Nefelibata

Tomorrow! This time tomorrow we'll know our results Good luck to everyone

The schools are only supposed to rank qualified individuals for each track, so if you don't qualify for a track they will not have ranked you for it and thus you would not be matched to it. This is assuming they did it correctly. If by some mistake they ranked you for a track they don't qualify you for, well the match results are binding so....

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Happy match week everyone -- 4 days!! 

Oh gosh why does it have to take two weeks after the deadline!! So impatient ?

No, you only rank programs that you interviewed at. 

@hfj23 They did get the approval to reduce out of state tuition by $20,000 total. The confirmed that the LEND track was removed because they couldn't say with 100% confidence that they would be able to provide the second year funding. Other than that I don't think there was any other financial info.

For out of state students Ohio State is around $95k. They're trying to reduce the out of state tuition but it's not officially through yet. 

@Marie764 I'm sure Augustana accepted plenty of people who were not from underserved communities because it is incredibly difficult to do this application process if you are from those areas. If this person was rejected, it is not because they were not from the areas that Augustan has decided to give a chance. It's because their scores, GPA, personal statements,  and experience did not match up to others from advantaged communities. The same reason we all get rejected. That's only a small part of someone's rejection, it is not the reason they were rejected. 
But like I said already, if I totally misunderstood, I don't want to make this day worse for someone than it already is. I just think it's worth pointing out, if someone is wallowing thinking they were not accepted because they have money.
 

To the person rejected from Augustana on the results page with the quote: "we gave preference to applicants from areas of the country (USA) which are underserved or have workforce needs" but did not provide their GRE and GPA...

Please don't blame your problems on underserved communities and not take any responsibility for yourself.  Get feedback in May. I'm sure you're grieving and you need someone to blame, and that's totally okay but not in this way. That quote was highly inappropriate.

It's called discord,  here is the link: 
https://discord.gg/cgErukr
 
edit: oops! Didn't see that SunT already posted it. Don't know how to delete ?

I'm just creeping around here but I can give my 2 cents on this. Grad schools are pretty much just looking for anything above the 50-60th percentile. They say "successful" applicants have scores above the 70th percentile, but from my experience they really aren't that picky.

I'm just creeping around here but I can give my 2 cents on this. Grad schools are pretty much just looking for anything above the 50-60th percentile. They say "successful" applicants have scores above the 70th percentile, but from my experience they really aren't that picky.

I think it depends on the program.  I've heard the directors from 2 programs tell me they don't like accepting those straight out of under grad because they want to make sure they're mature and also that they're serious about becoming a GC. But another program I interviewed at had one candidate in under grad still, but the majority, from what I've heard and seen in interviews,  are that applicants are usually at least one year out of school. Most GCs I talked to said they took a year off to do the prerequisites and get disability, advocacy and shadowing experience. 
They also said this will probably change since people are hearing about genetic counseling sooner than they used to. Most usually heard of it late in college or after graduating so that's why they had to take a year between.  So applicants may have all the experience needed by the time they graduate. 

@Lauren423 and @NicSL also forgot to mention that since it is also extremely common for applicants to have to apply 2-3 times before being accepted, that also naturally drives the average age up. 

And @NicSL,
I think part of the reason the average age of cohorts is rising is because as the field becomes more popular, people are making career changes and those people tend to have a lot more experience and qualities favorable to being a genetic counselor simply from their life experience. And their previous job experience is usually pretty relatable/transferable to being a genetic counselor. 
I do still know and see many people applying and getting accepted right out of undergrad, but on the other side I do know of at least one program that favors applicants NOT right out of undergrad. It varies by program, but simply being young/straight out of undergrad isn't an automatic deal breaker. 

I personally think the schools are just trying to figure out where they rank (in students opinions) compared to other schools. Post-match if they ranked a student who ended up going somewhere else, they could look back at the interview notes and say "ok so this student ended up at one of these other schools they interviewed at (or maybe they somehow can find out exactly where they were accepted? Idk), what do these schools have that we don't that might be more attractive to our top ranked students? 

