2011-2012 Duke Application Thread

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I'll be flying in Thursday for an interview on Friday. Is there any kind of dinner/event being hosted by the current students for the prospectives?
 
I took the LTD, which is what Duke suggested. It was great. I coincidentally shared the van with someone else on my way to the Millenium hotel ($15). Then on my way back post-interview, I found 3 others who rode the van from Duke Clinic to RDU ($10/person). = $25 roundtrip.
 
Anybody have insight on what to expect with the virtual interview? Will it just be like a traditional interview, or will the interviewer ask MMI-type questions?


M.D. Class of 2016
 
Dr Callis said:
Anybody have insight on what to expect with the virtual interview? Will it just be like a traditional interview, or will the interviewer ask MMI-type questions?


M.D. Class of 2016
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While I don't know what you should expect based on personal experience, it seems as if you would get MMI sorts of questions to maintain consistency in the evaluation process. Also, the Duke adcom people made it seem like they thought it was a preferable way of interviewing and assessing applicants, so I would be surprised if they chose not to interview you in that fashion. Just my 2 cents...
 
indonacious said:
While I don't know what you should expect based on personal experience, it seems as if you would get MMI sorts of questions to maintain consistency in the evaluation process.
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Yea, that makes a lot of sense.
 
When did Duke say they would send out decisions? Was it March 5 or March 15?
 
mathtim said:
When did Duke say they would send out decisions? Was it March 5 or March 15?
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I would like to know too. It's coming up... It's already February tomorrow! And February is a shorter month 😀

Jk - it's gonna be a long wait...
 
mathtim said:
When did Duke say they would send out decisions? Was it March 5 or March 15?
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I have only heard them say early March. I looked at last year's thread and the first acceptances came on March 15th.
 
Anyone want to make predictions? I bombed about 1/2 of this MMI so I say I'm mostly rejected post-interview with a hint of waitlist.
 
Cinclus said:
I think I feel the same. That MMI thing was crazy.
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I'm hoping for an acceptance 🙂 but then again there was one MMI rater that was kinda hard to understand and I might have made an ass out of myself... Anyway, I'm gunning for something positive!
 
I don't even know what to think about the MMI. I feel like I did relatively OK, but with my borderline numbers I probably needed to do way better than "OK". I'm expecting a rejection. I'd be happily surprised with a waitlist--although it will mean more months of festering uncertainty about where I'm going. I'd be floored if I got in on Mar 5.

So they said they are interviewing ~770 for a class of about 100. Any idea how many acceptances they will offer on Mar 5, or will they only accept their class size and let the number of waitlist offers gradually increase to the usual 250-300 that it takes to fill their class?
 
The guy said they don't use their waitlist at all - they haven't for the past 3 years I believe
 
... so perhaps two weeks from today we will start hearing admission decisions???
 
Cinclus said:
So in 2 weeks, I predict I will receive the news of < or = waitlist.
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Why do you say that Cinclus? From what I gathered you are an excellent applicant!
 
So, Duke will send snail mail for those who are accepted, but email for those who are waitlisted/rejected? (or at least that's what the status page seems to suggest...?)
 
luckyducky87 said:
So, Duke will send snail mail for those who are accepted, but email for those who are waitlisted/rejected? (or at least that's what the status page seems to suggest...?)
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yep!
 
Cinclus said:
Well, I hope you two are correct, but...I doubt my performance.
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My best advice is to not think about how you did. I am convinced that it is impossible to predict your performance with the MMI. I also did the MMI at Cincinnati and thought I completely bombed it. On one station, I realized I was playing with my shoelace when my interviewer was staring at my foot. The rest of the stations I felt like I showed little to no confidence in my answers. End result was an acceptance.

I thought I did well at Duke's MMI, but there seems to be an inverse relationship between my actual performance and my believed performance.

Either way, congratulations on your very successful cycle and best of luck to everyone else! I honestly liked the other applicants I interviewed with at Duke more than any other school. 🙂
 
luckyducky87 said:
So, Duke will send snail mail for those who are accepted, but email for those who are waitlisted/rejected? (or at least that's what the status page seems to suggest...?)
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That's how it reads. I guess that means I should hope for no correspondence on March 5th? .. and then a letter a few days after.
 
MMPman said:
My best advice is to not think about how you did. I am convinced that it is impossible to predict your performance with the MMI. I also did the MMI at Cincinnati and thought I completely bombed it. On one station, I realized I was playing with my shoelace when my interviewer was staring at my foot. The rest of the stations I felt like I showed little to no confidence in my answers. End result was an acceptance.

