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So I'm struggling to stay motivated this semester...I often feel like I'm drowning in Physics and MCAT work (I can't describe my absolute abhorrence of physics and am currently in Physics2). I keep wondering whether I'm wasting my time with all these activities (volunteering, research, shadowing, tutoring, blah, blah, blah) if I don't get into schools next year, and I know it's going to get worse throughout the process. It's spring break right now. Most people are away having fun on some beach, and I am trying to catch up on Kaplan work, submit research applications, work on my PS. I can't understand for the life of me why we must know Physics for the MCAT anyway....sorry, you can't calculate the charge of x with y Volts flowing through and z resistance, or how far a canon ball will land if fired at a 30 degree angle from Mars, you have no aptitude for medicine..?? BUT I keep trying to ignore that and just learn it because I have to. And becoming a doctor is something I really want. My BS & VR scores are high, but I'm sitting here overwhelmed with physics....(/rant)

And consequently, here's the point of my post. I was looking for some motivation & thought it might be cool to hear stories from this year's applicants, current med students, etc, about your first acceptance. Where were you? Was it a phone call? Who did you call first? How did you react? I'm just trying to keep the overall goal in mind & would love to hear stories of when people first heard they're going to be a doctor! And that it was all worth it🙂
 
Research lab checking my email. I reacted with a smile....This might sound arrogant but I was pretty confident I would get in here considering the comments I received from the dean and the interviewers.
 
Haha, that's great you were able to be confident about an acceptance though.
 
I was just walking out of my BU interview when I saw I had a new voice mail. I checked it, and it was the Dean of Admissions from Jefferson saying she had "good news for me," and that "a letter was in the mail." I probably played it back 4 or 5 times, over-analyzing every word, wondering if it could mean anything other than the best possible news... It didn't, it meant I was accepted. The rest of the day was kind of surreal. Not because I didn't think I'd get in anywhere, but because of how far I had come from where I had been just a few years ago.

You'll get a chance to have your own feeling, too. Don't worry.
 
pathophys17 said:
So I'm struggling to stay motivated this semester...I often feel like I'm drowning in Physics and MCAT work (I can't describe my absolute abhorrence of physics and am currently in Physics2). I keep wondering whether I'm wasting my time with all these activities (volunteering, research, shadowing, tutoring, blah, blah, blah) if I don't get into schools next year, and I know it's going to get worse throughout the process. It's spring break right now. Most people are away having fun on some beach, and I am trying to catch up on Kaplan work, submit research applications, work on my PS. I can't understand for the life of me why we must know Physics for the MCAT anyway....sorry, you can't calculate the charge of x with y Volts flowing through and z resistance, or how far a canon ball will land if fired at a 30 degree angle from Mars, you have no aptitude for medicine..?? BUT I keep trying to ignore that and just learn it because I have to. And becoming a doctor is something I really want. My BS & VR scores are high, but I'm sitting here overwhelmed with physics....(/rant)

And consequently, here's the point of my post. I was looking for some motivation & thought it might be cool to hear stories from this year's applicants, current med students, etc, about your first acceptance. Where were you? Was it a phone call? Who did you call first? How did you react? I'm just trying to keep the overall goal in mind & would love to hear stories of when people first heard they're going to be a doctor! And that it was all worth it🙂
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When I got my first acceptance, I was stressed out, since I had just finished the MCAT a few months before that. I was working full time, was taking a class (which happened to be physics!!), was volunteering, shadowing, and doing the whole nine yards. So when i got the acceptance, my reaction was like "it's fu*king time"... I earned that acceptance letter. Yes, I slept much better after that, but i was surprised by my own reaction (or lack thereof). I thought I'd be jumping up and down when I got that letter, but my only reaction was a simple smile.

this process is a bitch... everything about it sucks... whether it's studying for the MCAT, shadowing and annoying the crap out of doctors, kissing professors' asses for good rec letters, kissing doctors' asses to let you shadow, kissing various organizations' asses to let you volunteer, BSing on your secondaries, repeating over and over again how you want to help people (even though technically plumbers also help people), and the list goes on. That was my personal experience.

