2021-2022 Drexel

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justmedschooltingz said:
anyone else complete early aug and still have no communication? applied to over 35 schools and have been ghosted by all but 1 so far, getting very anxious :/
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You know what they say, wait until Thanksgiving for the first II before you allow yourself to implode into an anxious mess. Med schools don't review applications in chronological order, and they try to avoid sending IIs too far in advance of their actual interview dates. It's possible you've already been picked for an interview and they've got your invite scheduled to send next month.

Now that I've been reasonable and logical about this,

AAAHHHH I'm in the same boat, none of my schools are contacting me either and I'm gonna have to reapply next year and I'm definitely not doing enough this year to have a significantly improved application next year aaaAAAAHHH
 
shotgunlagoon said:
You know what they say, wait until Thanksgiving for the first II before you allow yourself to implode into an anxious mess. Med schools don't review applications in chronological order, and they try to avoid sending IIs too far in advance of their actual interview dates. It's possible you've already been picked for an interview and they've got your invite scheduled to send next month.

Now that I've been reasonable and logical about this,

AAAHHHH I'm in the same boat, none of my schools are contacting me either and I'm gonna have to reapply next year and I'm definitely not doing enough this year to have a significantly improved application next year aaaAAAAHHH
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hahahaha thank you for both the rational and relatable responses!! I'm already a reapplicant so losing hope EXTREMELY rapidly but ugh guess all we really can do is wait. hoping for some good news for both of us soon 🙂
 
justmedschooltingz said:
anyone else complete early aug and still have no communication? applied to over 35 schools and have been ghosted by all but 1 so far, getting very anxious :/
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Haha you must not have seen my comment that caused upheaval! Go to comment #596 in this thread. I give more details but basically I was complete mid August at Drexel and didn’t get an interview invite until February and didn’t get in until May.

Anyway, if you improved your application and improved on what was missing (application quality, service hours, GPA, MCAT, or whatever you decided needed to be fixed), have faith that you’ll get good news! I didn’t get my first interview until January. I know the hardest part of all of this is waiting and that it’s all such a crapshoot because there are so many qualified people. You got this though!
 
msmathteacher said:
Haha you must not have seen my comment that caused upheaval! Go to comment #596 in this thread. I give more details but basically I was complete mid August at Drexel and didn’t get an interview invite until February and didn’t get in until May.

Anyway, if you improved your application and improved on what was missing (application quality, service hours, GPA, MCAT, or whatever you decided needed to be fixed), have faith that you’ll get good news! I didn’t get my first interview until January. I know the hardest part of all of this is waiting and that it’s all such a crapshoot because there are so many qualified people. You got this though!
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Ahhh definitely feel a bit better after reading it, thank you so much :’) Def gonna try to keep it in mind so i don’t drive myself crazier hahaha
 
auraen said:
II received yesterday, complete 7/18 (MCAT 510, GPA 3.9, IS, reapplicant.

Casper...1st quartile 😢

There's still hope everyone. Super excited!!!! I did not have much hope after seeing my Casper score.
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The CASPer is honestly ridiculous. To my knowledge most schools that are using it are just trying it out to see if it adds any value. Basically they plan on comparing CASPer results to which students they decided to accept to see if CASPer is useful for filtering applicants. Hopefully they all realize CASPer has little to no value and that interviews are much more reliable for evaluating people's situational judgement.
 
shotgunlagoon said:
The CASPer is honestly ridiculous. To my knowledge most schools that are using it are just trying it out to see if it adds any value. Basically they plan on comparing CASPer results to which students they decided to accept to see if CASPer is useful for filtering applicants. Hopefully they all realize CASPer has little to no value and that interviews are much more reliable for evaluating people's situational judgement.
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Thank you. That is encouraging.

And I agree completely. One of the schools I am applying to asked for the AAMC SJT........and I scored 9/100 percentile there. Doesn't make any sense. lol.....apparently I am not a complete sociopath 😏
 
auraen said:
Thank you. That is encouraging.

