It is very irritating. We have a massive physician shortage in our rural areas. I know a family member who travels 45 minutes to see their primary care physician. I have heard from a rural physician in rural OK who is a jack of all trades in his town because he is one of the few physicians in the area. During interview day, OSU Med said the data shows physicians will return to their homestate upon graduation, which is why OSU prioritizes in-state applicants to curb the crisis in our rural towns.
Yikes!
So not only are they trying to bump up their averages with OOS applicants, they want to further screw over Oklahomans by putting us further into a shortage of physicians. As a publicly-funded institution, it's concerning that they're more interested in appearances than actually providing healthcare to our communities...
I had my okc interview on 10/30 and tulsa on 11/7 so I don't think it works that way.
Logically, yes. Unfortunately, no one knows what is going on there this cycle. What we may know though is:
Brother you have the most interesting choice of vocabulary. I hope to see you at the white coat ceremony if we both make it in.
I am not 100% sure about this, but I think they let you know after your Tulsa interview. I did my HSC interview early and the admin pushed pretty hard for me to do my Tulsa interview earlier because I think they wanted to speed up the decision-making process.
They definitely do not only want high MCAT scores. I know around a dozen people with a 512+ MCAT who have not heard back after the interview, but the few people I know who have gotten in all had below a 508. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it for a while because admin won't finalize the class until March this cycle.
So Dustye Bailey says that they're increasing the OOS applicant pool due to a lack of qualified IS students and yet they've been only accepting sub 510 students? Nothing makes sense.
I think they're placing more emphasis on LOR and experience as opposed to MCAT, GPA, and research publications.
Exactly right. I have some ideas on what might be going on backstage there to cause the incongruous stuff we're seeing, and where it all could go, but speculation isn't worth anything.
I wish this was the case but someone mentioned previously that Dustye Bailey told them that they're wanting to bump up their GPA and MCAT scores. Their dental school's acceptances come out on mid-December, I'm hoping all of us who interviewed Aug-Oct. will hear by then as well.
They're sending them out in really small batches. The first batch was on 10/16, and the most recent batch (I think) was on 11/21.
Congratulations!
I am IS as well and have similar stats (3.9+ GPA and 510+ MCAT) and have also yet to hear back since my interview. I think we are all quite confused as to why even the competitive IS applicants are getting pushed aside for OOSers. Nothing against OOS, however the entire state is aware of the physician shortage and IS applicants are much more likely to stay here in OK and practice.
Interviewed on 8/28 with a 4.0 GPA and 507 MCAT, and I have not heard anything either. However, I emailed admin about the timeline, and they emailed back on the 24th saying that the "OU College of Medicine acceptance status communication timeline is late January." Nothing else.
On CycleTrack, someone reported that they got waitlisted on November 19th. I'm 99% sure that they misclicked though because I don't think waitlists even start yet.
It's frustrating that they boast about the number of interviews while many of us are left in the dark about the process. The constant revisions made on the slideshow seem to only benefit those who toured that day.
This is pretty standard across all med schools. Just go back a few posts to the discussion about all the individual scores and what not...pre med kids kick down the door when the slightest amount of transparency is displayed.
I hear ya but people who interviewed and didn't get the chance to tour could sign up for the later added dates. I hope doing so doesn't delay a decision.
It would be a nice experience to just get up to date information.
It really is a lot of fun during the holidays especially since all my family wants to ask is "Have you heard back from OU yet?"
Aida recently said that 60 people got admitted, and all of them have scores of ≥ 90. She said that admin's gonna keep looking for people with scores ≥ 90 until they fill 100 seats, and that the rest of the seats will be announced in February.
So they are just sitting on already determined R's (based on the score stuff) and plan to just let people worry and twist with false hope until FEB?! That's downright wicked, esp for a state school with rolling admissions. I know applicants who have gone out of their way to get to OKC, taking time off from work, paying for hotels and stuff like that just to attend January tour days in the event they get an A. Meantime, this school already knows that many of these people have zero shot?! Sure "ain't no love in Oklahoma" COM and this is something for a lot of folks to seriously think about.
We were originally told 4 weeks after our interview (it’s now been 12 weeks for me), then told it would be mid December, then January, now February? I can’t keep up hahah
I feel you on this it was so nice feeling good after the interview knowing you were fresh in the interviewers minds with only 2 weeks to hear a decision now we really are just numbers once again lmao.
Lol, so first they say that they want to increase the OOS applicant II in order to increase MCAT and GPA scores and now they're acting as if those things aren't nearly as important since 60 of the points come from your interview and 40 points come from academics/extracurricular. This school is backwards.
It's backwards... forwards, up, down, sideways and inside out too. Can't believe what's happening this cycle at the state's only MD program and OK is just about carrying the anchor nationally in healthcare as it is. The appalling way this has all been run even has me concerned about the program itself going forward, and whether I even want an A here if I’m accepted elsewhere.
I agree with you. The admissions process and what we had been told is so different. It’s going to push a lot of accepted students away.
You’d think our actions over years (application) would speak louder than our words over 60 minutes.What if a great applicant was having a rough day or they rubbed one of the interviewers wrong? Hypothetically an applicant could drop a few extra curriculars and strictly work on interview skills and get a seat over someone who did much more for their community who might have less prep interviewing.
An admissions faculty member came to my university to talk and she told us that the interview accounts for 60 points of our ranking