I know exactly how you are feeling. It's very frustrating. But I can promise you one thing: when you get that acceptance letter, you're going to forget about all the trouble you went through. You will forget all this physics crap, and you will remember why you had started on this path in the first place. Most importantly, you will realize that it was all worth it.

I wish you the very best of luck!:luck:
 
Opened a thin letter (why do this? why not send an email rather than a painfully deceptive thin letter that takes an excruciatingly long time to reach you???). Not exactly surprised because my interviewer basically said i would get in but very relieved. Immediately told my whole family of course 😀
 
I was sitting in an airport after finishing an interview trip that involved a lot of eating fast food, sleeping on couches and floors, spending ridiculous amounts of money on cabs, shuttles, etc. Prior to that I was getting stuck on waitlists, despite very very explicitly positive feedback from interviewers. Basically I was an irritated and disgruntled applicant at that point. I had applied to a TON of schools, spent insane money on secondaries, and I was sick of traveling since nothing had panned out. In my frustration I began thinking about what would happen if I didn't get in and I had to do the application process all over again. What if all the work I had put in over the last couple of years (i'm a non-trad) was totally ineffective? I hadn't slept well in a couple months because of thoughts like that. I had actually spent the night before venting to my significant other about how ridiculous this process is, how angry it was making me, and how futile my efforts seemed to be.

So anyway, I remember sitting there frustratedly updating some application files on my laptop and talking on the phone while I waited for the boarding call. Then a number I didn't recognize beeped in and my heart kinda skipped a beat. Anytime my phone rang and it was a new number I always wondered who it was going to be. Until then it was always a friend on a different phone or something. Well not this time. It was a dean who proceeded to give me the good news that I had been accepted. I don't remember anything I said after that although I imagine it wasn't very coherent. After I hung up I fairly calmly called my parents and S.O. to tell them the good news. Then I sat there and let it sink in. The relief was so great I actually cried. I slept the whole way home.

Long post, but it was one of those awesome moments that one never forgets.
 
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About one year before my first interview (which turned out to be an acceptance a month later) I was feeling hopeless because I just got my MCAT scores back and they were horrible. A couple months later I took them again (studied right through spring break) and improved incredibly, graduated, turned in my apps and couldn't be farther from where I was just a year ago. Now I am relaxing with my friends all the time while I sit back and wait for medical school this fall. I don't even know what anyone did that spring break nor do they.
 
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I was sitting in an airport after finishing an interview trip that involved a lot of eating fast food, sleeping on couches and floors, spending ridiculous amounts of money on cabs, shuttles, etc. Prior to that I was getting stuck on waitlists, despite very very explicitly positive feedback from interviewers. Basically I was an irritated and disgruntled applicant at that point. I had applied to a TON of schools, spent insane money on secondaries, and I was sick of traveling since nothing had panned out. In my frustration I began thinking about what would happen if I didn't get in and I had to do the application process all over again. What if all the work I had put in over the last couple of years (i'm a non-trad) was totally ineffective? I hadn't slept well in a couple months because of thoughts like that. I had actually spent the night before venting to my significant other about how ridiculous this process is, how angry it was making me, and how futile my efforts seemed to be.

So anyway, I remember sitting there frustratedly updating some application files on my laptop and talking on the phone while I waited for the boarding call. Then a number I didn't recognize beeped in and my heart kinda skipped a beat. Anytime my phone rang and it was a new number I always wondered who it was going to be. Until then it was always a friend on a different phone or something. Well not this time. It was a dean who proceeded to give me the good news that I had been accepted. I don't remember anything I said after that although I imagine it wasn't very coherent. After I hung up I fairly calmly called my parents and S.O. to tell them the good news. Then I sat there and let it sink in. The relief was so great I actually cried. I slept the whole way home.

Long post, but it was one of those awesome moments that one never forgets.
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That's a nice story 🙂
 
i was at lab at my desk, checking SDN. I saw that acceptances went out, and I checked the status page and saw that i was accepted. Pretty much heart pounding out of my chest was my reaction. I told everyone in my lab, and then called my bf to tell him.

Then 2 hrs later I got a call from another school and got another acceptance!! It was an absurdly good day.
 
