Potential for Interviews beyond today? (Week of 11/11)

[Daitong]

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I applied to 28 schools with strong stats (3.9/36 from a top Engineering University) with cookie-cutter ECs. So far I've had 5 IIs (1 acceptance, YAY) and 5 rejections.

The rest of my schools are mostly top 40 schools but I haven't heard back at all from them.

At this point, should I call it and not really expect any more IIs, or do you think it'd be helpful to send out LOIs?

Thanks in advance!

Edit* I was complete late July/Early August

 

[Goro]

It depends upon your numbers relative to the other applicants, and how fast the Admissions staff can make their way down the pile to yours.

I applied to 28 schools with strong stats (3.9/36 from a top Engineering University) with cookie-cutter ECs. So far I've had 5 IIs (1 acceptance, YAY) and 5 rejections.

The rest of my schools are mostly top 40 schools but I haven't heard back at all from them.

At this point, should I call it and not really expect any more IIs, or do you think it'd be helpful to send out LOIs?

Thanks in advance!

 

[phunky]

I applied to 28 schools with strong stats (3.9/36 from a top Engineering University) with cookie-cutter ECs. So far I've had 5 IIs (1 acceptance, YAY) and 5 rejections.

The rest of my schools are mostly top 40 schools but I haven't heard back at all from them.

At this point, should I call it and not really expect any more IIs, or do you think it'd be helpful to send out LOIs?

Thanks in advance!

Edit* I was complete late July/Early August

Are you me?

 

[onceawolverine]

I also think it depends on how receptive various schools are to LOIs. Pritzker, for example, has been pretty receptive this cycle (citation: anecdotal evidence collected from SDN and around campus). However, Stanford (just to use an example directly applicable to me) is thoroughly uninterested in my telling them "hey! Hey you! Look at me! I'm still here! Please love me!" So even though Stanford was/in a top, top, top choice for me, I'm holding off on sending any kind of ITA/LOI.

So I guess you should just do your research on the school's policy before sending them.

EDIT: congrats on those stats, btw. But I imagine that those "cookie-cutter" ECs might be the thing holding you back, especially if you sounded as ambivalent about them in the primary/other secondaries

 

[Doug Underhill]

You got an acceptance- you already won. It's possible that there may be more interviews, but that shouldn't be your top priority.

Congrats on winning the medical school admissions process! You should be appreciating your free time now and doing the leisure activities you've always wanted to do, because that time will go away once you've completed med school and residency.

 

[LizzyM]

You've had 5 interviews and have at least one acceptance. Acknowledge that the rest are silent rejections, not because there is anything wrong with you but that the schools just don't have the resources (space, time, faculty) to interview every well qualified applicant and they need to make hard choices. Once you've accepted that you are done for the quarter, you may be pleasantly surprised by a few more interviews but you'll enjoy life more if you just accept that your cycle is over and move on.

 

[ConsultantMD]

I applied to 28 schools with strong stats (3.9/36 from a top Engineering University) with cookie-cutter ECs. So far I've had 5 IIs (1 acceptance, YAY) and 5 rejections.

The rest of my schools are mostly top 40 schools but I haven't heard back at all from them.

At this point, should I call it and not really expect any more IIs, or do you think it'd be helpful to send out LOIs?

Thanks in advance!

Edit* I was complete late July/Early August

I'm in a similar boat with an acceptance and silence from around 20 schools. It's tough but I think you have to think that you should go with the mentality of silent rejection and then like LizzyM said, be pleasantly surprised later. Surely schools have more IIs coming in the winter and spring but those are probably very competitive to get. I'm just thankful to be where I'm at!

 

[unnumzaan]

Ha, I'm going with the "assume silent rejection and be pleasantly surprised" strategy and I don't even have an acceptance.

The way I like to put it: It's a slow trickle from October to March and you just have to hope to catch a few drops.

 

[reapplicanthelpme2014]

Some people don't even have interviews and aren't making these kinds of threads...be happy with what you have, sir!

 

[m.a.r.r.]

I think the smoke has started to clear for this cycle in terms of interview invites. The conventional wisdom from other cycles that you shouldn't worry till like December is I think not too applicable this cycle when AMCAS processed everybody very quickly and everyone applied early so schools have already filled most of their interview spots. Personally I got almost all of my interview invites before October and have gotten two invites for January interviews since (and that was half a month ago).

 

[ProudMD]

Just go celebrate. You already have an acceptance!!!

 

[Daitong]

Wooo fortune favors me...2nd acceptance today haha! (Sorry, just had to share)