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Der_Ubermensch1 said:
An admissions faculty member came to my university to talk and she told us that the interview accounts for 60 points of our ranking
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Wild that a few minutes over Zoom where they ask simple questions determines 60% of whether or not you'll become a doctor, while MCAT score, GPA, and years of medical experience, research, and volunteering only account for 40%.
 
Yep. That's why I made the "butter them up" remark a while back on here. OU was THE medical school in my life plan, but that sure has changed... moreso as they keep changing the parameters and rules.
 
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Funtimesahead said:
I just find it concerning how they’ve been spreading misinformation and changing things throughout the cycle while expecting us to trust them to implement an entirely new curriculum for our class and implement it smoothly over the next four years.
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Especially since they've outright denied that they even told people their rankings on tour dates.
 
This whole thing is unsurprising. No one was able to answer substantive questions about the new curriculum apart from it being based on First Aid. That's a bit concerning given the economics and opportunity cost of medical school.

They seem to think it's a selling point, but when you can articulate much about it, it seems like more of a red flag.

As someone IS, I was very interested in OU, but it's been pretty amateurish compared to the other schools who I received IIs from.
 
Der_Ubermensch1 said:
Especially since they've outright denied that they even told people their rankings on tour dates.
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Spot on. Admissions' gaslighting about this is seriously concerning, and that's taking into account a whole lot of other stuff to be disturbed by! Again, feels like there was a hostile takeover of this medical school suddenly in this cycle. This isn't a game either. It impacts applicants' lives and livelihoods and theoretically, the well being of Oklahomans in general. I hope they get their act together ASAP.
 
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rootsmagoo said:
This whole thing is unsurprising. No one was able to answer substantive questions about the new curriculum apart from it being based on First Aid. That's a bit concerning given the economics and opportunity cost of medical school.

They seem to think it's a selling point, but when you can articulate much about it, it seems like more of a red flag.

As someone IS, I was very interested in OU, but it's been pretty amateurish compared to the other schools who I received IIs from.
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This was a huge red flag for me as well. Students couldn't speak to the changes as their curriculum was different, and the faculty present at the tour did not seem like they knew much about it either. It did feel pretty bush league.
 
I’m hesitant to put too much criticism on admin, not sure how much of the conflicting info is just the grapevine distorting things. Might just be coping cause I really want to go to oucom, but oh well.
 
fluppy said:
I’m hesitant to put too much criticism on admin, not sure how much of the conflicting info is just the grapevine distorting things. Might just be coping cause I really want to go to oucom, but oh well.
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I wish it was just the grapevine distorting things. The most egregious thing admin did was telling some people their scores and lying about it later, but secretly lifting the cap on OOS residents and changing the timeline of acceptances repeatedly is also up there.
 
Mid-November Interview.
520+ mcat
3.9x GPA
Cookie cutter ECs.

Originally planned to apply next cycle - but YOLO'd everything after getting my September exam score back - submitting everything at the last possible second. I offer this information as a potential critique of the ostensibly lopsided stats/Interview weight splits, or at least as it pertains to the specifics/splits that have been ascertained here. My Interview performance was nothing short of egregious. 2 hours of sleep the night before yielded utter disengagement and poor elucidation. Went home almost certain I would recieve an R fairly quickly. Here I am with an A less than 3 weeks later. In my particular situation, an A was received due to high stats, and high stats alone. There was nothing else impressive beyond a decent personal statement, and even then, I doubt mine stood out in a substantive way.

The madness has no method.
 
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lowlysurgeon11 said:
Mid-November Interview.
520+ mcat
3.9x GPA
Cookie cutter ECs.

Originally planned to apply next cycle - but YOLO'd everything after getting my September exam score back - submitting everything at the last possible second. I offer this information as a potential critique of the ostensibly lopsided GPA/Interview weight splits, or at least as it pertains to the specifics/splits that have been ascertained here. My Interview performance was nothing short of egregious. 2 hours of sleep the night before yielded utter disengagement and poor elucidation. Went home almost certain I would recieve an R fairly quickly. Here I am with an A less than 3 weeks later. In my particular situation, an A was received due to high stats, and high stats alone. There was nothing else impressive beyond a decent personal statement, and even then, I doubt mine stood out in a substantive way.

The madness has no method.
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Obviously it did stand out, you're a stud no matter how big your imposter syndrome is!!! That's awesome, congratulations future doctor. Let yourself be proud of yourself =) I'm projecting hard bc I'm trying to do the same thing and its too relatable 😂
 
lowlysurgeon11 said:
Mid-November Interview.
520+ mcat
3.9x GPA
Cookie cutter ECs.

