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

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I am a third year applicant, so as you can imagine I have been really anxious going through this whole process.

I was one of those average applicants who completed their apps early. However, as of 3rd week of october, only two interviews and nothing else. I was loosing hope and started looking at carribean schools.

All of a sudden.....Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I get three interview invites (one from my top choice). And I am all happy and celebrating.

But the real surprise was the next day...I call the school where I had interviewed only two weeks ago. As soon as the admissions director tells me I have been expected, I fall on my knees, start screaming at the top of my lungs and thanked god and the admissions lady repeatedly. AND start crying (there goes my toughness...). Then I called my family and screamed so much that I actually lost my voice.

As for the celebration.....I drive back to see my parents, pop open a champagne and then Blue Label with my family....

Not to mention..the celebration continued throughout the weekend. My parents called all of our relatives...local, in US and in India.....and told them I had been expected. WE WERE ALL JUST REALLY HAPPY (AND RELIEVED) SINCE THIS YEAR WAS IT (OR IT WAS OFF TO CARRIBEANS).

Good Luck to everyone. If I did it, so can you.
 
I screamed. I cried. I called everyone I knew. It came on my husband's birthday, and the same day my daughter took her first steps.
 
I've been looking forward to posting in this thread for weeks, but when I got in, it actually wasn't the best moment...

I'm applying MD/PhD, and I knew that one of my top choices (perhaps my top choice) was calling accepted people on wednesday, so I was a walking ball of stress. I couldn't sleep the previous night, and I was pretty tired as it was because I had a couple of interviews in a row this week. So, anyway, I was at the airport on wednesday afternoon, about to fly out to another interview and it was mid-afternoon and I hadn't heard anything, so I kind of figured out that I didn't get in. By the time I landed and didn't have a message from the school, I knew for sure. But I did have a message from Jefferson to call the Dean. So, as I was waiting to deboard the plane, I called and she told me that I had been accepted to the med school, but not the MD/PhD program. At this point, I called my mom to let her know and I was crying a little, and she thought I was upset so she kept telling me to calm down. Meanwhile, I'm yelling into my phone "No, I'm happy. I'm crying because I'm happy," and the flight attendants are giving me evil looks to get off the freaking plane. My mom kept telling me to calm down, and I kept crying and insisting I was happy. I think I was trying to convince myself. :laugh: So, even though I'm going to be a doctor (it still doesn't feel real), I don't know yet whether I'll be a physician scientist, so it's kind of bittersweet. I look forward to posting a more happy account in this thread when I get an MD/PhD acceptance.

It's all very surreal. I'm hoping that the happiness will kick in soon; I think I'm still in a bit of shock.
 
I was on the cell phone for like hours, and now I have a huge tumor growing out of my ear. When I called my mom, she was so excited and happy for me, I could just feel how proud she was, I had to hold back the tears (and I never cry). This is the most significant milestone in my life, I can't believe I'm actually going to go to medical school and fulfill my lifelong dream to become a physician!
 
I took a deep breath and thought "finally." Finally, everything I've been working towards for as long as I can remember. I had to go to a dentist appointment right after i got it, so i was calling people on my way. I called my mom first. I thought i was going to cry but didn't. although i may if i get into one of my top choice schools. I had that truly elated feeling. It was probably the happiest day of my young adult life...and still feels that way, even though it's beena few days. Now the feeling has set in and it's time to get DRUNK! CELEBRATION!
 
mine was honestly kind of anti-climactic. i thought i'd scream, cry, etc etc. but i didn't. i kind of yelled, but that was it.

it really hit me later on when i was looking at some books at the bookstore (a doc wanted me to buy one in particular) and kinda went "oh ****....i'm gonna be getting these books next year...because....I'M GONNA BE A ****ING DOCTOR!!!!"

then i had to hold the tears back. awesome.
 
I squealed like Bobby Hill, like an excited little girl! 😳

Then I called everyone in my phone list, while my wife called everyone in hers. More squeals followed.

