure that it wasn't a dream =)
 
Was frantically checkinvery time it vibrated this morning: text message, email from expedia, emome a doctoring
 
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Amba said:
Sorry about Michigan bro, but congrats on OSU! You didn't want to switch allegiance anyway 😉
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Got damn right he/she isn't switching allegiance... That's sack religious to go to scUM as an OSU grad. Go Buckeyes.


jk 🙂



Go bucks, though....
 
I've dreamed for years to be able to post in this tread and now that I've been accepted less than an hour ago, I finally can. However, I didn't really have a reaction. I was happy but I didn't scream or jump up or down or anything when I got the email.
 
I checked my phone right when I woke up on October 16, because I knew that would be the first day I could hear from one of the schools where I had interviewed. No calls. Bummer. Does that mean I've been rejected? I check my emails, and I see one from my school. My heart skips a beat. I think, "Well, if they didn't call me, that means this must be a rejection notice."

I read the email, "It was a great pleasure..." is the introduction, and I think, "Oh no, here comes the 'BUT'." But the but never came. It ended with "CONGRATULATIONS!" and I got really excited! I am going to be a doctor! I post on Facebook and call my mom. My dad is working so I can't call him. She seems pretty excited but not that excited. I think she expects me to get into other schools she likes more... and she expects me to get in anyway.

But I am super stoked! I sit down for a few minutes and... I just... sit there. Thinking. The more I think about it, the more teary-eyed I get. When I decided to switch careers and pursue medicine, it was such a time of great fear and uncertainty for me. I didn't know if I was going to make it. It's too late for me... I'm a failure. On the day of the MCAT, I got something resembling a panic attack during the first physics passage, and I was consumed with fear and self-doubt... I didn't know if I was going to make it. I grew up in a very poor small town, both of my parents dropped out of high school, and nobody in my family had ever gone to college or done something like medicine. Was this too much of a reach for me?

So for me this is such a powerful experience... I have made it! I am going to be a doctor! It paid off! It has been a long time of working hard with so many uncertainties... But no longer. Things are certain. 🙂
 
Started shaking and teared up. Called my dad and did a dance. Basically what I thought would happen, haha.
 
osprey099 said:
I've dreamed for years to be able to post in this tread and now that I've been accepted less than an hour ago, I finally can. However, I didn't really have a reaction. I was happy but I didn't scream or jump up or down or anything when I got the email.
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Haha, that reminds me of me last year. Not all of us express enthusiasm well. 😉
 
pyrrion89 said:
I checked my phone right when I woke up on October 16, because I knew that would be the first day I could hear from one of the schools where I had interviewed. No calls. Bummer. Does that mean I've been rejected? I check my emails, and I see one from my school. My heart skips a beat. I think, "Well, if they didn't call me, that means this must be a rejection notice."

I read the email, "It was a great pleasure..." is the introduction, and I think, "Oh no, here comes the 'BUT'." But the but never came. It ended with "CONGRATULATIONS!" and I got really excited! I am going to be a doctor! I post on Facebook and call my mom. My dad is working so I can't call him. She seems pretty excited but not that excited. I think she expects me to get into other schools she likes more... and she expects me to get in anyway.

But I am super stoked! I sit down for a few minutes and... I just... sit there. Thinking. The more I think about it, the more teary-eyed I get. When I decided to switch careers and pursue medicine, it was such a time of great fear and uncertainty for me. I didn't know if I was going to make it. It's too late for me... I'm a failure. On the day of the MCAT, I got something resembling a panic attack during the first physics passage, and I was consumed with fear and self-doubt... I didn't know if I was going to make it. I grew up in a very poor small town, both of my parents dropped out of high school, and nobody in my family had ever gone to college or done something like medicine. Was this too much of a reach for me?

So for me this is such a powerful experience... I have made it! I am going to be a doctor! It paid off! It has been a long time of working hard with so many uncertainties... But no longer. Things are certain. 🙂
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CONGRATS!!! I love hearing stories like this. You made it!
 
pyrrion89 said:
I checked my phone right when I woke up on October 16, because I knew that would be the first day I could hear from one of the schools where I had interviewed. No calls. Bummer. Does that mean I've been rejected? I check my emails, and I see one from my school. My heart skips a beat. I think, "Well, if they didn't call me, that means this must be a rejection notice."

I read the email, "It was a great pleasure..." is the introduction, and I think, "Oh no, here comes the 'BUT'." But the but never came. It ended with "CONGRATULATIONS!" and I got really excited! I am going to be a doctor! I post on Facebook and call my mom. My dad is working so I can't call him. She seems pretty excited but not that excited. I think she expects me to get into other schools she likes more... and she expects me to get in anyway.

But I am super stoked! I sit down for a few minutes and... I just... sit there. Thinking. The more I think about it, the more teary-eyed I get. When I decided to switch careers and pursue medicine, it was such a time of great fear and uncertainty for me. I didn't know if I was going to make it. It's too late for me... I'm a failure. On the day of the MCAT, I got something resembling a panic attack during the first physics passage, and I was consumed with fear and self-doubt... I didn't know if I was going to make it. I grew up in a very poor small town, both of my parents dropped out of high school, and nobody in my family had ever gone to college or done something like medicine. Was this too much of a reach for me?

