adcoms calling experiences contact?

[dr45sdn]

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anyone know of any instances of adcoms contacting people you have listed as contacts on the amcas post secondary experiences?

 

[bkmonkey]

None of my post-secondary peeps were contacted that I know of...

 

[koma]

anyone know of any instances of adcoms contacting people you have listed as contacts on the amcas post secondary experiences?

They contact 1 out of 1000 applications. They have a special FBI team follow the info and track down the contacts. Then they call them (the references) and demand information including exact number of hours you worked/volunteered and your exact position. If anything you wrote contradicts what the contacts said, they create a special file on you. They keep you on file until your last year of medschool. Then - just as you are ready to graduate - they write a report to your medschool administration about the discrepencies in your application. Usually you are promptly kicked out and spend the rest of your life paying out the loans. Awful, no.

 

[calstudent]

i don't think there is enough info. for that purpose.
but, you should have no reason to be worried, right?

 

[Gleevec]

they will if something seems out of whack, and you might be surprised how small the medical community within some fields are (where people might now your contact well, etc).

 

[Dr.LeoSpaceman]

Yeah, this has been talked about before, and unless you are on the adcoms, its hard to answer yeas or no. Its probably safe to say though, that they do not contact every EC contact for each applicant....even each interviewee. However, if you go to the interview and they ask you about a certain EC, and you can't talk about ti, I would not be suprised if they call. Also, if you had like 3 ECs that each took 25 hours a week during the same period, that might start lookng suspicious. So, in short, they probably will call if something looks suspiscious, but otherwise they have better things to do with their time.

Another poster was right, though, no one should care if they call, because one would hope everyone is putting down truthful information.

 

[LP1CW]

Last year, when I went throught the interview season, I had two interviewers, committee people, do contacts post interview. My research advisor was contacted by the school that I'm attending this fall. So, it doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I didn't have contact information listed either. But that's easy enough to look up, a quick search will find the right information.