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

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I have a kind of funny story and it's not when I realized I first got in, but it was when I found out I got in to my top choice:

My first school I got into was pretty low key because I was in the middle of a meeting when I first found out. However, I was home when I got an email about my top choice acceptance. I started freaking out, and it must have been in an odd way because my boyfriend though something was terribly wrong and kept asking me about it. Then he made the assumption that the cat was on fire (she was near the candle) and rushed over to see if she was okay. Not sure how he reached that conclusion, but it was hilarious.
 
i didn't have too much of a reaction to my first acceptance (mostly just did a little dance in my cubicle), but i had a much better one when i found out i got into my in-state med school. 🙂

it actually happened the day before an interview with another school! i turned on my phone after my flight had landed and noticed that i had a voicemail. i dialed my voicemail, started listening & was super distracted (thought the dean was a telemarketer at first, lol), and promptly gasped in surprise when i found out that i got accepted.

then i hung up, called my mom (who cried because this school happens to be her first choice... she wants to me stay in-state!), texted my closest friends, and drove off to my hotel with a huge smile on my face.
 
This thread has been slow lately.... More people share your stories!!!
 
hotredlips said:
i didn't have too much of a reaction to my first acceptance (mostly just did a little dance in my cubicle), but i had a much better one when i found out i got into my in-state med school. 🙂

it actually happened the day before an interview with another school! i turned on my phone after my flight had landed and noticed that i had a voicemail. i dialed my voicemail, started listening & was super distracted (thought the dean was a telemarketer at first, lol), and promptly gasped in surprise when i found out that i got accepted.

then i hung up, called my mom (who cried because this school happens to be her first choice... she wants to me stay in-state!), texted my closest friends, and drove off to my hotel with a huge smile on my face.
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I've always thought about what's be like finding out while still taxing to the gate or something... Freaking out around a bunch of strangers
 
When i found out i had just woken up from a nap because id stayed up most of the night studying for a final the day before. Idecided to check my email and I see amail that says "acceptance to PSMHS" but since i was still half asleep i was like 'lets open this and see what it says'. i realise it and dont make much of it or react. I call my bf and tell him and then it started to sink in and i was super pumped. I posted it on fb and basically was jumping up and down and grinning becauseno matter if i get in to mu top choices im going to be an MD in four years!!!!
 
Vans42 said:
I have a kind of funny story and it's not when I realized I first got in, but it was when I found out I got in to my top choice:

My first school I got into was pretty low key because I was in the middle of a meeting when I first found out. However, I was home when I got an email about my top choice acceptance. I started freaking out, and it must have been in an odd way because my boyfriend though something was terribly wrong and kept asking me about it. Then he made the assumption that the cat was on fire (she was near the candle) and rushed over to see if she was okay. Not sure how he reached that conclusion, but it was hilarious.
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This is hilarious.
 
Basically sums everything up.
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So I've been reading this thread since freshman year and as of today I can actually post!

So, I knew there was a chance I might hear something from my top school this week and I was a bit anxious. In fact Monday night I actually had a dream that I was called in for a second interview and I walked into a conference room where I had the admissions committee waiting for me. They then proceeded to tear my application apart, picking on every little thing and I began to think that this was obviously some sort of really cruel rejection. Well sure enough in the midst of this "***hole ripping" the dean said congrats you've been accepted, at which point I'm pretty sure I broke down then of course I woke up...
Anyway, today in class my phone starts buzzing and I look and see a number which *could* have been from my school. I run outside, pick up the phone and it's the Dean!!! From that point on I don't really remember everything I said but I picture myself squealing like a little girl. Note *I'm not a little girl*.
I'm still in shock, and this better not be another dream! Lol
 
I just got the acceptance call tonight (while I was reading Samuel Shem's "House of God" and unable to concentrate because I knew some news was on its way!) After calling family and friends, I sat down and started to cry for a good five minutes. I decided to apply on a whim, knowing that my MCAT and GPA were both only average...so I don't think I ever allowed myself to hope for too much. I repressed a lot of my excitement for medical school because I knew there was a 50/50 shot that I would get in somewhere. So when I started to cry, I realized just how much I've been wanting this and how incredibly blessed and lucky I am to have the opportunity to become a doctor.
Congratulations everyone!
 
