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At our interview session the other week, admissions said that if you interview between Aug-Oct, you'll be in the first decision wave in early December (either accepted or deferred decision to the 2nd wave in Feb/March). They emphasized that they do separate waves so ppl who interview later aren't at any disadvantage vs earlier interviews.
Ooops sorry I meant I was wondering if getting an early invite = they think you'd be a better fit with the school than if you were to interview later on?
They send you the names of your interviewers the morning of, and they said there's no expectation for the interviewee to look them up before
It may or may not, I don't think any school has officially confirmed that. Even if they do, II procedures and timing probably vary between each and every school. At least from what admissions officially told us, they seem to take steps to minimize the effect of interview timing on an app's competitiveness. Although fwiw as an N=1, Feinberg is a pretty strong mission fit for a few reasons in addition to my stats/activities and I got an II 1-2 weeks after I was complete in August.
Speculatively, I’d imagine yes. Each school has their own way of reviewing apps, but earlier II probably means they liked you enough to invite you immediately or quickly rather than sitting on your app for a long time or designating it to be re-reviewed. Who know how much this may or may not come into play at various schools, but it’s definitely not definitive. There’s plenty of people with early interviews who don’t get in and plenty with late interviews who do.
Looks like your begging worked but mine didn’t 🤣
Great and 2 open faculty and 1 closed student
same
Now I’m worried
me too
Mine was in my spam folder lol
Of the students who were accepted to this school, 10% of them had below a 512, but I would assume those individuals have something extremely outstanding to the point that their MCAT score could have been overlooked for it (so I sort of doubt that many people with 505's got in). Never hurts to give it a shot though, perhaps you may be that outstanding applicant
I am interviewing with a low to mid 51X so I wouldn’t lose hope
I applied to the latter program called NUPSP my junior year. I heard they usually only take ppl with 3.9+ gpas since many people who do that early program don't take the MCAT.
yeah, i talked to a friend who got in via NUPSP and that’s p much what he said too lol
Congrats!! I hope you get that A!! Do you have strong ties to Chicago??
I don’t have any exact data but in the interview it was emphasized that it was a very small amount and the vast majority of people get the delayed decision until march
Yeah that’s what they said during mine too. Feinberg is one of my top top choices and I just can’t do this waiting anymore 😩
I know me too. But unfortunately I think most of us are in for a long few months
I can only imagine they are casual and I think tommorow's is the first virtual chat
Sending something pre interview between now and December really wouldn't make much of a difference, but if you send one in December, there's a higher chance you could include the update with the paper, which would be more impactful anyway
This might be a stupid question, but why is it not going to make a difference between now and December? Just the paper or is NW not looking at stuff until then? Thank you!!!
Paper and NW interviews into February as far as I know so I'd rather hedge my bets on having the paper and update in December over sending something now that's much weaker by comparison
bumping! sorry, I don't want to email the admissions office with an embarrassing question. Should we all be getting newsletters automatically or did you sign up? thanks!!
They are just letting you marinate a little longer 😉
i dont think i can get any more flavorful
Yes, they are welcomed!
No, its casual.
Thank you!
