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

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Whatyousay said:
I suppose that was a dumb question in retrospect. I always hang up when I see an area code that I don't recognize, so my greatest fear is that I end up ignoring the wrong call at the wrong time. :scared:
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I just couldn't resist the easy setup. 🙂 Rest easy that the phone call is merely a courtesy, they will leave a voicemail, and that you will receive written correspondence communicating the offer. Not all schools do phone call notifications; I learned of my acceptances via email first.
 
I read through this thread back when I was in the midst of applications. It was so inspiring and got me all excited reading everyone's stories. I'm happy to be able to post here 😀.

It was towards the end of interview season. I thought my first interview had gone so well and was shocked when I was rejected, so I was pretty depressed about it. When I got a second interview, I was determined not to get my hopes up again. The faculty interview portion was really strange, so I was sure I was going to be waitlisted or rejected.

I was pretty down about the application process one day, convinced I was going to have to reapply (and retake the MCAT) and started thinking of backup options. The next day, I had barely woken up when my phone rings. When I answered the phone, I immediately knew it was the dean of admissions (she has a very distinct voice) and my heart started pounding.

Dean: "Is this [my name]?"
Me: "YESSSSS!" (barely containing my excitement)
Dean: "I'm the Dean of.... (don't even remember what she said, I was too excited)... Congratu-"
Me: "OMG THANK YOUUUUUU" (practically screaming)
Dean: "-lations!"

She laughed, and told me my acceptance letter is in the mail. After I hung up, I couldn't stop shaking and the tears were streaming down my face. I tried to start calling friends and family, but no one was picking up the phone! I was home alone (my roommate was out), so I was jumping around my apartment, ready to explode if I kept this news to myself a moment longer. I was considering running outside to tell a stranger, when everybody started calling me back at the same time. I spent the rest of the night on the phone spreading the good news 🙂.

Everyone thought it was weird that I received my acceptance via phone call on a Sunday afternoon. They were starting to convince me it was a prank call. So I didn't fully believe it until I got my acceptance letter in the mail a few days later :laugh:.
 
A whopping 357 days after submitting my primary application, I received a call at 2PM on my Google Voice number which I had used only for my web designing business and medical school applications.

Caller: hi, is this paul [butchered version of my last name]
Me: Yes
Caller: this is Linda Prado (recognized her name from Texas Tech correspondence!)
Me: Oh...
Caller: did you get the email about being on the Texas Tech wait list a few weeks ago
Me: Yes
Caller: well, we've had some movement and we can offer you an acceptance
Me: oh... (at this point I was just confused because internally, I had come to accept that I didn't get in and pumped about doing well in the upcoming cycle that I had just submitted the primary for)
Caller: What's wrong, do you have other plans?
Me: No no no! I'm just shocked to hear this late in the year.
Caller: haha we hand out acceptances all the way till matriculation

And she said some other things about mail and registration... I just blanked out in joy and confusion for the rest of the conversation.

The rest of the day was spent not caring about the AMCAS and reaaplication. And telling family and friends
 
For my first acceptance it was around 9 o'clock at night and I was with my family at a restaurant. My mom looked down at her phone and I saw tears in her eyes and a face of shock. For a second I thought someone had died. She looked up and said "I got an email from school x....YOU'RE IN!". I looked at her as if she was speaking in a different language and at first said that it had to be a mistake as I had been waitlisted and wasn't expecting to get in. After reading it I got up from the table, ran (not walked) out of the restaurant and jumped up and down in the parking lot like an idiot. I'm sure a lot of people thought I was crazy but I didn't care at that moment. :laugh:
 
Tapepsi said:
For my first acceptance it was around 9 o'clock at night and I was with my family at a restaurant. My mom looked down at her phone and I saw tears in her eyes and a face of shock. For a second I thought someone had died. She looked up and said "I got an email from school x....YOU'RE IN!". I looked at her as if she was speaking in a different language and at first said that it had to be a mistake as I had been waitlisted and wasn't expecting to get in. After reading it I got up from the table, ran (not walked) out of the restaurant and jumped up and down in the parking lot like an idiot. I'm sure a lot of people thought I was crazy but I didn't care at that moment. :laugh:
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I don't understand. The school emailed your mother? Or she hacked into your account? Or she managed your emails for applications?...either way, congrats to you(r mother)!
 
