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Anyone who interview recently get an updated answer on when they plan to release decisions? Website says mid/late february but maybe someone slipped you guys a hint in a recent interview
 
goodies984 said:
Is duke silent Rs or they send pre-ll Rs? Been ghosted for a quite a while and wondering if I should mark it as an R
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I read up on last year's thread and it seems like they are silent/end of season for their Rs. Will probably hold out a shred of hope until I hear that they finish interviewing and then count myself out after that.
 
EmmaculateMD said:
I read up on last year's thread and it seems like they are silent/end of season for their Rs. Will probably hold out a shred of hope until I hear that they finish interviewing and then count myself out after that.
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Yah I think you're right 🙁
 

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unsuremedstudent1234 said:
me! scored a 510 on my mcat. they're interviewing mcat blind this year, unsure how much weight this will play at the actual decision stage (hopefully not a lot...)
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Do you mean the interviewers don't see your MCAT or they dont count your MCAT for extending II? I had not heard anything about this and interviewed in October. I think its pretty common for interviewers to not know your MCAT if that's what you mean. Just curious!
 
unsuremedstudent1234 said:
me! scored a 510 on my mcat. they're interviewing mcat blind this year, unsure how much weight this will play at the actual decision stage (hopefully not a lot...)
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Mr.Blackdoc.5 said:
Duke will offer interviews without an mcat score but the final decision will include an evaluation of the mcat score
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Based on the wording on their website, it sounds like they may consider an application with no MCAT score if the applicant hadn't received a score by the time of submission. It doesn't sound like they are doing MCAT-blind review for all applicants like UCSF, for example.

Admissions FAQs | Duke University School of Medicine

Grading: For the upcoming admissions cycle (2026) we will accept courses on a Pass/Fail, Pass/No Pass, and Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. In addition, Duke will also accept online courses. We prefer, however, that science and laboratory classes are conducted in person and for a letter grade.
medschool.duke.edu medschool.duke.edu
 
MediocreClimber said:
Do you mean the interviewers don't see your MCAT or they dont count your MCAT for extending II? I had not heard anything about this and interviewed in October. I think its pretty common for interviewers to not know your MCAT if that's what you mean. Just curious!
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Hmm I think they invited for interview without knowledge of MCAT this year. Their secondary invite stated:

"Applications will be screened this year without the MCAT score and considered for interview. Applicants must have a MCAT score posted to their application in order to be considered for admissions"


Although maybe this is referring to applicants who hadn't yet received an MCAT score and I misunderstood? Haha I just readily believed they were MCAT blind as a way to explain my II...
 
mkitty528 said:
How many more II's do you all think will be given out? The fact that it is getting late in the cycle and all my top choices have rejected or ghosted me is starting to make me antsy. Waiting for any communication is becoming increasingly harder.
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It's rough how much of a game it is to see how it all works out! You just never know. I thought I would at least get an interview here but idk haha
 
Btw, yes you are allowed to write stuff down during your 2 minute period, but other than a very basic flowchart/outline/bullet point of what you want to cover, I wouldn't write much b/c it probably doesn't look too great if you're reading off the page. Additionally, interviewers usually ask follow-up questions specific to your response so your page will probably become obsolete pretty quickly. Just my $0.02!
 
for anyone who's already interviewed, what is the video station? i know in the past they had an essay station and guessing they replaced it with video due to the virtual format this year?
 
Weihua said:
I didn't even know we could send in LOIs post-II? Where do we send it to? I don't see an upload place in the portal 🙁
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you can send to admissions. they will update your application with a letter of intent, but cannot add any updates to your file
 
So, I had written a letter of intent that included updates in it just so they had less to read. Do I need to remove the updates in my letter now?
 
iloathemakingusernames said:
I wrote a letter similar to this and they responded positively so I think it was okay? Hope that helps a bit.
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They responded positively as in they said it was okay? Or were they like "wow cool updates" b/c the latter would be awesome. (In all seriousness though just curious what you meant. And yes this helps, thanks!!)
 
dneqv94 said:
They responded positively as in they said it was okay? Or were they like "wow cool updates" b/c the latter would be awesome. (In all seriousness though just curious what you meant. And yes this helps, thanks!!)
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Ok so more like "Thanks so much for your letter, glad to read what you wrote, we'll add it to your application", I'm paraphrasing of course. they didn't specifically comment about the updates tho
 
dneqv94 said:
So, I had written a letter of intent that included updates in it just so they had less to read. Do I need to remove the updates in my letter now?
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I wrote a very similar letter. Still planning to submit as they said the admissions committee was open to receive updates, they just won't add updates to your application file. I figured I'd just send it all to them and then they can do with it as they please lol
 
How is everyone sending updates/LOIs? Via the portal upload option or emailing it to the admissions email address?
 
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