I screamed at the top of my lungs. I found out on a Tuesday. That Friday, I drank for the second time in my life and made out for the first time in my life. And I ended up making out with two really hot girls, which was awesome.
 
Found out while in the biomedical library while studying for finals! Started dancing, and was then escorted out. :soexcited:
 
Theralist said:
I screamed at the top of my lungs. I found out on a Tuesday. That Friday, I drank for the second time in my life and made out for the first time in my life. And I ended up making out with two really hot girls, which was awesome.
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Hahahahahaha nice...
 
Theralist said:
I screamed at the top of my lungs. I found out on a Tuesday. That Friday, I drank for the second time in my life and made out for the first time in my life. And I ended up making out with two really hot girls, which was awesome.
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That's unfortunate. But at least it seems getting into medical school finally put you on the right path. Congrats

P.S. - really at 20 something you haven't made out before at all? Sounds like you need to get out more. KEEP DRINKING
 
I got the call while i was at work. I stepped out into Costco (i work for an optometrist there), took the call and cried in one of the aisles next to all the printer ink.
Called my mom right away and told her i was going to be staying in Michigan! This was a huge deal because my only acceptance at the time was in Florida
 
I'm a teacher in the inner city (non-trad applicant) and I was chewing out my honors students for not doing their homework. I got a call from the city and state of my first choice school in the middle of a sentence about the value of diligent work in learning. I totally lost my train of thought and forgot what was going on. It was soooo awkward. (I love my honors kids, btw, they just need tough love sometimes). I kept teaching for about an hour but i was dying to call back! After class I looked up the number on Google to confirm it was from that city and state and called back. I don't remember the conversation with the dean other than being really nervous and then making a very uncharacteristic excited noise (a strange squeal-sing-noise). Then I called my wife, who flipped out, and then walked into the teacher lounge and told all the other teachers who also flipped out. The next day I told my honors student. They were like, "ooooooh, that's what happened...." Now they're really good about their homework. I'm going to miss them lots next year. 🙂
 
Theralist said:
I screamed at the top of my lungs. I found out on a Tuesday. That Friday, I drank for the second time in my life and made out for the first time in my life. And I ended up making out with two really hot girls, which was awesome.
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I received mine yesterday, which just so happened to lie within the middle of my finals week! Let's just say it made studying for my two finals I had today a whole lot less stressful 😉
 
Most schools in my state notify at midnight on this certain date with the majority of spots awarded during this batch. I was really bummed out after staying up til midnight to hear nothing.. went to bed dreaming and asking pleaseee give me some good news. I frantically checked my phone the next morning and still found nothing. Finally coming to terms with not getting anything, I went to class feeling depressed :{

During my yoga class I felt a little better from my instructor's good aura, helping me release outside stress and worries. Concluding my yoga class feeling more at peace and accepting, I felt ALOT better after seeing two acceptances on my phone 🙂

NAMASTE. Couldn't stop smiling and realized life's perception.

Goodluck yall.
 
I came home for dinner from school as a surprise and after eating I brought my mom her favorite type of cake that read with icing "Thank you mommy for everything". She thought it was just a nice gesture but only realized what I meant after she lifted the cake to serve it and saw the acceptance letter. I rarely involved her in my academics and seeing her so proud of the culmination of my hard work was irreplaceable.

No one makes the sacrifices mothers make for their children and I know I will always be happily indebted to my angel of a mom !
 
oceanmist said:
I came home for dinner from school as a surprise and after eating I brought my mom her favorite type of cake that read with icing "Thank you mommy for everything". She thought it was just a nice gesture but only realized what I meant after she lifted the cake to serve it and saw the acceptance letter. I rarely involved her in my academics and seeing her so proud of the culmination of my hard work was irreplaceable.

