how would you run admissions?

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there's a lot of negativity and complaining about this process that we're all going through. complaints about fees, requirements, letters of recs, rules, time deadlines, photos, speeding tickets, types of essay questions, number of essay questions, etc, etc.

so let's flip it around. suppose you're dean of admissions and given full authority. you can run admissions any way you want, so long as it's in the best interest of both the school and the applicants. what would your process be????

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Auction, of course.

 

[jlee9531]

do what the schools that interviewed me did. 😉

look at the entire application for that matter. something to the extend of what JHU does.

and since i have ultimate power, give some of the good disad kids some play.

 

[Shaz]

I'd run it in such a way that a person fitting my exact description would get accepted...ha!...just kidding

 

[Code Brown]

Auction, of course.

No kidding. Please make your check for $25,000 out to cash, and we'll be glad to offer you a position in our upcoming class.

 

[Fermata]

I don't see why it should be changed.

 

[rockstar2525]

The thing I would change would be to have the AMCAS PS actually be used as a tool to screen out applicants. All schools would be selective in who they sent secondaries. Not super selective mind you, but I would weed out the people who have no chance in hell and at least save them a buck. Then, the secondaries would consist of moderately difficult essays, (like U of Chicago) so that I could indeed get a better idea of the "whole applicant." Then, after READING the essays, I would invite interviews.
These schools that send secondaries to everyone, and say it's so they can "see the whole applicant" but then just ask you to write your name again and send more money are totally scamming.

 

[leechy]

I would do regional alumni interviews, so as to spare impoverished students the expense of schlepping around to every weird spot in the U.S.

 

[Freakingzooming]

i would pull out of AMCAS and encouraged my affliated buddies to do likewise- the damn system is totally worthless, in my opinion we would be better off without it, schools don't even screen anymore.

i would just skip to the secondary like columbia used to do so we would have more time for people at my adcom to look over essays and statistics before the interviewing. thus we could then pull from those a complete picture of what we want, instead of rushing it all in august and september when we start the interviews.

I'm not sure if i would make them long essays for the secondaries. I would go for quality than quantity and shoot for something in between. Like Pittsburg.

I would shoot for a 60 day deadline for when you first access the secondary/primary.

 

[911Med]

I think we all know that true genius resides in Hollywood. They have brought us such award winning films as "Showgirls" and "Legally Blonde." Therefore, my vote is that we use what has been working for Hollywood for centuries...

casting couch = acceptance couch

fill in the minor details as you wish.

 

[jlee9531]

I would do regional alumni interviews, so as to spare impoverished students the expense of schlepping around to every weird spot in the U.S.

the bad thing about this is when you have to make a decision to see if you want to go to that school, you have to eventually fly out there anyway to get a feel for it on your own, without being able to spend as much time with med students and the school as you would on your interview days.

 

[leechy]

the bad thing about this is when you have to make a decision to see if you want to go to that school, you have to eventually fly out there anyway to get a feel for it on your own, without being able to spend as much time with med students and the school as you would on your interview days.

Good point... though they do regional interviews for business schools and it seems to work out fine... though I guess that's only 2 years versus 4. and law schools have no interviews (no wonder they're so messed up).

 

[Medikit]

darts

 

[NubianPrincess]

Legally blonde was phat.

 

[principessa]

Like Hopkins, except I would screen before sending secondaries.

 

[FutureDocDO]

I would accept everyone who applied and use first year as a "weed-out" year.

 

[Jason110]

I think this thread should be renamed:

"how would you ru(i)n admissions?"


Jason

 

[MabdulD]

You could learn a lot more about applicants in a thirty-minute phone interview, then you could in any of these secondaries, no matter how long they are. It would save everyone a lot of time and money. So, I would start there.