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Interviewed 1.15.20.
Complete email 1.27.20.

No changes to my portal or one.iu.

OOS (AZ). So hopefully mailman surprises me today. 🙁
 
silent.planet said:
Just received a general email from the School of Medicine titled "Get Connected with IUSM" and almost had a heart attack. Checked portals and mail and nothing... gg Indiana, thanks for the tease
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same thing for me /:
 
BirdietheCockatiel said:
Does anyone know if they send us additional forms regarding the health/immunization requirements?
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I emailed them a couple weeks ago and they said they’d send it once they have the roster lined up. I guess they’re tryna get all the acceptances done and done before sending the list. I already have my PCP appt schedule to get the titers


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TheGame24 said:
I emailed them a couple weeks ago and they said they’d send it once they have the roster lined up. I guess they’re tryna get all the acceptances done and done before sending the list. I already have my PCP appt schedule to get the titers


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Thank you! Do you know if they care if the Hep B titer is Quantitative or Qualitative? Only asking cause another school I was accepted to wouldn't accept the Qualitative test.
 
BirdietheCockatiel said:
Thank you! Do you know if they care if the Hep B titer is Quantitative or Qualitative? Only asking cause another school I was accepted to wouldn't accept the Qualitative test.
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No idea. Not sure if it’s possible to do both. Anyone know the answer to this?^


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Portal updated on Friday with the A, interviewed in Indianapolis on Jan. 15th. OOS

IUSM is my top choice, so really excited! Anyone whose portal updated still not receive the snail mail letter?
 
El Libertador said:
Accepted yesterday. OOS (Utah). Interviewed 1/15.

Anybody know what now? Also, is there a Facebook group or another thread? This is my first A
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There is a facebook group. The link is in one of the tabs, in a huge block of text, in your app portal. I forget which tab exactly, but it literally tells you to join their facebook group.
 
Does anyone have the link to the official accepted students FB page? Having a hard time finding it..
 
leowyatt11 said:
Got the Acceptance letter in the mail earlier today (2/21). Incredibly stoked. Was a real happy family moment too lol, my mom let out a scream and actually peed a little when she saw the letter bahahaha.

Interviewed 1/15

OOS (Florida)
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El Libertador said:
Accepted yesterday. OOS (Utah). Interviewed 1/15.

Anybody know what now? Also, is there a Facebook group or another thread? This is my first A
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txpremed0709 said:
Portal updated on Friday with the A, interviewed in Indianapolis on Jan. 15th. OOS

IUSM is my top choice, so really excited! Anyone whose portal updated still not receive the snail mail letter?
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Congrats yall!!! I interviewed the same day (AM). OOS. AZ.

I am still ghosted tho. Smh. I'm a re-applicant who interviewed last year and IUSM as my top choice.

The optimist in me thinks maybe they just didnt get to me but the pessimist thinks If acceptances already reached Utah then I am not feeling too good about it now. I might be in the R list again.

Anyone who interview Jan 15th still ghosted?
 
Shine-Dalgarno said:
Congrats yall!!! I interviewed the same day (AM). OOS. AZ.

I am still ghosted tho. Smh. I'm a re-applicant who interviewed last year and IUSM as my top choice.

The optimist in me thinks maybe they just didnt get to me but the pessimist thinks If acceptances already reached Utah then I am not feeling too good about it now. I might be in the R list again.

Anyone who interview Jan 15th still ghosted?
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Seems like the only people who heard back on jan 15th are OOS. Myself and a few IS people who interviewed the 15th have yet to hear anything


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DoctorMak2020 said:
Seems like the only people who heard back on jan 15th are OOS. Myself and a few IS people who interviewed the 15th have yet to hear anything


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I feel like not a lot of IS people heard back in general. I interviewed back on 10/9, IS, and have yet to hear back. In addition, i feel like a lot of IS people who interviewed on the same day as me has yet to hear back as well
 
thisisaburneraccount said:
I feel like not a lot of IS people heard back in general. I interviewed back on 10/9, IS, and have yet to hear back. In addition, i feel like a lot of IS people who interviewed on the same day as me has yet to hear back as well
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Maybe this is true. I know a current first year who interviewed in January last year and got accepted March while many of his friends who interviewed even back in September also got accepted in March the same day as him. All of whom were IS I believe. Maybe they do most of the IS at the end for some reason