Ate some mac-n-cheese, studied biochem, studied spanish (it's finals week).
Squealed some more.

Then I posted on here, in a rambling, droning fashion.

Finally, I went to bed, buried my face in a pillow, and sqealed myself to sleep (actually, this last one hasn't happend yet, I'm about to do that now!)
 
Congrats guys. Hopefully in two years I will be able to share my own acceptance experience.
 
So my first acceptance I didn't have a wild reaction...my husband actually called my cell while I was at school and said so and so called from x school and you're supposed to call them back as soon as possible, you must be in! Of course I was excited, celebratory, etc - cancelled 1/2 the interviews I had scheduled and refunded my plane tickets.

My crazy reaction happened last week when I found out I got into my top choice school! Let's just say that it's a good thing that decision was already made before they talked to me on the phone because I'm sure they would have taken it back if they could have after my reaction! I kept repeating "oh my god" and then "thank you thank you" and "i can't believe it". I was shaking and couldn't think. I called my husband, then my mom, and i was crying by that time. On campus...believe me I had a few lookers. It's still not completely reality...and concentrating for my finals this week is impossible!
 
as the person who originally started this thread, i never thought it would become this popular !! congrats to all !!
 
So, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I wasn't terribly happy when I got an MD acceptance. Well, I had a much better reaction when I got an MD/PhD acceptance. It was a couple of days before Christmas, and I was at work, pretending to get something done, when all I was really doing was refreshing my e-mail and reading SDN. I had steadily been getting more and more anxious as I waited to hear from schools until, at this time, I had gotten to the point where I could practically FEEL the anxiety and stress pressing down on me. I was, in short, wigging out. I had sent a pathetic, desperate e-mail to Einstein MSTP, who had told me I'd hear by the holidays, asking if I really would, and got a reply that I'd been reviewed but wouldn't hear until January. So, on this particular day, I wasn't expecting any news and was, as I said, oscillating between boredom and panic. At about 1:30 in the afternoon, my cell phone rang/vibrated, and I knew instantly that it was my mom calling with news (she only bothers to call when I get mail). I picked up, heart pounding, and my mom said that I had an envelope from Einstein, and could she open it. I yelled "Yes! Open it!" and she started to read me the letter, at which point I put my head down on my keyboard and started crying. She and my dad started crying, and then she told me she had to go b/c she needed to call everyone we know. I went and told my boss, who hugged me, and then we told everyone in my lab, and then I started furiously e-mailing people. Then, I went back to reading sdn and pretending to work. 😀

Over the past few weeks, I keep getting hit with the sudden euphoric realization that a major dream has come true, and I can't help but grin. I am so incredibly happy and relieved.
 
I got a good one of these, and so I thought I'd add mine to the pile.

I had just come back from another interview, and I was exhausted. I had been travelling for over a month straight. I felt like I was living at an airport. So, right before I have to get in the car for the 3 hr ride home, I check my email at my Dad's place. He's there, my Mom's there.

So I get this email from a doc I sent an "Thank You" note to, saying that I made it into the school - my top choice school too. I sorta stood there, and couldn't believe it. Then I screamed and jumped around a bit. It was a moment of absolute euophoria, akin to a wave of "happy" just washing right over you.

When I got home, I couldn't really sleep for most of the night...Even now, when I think about it, I smile and wonder at how amazing this is all going to be and how lucky I am.
 
I was at work, working on an analysis that had prevented me checking my email for only a few minutes. My phone rang so I picked it up. It was my girlfriend at home saying "You just got into Northwestern!"
I really didn't register it, I just kept repeating "what? what?" at a slowly escalating volume as I quit the analysis and checked my email...I stared at it and shouted "WHAT??!" I literally could not believe that I was accepted to NW MSTP as an international applicant so early, I was not expecting anything until February (on the advice of the admissions director). I just sat and stared at the email for literally 5 minutes and read the attached acceptance letter over and over again while my girlfriend laughed at me through the phone.
Then I phoned my mom and made her cry at work in the middle of a meeting. Score!
 
