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Is there anyone else who got an invitation to interview at VCU but is not able to go on any of the three dates that they offered?

Does anyone have any insight on when we might hear back from BU or VCU?

For my Emory application I had two letters from professors, one from a supervisor at a clinic where I was a volunteer interpreter/patient advocate, and one from my supervisor at an internship in a laboratory. I am pretty sure that a supervisor from an internship counts for that requirement. I have an interview with Emory, so it seems that they didn't have any problems with my rec letter writers!

People applying to Stanford- in the academic interests and specialization section of the application (page 6) are you leaving it blank? I am fairly positive that the program does not offer Academic Interest choices, and the only thing I can think of to put would be pediatric, prenatal, cancer etc. I think it should just be left blank, but I wanted to check and see what other people are doing.

@hopetobeGC Are you talking about the UNC Greensboro program by chance? If so, I highly recommend calling them and asking. They may be lenient if you explain that you took the course in advance of them changing the requirement and offer to send a syllabus and potentially a letter from the professor. It won't hurt to ask! If it is the UNC Greensboro program, I would be interested in knowing what you hear back.

Hi everyone! Reading this forum has been so wonderful thus far- I’ve never actually met anyone else who wanted to be a genetic counselor! I graduated in 2017 with a Spanish major (concentration in medical Spanish) and biology and psychology minors. I did well in all my pre-reqs (mostly A/A- with my lowest being a B+) and my cumulative GPA was a 3.85 with Phi Beta Kappa. My GRE scores were 165V/156Q/4.5AW. I’ve done short term shadowing with genetic counselors at 4 places, was a student advisor/peer mentor at my university, interned in a molecular diagnostic laboratory for a summer, was a volunteer medical interpreter at a free clinic, interned at a residence house for AIDS patients in Spain, and am currently living in Argentina and interning at a cancer NGO for six months. I plan on coming home mid-February to be back in time for interviews (hopefully!!!). I am planning on applying to eight schools, but my top ones are USC, UAB, Emory and Stanford. Are there any other non-science majors that are worried about their science background? I took the clinical embryology course online through University of Cincinnati, but don’t know if that was enough. I want to be a bilingual genetic counselor so my Spanish major was very important to me, but I am worried now that not being a science major might hurt me in this process. I am also worried about my advocacy experience- none of it has been the traditional crisis hotline, shelter volunteering, or Planned Parenthood work. I am currently working on my personal statements. I have never enjoyed writing about myself, and am struggling a little bit! Does anyone have any advice for getting out of their own head a little bit? Also, how many people do you think is a good number to ask to edit the personal statements? I am super excited/nervous for the future and am very glad that I have found this forum and people going through the same thing!