2024-2025 Kaiser Permanente (Tyson)

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anyone know if the traditional portion of the interview is closed or open? Can't seem to find that info anywhere.
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and are the MMI questions acting or non acting? (not sure if this is general info that's okay to know, or if it's not allowed to be disclosed - if not, ignore me!!)
 
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pleasehelpme12 said:
this guy speaks the truth. All future II, you have nothing to stress about. The interviewers are all incredibly kind and low stress.
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The real stress isn't the interview, it's if everyone has a chill experience; how are they using the interview to decide who to accept since they interview 700 applicants and only 50 matriculate? That said, you have to account for accepted applicants that turn them down and I vaguely recall reading somewhere that they accepted over 100 applicants one year. I don't remember where.
 
Interviewed today 10/8. I'll add another voice to say that the interview was pretty chill. MMI was intimidating, but it wasn't bad at all.

Also, the other applicants I met were universally great, genuinely people I can each imagine being my doctor. Whatever their selection process is, it is excellent! I feel especially honored now to have gotten an invite. Good luck all!
 
Was there an August interview or was September their first interview?
 
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southerncar said:
IS or OOS ?
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I'm actually having trouble figuring that out. Long story short I might be considered OOS or IS depending on how they go about determining that. In primary application my preferred (and legal) residence (IS) is different from my permanent residence (OOS). I will say that USC considers me OOS.
 
This is pure conjecture, but I had about 25 interviewees on my day, so I am assuming that number is consistent since they had to divide us into 2 groups, meaning that's their max capacity. Based on the reported interview dates, they're doing interviews every 3 weeks, but the next one is on October 22, so 2 weeks after October 7th. If this patterns holds until the end of February, we're looking at 8 to 12 interview sessions at the most, so 200-300 interviewees compared to the 700 they did last year. It looks like they realized 700 interviewees is overkill, so they lowered it for this cycle. On average, schools accept twice as many students as seats they have available because not every accepted student chooses to attend them. I don't see this number changing significantly with the lower number of interviewees, especially since students can use their Kaiser acceptance to leverage a full-ride scholarship to other schools.

So the post-II acceptance rate is somewhere between 33% to 50% this cycle if my hunch is correct. This is just a hunch, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
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sarcasmrules said:
This is pure conjecture, but I had about 25 interviewees on my day, so I am assuming that number is consistent since they had to divide us into 2 groups, meaning that's their max capacity. Based on the reported interview dates, they're doing interviews every 3 weeks, but the next one is on October 22, so 2 weeks after October 7th. If this patterns holds until the end of February, we're looking at 8 to 12 interview sessions at the most, so 200-300 interviewees compared to the 700 they did last year. It looks like they realized 700 interviewees is overkill, so they lowered it for this cycle. On average, schools accept twice as many students as seats they have available because not every accepted student chooses to attend them. I don't see this number changing significantly with the lower number of interviewees.

So the post-II acceptance rate is somewhere between 33% to 50% this cycle if my hunch is correct.
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Hope you’re right, I’ve been waiting for KPSOM so anxiously but trying to temper my enthusiasm cus of the previous low rates.
 
sarcasmrules said:
This is pure conjecture, but I had about 25 interviewees on my day, so I am assuming that number is consistent since they had to divide us into 2 groups, meaning that's their max capacity. Based on the reported interview dates, they're doing interviews every 3 weeks, but the next one is on October 22, so 2 weeks after October 7th. If this patterns holds until the end of February, we're looking at 8 to 12 interview sessions at the most, so 200-300 interviewees compared to the 700 they did last year. It looks like they realized 700 interviewees is overkill, so they lowered it for this cycle. On average, schools accept twice as many students as seats they have available because not every accepted student chooses to attend them. I don't see this number changing significantly with the lower number of interviewees, especially since students can use their Kaiser acceptance to leverage a full-ride scholarship to other schools.

So the post-II acceptance rate is somewhere between 33% to 50% this cycle if my hunch is correct. This is just a hunch, so take it with a grain of salt.
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I highly doubt it. Look at cycle track. The interview invite trend seems to be the same, so I think they’re probably interviewing the same number of applicants as previous cycles.
 
sexybeast said:
I highly doubt it. Look at cycle track. The interview invite trend seems to be the same, so I think they’re probably interviewing the same number of applicants as previous cycles.
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From admit.org it says Kaiser is instate bias. Anyone know how biased it is ?
 
sexybeast said:
I highly doubt it. Look at cycle track. The interview invite trend seems to be the same, so I think they’re probably interviewing the same number of applicants as previous cycles.
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Cycle track also says 800 applicants have been invited for an interview for this cycle.
 
sarcasmrules said:
Cycle track also says 800 applicants have been invited for an interview for this cycle.
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Are we looking at the same cycle track? I don’t see even close to 100 nevermind 800! Are you sure you aren’t confusing it with applications submitted?
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Basalganglia4life said:
Are we looking at the same cycle track? I don’t see even close to 100 nevermind 800! Are you sure you aren’t confusing it with applications submitted?View attachment 393480
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Wtf? That chart wasn't there a second ago. It showed the left as 2024-2025 cycle and the right (MD acceptances) at 2023-2024 cycle. Someone please confirm that so I know I'm not going crazy.