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DoctorMak2020 said:
Maybe this is true. I know a current first year who interviewed in January last year and got accepted March while many of his friends who interviewed even back in September also got accepted in March the same day as him. All of whom were IS I believe. Maybe they do most of the IS at the end for some reason


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Hmmm. Collectively looking at all this feedback coupled with my own experience, it makes me think that as of OOS applicants this is IUSM’s way of giving silent R’s. If you’re IS you might be giving a seat after they review the OOS pool. But as OOS I think we only have a month to be considered. if you interview early in the cycle you have a potential of being admitted later as they review you relative to interviewees from later in the cycle. Those of us in the latter, if we don’t hear back by a month then it must be a silent R

Last year I interviewed the last week of Jan. I hit it off with another applicant and stayed in touch. He got waitlisted one late to early April and then I got official R in late April.


Who here interviewed already and got rejected? I don’t think anyone.....

I’m low-key salty cause if you interview and get R, then they give you feedback on what to improve. For me, It was the MCAT. So I did and then left it up to them to decide if it was good enough to interview me again. They sent the invite to interview and I prepared more than I did last year but yet it’s looking like a silent R again? Why lead me on so much just to give me R back to back after doing what you said. Smh.


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1992MariahCarey said:
Hey man, totally sympathize with you here as someone who hasn’t heard back yet. I feel like this isnt the type of school to do silent Rs as they’ve rejected people pretty harshly from what I’ve read. I do agree that it’s an incredible waste of everybody’s time to interview somebody and write off their rejection as a low mcat score, especially since invites here are pretty much solely sent based on GPA and MCAT
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I've also been in silence since interviewing 10/9 (OOS). While they do outright reject some people post-interview, it's very rare (I've creeped the previous years' threads), and most people if not accepted are just kept in silence (basically silent R). Then a ton of people are formally rejected in March when they form the official waitlist.

Also, they have access to your entire AMCAS application apart from LOR's when you apply, so they definitely don't just invite based solely on GPA/MCAT. That would be a terrible way to stratify potential interviewees lol
 
Shine-Dalgarno said:
I’m low-key salty cause if you interview and get R, then they give you feedback on what to improve. For me, It was the MCAT. So I did and then left it up to them to decide if it was good enough to interview me again. They sent the invite to interview and I prepared more than I did last year but yet it’s looking like a silent R again? Why lead me on so much just to give me R back to back after doing what you said. Smh.
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That really sucks man, I can see why you are so frustrated.

I would guess that the apparent inconsistency might just be due to the fact that so many people with different perspectives are involved in the process, so the person who gave you feedback last year may well have had little to nothing to do with the decision made this year.

I also feel like meeting all the basic requirements to be a qualified candidate (GPA/MCAT/ECs/Decent interview/etc) only gets you like 50% of the way to admission. The other half of it is subjective stuff that is based on the whims of adcoms to the point that it is practically random. I had a 76 LM and at least minimally adequate ECs and I still often feel like if I hadn't been buoyed by IU's in state bias I might be a reapplicant right now...

Needless to say, that just my hunch/opinion/whatever. And I know none of that really helps you but idk, the system just sucks for applicants man.
 
enchantments said:
Also, they have access to your entire AMCAS application apart from LOR's when you apply, so they definitely don't just invite based solely on GPA/MCAT. That would be a terrible way to stratify potential interviewees lol
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Eh, I am not as sure, I guess I just don't have that much faith in the admissions dept of IU? It honestly doesn't always feel like they are running a real tight ship over there.

The other thing is that Jose (the financial aid guy) has been very transparent about how they select merit/recruitment aid recipients and apparently it is exclusively based on a score derived from MCAT+GPA+a numerical score given by interviewers (except for URM people who get some recruitment aid based on URM status). So if that kind of purely numbers based process is considering good enough for picking who gets financial aid aid then I don't see why they wouldn't use a similar method to pick who gets interviewed.

Maybe I am just in a cynical mood today. Sorry for bringing this bad energy into the thread guys. lol.
 
MasonBlue said:
Eh, I am not as sure, I guess I just don't have that much faith in the admissions dept of IU? It honestly doesn't always feel like they are running a real tight ship over there.

