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I was microwaving stouffer's lasagna in the student center at my college when my phone went off and said "Madison, WI". AHH. But my phone was broken & I hadn't gotten a replacement yet, so when I answered we were able to communicate for about 2 seconds before the dean stopped being able to hear my voice. He assumed the call dropped and hung up without revealing what the news was. I then spent 20 minutes frantically wandering the campus looking for a payphone or someone who would let me use their cellphone, and then trying to find change for a payphone, all while carrying a tray of lasagna in my hand. I finally called back from a payphone, said profuse thanks, and then ate 20 oz of stouffers lasagna. MED SCHOOL TASTES LIKE PASTA.
 
Was in the library printing out some notes when I got the call. Thanked the person, went back to Starbucks, discreetly shared the news with my study group, updated my Facebook status, and then went right on studying for an exam.

I actually wasn't as excited as I thought I would be. What a letdown....

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I made the research assistant of the lab read the email on my phone for me to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. She hugged me and ran around the lab waving my phone and shouting to everyone that I has just gotten into med school. Best moment ever!!! 😀👍😍
 
hunterjumper14 said:
I made the research assistant of the lab read the email on my phone for me to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. She hugged me and ran around the lab waving my phone and shouting to everyone that I has just gotten into med school. Best moment ever!!! 😀👍😍
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Lol that's awesome
 
ShenanigansMD said:
I'm still waiting to do this on the boardwalk:

Oppa Accepted Style!!!

Now it's time for me to leave the thread while I wait 🙁
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Hey hey, that dance is ALWAYS appropriate, no matter what situation you're in.
 
When I read the email:

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Called in sick from work yesterday because I hate my job. Sent an update/loi around 10am and got an acceptance email from that school at 11am. First MD acceptance after 4 straight wait lists. I jumped up and down for at least 15 seconds. So pumped.

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MedPR said:
Called in sick from work yesterday because I hate my job. Sent an update/loi around 10am and got an acceptance email from that school at 11am. First MD acceptance after 4 straight wait lists. I jumped up and down for at least 15 seconds. So pumped.

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Pretty much exploded, then I got devious...

It was in December that I received the letter so I did not tell ANYONE. Instead I waited. When Christmas came I put the acceptance letter in a gift addressed to my parents and just let them open it in the regular flow of presents. The best part was talking to my entire family about "how competitive application is" and "I am not going to be sure of anything so I need to keep my options open"...

It was beautiful.
 
Dooblecain said:
Pretty much exploded, then I got devious...

It was in December that I received the letter so I did not tell ANYONE. Instead I waited. When Christmas came I put the acceptance letter in a gift addressed to my parents and just let them open it in the regular flow of presents. The best part was talking to my entire family about "how competitive application is" and "I am not going to be sure of anything so I need to keep my options open"...

It was beautiful.
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Shenanigans. Both times I got accepted I couldn't keep it to myself for more than 5 seconds.
 
This was for my most recent one, to a school that I actually loved at the interview. I knew that the Dean would be making phone calls every two weeks to accepted students and for the past two weeks, I've held my phone waiting and waiting for him to call...nothing 🙁 I gave up after the second week of no calls.

This past week I was at work, and it was almost time to get off work. I had totally forgotten that today was a day that he would make phone calls and was getting ready to clock out and leave. All the other medical assistants were just sitting around too at that point. My phone suddenly vibrates in my pocket and it says "Private."

My heart skips a beat, but I tell myself that it's probably nothing.

When I pick up the phone all I hear is rumbling.

"Hello?" X5 I thought it was probably the doctor that I work for, because he does occasionally call. "Dr___?"

I hang up, thinking it was probably a butt-dial, but the phone rings yet again but with no answer. "Helloooooooo?? Dr___ you are butt dialing me! Stop butt dialing me!!!" I hang up.

10 seconds later another phone call, but with an unblocked number....Hmm don't recognize that area code. I decide not to pick up. Perhaps they will leave a voice mail.

At this point I was starting to doubt it was my doc, but also trying not to jump to any conclusions. My heart was pounding in my chest and omg my hands were shaking. I finally played back the voice mail:

"Hello. This is_____ from ______. Congratulations, Acoustica! I've got great news...."

Fist pumps and jumping proceed. I was basically dancing in my car on the drive home!!!! AHHHHH
 
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Oh god, both of my acceptances came in ways that precluded my open celebration.

