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Information for Applicants
You Oughta Know...
Admissions officers have expressed some additional suggestions for applicants.
- Every educational institution with an "edu" email can access your Facebook account. Anyone with a Myspace or Friendster account can probably find you easily. Make sure you present the portrait that you want these admissions committee members to see; you never know if one of them may want to look at your profile. Remember: medical students who serve on admissions committees and have their own profiles are web-savvy and can look you up.
- Here's a list of Facebook-related investigations (as recorded on Wikipedia).
- On a related note (9/1/2006), check your privacy settings! Many of the changes you put up are listed on your friends' pages as part of a "mini-feed." Check what your "Mini-Feed" posts about your activities, including mentions of what clubs or organizations you have joined or left.
- The things you post on blogs and websites can be archived. Just like emails, nothing is ever truly deleted. If you are posting sensitive information, make sure it is in a "private space."
- Use a professional email address like your Mason email account rather than a more "personal" alterego or avatar email in your communications with potential admissions officers.
- Review your signature file before you send an email.
- Don't write your emails as if you are text-messaging or e-chatting with a friend.
- Consider changing your voice mail greeting to a more "professional" greeting once you are expecting interviews from potential employers or admissions officers.
- When you go to a visit, an internship, or an interview, leave the cell phone, chewing gum, and flip-flops in your room.
- Your interview starts when you step onto the campus, not when you shake the admissions officer's hand. You never know if the medical student you are talking to is a member of the admissions committee. Treat everyone with great respect and respect their possible authority.
- Having your parents or family members aggressively follow up with your preparation with faculty, Dr. Chuck, test prep managers, or the admissions officers is not viewed very positively.
- Please be considerate of other applicants and hold only one acceptance at a time. If you receive a second acceptance, make a quick decision (within 48 hours) and notify the school to whom you will turn down a spot. Another nervous and deserving applicant is waiting for you to free up that spot.
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Information for Applicants MSAC Pre-Application
Checklist for Applicants
Graduate Student or Employee Applicants
About Low Grades
Difficulty Paying for the Application Process
Test Registration
Test Preparation
Centralized Application Services
Picking Schools
Letters of Evaluation
Forms: (Word)
MSAC Interviews
Forms: (Word)
Admissions Interviews
Scholarship Programs
You Oughta Know...
External Links
Application and Admission Timeline for Medical School (AAMC)
NIH Graduate Partnership Program
Premedical Students Guide to Preparing for Medical Programs (University Career Services)
Medical Programs Internet Resources (University Career Services)
Nursing and Health Careers Resources (University Career Services)
Predental student timeline (University of Kentucky College of Dentistry)
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