The other thing is that Jose (the financial aid guy) has been very transparent about how they select merit/recruitment aid recipients and apparently it is exclusively based on a score derived from MCAT+GPA+a numerical score given by interviewers (except for URM people who get some recruitment aid based on URM status). So if that kind of purely numbers based process is considering good enough for picking who gets financial aid aid then I don't see why they wouldn't use a similar method to pick who gets interviewed.

Maybe I am just in a cynical mood today. Sorry for bringing this bad energy into the thread guys. lol.
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I understand using gpa/mcat for merit scholarships, since every school does that.

But it would not make sense to use that for general admissions. I’ve seen people report in either this years’ thread or previous years that they got accepted with a 500 mcat. And my LM score is not particularly high for an ORM and I was invited fairly early on. If gpa/mcat was the only factor, their averages would be much higher than they are currently.
 
adowaab said:
Does anyone have the link to the official accepted students FB page? Having a hard time finding it..
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It's in the portal, Pre-Matriculation --> Financial Aid. The Pre-Matriculation section doesn't appear until you submit that you've accepted the offer and rank each campus.
 
1992MariahCarey said:
Hey man, totally sympathize with you here as someone who hasn’t heard back yet. I feel like this isnt the type of school to do silent Rs as they’ve rejected people pretty harshly from what I’ve read. I do agree that it’s an incredible waste of everybody’s time to interview somebody and write off their rejection as a low mcat score, especially since invites here are pretty much solely sent based on GPA and MCAT
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enchantments said:
I've also been in silence since interviewing 10/9 (OOS). While they do outright reject some people post-interview, it's very rare (I've creeped the previous years' threads), and most people if not accepted are just kept in silence (basically silent R). Then a ton of people are formally rejected in March when they form the official waitlist.

Also, they have access to your entire AMCAS application apart from LOR's when you apply, so they definitely don't just invite based solely on GPA/MCAT. That would be a terrible way to stratify potential interviewees lol
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MasonBlue said:
That really sucks man, I can see why you are so frustrated.

I would guess that the apparent inconsistency might just be due to the fact that so many people with different perspectives are involved in the process, so the person who gave you feedback last year may well have had little to nothing to do with the decision made this year.

I also feel like meeting all the basic requirements to be a qualified candidate (GPA/MCAT/ECs/Decent interview/etc) only gets you like 50% of the way to admission. The other half of it is subjective stuff that is based on the whims of adcoms to the point that it is practically random. I had a 76 LM and at least minimally adequate ECs and I still often feel like if I hadn't been buoyed by IU's in state bias I might be a reapplicant right now...

Needless to say, that just my hunch/opinion/whatever. And I know none of that really helps you but idk, the system just sucks for applicants man.
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MasonBlue said:
Eh, I am not as sure, I guess I just don't have that much faith in the admissions dept of IU? It honestly doesn't always feel like they are running a real tight ship over there.

The other thing is that Jose (the financial aid guy) has been very transparent about how they select merit/recruitment aid recipients and apparently it is exclusively based on a score derived from MCAT+GPA+a numerical score given by interviewers (except for URM people who get some recruitment aid based on URM status). So if that kind of purely numbers based process is considering good enough for picking who gets financial aid aid then I don't see why they wouldn't use a similar method to pick who gets interviewed.

Maybe I am just in a cynical mood today. Sorry for bringing this bad energy into the thread guys. lol.
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enchantments said:
I understand using gpa/mcat for merit scholarships, since every school does that.

But it would not make sense to use that for general admissions. I’ve seen people report in either this years’ thread or previous years that they got accepted with a 500 mcat. And my LM score is not particularly high for an ORM and I was invited fairly early on. If gpa/mcat was the only factor, their averages would be much higher than they are currently.
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Thanks, y'all for the feedback and insight. I appreciate the energy.

For me, I am an OOS URM re-applicant. Idk my LizzyM personally causes there are so many factors that go into the decision process. We are all different and we never know what the school is looking for in their class. If the school wants nothing but 3.9 BIO majors that's fine, that's not the school for me. But if they are trying to build a diverse class then I am going to shoot my shot and let them decide.

