Recent content by irongirl

I would say that you should not include specific information about your gpa or mcat scores in your personal statement. Many schools hold blind interviews in which the interviewers have access to everything in your file EXCEPT for your gpa and mcat scores. If you have low scores and make it to...

I got my financial aid package in late May. All loans... about $39,500/year (I'm in-state). Ugh.

Did you get a financial aid package from OHSU? I was accepted in December and still haven't received mine, last week the financial aid office said that I'd get it in late May.

I'm biased... as I'll be going to OHSU, but I would have to say that it sounds like OHSU would be a good choice for you, too. Given your situation, it sounds like being in Oregon would be really nice, and I think you should go where you'll be happiest. I don't believe OHSU will limit your...

My school seems to have the highest standards of all... there were 400 graduates from the college of liberal arts, only four received summa, and my >3.75 was only good for cum laude.

I withdrew in December. Good luck getting off the waitlist!

Of the schools I interviewed at, I would say that the students at OHSU were the happiest, followed by Hopkins and Tulane. The students at Penn State and Univ of Vermont didn't seem quite as content, but not terribly unhappy either... I think they were mostly overworked. The one class at a...

No mail for me yet either... I guess that's good news.

$2000.00, three frequent flyer tickets, a poor grade in biochemistry from missing so many classes for interviews, a pathetic social life, chronic sleep deprivation, and a kidney. (Okay, so I didn't have to give up any nonvital organs, but at times I think I would have been willing).

lyle: I think the undergrad at Hopkins is a stressfest and terribly overly competitive. The med school, on the other hand, has some of the happiest and least stressed students I have seen anywhere. The program is set up to minimize stress very effectively. The students only take one class at...

Gobears: Yeah, I interviewed at Hopkins early in the cycle and I'm from Oregon and I race triathlons. I think I'm probably the only one in all three of those categories this year. I'll PM you.

I'm waitlisted at Hopkins too... in the letter, I believe they said that we would be notified of where we are on the waiting list at the end of April. CaliBoy: is Hopkins your first choice? Where are you planning on going if you don't get in there?

I think I've read that most medical schools require that a student be 21 before they graduate. Which makes sense, because who wants a doctor who isn't even old enough to drink?

No worries you guys, post-acceptance depression is temporary. I got my first acceptance in October, but wasn't accepted by my first choice school until December- after that the depression set in. But hey, it wore off after about three months, now life is good again. And for those of you...

Don't take the MCAT. Not in April, not in August, not ever again. Your MCAT scores are great... they are not the reason you didn't get in (yet, that is, you're likely to get off one of those waiting lists). Your GPA will still be fine too. I would worry about whatever part of your...