Acceptance #1: Sitting in a packed journal club with the department chair sitting in the way of my exit when an email acceptance came in, I could only smile and think "OH MY GOD YES!" but had to curtail fist pumping until it was over and I could walk to relative privacy.

Acceptance #2: I was in between interviews at UCF, I was walking to the restroom when I received a phone call acceptance, I stepped outside and was able to be vocally excited but being that my chaperone was near I dared not jump and scream for joy. I was so focused on controlling myself I completely failed to hear him say "The seat is yours, we don't require a deposit." and I promptly responded with "How much is the deposit?" :slap:

Let me tell you what, the drive home I was going nuts, every once in a while I still do a great :soexcited: dance.
 
Seriously, this is my favorite SDN thread.
 
My reaction wasn't over-the-top. I just smiled. Over the next 24-48 hours it slowly dawned on me, and my smile got larger at times.

What's funny is that I remember telling my interviewer that a weakness of mine is that I internalize a lot of my emotions.
 
EnergyDrink said:
My reaction wasn't over-the-top. I just smiled. Over the next 24-48 hours it slowly dawned on me, and my smile got larger at times.

What's funny is that I remember telling my interviewer that a weakness of mine is that I internalize a lot of my emotions.
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Congrats!
 
EnergyDrink said:
My reaction wasn't over-the-top. I just smiled. Over the next 24-48 hours it slowly dawned on me, and my smile got larger at times.

What's funny is that I remember telling my interviewer that a weakness of mine is that I internalize a lot of my emotions.
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Same here. I sometimes just smile and start laughing when I realize what it means to have been accepted.

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When I got accepted to my first school, I was stoked about it, but didn't have any real "external reaction." I was pretty much on cloud nine for the rest of the day, though. It wasn't my favorite place, but it was medical school. When I got accepted a few days later to a school that I really liked, I let out a whoop and threw my fist into the air before I even realized what I was doing...lol. :soexcited:

This post pretty much covers what was going on inside my head. #shamelessplug
 
When I got accepted to the medical school I wanted to go to... it was AWESOME! I wanted to go to the school and buy every knick knack, cup with school logo, pen with school logo that I could get my hands on.

It basically made the rest of my year and summer AWESOME. I literally felt invincible towards the end of my undergrad.

And... probably a prelude to that, when I saw my MCAT score... I called my mom and said, I'm going to medical school no doubt about it!

It was awesome.
 
So I'd been getting telemarketing calls that showed up on my caller id as being from the same town as a school that I interviewed at. The first time I was excited because I thought it was the school calling but after a few days I was getting really annoyed. At my job I work three to midnight and tend not to wake up till ten or eleven in the morning.

I wake up around nine with my phone buzzing on my bedside table. I see the caller id and think "and now the stupid telemarketers wake me up in the morning!" It completely slipped my mind that the telemarketers tend to call me in the evenings. So I answer the phone saying "Hello" in a very half asleep, disgruntled, why are you calling me so early way. Then I hear "This is Dr X calling from X school may I speak to Squirrel?" I suddenly wake up very fast and am so embarrassed to have to say "this is she." Then he asked me if I enjoyed my interview a few weeks ago and I say yes sir. How are things in TX? I say good. I'm thinking get to the point already!!! Then he asked if I'd like to spend the next four years there and I said yes sir very enthusiastically.

I then got up called my father who laughed he was so happy. Through most of this I was very calm until about an hour later I suddenly think "I'm going to be a Doctor!" and burst into tears and giggles.
 
I just found out today. I saw the 'private' number at work, and thought it was just a telemarketer. I google'd the number and saw it was the admissions office at my #1 choice.. they left a message saying "please call." This was like a week or two sooner than they said I would hear back from them, so I immediately assume it is somehow bad news. Called them back and I was in!! I just started freaking out and saying 'oh my god' a bunch. It still feels surreal! Pumped!
 
Squirrel87 said:
So I'd been getting telemarketing calls that showed up on my caller id as being from the same town as a school that I interviewed at. The first time I was excited because I thought it was the school calling but after a few days I was getting really annoyed. At my job I work three to midnight and tend not to wake up till ten or eleven in the morning.