So for me this is such a powerful experience... I have made it! I am going to be a doctor! It paid off! It has been a long time of working hard with so many uncertainties... But no longer. Things are certain. 🙂
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Congratulations Mr./Ms. pyrrion89; you are indeed a deserving applicant with a compelling story; all the best on the rest of your numerous anticipated appectances at stellar schools.
 
I've been wanting to post in here for so long! This thread kept me going when I debated between applying again and going with plan B...

I was accepted last night! I was at a total dive bar with my boyfriend having a beer before going to the movies when I noticed the email. I had to have him read it for me because I couldn't get my brain to understand that I was accepted. We jumped around for a bit, called my parents and friends, decided to go to the movie (it was Gravity...I wasn't going to pass it up...) then stopped on the way home for a couple of bottles of champagne. I just can't stop smiling! I'm going to be a doctor!!!

I have applied 3 times, taken the MCAT 3 times, and have almost given up more times than I can count. Never give up! For me, at least, the 3rd time really is the charm 🙂
 
Sassafrass23 said:
I've been wanting to post in here for so long! This thread kept me going when I debated between applying again and going with plan B...

I was accepted last night! I was at a total dive bar with my boyfriend having a beer before going to the movies when I noticed the email. I had to have him read it for me because I couldn't get my brain to understand that I was accepted. We jumped around for a bit, called my parents and friends, decided to go to the movie (it was Gravity...I wasn't going to pass it up...) then stopped on the way home for a couple of bottles of champagne. I just can't stop smiling! I'm going to be a doctor!!!

I have applied 3 times, taken the MCAT 3 times, and have almost given up more times than I can count. Never give up! For me, at least, the 3rd time really is the charm 🙂
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That's an awesome story! Thanks for sharing. CONGRATS!!
 
Mine has a similar beginning to Pyrrion's post. I have waited soooo long to be able to post here and am pretty sure I have read through all of the posts on this thread.

The school I got my acceptance from said (during interview day) that they would just mail out the acceptances via snail mail on the 16th. They said they would try and call some people with acceptances, but you may have to wait to hear. All morning I was waiting anxiously for a phone call, not knowing if one was even going to come. Out of nowhere my phone vibrates. I don't get my hopes up, it is the vibrate pattern saying I have an email rather than an incoming call. However, I look at the subject line and my stomach drops, it just says "from xx school of medicine". Naturally, I assume that if am getting an email rather than a call or letter, it must be bad news. I tell myself I am not gonna open it until later. About one second passes and I open the email. It says I have been accepted.

I told those waiting outside the class I TA for, exchanged some hugs, and called the family. The fiancée was ecstatic and I made both my parents cry with happiness before they had to leave for work. It all still seems so unreal and I could not be happier. Fantastic, wonderful day.
 
To add to and concur with Pyrrion's story, schools whose acceptance emails don't begin with "CONGRATULATIONS" are evil :smuggrin:

Seriously, the email subject line is
XX(school name)XXX School of Medicine
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The first lines of the email read:
Dear Entadus,

It is a great pleasure to ..........
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For someone opening the email with a smart phone with a tiny screen.... talk about giving a guy a heart attack!!! :laugh:

Anyway, here is my acceptance story! Keep in mind that on the 15th at midnight I learned that I had failed to get into my top choice (U Michigan). The day of the 15th I interviewed at Cincinnati. (Must march on soldier.....:hurting:)

On the morning of the 16th I wake up in my hotel room. I had just spent the night in the Hilton in Chicago since I was on my way from Ohio to Wisconsin to continue the interview trail. I'd been on the trail for more than a week, and was looking forward to the 4th and final interview of the trip in Wisconsin (8th interview of the season! Serious burnout...)

Of course my first instinct was to grab my phone. I was expecting news from the school where I had my first interview, but I had no emails. Log into SDN, nobody had any news yet. So sick of this suspense and waiting. Text Gf back at home in CA "good morning". And then immediately my phone buzzes with the special 'email' vibration (the beating of a heart, very fitting eh). Check email.... Inbox (1)...... Trying to open it on my iPhone... I read the quoted subject line above^.........

Once I managed to read past that and figured out I was accepted, I felt a surge of happiness and instantly started texting my loved ones with the good news. All of the stress of being *essentially* rejected from my top choice the day before instantly evaporated! After getting dressed I decided to treat myself to a huge breakfast at a nearby diner before meeting up with a good friend who had recently started grad school at the University of Chicago. Told him that I was going to be a doctor and we celebrated with a pitcher of beer.
 
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I found out this morning at my on-campus job. I work at the Undergrad Admissions Office, and when I found out I went to go tell my friend, she starts dancing and I start crying (happy tears, of course). I'm sure all the little high schoolers were super confused, haha. It's such an awesome feeling, such pure happiness knowing that my dreams are coming true, that my hard work is paying off, and that I'm going to be a doctor!
 