WeAreNotRobots said:
I don't understand. The school emailed your mother? Or she hacked into your account? Or she managed your emails for applications?...either way, congrats to you(r mother)!
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Yeah...there were security concerns about my email account and my laptop in general (long story) so her email was listed instead. But yeah I think she was more excited than I was about the acceptance. :laugh:
 
So I had finally come to terms where I was going for med school (thinking not my first choice but hey its a good school and I don't have to reappply), as I was certain all wait list movement was done. So in the morning I went to the said school and bought the hoodie for it. Later that day I went to the gym and just as I got there my dad texted me: call me very important. I called him and he told me I got rejected from the school I thought I had a chance of getting off the waitlist from, but then told me the letter behind it was an acceptance from the other waitlist which I hadn't even imagined I stood a chance at. I started screaming and running around in circle in the middle of the gym and everyone was just staring at me. After hanging up I ran outside to my car to go tell my gf but first decided to call my dad again to make sure what he told me was true. After the confirmation I started driving and was screaming the whole way, and then decided to call him again and asked for him to send a picture of the letter cuz I still didn't believe him. About 3 mins latter I got to my gf's place and told her the news all while pacing around in disbelief. After about another minute had passed I called my dad again and said I hadn't gotten the picture yet, but received it while talking to him. I instantly called up all my best friends and went to all you can eat sushi and we all celebrated. The next morning I drove back home to pick up my letter, and because my online status hadn't been updated yet I called admissions to confirm that it was true haha.

I'm still in disbelief and so ecstatic! Sure makes it hard to study for finals..
 
bpost137 said:
I read through this thread back when I was in the midst of applications. It was so inspiring and got me all excited reading everyone's stories. I'm happy to be able to post here 😀.

It was towards the end of interview season. I thought my first interview had gone so well and was shocked when I was rejected, so I was pretty depressed about it. When I got a second interview, I was determined not to get my hopes up again. The faculty interview portion was really strange, so I was sure I was going to be waitlisted or rejected.

I was pretty down about the application process one day, convinced I was going to have to reapply (and retake the MCAT) and started thinking of backup options. The next day, I had barely woken up when my phone rings. When I answered the phone, I immediately knew it was the dean of admissions (she has a very distinct voice) and my heart started pounding.

Dean: "Is this [my name]?"
Me: "YESSSSS!" (barely containing my excitement)
Dean: "I'm the Dean of.... (don't even remember what she said, I was too excited)... Congratu-"
Me: "OMG THANK YOUUUUUU" (practically screaming)
Dean: "-lations!"

She laughed, and told me my acceptance letter is in the mail. After I hung up, I couldn't stop shaking and the tears were streaming down my face. I tried to start calling friends and family, but no one was picking up the phone! I was home alone (my roommate was out), so I was jumping around my apartment, ready to explode if I kept this news to myself a moment longer. I was considering running outside to tell a stranger, when everybody started calling me back at the same time. I spent the rest of the night on the phone spreading the good news 🙂.

Everyone thought it was weird that I received my acceptance via phone call on a Sunday afternoon. They were starting to convince me it was a prank call. So I didn't fully believe it until I got my acceptance letter in the mail a few days later :laugh:.
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@ bold: That would be the worst, cruelest prank EVER.

Congratulations! I've been reading through this thread to get myself pumped up for my own cycle this year. I submitted early, everything is verified, MCAT is done, and LORs are being sent by my school this week. Hopefully a year from now I'll have my own experience to add.
 
I was accepted a little less than a month ago on May 4. My case is a little different because the JHMP is a seven year B.S/M.D, so I won't matriculate for another year.

Anyways, I was sitting in the lab around 5PM just surfing the web and checking my e-mail before I went back to my dorm, and as I pulled up my e-mail webpage I saw two bold unread messages, one saying "JHMP Interview Decision" from the office of admissions, and one saying "JHMP" from the dean.

I caught my breath and slowly clicked on the interview decision. There was this killer long sentence first, "The interview board has reviewed all of the applicants and debated their merits, blah, blah, blah...." and then I saw the word "congratulatory"! I stopped reading there.

I let out a deep exhale and finally started breathing again, the whole experience was surreal. Sadly, I was and still am in Oxford, so there isn't really anyone to share my joy with. You can bet when I get back to Gainesville I will be celebrating though. Keep the stories coming, it's nice to hear some good news every once in a while.
 
bpost137 said:
I read through this thread back when I was in the midst of applications. It was so inspiring and got me all excited reading everyone's stories. I'm happy to be able to post here 😀.