Originally planned to apply next cycle - but YOLO'd everything after getting my September exam score back - submitting everything at the last possible second. I offer this information as a potential critique of the ostensibly lopsided stats/Interview weight splits, or at least as it pertains to the specifics/splits that have been ascertained here. My Interview performance was nothing short of egregious. 2 hours of sleep the night before yielded utter disengagement and poor elucidation. Went home almost certain I would recieve an R fairly quickly. Here I am with an A less than 3 weeks later. In my particular situation, an A was received due to high stats, and high stats alone. There was nothing else impressive beyond a decent personal statement, and even then, I doubt mine stood out in a substantive way.

The madness has no method.
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Thanks for the info. You're clearly awesome and they don't even deserve you! As for madness, that they have plenty of, nevertheless.
 
mednerd85 said:
Man, it really would have been great to have heard something today🙁
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Last year there was a big wave on December 11th, the Monday of finals week, so I was hoping for today as well even though Aida already said we won't hear until February unless we have a 90+ score 😢
 
901shelby said:
Last year there was a big wave on December 11th, the Monday of finals week, so I was hoping for today as well even though Aida already said we won't hear until February unless we have a 90+ score 😢
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They'd rather scrape the barrel for the 90+ applicants (who'd probably take an A somewhere else) this far into the cycle than give out acceptances to the students who would be more than willing to attend OU.
 
At this point, it's gone from a dream of attending to the place just leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Good chance their new St%twh0r# strategy backfires on them by AMCAS decision lock-in time this spring. They may well be left scraping their WL barrel into summer. The locale and IS tuition lure only goes so far. We ALL have worked too hard and given up too much to not have a shot at an A where we're not just filler and backups after they couldn't get the ones they really wanted. State school! GL to y'all. May everyone land where they are appreciated.
 
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L-Tex-Oma said:
At this point, it's gone from a dream of attending to the place just leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Good chance their new St%twh0r# strategy backfires on them by AMCAS decision lock-in time this spring. They may well be left scraping their WL barrel into summer. The locale and IS tuition lure only goes so far. We ALL have worked too hard and given up too much to not have a shot at an A where we're not just filler and backups after they couldn't get the ones they really wanted. State school! GL to y'all. May everyone land where they are appreciated.
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I was told that MD school should be my only option if I'm accepted to an MD...but OU being the only MD in-state school in Oklahoma has me rethinking that ideology completely. I have had an A at OSU in Tulsa for 4 months. I was in their first round of interviews, and they have always treated me with respect and like family since I first attended one of their events 2 years ago (fun fact: OU med never did recruitment days as OSUcom did). I would love to stay in OKC because it is where I'm from, and I have family members who aren't doing great health-wise, but I also want to attend a medical school that truly wants me and is completely honest and transparent about their application cycle processes.
 
bobthewho said:
Any 10/6 interviewers who haven't heard back yet?
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People with a 90+ score heard back within 2 weeks of their interview or on October 16th if they interviewed in August or September. Aida recently said that anyone without a 90+ will hear back by February. People who interviewed today were told that they'll hear back in late January so I think we're all just gonna have to wait. Absolutely brutal for the people who interviewed in August.
 
901shelby said:
Does anyone know where the idea of 60% interview and 40% application came from? I never heard anyone from admin say that before but I hear it on here all the time. I also don't know how the interview can even hold that much weight when it's online and they didn't ask any particularly difficult questions.
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n=1 but I heard someone from admissions tell another applicant this exact thing on my tour date
 
dubai0521 said:
at this point idk if OU is a good choice anymore. it was a solid choice for me, but now it's only leaving a really bad taste in my mouth. when i went to the tour 11/16, they did not know what they were talking about at all when asked about the new curriculum. they said the students in this incoming class are going to be the "guinea pigs" which is scary since it's also their first med school year too and we're cooked if we do not do well that year. also, the way they keep changing the dates we are supposed to hear back by months without giving us any updates is also kind of fishy. i do not appreciate the way they rank us using numbers when over half of it is being determined by people who only know us for 45 minutes and we have all spent years volunteering/shadowing/doing research. i think this system really needs to be changed and they should also be able to answer more questions about their "new curriculum" instead of saying they are "trying and testing it" and letting our academic grades and our future suffer if this curriculum fails.

honestly, i think OSU has a way more structured approach than OU does. at least they are kind enough and not using us as "guinea pigs" to experiment on and not ranking us with more than half of our score coming from a random person's subjective opinion who does not know how much effort and time and work we have put into our application for months and years. overall very disappointed in OU's system and it has definitely changed my outlook on them. if accepted to another school, i would go somewhere else.
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The "new curriculum" undermines the value of joint mods, since they've combined upperclassmen and lowerclassmen together. If upperclassmen can't guide us through our didactic semesters, this throws everything off. I'm sure the past medical students have passed on so much study material (Anki decks, study guides, etc.) that will be rendered completely useless because they've decided, out of nowhere, to implement something new. On my tour date, all questions about this "new curriculum" were shot down by the current med students because they had no idea what changed.
 
