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II this evening around 7PM! There was one date open in mid-December, so I snapped it up. So excited! Complete 9/5.
Not sure on the exact numbers...somebody posted it earlier on this thread, but I couldn't find it. Basically, they said a lot of people tend to say no to hofstra and that's why they interview so much. Their reasoning was because it's a mid-tier school. So higher-stat applicants that get accepted go to higher ranking schools and other people choose their state school because it's cheaper.
I was complete 8/29...have I been passed over?
I do not believe they sent out pre- II rejections yet.Been complete since end of July and no word. I'm not sure if Hofstra has sent out pre II rejections? Thinking we are either in a silent rejection pool or placed on hold.
😱Two years ago it was the 12th
Oh no. Not againSo they're going to do a mass rejection soon? Like GW and Rochester?
MS2 here. Thought I'd come on and offer a response to these posts, especially that I've encountered similar concerns in recent lunches with applicants. We've cut our interviews down from about 1000 to about 500. From my class and from the current MS1s, I will tell you that almost the entire class (certainly more than 75%) had Hofstra as either their first or second choice post-interview. A lot of self-selection is involved in this; the people who work well as independent learners and are interested in collaborative learning immediately love the place. The people who are all about throat-cutting and grades and being left alone tend to not like it.
I'll also tell you that it's really obvious to everyone when an applicant is uneasy with the school being "new" (we've matched, we're accredited. we've got several years of killer Step 1 scores. Our health system is powerful. Our faculty are incredibly well established), no matter how well they try to hide it. To be honest, I have no doubt that it comes across in the interviews, too. I'd encourage anyone that is interviewing to read this article on why being at a new medical school may be a better choice for your patients (which, ultimately, is what really matters) than being at one that is historically highly ranked: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/health/17chen.html?_r=0.
I'll tell you all that, as a first year at Hofstra, you will be a better doctor that most schools' MS3s. You'll be able to walk into a room, talk to a patient, do an exam, figure out their problems, and discuss why they aren't adherent to their medication. Sure, you may not be able to recognize the fungal infection which a patient comes into the ED with, but that's not the expectation for you, yet.
On the other hand, as far as stats go (another really common question), the MS2 class was a 34/3.62, and the MS1 class is something like a 34-35/3.7. (We were told this at one point, but I cannot remember what the exact numbers are for their class). This info is somewhere on the SOM page, but I don't know where.
Long story short, if you're excited to come hang out with us and learn some stuff about keeping people alive, we're excited to have you!
based on previous years, shouldn't the first round of decisions be coming out soon, interviewed september 25?
accepted 🙂 interview late oct, LizzyM 70-71
Sorry about that 🙁 Was it Pre or Post II?Rejected too
Rejected too
Sorry about that 🙁 Was it Pre or Post II?
Via email?
+1Pre II via email
is this the start of a mass rejection?