It was towards the end of interview season. I thought my first interview had gone so well and was shocked when I was rejected, so I was pretty depressed about it. When I got a second interview, I was determined not to get my hopes up again. The faculty interview portion was really strange, so I was sure I was going to be waitlisted or rejected.

I was pretty down about the application process one day, convinced I was going to have to reapply (and retake the MCAT) and started thinking of backup options. The next day, I had barely woken up when my phone rings. When I answered the phone, I immediately knew it was the dean of admissions (she has a very distinct voice) and my heart started pounding.

Dean: "Is this [my name]?"
Me: "YESSSSS!" (barely containing my excitement)
Dean: "I'm the Dean of.... (don't even remember what she said, I was too excited)... Congratu-"
Me: "OMG THANK YOUUUUUU" (practically screaming)
Dean: "-lations!"

She laughed, and told me my acceptance letter is in the mail. After I hung up, I couldn't stop shaking and the tears were streaming down my face. I tried to start calling friends and family, but no one was picking up the phone! I was home alone (my roommate was out), so I was jumping around my apartment, ready to explode if I kept this news to myself a moment longer. I was considering running outside to tell a stranger, when everybody started calling me back at the same time. I spent the rest of the night on the phone spreading the good news 🙂.

Everyone thought it was weird that I received my acceptance via phone call on a Sunday afternoon. They were starting to convince me it was a prank call. So I didn't fully believe it until I got my acceptance letter in the mail a few days later :laugh:.
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I'm guessing you felt something like this:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arFYc3H0AEQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
i was just about to get gassed for a meniscectomy at the hospital for special surgery.

i got a standing ovation from, more or less, the best orthopedic surgeons in the country.

first, i was balling and spreading the good news to my surgical team...

then, i remember nothing whatsoever.

the anesthesiologist gassed me in the middle of said spreading.

it was funny.
 
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What an awesome thread. I'm sitting here laughing and crying.. I can't imagine how I'd react whenever I'd get in. :laugh:
 
  1. Notified my family via sms.
  2. Added the school to my Facebook profile's education background. This automatically creates an entry in your wall and news feed, so it wasn't really necessary for me to add my own status update and to come off like I am bragging.
  3. Alcohol-related fun with the guys and girls.
Good stuff.
 
JumboFool said:
No joke, my parents and I locked arms in a sort-of huddle formation and dropped the still-unopened envelope on the floor in the middle, where the quarterback would be kneeling. We then proceeded to dance around it in a circle, yelling and stomping on it multiple times to scare off the evil eye and other bad things. After we were satisfied, I picked up the dirty, trodden-on envelope and opened it up to read my acceptance aloud to them 🙂
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Hahaha what a great story!! I can only dream of mine being this dramatic and exciting! Super awesome! 😀
 
With October 15th approaching within an hour (if you live in the EST), I think people should read some of the stories on this thread; they are quite inspirational. Also, I'm excited to hear everyone's stories from this year!

BUMP!
 
Why can't I upload my white horse in the window macro... It's such a perfect picture for the occasion.
 
I have some of the old four lokos. I'll find out. Drink two and wake up four days later.
 
I found out 10/3, and it was amazing. I had a slightly bigger reaction when I got a full scholarship at my undergrad but this one meant more, despite the "smaller rxn."

So, me, my husband, and my mother-in-law are all supposed to help a friend of mine move. My husband is already downtown doing this, and me and my mother-in-law are meeting them there. She calls me and says she's ready and I can come pick her up. We hang up, and I grab my purse and go to leave when my phone buzzes again. I thought it was her again (she does this often). I had just checked the mail only to find no letter, so I had already resigned that I wouldn't find out that day. Well it was the magic area code of the school I had just interviewed at!

Actually, if I could go back I would handle it differently (more professionally)...it was the Dean, and I didn't even give him the opportunity to say it was him (it's widely known at this school that he calls for acceptanes), I just started saying, "OMG, OMG, your calling...I can't believe this." I can kind of hear him laughing/probably slightly confused in the background, but unable to convey much. After much trouble (over my stammering) he says, "I just signed the letter." I told him he made all my dreams come true, cried a little, and then hung up. I literally ran down the street to my mother-in-laws and cried/jumped up and down. She looked at me like I was a little crazy and said, "Well of course you got in, did you have any doubt?" The unwavering faith people have in assuming you'll get in is crazy....they don't get it. Anyway, tried called mom but no answer (until the next day!) and no friends answered right away, so I calmed down a little. My husband was happy though, which was nice...at least I got to celebrate (albiet, over the phone) a little. Although he didn't seem too surprised either.

