Anyone with too few interviews to feel confident in getting an acceptance o O?

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mashce said:
Applications: 21
Interviews Completed:2
Interviews Scheduled:0
Any other sign that they even have my applications: 0
i saw 21 on the first line and thought "why the heck is he posting in this thread with 21 interviews, dayaaamm!" then i read it again. haha you're still in a better position than i am with 2 interviews. i only have one.
 
interviews:6
acceptances: 2, 1 rejection post-interview (only heard from 3 of 6 so far)
on hold pre-interview: 6 :scared:
rejections:5

stilled being toyed with by: 21 schools 😱
 
ommy48 said:
interviews:6
acceptances: 2, 1 rejection post-interview (only heard from 3 of 6 so far)
on hold pre-interview: 6 :scared:
rejections:5

stilled being toyed with by: 21 schools 😱

i dont mean to be a prick, but i dont think you get the idea behind this thread. it is named "anyone with too few interviews to feel confident in getting an acceptance". you have TWO. um. ya.
-mota
 
DaMota said:
i dont mean to be a prick, but i dont think you get the idea behind this thread. it is named "anyone with too few interviews to feel confident in getting an acceptance". you have TWO. um. ya.
-mota

Two interviews isn't enough to feel CONFIDENT about getting an acceptance- it's enough to have a chance at acceptance- that's what the OP was talking about...
 
mashce said:
Two interviews isn't enough to feel CONFIDENT about getting an acceptance- it's enough to have a chance at acceptance- that's what the OP was talking about...

um no, the poster has TWO ACCEPTANCES. ya.
-mota
 
DaMota said:
um no, the poster has TWO ACCEPTANCES. ya.
-mota
Maybe he didn't when he started the thread...
 
mashce said:
Maybe he didn't when he started the thread...

umm.... maybe you're sleepy or something. DaMota wasn't talking about the OP, he was talking about ommy48 who posted on this page. His post states that he has 2 acceptances.
 
so how many interviews does everyone need in order to feel confident at getting one acceptance? for me, its probably 4-5, probably bc i feel like im not a very good interviewer...
 
jtank said:
so how many interviews does everyone need in order to feel confident at getting one acceptance? for me, its probably 4-5, probably bc i feel like im not a very good interviewer...

I'm in the same boat.. except that I have 5 interviews and still don't feel confident. That's because I'm such a horrible interviewee. I can have a conversation with the interviewer, but I often ramble and don't complete my thoughts. 🙁
 
15 applications
1 interview
1 acceptance

1 interview is all it takes people, don't give up hope! You don't have to be that kid who's grouped 6 interviews together in one trip to get in, it only takes one interview . . . just focus on rocking out that one interview, :luck: to everyone!
 
psipsina said:
15 applications
1 interview
1 acceptance

1 interview is all it takes people, don't give up hope! You don't have to be that kid who's grouped 6 interviews together in one trip to get in, it only takes one interview . . . just focus on rocking out that one interview, :luck: to everyone!

any tips on prepping for interviews? go over interview feedback, brush up on your application, .... what else?
-mota
 
jtank said:
so how many interviews does everyone need in order to feel confident at getting one acceptance? for me, its probably 4-5, probably bc i feel like im not a very good interviewer...

if i get one more i'll be satisfied. i swear.
-mota
 
DaMota said:
any tips on prepping for interviews? go over interview feedback, brush up on your application, .... what else?
-mota

i dont mean to digress, but its kinda frustrating when no one who has recently interviewed at a school posts in the interview feedback, whats up with that?!?
 
jtank said:
i dont mean to digress, but its kinda frustrating when no one who has recently interviewed at a school posts in the interview feedback, whats up with that?!?

i second that. but in all honesty i dont see myself doing interview feedback unless i actually get admitted and my head is clear (i.e. i'm not tripping about getting in).
-mota
 
DaMota said:
any tips on prepping for interviews? go over interview feedback, brush up on your application, .... what else?
-mota
While I DOUBT you would have a problem with this--just feel comfortable talking about yourself. Be comfortable with decisions you have made, projects you undertook, etc. Some people feel uneasy talking about themselves. Good luck!!
 
