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How many interviews is enough?
Started by dujingshu
Basically this. I had a fairly heavy interview load, and ended up attending 7 total. Didn't get in anywhere until traffic day, and I regret zero of those interviews. What if the one I'd skipped had been my only in?
Someone is going to be a doctor..
Congrats!! 😀
until you get that first acceptance letter
take stock of your strengths and weaknesses. Are you a confident, likeable person who can communicate effectively? If so, you may be able to trim some of those interviews. If not, go to every single one until you get an offer.
Are these a mix of MD/DO? DO schools make offers shortly after interviews, so you could have one soon. MD schools don't start till october 15th i believe, so that kinda sucks.
Are these a mix of MD/DO? DO schools make offers shortly after interviews, so you could have one soon. MD schools don't start till october 15th i believe, so that kinda sucks.
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He should try to break the record for most acceptances, then he can extort the waiting list for movement.
I would go to every single interview I get, should I get any.
I think my motivation is different than most people's. I have places I want to go the most, but the school I go to (assuming more than one acceptance) is going to be the school that I can go to for the cheapest. To know what that's going to be, I'd have to get accepted as many places as possible, which means interviewing as many places as possible.
That one interview you don't take might be the place you could go to for $10k/year after need based aid and scholarships. You don't know until you get the aid letter. What's another $500+ dollars in interview costs if you could save, say, $80k over the course of your education?
I think my motivation is different than most people's. I have places I want to go the most, but the school I go to (assuming more than one acceptance) is going to be the school that I can go to for the cheapest. To know what that's going to be, I'd have to get accepted as many places as possible, which means interviewing as many places as possible.
That one interview you don't take might be the place you could go to for $10k/year after need based aid and scholarships. You don't know until you get the aid letter. What's another $500+ dollars in interview costs if you could save, say, $80k over the course of your education?
Attend every one you can. Be realistic about your school list though and your chances at each school. I wound up going on 11 interviews in my cycle. It was exhausting but what if none of the first ten schools offered me a seat.
This isn't something to analyze and f--- around with. Go to as many as you can.
Where do the 1.1-1.4% of students who attended zero interviews come from? Are these people who came in through BS/MD or SMPs with guaranteed enrollment or something along those lines?
I don't understand people like you. No need to quote when they don't want you to
If you offered me 100 interviews, I would break my head to attend 100 of them unless some desired school has already offered me an acceptance letter.
Wish I had your first world probs XD
J
jdav_7
Eh. I declined one today. Probably going to decline a few more as it gets closer/past Oct. 15.
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