2013-2014 Oakland University Application Thread

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Just found out today via e-mail that my application was placed on hold for further review. Better than a rejection I guess! Does anyone know what this means for me 🙂?
3.84/36 OOS (Canadian)
 
For anyone needing a hotel to stay at I thought I'd just recommend staying at The Red Roof Inn. It was cheap and newly remodeled so the room was nice and was only a ten minute drive from campus
 
Kind of a long shot, but I'll be interviewing on the 25th of October. Anyone heading from Detroit to Oakland U on the 24th want to carpool? Send me a private message, thanks!
 
I just added this school. I hope I'm not too late!
 
II this morning! 🙂 I know a few people out there who seem to like the area so that's encouraging. I'm kind of excited to see the hospitals everyone raves about too.

Scheduled for October 11
31/3.9+
IS
 
II today for Oct. 11th! Flying into DTW Thursday and have a car rental, PM me if you want to share it and split cost!
 
congrats on all the II! When were you guys complete?
 
GBODumich2012 said:
Welp this sucks, I have the exact same stats but was complete 7/19 and still haven't received an II. Assuming this is a rejection.
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Don't lose hope. I was complete 7/8 last year, didn't receive an interview invite until late September, interviewed late October, accepted the week after my interview. Don't lose hope. My stats were 35, 3.5 and I am IS for the record.
 
Lucidity said:
Don't lose hope. I was complete 7/8 last year, didn't receive an interview invite until late September, interviewed late October, accepted the week after my interview. Don't lose hope. My stats were 35, 3.5 and I am IS for the record.
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Do you know what happens to applicants that are put on hold?
 
anyone know when the next round of invites will go out?
 
First interview invite! Complete 8/25, interviewing 11/9. 32 / 3.6
 
Jerry31xx said:
First interview invite! Complete 8/25, interviewing 11/9. 32 / 3.6
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Congrats! Although that is discouraging for me considering I was complete over a month before you and have same MCAT but higher GPA and still just listed as "application complete"
 
according to their website, they've already given out 200 of 500 interview invites 🙁
 
Pandaeac said:
according to their website, they've already given out 200 of 500 interview invites 🙁
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Well that's depressing. Finally got my committee letter in a few days ago (complete now)
Really intrigued by this school too
 
Burla said:
Well that's depressing. Finally got my committee letter in a few days ago (complete now)
Really intrigued by this school too
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me, too! I've heard such good things
 
Hey guys! Just had my interview day on Friday, and I wanted to let you all know that the interview day at OUWB is SUPER friendly and relaxed. It's not the type of place that you should have answers memorized or need to be worried about trick questions. The interviews are very conversational, and the admissions staff all try to make you comfortable. Hope this helps and good luck to all applicants!
 
hi all. was thinking of sending a pre-interview letter of update here. would people suggest uploading this on the website of sending an Email?
 
Pandaeac said:
hi all. was thinking of sending a pre-interview letter of update here. would people suggest uploading this on the website of sending an Email?
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I believe they have a spot on their application page for updates, not sure though since they could be doing things differently this year. If you want a definitive answer you can always shoot them an email.
 
TechToDoc said:
Put on hold this morning. OOS 33/3.9
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Did they send an email?

I've been complete since 7-17 or so and have had nothing but silence from Oakland. Better than rejection/hold, but just kinda weird I'm in limbo when lots of others have heard *something*...

The intrigues of this app process. 😳
 
cyaneidae said:
Did they send an email?

I've been complete since 7-17 or so and have had nothing but silence from Oakland. Better than rejection/hold, but just kinda weird I'm in limbo when lots of others have heard *something*...

The intrigues of this app process. 😳
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Same here
 
Rejected pre-interview this morning. Not completely unexpected, OOS 3.6, 31

Best of luck to everyone else!
 
MCSquared16 said:
Rejected pre-interview this morning. Not completely unexpected, OOS 3.6, 31

Best of luck to everyone else!
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Sorry to hear that. =[ Hope you get some better news from other schools soon! When were you complete?
 
For those who were put on hold:

OUWB Admissions

App on hold? Hold is our way of communicating your app is still being considered. We deny apps we are no longer considering.
 
ThisSiteIsOkay said:
Hey guys! Just had my interview day on Friday, and I wanted to let you all know that the interview day at OUWB is SUPER friendly and relaxed. It's not the type of place that you should have answers memorized or need to be worried about trick questions. The interviews are very conversational, and the admissions staff all try to make you comfortable. Hope this helps and good luck to all applicants!
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That is a relief; thank you!! How did the prob based learning session go?
 
Current M1 student at Oakland chiming in here. If you're curious about TBL which is team based learning that we have here at Oakland, I can give you some information (I actually just finished prepping for a TBL session coming up tomorrow ironically). TBL in general is not difficult and actually is seen by myself and many of my classmates as a great opportunity to boost your grade. How it works is that you are assigned a short reading to complete that has to do with a topic you recently covered in class over the weekend. Come monday, you meet as a class and take a short quiz individually (typically 5-6 questions) and then subsequently take this same quiz in your assigned group which is 5 people. It's really nice because it really hammers home the concepts that we learned about in class, and gives us an opportunity to work as a team to get some points. If you have any further questions about this or anything else Oakland related, shoot me a PM.
 
jmkraemer15 said:
Current M1 student at Oakland chiming in here. If you're curious about TBL which is team based learning that we have here at Oakland, I can give you some information (I actually just finished prepping for a TBL session coming up tomorrow ironically). TBL in general is not difficult and actually is seen by myself and many of my classmates as a great opportunity to boost your grade. How it works is that you are assigned a short reading to complete that has to do with a topic you recently covered in class over the weekend. Come monday, you meet as a class and take a short quiz individually (typically 5-6 questions) and then subsequently take this same quiz in your assigned group which is 5 people. It's really nice because it really hammers home the concepts that we learned about in class, and gives us an opportunity to work as a team to get some points. If you have any further questions about this or anything else Oakland related, shoot me a PM.
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Woops, yes TBL. Thank you for your thorough response, very helpful! Do you know how the TBL exercise will be run on interview day?? Again, thank you!!
 
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