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Um guys sooo I have been looking at several schools' stats on the MSAR, including the curves for GPA and MCAT score (in the acceptance data section) and the curves are not normal curves (for those of you who have taken stats know what I mean). This was making me wonder whether I should take the data for median GPA/MCAT with a grain of salt??? Idk I might just be the only one thinking that...
 
Um guys sooo I have been looking at several schools' stats on the MSAR, including the curves for GPA and MCAT score (in the acceptance data section) and the curves are not normal curves (for those of you who have taken stats know what I mean). This was making me wonder whether I should take the data for median GPA/MCAT with a grain of salt??? Idk I might just be the only one thinking that...

If you are above the 25th percentile you are competitive for that school. Percentile means the same thing no matter the shape of the distribution
 
If you are above the 25th percentile you are competitive for that school.

This isn't perfectly true, but I agree that if you're above 25th percentile you have a chance and it makes sense to apply
 
Hey so if Penn is a nonrolling admission school, is there no disadvantage for interviewing later in the cycle? I wanted to schedule for Nov because Oct is hectic for me
 
Dear UPenn MSTP students, is there anyone would kindly be willing to discuss about the program via personal message with me? I would greatly appreciate it!
 
Hey so if Penn is a nonrolling admission school, is there no disadvantage for interviewing later in the cycle? I wanted to schedule for Nov because Oct is hectic for me

I got my II in September and interviewed in January. I scheduled all of my nonrolling heavy hitters later in the cycle to get all of my bad interviews out of the way before it really counted.
 
Do you know if only MSTP slow or MD only as well? That would be super good news. I did my undergrad here and currently work here and know its a longshot but still

MD seems to be moving slow. No idea about the pace of the MSTP because student involvement in the two processes is different.

For the MD program, students can interview applicants. In the MSTP program, students don’t do interviews but get to go out to dinner and socialize with the applicants on the school’s dime so that the applicants and students can talk freely without the applicants feeling like they are being evaluated. Both seem to be good systems that have been working pretty well.
 
hey, where does it say that penn is non-rolling? i don't see that info anywhere on their website? asking because i'm hesitant to schedule the last week in nov when there's an available slot 4 weeks earlier (even though the later one would be easier for me scheduling-wise). does anyone know for sure that they're non-rolling, and more importantly, that when you interview doesn't affect your chances??

(i know they release all their decisions on the same day in march, but that doesn't mean they make their decisions on a non-rolling basis, which schools like harvard and cornell explicitly say they do)
 
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hey, where does it say that penn is non-rolling? i don't see that info anywhere on their website? asking because i'm hesitant to schedule the last week in nov when there's an available slot 4 weeks earlier (even though the later one would be easier for me scheduling-wise). does anyone know for sure that they're non-rolling, and more importantly, that when you interview doesn't affect your chances??

(i know they release all their decisions on the same day in march, but that doesn't mean they make their decisions on a non-rolling basis, which schools like harvard and cornell explicitly say they do)

I just interviewed there, and they told us they were non-rolling.


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Got an II for MSTP, however I will have to reschedule my interview date due to unforeseen circumstances that I cannot work around. Will this be an issue since UPenn organizes interview sessions based on the graduate studies you have indicated? My past research is also relevant to other graduate studies besides the one I indicated, and I have multiple interests for pursuing my PhD.
 
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