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Did anyone see the below question on their graduate application if so what section ?
“What are your academic intentions at IUPUI? “
Can’t see it online or in the pdf version
 
I’ve made an account, but I believe it says it can take up to 5 days for it to start working. I’m not able to log in either, so maybe after five days call the admissions people of tech support?
I’d say to just use your AMCAS credentials. You can access the portal immediately that way.
 
On my portal I have an exclamation point in an orange bubble next to "personal evaluation" "science evaluation" and "non-science evaluation." If I'm not mistaken, the exclamation point means I haven't yet submitted these materials, but aren't these basically LORs? I submitted those via AMCAS? Are we also supposed to send them in to the school ourselves?
 
On my portal I have an exclamation point in an orange bubble next to "personal evaluation" "science evaluation" and "non-science evaluation." If I'm not mistaken, the exclamation point means I haven't yet submitted these materials, but aren't these basically LORs? I submitted those via AMCAS? Are we also supposed to send them in to the school ourselves?
I had the same thing initially and I called them about it. They said they won’t look at your letters until you send in the disclosure and the dean signed document. Once I mailed those in and they received them my letters got a check mark next to them
 
I will be interviewing in January in the south bend location. Can anyone tell me what to expect on interview day? Is it traditional interview with traditional questions? Also does anyone know how the area is in south bend as far as is it a safe city and so on?
 
I will be interviewing in January in the south bend location. Can anyone tell me what to expect on interview day? Is it traditional interview with traditional questions? Also does anyone know how the area is in south bend as far as is it a safe city and so on?

Notre Dame campus is very safe and beautiful.
Interview is a traditional, 2 on 1 for me. Some ethical questions.
Be prepared to wait around quite a bit.
My interview was before financial aid talk, but others were scheduled after.


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I was sent an II on 10/19, and I just received my date and location today (1/10). Unfortunately, I will be interviewing in South Bend. I live in Indianapolis and chose it as my interview location. I went to IUPUI and was employed by the School of Medicine, so I am very familiar with the campus. Did anyone else interview at a campus that was not at your chosen location? Does interview location have any ties to where you will be placed? I have children in Indianapolis, and I am not willing to sell our house and uproot our family. I'm freaking out over here.
 
I was sent an II on 10/19, and I just received my date and location today (1/10). Unfortunately, I will be interviewing in South Bend. I live in Indianapolis and chose it as my interview location. I went to IUPUI and was employed by the School of Medicine, so I am very familiar with the campus. Did anyone else interview at a campus that was not at your chosen location? Does interview location have any ties to where you will be placed? I have children in Indianapolis, and I am not willing to sell our house and uproot our family. I'm freaking out over here.
From what I understand (I literally read every page of last year's forum), interview location has no bearing on where you will attend school. If accepted, you are asked to rank the campuses from most preferred to least, and I guess they do their best to give you your preferred location. However, just be aware that everyone doesn't always get their first choice - some got their second, third, and even lower choices due to whatever circumstance. So I would say you can breathe for now - interview location doesn't matter. And maybe if you're later accepted, you can explain to the office your situation, and hopefully solidify Indianapolis as your campus. I feel as if they would be more accommodating to students with families, especially in your case of having one right near you preferred campus 🙂
 
Anyone else interviewing January 10th @ Indy (Indianapolis)?

Indianapolis was what I selected for my interview.
 
I was sent an II on 10/19, and I just received my date and location today (1/10). Unfortunately, I will be interviewing in South Bend. I live in Indianapolis and chose it as my interview location. I went to IUPUI and was employed by the School of Medicine, so I am very familiar with the campus. Did anyone else interview at a campus that was not at your chosen location? Does interview location have any ties to where you will be placed? I have children in Indianapolis, and I am not willing to sell our house and uproot our family. I'm freaking out over here.

Na man, it has nothing to do with it. If you get accepted, you go online and fill out a list ranking all 8 of the campuses you would prefer in order.
 
I was sent an II on 10/19, and I just received my date and location today (1/10). Unfortunately, I will be interviewing in South Bend. I live in Indianapolis and chose it as my interview location. I went to IUPUI and was employed by the School of Medicine, so I am very familiar with the campus. Did anyone else interview at a campus that was not at your chosen location? Does interview location have any ties to where you will be placed? I have children in Indianapolis, and I am not willing to sell our house and uproot our family. I'm freaking out over here.

If you want, I have an interview for Indianapolis 1/10 and that's the last campus I wish to attend. I'd much rather interview at one of the regional campuses. South bend is second on my list. Perhaps we can call and see if we are able to switch?

