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Just couldn\'t bring myself to finish this secondary, due to several factors 1) Jesuit school- didn\'t like their stance on women\'s health and didn\'t like the idea of my education being affected by Catholic beliefs 2) When researching my \"Why Georgetown\" secondary, realized I didn\'t have a compelling reason to want to go there 3) $130 application fee? Seriously? That\'s like double everyone else\'s. 4) Georgetown is pretty weird with their acceptances/rejections of kids who get in everywhere/ lots of waitlists. Didn\'t want to be jerked around by a school I wasn\'t really interested in 5) Research into old facilities/ financial problems a few years back. 6) Upon getting 3 interviews, was feeling more confident in the cycle and didn\'t think I needed Georgetown as a backup
I can use that $130 to fly to one of my interviews.
11/19 Status: Not officially rejected yet, but got the \"We\'ve reviewed your application and we\'re not giving you an interview right now\" notice, which very few people actually get an interview from. So, I guess I\'ll edit it for some reason I\'m miraculously in that group.
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2/1/2011- Pretty sure I\'m rejected here because I think they stop interviews in January but haven\'t had a status update yet.
Finally officially rejected. Guessing I was in the \"Submitted too late category so we\'re not going to look at you\". Compete Notice was 10/19. Or they just didn\'t like me, whatev.
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This one is a bummer. Both my sisters live there, and I would have loved to join them in Chicago, and U Chicago is the top of the top there. Sad.
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Yay, got a secondary! And it was the easiest one yet. No essays at all :)
Update: Rejected via the dreaded PDF Friday, January 14th, discovered on the 17th. I really wish they\'d at least give you a heads up about that... thinking about appealing so I can stay in my beloved city.
I think this interview went quite well. The facilities are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. AND I ran into my friend Nik! That\'s the 3rd Hopkins person I\'ve ran into randomly during interviews. Love when that happens.
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2nd interview invite! This one is super exciting. I really like Pittsburgh from what I\'ve read about it.
Pittsburgh interview went insanely well. Loved the campus, Pittsburgh seemed charming, their Wiser Clinical Skills center is RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME and there are so many practice mannequins, lots of students take time off to do research, and they have the awesome Clinical Scientist Training Program.
They\'re in class a lot though. I\'d get over it.
Update: Waitlisted, like every other Pitt applicant ever. My interviews went so well so I think this is just one of those \"Pitt waitlists almost everyone\" things. *Sigh*
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Found out about my interview invite shortly after my boyfriend got very positive signs back from a job at a school in South Carolina- Emory would be the closest school to him so I\'m hoping I impress them at the interview! The research opportunities here are also so amazing, what with the CDC being right there. I hope this goes well!!
My interview went well I think, but I didn\'t love the school. The students weren\'t really my type of people- too much old southern money, \"Dad\'s paying for my tuition and my Audi\" types. Everyone seemed very nice but... no.
LOVED this place when I toured. Beautiful facilities, classes always end at 1 4 days of the week, lots of research opportunities at all the surrounding hospitals, subsidized housing all 4 years in the upper east side, music and medicine program, lots of funding for research and global health travelling. <3.
BUT I cried in my interview. So, ya know, that could come back to bite me. Fingers crossed.
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Woo!!!! FIRST INVITE, SO EXCITED!!
[Update] Interview was today. Liked the dean a LOT- he was an incredible public speaker.
Pros: Diverse patient population, students seemed cool, it\\\\\\\'s in Boston
Cons: Research seemed tricky to fit in except during the summer between 1st and 2nd year, big classes of 1/3 early assurance kids, tuition.
Won\\\'t find out until early-mid January whether I\\\'m in or not, and most students then get deferred, final decisions and most acceptances go out late March.