I had a dream that my status page updated, but it was an excruciating 3 days before it actually changed and appeared (exactly) like in my dream. I think I was the only person home at the time, but I sent out a multi-recipient SMS to like 10 people. I got a phone call the next day and large packet in the mail the day after that.
 
Got back from a weekend trip where I thought I had a pretty subpar interview to find two acceptances waiting for me in the mail. Shouted a little bit at the mailbox. This could've been an insanely awesome day, but the Red Sox went on to lose game 7 to Tampa Bay that night. 😡 The acceptances made it a lot easier to bear though 😀
 
I called the admissions office for a status update. People who had interviewed my same day had been accepted like a week later, so after about 5 weeks of no decision, I had a very bad feeling... I was so surprised/happy when the secretary told me I'd been accepted that I said something *****ic to the effect of "You're my new favorite person and you just completely made my day!" (I am usually very suave and debonaire, but I momentarily lost control 😎)

The first thing I did was run down the hall to my boss' office to tell him. Then came mass emails to friends and family. I'm still sort of in giddy awe, although completing the FAFSA sobered me up a bit.
 
My blackberry started beeping, and I checked it, and there was a message which said congrats. I immediately started smiling, called my family and my sister, and them for the rest of the day, I had the biggest grin on my face, knowing I would not have to reapply, or ever think of the MCAT again... errr.. that is except to make fun of my friends who are still studying for it😉
 
I had interviewed at this school at the end of October and I remember thinking how cool it would be to get an acceptance that coincided with my birthday (12/9). On 12/5, I walked in the door after a very long day (full 8 hours at work, 4 hour training session after work) to find a fat packet sitting on my desk. I immediately began flipping out as I opened it and read the acceptance letter several times to make sure it wasn't a mirage.

After it sunk in that I was going to be in medical school, I ran into the living room to tell my parents, then they immediately began flipping out. Cut to a few minutes later (post-celebratory hugging), I started calling and texting my closest friends informing them that the plans we had already scheduled to celebrate my birthday would need to be upgraded a bit to accommodate this new information 😀
 
wow, some great stories. congrats, everyone.
 
it was oct 17. i was home from school for the weekend and sad that two of my classmates had already heard back from a school we all interviewed at the same week in september. So there I was, sad and dejected, washing dishes. My little brother comes into the kitchen holding a thin envelope from a med school, looking absolutely mortified. Im about to start crying bcs that envelope was so damn thin. I tell him to open it and he starts shrieking - hes 9 yrs old - and there it was, my first shiny acceptance.

BEST.DAY.EVER.

i never finished washing the dishes.
 
After an interview the dean told us he would probably sending out emails the following Friday. I got to work and checked my email and I was accepted!

It was mostly a huge relief to know that it all paid off and that I could stop stressing and let my cortisol levels return to somewhere closer to normal. All the ECs and essays and studying and essay writing and spending $3000 in the application process was worth it!
 
I was in this horrible class about witchcraft. It sounded good, but the professor was a total wackadoodle. So I never paid any attention. I start checking my email and BAM - "Your Status Has Changed." So I log in. I click check status. My eyes fall to "Congratulations! You've been accepted."

I grab my phone, "casually" walk out of the classroom and into a little alcove down the hall. I call my oldest sister and start literally jumping up and down saying "I got into medical school! I'm going to be a doctor." I tried not to yell so that the class wouldn't hear me.

Awesomeness.
 
It was late at night and I was in my room SDNing. I had heard that the dean for this school usually started calling fairly late on Oct. 15 so I was sitting with my phone on my lap staring at SDN to see if someone else had started getting phone calls yet. Suddenly, one person posts "the dean called!" and I stared at my phone. Then another, then another. At this point I'm feeling super depressed, and I send a text to a friend who had also interviewed around the same time as me being like "hey, looks like people are being called....oh well". 5-10 minutes later, I look back down at my phone and I notice I have a voicemail. I figure my friend had called (WHY didn't my phone ring?!?!?!) so I just listen to the voicemail....and it's the dean, welcoming me to the class of 2013. I got about that far in the message when I saved the voicemail to listen to more carefully later, threw the phone across the room, made some incoherent comment to an SDN friend I was IMing with (I GOT IN YOU TELL SDN I CAN'T TYPE) and then I called my mom, who kept telling me to stop crying and who thought something bad had happened. Anyways, greatest moment ever.