I should be paid for the free advertising I'm about to give here, haha.
I have both points from credit cards and rewards with airlines/hotels. My two personal favorite credit cards that I use are the Delta Gold American Express and Capital One Venture. I use the Delta Gold because my airport is a Delta hub so that's the airline I most frequently fly (and with the gold card I get a extra free bag, priority boarding, and some other cool perks), but the miles take a little while to rack up because it's only one mile per dollar. The Capital One Venture card is by far the best points card (in my opinion) out there. You get 2 points for each dollar you spend on ANYTHING, and you can redeem points directly through them for airfare, hotels, rental cars, etc. In my experience, booking through them requires fewer points than all my frequent flyer miles options (except maybe southwest). For example when booking my flight to Houston, it would have cost me 60,000 miles through Delta, 40,000 miles through American Airlines, and I don't remember how many points I would have needed through Southwest, but I didn't have enough anyway. Using my Venture card it cost me 35,000 points AND I am still able to earn frequent flyer miles for the airline Capital One booked it through so even though I'm using points I'm still earning some at the same time. You can also pay with partial miles/partial money in literally any amount of your choosing - you just type in if you want to pay x amount of dollars and it will tell you how many miles are required to cover the rest of it (or vice versa). If you pay for anything travel-wise out of pocket, you can also use points to reimburse your purchase after the fact. Even if you aren't a frequent traveler, you can also redeem your miles for gift cards or for a lump sum credit to your account (i.e., take $150 off your credit card bill by redeeming 15,000 miles).  
For the Venture card and any airline-specific card, when you first sign up there is usually a bonus, like "spend x amount of money in x amount of time and you get 50,000 miles!". So look out for those offers too. And once you spend the money to get the bonus, you don't have to use the card ever again if you don't want to.  Hotels also have credit card partnerships but I don't use any of those. The hotel point systems can be helpful though. Most hotels let you choose if you want to earn/redeem your points for staying as frequent flyer miles for a specific airline or as points for that hotel brand. Some airlines have partnerships with hotels anyway, like I know American Airlines has a partnership with a TON of hotels, and you can earn miles just for staying there if you give them your frequent flyer number when you book or at check in. 
There are a lot of ways to save if you know how to play the game right

i don't think many people apply casually..applications are expensive as is the GRE so i'm assuming that almost everyone who applies at least looks at program websites and sees that most schools only accept around 8-12 students/year. I feel like most people posting on here are just looking for a community of people we can relate to, because at least in my case i don't have any close friends or colleagues who are also applying for this program and i'm sure this is quite common. 
So in my opinion, it's hard to gauge how qualified people are based on whether or not they're posting on this forum. At the end of the day, qualified or not, many of us are just trying to connect with others and help each other out  Good luck to your person who is applying! I also know many people accepted into programs who only got one interview so # of invites doesn't mean much at the end of the day, just how well you connect with the interviewers at those interviews. 

I should be paid for the free advertising I'm about to give here, haha.
I have both points from credit cards and rewards with airlines/hotels. My two personal favorite credit cards that I use are the Delta Gold American Express and Capital One Venture. I use the Delta Gold because my airport is a Delta hub so that's the airline I most frequently fly (and with the gold card I get a extra free bag, priority boarding, and some other cool perks), but the miles take a little while to rack up because it's only one mile per dollar. The Capital One Venture card is by far the best points card (in my opinion) out there. You get 2 points for each dollar you spend on ANYTHING, and you can redeem points directly through them for airfare, hotels, rental cars, etc. In my experience, booking through them requires fewer points than all my frequent flyer miles options (except maybe southwest). For example when booking my flight to Houston, it would have cost me 60,000 miles through Delta, 40,000 miles through American Airlines, and I don't remember how many points I would have needed through Southwest, but I didn't have enough anyway. Using my Venture card it cost me 35,000 points AND I am still able to earn frequent flyer miles for the airline Capital One booked it through so even though I'm using points I'm still earning some at the same time. You can also pay with partial miles/partial money in literally any amount of your choosing - you just type in if you want to pay x amount of dollars and it will tell you how many miles are required to cover the rest of it (or vice versa). If you pay for anything travel-wise out of pocket, you can also use points to reimburse your purchase after the fact. Even if you aren't a frequent traveler, you can also redeem your miles for gift cards or for a lump sum credit to your account (i.e., take $150 off your credit card bill by redeeming 15,000 miles).  
For the Venture card and any airline-specific card, when you first sign up there is usually a bonus, like "spend x amount of money in x amount of time and you get 50,000 miles!". So look out for those offers too. And once you spend the money to get the bonus, you don't have to use the card ever again if you don't want to.  Hotels also have credit card partnerships but I don't use any of those. The hotel point systems can be helpful though. Most hotels let you choose if you want to earn/redeem your points for staying as frequent flyer miles for a specific airline or as points for that hotel brand. Some airlines have partnerships with hotels anyway, like I know American Airlines has a partnership with a TON of hotels, and you can earn miles just for staying there if you give them your frequent flyer number when you book or at check in. 
There are a lot of ways to save if you know how to play the game right

@bB0769 I am among the many who interviewed at a school last year but was rejected this year. It happens, and quite a lot from the sounds of things this year. One possibility could be as someone mentioned that they didn't feel you were a great fit for their program. Another reason could be simply the application pool. As the field becomes more and more popular, there are more and more qualified people applying. Some application cycles might have more super-qualified applicants than other cycles, and where you fall among the other applicants changes every year. I don't mean to offend or put you down, but I can't imagine a school telling someone not to re-apply next year, and "we strongly encourage you to reapply" kind of sounds like a generic blanket statement they probably say to everyone. The school I interviewed at last year but was rejected from this year said something along the same lines to me as well. All in all, try not to let it get you down too much! If you applied to other schools and/or have other interviews this year, I wish you luck!