And I agree completely. One of the schools I am applying to asked for the AAMC SJT........and I scored 9/100 percentile there. Doesn't make any sense. lol.....apparently I am not a complete sociopath 😏
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I like to think I'm not a sociopath either. I do with we could see a more detailed score breakdown, or get an idea of what the schools see. Is it one number on a scale of 1-100 where higher is better? Does it have different parts like Professionalism, Compassion, Inclusiveness, etc, where you might score high on one part but lower on another and it combines into an overall score? It's just such a black box at this point, it's really frustrating as an applicant to not know what the adcoms are seeing.
 
shotgunlagoon said:
I like to think I'm not a sociopath either. I do with we could see a more detailed score breakdown, or get an idea of what the schools see. Is it one number on a scale of 1-100 where higher is better? Does it have different parts like Professionalism, Compassion, Inclusiveness, etc, where you might score high on one part but lower on another and it combines into an overall score? It's just such a black box at this point, it's really frustrating as an applicant to not know what the adcoms are seeing.
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It is frustrating, but it used to be that they would not even release your score to you. Only to the schools you are applying to. So we now at least know relatively how we did. 🙂 ...and we can expand our pool of schools if we did not do well.
 
DUCOM has a class of 303 for the current M1's I believe, since more spots opened with the new hospital location (correct me if I'm wrong). However, I do know that ~40 or so spots every year are "taken" by the current DPMS masters students on the condition that they get a... 3.2 GPA I think, for completing the program. Their courses are the equivalent of M1 courses at DUCOM without gross anatomy.
 
iceman579 said:
Anyone else that interviewed have a rather unpleasant faculty interviewer? They kept cutting me off with snarky remarks and seemed to care very little about anything I had to say, and ultimately cut my interview short. Very disappointing considering how much I liked the rest of the interview day and the school. Now I wait for the R...
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+1
 
Sorry, I'm pretty sure this has been asked before but I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but can anyone share their interview day experience at Drexel?
 
mistybay said:
Sorry, I'm pretty sure this has been asked before but I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but can anyone share their interview day experience at Drexel?
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It was an overall extremely pleasant experience. Big props to the admissions office for streamlining the process and making us all comfortable. The interview itself was a 30-minute open-book faculty interview followed by (depending on when you're scheduled) a 45-minute closed-book group student interview (usually with 1-2 other interviewees). There was a bit of downtime in between but would be a lot more if your faculty interview is scheduled in the afternoon. Personally, my interviewer was very nice and not intimidating at all; however, from other posts/threads, there are certain interviewers that will play the metaphorical 'bad cop' that will pressure you - just make sure to not get intimidated since as @msmathteacher said people who they interviewed also got in. Student/Faculty interviewer information is given beforehand (for me it was 1 week prior for the student and the night before for faculty). Make sure to go over the SDN interview feedback, it was very helpful to me!
 
Fandango42 said:
It was an overall extremely pleasant experience. Big props to the admissions office for streamlining the process and making us all comfortable. The interview itself was a 30-minute open-book faculty interview followed by (depending on when you're scheduled) a 45-minute closed-book group student interview (usually with 1-2 other interviewees). There was a bit of downtime in between but would be a lot more if your faculty interview is scheduled in the afternoon. Personally, my interviewer was very nice and not intimidating at all; however, from other posts/threads, there are certain interviewers that will play the metaphorical 'bad cop' that will pressure you - just make sure to not get intimidated since as @msmathteacher said people who they interviewed also got in. Student/Faculty interviewer information is given beforehand (for me it was 1 week prior for the student and the night before for faculty). Make sure to go over the SDN interview feedback, it was very helpful to me!
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Piggybacking on this comment, my experience was also very pleasant. My Interviewer took the time to look over my app and tailored my interview towards it.
 
RamsUp said:
Piggybacking on this comment, my experience was also very pleasant. My Interviewer took the time to look over my app and tailored my interview towards it.
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I just had my interview this morning, and will agree that the experience was very nice. It was totally chill having a discussion with the 2 other interviewees, the med student was just wanting to get to know us, no hard questions. Then a 2 hour break during which I napped cos seriously im in LA and interview was at 530am. Then I was expecting the faculty interview to be more difficult but it was a lady from the Diversity dept, and she was really nice, asking softball questions, why drexel, why medicine, etc. 6 hours long. The only stressful part was my wifi died at the beginning of interview, I was sweating when I got back on, but they were really sweet about it, saying don't worry about it. Best of luck to you.
 
