KEY FOR THE ABOVE ABBREVIATIONS:
SR = secondary received
SS = secondary submitted
C = complete (secondary received + LORs received)
II = interview invite
IA = interview attended
WL = waitlisted
A = accepted
W = withdrew
R = rejected
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CYCLE TIMELINE
June
- nothing doing, cap'n
July
- 7/5: AMCAS submitted
- 7/6: MCG secondary received
- 7/13: MCAT taken
August
- 8/5: MCG secondary submitted
- 8/13: MCAT scores received; 37!
- 8/20: AMCAS verified
- 8/21: Emory secondary received; Vanderbilt secondary received; Mayo fee request received
- 8/25: Mayo fee request paid
- 8/26: University of Chicago secondary received; Washington University secondary received; UCLA secondary received; Mayo fee received
- 8/27: Columbia secondary received
- 8/30: Yale secondary received
- 8/31: UMN secondary received; Duke secondary received; BU secondary received
September
- 9/1: Stanford secondary received
- 9/2: U Penn secondary received
- 9/3: Mount Sinai secondary received; Pitt secondary received; UVA secondary received; Baylor secondary received; Hopkins secondary received; NYU secondary received; Cornell secondary received; Einstein secondary received; Dartmouth secondary received; Penn State secondary received; Harvard secondary received; Northwestern secondary received
- 9/4: Emory secondary submitted
- 9/5: Brown secondary received
- 9/9: Columbia secondary submitted
- 9/10: Mayo rejection :[
- 9/11: LORs received by AMCAS
- 9/12: Columbia complete; MCG complete; Vanderbilt secondary submitted; Vanderbilt complete; Wake Forest secondary received
- 9/14: Wash U secondary submitted; Baylor secondary submitted; Harvard secondary submitted; Harvard complete
- 9/17: Yale secondary submitted; Yale complete; Dartmouth secondary submitted
- 9/18: Dartmouth complete; BU secondary submitted; Einstein secondary submitted; U Penn secondary submitted; U Penn complete
- 9/19: BU complete; UCLA secondary submitted; UCLA complete
- 9/22: Cornell secondary submitted; Penn State secondary submitted; Penn State complete
- 9/23: Cornell complete; Emory complete
- 9/26: Wake Forest secondary submitted; Brown secondary submitted; Brown complete; Pitt secondary submitted; Pitt complete
- 9/27: Mount Sinai secondary submitted; Stanford secondary submitted; U Chicago secondary submitted; Northwestern secondary submitted; Northwestern complete
- 9/28: Stanford complete
- 9/30: U Chicago complete; Pitt interview invite! I can't believe the amazing turn-around time! So excited to be interviewing here
October
- 10/1: Mount Sinai complete; Wake Forest complete
- 10/7: Einstein complete
- 10/8: NYU secondary submitted; NYU complete; UVA secondary submitted; UVA complete
- 10/14: UCSF rejection; UMN secondary submitted
- 10/16: UMN complete
- 10/17: Hopkins secondary submitted
- 10/19: Duke secondary submitted; Duke complete
- 10/22: BU rejection
- 10/23: MCG interview invite! I'm ecstatic!
- 10/25: Vanderbilt interview invite! So pumped to be interviewing at my top choice!
- 10/26: U Chicago rejection
- 10/28: Hopkins complete
- 10/29: UVA interview invite!
November
- 11/15: UMN rejection
- 11/19: Brown rejection; U Penn interview invite!!
- 11/21: UVA interview attended
- 11/22: UVA acceptance!!
- 11/25: Cornell rejection
December
- 12/4: MCG interview attended
- 12/6: Vanderbilt interview attended <3
- 12/11: Pitt interview attended
- 12/17: Wash U withdrawal; Baylor withdrawal
January
- 1/3: NYU rejection
- 1/8: U Penn interview attended <3
- 1/14: Duke rejection; Stanford rejection (via snail mail)
- 1/16: Einstein rejection
- 1/19: VANDERBILT ACCEPTANCE!!
- 1/20: Hopkins rejection
- 1/21: Emory interview invite
- 1/24: Emory interview attended <3
- 1/28: Penn State interview invite; Penn State withdrawal - ran out of money
- 1/31: Pitt waitlist (first tier)
February
- 2/7: Mount Sinai rejection
- 2/21: Northwestern rejection
- 2/27: Columbia rejection
March
- 3/4: Yale rejection; Harvard rejection
- 3/12: U Penn waitlist
- 3/13: Dartmouth rejection
- 3/24: Wake Forest rejection
- 3/31: Emory waitlist
April
- 4/2: MCG waitlist
- 4/16: Emory withdrawal
May
- 5/14: UVa withdrawal
June
- 6/26: MCG acceptance
- 6/27: MCG withdrawal
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COST OF APPLICATION
MCAT Prep: $596.83
MCAT: $360.00
Primary: $1105.00
Secondaries: $2300.00
Wardrobe Update: $530.04
Interviews
- Pitt: $219.80
- UVA: $739.95
- MCG:
- Vanderbilt:
- U Penn:
- Emory: $6.00
Second Look
- Vanderbilt
TOTAL: $5757.62
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SCHOOL IMPRESSIONS
I'll post these when the cycle is over.
University of Virginia
Interview date: 11/21/13
Medical College of Georgia
Interview date: 12/4/13
Vanderbilt University
Interview date: 12/6/13
University of Pittsburgh
Interview date: 12/11/13
University of Pennsylvania
Interview date: 1/8/14
Emory University
Interview date: 1/24/14