They seem pretty accommodating when I called about possibly switching my location to Gary. I guess they didn't do it though because the Jan slots were filled
 
I know you're probably just joking, but if it makes you feel better, Indiana's interview is absurdly laid back and relaxed IMO.
That's good - I'm just happy it's a one-on-one type interview, cause I'm much better at those than MMIs
 
I know you're probably just joking, but if it makes you feel better, Indiana's interview is absurdly laid back and relaxed IMO.
Sounds like a perfect storm for disaster. I’m happy and unhappy. Like how do you prepare for laid back conversation? I’m going to look crazy lol

I’m going to need to find a friend interview day.
 
Sounds like a perfect storm for disaster. I’m happy and unhappy. Like how do you prepare for laid back conversation? I’m going to look crazy lol

I’m going to need to find a friend interview day.
lol look no further, I'll be there just as nervous
 
Does anyone OOS know if I'd be able to catch a 5:30 PM flight after the Indianapolis interview? I feel like that's cutting it close, but I really need to make it to class the next day.

There's also a 5:50 AM flight the next day :uhno: wondering if I should just take that...
 
Does anyone OOS know if I'd be able to catch a 5:30 PM flight after the Indianapolis interview? I feel like that's cutting it close, but I really need to make it to class the next day.

There's also a 5:50 AM flight the next day :uhno: wondering if I should just take that...

Depends if you have the afternoon session or morning session. I had morning and my day was over by 12ish.
 
Sounds like a perfect storm for disaster. I’m happy and unhappy. Like how do you prepare for laid back conversation? I’m going to look crazy lol

I’m going to need to find a friend interview day.

There’s not much preparing to be done! Just know why you want to go to IU, why you want to be a doctor, and have a personal ethical code that you think doctors should follow for the ethical portion for of the interview. Also be able to talk about lessons learned from your experiences on your application and typical things like times you failed, times you worked on a team etc etc.

The interview is so laid back as everyone said, it feels very conversational and it will go by so quickly!
 
Does anyone OOS know if I'd be able to catch a 5:30 PM flight after the Indianapolis interview? I feel like that's cutting it close, but I really need to make it to class the next day.

There's also a 5:50 AM flight the next day :uhno: wondering if I should just take that...
I believe it will be cutting it close but I remember me getting to the airport with more than enough time to spare for my flight.
 
Does anyone OOS know if I'd be able to catch a 5:30 PM flight after the Indianapolis interview? I feel like that's cutting it close, but I really need to make it to class the next day.

There's also a 5:50 AM flight the next day :uhno: wondering if I should just take that...

If you don't go on the tour, definitely. You'll be done by 1pm with all mandatory things. There's a tour later on in the afternoon though, but the time isn't 100% set, at least it wasn't for mine (it was supposed to be like 2, then it got pushed back to 3)
 
Has anyone else looked at the list of items accepted students need to purchase? It isn't very specific, and I'm wondering if I should wait to buy things? Has anyone bought any of the stuff yet?
 
Sorry if this has been asked already, didn't want to read through the whole thread. So I just got an II, how do they decide which letters fit their criteria? If I have a letter from science/non-science prof. and a from a PI who taught me at one point (technically a supervisor?), should I be getting a personal letter ready? (late af I know). Man Idk how I missed the personal letter requirement.
 
Has anyone else looked at the list of items accepted students need to purchase? It isn't very specific, and I'm wondering if I should wait to buy things? Has anyone bought any of the stuff yet?

Last year they had a coupon code for Accepted students to get their equipment before class and the full list of equipment was loaded on there and was much cheaper than other sites. I used last years code to look and compare so I could get a rough idea how much the total would be.
 
If I remember correctly (I interviewed back in September), we were finished up with the interview day by 4:00pm. So I would say it could be perfectly reasonable (barring traffic concerns in the area) that you could make it to the airport in time.

Lol that's crazy! I always have bad luck, so there'd probably be loads of traffic. But it's ok, I decided to book an extra night and leave the next morning. No sense in killing myself to get to a missed flight. Thanks anyways!
 
Sorry if this has been asked already, didn't want to read through the whole thread. So I just got an II, how do they decide which letters fit their criteria? If I have a letter from science/non-science prof. and a from a PI who taught me at one point (technically a supervisor?), should I be getting a personal letter ready? (late af I know). Man Idk how I missed the personal letter requirement.

You're probably fine. AMCAS should have everything at this point. What's most likely holding you back is the legal exposure you have to sign, and the dean's evaluation (that your undergrad dean has to sign). No worries, I had the same thing happen to me. Just get the forms in, and everything should be right as rain 😉
 
There’s not much preparing to be done! Just know why you want to go to IU, why you want to be a doctor, and have a personal ethical code that you think doctors should follow for the ethical portion for of the interview. Also be able to talk about lessons learned from your experiences on your application and typical things like times you failed, times you worked on a team etc etc.