Another awesome moment was when I got my scholarship phone call. THAT, I picked up. I was walking to work when I was told about the scholarship, I started crying and I had to tell the dean "hold on a minute, I have to sit down cause a car almost hit me". I sat down on a curb and cried for 10 minutes after that phone call, and got to call my mom and tell her I had the best Christmas present for her, cause she was super stressed about the fact that she couldn't help me at all for med school tuition. It was really an amazing day.
 
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It was late at night and I was in my room SDNing. I had heard that the dean for this school usually started calling fairly late on Oct. 15 so I was sitting with my phone on my lap staring at SDN to see if someone else had started getting phone calls yet. Suddenly, one person posts "the dean called!" and I stared at my phone. Then another, then another. At this point I'm feeling super depressed, and I send a text to a friend who had also interviewed around the same time as me being like "hey, looks like people are being called....oh well". 5-10 minutes later, I look back down at my phone and I notice I have a voicemail. I figure my friend had called (WHY didn't my phone ring?!?!?!) so I just listen to the voicemail....and it's the dean, welcoming me to the class of 2013. I got about that far in the message when I saved the voicemail to listen to more carefully later, threw the phone across the room, made some incoherent comment to an SDN friend I was IMing with (I GOT IN YOU TELL SDN I CAN'T TYPE) and then I called my mom, who kept telling me to stop crying and who thought something bad had happened. Anyways, greatest moment ever.

Another awesome moment was when I got my scholarship phone call. THAT, I picked up. I was walking to work when I was told about the scholarship, I started crying and I had to tell the dean "hold on a minute, I have to sit down cause a car almost hit me". I sat down on a curb and cried for 10 minutes after that phone call, and got to call my mom and tell her I had the best Christmas present for her, cause she was super stressed about the fact that she couldn't help me at all for med school tuition. It was really an amazing day.
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I'm glad I could help you find your phone that night by calling it, LET.
 
Got a phone call telling me I was accepted literally two minutes before my econ midterm started (I was sitting down in the testing room but answered because I didn't recognize the number). I celebrated by not giving a flying FOCK how I did on the test (unfortunately I had already put in the study-time so it was sort of a moot point). Either way, definitely took some pressure off!
 
i had had a really awful week. i really like the school that gave me my first acceptance however i came out of the interview feeling awful. and so when i recieved the small envelope in the mail i was sad. i went downstairs to my friends' apartment downstairs. i sad down on the couch preparing myself for the bad news. opened the envelope and freaked out!!! i was like jumping up and down like crazy. my friends downstairs had people staying over ... they must have thought wow ... you have crazy college friendshehe
 
pathophys17 said:
So I'm struggling to stay motivated this semester...I often feel like I'm drowning in Physics and MCAT work (I can't describe my absolute abhorrence of physics and am currently in Physics2). I keep wondering whether I'm wasting my time with all these activities (volunteering, research, shadowing, tutoring, blah, blah, blah) if I don't get into schools next year, and I know it's going to get worse throughout the process. It's spring break right now. Most people are away having fun on some beach, and I am trying to catch up on Kaplan work, submit research applications, work on my PS. I can't understand for the life of me why we must know Physics for the MCAT anyway....sorry, you can't calculate the charge of x with y Volts flowing through and z resistance, or how far a canon ball will land if fired at a 30 degree angle from Mars, you have no aptitude for medicine..?? BUT I keep trying to ignore that and just learn it because I have to. And becoming a doctor is something I really want. My BS & VR scores are high, but I'm sitting here overwhelmed with physics....(/rant)
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i feel you on that one. i was where you are now about a year ago. You just gotta suck it up and fight through it. Itll all be over soon.

And consequently, here's the point of my post. I was looking for some motivation & thought it might be cool to hear stories from this year's applicants, current med students, etc, about your first acceptance. Where were you? Was it a phone call? Who did you call first? How did you react? I'm just trying to keep the overall goal in mind & would love to hear stories of when people first heard they're going to be a doctor! And that it was all worth it🙂
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i had just got back home from a rugby tournament and I had mail from a school. I kinda new what it was so it was very anticlimatic. I really didnt get excited at all. I kinda just went on with the rest of the day. Now the most exciting acceptance I had was in december (where ill likely be attending) and i was studying for a final i had the next day. I got the phone call on a saturday and was ecstatic. I called my parents right away, and then did nothing the rest of the weekend in terms of school work. It was awesome.
 
