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Don't take the military scholarship. The autonomy you lose is not worth the money if it were a good deal... and it's not a good deal from the financial side. From the medicine side, DHA taking over military medicine has been godawful.

Annual thread bump for the new applicants…

March 10

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_JXLKlWcoVJ9hNGoE0Pdsjnrv4osBjni&usp=sharing Above is a link to a Google Map I made showing all of the OB/Gyn residency programs I could find when I was applying. I've also added some links in the map to APGO and other sites to pull up information more...

Thanks for sharing this. For the uninformed, is selling back a worse deal than getting the terminal leave?

After reading the last page or so of posts, I'd like to share my thoughts. My wife tacked on two years of college to get the prerequisites she needed to apply (she's a Fine Arts major, concentration in Pottery), and didn't get any interviews her first application cycle (2008-2009, because she...

Your situation is possible. I'm 35 and currently a second year medical student that was able to get accepted into medical school without an undergrad degree at a school that only had credit / class requirements. Like you, it had been over a decade since I'd last taken classes. I enrolled in...

I'm a current 2nd year student at WVSOM. I'm turning 36 next month, and there are a few others in my class older than me (40ish). They appreciate life experience.

5000-6000 applications a year, 550 interviews, 300 acceptances offered, 210-220 students. If you get an interview, better than 50% chance of being accepted

Interviewing goes on until mid Spring. Wait until the end of May to give up, and then reapply earlier next cycle. One of the mistakes prospective students make is not submitting their packets soon enough. WVSOM gets upwards of six thousand applications a year, and that's a lot of paperwork to...

Island, what do you mean by #3?

Less than two weeks. Usually on a Tues or Wed.

You do realize that when our nation was founded, only property-owning male individuals (plus property-owning females in NJ) had the right to vote? That was less than 5% of the population back then. Check out the history of voting rights. Remember that democracy is not inherently good or bad...

I would call and ask what you could do to strengthen your application. Also, when did you apply? If you applied later in the cycle, it is more difficult to get in.

Or I may be one of those lucky few that is happy with being a physician because I'm not in it for the grandeur (or money, or prestige). But who knows? Maybe a decade will make a jaded physician out of me. Better make it fifteen years. At ten, I will just be done with residency, wife will be...