I was at work when one of my interviewers emailed me asking me how I was doing and if I had checked my status online. Since I couldn't do that at work, I called my brother and asked him to check it online for me. It took him couple of minutes, which seemed like hours to me, before he finally told me :" Congratulations you're part of the class of 2010!!" I couldn't believe it, I got in at one of my top choices and I asked him to read it 2 more times. I'm still waiting to hear from other schools that I really liked too but that put so much stress off my shoulders and allows me to cancel other interviews that are too far and not my top choices. So I went out partying and dancing all night with my friends and fiance and couldn't stop repeating "I'm going be a doctor!!!" 😀
 
i wanna get this down before i forget.

so while taking a shower yesterday i realized that i may have e-mailed my thank you letter to one of my interviewers at the WRONG e-mail address, cuz they had just returned to Tulane from Baylor. so i get out and realize that yes, indeed, i am a doofus. so i forward my e-mail from a few days before to her correct address. in the meantime i call one of the other people i interviewed with to see if she had gotten any e-mail. she told me she had and that she was told to expect "good news". while on the phone, i refresh my inbox and i get an e-mail back saying "you will be getting an acceptance shortly. congratulations!" at which point i lost the ability to speak. after a good 20 seconds i regained it, told my friend what happened and that i had to go. i immediately played "we are the champions" and put it on repeat (there is NO more fitting song for that moment, let me tell you). after doing my endzone victory dance i sent out a mass text message to my friends who've been following my progress saying "Im IN". within a few minutes i get bombarded with voicemail and messages with people saying "why did you switch to verizon?? do you still have the same number?" this is when i realized that i surround myself with idiots. so i cleared that up and hit the town. drank 2 bottles of champagne and then hit the main street bars in santa monica. got crizzunked, sip sip sippin on some sizzurp etc. at around 1 i called one of my female callers and told her to pick my ass up. she did and i did my endzone victory dance yet again. it was all very glorious.
-dr. mota
 
This thread is awesome!

I was in the middle of studying for final exams when I found out. I always have my email program (Outlook) opened, so I get emails within 30 seconds of them being sent usually. Anyway.. I was stressing out over a major final project for my Protein Stucture & Interactions class, and I'm sitting at my computer working on my powerpoint. So I get this pop-up in the bottom right hand corner of my desktop with the subject "XY MEDICAL SCHOOL - YOUR...". So at this point, I'm thinking oh well... it's just another your-application-file-is-complete email, so I continue to work on my presentation without opening the email.

So five minutes later, I get another email from a professor and I decide to open Outlook to see what he wants, and there it was, under an email from Professor, "XY MEDICAL SCHOOL - YOUR ACCEPTANCE PACKET IS ON THE WAY! CONGRATULATIONS".
So needless to say, I almost peed my pants in pure excitement. I jumped up and down, opened the email, read it 5 or 6 times just to make sure I really got in. I called my mom, who was at work at the time, and she releases this giddy, childish laugh and is just about in tears.

Funny ending: So I get another email from the same school (XY medical school) about 30 minutes later, this time, no subject. So naturally, I start to feel nervous and get this sickening feeling thinking "Oh No!! They made a mistake and now they're emailing me to take away my acceptance!!" :wow: So.. I reluctantly open the email, and it's simply a personal letter of congrats from an admissions officer 🙂 .

Needless to say, I didnt finish my presentation nor did I get around to reading the other email until like 3 days later. But I did well in my classes.

I still get excited every time I think about being a medical student! I still can't sleep some nights just thinking about how great it is to have my dreams of becoming a physician come true! I think the excitement must builds up everyday!

Congrats to everybody!! :clap: :hardy:
 
ahrastar06 said:
Well finally I get to post on this! 😍

For me, it was the best and worst experience ever! Basically an early Xmas present!

