How much do stats matter post-interview?

[lorian99]

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I snagged an interview at a top tier school despite having stats below their average, with my cGPA below their 10th percentile and my sGPA barely above it. While my MCAT is near the median, I feel like I'm going into this interview as an underdog. Now that I've secured the interview, wiill my stats hold less weight after the interview as they did before?

 

[Goro]

At my school, we have waitlisted people when the Adcom met and the interviewer said "nice kid, but I'm worried about that MCAT score".
So, if you have a Meh interview, everything about you may very well be looked at.

 

[Goro]

But congrats on the interview!!! The school does see something in you.

Now read this:
Goro's Guide to Interviews
Goro's Guide to YOUR Interview Questions (2016 edition)
Goro's Guide to Interviews: The View from Behind the Curtain

 

[efle]

wiill my stats hold less weight after the interview as they did before

They remain similarly important (GPA values unchanged; MCAT change by onle 0.1) on an absolute scale.

Relatively, though, interview impression and letters take over the top spots.

Top schools don't usually expend early interview slots on marginal candidates. If you got an early interview at a competitive program with 10th percentile grades and average scores, you have something big elsewhere in your app that makes them interested.

 

[infectiousdisease101]

They remain similarly important (GPA values unchanged; MCAT change by onle 0.1) on an absolute scale.

Relatively, though, interview impression and letters take over the top spots.

Top schools don't usually expend early interview slots on marginal candidates. If you got an early interview at a competitive program with 10th percentile grades and average scores, you have something big elsewhere in your app that makes them interested.

Where did you find this figure? After shadowing and seeing what medicine is truly like, I'm not surprised experience with underserved populations ranks low on that list.

By "underserved" do they mean medically, or do they mean in general?

EDIT: nevermind. Found it.

 

[aldol16]

It depends on the school. I know some schools that weigh the interview heavily in their decision. I know of others for which the interview is just another metric to weigh in and everything else, including scores, play a role in the final admissions decision.

 

[infectiousdisease101]

It depends on the school. I know some schools that weigh the interview heavily in their decision. I know of others for which the interview is just another metric to weigh in and everything else, including scores, play a role in the final admissions decision.

True that. Some schools want more leadership, others want underserved. It depends on their mission statement. That's why it's good to be well-rounded.

 

[lorian99]

Thanks all, I figured I must have something in my application that fits their mission because I was complete in mid-August and received the II just a few weeks later. It's also my only II so far.