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DS_G3 said:
For anyone getting email responses (II, Rs, II deferral) - is your SJT in? It's been radio silence for me (from every school) but since Geisinger seems to be more communicating more with folks, I was wondering whether they're waiting for my SJT to come out in a couple weeks
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silent for me too, i'm taking the SJT at the end of the month. but i thought it was recommended not required
 
For those who have interviewed, when did you receive the “video interview user agreement”? I received an email with interview confirmation but have not received anything after and my portal does not show the agreement. Thank you for the help in advance! 🙂
 
dregg said:
For those who have interviewed, when did you receive the “video interview user agreement”? I received an email with interview confirmation but have not received anything after and my portal does not show the agreement. Thank you for the help in advance! 🙂
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I called and they said it should appear a few days before your actual interview. My apologies that "few" is not a precise number of days.
 
DS_G3 said:
For anyone getting email responses (II, Rs, II deferral) - is your SJT in? It's been radio silence for me (from every school) but since Geisinger seems to be more communicating more with folks, I was wondering whether they're waiting for my SJT to come out in a couple weeks
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yes and i think i got like the 5th percentile so maybe thats why i got an II deferral, woopsies
 
Interview Hold received today. Anyone know if this is a soft R or if there's actually a realistic shot of getting an interview here? This is a school I'm very excited about.
 
Any guesses on when Geisinger is going to release their first batch of acceptances? MSAR says Oct 17th but last year’s thread showed they released on Oct 15th. Oct 17th is a Sunday this year btw.
 
UsernameChecksOut said:
Any guesses on when Geisinger is going to release their first batch of acceptances? MSAR says Oct 17th but last year’s thread showed they released on Oct 15th. Oct 17th is a Sunday this year btw.
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On my interview day, they said 6-8 weeks. So I’m hoping for an October 15th call, but realistically I’m not expecting anything until early November.
 
Third official rejection this morning—I am disappointed because although they say they do an “Holistic Review” they rejected me shortly after receiving my MCAT score —and everything else was great —didn’t even want to meet me in an interview 🙄😒
 
Rafa_Nadal10 said:
Wait are they not using zoom? What platform are they using instead to conduct the MMI? Is it hard to "rotate" stations?
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I actually liked the interview platform. It's well suited for MMI, and much more streamlined than my zoom-based MMIs have been.
 
Interviewed this morning! Was a great program. One concern I had was being asked follow-ups wth only a few seconds left in the station? lol. They should keep track of time too if the candidate does. All in all great though. Anyone know how long after the intervie wthey will make their decision?
 
hopetobedoctor101010 said:
Interviewed this morning! Was a great program. One concern I had was being asked follow-ups wth only a few seconds left in the station? lol. They should keep track of time too if the candidate does. All in all great though. Anyone know how long after the intervie wthey will make their decision?
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Glad you had a good morning! I interviewed 9/15 and they told us we would hear in 6-8 weeks.
 
Can you please share your interview experience?
 
missworldwide said:
I agree, I also hate that I didn't even get the opportunity to tell them why I wanted to go to their school.
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+1, I also found it odd that all of my interviewers were students... I'm not really sure how an objective evaluation can come from that. Regardless, make your complaints known to the school because from my experience they are very receptive to feedback.
 
Prison Mike said:
+1, I also found it odd that all of my interviewers were students... I'm not really sure how an objective evaluation can come from that. Regardless, make your complaints known to the school because from my experience they are very receptive to feedback.
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Mine were actually faculty as well as physicians??? It seemed very day-dependent. I had two students, a faculty member and the rest were either physicians/NPs I don’t remember.
 
So, I can see we shouldn’t be preparing a “why us” question, are we also not going to be asked “why medicine”? I understand we should have those answers in our back pockets but I am just gauging how much time to allocate to that practice. Interview next week!

Please disregard if you feel this violates the MMI NDA!
 
The MMI interviewing is done by volunteers (often from the community), and we all get the same MMI questions. That’s the whole point of MMI. I’m not sure why you guys are concerned about who your particular interviewers were? It doesn’t make a difference.
 
