Thank you!! Honestly, besides getting a competitive MCAT score, I’d say let your humanity and compassion show throughout your essays. My path to medicine is very unique and writing about it wasn’t easy because it presented me in a vulnerable state (which I hate) but it’s been praised by almost every single interviewer, and I’m glad I decided to be 100% honest when writing my experiences.
It is pass fail but they do quartile ranking so they tell you if you are in the top quarter, third, second, or bottom.
5 days or so
I thought they were interviewing until April. On there website it says February but apparently when people had interviews the adcoms said they are interviewing till April.
Yes this is what they told me as well. They will also be maintaining the ~65% acceptance rate for every single interview session regardless of if you interviewed in September or April so your chances are always very good.
My II was yesterday and my interview is in two days
Wow I think you take the cake for the shortest notice that I've seen anywhere haha. Good luck!!
Haha thank you! hopefully an A can come that quickly too lol
Cincinnati is EST and my times were EST. Your portal should say exactly what time and timezone they mean.
Yep. Im dead.
Any chance you could schedule to later? Not sure how they set up their interviews. Good luck though!
If you truly have a conflict, you can email them to explain your situation and get a later date (I think someone else posted that they rescheduled to a later date)
Yeah, definitely reach out to them lol. I had an afternoon interview and I remember them making a specific comment about the afternoon groups being west coast heavy to accommodate for the time difference.
I know! I had to use my in-laws extremely old windows laptop bc my Mac didn't have enough space for bootcamp. The system check up took 1 hour and my image from the webcam had like 10 pixels.
Do you still need a windows computer for it? I have a gaming PC I made but it doesn't have a webcam or mic... might just buy one and return it after lol
So I only have a Mac and I emailed the admissions office about rescheduling, one of the admission officers called my cell to let me know that they can't reschedule at the moment but can work around being on a Mac, with some added instructions. I recommend you reach out to them too!
They actually reached out to me over the phone too! I ended up driving to Best Buy and buying a $20 webcam for my PC
ur good. dont stress abt it.
Thank you letters for MMI’s is pretty much a waste of time. It might only play a limited role for traditional interviews.
I think it's worth writing a thank you letter even if it's somewhat generic. Cincinnati has put a lot of work into their interview days and virtual second looks.
I remember them saying to my session that a HANDWRITTEN thank you letter scanned into a PDF was extra nice!
Like the other people said they did stress how much they like handwritten thank you notes. However, I don't think it's completely necessary to write one even though it's a nice gesture. I don't think the notes affect how you'll be graded and I was accepted without writing one even with below average stats. It's really just a matter of personal preference.
I agree with both comments. It’s nice but won’t affect your chances in any way.
