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LMAO I just got called out hard huh. Honestly even though my stats are good, my ECs are just average. Definitely haven’t cured cancer or saved a baby. So I really wasn’t expecting an II.
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LMAO I just got called out hard huh. Honestly even though my stats are good, my ECs are just average. Definitely haven’t cured cancer or saved a baby. So I really wasn’t expecting an II.
Congratulations! Did you apply HST as well?
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Congrats. Complete 8/25. Not feelin the love from Cambridge. Another one bites the dust, a big one...
No, the Pathways program.
Same. Almost exact same complete date too.
+3, but interview season isn't over yet! There's still reason for hope!
do you know how many dates they have ahead?
Congrats!!! Lizzy M and complete date?
Complete late august. High stats (though not crazy)
Pathways II! Harvard came through with another reason to be thankful for this thanksgiving.
LM ~76. Completed mid-July. As mentioned by someone above, dates were available into late Dec; they also do saturday interviews, how considerate!
Anyone care to share what the interview experience is like here?
LM ~76. Completed mid-July. As mentioned by someone above, dates were available into late Dec; they also do saturday interviews, how considerate!
Anyone care to share what the interview experience is like here?
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Congrats on the interview! 😀 It's a very loosely structured day, as you might have heard. You'll likely have a brief curriculum/financial aid talk in the morning, then receive your interview times and head off on your own -- they could be anywhere from the nearby hospitals to the undergrad campus, in which case they'll give you taxi vouchers to get there yourself.
Interviews are open-file but neither of my two interviewers had read my file (lol) so we just got to chat as they glanced it over and asked me some standard med-related questions. I did get grilled about shadowing hours by the one guy, which was strange because I'd never heard 200 hours called "a minuscule amount" before 🙄. Other than that, conversations devolved pretty quickly into discussing about mutual interests, which was cool.
Good luck, have fun!
my understanding is that they really don't. It's more like post interview season rejection.
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This. Most of the top 20 schools follow this format.
If you wanted to know where your chances are basically nill; if you haven't received an interview a month before the schools interview cycle ends, then it is basically over for that school. Most schools will give you at least 3-4 weeks to select and prepare for the interview.
Note, however, that this means end of January for most schools. As in, schools still offer interviews in December, and January for their final February/March interviews. So although chances are slimmer as they go, you don't lose all hope until really end of January.
There is an SDN list somewhere for top 20 schools that pre-interview reject. UCSF, Pritzker, Stanford, Cornell, Vanderbilt to name a few. Penn and Duke used to write Status of Deaths sometime in the middle of the season before the season was over. Don't know if that holds this season.
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Yea this is what I meant. Schools like NYU and Uchicago work faster than the rest and schools like Cornell and Yale work a little slower.
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Duke rejects now and Penn I believe still does SOD's ( don't worry its coming for us)
Yeah, I totally see that. Very interestingly, the schools i have interviews from are either schools that I finished really early (like mid July complete versus late July or early august), or schools that just do things earlier. doesn't know if that means I should still be high hopes for any of the remaining dream schools that still haven't gotten back to me (or having SOD'd me). oh well.
I don't have a serious answer for you, but I mean it's Harvard. They have like a 70% yield without even offering merit scholarships. I can't imagine they would put much stock into LOIs
And actually, I would love to know if they accept LOIs from people who haven't (at least thus far) received an II.
When you think you are receiving an email from Harvard offering an II, but it's just some company offering free online Harvard courses...
II for pathways!! 😀
Multiple dates available in mid December and 1st week of Jan
Multiple dates available in mid December and 1st week of Jan
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Congrats! When were you complete?
Thank you! I was complete mid July
@Scoot14 @daydreamerr Do you mind sharing your stats, please? 🙂
+2 complete early August
Sure, LM 75 complete mid August, totally surprised about the invite!
Congrats! The II was for MD, not MSTP, correct?
Yes, correct
Congratulations!
thank you
congrats!
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Congrats!!
Congrats!
Holy **** HST and Pathways II just now :OOO
They assigned me a date tho... Could I ask them to move the date, considering it's in the middle of my final exams period?
They assigned me a date tho... Could I ask them to move the date, considering it's in the middle of my final exams period?
Check again, they didn't assign me a date. Maybe you read it wrong? (They do give a date when you must schedule it by).
Nope, definitely an assigned interview date. The HST one says rescheduling is not possible due to scheduling constraints, but the Pathways one makes no mention of it. That being said, I'd rather have them together instead of flying out to Boston twice
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