I wake up around nine with my phone buzzing on my bedside table. I see the caller id and think "and now the stupid telemarketers wake me up in the morning!" It completely slipped my mind that the telemarketers tend to call me in the evenings. So I answer the phone saying "Hello" in a very half asleep, disgruntled, why are you calling me so early way. Then I hear "This is Dr X calling from X school may I speak to Squirrel?" I suddenly wake up very fast and am so embarrassed to have to say "this is she." Then he asked me if I enjoyed my interview a few weeks ago and I say yes sir. How are things in TX? I say good. I'm thinking get to the point already!!! Then he asked if I'd like to spend the next four years there and I said yes sir very enthusiastically.

I then got up called my father who laughed he was so happy. Through most of this I was very calm until about an hour later I suddenly think "I'm going to be a Doctor!" and burst into tears and giggles.
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That's beautiful. Congrats/
 
EnergyDrink said:
You too! TCMC deferred me though 😛 Maybe this month.



Exactly! I feel like I beat the odds, especially with a GPA below the 10th percentile 😛
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Haha same here my friend 🙂

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DNM said:
I just found out today. I saw the 'private' number at work, and thought it was just a telemarketer. I google'd the number and saw it was the admissions office at my #1 choice.. they left a message saying "please call." This was like a week or two sooner than they said I would hear back from them, so I immediately assume it is somehow bad news. Called them back and I was in!! I just started freaking out and saying 'oh my god' a bunch. It still feels surreal! Pumped!
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Congrats!

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I am sincerely hoping I am able to post an acceptance story here soon. Congrats everyone! I love hearing your stories. Keep 'em coming!
 
Looks like this thread may be a little bit dead for a while as we progress into winter break 🙁
 
Background: I am a third time applicant. My first cycle I didn't get a single interview. My second cycle I had interviews at Texas Tech and UT San Antonio. I ended up not matching at either, was wait-listed at both, then never heard back. I immediately signed up for a Princeton Review class and retook my MCAT for the 4th time in June. This year I have had 5 interviews. I currently live with my parents (woo) and work at Baylor in Dallas with a ton of surgeons who have asked me every day for the past 1.5 years if I've heard anything yet.

It was pre-match day for us Texas folk, and I got to work at 6:30am, my usual time unfortunately, and figured nothing would happen until 8am. I started the email refreshing regardless and began checking all of my secondary pages and noticed my A&M status had changed to "under review". A bunch of SDNers whose had also changed were posting that they had gotten acceptances, so I called my dad (who is possibly just as neurotic as I am at this point) and he started freaking out. By 11am I was an absolute mess emotionally and had to go to a conference that was being filmed on the local news channel...so I had to leave my post. As I was sitting in the conference, I decided to check my email one last time on my phone. I had 1 new message with the subject line "important". I opened it and BAM! "There it was! CONGRATULATIONS! You have been admitted...". I started shaking and texted my dad "I'M IN", then jumped up in the middle of someone's lecture and ran out when he called me...all of which was on the local news the next morning... and ran out of the front of the hospital and did a few high kicks while laughing/sobbing at the same time all while on the phone. My parents sent me a huge thing of roses at work and I had updated my fb status so naturally my phone didn't stop going off the entire day. Then my parents took me out for steak and champagne after work. Then I drank way too much champagne and was miserable at work the next day, but all in all, it was easily the best day of my life.
 
So I was sitting down waiting for a meeting that was 30 minutes late. I decided to check my email and there it was. iave9963 CONGRATULATIONS. I immediately closed my phone and went into my meeting. After my meeting, I caught the 2 hour bus ride back home. Looked in the kitchen cabinets, only thing to eat was a pack of Ramen noodles, so i cooked that, checked my bank account and it was still $0.00, went into my room and laid on my bed (mattress on the floor), then it hit me. I MADE IT!!!!! THROUGH ALL THE OBSTACLES, HARD TIMES, LONG NIGHTS, ANAL PROFESSORS, and ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES I MADE IT. FIRST GUY EVER IN MY FAMILY TO MAKE IT TO COLLEGE NOW MEDICAL SCHOOL. I started laughing non stop, repeating YES YES YES. Went to sleep from sheer exhaustion. Woke up the next morning and caught the 2 hour bus back to work, the cycle continued..... EXCEPT I'M GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
 
DrBarbie08 said:
Background: I am a third time applicant. My first cycle I didn't get a single interview. My second cycle I had interviews at Texas Tech and UT San Antonio. I ended up not matching at either, was wait-listed at both, then never heard back. I immediately signed up for a Princeton Review class and retook my MCAT for the 4th time in June. This year I have had 5 interviews. I currently live with my parents (woo) and work at Baylor in Dallas with a ton of surgeons who have asked me every day for the past 1.5 years if I've heard anything yet.

