Interviews 2005 Match!!!

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One from Wash U today, minnesota last week.
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Nice! I'm hoping for interviews from both of those places.
 
Hopkins by email today.
 
Applied to 30 programs

No interviews offered yet...

One email stating that they received my application and will look at it soon...

I want some love!
 
Finally submitted to 19 programs:

University of Arizona
UC Davis
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
University of Florida, Gainesville
Emory University
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Cleveland Clinic
Oregon Health & Science University
Medical University of South Carolina
Univ Texas at Southwestern
Univ Texas at Houston
Baylor College
Baylor University
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington

I currently live in area with plenty of snow and ice every winter... so my list is mostly focused on programs that are both good and WARM. 😀
 
Got snail mail from Vermont today. Unfortunately I'm on an away rotation, so my husband gave me the highlights over the phone. Not quite as exciting as seeing it in person.
 
Just wanted to hoot for those who have already gotten interviews...congratulations!!! 😀
So far, I haven't heard anything yet, but my application only went in on the 7th, and 3 programs haven't downladed yet.

Here's my list of 20:
University of Arizona
UCSF
University of Colorado
Hartford Hospital
University of Chicago
Rush University
Boston University
MGH
Brigham
New England Medical Center
UNC
Duke
OHSU
Temple
TJU
U Penn
Brown
UVA
MCV
U Wash

Good luck everybody and don't forget to post your successes! :luck: :luck:
 
UT - Knoxville today by email
 
Another one for UT Knoxville today. Set up for interview in Early December
 
QuietSylph . . . I will swap you. I have been in south texas (San Antonio) for 25+ years. I am ready for some snow and cold.
 
Pookies said:
QuietSylph . . . I will swap you. I have been in south texas (San Antonio) for 25+ years. I am ready for some snow and cold.
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If you want snow and cold, check out Michigan. It's cold as a witch's tit for 7 months here.
 
Beth Israel and NYU today! Any comments on these programs?

Is it just me or is the thought of the logistics of going on interviews a total nightmare! I'm staying East coast, and hopefully can drive to most. Anybody else have any experience with the long haul drives? Any recommendations for cheap ass hotels?
 
deschutes said:
Hostelling International had flitted across my mind at one point.

But I'll hafta get an interview first!
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Aside from the ubiquitous Motel 6, there's the Choice Hotels group. They have a (free) membership program to earn nights at their hotels. See below.

http://www2.choicehotels.com/ires/en-US/html/FallPromo?sid=GlAN.24$5qlvJgg.2
 
I plan to sleep in mah car. I will bring a suit and a large can of deodorant.
 
All three of the residency programs I have set up interview dates with have offered a free night in a hotel.
 
Most of my interviews will be 800+ miles away. I plan on taking two months of vacation time to drive around the US. . . .

Or maybe I will just whip out the credit card and fly.


UT San Antonio by snail mail today. . . 🙂
 
Smitty said:
Beth Israel and NYU today! Any comments on these programs?

Is it just me or is the thought of the logistics of going on interviews a total nightmare! I'm staying East coast, and hopefully can drive to most. Anybody else have any experience with the long haul drives? Any recommendations for cheap ass hotels?
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Great programs! Did ERAS uploaded your LORs before you got interview calls? I am still waiting for uploading before start applying for the rest of programs. Any suggestion?

I am sticking to the east coast, too. Mind sharing your applying list?
 
2 of my 4 LORs were uploaded. Just board scores and application/PS was uploaded, I think. I don't have my whole list in front of me right now, but I'll try to remember them all 😀

Let's see....hopefully I won't spell any of these wrong

MGH
BIDMC
NYU
Columbia
Cornell
Thomas Jeff
UPenn
Pittsbrg
Johns Hopkins
Cleveland Clinic
Case Western/Univ whatever
Univ Kentucky
Uva
Charlottsville
UNC
Duke
Wake Forest
ECU
MUSC
Vanderbilt
Emory
U. Florida Gainsville
Tulane
Louisiana State

Dammit, I'm missing a few! I'll give you a better list later! Right now there's free food at a meeting so I'm gonna go for now. Hope that helps.
 
