For those of you with interviews from GW, can you list when complete and when invited

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Hi everyone! I was wondering if those of you who have received interviews from GW list when you were complete and when you received your interview invite. I would really appreciate it because I think some of us who have been complete for a while are losing hope and there is a lot of conflicting info flying around. Thanks so much!
 
LolaLee said:
Hi everyone! I was wondering if those of you who have received interviews from GW list when you were complete and when you received your interview invite. I would really appreciate it because I think some of us who have been complete for a while are losing hope and there is a lot of conflicting info flying around. Thanks so much!

There is a lot of conflicting info because GW is not very honest when you call so all these people are getting confused. I was an applicant last year, if you were complete in October and called in April they would still say you are still under review. Its a standard line. From what I have observed this year and last year, GW doesnt send out there invites just in batches like some schools do. They send them as each person is reviewed. Usually if you are granted an interview you get one within 3 to four weeks of being complete at the most. It may be a little lagged around this period because its probably the height. I think if you were complete before August 15th at this point then you have been passed up or to quote GW , "put on hold". The last bunch of people who reported interviews in the last week or 2 were complete august 15th. Tonic was the last person to put his invite on the board, I asked his complete data and never got a response. So they are probably somewhere in the vicinity of mid august completions. Remember they get 10,000 apps ro so. I was complete Aug 15th and havent heard anything ... good luck.
 
Thanks BOBODR for clarifying what is going on. I was complete Aug. 16 and am still hoping. I called them last week and they said that they were very busy and that I was complete (which I already knew). I asked if I was "under review" and she was like, "it takes a long time to get through all of the applications" so I feel like they haven't gotten to mine yet. Either that or I'm being completely delusional. But i think someone else got a similar feeling (koalabear?), so maybe i'm not bonkers 🙂 Have you called over BOBODR?
 
complete on 8-15-05, invite 8-30-05 😳
 
LolaLee said:
Thanks BOBODR for clarifying what is going on. I was complete Aug. 16 and am still hoping. I called them last week and they said that they were very busy and that I was complete (which I already knew). I asked if I was "under review" and she was like, "it takes a long time to get through all of the applications" so I feel like they haven't gotten to mine yet. Either that or I'm being completely delusional. But i think someone else got a similar feeling (koalabear?), so maybe i'm not bonkers 🙂 Have you called over BOBODR?

No I havent called b/c as I said last year I went through so much with GW, I feel like I am a good fit for the school and my averages are ight around the schools. Last year (Aug MCAT) I called in Nov, Dec, and Jan (each time being told I was under review). Then in January I received a letter saying I was in the hold pile and would be reviewed in January. Well me and 1000 other SNDers got this letter. Still, I wrote a very extensive Letter of interest and update letter and sent it in late January. Called one more time in March and they said ... hahaha.... " I was still under review". Sorry thats a bitter laugh. So I know GW's phone number by heart but I will not call this year.... will just see how it goes but each day that passes I loose a little more hope...
 
aww i hear you BOBODR, i went to gw for undergrad and i'm PINING to go to gw med . . .complete 8/22 still nothing =(
 
LolaLee said:
Hi everyone! I was wondering if those of you who have received interviews from GW list when you were complete and when you received your interview invite. I would really appreciate it because I think some of us who have been complete for a while are losing hope and there is a lot of conflicting info flying around. Thanks so much!
LolaLee, I got an email from GW on 7/18 that they had received my supplemental and would email me again when I was complete with LOR's. I never got the second email to confirm complete. My interview invitation came by snail mail dated 7/26. Hope this helps. Best of luck. :luck:
 
BOBODR said:
No I havent called b/c as I said last year I went through so much with GW, I feel like I am a good fit for the school and my averages are ight around the schools. Last year (Aug MCAT) I called in Nov, Dec, and Jan (each time being told I was under review). Then in January I received a letter saying I was in the hold pile and would be reviewed in January. Well me and 1000 other SNDers got this letter. Still, I wrote a very extensive Letter of interest and update letter and sent it in late January. Called one more time in March and they said ... hahaha.... " I was still under review". Sorry thats a bitter laugh. So I know GW's phone number by heart but I will not call this year.... will just see how it goes but each day that passes I loose a little more hope...


Yes Bobo, me too!!! Complete 8-15 at GW and still nothing. Ive pretty much given up on the school although i would love to live in DC. did you apply to georgetown?
 
