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2014-2015 Western Michigan University Application Thread
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My Supplemental App Completed 7/24 and Holistic Review Started 7/28
Weird...
My supplemental app was completed 8/1 and I'm stuck on that. I did fill out the questionnaire they emailed out so I am unsure what the hold up is. :/
My supplemental app was completed 8/1 and I'm stuck on that. I did fill out the questionnaire they emailed out so I am unsure what the hold up is. :/
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Yea, my app was complete 7/24 and my holistic review still hasn't started 🙁
Sorry to hear that, at least we're not alone!!
Yes. But it says there are no scheduled times at the moment. Its just there for when they send you an offer, by phone or on-campus.
when'd your review start?
Holistic Review Completed08/06/2014 05:21 pm
Telephone Interview Offered08/15/2014 01:21 pm
yeah bro where these emails at tho lol
Still under holistic review... Since 7/28
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Got a phone interview!!! First good news I've heard from any school so far. Does anyone know how selective they are for this part?
I haven't seen numbers. Maybe look at last year's thread to see how many people got both interviews?
From what I read from last year's thread, WMed received ~2800 AMCAS applications, offered ~2200 secondaries, ~600 phone interviews, ~300 on-campus interviews, accepted 60 applicants.
The yield was that good? Isn't their class 54 students?
I just know their inaugural class was 50. But WMed will eventually increase their class size to 80. MSAR indicates 60 for their estimated number of new entrants this year.
I'd imagine they have to accept around 100 students. I wouldn't think a new school would have a yield around 85%.
Holistic Review finally complete. Also, I thought they were aiming for 75 for this year's class?
Congrats to all the phone interviews!
I'm slightly concerned since I was complete 7/24 and my holistic review still hasn't even started....did you guys recieve and email when your app went from complete to under review? Wondering if I should continue checking the portal or if they'll just email me
I'm slightly concerned since I was complete 7/24 and my holistic review still hasn't even started....did you guys recieve and email when your app went from complete to under review? Wondering if I should continue checking the portal or if they'll just email me
Keep checking the portal, they don't send emails.
I emailed admissions about this exact issue today. I'll share what they tell me if they respond.
Yes, please! Let us know what they say.
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same
Can someone please tell me where you see the holistic review status. Mine says complete since 7/24 but the status page says nothing else.
so this should be out soon, as first class sits today.
I noticed that many people are curious about WMed's admissions, out of state considerations, etc.
They just posted this today: http://med.wmich.edu/education/students/future-students/2018-class-profile
You'll see that 23/54 students are from Michigan - about 43%. So most of the class is from out of state. The school seems to be more interested in bringing in the most outstanding applicants, no matter where they come from (in line with its mission as a private medical school).
We've also got between 10-20% underrepresented students which is in-line with many other medical students - but I think we definitely want the diversity at the school to more closely reflect the diversity of the US population.
I'm a current student at WMed so feel free to ask any questions!
They just posted this today: http://med.wmich.edu/education/students/future-students/2018-class-profile
You'll see that 23/54 students are from Michigan - about 43%. So most of the class is from out of state. The school seems to be more interested in bringing in the most outstanding applicants, no matter where they come from (in line with its mission as a private medical school).
We've also got between 10-20% underrepresented students which is in-line with many other medical students - but I think we definitely want the diversity at the school to more closely reflect the diversity of the US population.
I'm a current student at WMed so feel free to ask any questions!
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I'm receiving an error on the secondary application page. Anyone else get this error?:
"There was an error while processing your request. Please contact your system administrator.
The specifc error encountered was:
AT_EMPOWER_CAND_PKG ERROR - Address information is missing in source address type HOME
To check your application status click here."
I can access my application status, but not my application itself. I was able to briefly, but then I started getting this error message every time, on different browsers and computers.
"There was an error while processing your request. Please contact your system administrator.
The specifc error encountered was:
AT_EMPOWER_CAND_PKG ERROR - Address information is missing in source address type HOME
To check your application status click here."
I can access my application status, but not my application itself. I was able to briefly, but then I started getting this error message every time, on different browsers and computers.
have you gotten any response from them yet?
They responded today. They basically just said that I'm "complete and under consideration" and that "the applicant portal will reflect any changes made to my application status."
So yeah, not too helpful.
+1 I am curious about this too. Has anyone had their phone interview yet?
I thought I saw a post on here about someone just getting done with their phone interview. I think they deleted it.
Do you have any phone interview advice?
So I'm thinking that us who have been "holistic review started" since 7/28 get to skip the phone interview and go straight to WMU campus 😉
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Thats so frusterating! let me know if/when you go under review. I'm still sitting at complete.
For those of you that have "holistic review complete," how long did it take you from the time you had "holistic review started" to get to complete?
18 days
Only 6 days for me.
And from there how were you notified of your next status? How long did it take from having holistic review complete to getting a phone interview and whatnot?