The next day I got an interview invite from my top choice school (I interview this coming week!), so I went from super happy to neuroticly worried in the course of one day...kinda short lived. But regardless of what happens, I'm going to be a doctor!!!!
 
I have no idea how i will react...I have a bottle of Champagne in the fridge waiting...but IDK
I may call my parents or I may wait and surprise them when I can drive home...or I may just announce it on Facebook and throw a big party!
 
I was at home on my laptop. When I saw an email from the school I was expecting news from, my heart sunk and after a short pause I opened it. When I read the first word - Congratulations, I started screaming (really loud!) and jumping up and down in the living room. My mother was in the back yard and she came in when she heard me screaming. She was kind of worried, so she asked me what's going on and told me that the neighboirs dogs started barking after they heard me. I was still ecstatic, so I didn't answer and just kept screaming and jumping up and down. This is when she must have realized I was accepted, so she asked me and through a scream I said yes. She then hugged me and we both kept jumping around. After a couple more minutes, I went back to my laptop and read the entire email - good thing it did't say congratulations you made it to the wait list :laugh: 😳

It was such a great feeling...I still get the goose pumps thinking about it 😍
 
Had some champagne with my parents, sisters, and brothers-in-law. Glad I could be with them!
 
I've been reading this thread all afternoon from the first post and then got a call from an unknown number with the same area code as the med school where I interviewed. I got a surge of adrenaline and with shaky hands answered: It was a wrong number call!

Somebody is trolling methinks.
 
I love this thread with all my heart. Lets hear it for that October 15th date!
 
My cousin had the best acceptance story ever. Most schools in Canada release acceptances in May. It was my cousins second time applying, and he only received an interview at one school. Needless to say he was so nervous the day the acceptances came out.

Here's the catch. We are on this remote island in Africa volunteering on a medical aid caravan. One Canadian student who was doing research on the island for the year had a laptop, which had satellite internet. He brought it over specifically for my cousin to check the results. Obviously my cousin wanted to find out alone and went inside the building to check his email. He came out with tears streaming down his face and a HUGE smile. He walked out to a standing ovation from over 20 Canadian and Tanzania doctors, nurses and volunteers. It was epic - he is never going to forget that moment.
 
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The AAMC has officially requested that notifications not be given until Monday the 17th, but there may be some schools that flout that.
 
I think I'll read this thread at some point, it seems incredible.

I just wanted to share my own acceptance story! I had applied to University of Rochester's Early Assurance Program (I'm a junior right now), not expecting anything whatsoever after my previous Mount Sinai Humanities and Medicine post-interview (I thanked my lucky stars I even got that...), and almost didn't even apply because I didn't think I stood a chance. But I applied anyway, and promptly forgot about it. Three days later: an interview invite. I'm thinking to myself: don't get excited, you've gotten an interview before, gotten ridiculously excited about the school, and got your hopes crushed. So I took my invite, and kind of moved on, even though I realized that Rochester was the absolute PERFECT school for my interests, my attitudes towards medicine as an intersection of art, humanities, and science, and had insane Latino Health opportunities to boot. I shouldn't have gotten excited about it because I forced myself not to, but then I went to my interview, and got excited anyway 🙁

EIGHT DAYS AFTER MY INTERVIEW (a full MONTH before I expected a decision), I wake up very groggily at 10AM for the first biochem lab of the semester, completely unawake and check my iPhone's email half-asleep. I see an email from "UR Medical School". I'm like "OMGWTFHOWISTHISPOSSIBLEWHYDOIHAVEANEMAILFROMTHEMALREADYOMGGGGGGG". Being extremely stupid, I only glanced at the first two words of the email (displayed below the title of the sender), which were "Good day!!". I thought to myself: WHAT THE HECK DOES GOOD DAY WITH TWO EXCLAMATION POINTS MEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WAITLIST?! I open up the email, and the first sentence "Good day!! Your application to the University of Rochester School of Medicine has been reviewed by the Admissions Committee."

Um... whaaaaaaa?

Next sentence "Attached to this email is a letter of provisional acceptance."

COMPLETELY MISSED THAT SENTENCE IN MY PANICKED FRENZY.

Finished the email.

Did not understand what it meant.

