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Any Body without IV until now..join here. - melasyndrome
#31
same here. 99/99/pass all first. GC. YOG>15
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#32
Nobody believed me when I mentioned about the screening software the PDs use. If you don't comply with 1 single criteria, you are ruled out by the system. Even if you are PHD 99/99/99 but YOG 6years or more, they won't see it.

With more than 4000 aplicatios per service, they won't even bother seen candidates who don't comply with their criterias
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#33
Ozpy,
your advice might be true for the most programs. but I know that my senior get prematch in a program that says: 5 year cutoff, score>85... That was 4 years ago though. By that time, he got 82 for step1, 92 for step2, CS 2 attempt, but 2 year research at MD Anderson.
I followed strictly to not apply to some programs that said: No attempt. By now ,I know some friends with CS attempt and not that great score got IV. Learn for next match.
For all of us, we should try to improve our application: amazing step3 , more externship with great LOR... and find our which programs to apply. It is really hard to know which program is competitive, which will be easy
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#34
Forget to say, my senior was 12 YOG, he spent 4 year in US to prepare USMLE... before applying
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#35
May be its better, if we go off into a ''NO WIFI'' Zone for a week/two and then take all d bad news at once..am tired of checking my inbox every 5 min..and mails which say "NO REPLY" are so scary !!!!!!!!!!!!
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#36
4 years ago was different. There weren't many caribbean applicants and their inbox used to have 1000 applicants.

Now 99% of programs have 4500 applicants in average. It's harder now. Contacts help a lot.
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#37
According to my experience, what they consider as most important: (1) Credentials. (2) Age.
(3) publications. Just personal idea.
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#38
@desperado760..many programs say, dey consider each application on a case by case basis..so lets hope that is true and have hopes, that they will find something appealing in our application.
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#39
Hey guys,
Same here ni iv no rej,but I called few programs today to ask few questions and most of them say they r starting to review applications in oct or nov...right now it's just the computers that r downloading application...so chill ..relax...
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#40
70% of programs send all their invites before oct 15th. The PDs are killing each other for the best applicants and are sending invites to the best ones by now.
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