I knew my result would come in at a specific time on Monday (they were a bit early!), and I was in the middle of a research meeting. When I saw I was accepted via my iPhone I had to keep my composure for the next hour and then beeline it back to my lab and call everyone on the way. I also felt like I finally deflated, and all the pent up nerves and energy finally left to go to a better place haha.
 
Breakfast Club fist pump. Held it for wayyy to long in front of an office full of people, because I was completely frozen in shock. I did not expect a call that day. As most have said, my first thought was oh my gawd I am going to be a doctor. Amazing feeling, I think I am still in shock.
 
mttamgirl said:
I found out this morning at my on-campus job. I work at the Undergrad Admissions Office, and when I found out I went to go tell my friend, she starts dancing and I start crying (happy tears, of course). I'm sure all the little high schoolers were super confused, haha. It's such an awesome feeling, such pure happiness knowing that my dreams are coming true, that my hard work is paying off, and that I'm going to be a doctor!
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Grats! I totally know who you are. You were at my Creighton interview. I was one of the two Asians at the interview day, haha.
 
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Ha, I felt I under reacted. I just got done with an interview and checked my e-mail. After I found out I called my girlfriend, my dad (who was picking me up) and then my mom. My dad and I just talked for the next 4 hours during our car ride.
 
mttamgirl said:
I found out this morning at my on-campus job. I work at the Undergrad Admissions Office, and when I found out I went to go tell my friend, she starts dancing and I start crying (happy tears, of course). I'm sure all the little high schoolers were super confused, haha. It's such an awesome feeling, such pure happiness knowing that my dreams are coming true, that my hard work is paying off, and that I'm going to be a doctor!
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Vans42 said:
I knew my result would come in at a specific time on Monday (they were a bit early!), and I was in the middle of a research meeting. When I saw I was accepted via my iPhone I had to keep my composure for the next hour and then beeline it back to my lab and call everyone on the way. I also felt like I finally deflated, and all the pent up nerves and energy finally left to go to a better place haha.
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DaenarysDuhh said:
Breakfast Club fist pump. Held it for wayyy to long in front of an office full of people, because I was completely frozen in shock. I did not expect a call that day. As most have said, my first thought was oh my gawd I am going to be a doctor. Amazing feeling, I think I am still in shock.
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Congrats guys and gals! How special that we won't be pre-meds for much longer 😍 It's been a pleasure SDN'ing with yall haha 🙂
 
Had pretty much perfect timing for my acceptance. My parents were visiting me over here in Turkey and I have had school off for Eid. My wife and I have lived in Turkey for a little over a year and this is the first time my parents have been over, so that was already awesome. To top that off, got the email from my state school a couple of days ago while sitting in our living room with everyone. I just clapped my hands together once, shouted YES, everyone turns to look at me and I say calmly "I was just accepted to medical school."

(simultaneously)
Pop: "Yeah-eh! Alrighhhtt!"
Mom: "Woohoo!"
Wife: "Yay!"

It was pretty late at night so we went to bed soon after that. But today we had a celebratory dinner at this great restaurant right along the shores of the Bosphorous, right at sunset no less. Drank some beer, cheers'd to my acceptance, then came home and me and my wife crushed my parents in spades two games in a row. Life rules.
 
: D We are going to be doctors guys!
 
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When I received the call I was all like

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Cried. Call my parents. Didn't open a single notebook during any of my classes.
 
i was in the car with my mom and i screamed that I got in and she was so happy that she started to cry lol. she then offered to take over the wheel bc i was shaking lol
 
After continuously refreshing my email for about 3 straight hours an admissions email finally popped up. I held my breath, my heart was pounding, I opened it and... it didn't tell me anything, because the news was in a stupid attachment! Finally got the guts to open the attachment and ACCEPTED!

I hugged my nearest coworker and danced around for a couple of minutes before calling my fiance and mom to share the good news 😀 :soexcited: :claps: :banana:

I can't believe I get to be a doctor 😛
 
I can finally post on this thread 🙂

I knew the calls would come (if you were accepted) at a certain time and I was doing everything I can to keep busy. I went over to my sister's place to help her set up her router, and in the middle of talking to her, my phone started vibrating and it was from an unknown/blocked number. I picked up and all I heard was "Hello ThunderBear this is so and so from the office of this and this at Stritch..." I couldn't help but burst out "oh my god, I have been waiting to hear from you all day, thank you so much for calling, you don't know what this means to me, thank you, oh my god, I'm so sorry, what were you going to say?" She burst out laughing and offered me a seat for incoming class. I asked her if she was sure, and thanked her profusely and probably sounded like a complete crazy person to her.

I went home, told my gf (who burst out crying), called her parents, posted on facebook, drank some beers while listening to some awesome EDM, then I went to bed. I had work the next morning in the hospital, and I told the nurses that if they don't see me again, they'll know why. lol
 
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