For some of our candidates, it has been a little while since you heard from us at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). To be honest, the timeframe has been a bit longer than we anticipated compared to expectations we set in an earlier email.
Please know that we are working diligently processing the large volume of secondary applications that arrive through AMCAS. It is almost certain at this point that we will have yet another record high number of candidates for admission this year. Our best intentions of having a processing turnaround time of about a week before notifying candidates of the next processing stage have faded as this surge rolled in.
What I can share is that if you receive this note and if you have taken your CASPer situational judgement test that in all likelihood we have everything we need to complete your application credentials at NEOMED. We are just engaged reviewing your academic metrics and adding CASPer data from Altus Assessments before we send you another update. If we do find any challenges with your application credentials, we’ll certainly reach out to you via this email address.
While we have begun to interview our candidates who applied early and were offered secondary applications shortly thereafter and returned them quickly, we are deliberately saving interview slots proportionate to the number of applications yet to be processed. Because of this practice, we do not anticipate that we will disadvantage any candidates who we would like to interview simply because we are working through the peak processing period. As our interviews are scheduled to run through to February we believe every candidate who submits a secondary application will receive a fair and equitable opportunity to receive an interview with us. While applying to medical school can be a very stressful process that runs the course of many months, please know that our quiet phase working through peak processing season shouldn’t be cause for any anxiety.
Thank you for your patience with us as we work quickly but thoughtfully. We will definitely be in touch!
Sincerely,
Jim Barrett
Director of Admission
Northeast Ohio Medical University
