I lurk all the time here but never post but just wanted to say that it's def a stressy situation but we all have to take a deep breath and keep hoping? I called NYU on Mon to see if they made a decision on my app and if they could tell me and told them I had been accepted elsewhere and really wanted to know cause I loved it so much. The lady who answered asked me my name, what date I interviewed, said hold on, came back a couple of mins later and said that Dec interviewees won't find out till March cause decisions had not been made yet. She seemed really nice at first but her tone was a bit cooler after she came back on the phone. So it's just a waiting game I guess. A friend of mine applied around the same time as me and has not been interviewed so I asked her if all interviews were out already and she said that they were almost gone but there was still time. So don't give up...
Also, the day of my interview, my interviewer did not really want to go over my app so much (just asked a couple of ques) and said his job was just to determine if I was psycho or not. I told him that that basically sucked as I wanted to sell myself to him and if all he wanted to do was sell the school to me I might lose out when it came time to review if he had to speak up for me at the committee meeting. He then told me that all applications go through screeners and those that are selected for interview meet w the interviewer to make sure their personalities are stable. They write up an eval, submit it, then the committee looks over the whole package again but he was not going to meet w the committee or anything like that. After my interview I spoke to a dean in the admissions office and he told me the same, they want to see you, gauge yr personality and that's it.
At the lunch (I was uber late cause my interview ran over as we were discussing NYU vs other med schools and the state of medical ed for a long time/then I got lost...), the Dean went over the process a bit and said essentially that ppl are picked based on the whole package...primary, sec, interview. What I found interesting/slightly bothersome was the discussion of the waitlist. Apparently, if someone is taken off the waitlist, they fit/match/replace the person that said "no" with a similar "type". So if a minority declines, then they look for a minority w similar stats. A woman is replaced by a woman etc. It seemed from this that they wanted ppl of a certain demographic to have an idealized (as per their internal def) class?
Anyways, I freaking loved it there...The best part of the day was how cool and open and friendly the fellow interviewees were...