😴 i work in a hospital (Critical Care) and i find it really hard to be here these days...it is mainly just more depressing to me...if i don't get in, here i am surrounded by others who made it to where i am desperately trying to be. is this bad? does that make sense? 😕
 
"Shoot for the Moon - even if you miss you will land among the stars"

it is still early enough to get last minute interviews and score that coveted place at your dream school!

let's be positive! which of course is easier said than done, but hey, we can try! damn it, we got this far, didn't we?
 
I see ShyRem...
I see DaMota...
I see Timmy...
I see YourMom...
I see Masche...

Okay, most of you are probably too young to know about Romper Room, maybe I should have put this in the non-trad forum!

Good morning everybody! I watched 6 episodes of Arrested Development last night and drank a whole mess of wine, so I am good and ready for the Nothingness that is about to happen today. Good thing I have 4 hours of lab this afternoon! Or else I may have to open up some Sartre and stare into the Abyss until it stares back.
 
Good morning, gd! I certainly remember Romper Room. And the original Zoom... how about Electric Company (one of my personal favorites)? Wow. I'm dating myself. 😀

Today is a good day. Have a fire in the fireplace, had a lovely avocado and eggwhite omelet with roasted garlic toast for breakfast with oolong tea, kids are off to school... life is good. And no rejections yet today. Yay!
 
DaMota said:
any tips on prepping for interviews? go over interview feedback, brush up on your application, .... what else?
-mota

I went over everything, papers from my research and my PI's so I could babble about it confidently, my amcas and my secondary, also my friend who is a year ahead of me at texas tech gave me this book "The Complete Book of Medical Schools" by the Princeton Review (mine is the 2003 version) and in the beginning it has pages and pages of possible interview questions , . . I answered all of these on paper and then read them over on the plane ride there. None of the questions really came up in my interview because it was oddly conversational, but it made me confident that I could handle anything they threw at me. Then the night before I took myself out for a relaxing evening (which for me translated into an awesome steak and a glass of my fav expensive wine) and tried just to keep myself calm. Just be yourself in the interview, try to be confident in the fact that you rock and if they don't see it they obviously smoked too much crack that morning. This is what I did, I've always interviewed well so I'm not sure how much of it is a natural knack, but don't let yourself be freaked out by all the overachievers here on SDN.
 
gdbaby said:
Okay, most of you are probably too young to know about Romper Room, maybe I should have put this in the non-trad forum!

i am as non-trad as they come, baby! heck ya i remember that show!
 
AWRIGHT! Another day, mail came.... and....





No rejections in the mail! YAY! 😀 😀 😀
No acceptances either, but hey, one step at a time.
 
psipsina said:
I went over everything, papers from my research and my PI's so I could babble about it confidently, my amcas and my secondary, also my friend who is a year ahead of me at texas tech gave me this book "The Complete Book of Medical Schools" by the Princeton Review (mine is the 2003 version) and in the beginning it has pages and pages of possible interview questions , . . I answered all of these on paper and then read them over on the plane ride there. None of the questions really came up in my interview because it was oddly conversational, but it made me confident that I could handle anything they threw at me. Then the night before I took myself out for a relaxing evening (which for me translated into an awesome steak and a glass of my fav expensive wine) and tried just to keep myself calm. Just be yourself in the interview, try to be confident in the fact that you rock and if they don't see it they obviously smoked too much crack that morning. This is what I did, I've always interviewed well so I'm not sure how much of it is a natural knack, but don't let yourself be freaked out by all the overachievers here on SDN.

great advice. thanks. if anything my only worry is that I'll be TOO comfortable during my interviewers and make a joke that they won't get or something leading to awkwardness. But i'm pretty good at deciphering someone's sense of humor within a few minutes. Some of these people are gonna be way older than me. I'm gonna start chatting up more of my parents friends soon.
-mota
 
ShyRem said:
AWRIGHT! Another day, mail came.... and....


