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Has anyone been granted a phone interview from Mayo yet?
Congrats!! 😀MesoCompound said:Just got an invite for a phone interview today! How does this work? I heard they ask really strange questions in the phone interview, like what is the evolution of pain?
MesoCompound said:Just got an invite for a phone interview today! How does this work? I heard they ask really strange questions in the phone interview, like what is the evolution of pain?
MesoCompound said:Just got an invite for a phone interview today! How does this work? I heard they ask really strange questions in the phone interview, like what is the evolution of pain?
MesoCompound said:Just got an invite for a phone interview today! How does this work? I heard they ask really strange questions in the phone interview, like what is the evolution of pain?
epalantequevoy said:congratulations, and no, mayo does not give those out to everyone. i think the stats are something like 3000 applicants for 700-800 telephone interviews.
SuzieQ3417 said:Do they even give phone interviews to that many? I thought I heard about 350 are asked to do phone interviews, and then 250 for regular interviews. I can't really back that up though...I don't remember where I found that. Either way, I like the way Mayo operates in this respect. A phone-interview instead of a secondary probably gives you a much better view of the applicant.
SailCrazy said:For those of you who are receiving phone interview invites: when was your AMCAS processed and when was your check received by Mayo?
Thanks & congrats! 👍
drbriggz said:So I received that very same, oh so nerve-wracking-to-open email today inviting me to schedule a phone interview. I'm speaking with them on the 23rd, their first available date I guess. I was sure it was gonna be a rejection. Almost fell over when I read it. I sure hope you guys are right about those invitation stats, cuz they make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. If you guys hear anything about the questions they are asking this year (in case they are completely different from those posted at the thread link above), please Please PLEASE let me know. I'm nervous as hell!!!
drbriggz said:This is the first time I've felt like I'm doing all right in comparison to every one else (you people are freakin GENIUSES!!!) on this addicting site. Thanks for the congrats, it means a lot. I also noticed your involvement in music, and that was a factor in my app (concertmaster and all that jazz, too) so you are probably in luck! Here's hoping!!!
MesoCompound said:Hehe I was concert master of my college orchestra and I played for one year in the Houston Symphony. I think Mayo needs musically inclined people??! haha
SuzieQ3417 said:Maybe they would like to form a Mayo string quartet? I would volunteer for that. 😀
drbriggz said:I say we propose to them four years of unsurpassed elegant string music if they guarantee our acceptance asap. Anything to alleviate this waiting and inevitable flood of rejection letters 😛
SuzieQ3417 said:I would definitely agree to that, although I don't know if they would have me...I've been slacking off this summer--pulled out the violin last night after a couple of weeks of not playing...it wasn't pretty. 🙂 Seriously though, I wouldn't worry too much about rejection letters yet...you seem to be doing pretty well so far (although I know nothing is a guarantee). Mayo is my dream school, for many reasons besides some of the obvious ones. I would do almost anything to get into that school. Good luck with your phone interview...I'm sure you'll do great. 🙂
drbriggz said:I LOVE you SuzieQ!!! 😍 Whenever I need that extra boost to keep me focused on my neverending list of med-school-****-to-do, you up and say the nicest things!
do you know anything more about those invitation stats? Whenever I visit their website to read up on their mission and stuff, I see that painful number of 34 ( 😱 HOLY ****ING ****!!! 😱 ) MD applicants accepted. For some reason, I feel their class gets filled by harvard, princeton, yale, duke, stanford, and washU kids 😡 .
In all sincerity, thank you for your continued kind words; they are extremely motivational.
drbriggz said:For some reason, I feel their class gets filled by harvard, princeton, yale, duke, stanford, and washU kids 😡 .
epalantequevoy said:perhaps this will ease your fears some: there are only 3 ivy kids at mayo in the class of 2009. seriously, mayo looks at the whole person and could care less about what fancy school you may have gone to.
if you have any other questions about the school, you can ask me either here or via pm. (i'm an m1 there.)