The night before, my roommates where having a party but i was just too nervous and anxious to want to join so i was just cooped up in my room thinking the worst would happen and was pretty quiet. So after a while, 12:01 rolls around and I go check on TMDSAS to see where my fate was... and it says "Did not matched to any school". Now for me that wasnt supposed to happen, but I IM around, and again it happened to the rest of my fellow group so I just was like, ok... this has to be a joke, and go to sleep.

Eh I wake up about 7:55, just kinda out of it, thinking about the 8:00 official email i was supposed to recieve. 8:00 am rolls around and I get an email, and this was the email saying where I eventually matched to. I was so scared to open it, but i did cause I just had to... and scrolled down and just read the first sentence... "congratulations, you have been accepted to Texas A&M Medical school"... I read it over and over again like 100 times the name of the school, it was unbelievable that i thought that it said what it said, I matched to my first choice school, and then I just start screaming with joy... pretty much at the top of my lungs. My roommates woke up and they later told me they wondered if that was a "good" scream or a "bad scream". Then I start bouncing and jumping around the apartment like a giddy little kangaroo. My roommate also matched so it was just pure joy in my apt. I called my parents and was crying by then, and my mom is like "why are you crying??? this is supposed to be happy", and I say "Cause I'm crying tears of joy, I finally made it to the one thing that I have been working so hard for the past few years, I'm gonna be a doctor one day".

Good times. Then I go up to my workplace and celebrate with my friends who got accepted, and with the staff that I work with. 😀 I could not stop smiling the whole day.
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How did you match already?
 
UTH2003 said:
I live in Texas and everyone who applies to one of the Texas schools finds out on the same date (February 1st). I had been dating my girlfriend for nearly 5 years (we met in 2nd grade, were friends for years, began dating in High School, and have been at different colleges and 4 hours apart for the past 4 years), and thought I would make the date even more special by asking her to marry me! We met in our hometown, and went out to an awesome restaurant, then I blindfolded her and took her to the spot we first kissed and I told her all kinds of mushy things and proposed to her. We finally went home and checked the internet to find out I got into the school we were both hoping for. That night I got the two things I had been praying for most, and could not have felt anymore blessed!
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Your story just made me tear up. When I found out, I was out to lunch with my mom. My dad called us on her cell phone to let us know that my first acceptance letter had arrived in the mail. I always envisioned myself falling to my knees sobbing with joy and relief when this moment finally came, but when it actually happened, I was just like "It's about f***ing time." I was really surprised by my lack of excitement, but it was my second time applying and I'd gone through hell throughout this entire process so my mindset was more along the lines of, "when is this gonna end so I can get on with my life?" rather than "ooh, i really hope i get in!!!" The fabulous reality of it all finally hit me about two weeks later and I became aware that my lifelong dream was finally in sight...this is when I excitedly called everyone I knew and spread the good news. Yes, until that point the only people who knew were my immediate family and boyfriend.
 
I put on my cape and wizard hat....
 
I can't wait to post here later this year hopefully!
 
ahrastar06 said:
I'm in a special program in Tx so we matched early on Dec 15.
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Were u on JAMP program? Well, congratulations and best wishes!!! Which school did you match at?
 
when i found out, i first called my mom, who told me she was SO PROUD of me. that was the first time she has EVER said that in my entire life.

second, i called my dad. he said congratulatinos and was ecstatic.

third, i called both of my best friends who were SO HAPPY for me.

fourth, i called everyone else on my cell phone address book.

by the end of the 2.5 hours, i was surprised that:

1. my cell phone battery didn't die. thus, i highly recommend motorola phones because of their long battery lives.

2. i didn't have an enormous tumor growing out of my right ear.
 
I'm a college student in Philadelphia. I received my first acceptance just before I went home for thanksgiving. I immediately traveled to the Philly art museum and ran up the steps like Rocky. Best of all, a band was warming up for the Thanksgiving day parade at the foot of the stairs.