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I think one of the coolest things too was telling other people. The bio professor who'd written my LOR was thrilled, and I got huge hugs from a lot of the doctors in the clinic I work in, who had been through it with me from the beginning. It was pretty amazing to shake the hand of this super-duper-prestigious attending who smiled and told me he looked forward to having me as a colleague. It was like being part of a very cool, elite club. I still get shivery when I think about it 😀
 
Wow, these are awesome...just what I was looking for. Congrats everyone!
 
ButImLETired said:
I think one of the coolest things too was telling other people. The bio professor who'd written my LOR was thrilled, and I got huge hugs from a lot of the doctors in the clinic I work in, who had been through it with me from the beginning. It was pretty amazing to shake the hand of this super-duper-prestigious attending who smiled and told me he looked forward to having me as a colleague. It was like being part of a very cool, elite club. I still get shivery when I think about it 😀
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I bet that was a great feeling! Hopefully I will get my day, too...and never look at another Physics problem again!🙂
 
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I think one of the coolest things too was telling other people. The bio professor who'd written my LOR was thrilled, and I got huge hugs from a lot of the doctors in the clinic I work in, who had been through it with me from the beginning. It was pretty amazing to shake the hand of this super-duper-prestigious attending who smiled and told me he looked forward to having me as a colleague. It was like being part of a very cool, elite club. I still get shivery when I think about it 😀
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I think you should rub it in the face of that evil chemistry professor.
 
pathophys17 said:
I bet that was a great feeling! Hopefully I will get my day, too...and never look at another Physics problem again!🙂
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Lol, there is some physics in medical school (from what I hear), and probably a lot if you go into a field like radiology or rad onc.
 
ChubbyChaser said:
Lol, there is some physics in medical school (from what I hear), and probably a lot if you go into a field like radiology or rad onc.
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when people say there is physics in med school, im pretty sure they just mean that a lot of physiological concepts and what not are driven by concepts from physics (how we breathe, flow of ions, how we amplify sound as it enters the ear, etc). But you are never going to solve for the torque about a rotating object flying through the air at a 30 degree angle with a 10 mph wind resistance. Thats the **** that I have the problem with learning (and i think the OP feels the same way). My biomechanics professor always mentions how people that are good at physics seem to love learning about how the body works simply b/c a lot of the physics concepts they know apply beautifully. But thats different b/c you are learning about something that you actually care about and are interested in (the human body) and its not "physics" in the traditional sense of a physics class where you are sitting down with a problem set and a calculator finding the initial velocity of a ball as it shoots from a canon. Who f*ckin cares. Maybe they should have a course called "physical concepts of the human body" or something like that.
 
OldBlue said:
I was sitting in an airport after finishing an interview trip that involved a lot of eating fast food, sleeping on couches and floors, spending ridiculous amounts of money on cabs, shuttles, etc. Prior to that I was getting stuck on waitlists, despite very very explicitly positive feedback from interviewers. Basically I was an irritated and disgruntled applicant at that point. I had applied to a TON of schools, spent insane money on secondaries, and I was sick of traveling since nothing had panned out. In my frustration I began thinking about what would happen if I didn't get in and I had to do the application process all over again. What if all the work I had put in over the last couple of years (i'm a non-trad) was totally ineffective? I hadn't slept well in a couple months because of thoughts like that. I had actually spent the night before venting to my significant other about how ridiculous this process is, how angry it was making me, and how futile my efforts seemed to be.

So anyway, I remember sitting there frustratedly updating some application files on my laptop and talking on the phone while I waited for the boarding call. Then a number I didn't recognize beeped in and my heart kinda skipped a beat. Anytime my phone rang and it was a new number I always wondered who it was going to be. Until then it was always a friend on a different phone or something. Well not this time. It was a dean who proceeded to give me the good news that I had been accepted. I don't remember anything I said after that although I imagine it wasn't very coherent. After I hung up I fairly calmly called my parents and S.O. to tell them the good news. Then I sat there and let it sink in. The relief was so great I actually cried. I slept the whole way home.

