I’ve delved into this personal finance rabbit hole
(This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information.) Wow, adulthood is trippy. This financial drought between the last med school loan disbursement and first paycheck is…intense. In combination with that triple punch of […]
Step 1 and Done
But honestly…what the hell was that. I know it’s a normal reaction, but I can’t help but feel that I absolutely bombed it. I’m be over the moon, if I end up wit a 240, but to be honest, I’d be surprised if I even got a 230, which is the national average. I’m going […]
One Week In
and I’ve already learned that good coffee is life. It’s been over one month since I’ve moved to Baltimore, and it’s been…a lot. I’ve tried writing about this for a while, but it’s hard to describe so many new experiences. To be honest, I don’t feel the urge to write about it now, but I […]
Pending one last detail, I’m B’more bound!
So things have been interesting since that phone call on Tuesday. After submitting my financial aid documents on Tuesday, College Board took some time to process it before sending the information to Hopkins. I was able to receive my financial aid package on Thursday and…wow. It’s incredibly generous–just enough to be cheaper than Pritzker, which […]
De-waitlisted at Hopkins?!
Received a call from Ms. Mazza while driving my mom to work this morning! askjf;alsjf;al Just…what….life does not feel real right now. Out of all the schools where I’m waitlisted, I did not expected Hopkins to give me a call. (Frankly, I thought the slim chance of an acceptance would arrive via email!) I had […]
Per AAMC Decision Day rules, I have chosen
the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine! That said, it was a painful decision –not because I don’t like Pritzker, because I have fangirled about it for…months–but because I also love Duke and Columbia. I would have loved to attend Duke. Their 1-year preclinical is just a dream, but financially it did not work […]
Decisions, decisions.
With my cycle “officially” over (i.e., assuming no further correspondence from the schools who waitlisted me), it’s time to figure out where I’m heading for the next 4 years! Allow me to first say that I feel incredibly fortunate to in my current position. Medical school admissions can be such a crapshoot process, and I […]
School Impressions: Duke University School of Medicine
Goodness, I haven’t written one of these in a while. To be honest, DukeMed really surprised me, and I was surprised to be receive an interview at all. Its secondary application was by far one of the most intensive, and Duke is very proud of that. “We really want to know that we’re meeting the […]
School Impressions: Washington University St Louis School of Medicine
Ah, WashU. Everytime I tell my family and friends that I’m interviewing there, I get asked where in Washington it is. (It’s funnier because I actually spent a few years in Washington, and seriously considered applying to UW until I saw the out of region restriction.) To be honest, while I did enjoy my experience […]
School Impressions: Harvard Medical School
To be honest, I still can’t quite believe that I’m writing this. HMS is every premed’s absolute dream, and I sent in my app expecting nothing, but thinking, “Why the hell not?” The opportunity to visit has been nothing short of surreal, even though the interview experience itself didn’t blow me away. I took the […]