If there is the option to upload it to the portal and the school actually looks at updates, they will absolutely look at it as a group in the applicant review meetings. Sending individually to interviewers can be either annoying at worst or neutral at best, in my opinion.
In my personal experience, not a lot of people get rejected after the interview, but I'm not sure of an exact percentage. Of course this will vary from school to school. Once you reach the interview stage, programs are usually serious about recruiting you. This means that for the people who don't make the initial acceptance after the interview, it's much more common to see people get waitlisted.
duke has been using this system for quite a while, looks awesome I agree!
Similar to Michigan's
I did a hybrid of the two. I prepared a pre-made diagram that had missing components that a drew in. I think the presentation went very well - at least the feedback from my practice group said as much. Were I do do it over again, I would have been a alittle more in-depth and maybe talked a tad faster just to ensure that the actualy science was conveyed....however i think this hybrid mechanism can work well.
It does happen, particularly for the Jan/Feb interviews. However, this might be only 10-25% of those invited for those slots. I personally wished that there is no way for applicants to received their 6th acceptance. Which means that at all times, once you get to 5 ACs, you must drop one so that you have an open slot for your "dream" school. In prior cycles, I always had an accepted applicant carrying 8+ ACs, clogging the system.
You are literally my hero! Huge congratulations with your success, future double doc!
This is quite rare, but it has happened twice in my program; in both cases, the students enrolled in medical school without prejudice. The MD-PhD program is not of itself a degree granting entity, it is a pathway (albeit with many enhancements) that connects two degree granting entities, the medical school and the graduate school. MD-PhD students are admitted to the medical school and the graduate school, and have all the rights of MD and PhD students. When a student decides to withdraw from one of the schools (usually the graduate school) they do not forfeit their rights to continue to attend the other school. I would think other schools would have the same take on this.
In your experience, are applicants who are interested in traditional graduate programs but non-traditional research formats included in this group?
PM me ... we can discuss in more depth, with more context
Just keep in mind that your wife might remind you "forever" that you didn't give it a chance.
“happy wife happy life” is a great philosophy to live by……But if I can give that slot to someone else, maybe *they* can have a happy spouse too…..or I can just tell her I went since she works that day and I don’t……..that won’t work lolJust keep in mind that your wife might remind you "forever" that you didn't give it a chance.
You can definitely do that. It's just the difference of not having an integrated education (courses and other events connecting the philosophies of the MD and the PhD), and going into debt for an MD and not getting paid after doing your PhD. If I were you, I'd contact the MD-PhD program at your school and tell them about this situation that you're in--maybe they can reconsider, or give you an alternate path to their MD-PhD (i.e. maybe they say, enter our MD only program and then we'll heavily consider you to transfer into our program, etc.).
| As of 12/02/2021 | n | cGPA | MCAT |
| Total MD/PhD Applicants | 1756 | 3.69 | 511.5 |
| Withdraw Before AC | 37 | 3.79 | 514.5 |
| Defer to Regular MD consideration | 17 | 3.81 | 515.9 |
| Rejected (PR,PW,RJ) | 891 | 3.67 | 511.3 |
| At least 1 MD/PhD AC | 160 | 3.84 | 517.6 |
| Available active (AL,RS,IN) | 479 | 3.71 | 511.8 |
| Available passive (NA,HO) | 172 | 3.57 | 504.1 |
So, based on the fact that there are around 850 slots to fill and:
Thank you for your advice!
We do not have 850 slots. We have 750 slots, as people withdraw before/after acceptances some of those slots become available requiring a total of 850 acceptances to fill the 750 first-year positions.
If they are your only acceptance right now then they are the school you are enrolling in. It is not binding until you commit to enroll after April 30th or whatever. You may just end up out of the deposit. Just proceed on their timeline - although they shouldn't have any deadlines for you for several months - and withdraw if you get any other acceptances.
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How interesting that so many are deferring to MD only even just prior to the start of classes/summer rotations. I suppose I understand cold feet. Thank you for clarifying.
I just wanted to post a word of encouragement for anyone still worried about their cycle or not getting any interviews. I looked at my calculator that uses direct data from the list of all interview dates as reported by schools to see where we are at in the cycle.
As of today, 43.9% of all interview events remain (where an interview event is a single school holding an interview day, with the possibility of there being multiple interview events on a single day if multiple schools have them).
If schools are sending out interview invites an average of six weeks ahead of interview dates, including the holiday break, then 20% Of all interview invites remain, assuming we maintain a uniform number of people who accept those interview invites.
If schools are sending out interview invites an average of four weeks ahead of interview dates, again including holidays and assuming uniform acceptance of those invites, then 33.8% of all invites are left.
This information is over generalized, it is based on averages and not specific schools, many schools are already done with all interviews and more so are done with all interview invites. However, there are many schools only\predominantly interview in January, February, and even some in March. With that in mind, and under the presumption that most of the best applicants will have already gotten the majority of their invites, well we are more than halfway done with invites, there’s still between a fifth and a third left. it’s still too early to give up hope if you have none or few.
This is supported by the data that fencer has provided and I think should be encouraging to anyone losing hope. With that said, do continue to improve your application for the next cycle if you need to, do write update letters and letters of interest, and still act as though you are going to be a reapplicant until you have an acceptance in hand.
Calculator:
AAMC Calendar:
MD-PhD Interviews and Revisit Days
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Edit: looks like I missed a few second look days. These shouldn’t affect the percentages by more than 1-2% But I will get those removed in a couple hours! Encouragement still viable!
Edit 2: fixed, correct numbers present. Barely changed. Be encouraged!
Yes, the conditional formatting will compare to whatever day you are looking at the sheet on.
Do you think schools sending new interviews out for February and late January dates might be balanced out by last-minute filling of slots? for example, if I cancelled one of my Jan interviews, would it be filled? Or if someone cancels for late December?