Re-read it, saw the word acceptance and completely freaked out! I mean, my room was still dark because the shades were drawn and I had just moved into college, so I just kind of whisper-screamed in shock and kept repeating "Oh my God. Oh my God."

But THEN, I couldn't call anyone because I had biochem lab and a huge problem set due the next day that I hadn't started, so I spent all day doing biochem in a jittery, wild state.

The next day I called my parents, and my dad literally SOBBED on the phone when I told him. It was unbelievable.

Now I don't really like biochem...
 
Myuu said:
The AAMC has officially requested that notifications not be given until Monday the 17th, but there may be some schools that flout that.
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Good to know! Good thing I dont have class tomorrow and can wait anxiously all day!
 
logano2230 said:
i've been reading this thread all afternoon from the first post and then got a call from an unknown number with the same area code as the med school where i interviewed. I got a surge of adrenaline and with shaky hands answered: It was a wrong number call!

Somebody is trolling methinks.
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yuck!
 
I was expecting the letter on 10/13 at 4:00 pm from KCUMB (I knew it would come that day based on the SDN forums, and based on what time my mail usually comes). I was at my girlfriend's house the night before/morning of. We were sitting, having hazelnut coffee and sesame bagels, and I was telling her that I expect the letter today. She said it may not come today, so I should not to get too anxious about it.

In the middle of the conversation, at around 12:30 pm, I get a call from my mom:

Mom: "where are you?"
Me: "My girlfriend's house..."
Mom: "didn't you say you were coming home in the morning?"
Me: "yeah, but noon totally counts as morning"
Mom: "well there's a letter here from KCUMB. Should I open it?"
Me: *chills run down my spine, I close my eyes and start deep breathing*
"Yes"
Mom: *sound of envelope slowly tearing. Removal of paper from the envelope. Tortuous sounds of paper unfolding*

"Dear Mr. ______,

Congratulations, you've been accepted to---EEEEEEE!!"

At which point she screeched loudly and I started crying, my mom started crying, my girlfriend started crying, and I drove home listening to radiohead. Dad came home, he read the letter and cried. My friends came over, surprised me with a stethoscope and a bottle of Moet. We killed the bottle, spent the night having a nice dinner with a bunch of my friends and family, had plenty to drink, then we finished the night off by playing super smash and finishing off a bottle of wine.

Probably the best emotional moment of my life 👍
 
CodeBlu said:
Hangover III?
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I was actually out at a bar when I found out about Michigan on Saturday... This lead to atleast 10 friends of mine buying me tequila shots. WORST. HANGOVER. EVER. But it was so worth it! :laugh: 👍
 
Sitting here watching Dexter and the phone rings.........


:soexcited:CLASS OF 2016:soexcited:​

Debating how to celebrate.
 
Conceded that I wasn't going to get a call because it was ~9pm on a sunday night. Went out for a late dinner with the parents. Food comes we eat. Phone rings, with a "restricted" number. I knew it was going to be the dean even before I picked it up!!!

After the call, my dad flagged down a waitress and said we all needed a round of drinks 🙂
 
intj said:
Conceded that I wasn't going to get a call because it was ~9pm on a sunday night. Went out for a late dinner with the parents. Food comes we eat. Phone rings, with a "restricted" number. I knew it was going to be the dean even before I picked it up!!!

After the call, my dad flagged down a waitress and said we all needed a round of drinks 🙂
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same restricted call. Celebrating with a mikes hard lemonade on this Sunday night. Class. If it had come an hour earlier I'd be in Philly right now for 80 cent beers
 
ppfizenm said:
Sitting here watching Dexter and the phone rings.........


:soexcited:CLASS OF 2016:soexcited:​

Debating how to celebrate.
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AHHH thanks for reminding me of another tv show I can catch up on now!! i was down to the wonder years on netflix...:laugh: for all the negative / stressful threads on here, this is a goody.

congrats kristen wiig. hope you're getting as crunk as your avatar looks :banana:
 
called parents and then friends. danced around while blasting music. went to sleep lol. saving a true celebration for when im not sick
 
idf27 said:
AHHH thanks for reminding me of another tv show I can catch up on now!! i was down to the wonder years on netflix...:laugh: for all the negative / stressful threads on here, this is a goody.

congrats kristen wiig. hope you're getting as crunk as your avatar looks :banana:
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I'm gonna get kicked off some planes tonight
 
ppfizenm said:
I'm gonna get kicked off some planes tonight
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for dancing like this?
 
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