IU is one of my top choices because the last cycle they were the only school that invited me to interview despite having an MCAT of 492. I was so grateful for the opportunity that I went in there and did my best. In the end, I fell short and the feedback I received from someone in leadership in admissions was that my interview went great with above average impression but the committee was still hesitant if I struggled with standardized testing and did not offer me acceptance in the end. Although this can be frustrating given the amount of time and money invested to interview as a URM from low SES, I responded constructively. I understand they don't want me to fail out. I did do better and I am just eternally grateful for the opportunity to interview as that in itself is an achievement no one from my community has ever gotten the change to do. So I will rise and retake the MCAT.

Fast-forward to this cycle, I submitted the app in mid-July, verified early august and put on hold until MCAT retake in September. I retook it and jumped to 497. I know it was still not competitive but I was so proud of myself because I know I put in the work. At that point, I left it up to IUSM if it was good enough. I was completed in October and got the invite to interview in November for mid-Jan 2020 (ironically the same date as last time). Before my interview, I prepped for months with a current 4th year studying and learning as much as I could about IU because I needed to know why IU was a good fit for me and the doctor I aspire to become. I did not want to make IU like me, I wanted to make sure we were a fit for each other. And so the more I learned, the more I fell in love with IU.

Now we are here. I have been blessed to received 4 MD II's this cycle but the others were back to back the remainder of January and so I am still in the waiting game. But as a re-applicant to IU, I was praying, and working towards, securing that acceptance this time around. I felt the stars aligned so the opportunity to interview again but here I am still ghosted. I will remain eternally grateful but I hope they finally allow me the privilege and honor to practice medicine and give voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless.
 
kaburt1 said:
ACCEPTED; Rural Medicine Program (Terre Haute)

Received letter in mail on Thursday, portal updated Friday

interviewed 1/15. IS

So freaking excited!!!
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I was also accepted into the rural program in Terre Haute. Looking forward to meeting you and all my other classmates!! 🙂
 
kittykatKen said:
I was also accepted into the rural program in Terre Haute. Looking forward to meeting you and all my other classmates!! 🙂
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Love to hear that! Can't wait to meet everyone either and grind out the next four years together
 
Is anybody still waiting on there acceptance letter after seeing acceptance on app portal?
 
password1 said:
Sept 11 interview gang where you at?

I was waitlisted here last cycle so if anyone has questions in regards to how the next couple months might go, I'm happy to answer as best I can.
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interviewed 9/11 at gary campus and was waitlisted for scp, was really hoping i'd get a regular admissions decision this month, but no luck
 
mm00 said:
has anyone gotten their hands on any IUSM match data? cant find it anywhere other than like the top 5 most common specialties
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So I am guessing that you have already looked at the webpage on IU's admissions website about residency placement?

If this is helpful, at some point I acquired an excel sheet supposedly of residency director rankings of schools, Indiana is #40 on the ranking (just below Sinai/BU/Georgetown and just above Ohio State/UCD/Jefferson).

There is more detail about percentage into each residency posted on the MSAR. This is visible on the free/public version of MSAR so I think its cool to copy it here.

SpecialtyPercentage
Anesthesiology15%
Dermatology0%
Emergency Medicine7%
Family Medicine7%
Neurology6%
Internal Medicine14%
Obstetrics/Gynecology2%
Orthopedic Surgery9%
Otolaryngology1%
Pathology2%
Pediatrics10%
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation0%
Plastic Surgery1%
Psychiatry1%
Radiology Diagnostic5%
Surgery General8%

Okay, so the info provided by AAMC/MSAR must be drawn from a different year(s) than the info provided on that IU webpage. If you look at that table Gen surg and ortho are in the top 5 instead of ER and FM.

Hopefully someone else can provide the percentage accepted to their top choice, and/or specific residency programs that students were accepted to.
 
Shine-Dalgarno said:
Hmmm. Collectively looking at all this feedback coupled with my own experience, it makes me think that as of OOS applicants this is IUSM’s way of giving silent R’s. If you’re IS you might be giving a seat after they review the OOS pool. But as OOS I think we only have a month to be considered. if you interview early in the cycle you have a potential of being admitted later as they review you relative to interviewees from later in the cycle. Those of us in the latter, if we don’t hear back by a month then it must be a silent R

Last year I interviewed the last week of Jan. I hit it off with another applicant and stayed in touch. He got waitlisted one late to early April and then I got official R in late April.


Who here interviewed already and got rejected? I don’t think anyone.....