No rejections in the mail! YAY! 😀 😀 😀
No acceptances either, but hey, one step at a time.
Shy, is there something else in those brownies you're baking? You are soooo cheery today!
 
gd, sometimes you have to find good things where you can. Sometimes no loss is, in itself, a victory. 🙂 At this point I'll take the victories where I can find 'em.

BTW: Today's baking agenda is raspberry-cranberry coffee cake. Or maybe jam bites. Brownies are next week along with the pear crumb pie and the traditional pumpkin pie.
 
I'm off to lab! I am going to take Shy's perspective and just hope that no bad news hits my mailbox this evening. I have my intent letter all set to go for Loyola and if they don't love me after reading it, while then maybe I am too self-aware! 🙂
 
so...
how long do you think we have till, to hope for interviews? (and not the kind of interviews where you are interviewing for the waitlist) because it seems like the interview invites going out now are for january-february bookings, and in some cases even march.
 
I'm going to continue hoping until mid-December- I figure up to that point I could still get January interviews.... After that, I'll start thinking about starting this process over again next year or getting in off the waitlist...
 
interviews could keep coming through til february. seriously. my brother got two of his invites IN february (this was only 3 years ago) and he got into both of those schools. its way early. just kick back and have a margarita. or a klondike bar if you're not into the whole poisoning yourself thing.
-mota
 
ShyRem said:
AWRIGHT!No rejections in the mail! YAY! 😀 😀 😀


Hey! First rejection is from...drum-roll please.........are you ready?
NORTHWESTERN!!!!!!!!

Moreover, I am totally NOT surprised! When I called before I applied the lady in the admissions office was ALL upset that I was considering applying with a score that contained a dreaded SINGLE DIGIT!!!!! Every other school I called said I was competitive, but NW said I should retake my MCAT over 1 section's score.... and the lady continued to tell me that -..."while we TRY to look for well-rounded applicants..." I love that, they "try".... anyhow, she said that one must have double digits....POO! I don't know why I bothered to pay the secondary money.... maybe just for the hell of it, long shot I guess?

OK, I feel better now...thanks for listening! 😉
You guys rock! 😍
 
Timmy, obviously NW doesn't deserve you. When you look for residency programs in four years, they're going to look at you and say "why didn't we let HIM in?" and you can just laugh and walk away.... 🙂

Honestly. Single digit. Did you just say under your breath "I'll show you a single digit..." :laugh:
 
ShyRem said:
Timmy, obviously NW doesn't deserve you. When you look for residency programs in four years, they're going to look at you and say "why didn't we let HIM in?" and you can just laugh and walk away.... 🙂

i think thats everyones fantasy! :laugh:
 
The more I work towards this goal, the more the lines between fantasy and reality get blurred...

It was a fantasy to go back to school... I went back.
It was a fantasy to do a double major... I did that, too.
It was a fantasy to apply to med school... I'm a reapplicant.
It was a fantasy to get INTO med school... I got accepted to DO school so far.

So.. who's to say this fantasy can't come true, too? Anything's possible as long as *I*'m not the one saying no. 🙂 🙂 🙂 But you're right. It certainly is my fantasy to say "no thanks" to some of those programs that have rejected me. It's possible... it's possible... :laugh:
 
i thought i was gonna have a clean week of no rejections until i got the BU rejection. on a friday afternoon. who does that?

but I IMed my friend who goes to BU to tell him that his school is lame and i wouldn't go there if they payed me to and he told me that he got his last interview offer in March, and he knows a lot of people that got offers Jan-March. He got his first early december and ended up getting 6, 4 acceptances. so basically this thread will be around for a while.

