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I wouldn't look too into it. If you are worrying about a red flag youre free to pm about things you're concerned about. However, red flags are usually just as evident to adcoms as they would be to you.
 
School may fast track applications as perfect academically as yours. Then they saw something in your personal statement/ECs/secondary that they didnt like. So hold. Or if it's a low tier school, yield protection.
 
They might review apps by order of MCAT, making yours immediately reviewed. As to why it's a hold instead of an interview invite, could be anything from yield protection to red flags to bad luck with what individual you happened to get as your interview decision-maker. This process can be totally unpredictable on a school-by-school basis, you're better off reading tea leaves than worrying about this.
 
efle said:
They might review apps by order of MCAT, making yours immediately reviewed. As to why it's a hold instead of an interview invite, could be anything from yield protection to red flags to bad luck with what individual you happened to get as your interview decision-maker. This process can be totally unpredictable on a school-by-school basis, you're better off reading tea leaves than worrying about this.
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Lipton Tea or Teavana?
 
dwu12 said:
Would Mayo do yield protection?
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dwu12 said:
that's interesting.. thank you!
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Mayo is famously about "fit" instead of the usual stats+research. Its probs the app reader thinking you were too cookie cutter. Def wouldnt think of this as predictive of the top schools as a group, you can relax
 
Academically, your application is very strong. But if your ECs and community service are relatively weak, you may be getting negatively stereotyped as someone who would be hyper-competitive or won't be 'relatable' for patients.

I have no way lf knowing whether or not this shoe fits you, but something to consider.
 
BlackMathMajor said:
This goes to show that even the tiny number of 4.0/528 applicants applying every year get rejected at some of the schools they apply to. Very few Olympic gymnasts, even the gold medal winners, get perfect 10s.
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If you look at the yield values (matriculants/admitted) for the biggest names, they're generally pretty high (~50% or more).

Mathematically speaking, that's only possible when there's not much overlap between the groups. It's not like there's a threshold effect where someone admitted to Stanford must have also gotten admitted everywhere else. Really, even the fantastic applications that land multiple admits to schools like that, also get a big pile of rejections from others.
 
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