I’m low-key salty cause if you interview and get R, then they give you feedback on what to improve. For me, It was the MCAT. So I did and then left it up to them to decide if it was good enough to interview me again. They sent the invite to interview and I prepared more than I did last year but yet it’s looking like a silent R again? Why lead me on so much just to give me R back to back after doing what you said. Smh.


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I interviewed way back mid-September. Was ghosted for months until mid-Jan and was accepted. My theory is that they have a ton of interviews. Recall, there was the AM batch and the PM batch and it was a good number of folks. I just think they take their time going over your file post-interview. I honestly thought I nailed my interview but had to be patient.

OOS and URM.

The pill of patience is only $15.00 if you vemno me LOL
 
Shine-Dalgarno said:
Thanks, y'all for the feedback and insight. I appreciate the energy.

For me, I am an OOS URM re-applicant. Idk my LizzyM personally causes there are so many factors that go into the decision process. We are all different and we never know what the school is looking for in their class. If the school wants nothing but 3.9 BIO majors that's fine, that's not the school for me. But if they are trying to build a diverse class then I am going to shoot my shot and let them decide.

IU is one of my top choices because the last cycle they were the only school that invited me to interview despite having an MCAT of 492. I was so grateful for the opportunity that I went in there and did my best. In the end, I fell short and the feedback I received from someone in leadership in admissions was that my interview went great with above average impression but the committee was still hesitant if I struggled with standardized testing and did not offer me acceptance in the end. Although this can be frustrating given the amount of time and money invested to interview as a URM from low SES, I responded constructively. I understand they don't want me to fail out. I did do better and I am just eternally grateful for the opportunity to interview as that in itself is an achievement no one from my community has ever gotten the change to do. So I will rise and retake the MCAT.

Fast-forward to this cycle, I submitted the app in mid-July, verified early august and put on hold until MCAT retake in September. I retook it and jumped to 497. I know it was still not competitive but I was so proud of myself because I know I put in the work. At that point, I left it up to IUSM if it was good enough. I was completed in October and got the invite to interview in November for mid-Jan 2020 (ironically the same date as last time). Before my interview, I prepped for months with a current 4th year studying and learning as much as I could about IU because I needed to know why IU was a good fit for me and the doctor I aspire to become. I did not want to make IU like me, I wanted to make sure we were a fit for each other. And so the more I learned, the more I fell in love with IU.

Now we are here. I have been blessed to received 4 MD II's this cycle but the others were back to back the remainder of January and so I am still in the waiting game. But as a re-applicant to IU, I was praying, and working towards, securing that acceptance this time around. I felt the stars aligned so the opportunity to interview again but here I am still ghosted. I will remain eternally grateful but I hope they finally allow me the privilege and honor to practice medicine and give voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless.
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Thank you for sharing your story. I personally want to say that you are worth it. Regardless of the outcome you are a king or queen. SDN is one those blackholes that we generally judge our worth based on "scores and LM ****" but the truth is that you have a story to tell. Your narrative is so different from each one of us. Adcom sees those narratives. They read our stories and at interviews hear our stories. Nonetheless, what is meant for you will be yours alone, and what is meant for someone else will be theirs.

I'm truly sending you positive vibes. Every person deserves a chance to make their dreams a reality.
 
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LegsPainted said:
I interviewed way back mid-September. Was ghosted for months until mid-Jan and was accepted. My theory is that they have a ton of interviews. Recall, there was the AM batch and the PM batch and it was a good number of folks. I just think they take their time going over your file post-interview. I honestly thought I nailed my interview but had to be patient.

OOS and URM.

The pill of patience is only $15.00 if you vemno me LOL
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YOOOOOO thanks so much for your insight and energy! I appreciate it as your story now gives me hope!

$15.00!? "What! No. I could get a fish for a 5 cent worm" Hahaha.

But in all seriousness thanks. Patience is hard to come by nowadays but we must not fold.
 
For anyone accepted, on the pre=matriculation tab does anyone know when the green check mark comes around after completing FASFA? I submitted my FASFA back in October and just wondering why ISU has it not completed? Any thoughts or insights?
 
LegsPainted said:
For anyone accepted, on the pre=matriculation tab does anyone know when the green check mark comes around after completing FASFA? I submitted my FASFA back in October and just wondering why ISU has it not completed? Any thoughts or insights?
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I might be too new to the accepted crowd, but no checks for me for fafsa. If it helps, my portal just updated with a check for my background check.
 
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