Long post, but it was one of those awesome moments that one never forgets.
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Wonderful story ... gives me hope.
 
to the OP- the weight of the world (or just this year's cycle) seemed to be lifted off my shoulders.

i was at work and i felt the cycle had been going very poorly for me in terms of how many interviews i had received and had just started to wonder if i would need to reapply the next year- though the ones i DID get were quality schools. everytime your phone rings and its an unknown number, your heart WILL skip a beat i promise. so i was in lab and came back from a meeting with my pi and saw that i had received a message from an UNAVAILABLE number and for some reason i just knew it was a school. and it was. the feeling of the first notice is great but a little shortlived. its the next week and week after that when you start to realize that your future IS closer to being sealed that you really become- just happy i guess. its great and now i could care a little too less about my current classes. im just enjoying my senior year. also, when i heard back from one of my top choices about a month later, the feeling was even better.
 
RySerr21 said:
when people say there is physics in med school, im pretty sure they just mean that a lot of physiological concepts and what not are driven by concepts from physics (how we breathe, flow of ions, how we amplify sound as it enters the ear, etc). But you are never going to solve for the torque about a rotating object flying through the air at a 30 degree angle with a 10 mph wind resistance. Thats the **** that I have the problem with learning (and i think the OP feels the same way). My biomechanics professor always mentions how people that are good at physics seem to love learning about how the body works simply b/c a lot of the physics concepts they know apply beautifully. But thats different b/c you are learning about something that you actually care about and are interested in (the human body) and its not "physics" in the traditional sense of a physics class where you are sitting down with a problem set and a calculator finding the initial velocity of a ball as it shoots from a canon. Who f*ckin cares. Maybe they should have a course called "physical concepts of the human body" or something like that.
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Lol I agree...although personally, I kind of enjoyed physics. Lots of real world applications.

I guess physics is just another way to weed out the 100s of thousands of premeds. It may not have as much application to what you will do in medical school as biology, but it sure tests if you can think critically and wrap your head around some fairly difficult concepts.
 
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to the OP- the weight of the world (or just this year's cycle) seemed to be lifted off my shoulders.

i was at work and i felt the cycle had been going very poorly for me in terms of how many interviews i had received and had just started to wonder if i would need to reapply the next year- though the ones i DID get were quality schools. everytime your phone rings and its an unknown number, your heart WILL skip a beat i promise. so i was in lab and came back from a meeting with my pi and saw that i had received a message from an UNAVAILABLE number and for some reason i just knew it was a school. and it was. the feeling of the first notice is great but a little shortlived. its the next week and week after that when you start to realize that your future IS closer to being sealed that you really become- just happy i guess. its great and now i could care a little too less about my current classes. im just enjoying my senior year. also, when i heard back from one of my top choices about a month later, the feeling was even better.
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Phone calls are much better than emails and snail mail...sadly i have yet to receive an acceptance via phone.
 
I didn't think I was getting in at this particular school because I knew when I should have gotten the acceptance email.

Turned out the dean was going to call me, but didn't have a chance that day. Needless to say I was very excited when I heard. The waiting is the worst part of it. I finally feel alive again, and not like some zombie going through the motions of life with no clear idea of my future. Wow, it is such a liberating experience just thinking about it.

From reading some other posts - and from my own experience - it seems like the relief is that much greater when you think you're about to be rejected because they gave you some deceptively shaped letter or you haven't heard when you thought you should have, etc.

Anyway, good luck, try not to stress too much... It sounds like you have the drive to finish this thing.
 
When I got my first acceptance I was in the waiting room of the interview for another school. I felt hugely relieved. It was nice not to fail.
In retrospect the pressure lifted from not failing to get in overshadowed the joy of getting in.
 
