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Temporarily - Yes. We cannot communicate admissions committee results until after 10/15.
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you can see this in previous year's msar, or reference the post-ii acceptance rate spreadsheet if you dont have access to msar
@REL Would now be considered too late to submit a secondary/is the turnaround too long at this stage in the cycle?
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For others like me who need a bit of reassurance pre-interview... the UCF interview is incredible. Epitome of conversational, zero curveballs, the interviewers were all smiling and cracking jokes. Prep a bit so you don't stumble over basic questions about what makes you, you but don't stress out!
Does this school give rejections? I have completed all the in-state interviews that I was interested in and the only school that would affect my decision is this one. They're so competitive though, but I thought I had a chance because they gave me a secondary even though I was below a 3.0 sGPA. I am a former knight so that may work against me a bit, because we all want to go here.
According to the portal, rejections are only done at end of the cycle. I don't know if they follow that practice.
For the first question, I have zero connection to UCF COM, UCF, or Florida. According to MSAR, they prefer a connection to the state. Do you think it's fine to just say that I have no connection?
Yeah, I read that, just wish I had a better handle on what my odds are... I saw a chart that said interview spots are super low around this time for some schools and I think UCF has been interviewing since August/September
As long as you complete/submit all of the information prior to our November deadline you are not too late.
Applications that do not meet minimum requirements are rejected during the application cycle. Rejections of those that complete an application and are not selected for an interview will be rejected once we get information from the admissions committee - normally mid-February. Those on the wait list will receive rejections during the last weeks leading up to the end of July matriculation date.
Those who interviewd and already attended our first Virtual Visit will receive committee decisions on 10/15 or soon thereafter. Those who attend the 10/16 Virtual Visit will receive committee decisions most likely on 10/17 or later.
Remember that we call everyone to discuss the committee decision whether accepted or waitlisted. That means that we will be making a lot of calls in the 10/15+ timeframe.
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an adcom himself mentioned that percentage, remember there's a huge bias in the posts you see from applicants here
Business Casual....not jeans and t-shirt.....male, optional tie.....
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From today's session it sounds like we should not expect 10/17 decisions for 10/8 or 10/9 interviews
Correct, even in prior years there was always an 17-18 day wait from interview to decision.
As of this minute 1,916 of 5,445 applicants have achieved EFI status.
Suomi-leijona
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@REL I received the phone call to schedule an interview but haven't received thev follow up email yet. Should I schedule the interview now or wait until I receive the email?
I am not REL but IMHO, if your portal allows you to schedule, you should go ahead and schedule.
floridapremed0524
Full Member
Yay congrats! When were you complete?
grizz411
Full Member
Thanks! Complete 7/27
honestly I don't think resubmitting you look good on your part...
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DrGlipGlop
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@REL I am currently at the EFI stage and believe I previously submit 4 or 5 letters of recommendation. I work very closely with two UCF COM graduates and was wondering if it would potentially be beneficial to add letters from one or both of them?
Ya don't send that email to resubmit lol.
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Mine were both faculty but not sure if they are adcom members
I am not entirely sure of this, but from what I have gathered from our faculty and staff, we have a lot of interviewers that are not necessarily on the admissions committee. You can get professors, doctors, librarians, etc. As a 2nd year student who helps with the pre-interview information sessions often, I have no say in regards to your application. However, I did have a 4th year student interview me when I interviewed so it is possible.
If it helps, I had an interview with a physician and another with a medical student.
@REL I just wanted to confirm something you had posted earlier, if we do upload an update letter to the portal should we also reach out to the admissions email letting them know?
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deleted907416
Any news on secondaries? Still waiting to receive one
NOt required, but helpful.
Members of the Admissions Committee may interview but only a few actually do. Interviewers are members of the faculty and also our volunteer faculty ranks who are physicians in the many networks from Orlando and the surrounding cliinical hospitals and clinics. They can also be M4 students.
@REL Are interview invites still being sent out? If so, when is the last date we should expect to hear if we got an interview before the winter break? Thank you!
Yes, we continue to invite applicants to interview on a weekly basis, we are nearing the completion of interview invites for December. There will be more in January and February.
If you have been in the EFI pool for a couple of months and havent been invited for an interview yet, you might consider updating the committee on things that you may have been doing (volunteering, academics, maybe research progress, etc.). We have passed our previous high for applications for a cycle and we have a few more days to go. So much for those who warned that it would be a down year for applications....I guess there is fake news in this business too.
I'm still really interested in this school and have been EFI since August! Uploaded an update so hopefully that helps!
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Does this school yield protect?
I'm not an adcom, so please bear that in mind, but the way it was described to me by those who know, ALL schools yield protect. Internally, they refer to it as resource management.
The rationale is not to punish anyone whose application is deemed to be too strong for the school. Rather, it's a concession to the reality that there are only so many interview slots, and it's a waste of limited resources to allocate them to applicants empirically unlikely to attend, based on reams of prior cycle data.
Hopefully @REL will provide a more informative, specific response with respect to UCF, but that's my understanding.
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@KnightDoc
thanks for your insightful response!
thanks for your insightful response!
So this is the first time I have heard the terms Yield Protect, and based on your discussion it must mean that does UCF evaluate the application and determine whether the applicant will come before offering an interview based on metric strength? I am not so sure that we do it by intention but I guess we probably do via our AORTA teams. Once a file is complete it goes to AORTA for a team (a mixture of 4-5 MD,PhD, or program knowledgeable folks) review. Each AORTA member independently reviews all facets of an application from metrics and trends, degree, background, motivations for medicine, humanism, teamwork, research (not required but if done should understand process of research), essays, and yes in the secondary, the question to explain your relationship(s) or desire to be here. None of these factors are absoute or "deadly" but it is competitive and too many "dings" mught just be what is needed for another applicant to edge ahead in the interview derby.
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