I thought I did well at Duke's MMI, but there seems to be an inverse relationship between my actual performance and my believed performance.

Either way, congratulations on your very successful cycle and best of luck to everyone else! I honestly liked the other applicants I interviewed with at Duke more than any other school. 🙂
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i agree, i enjoyed all partnership during the interview and all conversations throughout the day! it was the most diverse and humble group of people i interviewed with.
 
luckyducky87 said:
So, Duke will send snail mail for those who are accepted, but email for those who are waitlisted/rejected? (or at least that's what the status page seems to suggest...?)
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That's certainly what their website says, but I distinctly remember this question coming up at my interview day, and someone (Richard, I think) basically said that that's how they've done it in years past but that this year they were just going to do everything electronically, acceptance notifications included. I interviewed earlier this month.

So maybe they changed their mind and the website it right. Or maybe they're just using the same message text from last year... *sigh*... either way, my capacity to be overly anxious or neurotic has been thoroughly exhausted over the past 10 months. We'll find out soon enough.
 
Morzh said:
That's certainly what their website says, but I distinctly remember this question coming up at my interview day, and someone (Richard, I think) basically said that that's how they've done it in years past but that this year they were just going to do everything electronically, acceptance notifications included. I interviewed earlier this month.

So maybe they changed their mind and the website it right. Or maybe they're just using the same message text from last year... *sigh*... either way, my capacity to be overly anxious or neurotic has been thoroughly exhausted over the past 10 months. We'll find out soon enough.
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Did anyone else that interviewed relatively recently hear something similar, that it'd be all electronic? Best of luck to everyone!! 🙂
 
oh my... I was not gonna check my email during my work hours on 3/5 just in case it's a bad news..but now getting an e-mail from Duke that day can be a good news???

....maximum neurotic stages begins... 😛
 
InterStudent said:
oh my... I was not gonna check my email during my work hours on 3/5 just in case it's a bad news..but now getting an e-mail from Duke that day can be a good news???

....maximum neurotic stages begins... 😛
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I really got a handle of my pre-med neuroticism after I finished interviewing and I knew I was going to med school somewhere... but now as decision time nears for non-rolling schools, I have relapsed - hard. Omgomgomgomgomg.
 
Finally joined sdn bc I am so nervous about the duke decisions and I have to check this constantly to see when y'all get mailings! But the consensus now is that everyone is getting an email no matter the decision?
 
are you guys just guessing that it will be march 5th, or did they say that at your interview days? i interviewed in october and don't remember them giving a date that decisions would go out. the website just says early march.
 
Hobbs0833 said:
Finally joined sdn bc I am so nervous about the duke decisions and I have to check this constantly to see when y'all get mailings! But the consensus now is that everyone is getting an email no matter the decision?
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Same here... Bring on the paaaaaain, Joe Swanson style.

Don't know about the email/mail thing, but I distinctly remember RW saying that March 5th is the day that all decisions will be sent out (I interviewed mid-January).
 
eleventwelve said:
are you guys just guessing that it will be march 5th, or did they say that at your interview days? i interviewed in october and don't remember them giving a date that decisions would go out. the website just says early march.
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I called them the other day and they said that's the day they're shooting for. March 5th.
 
If it means anything, last year the website also said email for waitlist/rejections and snail mail for acceptances, but ALL notifications went out via email (wait/rej/acc) on March 15.

My heart dropped when I saw an email from Duke in my inbox, thinking it could only be bad news, but what a complete 180 when i actually opened it 🙂

I have no idea what the date will be (March 5 seems to be consistent based on what you guys have been told), but I strongly suspect that ALL decisions will be electronically conveyed on that date. Acceptances will of course get snail mail later on with all the instructions for deposits and whatnot.

Not sure if that clears anything up or makes it worse since I don't know for sure...but there you have it.
 
unepoire said:
If it means anything, last year the website also said email for waitlist/rejections and snail mail for acceptances, but ALL notifications went out via email (wait/rej/acc) on March 15.

My heart dropped when I saw an email from Duke in my inbox, thinking it could only be bad news, but what a complete 180 when i actually opened it 🙂

I have no idea what the date will be (March 5 seems to be consistent based on what you guys have been told), but I strongly suspect that ALL decisions will be electronically conveyed on that date. Acceptances will of course get snail mail later on with all the instructions for deposits and whatnot.

Not sure if that clears anything up or makes it worse since I don't know for sure...but there you have it.
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Holy crappies. Ok 8 days let's do this. :meanie:
 
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