I'm honestly not even that mad about the new curriculum. Most other medical schools do it the same way they're transitioning to (adding 6 months of clinical rotations), and of course current med students won't be able to answer much about it since they had a different curriculum; the change was inevitable at one point or another.
I'm just upset about how they keep switching up other aspects about the application process as well. I wish they would have kept everything else the same since the change in curriculum is already a big change.

Tour slides on 09/07 which show interviews ending in December:
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Tour slides on 11/16 showing interviews going through January:
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901shelby said:
I'm honestly not even that mad about the new curriculum. Most other medical schools do it the same way they're transitioning to (adding 6 months of clinical rotations), and of course current med students won't be able to answer much about it since they had a different curriculum; the change was inevitable at one point or another.
I'm just upset about how they keep switching up other aspects about the application process as well. I wish they would have kept everything else the same since the change in curriculum is already a big change.

Tour slides on 09/07 which show interviews ending in December:
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Tour slides on 11/16 showing interviews going through January:
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This is what is frustrating to me too. I was told at my tour date and at my interview date that it would be 2-4 weeks and then we’d hear. It’s been 13 weeks now for me, and each tour date seems to be told something different regarding timeline, OOS acceptances, and more. I’m at the point where I have to start putting down deposits on my DO acceptances if I want to hold my spot, and I thought I’d for sure have heard from OU by now (one way or the other) to help with that decision.

If they really already know our status due to our score and have a list of people they’re going to reject, I wish they’d just do it already so we can move on and be able to make decisions about other schools.
 
There’s a national trend of med schools skewing more female than male, but OU has remained more evenly balanced, Will that be changing too?! It’s all been so opaque and contradictory that the only things this OU med seem to share with the OU med I applied to are the branding and location(s).
 
So what do we think these acceptances from last night are? People above an 85 now? It gave me hope that someone who interviewed in August was finally hearing back but now I’m worried that since I didn’t hear from my September interview that maybe I’m in the waitlist or R group and maybe have below an 85. I guess all we can do is speculate.
 
luckylucy132 said:
So what do we think these acceptances from last night are? People above an 85 now? It gave me hope that someone who interviewed in August was finally hearing back but now I’m worried that since I didn’t hear from my September interview that maybe I’m in the waitlist or R group and maybe have below an 85. I guess all we can do is speculate.
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There's no way for any of us to know. It also looks like Aida outright lied about only 90+ scores hearing back before February. I'm really glad people are hearing back earlier than expected, but having admin straight up lie to us feels like a slap in the face.
 
luckylucy132 said:
So what do we think these acceptances from last night are? People above an 85 now? It gave me hope that someone who interviewed in August was finally hearing back but now I’m worried that since I didn’t hear from my September interview that maybe I’m in the waitlist or R group and maybe have below an 85. I guess all we can do is speculate.
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Can't be 85+, unless they just haven't gotten to all of those people
 
Khazan said:
Can't be 85+, unless they just haven't gotten to all of those people
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They likely haven't gotten to everyone. They must have started accepting < 90 scores because the people who got accepted interviewed a while ago and scores can't change after the interview.
 
901shelby said:
They likely haven't gotten to everyone. They must have started accepting < 90 scores because the people who got accepted interviewed a while ago and scores can't change after the interview.
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That's what I thought too, but that means they either just called a very small number of people, or are going out of order, which is weird. But ig nothing is certain.
 
Khazan said:
That's what I thought too, but that means they either just called a very small number of people, or are going out of order, which is weird. But ig nothing is certain.
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Do you happen to know your score? If yours is 85+ that helps me feel better that maybe you’re right that they haven’t called everybody in this range yet.
 
luckylucy132 said:
So what do we think these acceptances from last night are? People above an 85 now? It gave me hope that someone who interviewed in August was finally hearing back but now I’m worried that since I didn’t hear from my September interview that maybe I’m in the waitlist or R group and maybe have below an 85. I guess all we can do is speculate.
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Same boat here, didn’t think I was that bad of an interviewer, maybe I’m wrong. This whole process has me questioning everything.
 
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