5 Interviews Or More????

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[Creightonite]

I h8 p3ople on th1s thr3ad

 

[akademix]

i hate you on every thread

 

[akademix]

just kiddin, i love you

 

[blantant]

i think it's harder for folks on the west coast. there are very few schools we can drive to. plane trips are longer and are the most costly part of the interview process.

i'm no premed machine, but i've been doing suprisingly well and plan on cancelling 3 of the 9 interview offers because after visiting 6 schools, i sort of have the feel of what kind of environment i'd like to be in for the next four years. that stuff matters to me. as someone from sunny california, i don't want to be somewhere cold and isolated if i have the choice. adcoms have assured me that my app is competative, so i feel extreeeemly lucky that i do have that choice.

 

[hateroftheyear]

I received 16 interviews (13 MSTP, 3 MD)

I'm attending 12 of those (10 MSTP, 2 MD)

Take into account that several of the MSTP interviews are multi-day affairs, and that I'm making four trips from North Carolina to the West Coast, and we're talking about nearly a month lost to interviewing.

I am broke, but I don't regret my decision. Especially for MD/PhD, this is a lot of your life to commit to a relatively small "bubble." Best to get it right while you have the chance.

The fact that I did not receive my first acceptance until yesterday probably factored significantly into my decision to take nearly every interview offer 🙂

-hater

 

[photo_girl07]

I've had 17 interviews invitations....and I ended up going to 10 interviews and cancelling 7...after I was accepted 🙂 No point in wasting time...and why not help others out....good karma 😍

now, I am down to my last interview and waiting for decisions....😛

In the end, we can only got to one school 😀

 

[mrs.smith]

If you think 5 interviews is too many now, wait until residency interviews when you need 15+ to have a great chance at matching in your specialty!

 

[Go Time]

19 invites. Attended 15. I only attended 5 after my first acceptance...with all of those 5 either being closer to family or in my original top 5 hopeful list.

Yeah...it's a risk for west coasters to pass up OOS inivites from the often earlier time-table, mid-west or eastern schools...at least pre-acceptance.


I also began withdrawing from schools pre-invite after my first acceptance if they didn't make sense...and I'm still waiting for decisions from my state and regional schools...probably until spring.

 

[TPROrgoTutor2]

Im not sure how many invites I have as I declined all but a few. I'm also not sure how many I would have had as I withdrew my other applications. I saw no point in wasting both my time and the school's when another applicant who would be happy for the seat could take my place.

 

[EBI831]

i applied to 8 schools. got 5 interviews so far. dropped one pre-secondary so now oddly enough my pre-application top school is one of the last two i'm waiting on, the other is harvard and geez i have to see if i can get into harvard based on some fluke personality asset or something. also, as i did august mcat i'm rather late in the game and all my interviews are within a month of each other so i won't have acceptances yet so i might as well go so when my "top" school asks have u been on any other interviews as the others have been asking, i can be like i've been to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and they'll be impressed....maybe?

 

[HumbleMD]

Been on 9 interviews (a lot were done befoer the Oct 15 date, so I hadn't heard from many schools). Had 2 more that I canceled (Oregon and Nebraska, after I heard from Baylor). It's necessary, becuase now I have a choice of 7 different schools (and still waiting on Duke and UPenn). Just think about all the folks posting on this thread though, with multiple acceptances, that will be multiple movements on multiple waitlists.

 

[DrBMX]

I had five so far and was accepted to two. I already scheduled the next one but I'll probably not go to any after this since I'm quite sure that I'm going to MSU CHM.

 

[wiki23]

I had 19 interview invites. I canceled 2 and have 2 left for January. I live out on the east coast, so it is really easy for me to travel to places such as boston and nyc. I have been really busy these past few months, but it is great to visit so many campuses. I have also been able to travel on the cheap side by taking buses and staying with student hosts.

 

[Anastasis]

10 Interviews and I cancelled 2... 5 were in TX so I could just drive. I had 3 OOS I had to buy plane tickets for but I never paid for a hotel room (though I did buy dinner for my student hosts). Why shouldn't I go to all the interviews that I had offers to? You never know what school you're going to fall in love with. I don't see anything inherently selfish in keeping my interviews that I earned and am still interested in. I did turn down two after my first acceptance because I knew I wouldn't go there over my acceptance in hand.

 

[melissainsd]

12 interviews in 10 states, most on the east coast (I am on the west)...I am soon to be broke. Unfortunately I was complete rather late so my interviews are recent (7) or in the near future (5). I am worried I will regret turning down interviews, so until I have more acceptances I will spend most of my time on planes.

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

7 interviews, withdrew from 2. Money and time issues.

 

[PeripateticMD]

So I've gotten 12 invites, 8 already done (in two weeks). It was a crazy two weeks, and too early to hear back from most of them. I'm probably going to cancel 2 of the four left (that I know about), but I'm waiting for an acceptance. I don't want to spend all this money... I'd rather go to Paris... and so would my aunt, who lives there... And so would my boyfriend, cuz he'd come with me... So here's hoping for an acceptance in January so I can cancel at least two of them...

 

[airshad8]

I give this thread a 3 in bed :thumbs down: