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Ts1991 said:
Well, there's somewhere on there that says "we look forward to reviewing your application", or something along those lines. I took that as meaning they haven't got to it yet
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Ah. Yes, that's on the form letter they sent upon receipt of the secondary. I've just been assuming the lack of an II means I didn't make the first cut for an interview, but they might take a second look in the Spring depending on how many spots they have left. I applied to ~20 schools in mid-August and have not heard a word from the majority them, except for a few rejections and a couple IIs. Drexel was the only one that said they'll take a second look in the Spring (which I really appreciated), so I've been assuming that's the case with most of them.
 
TCL said:
Ah. Yes, that's on the form letter they sent upon receipt of the secondary. I've just been assuming the lack of an II means I didn't make the first cut for an interview, but they might take a second look in the Spring depending on how many spots they have left. I applied to ~20 schools in mid-August and have not heard a word from the majority them, except for a few rejections and a couple IIs. Drexel was the only one that said they'll take a second look in the Spring (which I really appreciated), so I've been assuming that's the case with most of them.
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Yea, I try to stay positive and assume they haven't seen it yet. But honestly if they don't get back to me by December I may start assuming they aren't too interested even if I get any invites.
 
Ts1991 said:
Yea, I try to stay positive and assume they haven't seen it yet. But honestly if they don't get back to me by December I may start assuming they aren't too interested even if I get any invites.
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Hey, OSU definitely passed my completion date with II's that I saw in this thread. They came back around to it and invited me a few weeks ago! Headed to Columbus the weekend before Thanksgiving. Keep your chin up.
 
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Hey, OSU definitely passed my completion date with II's that I saw in this thread. They came back around to it and invited me a few weeks ago! Headed to Columbus the weekend before Thanksgiving. Keep your chin up.
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It is my understanding that applications are split up and reviewed separately. Thus it's possible that people who were complete the same date as you could get IIs significantly sooner, depending on when your reader gets around to looking at your application. Comparing the amount of time it takes to get an II to others who submitted the same time as you is misleading and probably not productive, as akaMondo indicated.

If you are lucky and get someone who isn't too bogged down, though, you could go from complete to II in as little as a week. I have also heard rumors that if your LizzyM score is high enough (or some similar criteria), you are fast-tracked to interview, but I suspect that is rather rare or just patently false, as they only interview 12% of their applicants TOTAL and many of those seem to get their invites after a wait that would suggest humans are taking the time to read. 😏 I got the impression from interview day that they are a more 'holistic review' kind of school anyway, and I don't think they'd be blindly inviting people without looking for a pattern of service in their ECs.

For those of you with upcoming interviews, I hope you love *The* Ohio State as much as I did. Barring any unusual circumstances (giant scholarship elsewhere that is unmatched), I will definitely be attending. Let's all be classmates!

What is perhaps more unusual is the scheduling of interview dates. I saw someone on this thread who was invited to interview 8 days before I was and was assigned a date 7 days later than I was. And this was before 10/15 when withdrawals would have occurred. I guess he could have called to reschedule his interview before posting on SDN, but somehow I doubt it...

Just for fun:
http://medicine.osu.edu/about/features/pages/lsi-curriculum.aspx
On this page, Ohio State proudly informs us that it has "One of the most innovative Curriculum's [sic-capitalization?] [sic-apostrophe?] [sic-improper plural?] in American medical education." English grammar is apparently not integral to that innovative curriculum.
 
wiloghby said:
It is my understanding that applications are split up and reviewed separately. Thus it's possible that people who were complete the same date as you could get IIs significantly sooner, depending on when your reader gets around to looking at your application. Comparing the amount of time it takes to get an II to others who submitted the same time as you is misleading and probably not productive, as akaMondo indicated.

If you are lucky and get someone who isn't too bogged down, though, you could go from complete to II in as little as a week. I have also heard rumors that if your LizzyM score is high enough (or some similar criteria), you are fast-tracked to interview, but I suspect that is rather rare or just patently false, as they only interview 12% of their applicants TOTAL and many of those seem to get their invites after a wait that would suggest humans are taking the time to read. 😏 I got the impression from interview day that they are a more 'holistic review' kind of school anyway, and I don't think they'd be blindly inviting people without looking for a pattern of service in their ECs.

For those of you with upcoming interviews, I hope you love *The* Ohio State as much as I did. Barring any unusual circumstances (giant scholarship elsewhere that is unmatched), I will definitely be attending. Let's all be classmates!