Only someone as quirky as me would do something like that, though.
 
ha ha. That's awesome. I wish I had done something like that.
 
ahrastar06 said:
I'm in a special program in Tx so we matched early on Dec 15.
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Congrats! That's so exciting!
 
I have the same JAMP story as Ahra...They played with our hearts a little that night. They sent an email before-hand telling us that we would know what medical school we got into by 12:01 December 15th...

Then that horrible "Did not matched to any school" came flashing on my screen and I almost cried. Not only was it a terrible message...but it was grammatically incorrect, and that just could not be tolerated!

So I slept (yeah right) and woke up the next morning at 6/7 (who knows when the actual vigil started) and waited for 8 am. But of course I get no word. Then it happened, a little late for my taste, but it happened...one of those glorious moments with the sky and the heavens opening up and the choir singing...and my email mailbox saying "new message." I furiously IM'ed my friends (including Ahra)...ran and told the fam...called a few ppl...


then went back to sleep...

and I haven't woken up from the dream since! 😀
 
I was checking my email at around 3:30 PM today and was reading some random email when suddenly a new message came up. It was from University of Michigan and when I opened it up, I just froze. Is this an acceptance letter? A rejection? O ****... this is it! I opened the email and my heart stopped for a split-second, but when my eyes focused, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I had got accepted!

I was at work so I was moreso stunned and shocked. I had to keep a calm composure because, after all, it is a professional setting. But that didn't stop me from calling my family, friends, posting a huge "hooray" on my Xanga, and posting here on SDN. The whole afternoon, I had this huge smile on my face as I sat hunkered over plates of bacteria. But today was different. I wasn't cursing them out for not giving me my desired plasmid. None of that mattered. I must have looked like a complete idiot because I couldn't wipe this damn smile off my face. Meanwhile, the calls have been pouring in and I've enjoyed talking to every person who has called. Even now I'm still in shock as I look at the printed email taped to my wall. As a celebration tonight, I got dinner at my favorite Mexican restaurant. I can't go all out because I have journal articles to read for tomorrow, but just you wait til this weekend! 🙂

For all those people with less than stellar statistics... it is still possible to get into good medical schools if you work hard at the things that can imrove your application. I never kicked ass in college. In fact, I got pretty badly beaten at times by my curriculum (bioe at berkeley). My final GPA was below average for matriculating medical students and the first time I had taken the MCAT I scored a measely 24R. Ouch, huh? But after working in pharmaceutical research for a year, getting involved in a couple volunteering organizations, and really hunkering down and foregoing my social life for 3+ months, I performed solidly on the MCAT (33R), stayed in research for another year and a half, put everything I had into my personal statements and AMCAS application, applied and here I am today! It was all worth it, so DONT GIVE UP HOPE. IT IS POSSIBLE!

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!

Chouster (University of Michigan, entering class of 2006)
 
I was lucky enough to have my acceptance come after a terrible day in the lab (no results all day!). I came home, checked my mailbox and found a small envelope from Case. I thought, great, perfect end to the day. I was completely suprized to open the letter and read "Congratulations! etc."
After staring at that first sentance for a few minutes, I read the rest of the letter and called my parents. They were so proud! I waited untill my girlfriend came home from work to tell her the good news, and she jumped up and down and yelled more than I did 😀
I still dont think its really registered that I will be in med school in just a few months, its just so incredible!
 
dude, u are too narcissistic, bumping ur threads at the same time!
 
call me a soft sissy if you want, but just thinking about that moment makes me tear up sometimes. im not applying til this summer, but i have it all planned out. when i recieve my first acceptance letter, im sure ill shed tears,(just the type of guy i am..im no sissy though!) i wont tell any of my family members about it, except maybe one of my brothers so they could help me plan a dinner, in which ill make the announcement. this is how its always played out in my head.congrats to everyone, maybe this time next year, ill be able to make an actual post in this thread.
 
ok....all guys do cry 😛 it's healthy and normal 😉
 
I was in DC to interview for a different school when I heard about my first acceptance. I stayed with my cousin out there and after going out that night I checked my email and found the news....we started jumping up and down and we both cried, I was really happy my cousin was with me since I was so far from home. I then called my family and close friends....but somehow the news spread to everyone i knew 🙂
 
I had been religiously checking my mail at 1:15 pm every day and the day I decided to take it easy, I checked it at 4 pm. I had this thin but fat envelope and started freaking out. When I say "congrats.." I just started laughing. To make it better, that same day I got a job offer.

