Harvardocs-medschool-applicants-list March 2018

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2018 applicants- new medical school in New Jersey

by Morimoto, Emiko Taira Adachi

Dear 2018 applicants, We know most of you have heard from schools by now, but for those of you who might not have received interviews or are just on waitlists, please see below. There is a new medical school in New Jersey that is accepting applications for their inaugural class- to start in summer 2018! The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University in New Jersey will be welcoming its inaugural class of 55 students this summer. All current applicants with an active 2018 AMCAS application on file are eligible to apply. For instructions, please see http://www.shu.edu/medicine/admissions/admissions-process-and-procedures.cfm. Be sure to also to review the information at http://www.shu.edu/medicine/admissions/index.cfm and http://www.shu.edu/medicine/admissions/application-update.cfm. Best, Emiko & Oona Emiko Morimoto, PhD Premedical and Health Careers Advising morimoto(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:morimoto@fas.harvard.edu> 617-495-2595 Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 [cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health If you are applying to medical school in 2018 for matriculation in 2019, please subscribe to the Harvard OCS Medical School Applicant Listserv, by visiting https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/harvardocs-medschool-applica… and signing up using a @college.harvard.edu address, a @post.harvard.edu address, or an @alumni.harvard.edu address.

6 years, 1 month

Welcome to the 2019 cycle list serve--for 2019 applicants only

by Williams, Ellen Kathleen

Dear 2019 Applicants, Welcome to the Harvard OCS Medical School Applicant 2019 list serve! Over the next year, we will be posting a great deal of information related to the upcoming 2019 medical school application cycle. Please spread the word about this list serve to any Harvard students and alums who are applying this year. 1) Final workshops and medical school visits of the year. All events except the AMCAS workshop will be at OCS. Please RSVP in Crimson Careers. * Medical School Personal statement workshop; Tuesday, March 20, 4:30-6 pm * AMCAS Workshop; Tuesday, April 24, 7-8:30 pm; Emerson 210 * University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Wednesday, March 21, 5-6 pm * Tufts University School of Medicine; Tuesday, April 3, 4-5 pm * Washington University School of Medicine; Thursday, April 5, 4-5 pm * Weill Cornell School of Medicine; Monday, April 9, 4-5 pm * New York University School of Medicine; Wednesday, April 11, 4-5 pm 2) House Deadlines. Make sure you are in touch with your Houses regarding their deadlines and expectations. Being prompt, courteous, and attentive throughout this process is one of the many ways you can make a good impression on your House premed committee. 3) OCS website. Please take some time to look at the OCS premed website. You will find a great deal of guidance there regarding the application cycle including information from our workshops for applicants. For example, you will find advice there about the overall application process<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/applying-to-medical-school>, writing your personal statement<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/personal-statement>, the AMCAS application<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/amcas>, letters of recommendation<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/letters-recommendation>, a list of the requirements<https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/med_school_course_requirements-…> for individual medical schools, and a list detailing which schools accept out-of-state and international<https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/us_med_school_admissions_info-f…> applicants. 4) AAMC.org<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/applying-medica…>. This is also a terrific resource for the application process and the AMCAS help line is a wonderful way to get immediate answers to your questions. (Monday-Friday, 9-7 pm ET, but closed Wednesday, 3-5 pm ET, 202-828-0600) 5) Timing. If you are unsure if this is your year to apply, please make an appointment with an OCS premed adviser to discuss this. If you do not have clinical experience or if you have a lower BCPM (biology, chemistry, physics, and math) GPA or MCAT score, those can be reasons to put off the application in order to strengthen your standing as an applicant. 6) MCAT timing. If you are not planning to take the MCAT by the end of May, then you may do better to hold off on your application for another year. There are successful candidates every year who take the exam for the first time in June while they are applying. However, this makes it hard to retake the exam, can prolong the process of choosing schools, and can delay the application process. Nonetheless, if you are not doing well on the practice exams, it is better to delay the test than to do poorly. Please come talk to us you are unclear about this. 7) AMCAS dates. The AMCAS application will open on May 2, for applicants to begin working on the application. May 31 is the first day it can be submitted. June 29 is the first day any information will be sent to medical schools. We strongly recommend that all applicants submit the primary application by June 15 at the latest. However, your AMCAS application must be error-free, so do not rush to submit. Sleep on it, re-proof it, and wait a day or two if you need to. 8) Personal Statement. Be sure you are leaving adequate time to work through multiple drafts of your personal statement with your House tutor. We recommend that you try to have a fairly polished draft done by the end of April. 9) School Selection. A school list that is not a good fit with your numbers and your experiences can be the difference between having acceptances and having no acceptances. Make sure you have reviewed your school list with your House tutors and feel free to make an appointment at OCS to review your list with Oona or Emiko. The main resources for trying to think this through are the medical school websites, the list of schools on the OCS website regarding out-of-state and international<https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/us_med_school_admissions_info-f…> applicants, the OCS Medical School Admissions Data Book (stop by OCS to get one if you do not have one already), and the MSAR<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/applying-medica…> which you should all buy for $28 (free if you qualify for the AAMC Fee Assistance Program). Good luck with the application process. Stay in close touch with your tutors throughout the process. We are here to help you as well. With all best wishes, Ellen, Oona, and Emiko Ellen K. Williams, MD, EdM Premedical and Health Careers Advising ellenwilliams(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ellenwilliams@fas.harvard.edu> 617-495-2595 Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 [cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health If you are applying to medical school in 2018 for matriculation in 2019, please subscribe to the Harvard OCS Medical School Applicant Listserv, by visiting https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/harvardocs-medschool-applica… and signing up using a @college.harvard.edu address, a @post.harvard.edu address, or an @alumni.harvard.edu address.

