OK...so in early october I received an interview invite to Albany Medical College...they have an online page that allows you to pick an interview date or decline and withdraw your application...I declined the interview right after I received another acceptance Oct. 16....this should have been the end of Albany, no?? So I just got an email from Albany telling me I am holding an interview and need to select a date by Jan 28 or else they will consider my application withdrawn...seriously?? What school would even allow someone to hold an interview invite for over three months anyway....I know this thread isn't terribly important, but does it not bother anyone else that when we work so hard, and constantly stay on top of our status at every school....some of these schools exhibit behavior like this that seems to say that don't really care or know what is going on??
Are schools really this out of it??
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Granted, that's odd that they've kept you in the batch three months after declining an interview, but you certainly could have used their online status page to click "withdraw" if that's what your intent was. Instead, you only declined the interview, but declined to click "withdraw." It's a weird system, but I'm assuming that they're giving everyone the benefit of the doubt until they've actually withdrawn their application.
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I got an email from a school saying that my file was complete, BEFORE they even sent me the link with their secondary. I was a bit confused until five minutes later I got another email with the secondary. However, the school is notorious for sloppy and untimely admissions communications. Ironically I am interviewing there quite soon.
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Yeah, that happened to me with Pritzker. They initially sent me a complete email before my MCAT score was even released. Then I think I got about three emails telling me they were waiting for my score (even though it had already been released to them and noted on their status page), then I got a faulty post-review hold email (they told me over the phone it was an error), and then finally a pre-interview hold several weeks after that.
At UIC, luckily they have a status page that shows which LORs they log in. They had me marked as incomplete because they didn't have my committee letter. In fact, they did. And when I called to point out that that was the ONLY LOR that was sent to them, they corrected it and marked me complete. Scary to think about that happening at schools that don't even have status pages.
Similarly, the status page at MCW told me I was complete around 7/20, but I received an email from their dean at the end of August telling me I was missing materials. I called up and they confirmed that I was complete, but that somehow it hadn't been logged correctly in the system. While they claimed that wouldn't impact when my app was reviewed - it clearly did. They review and give out interviews based on date of completion and app stats (per their own admission). And I saw people who were complete in July getting the "moved to to a smaller group of applicants that may bet an interview invite" at least a month before I received that notice, which was sent out the same day to people who had been complete in late August. In the end, it didn't matter since I chose to withdraw, but it does go to show that following up on each and every application is sometimes necessary to not fall through the electronic cracks.
I'm sure things like this happen at many, many schools. Scary.
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