Well worth the many Saturday nights I spent cradling my orgo book...
 
I was lucky, I guess, in that I had two of these awesome experiences. Both are entertaining stories too.

The first acceptance I got was Tulane. Their mail goes to my house in NC, and my dad called me one afternoon in late November. He says, "Guess what? You have a letter here from Tulane. You got in!" I was in my room, so I did a little jig and shouted "YESSSSSSS!" I got off the phone with my dad and called my mom, who was still at work. She picks up the phone and I we have the following conversation:

"Hey mom, it's me, I got into Tulane!"
"Hey, I've been meaning to talk to you. I was talking about stem cell research with one of my clients today, and I wanted to get a couple answers from Tasha [my gf, researcher] about it."
"Um, mom... I got into med school."
"Oh yeah, I've known that for like 15 minutes."
"Well, it's kind of important..."
"Oh, well congratulations!"
"Thanks mom."

Then I called Tasha and told her. She flipped her **** and said "I told you so", and then I poured myself a Glenfiddich on the rocks and had a cigar.

The second time was when I got into my first choice, UNC. I had interviewed in early October, and I was getting really nervous because it was late december and I hadn't heard anything. I was at a hotel in Greenville, NC getting ready for my interview at East Carolina. I had printouts of SDN feedback questions, etc., and I was reading through them. I got bored and called Tasha to chat for a while. I'm on the hotel phone with her when my cell phone rings. I picked it up and I saw that 919 area code on the caller ID, and I thought to myself, "919? Who the hell is calling me fro... OH **** THAT'S THE CHAPEL HILL AREA CODE!!!" I got back on the phone with Tasha and I was like "Babe, I have to go, I'll call you back" and I just hung up on her. I answered my cell phone, and it was Dr. Thomas, one of my interviewers. He asked me how I was, and I said something like "pretty good, just gearing up for the holidays." He said "I think I'm about to make your holidays a whole lot better." "Oh, please do!" I replied. And then he said two magic words: "You're in." I don't really remember the rest of the conversation, just that it was a mess of blubbering thank-yous and "I'm so happy"s. I told him I'd see him in August and got off the phone. I called my house. Dad picked up and I told him. Normally my dad is really reserved, like really reserved, so it blew me away to hear him shout "YEAAAAAAAH! You're the MAN, SON!" into the phone. We talked for a few minutes and he wouldn't shut up about how proud he was of me. Mom was at the store so I called her cell phone and told her. We flipped out a little. Then I called my grandmother (who lives near us), and my dad had already called her, and she was in tears on the phone with me. Then I called Tasha back and told her. She was in the car and flipped out so bad she almost had an accident, but we were both screaming and laughing into the phone.

It kinda sucked because I was alone in Greenville though. My hotel was right next to Red Lobster, so I went over there and bought myself like $30 worth of crab legs and ate them all. I felt so sick afterwards but I didn't care. I went back to my hotel room and threw my interview prep materials in the trash and spent the rest of the night watching Trauma on the Discovery Channel. I still went to my ECU interview the next day, but I was very carefree about it.

🙂 This thread is awesome, and should be stickied. The most uplifting read on SDN.

CQ
 
I feel very privileged to be able to post on this thread. I'm a re-applicant and by the time January rolled around I was starting to get incredibly down on myself and nervous about what to do the following year. I just had this awful feeling that it wasn't going to happen.

