LEGEND:
RS: received secondary
SS: submitted secondary
C: complete
II: interview invitation
I: interview date
R: rejected
WL: waitlisted
H: hold
A: accepted
TIMELINE:
7/13/07 took mcat
8/15/07 started ED volunteering
8/22/07 started working on PS
9/5/07 temporarily gave up on PS
9/19/07 started LBNL job
5/16/08 started AMCAS application
5/21/08 ordered transcripts
5/23/08 UC Berkeley transcript sent
5/28/08 Brown transcript sent
6/4/08 UC Berkeley transcript received (9 business days)
6/5/08 Brown transcript received (7 business days)
7/2/08 submitted AMCAS
7/7/08 submitted WashU secondary
7/24/08 AMCAS verified!! =)
7/24/08 submitted BU secondary
7/25/08 my first non-automatic secondary--UCSF! YAY
7/25/08 my first interview invite-- UMich!!!!! YAY!
7/25/08 submitted UPenn secondary
7/28/08 submitted UCSF secondary
7/28/08 submitted Yale secondary
7/28/08 submitted Harvard secondary
7/29/08 submitted Jefferson secondary
7/31/08 LOR's finally uploaded to Virtual Evals!!
7/31/08 my first completed school-- UPenn!!! YAY.
8/1/08 AMCAS received my LORs
8/1/08 Jefferson and Pitt complete
8/3/08 submitted Northwestern secondary
8/3/08 submitted UCI secondary
8/4/08 NW complete
8/5/08 submitted Pritz secondary
8/5/08 interview invite to Pitt!! =D
8/6/08 submitted UCLA secondary
8/7/08 submmitted Johns Hop secondary
8/11/08 submitted Tufts secondary
8/11/08 submitted Stanford secondary
8/14/08 submitted USC secondary
8/19/08 submitted UCSD secondary
8/25/08 interview invite to UCSD!! that was fast!! =D
8/26/08 interview invite to Tufts!
8/27/08 interview invite to Brown!
8/28/08 rejection from BU. First one, it hurts! =(
8/30/08 rejection from Pritz (they probably rejected me ages ago, but I didnt know i was supposed to check the status page)
9/4/08 submitted Colorado
9/4/08 interview invite to UCLA!!! YESS!! YESSSSS!!!!!!
9/12/08 interview at UMich. So much nicer than I ever expected, it seems like a GREAT school!!!
9/12/08 interview invite to UCI!
9/16/08 submitted OHSU
9/16/08 interview invite to WashU!
9/18/08 interview invite to NW!
9/18/08 interview invite to Vandy! (shouldve come on 8/16)
9/20/08 submitted Vandy! LAST SCHOOL!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
9/22/08 Pitt interview!
9/23/08 I bought myself a flash for finishing all my secondaries! Wheeee!
9/24/08 interview invite to Colorado!
9/26/08 complete at OHSU!! I am now complete at every school!
9/29/08 UCLA interview! that was a little scary!
10/6/08 UCSD interview! nicest interviewers so far!
10/15/08 UMich waitlist =( so sad about this one (talked to the office, they said 20 out of 400 got in off the WL last year.. eek)
10/21/08 Tufts interview!
10/23/08 Brown interview!
10/27/08 Colorado interview!
10/28/08 NW interview!
10/30/08 Pitt acceptance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GONNA BE A DR!!!!!
10/30/08 Tufts acceptance!!!!! HOLY CRAP I LOVE TODAY.
11/4/08 UCSD acceptance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11/26/08 Colorado acceptance!! =D
11/26/08 UCSF rejection. =(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
12/2/08 withdrew from UC Irvine. Thought a lot about it, and in the end, I didn't think I'd love Irvine a ton more than San Diego, so I decided to save the money and time and withdraw. Still feels weird though...
12/4/08 hold from Vanderbilt. Man that was such a nice school, i hope they still consider me!
12/29/08 USC rejection. I'm ok with it, I would have had to take a class to matriculate!
1/29/09 Stanford rejection. This one sucks =(
1/23/09 checked UPenn website, deferred pre-interview. who knows when this actually happened.
2/21/09 waitlist from UCLA. =(((((((
2/24/09 UPenn rejection (I checked their site, and interviews are over and I didn't get one... so that's a rejection!)