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It was Oct 15th, i was going to lunch from work with a friend and we decided to go off-campus to get a quick bite. I see a number that i didnt know put i though it was something about my car warrenty that has been bothering for a while. Then i hear a familiar voice, it was the assistant dean of a med school calling me to congratulate me for my acceptance to their school. I was really happy but i didnt want to seem too happy because my friend was also applying that cycle and had not heard from anyone. We got some food. When i went back to work i told my GF and she was really happy for me, then i log in into my station and find an email from another school 😀. I open it, another acceptance!!! i show her my email and i tell ppl at my office and show them. I didnt call my mom cuz i wanted to tell her in person. Two hours after, about 30 mins before getting out off work. I get another call, the dean of a med school was calling me?!! He was giving me congrats for the acceptance to their school and how he calls students to let them know. I go back to my work station and tell my gf which at this point cant believe that i got so many acceptances in one day. Everyone was pretty happy for me in the office and congratulating me. I told my sis over the online messager and when i went home i told my mom. It was a great moment when u finally see what you been working so hard for is finally visible. I dont like ppl knowing how i feel, but that day was incredible for me. 😀


ps. i find it funny how a lot of ppl was either at an interview or had one when they heard the news.
 
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to the OP- the weight of the world (or just this year's cycle) seemed to be lifted off my shoulders.

i was at work and i felt the cycle had been going very poorly for me in terms of how many interviews i had received and had just started to wonder if i would need to reapply the next year- though the ones i DID get were quality schools. everytime your phone rings and its an unknown number, your heart WILL skip a beat i promise. so i was in lab and came back from a meeting with my pi and saw that i had received a message from an UNAVAILABLE number and for some reason i just knew it was a school. and it was. the feeling of the first notice is great but a little shortlived. its the next week and week after that when you start to realize that your future IS closer to being sealed that you really become- just happy i guess. its great and now i could care a little too less about my current classes. im just enjoying my senior year. also, when i heard back from one of my top choices about a month later, the feeling was even better.
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granted i am a weirdo, but after reading this sentence i totally pictured you sitting in an office across from a giant letter pi with eyes and a mouth, having a discussion about your research. 😳

OP, thanks for starting this thread! these stories have given me a big ol' warm fuzzy. i'm so happy for all of you, and so excited to join this club a year from now (hopefully!).
 
I was at work browsing SDN on the day they said decisions would be out, so around noon I went to go check it out. Now, bear in mind that since last year I have been on five waitlists, so I was pretty much in another-day-another-waitlist mode. So I log on to their status page, scroll down through what seems like an enormous and completely unnecessarily large volume of text down the part actually having anything to do with status and as I'm reading (I read things to myself in my head from time to time), I think

"You have been accepted to the Case School of Medicine University Program--what the hell kind of waitlist is tha--OH."

And that was the end of my productive workday.:laugh:
 
Mine came on Jan 2. I had only two interviews at that point, and the school to which I was accepted had given a 6-8 week turnaround time. Even with the holidays, my letter came right around week 8. I was at my boyfriend's house at the time, about to have dinner, when my parents called me to tell me a letter had came. I had read on SDN that a big packet = acceptance, but I didn't ask my mom the size of the envelope cause I didn't want to know. She opened it and read it and I started jumping up and down and hugging my boyfriend and being generally all excited. After a few moments of celebrating, I calmed down, realized that I would never have to take the MCAT again, and really, really, really got excited.

I then had dinner with my boyfriend and his family. When I went home later that evening my dad met me with leftover champagne and Baileys. Then we got a call that my grandmother needed to go to the hospital. It was quite a rollercoaster of a day.
 
I woke up on Nov 21 to an email from AMCAS saying that a school wanted a background check. I looked through my status pages and one had a new status and said a decesion was sent. I flipped out, cried a bit then called my family and found all of my friends one by one.

Then I posted on SDN whether or not it was possible for the CBC email to come without an acceptance 🙄.

I had planned to celebrate, but it was postponed by schoolwork, so I had to wait until the weekend when one of my friends was having a party. Celebration lasted pretty much all night.

Letter got to my house on the 22nd, and was forwarded to me so that I got it on 25th.
 
So, I was sitting in my office in my lab, running through e-mail, getting ready to leave for my second job when I got an e-mail. The subject line said "Saint Louis University Acceptance." And I freaked out. I closed my door for a couple minutes while I went completely insane, cried a little, etc. etc. So, I had to compose myself to leave the lab, because I needed to tell some people first. Called my girlfriend, called my parents in my car on the way to work. Got to the hospital and some of the nurses heard me talking to my dad, so then some of them spazzed. It felt really good after 2 application cycles of no.
 