SuzieQ3417 said:Is there anything I can do (once they receive my AMCAS and my money) to increase my chances of getting a phone-invite? I feel so helpless at this point. 🙂
SuzieQ3417 said:Is there anything I can do (once they receive my AMCAS and my money) to increase my chances of getting a phone-invite? I feel so helpless at this point. 🙂
SuzieQ3417 said:Is there anything I can do (once they receive my AMCAS and my money) to increase my chances of getting a phone-invite? I feel so helpless at this point. 🙂
MesoCompound said:Hey SailCrazy-
Sorry for not getting this to you eariler:
AMCAS submitted: June 15th
AMCAS processed: June 23rd
Mayo confirms they got my ****: July 21st
Date I sent those fools more money: July 21st
Day I get phone interview: August 12
Date I get real interview: 🙄
Date Mayo gives me full scholarship and begs me to come: 😀
Hope this helps!
takara said:Not really- Mayo looks at you like a math problem right now- quick and simple.
If you're from Minnesota, Arizona or Florida you get the interview-
if not you need your GPA x10 + MCAT to add up to their cut off- usually in the low 60s
Hope that helps
Mayo has hospitals in those states, so if you are from one of those three technically you are an "in-state" applicant. I didn't know this influenced who was admitted, but I do know that the tuition is cheaper for residents given this status.owenmichael said:??? Did I just miss something huge about Mayo. I'm not sure how they favor Mn, Arizona and Fl residents???
Could you elaborate more?
takara said:Not really- Mayo looks at you like a math problem right now- quick and simple.
If you're from Minnesota, Arizona or Florida you get the interview-
if not you need your GPA x10 + MCAT to add up to their cut off- usually in the low 60s
Hope that helps
epalantequevoy said:i'm not so sure about takara's analysis.
so you're saying that after cutting out 85 percent of the applicants pre-phone interview, the best mayo would do based on the "numbers" is low 60s? that's between a 3.0 and a 30 and a 3.4 and a 30. it doesn't compute when the class averages are like 3.8 and 33 or 34, or 72 for your numbers game.
i do believe that mayo treats the mn, az and fl people pretty much like a state school would treat its state's residents. i would guess there are 20-30 percent of our class from this group of states.
takara said:Not really- Mayo looks at you like a math problem right now- quick and simple.
If you're from Minnesota, Arizona or Florida you get the interview-
if not you need your GPA x10 + MCAT to add up to their cut off- usually in the low 60s
Hope that helps
drbriggz said:I sincerely hope you are wrong; otherwise I can pretty much expect the crushing blow of a rejection post phone interview. If you think your advice/info is correct, can you explain how you came across this knowledge? I'm dying to know...
It took them over a week to acknowledge my check. That was about two weeks ago. I'm not sweating it.Kudos said:If I still haven't received any word from Mayo three weeks after I sent my check, should I be worried? Why do some people hear so quickly and some people don't hear anything?
SailCrazy said:It took them over a week to acknowledge my check. That was about two weeks ago. I'm not sweating it.
Yet. 😛
Kudos said:No, I meant since I received the email from them. I still haven't heard anything. Anyone else have this happen? Am I going to be rejected?
cphilip said:I'm an MSII at Mayo and I wanted to answer some questions people had about the school. Just like the first year student said, Mayo is not a place where you find only students from Ivy league schools. In our class there are only two students from Ivy league schools.
As far as the initial phone interview is concerned...Mayo does use a formula to calculate a cutoff for granting interviews (GPAX10 + MCAT) but I'm not sure about the exact number you need. Based on the average MCAT score and GPA my guess would be upper 60's. Once you've been granted a phone interview they care a lot more about your character, dedication to medicine, personality ect. than your scores. Also don't overprepare for the phone interview...I didn't know any of the questions before the interview and it went fine. Just be yourself and it will come across well to the admissions committee.
If you guys have any other questions about the application process, school life, or life in Rochester feel free to post on this thread or PM me.
JustBreathe said:I have a 4.0 GPA and a 38 MCAT and I got rejected pre-secondary. Explain?