3/9/09 OHSU rejection
3/9/09 UMich waitlist--bottom tier (ie rejection)
3/16/09 Harvard rejection
3/26/09 UPenn rejection
4/7/09 withdrew from NW
4/17/09 Johns Hopkins rejection
5/14/09 Colorado withdrawal
5/14/09 Tufts withdrawal
5/14/09 UPitt withdrawal
6/1/09 Brown withdrawal
6/1/09 UMich withdrawal
6/1/09 UCLA acceptance, holy holy shit
6/8/09 Vanderbilt withdrawal
6/8/09 UCSD withdrawal
MONEY:
Kaplan course: $1749 (ouch)
Berkeley physics class: $1240 (didnt fit into undergrad schedule)
MCAT: $210
plane ticket for committee letter: $334
transcript from Brown: $12.50
transcript from Berkeley: $15
AMCAS: $820
Brown processing, $3/school: $69
WashU secondary: $50
BU secondary: $100
UPenn secondary: $80
UCSF secondary: $60
Yale secondary: $85
Harvard secondary: $85
Jefferson secondary: $80
UMich plane ticket: $310
UMich housing: $75 (split room, Inn at the Michigan League)
UMich secondary: $85
Brown secondary: $95
Pitt secondary: $75
NW secondary: $75
UCI secondary: $60
Pritz secondary: $75
UPitt flight: $365
UCLA secondary: $60
Johns Hop secondary: $75
Tufts secondary: $105
Stanford secondary: $80
USC secondary: $90
UCSD secondary: $60
UCD secondary: $60
UCSD flight: $147
interview clothes: $497.44 (2 suits+tailoring)
Colorado secondary: $100
UCLA flight: $158.01
UMich transporation: $41
UMich dogsitting: $22
OHSU secondary: $100
Pitt housing: $0 (student host!)
Pitt transportation: $15
UCLA housing: $0 (martin!)
WashU/Vandy flight: $392.59
Vandy secondary: $50
UCSD housing: $0 (student host!)
Pitt/UCLA/UCSD/WashU/Vandy dogsitting: $94.12
Colorado/NW flight: $372.50
Tufts/Brown flight: 389.51
UCLA transportation: $9.95
WashU housing: $0 (they set up a place for us to stay, I LOVE them!)
Vandy housing: $0 (student host!)
UCSD transportation: $12.60
Tufts/Brown housing: $0 (jesse!)
NW housing: $0 (student host)
WashU transportaion: $13
Vandy transportation: $35
Tufts/Brown transportation: $63
Tufts/Brown dogsitting:$180
Colorado/NW transportation: $43
Colorado/NW dogsitting: $20
Colorado housing: $0 (student host!)
NW housing: $0 (student host!)
Tufts deposit: $100
Colorado deposit: $200
UCLA transcript from brown: $6.25
UCLA transcript from berkeley: $15
Total: $9161.97
Thoughts:
9/17/08--I think I applied to too many schools. People scared me so much by saying that it was possible to apply to 15 and get in nowhere, so I stayed on the safe side and applied to 23 (which my premed advisor STILL didn't like--he told me to apply to more safeties!). While I'm happy and incredibly thankful that I dont have the opposite problem, interviews are starting to get too expensive and time consuming (I'm taking so much unpaid leave!). Not sure if I should skip some interviews now, or if I should just suck it up and go to them.
10/5/08--Things are going pretty well! Getting excited and nervous for Oct 15th, which is the first possible day to get an acceptance!!
10/7/08--4 down, 7 to go, 6 in the next 3 weeks. I think I might collapse from exhaustion. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, honestly... I'm so tired from just travelling and doing 1 interview, how am I going to do 2 in a row, and repeat that 3 weeks in a row? Oh well, I guess I'll just do the best I can, and that's that! Maybe the adrenaline will keep me going =)
10/15/08--sigh, waitlist from UMich. =( =( =(
10/30/08--AMAZING! 2 acceptances!!! Tufts and Pitt, I'M GONNA BE A DR!
6/8/09 I KNOW I'M GOING TO UCLA!! Finally done with the whole process, what an AMAZING feeling!