2018-2019 Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

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#thriving said:
I second this very much so lol. Just believe it will all work it because it will. I hadn't planned on a year off and it was really hard to accept I wouldn't be matriculating last year but it's turning out to be a great experience and I already have 3 interviews this cycle. Schools know the process is competitive, and I don't think being a re-applicant is as much of a stigma as people think, especially if you are a strong applicant. Keep your head up and who knows you could certainly still be accepted this cycle! Hang in there 🙂
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The cycle has basically taught me to realize, that at most T20s, when the adcoms say "Its really hard to choose between applicants" it really is. In fact, there are probably 20 people with very similar experiences, exact same stats (3.95/520). Lets say the school can only invite 10 of them for an interview, the decision will have to be arbitrary, because each one of those 20 is a great applicant! Furthermore, lets say 7 of the 10 have outstanding interviews, well the committee can only accept 2 or 3, so again they will have to make another "arbitrary" decision to choose 2/3 of the 7 they would love to accept. So when those rejection letters say "its not that your bad applicant, we just have too many good ones to give everyone an II" they really are telling the truth. Theres only a few people who really sweep the board across all schools, and generally they are a notch or two above all the other outstanding applicants.

tl;dr: chances are you and everyone else is an awesome candidate, not getting an II to a school that you thought you would doesnt mean you have a red flag or not competitive, could just be they had to make a difficult choice.
 
For anyone who has an interview at Mt. Sinai and/or scheduled an interview...what days of the week does the school interview?
 
Does sinai go through apps chronologically?
 
pixiehew said:
Does sinai go through apps chronologically?
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If your GPA/MCAT is ~ >3.6/>510 then they read the apps essentially chronologically but they don't invite for interview chronologically. If either your GPA or MCAT are below that then it is chronological after all the people who cleared that bar are read. Again, invites are not chronological so someone in that 2nd tier who is otherwise an impressive applicant could be interviewed before someone in the first tier who was otherwise not an impressive applicant.

As stated, pretty sure every school prioritizes their interview invites based on whatever system they have. I imagine most do the initial screening chronologically though.
 
MSTPlease said:
Alum here. Since I was MD/PhD I can't talk about the MS1/2 curriculum because it's completely different now but I can talk about the MS3/4 curriculum and general stuff.
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I DMed you! Thanks!
 
Sent an ITA email and they said thank you for letting us know but there are no guarantees. So I guess I'm not rejected yet although their wording may have given me some misguided hope that an II may be coming lol
 
mcmcmc613 said:
MD II about an hour ago. Seems like they granted my II request! Dates were available in November. I was compete 7/27
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Congrats!! what do you mean II request? did you send a LOI pre- II?
 
Hi. Does anyone know the policy on sending updates?
 
Did anyone hear when they get back to us? They said they were unsure at my interview date, bbut I wanted to see if there were any fresh updates
 
younggotti said:
Did anyone hear when they get back to us? They said they were unsure at my interview date, bbut I wanted to see if there were any fresh updates
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Also interested if any recent interviewees have updates on this.
MSAR says November 15th but I believe they were saying mid-December when I interviewed
 
Does anybody know when the first admissions committee meeting will be?
 
begginandpleadin said:
Does anyone know if Sinai has given out merit aid in the recent past?
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yes, but only to a handful of students and even more rarely, if ever just generic "you have high stats, here's some money so you will come here" aid. It's usually aid given to exceptional candidates who also have specific interests that the funds have been set aside for - and those interests are ones you can probably guess and are ones that generally don't rake in high salaries (e.g. no merit aid for the aspiring Terry Dubrow).
 
Does anyone who interviewed recently have insight on when we expect to hear back? Jessica mentioned November when I interviewed in mid-September and past threads have it anywhere from mid-November to mid-December. 🙁
 
thegoatis11 said:
Does anyone who interviewed recently have insight on when we expect to hear back? Jessica mentioned November when I interviewed in mid-September and past threads have it anywhere from mid-November to mid-December. 🙁
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I was told that they would push for December, but January is likely.
EDIT: Interviewed 10/16
 
quick question, Icahn says they are rolling admissions so for interviews... choose a sooner rather than later date? One week later shouldn't make a huge deal right?
 
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