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How do you guys organize your interview dates?

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Do you schedule your second choice schools for later dates? Will scheduling a later ii lower your chances of being accepted due to offers being made prior to the interview?
 
Depends on what you mean by "later". Anything before the new year I would say doesn't affect your chances. After that point it may or may not be limited spots, depending on the school and how many people have put deposits down etc.
 
Depends on what you mean by "later". Anything before the new year I would say doesn't affect your chances. After that point it may or may not be limited spots, depending on the school and how many people have put deposits down etc.

Some schools like NYCOM, Touro NY, PCOM start interviewing later, so interview dates into early spring might not affect your chance significantly. But I would imagine LECOM interviewing candidates for waitlist spots after December because they starting rolling hard mid August.