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Hello all,
I know that this app cycle is far from being over, but the fate has been sealed for many of us. The journey to this application cycle took us many semesters, hours of hard work and a lot of struggle. We've come pretty far and I ask for those of you who are still waiting to continue to be patient, faithful and do not give up yet. This is meant to be a reflective thread on your thoughts, concerns, surprises, joys and utter bewilderment of this application cycle.
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I'll start first - My grades and DAT scores were ready to go back in May. The only thing I had trouble with was coming up with a list of schools to apply to. When gauging the overall DAT scores, GPA and course requirements, I was almost certain that I was the right fit for a handful of schools. I was on the fence about a few schools on the list that I didn't know if I should have applied to, due to their competitive natures (applying to an OOS that wasn't particularly OOS friendly). Much to my disbelief, it was the last two schools that I had added to my list that had offered me rather early interviews in the cycle and soon after, a Dec acceptances. They were on the "reach school" side of the scale as well.
My safety schools were actually expensive, private and new institutions that recently opened up in the past 2 years or so. Surprisingly, I was swiftly rejected from them. Overall, I was quite surprised with how things turned out. I had read extensively about the schools that I applied to and looking at past trends, I felt that my predictions would be accurate, but I was thrown off.
Feel free to write and discuss amongst yourselves. Past and future applicants are also certainly more than welcome to post.
I know that this app cycle is far from being over, but the fate has been sealed for many of us. The journey to this application cycle took us many semesters, hours of hard work and a lot of struggle. We've come pretty far and I ask for those of you who are still waiting to continue to be patient, faithful and do not give up yet. This is meant to be a reflective thread on your thoughts, concerns, surprises, joys and utter bewilderment of this application cycle.
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I'll start first - My grades and DAT scores were ready to go back in May. The only thing I had trouble with was coming up with a list of schools to apply to. When gauging the overall DAT scores, GPA and course requirements, I was almost certain that I was the right fit for a handful of schools. I was on the fence about a few schools on the list that I didn't know if I should have applied to, due to their competitive natures (applying to an OOS that wasn't particularly OOS friendly). Much to my disbelief, it was the last two schools that I had added to my list that had offered me rather early interviews in the cycle and soon after, a Dec acceptances. They were on the "reach school" side of the scale as well.
My safety schools were actually expensive, private and new institutions that recently opened up in the past 2 years or so. Surprisingly, I was swiftly rejected from them. Overall, I was quite surprised with how things turned out. I had read extensively about the schools that I applied to and looking at past trends, I felt that my predictions would be accurate, but I was thrown off.
Feel free to write and discuss amongst yourselves. Past and future applicants are also certainly more than welcome to post.