-mota
 
gdbaby said:
Okay, most of you are probably too young to know about Romper Room, maybe I should have put this in the non-trad forum!

i have no idea what you're talking about here. but i AM seeing depeche mode tonight. which is more your era.
-mota
 
Still going strong with my 1 interview coming up. Originally scheduled for January 20th, but I changed it to Dec. 2nd. I really have to do well on this one as it may be my only chance this year. How is that for pressure?


.......Now that Gdbaby has left us, its starting to get more and more lonely.
 
I'm still here. Still only my one VCU interview in September, still waiting until 12/15 for any word from them, still no interview invites from anyone else. *sigh*.
 
ShyRem said:
I'm still here. Still only my one VCU interview in September, still waiting until 12/15 for any word from them, still no interview invites from anyone else. *sigh*.
How did you like VCU? Did you love it? Could we say "well if you love it so much, why don't you marry it?" after we hear you talk about it?
 
I really liked VCU. It's my #2 right behind my state school. Hell, if it were the same cost as CU in-state, I might even choose VCU over CU. Actually, I probably would. Hm.

Can't marry VCU - bigamy is illegal. 😉
 
sigh...it is lonely in here. i know y'all say one interview is all you need but just my luck that one interview i do have probably won't be enough. hahah even my dad says i shouldn't worry. i guess i'm just pessimistic.
 
DaMota said:
i thought i was gonna have a clean week of no rejections until i got the BU rejection. on a friday afternoon. who does that?

but I IMed my friend who goes to BU to tell him that his school is lame and i wouldn't go there if they payed me to and he told me that he got his last interview offer in March, and he knows a lot of people that got offers Jan-March. He got his first early december and ended up getting 6, 4 acceptances. so basically this thread will be around for a while.

-mota

hey mota, was your friend an april or august mcater? if he was an april mcater that definitely gives me hope!
 
gdbaby said:
Bumpdy, bump

I think you can safely feel confident now, gd. 🙂
 
tacrum43 said:
I think you can safely feel confident now, gd. 🙂
Look, I still have a lot of neurotic things to say and I lack a thread to do that! :laugh:
 
gdbaby said:
Look, I still have a lot of neurotic things to say and I lack a thread to do that! :laugh:

You should make a "gdbaby's: I am just a generally neurotic person, and I need somewhere to vent and talk about drinking wine, okay? 😵" thread. 🙂
 
tacrum43 said:
You should make a "gdbaby's: I am just a generally neurotic person, and I need somewhere to vent and talk about drinking wine, okay? 😵" thread. 🙂
HA! You know I would if I didn't think those moderators would move me to that weird "lounge" forum.

But just a reminder as to how mediocre I really am as an applicant: i just got the heave-ho from Rosalind. According to the Wall of Shame, I am the first one to get rejected! Ahhh, it's just like 8th grade all over again. I envision my application with thick lavender-colored glasses and a headgear. Probably some mild B.O. too.
 
gdbaby said:
HA! You know I would if I didn't think those moderators would move me to that weird "lounge" forum.

But just a reminder as to how mediocre I really am as an applicant: i just got the heave-ho from Rosalind. According to the Wall of Shame, I am the first one to get rejected! Ahhh, it's just like 8th grade all over again. I envision my application with thick lavender-colored glasses and a headgear. Probably some mild B.O. too.

:laugh: ...I know how you feel. I still wear glasses and a retainer at night. But you are not mediocre. I can tell by your sense of humor.
 
kaffy said:
:laugh: ...I know how you feel. I still wear glasses and a retainer at night. But you are not mediocre. I can tell by your sense of humor.
I knew I should have written next to my MCAT scores on my apps "Now THAT's funny!"

thanks!
 
Figured I'd join in...definitely NOT confident.
Applications: 11
Interviews Completed:1
Interviews Scheduled:3
Schools Who Apparently Lost My Application: 7
 
Still here. Bumping.
 
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