2024-2025 Massachusetts

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1) I want to confirm if others have heard the same thing from adcom- at my interview in December, I was told that adcom meets every other week up until end of February, and then weekly in March and April.

2) Does anyone know if the lowest scoring MMI station is dropped from the actual interview score? I know I completely bombed one.
 
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randomdude2025 said:
1) I want to confirm if others have heard the same thing from adcom- at my interview in December, I was told that adcom meets every other week up until end of February, and then weekly in March and April.

2) Does anyone know if the lowest scoring MMI station is dropped from the actual interview score? I know I completely bombed one.
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I can only answer #2, but at my interview one of the stations needed to be dropped because of interviewer tech issues. They told us they drop the lowest score, so they would just drop that station for us.
 
BiomedEGR777 said:
Maybe today is the day! ya know, since I've been waiting since mid September lmao
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You are a real trooper, seriously. Same for all interviewees who have been waiting 2+ months. I am at ~1 mo of silence and it has been nerve wracking.
 
randomdude2025 said:
You are a real trooper, seriously. Same for all interviewees who have been waiting 2+ months. I am at ~1 mo of silence and it has been nerve wracking.
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Also at ~ 1 month 🙁 Has there been any success stories of people getting the A after multiple months of waiting? I need some hope
 
jigglypuff3 said:
Also at ~ 1 month 🙁 Has there been any success stories of people getting the A after multiple months of waiting? I need some hope
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I scoured last year’s SDN thread and it doesn’t seem like many people had success the longer they waited. But also this is only anecdotal evidence. I know a couple of my friends who applied in previous cycles waited as long as 2 to 3 months, so I’m going to hope for a WL for another 30ish days. January has been a long month for me and I hope Feb/March go by faster.
 
randomdude2025 said:
I scoured last year’s SDN thread and it doesn’t seem like many people had success the longer they waited. But also this is only anecdotal evidence. I know a couple of my friends who applied in previous cycles waited as long as 2 to 3 months, so I’m going to hope for a WL for another 30ish days.
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ahh this is nerve wracking, fingers crossed for both of us!
 
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Interviewed 9/18 IS, regular MD, still nothing. I'm taking the L at this point and assuming it's an R based off of previous cycles. Have nobody to blame but myself I suppose but damn, I wish UMass would at least have the courtesy to reject me sooner instead of making me wait till late February-March.
 
pleasegimmeA said:
yep in the email they said waitlisted for md program and purch track
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How did you feel after each interview? I ask because i felt like my regular went great but my purch is 50/50. Curious if they consider you for PURCH and if PURCH is like WL then MD gets a chance to accept you/WL as you well?
 
MedGuy23 said:
How did you feel after each interview? I ask because i felt like my regular went great but my purch is 50/50. Curious if they consider you for PURCH and if PURCH is like WL then MD gets a chance to accept you/WL as you well?
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yeah i thought i did well on both but def 1 station in the purch interview i blanked a little. I’m also looking into the same thing. like can i remove myself from purch and if so does it have an effect on my md program waitlist? is it all or nothing ? might email the school later
 
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Cooked346 said:
Interviewed 9/18 IS, regular MD, still nothing. I'm taking the L at this point and assuming it's an R based off of previous cycles. Have nobody to blame but myself I suppose but damn, I wish UMass would at least have the courtesy to reject me sooner instead of making me wait till late February-March.
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The best way I can understand this is: there’s no advantage to having an earlier interview like at other med schools — this is the closest a med school can operate on college admissions schedule :/ I have heard of one other med school doing something similar. So it’s better to schedule a MMI when one is feeling ready vs. taking the earliest MMI date
 
meoopsshiba said:
Does anyone know if the Lead@Lahey interview truly lasts the entire time that's allotted?
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Yeah the first hour is an information session and then you have 3 interviews and 1 break, each taking a 1 hour block. it goes by decently quick though. However, mine was 3 interviews back to back (my "break" at the end), so I got out an hour early.
 
randomdude2025 said:
The best way I can understand this is: there’s no advantage to having an earlier interview like at other med schools — this is the closest a med school can operate on college admissions schedule :/ I have heard of one other med school doing something similar. So it’s better to schedule a MMI when one is feeling ready vs. taking the earliest MMI date
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Not disagreeing with your point. It just hurts a little when I was with the first batches of interviews sent out and the dean of admissions explicitly told our group that we were at an advantage for interviewing early.
 
E. Leaf said:
Not disagreeing with your point. It just hurts a little when I was with the first batches of interviews sent out and the dean of admissions explicitly told our group that we were at an advantage for interviewing early.
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Unfortunately, what UMass adcom says =/= what they do. It sucks. I really pray that you get some good news soon. It seems like the majority of us on this thread are still waiting. 🙁 sending a virtual hug.
 
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Is the interview here completely in MMI format or is there also a traditional interview component where you have a conversation and get asked standard questions like "Why medicine?"
 
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Daffy Duck Waiting GIF

how it feels waiting (yet again...) for another Friday of **possible** decisions from UMass
 
I wonder how many As have been handed out 😬 based on last years thread it looks like they admit approximately 400 students (making for a 50% ish yield rate, class of 236). And AFAIK 75 people are moved off the WL historically (out of 150 WL offers). So about 450-550 of those who interviewed will get post-II R, assuming that the application isn’t withdrawn after the interview (and also assuming about 1000 got interviewed).

Being able to whittle down applicants to that amount is crazy difficult
 
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