6 years, 1 month

For current 2018 cycle applicants

by Premedical College

Dear Applicants, We know many of you have been hearing from a number of schools lately. We know some of you are thrilled with your choices, some of you have received disappointing rejections, and some of you are in that in between spot of wait lists. We have been getting lots of emails about wait list strategies, so we are sending along some general advice. Some of this is similar to information we sent out in January, but we are sending it again because of all the questions that are pouring in. 1) All settled? If you have made a decision about the one school you are attending and have withdrawn from other schools, then you may want to unsubscribe yourself from this list serve. We hope it has been useful for you and we wish you all the best in your medical careers. 2) Multiple acceptances. Most 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 protocols that govern acceptances (protocols for applicants<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica…>; protocols 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 acceptances, 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. Please try not to hold onto schools that you do not plan to attend once you have an acceptance someplace else. 3) 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 unless schools have asked you not to or unless there are limited updates allowed on their portals. If you are on a wait list, but are accepted to another school that you prefer, write and remove yourself from the wait list. It is not fair to the schools or other applicants to stay on a wait list just to see if you get in if you have no intention of going there. The overwhelming majority of the movement on wait lists will take place between the middle of May and the middle of June. People can get in off wait lists up until the point that they matriculate at another school. We and your premed tutors are happy to advise you about wait list strategies. 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 (Penn, Tufts, Wash U, Cornell, NYU). 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> 4) Letters of Intent. We have been getting lots of questions about 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 many circumstances it is still too early. Most movement off wait lists will not happen for some time, as noted above. If you tell a school that you will come if admitted, then you need to stick with that even if you are wait-listed there while you are accepted to another school. You are truly honor bound to go to that school if you tell them you will. At some point well into the summer when you may have signed a lease, gotten a roommate, made moving arrangements to go one place, etc. then it is reasonable to withdraw from a wait list at another school where you have said you will attend. Just getting into another school in March, April, May, or early June, however, does not release from that promise if you made such a promise. You may be surprised to find that an acceptance one place or a large merit scholarship suddenly changes your mind about how you want to proceed. Do not box yourself into a corner that you do not need to be in. Get in touch with OCS or your tutors if you are thinking about sending such a letter. If you choose to send one, they can be short and to the point. You are not selling yourself in this letter, just making the firm statement that if admitted, you will come. 5) No Acceptances so far. If you are in a position where you have no acceptances at this point, please get in touch with your House tutors and the OCS premed team if you have not been in touch with us recently. Every situation is different, but there are still more acceptances coming. We can help you think through your best options for this cycle and help you think about future cycles if that becomes necessary. With all best wishes, Ellen, Oona, and Emiko Premedical and Health Careers Advising http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Ph.: 617.495.2595 [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[Description: cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[Description: cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> tel: 617.495.2595

6 years, 1 month

Transition for me

by Williams, Ellen Kathleen

Dear Students and Alumni, I am writing to let you know that I am leaving my position at OCS at the end of the month to focus full time on the school and children's center that I have been working to build and support in Uganda. It has been a great privilege to work with students and alumni like you. Oona Ceder and Emiko Morimoto will be happy to see you going forward. I will still be part of the Senior Common Rooms at Kirkland and Phoho and may be back at OCS to do a few workshops in the fall, so I may see some of you around campus. I will be seeing appointments and will be on my fas.harvard.edu email until the end of the month. While I will not be doing premed advising, I can be reached long term through the Kisoro Children's Foundation at www.kisorochildren.org<http://www.kisorochildren.org>. I wish you all great joy and success in your medical careers. With all best wishes, Ellen Ellen K. Williams, MD, EdM Premedical and Health Careers Advising ellenwilliams(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ellenwilliams@fas.harvard.edu> 617-495-2595 Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 [cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health If you are applying to medical school in 2018 for matriculation in 2019, please subscribe to the Harvard OCS Medical School Applicant Listserv, by visiting https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/harvardocs-medschool-applica… and signing up using a @college.harvard.edu address, a @post.harvard.edu address, or an @alumni.harvard.edu address.

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