It was pre-match day for us Texas folk, and I got to work at 6:30am, my usual time unfortunately, and figured nothing would happen until 8am. I started the email refreshing regardless and began checking all of my secondary pages and noticed my A&M status had changed to "under review". A bunch of SDNers whose had also changed were posting that they had gotten acceptances, so I called my dad (who is possibly just as neurotic as I am at this point) and he started freaking out. By 11am I was an absolute mess emotionally and had to go to a conference that was being filmed on the local news channel...so I had to leave my post. As I was sitting in the conference, I decided to check my email one last time on my phone. I had 1 new message with the subject line "important". I opened it and BAM! "There it was! CONGRATULATIONS! You have been admitted...". I started shaking and texted my dad "I'M IN", then jumped up in the middle of someone's lecture and ran out when he called me...all of which was on the local news the next morning... and ran out of the front of the hospital and did a few high kicks while laughing/sobbing at the same time all while on the phone. My parents sent me a huge thing of roses at work and I had updated my fb status so naturally my phone didn't stop going off the entire day. Then my parents took me out for steak and champagne after work. Then I drank way too much champagne and was miserable at work the next day, but all in all, it was easily the best day of my life.
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This is exactly how it should be! Steak and champagne for all!! Congrats on sticking through three cycles and getting an acceptance to an awesome school! 😀
 
Just got pinched for driving while black before I got the good news and I was all like...

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these stories are so much more awesome than mine! It was prematch day and A&M trickled out acceptances from 8 AM to 12ish. I didn't see anything and I assumed I would not be getting into medical school as they mostly give acceptances through prematch. I cried, watch movies all day with the wife and experienced the worst day I can remember because I am so ready for my life to move on, forward to the morning,my wife has called 100 times before i woke up and I am like Wtf, call her back, bam accepted. Cried for a different reason then proceeded to partayyyyyyyy from then until now. Whoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy did I feel bipolar.

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There was crying...and a dance...and a mass text to everyone I know.
 
I was in our bookstore library because I needed a snack for the marathon study session I was currently enduring. I was a half-dead zombie and happened to check my phone (I didn't know what day it was, but it was October 16th) while walking through. It was an e-mail from SLU, and considering I had only interviewed less than two weeks prior to that, I assumed it was like a post-interview questionnaire. Opened the e-mail, realized it was an acceptance after some face-slapping, and bought the biggest bag of candy I could find. Proceeded to spend the rest of the day calling relatives, updating facebook, and making myself an elaborate home-cooked meal. Totally disregarded my test the next day. Although thinking back on it, that was likely a big reason why I received an A- in the class...haha
 
My plane was about to take off when I got the call. I promptly ordered this.
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When the plane landed, I stood up and gave a speech about reaching for your dreams. The flight attendant shushed me, saying I could be arrested for forcing people to listen against their will. Screw you, disgruntled flight attendant, I'm just sharing my happiness!
 
I lit incense for Kwan Yin (Buddhist here) and my grandma, who sadly passed away right before my first MCAT. Then I promptly downed a glass of wine, ate an entire bar of dark chocolate, and bragged about it on facebook. 😎
 
eatdrinkplay10s said:
My plane was about to take off when I got the call. I promptly ordered this.
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When the plane landed, I stood up and gave a speech about reaching for your dreams. The flight attendant shushed me, saying I could be arrested for forcing people to listen against their will. Screw you, disgruntled flight attendant, I'm just sharing my happiness!
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I laughed out loud at this.
 
My story is pretty epic.

I was running though the park, mile 4 or so, grooving to some horrible electronic music or something. My phone went off with an email, and for some reason I paused the music to read it. When I saw that it was an acceptance to medical school, I was so overcome with sheer gratitude that I burst into tears right then and there. Some nice concerned bystanders walked over to ask if I was okay. I just blurted out, "I'm okay! I just got into medical school! I'm so grateful!!!" They broke into smiles and laughter and then, despite not knowing me and the fact that I was pretty sweaty, they all enveloped me in hugs.

