Interview proportionality?

[bcat85]

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Hey guys, I have seen several people on here referring to the fact that interviews appear to be "dwindling." I am looking for your input on this. It seems to me that it is awful early for this (especially given that many secondary deadlines haven't even passed yet). I have several applications out at schools I feel I should be likely to interview at and I have yet to hear ANYTHING. Does anyone have any concrete information on this? Baseless opinions are also welcome.

 

[DulyNoted]

Just my baseless opinion, but I would guess 60-70% of interview requests have been extended. Most schools begin interviewing in September and continue until February or March. Seems that most are now in the process of filling up January.

 

[167649]

Hey guys, I have seen several people on here referring to the fact that interviews appear to be "dwindling." I am looking for your input on this. It seems to me that it is awful early for this (especially given that many secondary deadlines haven't even passed yet). I have several applications out at schools I feel I should be likely to interview at and I have yet to hear ANYTHING. Does anyone have any concrete information on this? Baseless opinions are also welcome.

I would not say it is awfully early at all. Many schools have already scheduled interviews through three months ahead of now. But do not loose your hope yet, people are still getting them and will for some time. But it gets harder and harder to get them as time goes on each year.

There has been an increase in the number of people applying over the past two cycles. (Some schools reported getting as many as 11,000 applications already by October) Which means it is getting more difficult to land as many interviews. Those that applied eary (as in last summer) will get the cream this year. Those that applied later will have a difficult time.

 

[anumama]

no offense to dulynoted, but anyone got any "base-ful" information regarding this matter?

 

[87138]

Hey guys, I have seen several people on here referring to the fact that interviews appear to be "dwindling." I am looking for your input on this. It seems to me that it is awful early for this (especially given that many secondary deadlines haven't even passed yet). I have several applications out at schools I feel I should be likely to interview at and I have yet to hear ANYTHING. Does anyone have any concrete information on this? Baseless opinions are also welcome.

Conventional wisdom on SDN (which is often neither conventional, nor wise) is that since the advent of the CBT MCAT, a higher percentage of applicants are applying what would be considered "early." Add to that the reported absolute increase in applicants this year and it becomes apparent that it is probably exponentially more difficult to get an interview the later you are. But there's always still hope. The schools just have to be a bit more selective and pick and choose who gets interviews as it gets later in the game.

That said, you seem like you should have a good shot at some interviews, at least in Illinois. Also, some of the upper tier schools don't even announce any acceptances until March, so if you do get interviews at them, you're really at no disadvantage compared to the people who interviewed in Sept/Oct.

 

[evandavidson]

Many schools only started interviewing in October/November/December (UCLA in October, UC Irvine in October, and Stanford in December just to name a few off the top of my head). Coupled with a huge increase in applications these last couple of years, I would guess that interviews may come more slowly than some of us would hope (I've only had one so far). As long as your application is still active, you still have a chance. Don't give up hope just yet.

 

[dazlindz]

i heard one admissions office say that thanksgiving is about the halfway mark in terms of interviews completed. i guess it means that more than 50% of the interviews have been given out by thanksgiving.

of course, this varies from school to school...

 

[SoFlaKnight]

i heard one admissions office say that thanksgiving is about the halfway mark in terms of interviews completed. i guess it means that more than 50% of the interviews have been given out by thanksgiving.

of course, this varies from school to school...

Great...just...great...I can't wait to do that waiting all over again....I still can't believe some of these schools (*cough* Mayo) sent kids rejection letters on Turkey Day-that is just weak sauce

 

[DrBowtie]

http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/admissions/

Michigan has already given out ~80% of their interviews.

 

[Lshapley]

http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/admissions/

Michigan has already given out ~80% of their interviews.

Their admissions tracker is really great! I wish every school had one of them!