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Post your interview offers here... this is sure to be one of the most anticipated and viewed threads of the season (second only to docB's and Apollyon's banana hammock posing thread).
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Post your interview offers here... this is sure to be one of the most anticipated and viewed threads of the season (second only to docB's and Apollyon's banana hammock posing thread).
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Post your interview offers here... this is sure to be one of the most anticipated and viewed threads of the season (second only to docB's and Apollyon's banana hammock posing thread).
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Drew Med in California
I submitted my app on Sept 30th.. (which was a friday last yr) and i had 3 interview offers by monday morning..
plz tell me u are joking.. my mail is still empty.
1 St Vincents in Toledo
2 Drew in L.A.
A lot of programs have not even retrieved my info yet.
I have a question. Can programs look at your photo before they decide to interview you? So, if I see that a program has downloaded my photo can I assume I have an interview there?
Also, I got an interview at St. Barnabas which is a DO program.
No, they can't. So, if you're a grub, you get in by your merits.
dude dont worry some programs just wait a lot longer.. so relax.. you can stress in mid oct or mid nov..
still no EMED interviews. (insert tears here)
do you have to walk on water with perfect board scores, AOA, etc, in order to get interview offers this early? These programs haven't even downloaded my stuff! what up!!!
If they haven't downloaded your stuff, then you probably have too many syllables in your name.
Or they just haven't gotten to it. Either way.
I'm sure this is true, but even so I can't help obsessing about it. I keep looking at each school and for the ones that haven't downloaded me I start yelling at the computer screen "what is your PROBLEM UPenn!? are you too good for me?"
unfortunately since even my own institution has not downloaded my application (and I know they are going to interview me), I guess some people just aren't in any rush. But I think they should be, because I am giving extra points in my head to all the programs who download stuff quickly.
do all programs offer interviews through email/ERAS??
or are there programs that insist on last-century-style paper mail carried by those funny-looking mail carts?? I can't help to think they would misplace my mail.. I mean, even their steering wheel is on the wrong side.... Jeez
-nervous
yup yup Beth Israel (HAEMR) sent a confirmation before my app was complete. it was missing 1 letter. -- (this is my first post, hi everyone!)
I got one from St. Vincent - Toledo (didn't rotate there) 2 days after I submitted on Sept 1st. I'm bummed people are getting OSU without rotating there already! Where's mine?
yup yup Beth Israel (HAEMR) sent a confirmation before my app was complete. it was missing 1 letter. -- (this is my first post, hi everyone!)
Me too...got an email from Beth Israel saying they received my app and will contact me by email for anything else.
I'm in the same boat...I'm checking my email every chance I get! Talk about obsessive compulsive behavior....I'll be so glad when all of this is over. Does anyone know if a program if going to invite you do they usually send out invites soon after downloading your stuff? Its been like a week or so since some programs have downloaded my stuff but no word from them yet.
NO! We can't see your stuff until we download it, but that doesn't mean it comes individually nor that we look at it immediately. Every new document on every applicant to the program comes through when we update. We don't get packages separately for an applicant. Once downloaded, it sits in a pile of thousands of documents organized by applicant that we can slice and dice with a variety of filters.
How each program apoproaches the task varies:
1. Some handle it by not even worrying about it till mid-October or even after the MSPEs (Dean's letters) are released on 1 November.
2. Some programs that do a lot of interviews relative to their number of slots just apply a minimal standards screen and send out the invites. They figure that they'll do the real sorting at the interview. They may do this early or late.
3. Some do it the way I do: I look at the database several times a week. I sort as yes, no, or hold for more info. I do it this way because:a. I've got many hours of this to do, and I want to spread it out.
b. I don't want to invite those who have little chance of being ranked. This requires that I look at each app pretty carefully, but it saves their money and our time.
My point in going through this again is to try to calm you down (as if that were possible).
Just remember:
1. You can't know the screening habits of a particular program. Don't worry about your interviews unless you haven't got a lot of invites by the 10th of November. If that happens, you didn't apply to enough programs for your level of competitiveness. Add some more.
2. Unless you have a unusually bad record as a USMG, you'll get plenty of interviews and a match that you'll be happy with.
3. D.O.s have a somewhat harder time in the allopathic match, but since they also have the outlet of the D.O. programs, it appears that most who want EM training get it.
4. The IMGs among you clearly understand that you have it tougher and those with marginal records don't apply to EM. Those with a good record have a reasonable chance.
5. Mellow out, it's gonna be good.
Me too...got an email from Beth Israel saying they received my app and will contact me by email for anything else. Congrats to all y'all who already have interviews! For the rest of us, it's way, way, WAY too early to be worrying about not having interviews. Besides...it's fourth year...shouldn't we be having fun and relaxing this year?? Well, that's my plan at least.
NO! We can't see your stuff until we download it, but that doesn't mean it comes individually nor that we look at it immediately. Every new document on every applicant to the program comes through when we update. We don't get packages separately for an applicant. Once downloaded, it sits in a pile of thousands of documents organized by applicant that we can slice and dice with a variety of filters.
How each program apoproaches the task varies:
1. Some handle it by not even worrying about it till mid-October or even after the MSPEs (Dean's letters) are released on 1 November.
2. Some programs that do a lot of interviews relative to their number of slots just apply a minimal standards screen and send out the invites. They figure that they'll do the real sorting at the interview. They may do this early or late.
3. Some do it the way I do: I look at the database several times a week. I sort as yes, no, or hold for more info. I do it this way because:a. I've got many hours of this to do, and I want to spread it out.
b. I don't want to invite those who have little chance of being ranked. This requires that I look at each app pretty carefully, but it saves their money and our time.
My point in going through this again is to try to calm you down (as if that were possible).
Just remember:
1. You can't know the screening habits of a particular program. Don't worry about your interviews unless you haven't got a lot of invites by the 10th of November. If that happens, you didn't apply to enough programs for your level of competitiveness. Add some more.
2. Unless you have a unusually bad record as a USMG, you'll get plenty of interviews and a match that you'll be happy with.
3. D.O.s have a somewhat harder time in the allopathic match, but since they also have the outlet of the D.O. programs, it appears that most who want EM training get it.
4. The IMGs among you clearly understand that you have it tougher and those with marginal records don't apply to EM. Those with a good record have a reasonable chance.
5. Mellow out, it's gonna be good.