Harvardocs-medschool-applicants-list January 2017

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Financial aid for medical school and (for current seniors only) SCRB 20 news

by Premedical College

Dear Applicants, We hope this finds you well. We know this has been a long haul and you are feeling ready to have this much uncertainty behind you. Congratulations to those of you who are beginning to hear about acceptances. 1) Financial Aid. We have started to get a lot of questions about financial aid for medical school. We have some information on our website here,<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/financial-aid> including an excellent power point presentation created by the Stephanie Hunt, the Director of Financial Aid at Harvard Medical School. Your best source of information will be the medical schools where you have been admitted. In addition, the website<https://hms.harvard.edu/departments/financial-aid-harvard-medical-school%20> for the HMS Office of Financial Aid has quite a bit of useful general information as well as a list of outside scholarships for medical students. 2) SCRB 20 this spring. SCRB 20 no longer has a lab. This does not affect any of you who might have taken it in the past when it had a lab. If there are any seniors out there who were planning to take SCRB 20 this spring to fulfill a semester of biology with lab for medical school, please email us at premed(a)fas.harvard.edu to discuss your options. Stay in touch with your premed tutors and with us if you need us this spring. We are all here to help you, but can only help you if we hear from you. With all best wishes, Ellen, Emiko, and Oona

7 years, 3 months

2017 cycle applicants--Transition, Interviews, Acceptances, Wait lists, Letters of intent

by Premedical College

Dear Applicants, 1) Transition for the list. In a couple of weeks, we are going to be transitioning to include announcements for the 2018 cycle. We will still have a few announcements throughout the spring for applicants in the 2017 cycle. For those few of you who have been accepted to the medical school that you plan to attend, you may wish to unsubscribe from this list. For those of you who are still waiting for acceptances (which is almost all of you) and those who may have questions about managing wait lists, traffic rules, etc., please stay on the list and then unsubscribe when you are settled later in the spring. We will flag announcements this spring for the 2017 versus the 2018 cycle. 2) Zero to two interviews. If you have had zero to two interview invitations and you have not been accepted to a medical school, please get in touch with your tutors and with us if you have not done so recently. Some schools are wrapping up the interview process, but many other schools are still extending invitations. 3) Multiple acceptances. A little over half of you have been fortunate enough to receive an acceptance already. Many of those schools will ask you to send in a deposit and/or a written notice that you accept the spot. There are clear "traffic rules" that govern acceptances (traffic rules for applicants<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica…>; traffic rules for admissions officers<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica…>). As long as you are holding only one acceptance on April 30th, all of the deposits you have paid will be returned, except for the one at the final school that you plan to attend. As you get a first acceptance, you should withdraw from schools where you do not intend to matriculate. Many of you may need and want to hold on to multiple acceptances until you hear about financial aid offers. That is completely appropriate. For many schools, however, you might know that you will attend school A over school B regardless of what the financial aid package looks like and in that case it is appropriate to withdraw from school B once you have been accepted to school A. Both your House tutors and OCS premed advisers are happy to discuss these choices with you. 4) Waitlists. For those of you on wait lists for schools that you hope to attend, it can make sense to send updates every month or so starting in February or March unless schools have asked you not to or there are limited updates allowed on their portals. Know, however, that the overwhelming majority of the movement on wait lists will take place between the middle of May and the middle of June, though people can get in off wait lists up until the point that they matriculate at another school. We are happy to advise you about wait list strategies as are your tutors. However, once you are admitted to any medical school it is Harvard policy that your tutors will not be able to advocate for you further with a medical school for admission off a wait list or for an interview at another school. We have a number of medical schools visiting this spring. For those of you on wait lists at those schools, you may wish to attend the information sessions to introduce yourselves to those admissions officers. A listing of those visits can be found on the Premed and Health Careers calendar on our website.<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health> 5) Letters of Intent. You do not need to be in a hurry to tell one medical school that if admitted you will attend. At times, this can be useful and appropriate, but for most circumstances it is still too early. You are truly honor bound to go to that school if you tell them you will. There are still interview invitations coming from some schools. Get in touch with OCS or your tutors if you are thinking of sending such a letter. We know this is a tense time for many of you. Good luck as you finish up the cycle. Please be in touch with the premed team at OCS if we can be of help and, as always, feel free to share your news as it comes in. With all best wishes, Oona, Emiko, and Ellen

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