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imnotsurewhoareyou said:
Never know how to accurately assess an interview performance but they were certainly not conversational rather they were very robotic. Hopefully did well!
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So I interviewed at this school twice (last year and this year) and my interview experience last year, especially with the student interviewer, was similar. I felt it was "robotic" and they were asking questions with no actual follow-ups. However, this year my experience was a lot more conversational with both interviewers.

Based on the interview feedback on sdn, many students felt like their interview experience was like yours (way more compared to other schools), so I wouldn't worry about it too much. While some students get lucky with very conversational interviewers, some do not and I doubt it speaks for your own interview skills. They could've loved you but just didn't show it, and vice versa an interview could seem to be going great but the interviewer doesn't really care for you.
 
I’m designating November as ‘Baylor month’ because that’s all I will be thinking about until Turkey day.
 
texasvandy said:
Baylor holds admissions until last week of November. The first offers usually have been at the end thanksgiving weekend.
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Ah okay. Such suspense with them! The nice thing about Baylor is the incredible acceptance rate post-II. Excited for those who've interviewed!
 
skeptastic said:
Ah okay. Such suspense with them! The nice thing about Baylor is the incredible acceptance rate post-II. Excited for those who've interviewed!
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Is it really that high? From what I've seen, it's relatively the same as other texas schools.
 
revuot said:
I sent mine directly to the interviewers bc I don’t believe they told us on interview day about the admissions email to send them to! But any way should be fine, I hope.
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Whew, was thinking I was massively blanking out on something!
 
texasvandy said:
Baylor holds admissions until last week of November. The first offers usually have been at the end thanksgiving weekend.
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After discussing with the spirits, my prediction is that on November 29th, the first prematch phone calls will be conducted.

May the games begin.
 
revuot said:
I sent mine directly to the interviewers bc I don’t believe they told us on interview day about the admissions email to send them to! But any way should be fine, I hope.
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Yeah honestly it probably doesn't matter anyways. I could be misremembering to about the admissions email, too.
 
hadv3r said:
Is it really that high? From what I've seen, it's relatively the same as other texas schools.
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You're right. I just checked again and the 2021 data shows about a 43% post-II A rate for IS interviewees. It was the 2020 data that showed the rate to be near 55% that I was thinking of, but that was just one year.
 
skeptastic said:
You're right. I just checked again and the 2021 data shows about a 43% post-II A rate for IS interviewees. It was the 2020 data that showed the rate to be near 55% that I was thinking of, but that was just one year.
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I think even the 2021 sheet is outdated/not reflective of this year (since it would be for the 2020 cycle and not the 2021 cycle). Like it's showing McGovern is only interviewing 900 people, when last year they interviewed >1000 and I think this year they plan on interviewing like 1100. I wouldn't be surprised if post-II acceptance percentage was <40% for Baylor this year, especially considering they're interviewing 1050 this year and not 840-850.
 
hadv3r said:
I think even the 2021 sheet is outdated/not reflective of this year (since it would be for the 2020 cycle and not the 2021 cycle). Like it's showing McGovern is only interviewing 900 people, when last year they interviewed >1000 and I think this year they plan on interviewing like 1100. I wouldn't be surprised if post-II acceptance percentage was <40% for Baylor this year, especially considering they're interviewing 1050 this year and not 840-850.
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i always wondered how that sheet worked for TMDSAS schools since we go by match. also, Baylor’s interview rate is higher than that for in-state since they interview so many more OOS students than other texas schools.
 
Does anyone know if Baylor's waves are rolling? For example, in the November wave they are accepting those who interviewed earlier etc? Or have yall also heard of people who interviewed earlier, didn't pre-match, but matched in March?
 
sweetpotatoez12 said:
Does anyone know if Baylor's waves are rolling? For example, in the November wave they are accepting those who interviewed earlier etc? Or have yall also heard of people who interviewed earlier, didn't pre-match, but matched in March?
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literally every current student at the Baylor interview told me that they didn’t prematch, interviewed early and matched in March.

Only like 70-80 kids are pre matching at Baylor, the rest will all be admitted on match day.
 
Baylor does admit people through periodic admissions.

All schools follow specific processes in terms of how often they release admissions and how many they admit at each time. This is how I see the process at most schools:

1. Admit early interviewees they must have in the first round. Since this round covers usually 2-3 months of the pool, it feels like a large pool when people claim to be prematched but it is proportional to people already interviewed. Although the early groups are usually high achievers, not all get admitted because they want to see the entire pool before they admit more from early pool;

2. The second, third and may be 4th round before match date they will certain number to admit. They are scoring applicants after their interviews and if they want to admit 20 in round 2, 20 in round 3 and so on, they have to figure out who to admit. They will find only 14 ready to admit from round 2 interviews and they will go find 6 more from round 1, in round 3, they can admit 10 from round 3, 5 from round 2 and 5 more from round 1; and

3. In the match, they lose 20 people to UTSW, Dell and my favorite this year based the popularity - McGovern and find 40 more from all the different rounds to fill all the seats.
 
texasvandy said:
3. In the match, they lose 20 people to UTSW, Dell and my favorite this year based the popularity - McGovern and find 40 more from all the different rounds to fill all the seats.
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In your opinion do you think baylor will have a lower yield given the temple campus and lose more to other texas schools?
 
hadv3r said:
In your opinion do you think baylor will have a lower yield given the temple campus and lose more to other texas schools?
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I expect lower yield just because they are not accepting preference before admissions. Students who are specific about going to only Houston campus or else they want to pick another school will have to play the lottery and if they have choices the yield will be lower.

It all depends on how many admitted dont care about a specific campus vs specific. You also have to remember Baylor has 12-15% OOS who dont have to go through match so only about 85% are playing the match game.
 
chicandtoughness said:
OMG II today!!! Stats in signature.

In case you don't remember, I was the silly butt who forgot to send Casper scores so my secondary wasn't completed until 10/28 or something.
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Yeah, I was the silly fool who wrote “I’m really excited to go to X school” on all my Texas applications. Guess Baylor is more forgiving than the rest.
 

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beansncheese said:
Thank you! I interviewed 9/30 🙂 I should also add that I was offered some ~money~ which may be why I received a call instead of an email notification? They told me the offer would appear on my portal later.
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Historically (lol only last year) it seems like Baylor makes calls for all prematches. Congrats on the acceptance and the hard cash! You’re gonna be an amazing doctor I’m sure!
 
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