Smitty said:
2 of my 4 LORs were uploaded. Just board scores and application/PS was uploaded, I think. I don't have my whole list in front of me right now, but I'll try to remember them all 😀

Thanks a lot! We might share some interview info later on, cause we have obverlapped programs. I applied for 25 programs in Northeast: NY, NJ, PA, MA, CT, MD, RI:

Brown University

UPMC- Medical Education Program, Pittsburgh,
University of Pennsylvania Program, Philadelphia,
Allegheny General Hospital Program, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Program, New York, NY
SUNY at Stony Brook Program, Stony Brook, NY
SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn Program, Brooklyn, NY
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Program, New York, NY
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program, Bronx, NY
Albany Medical Center Program, Albany, NY
New York and Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Program, New York,
Lenox Hill Hospital Program, New York, NY

New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia-Presbyterian Program, New York,
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Program, Newark, NJ
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program, New Brunswick, NJ

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Brigham and Women's Hospital Program, Boston, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital Program, Boston, MA
New England Medical Center Hospitals Program, Boston, MA
Boston University Medical Center Program, Boston, MA

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Program, Bethesda, MD
Johns Hopkins University Program, Baltimore, MD

Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program, New Haven, CT
Hartford Hospital Program, Hartford, CT
Danbury Hospital Program, Danbury, CT

Any comments?
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i got an invite from yale today via email.

since i haven't posted yet: i'm applying to 20 programs, most in nyc, boston area, chicago, and california. i sent in my eras app on sept 2 with 2/3 letters currently uploaded, no transcript yet, and my personal statement is still not done (arg).

i also got an invite (my first) on friday via email from nyu. i heard from usc and mount sinai today via email saying they needed dean's letters before they were going to ask me to interview.

i'm on an easy rotation right now, allowing me to check email far too often...
 
congrats to all of you who got interviews. i just got my first invite today via email from hopkins...as of today, i only have 1 of 4 letters uploaded onto ERAS.
 
oops, in my above post, cedars-sinai was one of the places that needs a dean's letter, not mount sinai. my bad.
 
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First invite. I hear its a great program, but I also hear it's cold! They are offering $300 for travel and a free night in a hotel.
 
Just got an invite from Brigham by email. I guess it pays to check email and ERAS daily.
 
Grrrrrh. As the token Canadian/FMG, my interview census is still at a big fat
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Just kidding - I am actually still unperturbed 😉

Good to see that the big fish are biting!
 
Invite #2. I'm doing a jig!
 
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Emory today too. Also ECU.

I know Emory is supposed to be a good program. I've never heard of anything at all (good or bad) about ECU (East Carolina University). I know it's a small program with few fellowships, but that's about it.
 
The incessant cricket chirping subsided briefly today, long enough to get offers from Yale and Emory. Time to get Jaegermeistered.
 
Okay, now I'm getting worried. I know I've gotten a couple interviews, but it seems that multiple people on here are getting offers from programs I applied to but haven't heard from. This means I missed the "first pass". They looked at my application and dismissed it as unworthy. No rejections yet at least.
 
stormjen said:
Okay, now I'm getting worried. I know I've gotten a couple interviews, but it seems that multiple people on here are getting offers from programs I applied to but haven't heard from. This means I missed the "first pass". They looked at my application and dismissed it as unworthy. No rejections yet at least.
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Stormjen don't worry about it. That happened to me and others last year. It seemed pretty random at times. Some programs have different schedules for MSTP (MD/PhD) candidates than they do for MD candidates for some reason. That might be part of it. A rumor I have heard is that some programs have different people review applications, and some simply do it quicker.

But just because a program offers someone else an interview before they do you doesn't mean you aren't going to get one. It can be frustrating but don't get clutched about it.

