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I'm wondering if it'd be possible to get a list going of the rough numbers of applicants interviewed on a typical interview day at many of the schools. Since I have yet to actually go on one, I have no experience here . . . does it vary widely from school to school? Or even from day to day for a single school?

Is having 3 or 4 interviewees in a day normal? Or should I expect to be given a tour/interview with 20+ other applicants?
 
try 50+ at bigger schools.
 
I think it just varies. I have had three interviews so far. One was with about 20-25 people, half with morning interviews, half with afternoon and the tour was in the middle. And we had one 30 minute interview. Another one was me and two other students with one 1 hr interview with events throughout the day. My third one was me and five other students, two 30 minute interviews. There is really no rule, but its usually 1-2 interviews, 30-60 minutes and some combination of tours/meetings with students/lunch/info session.
 
At MSU we had two groups of 12; one AM one PM, but they overlapped a little (for lunch). These groups were a mix of EDPers and regular applicants from my understanding.
 
also depends on how many days a week they interview...some places interview twenty people a day for three days, while others choose to have fifty once a week...
 
Since the range of interviewers that y'all are saying is so great, you should start naming specific schools in your posts.

Let's start with U. of Maryland 🙂
 
At least 50 at UT Southwestern, UTMB, and Texas A&M so far... The tours were split in to smaller groups, but altogether there were a lot. Think about it though, these schools interview 800 - 1000 applicants in 4 or 5 months. If they only interview once a week they have to accomodate a high volume every week.
 
OCallag said:
are you serious?? at my interviews there were only 8, 15, and 5. i can't imagine something as huge as 50!
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U Michigan had 50 or so per day and it's pretty fun since you get exposed to a wide variety of backgrounds
 
I'd also like to know the number applicants interviewed per day at specific schools.... like Georgetown for example?
 
This is my best recollection of my interviews so far (how many interviewees):

GWU: 15
RFU: 8
UIC: 8/16 (for dean's talk, lunch, etc. you're combined with 8 more in the other AM/PM group)
Loyola: 2 (although I think on some days (Fridays?) they have as many as 6)
Tulane: 10

I remember some fellow RFU interviewees were talking about Indiana(?) and saying there had to have been about 80 people interviewing when they were there. I can't even fathom that.
 
Indiana must have had more than 80 when I interviewed...I would have guessed 120-150...we were staggered throughout the day, I suppose, but it was still pretty overwhelming...I guess you get a good sense for the overall applicant pool, though...I didn't realize how "non-traditional" I was among pre-meds from Indiana...
 
Wisconsin had about 22, and they only do them on Fridays, apparently that's a bit larger than normal but not grossly so. There were 17 at AECOM the day I went.
 
KublaiKhan said:
At least 50 at UT Southwestern, UTMB, and Texas A&M so far... The tours were split in to smaller groups, but altogether there were a lot. Think about it though, these schools interview 800 - 1000 applicants in 4 or 5 months. If they only interview once a week they have to accomodate a high volume every week.
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I think this is primarily a Texas . .. .and maybe Indiana thing. the 5 OOS interviews that I have had have been with 12 or less.
 
Cornell: ~ 6 people
U Pittsburgh: ~ 12 people

These are very rough estimates... I think I'd much rather be in a small interview group. Fifty prospectives at once would be a circus.
 
SBBunny said:
Cornell: ~ 6 people
U Pittsburgh: ~ 12 people

These are very rough estimates... I think I'd much rather be in a small interview group. Fifty prospectives at once would be a circus.
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Michigan: 49 (and they e-mailed us a face book so we knew exactly who was interviewing)
Cornell: ~12
SUNY Downstate: ~12

Did you interview at Cornell on the first week of interviews? I heard fewer people interviewed during that week because that only gave people 1 week notice.

As for interviewing at Michigan, it did feel like an army of applicants, but I felt like I was never left out. I think they do a great job of accomodating 50 people, and there was never a moment when I felt we were sitting around doing nothing.
 
Last year...

Michigan: 60
OSU: 15
Cincinnati:15
Pitt: 10
U.Toledo: 10
Case Western: 8
 
Penn tends to have anywhere from 15-30 this year.

Based on my memory from a long long time ago ... aka last year ...


NYU ~15
Vanderbilt ~15
Pritzker ~18-20
Harvard ~20-25
Baylor ~50+ (this was my biggest interview day by far)


I guess it says something about some of my other interview days that I honestly don't remember a thing about them, including the # of people there.
 
UNC - 9
GWU - 15
Georgetown - 10

I couldn't imagine interviewing with 50 people. It seems like things would be so hectic.
 
U of Louisville does 8 (sorta)
4 show up and do the one-on-one interviews, then the other 4 show up to all do lunch, tour, sit in on a class thing together. Then the morning 4 leave and the afternoon 4 do their one-on-one's. I like it since you have a big group during lunch to talk with, but only a few people going in and out during the interviews when it can be most nerve wracking.
 
I've been to 2 so far: Case Western ~ 20, UToledo ~ 8.
 
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