After a bunch of interviews, I was on 5 waitlists by January, including the school that I thought I had my best shot at. I was really down about it for a few months and decided that I should just get used to the idea that I wasn't going to get accepted this year.

That morning, I drove to work through a snowstorm and taught class as usual. Afterwards, I decided to skip lunch so that I could get to the rest of the work I had for the day. Five minutes after I walked into my office, my phone rang. When I saw the out of state number, a little voice in the back of my mind thought it was maybe a school, but I forced the idea away. Then, the voice identified himself as my top choice school's director of admissions. Immediately I thought to myself, "they must just need something for my file". But no, he was calling to congratulate me on my acceptance. 😀
 
Myuu said:
I was at work browsing SDN on the day they said decisions would be out, so around noon I went to go check it out. Now, bear in mind that since last year I have been on five waitlists, so I was pretty much in another-day-another-waitlist mode. So I log on to their status page, scroll down through what seems like an enormous and completely unnecessarily large volume of text down the part actually having anything to do with status and as I'm reading (I read things to myself in my head from time to time), I think

"You have been accepted to the Case School of Medicine University Program--what the hell kind of waitlist is tha--OH."

And that was the end of my productive workday.:laugh:
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Lol i was actually at my hosts house in a diff interview school that I didnt really care about when I got the email. I was just chillin in the car n checking my mail, when I got the CBC mail from AMCAS.
I didnt know what to think...cos at that point I didnt know that those mails usually meant you got an acceptance. So i checked the mail, and did everything.
A lil while later, I checked my inbox n got another mail....sayin that my status page was updated. I.Was.Freaking. But i managed to get thru it n click it....and BAM!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I didnt read anything more other than CONGRATULATIONS!! After getting so many 'oh we are sorry' or 'you were a great applicant' kinda mails last year, CONGRATULATIONS!!! was good enough for me!!!
I just had to scream and scream and scream in the car by myself just for the sake of doing that, and just to release. I felt like crying.
I think it felt especially good since I was a reapplicant. Nothing like a first acceptance when u're a reapplicant fo sho!!!!!
Then I went in, told my host n my S.O. and just ah....chilled! Such a HUGE burden off your shoulders I tell you! No other acceptance felt quite as good as the first one...so far...
 
haha this is an entertaining thread.

i remember i was at swim practice at 6 am. i had just interviewed 3 weeks prior. before getting in the water, i thought, "hey it's 6 am now, so it must be 8 am in the midwest, lets call the admissions office" (i know, i'm neurotic but i save admissions office #'s to my phone whenever i get an interview lol). so i call and ask if they have decisions yet... the secretary lady puts me on hold... she comes back and says "i'm going to transfer you over to the dean". then i'm thinking "oh ****, the dean? am i in trouble?" the dean comes on the line and says "Congrats! You've been accepted! I hope to see you in the fall" and i'm in shock... all i remember saying was something stupid like "uh... cool, thanks".

i called my parents to tell them the news and just had a blast the rest of the day. my teammates (who overheard me on the phone) took me out that evening, and we did some awesome crazy partying.
 
These stories are the best!! Haha.

I was charging my phone on Christmas Eve and looked over to see I had a voicemail from a weird number. It was from a student I met while I was interviewing, sounding stressed saying "Something has happened to your application, we need information from you so please hurry and call us right away ok its very important." I was like greaat because I had been feeling so down that whole break and hadn't heard a word from anyone. I called her back and just heard her say the words... "Well... I just wanted to tell you that you're going to be a doctor!!"

So yeah I about dropped my phone and ran outside so I could talk while my whole family looked at me like what the heck?? And I called my friend standing barefoot in the snow and then ran back inside and told my mom and dad - it was about the best Christmas present ever because the world looked brighter and I could enjoy being home and stuff 😀.

Anyway, even talking about it makes me want to go there even though it is my second choice. I am having a hard time letting it go and who knows maybe I wont!! First is always the best.
 
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