somemom

Congrats, Krug! Even if it is not her #1 choice, she now knows she is going to med school, she can relax and enjoy the other interviews and with more acceptances she can choose by fit. Great news.

entomom

Super news on the II front, even a late start doesn't seem to be hindering S of m2ck.

Congrats to your D krug, wow, first for her and for this board, wonderful!

And I thought we'd have to wait until at least Oct. 15 ??

krug

The acceptance was to a D.O. school, and they released the first wave of decision on 9/21! One of the allopathic school did tell her that they will call beginning midnight (eastern time) on 10/15. Wish they didn't do that because the kids will all be up for the next 2 hours stressing. An email would have been better in my opinion.

bigreddawgie

10/15 is when all the fun starts! My first acceptance was at midnight. Someone from the school flew down and hand delivered my acceptance exactly at midnight. It was pretty sweet. Congrats to your daughter, krug. Now she can relax and have some fun!

mcat2

krug, Congrats to your D. The first one is the sweetest.

mom2collegekids

we got ONE acceptance (YEA!!!!


Congrats to krug's D!

krug

Thanks everyone and we will keep our fingers cross for our "CC" family. We only applied to a few D.O. schools and did not know until the acceptance that they actually gave out scholarships (we are not instate)! We are very grateful.

boysx3

congrats to krug and krug jr!

Out of curiousity--would a student who received a DO acceptance with a scholarship generally choose to attend that DO school over a full-pay allopathic med school acceptance?

I have a nephew on the premed path and I am trying to learn so I can help guide him on this process.

curmudgeon

Can't answer that one but.....huge congrats on the positive news!! I can still remember the interview and acceptance excitement in
my kid's voice.

WayOutWestMom

Congrats, krug! Now you both can start breathing again.

Gotta be a sweet feeling....

GA2012MOM

Congrats on the acceptance for Krug daughter and the interview invites for all!

MiamiDAP

Congrats to all with great news!
I will never forget the night, I believe it was Oct. 16. Although D. had a spot right from the start, it was very sweet when she woke me up 2 times. First, right after 1am, it was telephone call from Dean of admission, seemed to be some kind of tradition at this school. The second came after 2am via email. Also, acceptances might trigger more interviews at other schools. D. got one more acceptance after this night, and it was it. Less than 2 weeks!
MCAT2,
"MiamiDAP, For some unkown reason, DS has never studied aboard." - Actually, D. has not either. But she visited a few palces and yes, she got 6 hrs of an UG credits from one of her visits (after completion of several projects back home, based on tons of pictures and journal entires). She did not need any addtional credits, but as always, the logic was "why not?". She has already been abroad while at Med. School and mentioned that she could use it as one of rotations. This one was probably the most "educational" for her. I hope that she will not be tempted to go to yet another trip. But they had some MS3/4 with them, they used one rotation for this trip. She has always been drawn to other cultures, pretty good with languages and is in very diverse Med. School class currently.

riseagainst2009

I emailed the Dean of admissions at a Texas school that has not interviewed me yet with an update letter. The deam replied "Thank you for the update". I don't know if this was considered a ballsy move because it is the dean of admissions, but I felt like I had to get their attention. This school in Texas only has 4 more interview dates left, all the other slots are already booked! Hopefully the dean sees this as me taking initiative and not in as me being some annoying medical school applicant, lol. After my el paso II last week, all has been quiet. Now that it is October, I am starting to freak out about not having more interview invites, especially from Texas which moves incredibly fast, one school is already booked up to the first week of December!

mom2collegekids

one school is already booked up to the first week of December!


This can be so frustrating. It's also frustrating when all the Monday or Friday dates are taken, which forces the student to miss more class days than needed.

One SOM only interviews on Mondays and Tuesdays, and all the Monday dates were taken. So, instead of being able to travel on Sunday, travel will be on Monday, Interview on Tuesday, and then (hopefully) get back on Tuesday night so won't need to miss Wed classes, too.

(thankfully, profs and employer have been super supportive)

MiamiDAP

Miss classes, exams, Research, working, some sorority oblications,.....still take them as early as possible, traveling in snow storms is not fun, D. had done those also. Sitting in a dark in your car for couple hours in unfamiliar city waiting for the host to show up, while she does not even reply is not fun either, it would be a bit better if it was lighter outside. The last one was a major turn off which resulted from withdrawing from highly ranked SOM. And, of course, it was a call to AAA, ended up very positive experience though. Any way, as early as possible while it is not so dark, so cold, so windy, so snowyyy, do not delay for no reason.