What is perhaps more unusual is the scheduling of interview dates. I saw someone on this thread who was invited to interview 8 days before I was and was assigned a date 7 days later than I was. And this was before 10/15 when withdrawals would have occurred. I guess he could have called to reschedule his interview before posting on SDN, but somehow I doubt it...

Just for fun:
http://medicine.osu.edu/about/features/pages/lsi-curriculum.aspx
On this page, Ohio State proudly informs us that it has "One of the most innovative Curriculum's [sic-capitalization?] [sic-apostrophe?] [sic-improper plural?] in American medical education." English grammar is apparently not integral to that innovative curriculum.
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So you were accepted then? How long was it after your interview before you were accepted? And yes, I can personally attest to their holistic manner of reviewal. I have a low MCAT score (27) and a very high GPA (3.97), and they still extended me an II. So thankful for the opportunity. Just hope I can make something out of it 🙂
 
eizeral said:
So you were accepted then? How long was it after your interview before you were accepted? And yes, I can personally attest to their holistic manner of reviewal. I have a low MCAT score (27) and a very high GPA (3.97), and they still extended me an II. So thankful for the opportunity. Just hope I can make something out of it 🙂
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I had a low GPA and very high MCAT. Together our stats would average out to their medians, so why not? Anything is possible! They would not interview you this early in the cycle if they were not interested in accepting you outright to some extent.

My understanding of the process -- based entirely reading this thread from the last few years -- is that they announce acceptances every 2 weeks throughout the application season, starting on 10/15. But each set of acceptances covers applications that were reviewed up to one week before the date of announcement. Thus, depending on how recently they last announced acceptances, you will be waiting for 1 to 3 weeks to get your initial decision. In rare cases you could be rejected. Much more likely you will be accepted. Also quite likely, you may be deferred. I suspect that as far as initial decisions go, this last one is the most common but don't know for sure. In the case of deferral your application will continue to be considered at each meeting of the committee until you are either accepted or rejected. On 5/15, the deferred pool becomes the waitlist.

According to their admissions literature, a little less than half of those interviewed will be accepted. That would include those who are deferred and later accepted as well as those accepted outright. So it sounds like your chances are great overall, even if you don't get in right off the bat. After all, to go from 6% chance of admission when you submit your secondary, to a coin flip when you come to interview, is a fantastic sign already. At this school, the most stringent screen is at the interview invite stage. And I much prefer that to interviewing at a school where I only have a 10% chance of getting accepted afterward.

Again, this is what I've pieced together from freely available sources and should by no means be construed as having been confirmed by anyone on the admissions committee.
 
wiloghby said:
I had a low GPA and very high MCAT. Together our stats would average out to their medians, so why not? Anything is possible! They would not interview you this early in the cycle if they were not interested in accepting you outright to some extent.

My understanding of the process -- based entirely reading this thread from the last few years -- is that they announce acceptances every 2 weeks throughout the application season, starting on 10/15. But each set of acceptances covers applications that were reviewed up to one week before the date of announcement. Thus, depending on how recently they last announced acceptances, you will be waiting for 1 to 3 weeks to get your initial decision. In rare cases you could be rejected. Much more likely you will be accepted. Also quite likely, you may be deferred. I suspect that as far as initial decisions go, this last one is the most common but don't know for sure. In the case of deferral your application will continue to be considered at each meeting of the committee until you are either accepted or rejected. On 5/15, the deferred pool becomes the waitlist.

According to their admissions literature, a little less than half of those interviewed will be accepted. That would include those who are deferred and later accepted as well as those accepted outright. So it sounds like your chances are great overall, even if you don't get in right off the bat. After all, to go from 6% chance of admission when you submit your secondary, to a coin flip when you come to interview, is a fantastic sign already. At this school, the most stringent screen is at the interview invite stage. And I much prefer that to interviewing at a school where I only have a 10% chance of getting accepted afterward.

Again, this is what I've pieced together from freely available sources and should by no means be construed as having been confirmed by anyone on the admissions committee.
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Thank you for that well thought out reply! You have really helped settle my nerves! Overall, I feel kind of unconfident about my chances this cycle, and am still having trouble wrapping my head around an II from my top school. I will definitely make the best of this amazing opportunity and pray luck is in my favor! That's good they notify you of some decision so soon though! Hopefully we'll be classmates!
 