No one makes the sacrifices mothers make for their children and I know I will always be happily indebted to my angel of a mom !
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Congrats to you and your mom! 🙂 Hope I can post here sometime soon!
 
I have a long road ahead of me, but I'm going to work my butt off to be able to post in here soon!
 
How have I missed this thread? Well Im 25, I will be 26 when I start med school so I have been working towards this for a while. When I found out I got in, I was overjoyed for about 5 minutes:soexcited:, the I realized holy ****, I'm gonna be a doctor and school starts in less than 7 months:scared:, then upon realizing how great of an oppurtnity this is I went back to happy🙂.



As far as how my family reacted, I'm first gen so most of them were like "Oh no you have to do more school😵."
 
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I got the acceptance call during a meeting with my PI. She knew I was expecting a call from a school that day, so she let me check my vibrating phone. My heart nearly stopped when I saw that it was the area code of the school! I took the phone call and barely heard the dean of admissions tell me congratulations. All I could say was, "Wow, thank you. Thank you so much."

After hanging up, I told my PI the good news. She got super excited and gave me a hug. Then she said, "I feel like you should go home early or something." So I did. I left work early that day and could not stop smiling on my entire way home. I stopped by McDonalds on the way and ordered the entire dollar menu. It was a good day.
 
The letter went to my parent's house so I had my step-mom read it to me. She was so excited, and then put my dad on the phone. I am pretty sure he cried a little bit. I basically just ran in circles around my apartment hyperventilating.
 
Cambover said:
I checked my phone at 7am and read the email. Felt the rush of relief sweep over me as I began laughing out of sheer joy. Proceeded to sleep for another two hours and then woke up to tell everyone.
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👍👍:soexcited:Getting that Email so early was amazing... I had actually been having nightmares the whole night right up until then about getting rejected and then my alarm went off and I saw the subject line on my phone right as I opened my eyes... I thought I was dreaming hah... woke my boyfriend up and made him tell me it was real.
 
I was in class when I got my first acceptance, pretty anti-climactic.
When I got home though, I ran down my block in tighty-whiteys. It's a pretty quiet block though, lol.
 
It is still too surreal for me. When I saw my status change to accepted, I just stared at it for awhile and then went and told my mom and grandmother, and then I began telling everyone I knew who would care (which is a lot more people than I realized at first). I am in a kind of satisfied haze knowing my life goals can now be realized.

It really is surreal though. I went from an alcoholic college dropout that failed every class in his one semester of college and had earned himself a DUI back in 2005 to the person I am today nearly 10 years later.

I plan to get a part time job this semester and save up money for a road trip all over the country this summer. I promised myself a free range adventure if I got in. there are some things I will definitely see like the grand canyon, mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, the pacific ocean, and anything else I think of. I will probably sleep outdoors in a tent a lot of the time, and I plan to hike the Rockies and find a nice isolated area where I can watch the stars free from the interference of the lights from cities. That will probably be my biggest celebration from all of this.
 
V5RED said:
It is still too surreal for me. When I saw my status change to accepted, I just stared at it for awhile and then went and told my mom and grandmother, and then I began telling everyone I knew who would care (which is a lot more people than I realized at first). I am in a kind of satisfied haze knowing my life goals can now be realized.

It really is surreal though. I went from an alcoholic college dropout that failed every class in his one semester of college and had earned himself a DUI back in 2005 to the person I am today nearly 10 years later.

I plan to get a part time job this semester and save up money for a road trip all over the country this summer. I promised myself a free range adventure if I got in. there are some things I will definitely see like the grand canyon, mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, the pacific ocean, and anything else I think of. I will probably sleep outdoors in a tent a lot of the time, and I plan to hike the Rockies and find a nice isolated area where I can watch the stars free from the interference of the lights from cities. That will probably be my biggest celebration from all of this.
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I similarly want to hit up Rushmore, Grand Canyon, and the Pacific. What is your launch point?
 
TBH, I was in disbelief. It didn't feel real and it took a good month or so for the realization that I was actually going to med school sink in.
 
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