Either way, cycle track is self-reported so it doesn't have all the data. I never trust self-reported data.
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schway said:
Cycletrack has this weird glitchy thing where you need to refresh the page and then you'll see the charts appear each time you go on a school's page
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Oh good. I'm not going crazy. I thought this cycle robbed my sanity but it looks like I haven't completely lost it yet.
 
Basalganglia4life said:
Are we looking at the same cycle track? I don’t see even close to 100 nevermind 800! Are you sure you aren’t confusing it with applications submitted?View attachment 393480
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Keep in mind just because interviews are released around the same time, doesn't mean the total numbers are the same. Because that's self-reported, the numbers are vastly underreported. But one thing that's for sure, they cannot do more than 25 interviewees per session because they had to divide us into groups A and B. Plus, 700 is overkill and they probably realized that and lowered the number of interviewees to lessen unnecessary work. Either way, it's conjecture. We'll find out when the MSAR data for the number of interviews is released.
 
sarcasmrules said:
Wtf? That chart wasn't there a second ago. It showed the left as 2024-2025 cycle and the right (MD acceptances) at 2023-2024 cycle. Someone please confirm that so I know I'm not going crazy.

Either way, cycle track is self-reported so it doesn't have all the data. I never trust self-reported data.
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The 800+ number is the total data from 3 application cycles (according to the page, apologies if I'm wrong)
 
crspunky said:
The 800+ number is the total data from 3 application cycles (according to the page, apologies if I'm wrong)
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I'm speculating a change in their admissions process for this year and they are a new school, so it makes sense for them to make minor changes such as how many to interview. But again, it's pure conjecture based on how many applicants are interviewed per session and the rate they're going. No point debating on it. Only way to know is to wait for the MSAR data to be released. Can we please move on people?
 
sarcasmrules said:
This is pure conjecture, but I had about 25 interviewees on my day, so I am assuming that number is consistent since they had to divide us into 2 groups, meaning that's their max capacity. Based on the reported interview dates, they're doing interviews every 3 weeks, but the next one is on October 22, so 2 weeks after October 7th. If this patterns holds until the end of February, we're looking at 8 to 12 interview sessions at the most, so 200-300 interviewees compared to the 700 they did last year. It looks like they realized 700 interviewees is overkill, so they lowered it for this cycle. On average, schools accept twice as many students as seats they have available because not every accepted student chooses to attend them. I don't see this number changing significantly with the lower number of interviewees, especially since students can use their Kaiser acceptance to leverage a full-ride scholarship to other schools.

So the post-II acceptance rate is somewhere between 33% to 50% this cycle if my hunch is correct. This is just a hunch, so take it with a grain of salt.
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I hope this is right too but I also had an option to interview on 10/18 when I was scheduling so I think there are more interview dates than that
 
I think you are trying to read the tea leaves too closely. We really have no idea what is happening behind the curtain, interviews could ramp up in frequency or just as easily slow way down. No point in stressing if you've already interviewed.
 
da27 said:
I hope this is right too but I also had an option to interview on 10/18 when I was scheduling so I think there are more interview dates than that
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I think 10/18 was only for MD-PHD, for which I think they only interview like 25 people for 3 spots. So that might not affect "the pattern" lol. Someone, maybe @sarcasmrules , could ask at the virtual fair tomorrow how many people get interviewed and let us know, but I agree with @pleasehelpme12 's point! We all got this guys 🙂
 
beanbag401 said:
I think 10/18 was only for MD-PHD, for which I think they only interview like 25 people for 3 spots. So that might not affect "the pattern" lol. Someone, maybe @sarcasmrules , could ask at the virtual fair tomorrow how many people get interviewed and let us know, but I agree with @pleasehelpme12 's point! We all got this guys 🙂
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I ain't bugging them with those neurotic questions. I love you guys, but not enough to risk annoying them and my chances of an acceptance. But if you want to do it, be my guess.
 
Damn I think I have been spending too much time on SDN because I didn't see it as neurotic :,) I'm busy but lowkey maybe I can casually bring it up during an info session or something hahah
 
da27 said:
I hope this is right too but I also had an option to interview on 10/18 when I was scheduling so I think there are more interview dates than that
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Is it for MD-PhD?
 
Good luck tomorrow MD-PhD candidates. You'll love it!
 
Best luck tomorrow MD-PHD candidates. All of you are top 25. Even if you cannot finally get into MSTP, you will be admitted to MD for sure.
 
By the way, if you guys interviewing can ask Kaiser if they reduced the number of interviewees for this year, that would be greatly appreciated!
 
I'm nervous for Monday. Based on prev threads, if you don't get the A right away, you end up getting that R in March or WL in late March - then they don't pull from WL till April+May.
 
USSFSpecialist said:
I'm nervous for Monday. Based on prev threads, if you don't get the A right away, you end up getting that R in March or WL in late March - then they don't pull from WL till April+May.
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you got this though! You had a super early interview which means they really liked you
 
USSFSpecialist said:
I'm nervous for Monday. Based on prev threads, if you don't get the A right away, you end up getting that R in March or WL in late March - then they don't pull from WL till April+May.
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Not to mention it's your one chance to attend medical school with the GOAT of sarcasm.
 
USSFSpecialist said:
I'm nervous for Monday. Based on prev threads, if you don't get the A right away, you end up getting that R in March or WL in late March - then they don't pull from WL till April+May.
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also! there were several applicants last year who were interviewed early in the cycle, heard nothing back "right away", then got an A ~3 months later
 
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