The interview is so laid back as everyone said, it feels very conversational and it will go by so quickly!
I know you've told me what the interview was like but then that makes it so hard lol. What if my interview goes sideways and it's not laid back? Or how do I stand out compared to others in casual conversation?:boom:

and ethical code? do you mean ethics questions like helping someone on the side of the road as a doctor but not one of emergency medicine or like this patient needs a blood transfusion to save their life but goes against their religion or lying to a patient?
 
I know you've told me what the interview was like but then that makes it so hard lol. What if my interview goes sideways and it's not laid back? Or how do I stand out compared to others in casual conversation?:boom:

and ethical code? do you mean ethics questions like helping someone on the side of the road as a doctor but not one of emergency medicine or like this patient needs a blood transfusion to save their life but goes against their religion or lying to a patient?

My interview experience was also pretty laid-back I would say. The interview started off with a few of the "generic"/expected questions such as "why medicine?" or "what have you done since you graduated?/what will you be doing in your gap-year?" and then the questions progressed more towards scenario based "ethics" questions. However, when I say ethics I wouldn't necessarily take the word "ethics" by its precise definition. Instead, I use the word "ethics" loosely to encompass questions that would involve the interviewer giving you a scenario and them asking you how you would respond. Of course the questions might involve some use of ethical principles to guide your answer, but, to me, it seemed more of a scenario based question in which they wanted to see your thinking process and how you would respond.

Hope this helped.
 
I was sitting in the same boat for almost 8 weeks and just got my interview date this morning (Jan 3rd). So they're still scheduling dates, they just won't be until January onward. Hope you hear soon! The wait is painful.
Are you interviewing at Gary?
 
My interview experience was also pretty laid-back I would say. The interview started off with a few of the "generic"/expected questions such as "why medicine?" or "what have you done since you graduated?/what will you be doing in your gap-year?" and then the questions progressed more towards scenario based "ethics" questions. However, when I say ethics I wouldn't necessarily take the word "ethics" by its precise definition. Instead, I use the word "ethics" loosely to encompass questions that would involve the interviewer giving you a scenario and them asking you how you would respond. Of course the questions might involve some use of ethical principles to guide your answer, but, to me, it seemed more of a scenario based question in which they wanted to see your thinking process and how you would respond.

Hope this helped.
I think I know how to prepare.

1. Why Indiana
2. Why medicine
3. Biggest problems in medicine
4. Tell me about yourself/strengths and weaknesses
5. reapplicant question/what have i been doing since the 2015 cycle
6. what have you learned from your experiences/setbacks
7. Casper questions

It doesn't seem like they really go that into your profile. Would you say that this is true? I am going to know my application regardless, but I'm curious
 
I think I know how to prepare.

1. Why Indiana
2. Why medicine
3. Biggest problems in medicine
4. Tell me about yourself/strengths and weaknesses
5. reapplicant question/what have i been doing since the 2015 cycle
6. what have you learned from your experiences/setbacks
7. Casper questions

It doesn't seem like they really go that into your profile. Would you say that this is true? I am going to know my application regardless, but I'm curious

During my interview, which was with an M4 and faculty member, the M4 seemed like she was scrolling through my application. She was like "so I've seen you done lots of research and have been an RA ect ect, what's a time that you've worked as a team?" There weren't any questions directly related to something on my application.

And I would agree with that the questions were more-so scenarios rather ethical. For example one of mine was a patient doesn't want to take the medicine I prescribe, what do I do? Or I gave a patient the wrong medicine, but there weren't any bad effects, what do I do? The first one was definitely just a scenario and the second was definitely more ethical based. I got a few more in addition to those.
 
Did anyone from the 1/10 11am Indy group want to meet officially or sit with each other/go through the Indiana experience together?
 
I think I read they let applicants know the 15th of the month. So January 15th?
Plenty of people who interviewed in November heard back in December in years past. Perfectly reasonable to expect to hear something this month.
 
Plenty of people who interviewed in November heard back in December in years past. Perfectly reasonable to expect to hear something this month.
Then December 15th. The 15th of every month we’ll say
 
Keep in mind that the 15th falls on a Friday, the mail has been horrifically slow, and that it is the holiday season. Good luck to everyone for tomorrow! Go see the Last Jedi or something a few dozen times!
 
Last year they had a coupon code for Accepted students to get their equipment before class and the full list of equipment was loaded on there and was much cheaper than other sites. I used last years code to look and compare so I could get a rough idea how much the total would be.
Do you have the coupon code and list of equipment? And what website did you look at?
 
Quick question for those accepted: did the status on your portal (mine says Under Consideration) change?
 
Quick question for those accepted: did the status on your portal (mine says Under Consideration) change?

Yes, but it took several days after I received my letter.
 
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