FWIW I did not send thank you letters to 2 out of the 5 schools I interviewed and those are the only 2 schools I have been accepted to thus far (RFU was one of those schools).
Please keep the responses on-topic, respectful, and professional. I'm sure everyone here would appreciate it. No need for trolling here.
Haha how could that be conceived as a compliment?
Great example of how much commmunication is nonverbal. With only these words there at least half a dozen ways this could be interpreted. All you fancy Nancy future doctors there take note and remember this when your talking to your first crackhead in the E.R.
For IS, 52 matriculated out of 135 interviewed. Assuming a 2:1 ratio, that's 77%.
I found it strange that we were specifically warned that the interviewers were trained not to give any indication of how the interview went, and then a few of my interviewers gave direct feedback to me during and after my interviews.
Oh, believe me, I liked it! It was just not what I was expecting. The way the prepped us beforehand I was expecting them just to stare at us expressionless, but that was not the case for many of the interviews, which made the whole experience more enjoyable for me.
Right, that's the people who actually matriculated. MSAR does not have acceptance data, only matriculation data. We have to toy with the numbers a little bit in order to get an idea of the actual percentage percentages. I don't think there are any schools that accept exactly the number of students they want in their class, because some amount of accepted students will go to a different school. For each school, that number is different and affects the overall acceptance:matriculation ratio.
Well that's discouraging. Where did you find that info?
Well, folks, there goes the last of my hope. It's been fun. I wonder why they decided to interview 400 more people this year...
Upon further investigation, you're right. According to SDN, the last time they actually sent out acceptances was 1/5, more than two months ago...
I don't think that's necessarily true. Not every person who gets in will post about it, for one thing. Also based on what I've read in this thread, they like to send out big bursts of acceptances (both direct and off the waitlist). Furthermore, in past threads that I have read because I'm not a healthy man, they have given direct acceptances for interviews well into the spring. Finally, the idea of interviewing for the waitlist simply doesn't make sense. If I've learned anything throughout this process, it's that medical schools want to take the path of least resistance. Why would they arrange interviews until April 28th, which requires staff and more application review, if they know for a fact that the class is already full and they already have a long waitlist?
Highly agree with this. RFU interviews about 48 people most Fridays so they make decisions on >150ish people every month. I doubt they all result in waitlists and it's not like everyone is posting their results on SDN. The FB group only has 112 members so I'm guessing there's still >60-70 spots left to get the 190 class size.
Thank you very much for sharing that.
If there are ~70 spots left, they will likely have to offer more than 70 acceptances to the people that are still waiting. Those are not terrible odds.
Many of those spots may be reserved for the masters program students..
Expand on that
I'm very sensitive to any information regarding my admissions chances here.
It's an SMP with a linkage to CMS but it doesn't mean that the remaining spots are allocated to those students. In fact, those students probably received IIs and their corresponding decisions earlier in the season.
So, just to clarify, regular CMS applicants are competing against BMS applicants as well for admission during the normal application cycle?
My understanding is that they're in the same applicant pool as the regular CMS applicants and not in a separate pool. It's important to note that being in the BMS program does not give them an advantage in terms of garnering an acceptance other than guaranteeing an interview.
There's also a distinction between saying that some of the remaining spots may be "reserved" for the BMS students versus saying that not all of the spots may be given to traditional applicants. For example, if the case were that there were way more qualified regular applicants that fit CMS's mission and standards, then it's also entirely possible that most if not all of the spots will go to those applicants. CMS has no obligation or set quota for giving out acceptances to BMS students.
Yeah I agree that it's an exercise in futility to speculate about their process. The waiting game can be torturous but I suppose it's akin to a rite of passage so to speak.