BOBODR said:
There is a lot of conflicting info because GW is not very honest when you call so all these people are getting confused. I was an applicant last year, if you were complete in October and called in April they would still say you are still under review. Its a standard line. From what I have observed this year and last year, GW doesnt send out there invites just in batches like some schools do. They send them as each person is reviewed. Usually if you are granted an interview you get one within 3 to four weeks of being complete at the most. It may be a little lagged around this period because its probably the height. I think if you were complete before August 15th at this point then you have been passed up or to quote GW , "put on hold". The last bunch of people who reported interviews in the last week or 2 were complete august 15th. Tonic was the last person to put his invite on the board, I asked his complete data and never got a response. So they are probably somewhere in the vicinity of mid august completions. Remember they get 10,000 apps ro so. I was complete Aug 15th and havent heard anything ... good luck.

So should I go ahead and mark another in the rejection column? I hate being complete early and having still not heard back from anyone.
 
beponychick said:
Yes Bobo, me too!!! Complete 8-15 at GW and still nothing. Ive pretty much given up on the school although i would love to live in DC. did you apply to georgetown?


No I applied last year though. In my opinion which goes against the grain I guess it is a bad idea reapplying to most of the same schools a second time if you werent interviewed the first. So I applied to 17 this time with only 4 the same as last time. Congrats on Drexel Bepony, I was complete early and didnt hear anything so I will just expect the worst there and hope for the best.
 
well, i've been complete at Gdubbs since 7/28 with no interview--is all hope really gone??
i mean, of course it is, but why can't i believe that until i get the thin piece of paper telling me so??
weird 😕
 
although i said this in the SUNY thread, i must say it again after i said i would in an older thread that every time there is a GW convo until i get my LoR, i will say the following:

they still don't have my LoR, sent one time in june, sent a second time 2 weeks ago, they said call back later in the week or next week 😡 AND i finished the secondary months ago
 
I think it was July 20(or so) I was complete and I was invited on August 10th or so. I am at work so I dont have my file with me, but those dates are about right.
 
sprsonic75 said:
aww i hear you BOBODR, i went to gw for undergrad and i'm PINING to go to gw med . . .complete 8/22 still nothing =(


Also 8/22 and heard nothing. I'm not throwing in the towel yet though if the last people on here completed to get an interview were in the 8/15 range I guess. Getting close to run out of justifiable reasons to be pouncing on the mailman though...
 
Perhaps I'm just an optimist, but isn't it insanely early to be giving up on a school yet? Until you get the rejection letter, I wouldn't throw in the towel just yet. You never know what might come in the mail tomorrow... not that I'll be eagerly waiting by the mailbox tomorrow and the day after that, or anything... 😛

Best of luck to all in the applying/interviewing/waiting process! :luck:
 
unfrozencaveman said:
Also 8/22 and heard nothing. I'm not throwing in the towel yet though if the last people on here completed to get an interview were in the 8/15 range I guess. Getting close to run out of justifiable reasons to be pouncing on the mailman though...


lets keep our fingers crossed 😳
 
Complete August 15th, and received Interview invite by regular mail today (September 12th) ! 😳
 
Medbound786 said:
Complete August 15th, and received Interview invite by regular mail today (September 12th) ! 😳


Ahh there is hope.....
 
Medbound786 said:
Complete August 15th, and received Interview invite by regular mail today (September 12th) ! 😳


Iam praying I come back to my apartment today to an interview invite. I am also august 15th complete
 
BOBODR said:
Iam praying I come back to my apartment today to an interview invite. I am also august 15th complete


YEAH!!! :luck: :luck: :luck: :luck:
 
Yay! Congrats Medbound786. that is great news. where are you from, if you don't mind my asking?
 
has anyone heard anything new from GW?
 
Thanks !! I am from Toronto, Canada........so nervous and excited at the same time. Its my first one !! I have been researching Canadian vs. American Health care system like crazy.
 
I was complete 8/17 and just received the invite in the mail today! (9/16!) although it's dated 9/9...but ok, so that gives me...um 2 weeks (my interview is 9/30) to book a flight from cali, (they're so expensive!!), book a hotel, get a suit (didn't think i'd be getting an interview so soon!), and get ready for interviews! i have been totally delaying that! but i saw someone else here that has the interview on the 30th so i'll see u there! whre r u all staying??
 
Question about GW interviews: I'll be in DC in mid-November, and am considering contacting GW to tell them I'll be there. However, I have a few concerns: first, the interview would have to be on a Monday. Second, I'm concerned that if I was going to be invited to interview, it would be for a date sooner than that, and GW is rolling so I should go asap? Does anyone have any thoughts?
 
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