I had been rejected by my top state school without even being granted an interview...even though they interviewed me last year. I had a few other interviews but none seemed to really click. Even the fact that I had just gotten an interview at my top private school choice didn't bring me out of the doldrums. I figured, 'well it's january, i'm probably interviewing for the waitlist (terrible rumor i picked up on sdn)'.

Interview day came and went and it was incredibly awesome. The school was even better than I imagined and my interview went perfectly. I let down my guard a bit and allowed myself a tiny bit of hope. At Jefferson they are incredibly efficient and you usually hear a week after your interview if you're accepted.

You can imagine how this makes you feel the entire week. Wednesday came around and I waited anxiously with my cell phone always right next to me and turned up to the loudest volume so there was no way i couldn't hear it or something. By dinner time, I had pretty much given up. That's it I thought, game over. They should have had the meeting by now. After dinner I was fooling around trying to keep my mind off of my misery when my phone rang. Probably my friend returning my call I thought. Looked over (my phone tells the state where the call is coming from)...PENNSYLVANIA?! Oh sweet Jesus PPPPPPPPLLLLLLEAASE let this be it. and it was. Jackpot.

I pretty much dissolved into tears. I'm not at all ashamed. Two years of the stress and anxiety of applying plus the 4 years of hard work in undergrad puts quite a weight on one's shoulders. Everyone here knows how much of ourselves we dedicate to the process...how incredible it feels to be free of that burden. My mom cried with me; my father sounded happier than I'd ever heard him; my girlfriend of 4 years cried too. Then I went to Chapel Hill and got well and truly crunked. That's a fact.
 
Oh man.

Well, I'm a TX resident, and had applied out of state too, so by the time I found out I had already had 10 interviews with no responses except one "low waitlist" (aka rejection) from JHU, which I wasn't too torn up about but still . . . it's January at this point, I've had 10 interviews and all I'm sitting on is a rejection.

So anyways, I was getting really down on myself because my top choice, WashU, hadn't gotten back to me, and it was right at 2 months after my interview. Meanwhile, friends, family, and everyone else I ever knew was asking the dreaded questions: "So, where are you going? Oh, where do you WANT to go? Well, when will you find out?" which only added to my stress level.

On 1/12 (yeah I remember the date) I had just finished my second great interview at UCSF, and was on the shuttle heading back from SF General Hospital to the med school campus. Feeling pretty good, like oh well, if WashU doesn't take me, I would LOVE to go here! Still, my experience at WashU had been so great, and I had felt so at home there, and my interview had been incredible, that I was really beginning to feel pretty hurt about the lack of an acceptance or at least some kind of feedback.

Anyways, so I'm sitting on this bus, and my phone rings. Unknown number. Now I'm expecting it to be the debt collectors who have been calling my cell for years trying to reach someone else. So I answer, "Hello?" To my great surprise, I hear "Hi, may I please speak to Katie? Hi Katie, this is Dean Dodson at Washington University. I just wanted to call and let you know that you're going to medical school!"

So as soon as I hear the name, I get that tingly head rush of adrenaline. I mean, they don't give personal calls for rejections, right? So I stammer out a sincere thank you and express how happy I am. I actually told him that they are my top choice (which yeah might have been dumb scholarship-wise but I was just so happy). We talked for a little bit, him encouraging me to apply for scholarships and reiterating that I really should go to WashU (like I needed encouragement!). As soon as we hung up, I turned to the two 4th years behind me who I had met at the bus stop (they were interviewing for residencies at UCSF) and told them my good news.

Then I called my mom, dad, sister, and best friends in rapid succession. They all freaked out, especially my parents. It was great

That night, alone in my hotel room in SF, I bought myself celebratory pizza and cheesy sticks. Didn't get drunk but I did have a Dr. Pepper (I NEVER drink non-diet drinks). Went to sleep early, slept a long time, and went back home to Austin the next day. Basically I was in a haze of joy from the moment I answered the phone until . . . now. Still can't believe I'm going to be at my very favorite school! It's amazing how you can go from being so stressed and down on yourself to elated in a split second.