I had plenty of time to think about it while waiting for my decision! I entered this cycle with the OSU as my top choice. I applied to, I think, one school in the Top 10, but because of my GPA it's not realistic. So really, OSU was the school I most wanted to hear back from. And to go from submitting my secondary at my dream school to getting the congratulatory phone call in a little over 8 weeks is unbelievable. I am the luckiest person ever to apply to medical school. I do not deserve my good fortune, but I embrace it happily.

I do sometimes wonder if I should have applied to schools like Harvard, Penn, Yale, Brown, JHU, Stanford, and UCSF. Though honestly, I'm not too sure that any of those schools can provide a medical education that you can't find at Ohio State. I originally did undergrad at a Top 10. But I did my post-bacc at a really large state university like Ohio State, and I came to love that environment. Those giant schools have so much funding that you really aren't missing anything (in terms of facilities) that you get at an elite private school. The difference is that at a school like Harvard, all that funding goes toward educating a much smaller pool of students. But at my giant state university, the majority of students don't pay attention to the opportunities available and focus instead on beer. So for the small group of us who pay attention to what opportunities are available, we can build up similarly impressive resumes over time compared to those fancy pants matriculants.

TL;DR
I guess it's that old adage about the best medical school: "The best medical school is the medical school at which you will do the best."
 
So the OSU notifies applicants of their acceptance over the phone? That's great!
 
This thread has been silent lately! Has anyone received any good news recently? 😎
 
footballlove said:
This thread has been silent lately! Has anyone received any good news recently? 😎
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Does anyone knows when Dr. Capers would be calling the next batch of accepted candidates?
 
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eizeral said:
So you were accepted then? How long was it after your interview before you were accepted? And yes, I can personally attest to their holistic manner of reviewal. I have a low MCAT score (27) and a very high GPA (3.97), and they still extended me an II. So thankful for the opportunity. Just hope I can make something out of it 🙂
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What do you think made you well rounded? Publications? Volunteering?
 
so... anyone receive an acceptance call yet? it's the 14th haha.
 
Deferred :\ But at least not rejected! Would a letter of interest, with minimal or no updates, be appropriate/helpful at this point? I'd love to attend OSU.
 
OchemNerd said:
Deferred :\ But at least not rejected! Would a letter of interest, with minimal or no updates, be appropriate/helpful at this point? I'd love to attend OSU.
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I'm happy you're looking on the bright side! You still have a chance! 😀 And yes, I recommend sending in a letter of interest now expressing your specific interest in OSU and detailing any significant things you have done since applying/interviewing. The latter could of course be done a month or so from now as you continue to let them know you are still interested. I've yet to interview at OSU so I'm not speaking from experience or anything, but that's just my two cents!
 
OchemNerd said:
Deferred :\ But at least not rejected! Would a letter of interest, with minimal or no updates, be appropriate/helpful at this point? I'd love to attend OSU.
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Yes. Updates absolutely help - but make sure they're worthwhile updates and not sent for the sake of sending updates. A good number of my classmates were deferred and accepted 1, 2 months before classes started so the season for all intents and purposes runs verrrrrry long.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
 
OchemNerd said:
Deferred :\ But at least not rejected! Would a letter of interest, with minimal or no updates, be appropriate/helpful at this point? I'd love to attend OSU.
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Me too, friend. 🙁


Also....Found you!
 
Hey does anyone know if we need to pay the fee sooner or later? I'm not certain I'll go and don't want to pay a nonrefundable fee if I don't have to.
 
Hey guys, does anyone know when the day ends? Trying to schedule the flight now but I couldn't find an interview day schedule. Thx 🙂
 
Congratulations to everyone else who received the phone call from Dr. Capers yesterday. I hope we will all be classmates. In my case, I will likely have to attend the school with the lowest CoA. Right now -- without any need/merit grant aid from other schools -- that would appear to be OSU. And I sort of hope that I don't get a scholarship elsewhere. Because then I'd probably have to do the responsible thing and go there.

Of course, if I were offered full-tuition scholarship to Ohio State, that would really put me at ease. Hint hint ... paging Dr. Capers with the hookup.:angelic:

ALSO: Is there anyone who has family/friends who are physicians who can compare the relative strength of the OSU match list to that of another school to which I've been offered admission? I am the only person in my extended family to attend graduate school -- let alone medical school -- and I know just enough to know that I don't know anything about which residency programs are best. But while my state school is not nearly as well-funded or as nice as Ohio State, I have heard that they tend to match extremely well. And looking at my public school's match list, I do see a lot of great programs in the NE on their list. I just don't know which programs (outside of CCF) are strong in the Midwest and whether Ohio State students end up there.