Fandango42 said:
It was an overall extremely pleasant experience. Big props to the admissions office for streamlining the process and making us all comfortable. The interview itself was a 30-minute open-book faculty interview followed by (depending on when you're scheduled) a 45-minute closed-book group student interview (usually with 1-2 other interviewees). There was a bit of downtime in between but would be a lot more if your faculty interview is scheduled in the afternoon. Personally, my interviewer was very nice and not intimidating at all; however, from other posts/threads, there are certain interviewers that will play the metaphorical 'bad cop' that will pressure you - just make sure to not get intimidated since as @msmathteacher said people who they interviewed also got in. Student/Faculty interviewer information is given beforehand (for me it was 1 week prior for the student and the night before for faculty). Make sure to go over the SDN interview feedback, it was very helpful to me!
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wanttobeamd22 said:
I just had my interview this morning, and will agree that the experience was very nice. It was totally chill having a discussion with the 2 other interviewees, the med student was just wanting to get to know us, no hard questions. Then a 2 hour break during which I napped cos seriously im in LA and interview was at 530am. Then I was expecting the faculty interview to be more difficult but it was a lady from the Diversity dept, and she was really nice, asking softball questions, why drexel, why medicine, etc. 6 hours long. The only stressful part was my wifi died at the beginning of interview, I was sweating when I got back on, but they were really sweet about it, saying don't worry about it. Best of luck to you.
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This is super helpful! Thanks for sharing 🙂
 
do you think it would be too late to submit primary here and have a good chance? I am a 74 LM and 515 MCAT
 
milo1130 said:
do you think it would be too late to submit primary here and have a good chance? I am a 74 LM and 515 MCAT
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Shoot your shot. It's late in general so you wouldn't want to do this for any school, but DUCOM interviews relatively later into the cycle (late April) and has a large cohort too. They have a mission fit and I have anecdotally seen people who submit this late still get interviews, probably in the spring time.
 
My interview is tomorrow and they have not uploaded the Zoom link to the portal yet--anyone who has interviewed here, when did you gain access to the interview Zoom link?
 
glutenfreebabe said:
My interview is tomorrow and they have not uploaded the Zoom link to the portal yet--anyone who has interviewed here, when did you gain access to the interview Zoom link?
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I have the exact same question. 🤔
 
glutenfreebabe said:
My interview is tomorrow and they have not uploaded the Zoom link to the portal yet--anyone who has interviewed here, when did you gain access to the interview Zoom link?
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dpr93 said:
I have the exact same question. 🤔
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Hi, I interviewed today, and the zoom link was on the interview tab of the portal under "Interview Day Agenda."
 
DoctorFlyHigh said:
Hi, I interviewed today, and the zoom link was on the interview tab of the portal under "Interview Day Agenda."
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I can see the section for it, but it looks like the website has a formatting error like the table w faculty interviewer and student interviewer is not in the correct order and the Zoom link area is blank....
 
If I uploaded an update letter last Thursday to the portal and then got a pre II hold today, do you think they read the letter before making that decision? Last year I sent in an update in beginning of January and then received my II in end of March. So I guess I'm wondering if they read my update letter this year and then gave a hold or they didn't see it yet and this was the decision they had already made. Tryna not stress cuz I know pre II hold is not a soft reject according to them, but DUCOM is one of my top choice schools so hard not to haha
 
mybrainhurts1 said:
If I uploaded an update letter last Thursday to the portal and then got a pre II hold today, do you think they read the letter before making that decision? Last year I sent in an update in beginning of January and then received my II in end of March. So I guess I'm wondering if they read my update letter this year and then gave a hold or they didn't see it yet and this was the decision they had already made. Tryna not stress cuz I know pre II hold is not a soft reject according to them, but DUCOM is one of my top choice schools so hard not to haha
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Same thing happened to me at Tulane. Got a hold shortly after I sent an update. I took it to mean that, though I am not their first choice, they are still interested in me. I’d imagine it means something similar at Drexel.
 
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To all who interviewed, GL!
 
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