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a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

 

[airshad8]

a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

YES. That's just a formula to failure right there....

 

[Quizzical]

a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

umm... i sure hope you know that anything's possible...

if you didn't... well... time to come out from under that rock

 

[QofQuimica]

a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

Hon, if you could figure out in advance what any adcom in the country was going to do with ANYONE'S app, about one zillion pre-meds nationwide would be paying big bucks for your divination services. 😉 Unfortunately, no one knows the answer to your question. You just have to make your app as strong as you can and hope for the best. If you're religious, a little prayer wouldn't hurt either. 🙂

 

[PEN15]

a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

Just because you think your interview went well, it does not mean that it did and vice versa. Nothing is a guarantee in this game.

 

[foofish]

Just because you think your interview went well, it does not mean that it did and vice versa. Nothing is a guarantee in this game.

Exactly...I got a first-round acceptance at the school where I had by far my most HORRIFIC interview (and we're talking horrific by anyone's standards, not just my own worst interview).

I think it's so difficult for people to judge how their interview went in part because most of these places are trying to make a good impression regardless of whether you get in or not. I do college admissions interviews for my alma mater, and in training it was emphasized that as the interviewer you are "the face" of the school for that person. If they get in, the interviewer can influence the applicant's decision to matriculate, and if they don't get in, your behavior will still affect the person's perception of the school, especially since you might be the only contact that person has with the school in their entire life (and in the med school case it's even a bigger deal, because we'll all be going back out to do residency and someday job interviews). So while that certainly doesn't mean an interviewer is going to be unreasonably nice and accommodating, I think--stress interviewers aside--an interviewer isn't going to go out of his way to be a jerk, make someone uncomfortable, or make someone feel horrible....and *poof* you feel you had good interview.

But to the OP: don't knock yourself out of the running yet---schools don't waste their time interviewing people they think are serious contenders for a spot in the class, so there must have been something in your application they liked. Do well at the interview, and then just relax as much as you can until decisions roll out. At most schools, the interview just becomes another piece of your application, which is then combined with your app, grades, mcat, lors, etc. for the final decision.

 

[akademiks1989]

If they give you an interview, I can only imagine they are considering you. So woo them with your personality vs. your actual numbers.

 

[EBI831]

seriously? yes, you can still get rejected in any scenario. most schools interview way more than they would accept and also applicants with mcats and/or gpas lower than the avg of ppl who usually matriculate, i guess just to gauge the personality etc. so an interview isn't an automatic ticket and that lower gpa/mcat can still hold you back when they look at a pile of great interviews with higher stats. but, then again you can still get accepted b/c average is just that, an average and not every single student has it.

 

[szhao]

NO, how can you get rejected, i am sure there is no one else with Excellent GPA, Excellent MCAT, Excellent Interview, and Etc. out there.

 

[sekem]

NO, how can you get rejected, i am sure there is no one else with Excellent GPA, Excellent MCAT, Excellent Interview, and Etc. out there.

and you are an example of those right??? 👎

 

[Wrigleyville]

Interviews are by far the worst predictor of future job performance. They persist because no one wants to work with wierdos. So don't be a wierdo.

 

[szhao]

and you are an example of those right??? 👎

SIGH, ..., sarcasm? i don't know i thought i was kind of obvious, but i guess not. what i meant was i am sure it will be fine, but there is no promise to anything. SIGH i am at a lost of words at people's sensitivity.

 

[Robizzle]

But wait... I thought that once you got the interview, nothing else mattered but your performance on the interview??

(lol, I'd love to see this debate spark up again)

 

[szhao]

But wait... I thought that once you got the interview, nothing else mattered but your performance on the interview??

(lol, I'd love to see this debate spark up again)

no rob noooo, lol no debate, its called a discussion hehe, u see the top it says "Pre-medical student discussion forum" hehe, but yea for a lot of schools its like that, but if it boils down to two person with the exact same everything (even interview) i am sure the MCAT plays a role

 

[Rocket3004]

To be honest, I really think that regardless of how much you shine in the interview/mcat/gpa/ec's if for some reason they don't want to accept you or don't think you are a good fit, any reason can be used as justifcation for a rejection. You just have to roll the dice and see if things go your way.

 

[airshad8]

Yep this thread gets about a 2.5 in bed.

 

[TPROrgoTutor2]

I got nixed before interviews with a 36R and 3.87 from a couple places and was waitlisted at two places post interviews, though I thought they went really well.

Now I realize those numbers arent as good as a lot of the people's that post on here ( a bunch of hyperintelligent people on this board Im telling you ), but they aren't bad so I will have to say yes to your question.

 

[omgwtfbbq?]

I had a 3.96 biochem gpa, i'm a really good interviewer, and my mcats were ... *gulp* ... a 28S (never take the mcat when you have to take stomach flu breaks to puke..... bad bad bad bad bad) Additionally, I had a ton of good research experience (years) and volunteering. I applied to 10 schools. Interviewed for 3 [ranging from Mayo to State schools]. Got into 1.
Why? Well, as it was pointed out at one interview I flew across the country for and went into hock to attend.... my MCAT score was the reason. The interviewer actually suggested that I had no math skills, because my physics score was low. Regardless of the fact that I took a ton of calculus and math and got A's in all of it.

So let me tell you, you can have a great mcat and poor gpa and still have great odds

Or you could get in no where

so what's it mean? It means a poor mcat is going to mean you need to apply a little more broadly just in case, but it doesn't mean you're not going to get in, and your friend with the 36 is gonna be a reapplicant.

GOOD LUCK! If i can do it you can too

 

[Rocket3004]

lol @ username "omgwtfbbq?"

 

[StudentDRoNET]

a good GPA
a bad MCAT
and a good Interview???

If your interview was good, will the board of admission still deny you?

Yes, this dude had 7 interviews last year but he didn't get into any one of them; mainly, the 7 on verbal sank him

 

[StudentDRoNET]

lol @ username "omgwtfbbq?"

It is even funnier when you find out that the user is a female

 

[Go Time]

It seems that each school has its own at least somewhat subjective preferences. I aslo think that there can be quite a large subjective/political aspect to the ranking/evaluating of applicants within those preferences...particularly if the committee meetings are open conversations on each candidate. I can easily see how the perception or preparation of one commmittee member can influence the rest of the committee in one direction or another within a school's particular ranking system...even if the members score applicants in private.

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

YES, you can be rejected with a fantastic interview. I've read this so many times that I tend to get on my soapbox over this issue - but your interviewer (or senior interviewer in "team" interviews) is only ONE vote on the committee. Your interviewer could stand on his head in committee talking about how much he liked you, but if you look bad on paper, you can be voted down. That's why you should never listen to any promises or near-promises from an interviewer - it's unethical, the interviewer doesn't have that much control, but it happens all the time.