omama

I am happy to report DD applied to both DO and MD schools. Last week she interviewed at her #1 DO and recieved an accepted phone call the same day!

So nice to know all the hard work has paid off & will continue for many many more years!

mcat2

omama, Congrats to your D's achievement.

Wow, recieved an accepted phone call the same day! She must be an outstanding applicant! I think, for DS, the shortest time between the interview and the acceptance was a little bit over two weeks. This was 2 years ago.

WayOutWestMom

Congratulations to your D! Wonderful news for the both of you.

entomom

Congrats to omama and odaughter! Wow, she has to be an amazing applicant, a phone call the same day, incredible!

hrh19

Adding my congratulations to you and your D, omama. Very cool!

MiamiDAP

Congrats, omama and D.!! I am sure, she will have choices at the end!

roberthhid

Congrats omama and D. Its a great load off to have that 1st acceptance!

krug

I am happy to report that D got an acceptance at our state medical school. We told her as she was on her way to the airport for another interview and was very surprised at her "that's nice" reaction. She did tell us that out of the 6 interviews that she went to, they had the least "caring" attitude towards the students and the med students at lunch were not very communicative or "jazz" to be there so she walked away with a bad impression. The most troubled aspect for her is 20% of MS3 and MS4 will be in a lottery to go on rotation at the main campus hospital or at another campus, this is new for this year. We were soooo happy at the prospect of paying instate tuition but for now, we will wait and see. We had thought it would be done once we had this acceptance in hand, no more flying and dealing with canceled flights, no more missing classes, no more $$ on the process, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.

entomom

krug,

Congrats and condolences!

You're not alone, our IS med school was also the least attractive to D1: rather isolated location, administrators touting how they offer what other schools do not (which didn't fly after interviewing at several other very good schools), disguised grading for M1 & M2, inadequate facilities coupled with a planned increase in the number of students, poorly organized and long tour. It's still in the running, but has dropped down many rungs.

krug

entomom, Thanks, it helps to know that there is a place for advices and venting. I guess we all will be going through these twists and turns (highs and lows, hopefully more highs) as the year progresses. I am sorry that you are in a similar situation.

GA2012MOM

Congrats to both omama and krug D's.

Exhale.

WayOutWestMom

Congratulations! Always to nice get those acceptances in hand.

kristin5792

I know you probably just want to vent. But I am ever the optimist, and I feel it my duty to suggest that she try not to allow her first impression of the place get the best of her and instead to give it another shot. You never know; maybe she just met a weird bunch of students and hit the administration on a bad day. Maybe she could email a few students to ask them their impression of the best and worst parts of the school? I think that would be a reasonable start

Good luck to her! Great that she's had so many interviews and a few acceptances. I bet there will be more in her future!

krug

Thanks, kristin. Great advice. I will have her schedule another visit when she's home for winter break.

I also think that some schools get a lot more positive buzz than others and her friends are somewhat biased towards the more well known schools (more undergrad than med). I know many people that I talked to are very surprised that WUSTL Med School is "top tier" and generally thought of as "better", or at least has higher stats for their incoming class than Dartmouth or Brown Med School. It doesn't matter to me, but many automatically think that being ivy will make it top at everything.

mcat2

krug,

Congrats to your D. The first one is always the sweetest.

Regarding WUSTL Med School being a top tier school, it is true. I heard it has one of the largest MD/PhD/MSTP programs. (It could be the largest.) Some med schools are just more involved in medical research than others. For the majority of med schools whose primary goal is to produce more front-line doctors, this is just not their priority.

A few years ago, I heard BCM closed down its top ranking residency program for producing primary care doctors especially for the rural area. This was because it just does not add to its bottom line, financially speaking. I heard that the Congress even had a hearing about it. (But without pouring tax payer's precious money into such a "money losing business" by the Congress, I think this kind of hearing is just a guesture and would not affect anything.)