I was on Cloud 9 for days after and still get really overwhelmed with gratitude whenever I think about it.
 
DMBSatellite said:
My story is pretty epic.

I was running though the park, mile 4 or so, grooving to some horrible electronic music or something. My phone went off with an email, and for some reason I paused the music to read it. When I saw that it was an acceptance to medical school, I was so overcome with sheer gratitude that I burst into tears right then and there. Some nice concerned bystanders walked over to ask if I was okay. I just blurted out, "I'm okay! I just got into medical school! I'm so grateful!!!" They broke into smiles and laughter and then, despite not knowing me and the fact that I was pretty sweaty, they all enveloped me in hugs.

I was on Cloud 9 for days after and still get really overwhelmed with gratitude whenever I think about it.
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awww congrats! *HUGS*

As for dark chocolate, my go-to is Ghirardelli and Lindt. Classics. I was eating a whole bar of Ghirardelli's 70% Dark Chocolate. yum yum
 
I got the email with the all caps ACCEPTANCE OFFER heading- at work, started crying, didn't care. Happiest tears ever!

The funniest thing was when I finally got in touch with my mom she says (totally dead serious with a mass accent)
"holy **** you did it..."
and then she started screaming. Ha
 
Haha didn't even know this thread existed, but it's so great to hear everyone's stories. I had friends checking my mail multiple times a day for big acceptance-y envelopes (their decision, not even because I asked! I just have lovely friends), and in the middle of a class, I got a text from a friend that there was something interesting in my mailbox. 30 minutes later I made it to the mailroom and he was still there, waiting for me to get my mail, so I knew it would be something good. Literally ripped the outer envelope to shreds, saw the words "pleased," "acheivement," and "2017," and collapsed into a puddle of happy tears. My friend let me know that half of the mail room was looking at me like I just got word that my entire family had died, so I proceeded to turn around and tell everyone I was going to medical school... and then one of those surreal scenes from a movie where everyone claps and hugs you unfolded. Best moment of my entire life.
 
iave9963 said:
So I was sitting down waiting for a meeting that was 30 minutes late. I decided to check my email and there it was. iave9963 CONGRATULATIONS. I immediately closed my phone and went into my meeting. After my meeting, I caught the 2 hour bus ride back home. Looked in the kitchen cabinets, only thing to eat was a pack of Ramen noodles, so i cooked that, checked my bank account and it was still $0.00, went into my room and laid on my bed (mattress on the floor), then it hit me. I MADE IT!!!!! THROUGH ALL THE OBSTACLES, HARD TIMES, LONG NIGHTS, ANAL PROFESSORS, and ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES I MADE IT. FIRST GUY EVER IN MY FAMILY TO MAKE IT TO COLLEGE NOW MEDICAL SCHOOL. I started laughing non stop, repeating YES YES YES. Went to sleep from sheer exhaustion. Woke up the next morning and caught the 2 hour bus back to work, the cycle continued..... EXCEPT I'M GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
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Wow AWESOME story! I can't wait to be able to say the same. Must have been awesome congrats again!!!!🙂
 
iave9963 said:
So I was sitting down waiting for a meeting that was 30 minutes late. I decided to check my email and there it was. iave9963 CONGRATULATIONS. I immediately closed my phone and went into my meeting. After my meeting, I caught the 2 hour bus ride back home. Looked in the kitchen cabinets, only thing to eat was a pack of Ramen noodles, so i cooked that, checked my bank account and it was still $0.00, went into my room and laid on my bed (mattress on the floor), then it hit me. I MADE IT!!!!! THROUGH ALL THE OBSTACLES, HARD TIMES, LONG NIGHTS, ANAL PROFESSORS, and ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES I MADE IT. FIRST GUY EVER IN MY FAMILY TO MAKE IT TO COLLEGE NOW MEDICAL SCHOOL. I started laughing non stop, repeating YES YES YES. Went to sleep from sheer exhaustion. Woke up the next morning and caught the 2 hour bus back to work, the cycle continued..... EXCEPT I'M GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
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Wow AWESOME story! I can't wait to be able to say the same. Must have been awesome congrats again!!!!🙂
 
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