If anyone can help me with that, send me a private message.
 
I got the acceptance call on October 28th! Best call ever. OSU is on my top 3. After I got that call, it has saved me a lot of trips to other schools for interviews. My choice is now between OSU and another school that I have yet to interview at 🙂 (got wait listed at one of my other top 3). Good luck to everyone else still interviewing or waiting to hear back! OSU really IS a great school. Great facilities, environment, city and students!
 
Does anyone know if OSU is receptive to pre-interview updates?
 
wiloghby said:
I had plenty of time to think about it while waiting for my decision! I entered this cycle with the OSU as my top choice. I applied to, I think, one school in the Top 10, but because of my GPA it's not realistic. So really, OSU was the school I most wanted to hear back from. And to go from submitting my secondary at my dream school to getting the congratulatory phone call in a little over 8 weeks is unbelievable. I am the luckiest person ever to apply to medical school. I do not deserve my good fortune, but I embrace it happily.

I do sometimes wonder if I should have applied to schools like Harvard, Penn, Yale, Brown, JHU, Stanford, and UCSF. Though honestly, I'm not too sure that any of those schools can provide a medical education that you can't find at Ohio State. I originally did undergrad at a Top 10. But I did my post-bacc at a really large state university like Ohio State, and I came to love that environment. Those giant schools have so much funding that you really aren't missing anything (in terms of facilities) that you get at an elite private school. The difference is that at a school like Harvard, all that funding goes toward educating a much smaller pool of students. But at my giant state university, the majority of students don't pay attention to the opportunities available and focus instead on beer. So for the small group of us who pay attention to what opportunities are available, we can build up similarly impressive resumes over time compared to those fancy pants matriculants.

TL;DR
I guess it's that old adage about the best medical school: "The best medical school is the medical school at which you will do the best."
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Throwing a late "I completely agree" to this. The resources at Ohio State are absolutely incredible, and they have a desire to "compete" with the best (not that it means all that much in reality, but keep in mind they were essentially a top 25 school in research rankings in USNEWS several years back, around 2010 I think), so they'll invest in those students that seek out opportunity.
 
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Has anyone had experience with an online anatomy classes? I'm finding it difficult to compare/contrast those listed on OSU's prereq page (LINK). I would really like to find one that has good quality videos of actual dissections/prosections, if possible.
 
Tucked away deep in my subconscious somewhere, I think I sabotage myself during my other interviews so that I will only get into OSU and not have to face a decision and risk not going to OSU if another school accepts me.
 
is there an accepted thread for OSU? I would like to meet some of you other accepted students!!! 🙂)
 
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OchemNerd said: ↑
Deferred :\ But at least not rejected! Would a letter of interest, with minimal or no updates, be appropriate/helpful at this point? I'd love to attend OSU.
jeffs office said:
Me too, friend. 🙁


Also....Found you!
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Me too! I send an interest/update letter last week. Now all I can do is wait for the call.
Good luck to both of you. Hope you hear from Dr. Capers soon.
 
jeffs office said:
Me too, friend. 🙁


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Hey jeffs office! I hope you get in too. You are obviously superbly qualified so I am surprised you were not accepted outright. I am basing this on the number of interviews in your MDapps profile. But I did notice you were accepted at Case Western. Would you attend OSU over Case if accepted? Would it be for reasons other than $$$? I'm just curious.

Case Western is the only school that I haven't heard back from that I would really love to interview at. But I didn't submit my secondary until November, so it's my own fault. (I was complete everywhere else in August.)
 
wiloghby said:
Hey jeffs office! I hope you get in too. You are obviously superbly qualified so I am surprised you were not accepted outright. I am basing this on the number of interviews in your MDapps profile. But I did notice you were accepted at Case Western. Would you attend OSU over Case if accepted? Would it be for reasons other than $$$? I'm just curious.

Case Western is the only school that I haven't heard back from that I would really love to interview at. But I didn't submit my secondary until November, so it's my own fault. (I was complete everywhere else in August.)
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Good question. From how things are looking, probably not. I liked Columbus a lot more than Cleveland, but I think I vibed better with Case than with OSU. It's nice to have options, and I think rejections and waitlists will always sting a little.

I hope you hear back from Case soon! 🙂
 
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