🙂
 
Medical schools do not accept Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris accepts medical schools, only to decline all of them to start his own school.

Chuck Norris also does not send withdrawal emails. He roundhouses every single committee member for taking his $$$.
 
I was also a re-applicant, and scheduled all my interviews for Christmas break. I flew overseas and spent 2 weeks driving and flying around Texas and out of state. I was getting ready to go back overseas when a letter came in the mail from Tulane, which was really skinny....I was scared but made myself not care (even though I loved Tulane) and tore it open. It had all the key words in the first sentence, so I stopped reading and started freaking out with my dad, and later my mom came home and I started calling and emailing my peeps....then last week I matched at UTMB, and now I am accepted to 2 outstanding wonderful schools and have to choose between them, which is such a nice position...

I found out about the UTMB match before I thought I would. See, I live 7 hours ahead of Texas, so I figured I should find out at 7 am on Feb 2, except that midnight on Feb 1 (which is when I thought the match would come out) is not the same as 12:01 on feb 1...so anyway I got an email from a friend telling me that I would find out in a few hours, but I figured he didn't know what he was talking about and went to work in Europe on the morning of Feb 1, mere moments before the match was released (he had emailed a few hours before)

It wasn't until later that day, about 4 hours later, that I realized how to tell time again in our American am/pm system. HMMMMMM....so I was walking to my school where I teach (it's in this tiny village in the Alps) and I knew that when I got there my match result would be waiting for me, but the walk was so beautiful and peaceful I decided I wasn't nervous bc I already had gotten into Tulane....anyway I felt GOOD when I saw the word Galveston, but hadn't really gotten worked up bc I thought I would be finding out the next day, so I hadn't had time to get worked up yet.....

And of course I told my co-workers, who don't get our system at all anyway, but they were happy for me, then I teased my folks via email that if they wanted to know they could call me, and of course my dad called as soon as he woke up, and freaked out with me again......good times....then he told my mom before I had a chance, and both my siblings....GRRRRRR
 
i stripped off my clothes and did the party boy dance in front of my pchem class......






















and then I woke up.
 
actually I got my acceptances in skinny envelopes, so you never know....



killswitch1968 said:
Isn't that kind of a give away? Skinny evelope = no Thick envelope = yes

Is that the norm? Can I start getting excited if I get a thick envelope? 😀
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I almost had heart attack in the middle of the post office (but I managed to hold it together since my post office is in the ghetto). Then I called and woke up my mom and told her and then the rest of my family, quick, fast and in a hurry. Other than that, I talked to all my close friends and that was about it. (I didn't really know what to do with myself!)
 
I know the admissions committee met every Wed, and they would send out acceptances via email at the end of the day on Wed. I interviewed early Dec, and I was told that my name would probably not come up until mid-Jan becuase they had many other students to review before me.

I checked my email every Wed after my interview. Finally on Wed, Jan 4, I was too tired to check my email after staying out late. (I didn't have a computer at the time becuase I was living in a FEMA trailer and couldn't get internet). I didn't want to drive to school or my parent's house.

The next day, my boyfriend checked my email during his lunch break. He called to tell, and I almost felt like he was lying to me. I cried. Told him I had to get off the phone so I could call everyone else. I called both of my parents, my step dad at his work, and my brother at his work. Then all of my other relatives and friends in order of my cell phone listings. Then, I drove to my mom's house to read the email for myself. (Somewhere deep inside, I still felt like he may have misread the email!)

My entire family including aunts, uncles, cousins and grandma celebrated at a local catfish house. We had a great time.
 
I didn't believe it for a week. I kept expecting someone to call me and tell me it was a mistake. Finally, a week later I got the third confirmation that I'd gotten in and I had a mini celebration, apparently it was true! Now each time I get another email or letter, I get further confirmation that I'm really in.
 
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