Dobermann said:
The MMI interviewing is done by volunteers (often from the community), and we all get the same MMI questions. That’s the whole point of MMI. I’m not sure why you guys are concerned about who your particular interviewers were? It doesn’t make a difference.
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I believe we're aware of this.

Ideally differences among particular interviewers in an MMI are irrelevant (although CASPer states their graders are "extensively trained and vetted" on their website to account for subjectivity, and MMIs are often CASPer 2.0), but that was certainly not the case during my particular interview. A few of my interviewers followed along with the same structure of previous MMIs I've done, others jumped directly into their follow-up questions without letting me respond to the original prompt. It was clear that the expectations for the interviewers were not as consistent or clear as they could have been, and that variation could very well have been a result of volunteer discrepancy. Who knows? Regardless, it'd be shortsighted of me to let this experience take away from the program and what it stands for.
 
Prison Mike said:
I believe we're aware of this.

Ideally differences among particular interviewers in an MMI are irrelevant (although CASPer states their graders are "extensively trained and vetted" on their website to account for subjectivity, and MMIs are often CASPer 2.0), but that was certainly not the case during my particular interview. A few of my interviewers followed along with the same structure of previous MMIs I've done, others jumped directly into their follow-up questions without letting me respond to the original prompt. It was clear that the expectations for the interviewers were not as consistent or clear as they could have been, and that variation could very well have been a result of volunteer discrepancy. Who knows? Regardless, it'd be shortsighted of me to let this experience take away from the program and what it stands for.
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Mine also directly jumped into questions, although the prompt indicated I should have responded first. I have to believe that was an error on their part as the interview ended up getting done 2 minutes early with no other things to talk about after they finished their questions. I think that virtual MMIs are challenging because of the structure itself. Many times it took interviewers too long to start the zoom and therefore resulted in time being shortened. I just think there was not a lot of consistency.
 
petomed said:
Being granted a deferral means you were both given an acceptance and your petition to attend the school the following matriculation year (2023) due to catastrophic circumstances has been granted. Is this the status update you received?
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Am I understanding this right, if you get a deferral throughout the application cycle they will continue to reevaluate you and you may be granted an acceptance or you can wait a year and get into the next year's class?
 
For those who have received decisions, how were you notified? Email? Portal? Phone call?
 
petomed said:
Being granted a deferral means you were both given an acceptance and your petition to attend the school the following matriculation year (2023) due to catastrophic circumstances has been granted. Is this the status update you received?
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No a deferral on a decision. They will continue to reevaluate my application at each committee meeting with no further updates unless a decision is made.
 
Lord_Have_MRSA said:
Am I understanding this right, if you get a deferral throughout the application cycle they will continue to reevaluate you and you may be granted an acceptance or you can wait a year and get into the next year's class?
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Rejected
Done, you are no longer being considered

Accepted
Done, you can matriculate this cycle as intended

Interview Waitlist
You have not been rejected but you are placed on a list for interview consideration

Post-Interview Waitlist
You have interviewed and have not been rejected, however you have not yet been accepted. You may eventually receive an acceptance for this cycle and thus be removed from the waitlist.

Deferral
You have been accepted AND your petition to the school for matriculating the following year has been granted. This is very very rare.
 
petomed said:
Rejected
Done, you are no longer being considered

Accepted
Done, you can matriculate this cycle as intended

Interview Waitlist
You have not been rejected but you are placed on a list for interview consideration

Post-Interview Waitlist
You have interviewed and have not been rejected, however you have not yet been accepted. You may eventually receive an acceptance for this cycle and thus be removed from the waitlist.

Deferral
You have been accepted AND your petition to the school for matriculating the following year has been granted. This is very very rare.
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Normally yes, I knew all of this however it seems Geisinger does it differently. Here is the thread from last year where many people were deferred and later accepted/WL in the cycle.
 
Are decisions just on the secondary portal? I don't see anything resembling a decisions tab, so I'm not even sure where I would get decision information lol.
 
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