Of course, there is always the possibility that they are simply looking for someone better. 😉

On a side note though, many programs do not send out rejection letters, from what I have gathered. They simply do not respond. Now, if I ran a program I would have the courtesy to let people know either way, but they do get a lot of applicants, and they may be hanging on to applications to see what their numbers of applicants are and if they need to add people to the interview schedule at a later date.
 
stormjen said:
Okay, now I'm getting worried. I know I've gotten a couple interviews, but it seems that multiple people on here are getting offers from programs I applied to but haven't heard from. This means I missed the "first pass". They looked at my application and dismissed it as unworthy. No rejections yet at least.
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Yaaargh...(followed by sound of gnashing teeth). I'm getting really worried! 😡

I haven't heard from any programs yet, but I'm hoping that some of that is due to the fact that my Dean's office hasn't sent anything in and only one of my LORs is in. So basically I have a PS, my application, my USMLE transcript, and a single LOR.

How much stuff do you people with say 2/3 interviews or more have in ERAS?

Also JHU is the only one I've seen from my list that people here are getting interview offers from. Are west coast schools generally later?
 
I dunno if this offers any insight but I got 3 of 4 interviews after 3 of my 4 letters got uploaded (yesterday i had 1 letter, today 3). Maybe they read the letters fast. From what I can tell it seems like I got my interviews after my letters got uploaded. Several days ago when I had absolutely no letters uploaded, I had no invites at all.

I don't think I have the perfect application by any means. My pre-clinical grades are decent and my clinical grades suck.
 
I received one invite yesterday! I think people need to settle down a little...it is still so early in the process. I would imagine that most who have gotten invites already either applied on sep 2nd or are such exceptional candidates that there is no real discussion on whether or not the candidate should receive an interview...(I fit into neither of those categories 😀 ) For the average Joe Six-Pack out there who recently submitted their eras dont worry, the invites will come...
 
yaah said:
A rumor I have heard is that some programs have different people review applications, and some simply do it quicker.
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I doubt that's merely a rumor. Having worked in a Department of Pathology for six years, I can attest to the fact that coordinating faculty activities is like milking cats, or trying to get six mules to urinate simultaneously. The sooner we all accept that there is only miniscule rhyme or reason to this process, the better off we will be.

Good luck everyone! I hope to see y'all out on the trail. Especially you, Stormjen. 😉
 
Are YOU an ADTS addict? I just checked out the ERAS Addicts Anonymous thread under General Residency Issues...whoever created that thread is creative and brilliant!
 
Applied to 10...6 really...
UCLA
Hopkins
Beth Isreal
GW
Georgetown

Have only heard from Beth...the waiting continues..
 
i got an interview from cedars-sinai by email today, even though i hadn't sent them any of the stuff they had asked me to send.

this whole interview process seems very random--i can't decide if it's better to be checking where people have gotten interviews or posting where i have and haven't heard from or if that just makes the stress level higher. but, it's nice to have a forum where we can expound on our personal and communal frustration with this process.

my school doesn't even have a dedicated ERAS/residency person right now, making the whole process a little more hairy than it already is. arg. hang in there, everyone.
 
University of Minnesota! By phone! I am absolutely thrilled!
 
Havarti666 said:
Good luck everyone! I hope to see y'all out on the trail. Especially you, Stormjen. 😉
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Woo-hoo! 😛
 
I wouldn't fuss over getting interviews yet. Getting the interviews has no rhyme or reason to it. Some programs interview everyone that applies, and others have some formula. But, I don't think timing has much to do with it. Alot of people still haven't even filled out there ERAS by now I'm sure. The most stressful part of this process is weeding through all of the fluff these programs give you on the interview trail. Who to believe, who not to? One of my classmates last year flew back to a program for a second look, they paid for the flight and hotel, and she didn't match there. Go figure!
 
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Logos' said:
Utah by email today
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I got Utah today too! So far I have Yale, Iowa, and Utah. I don't expect much more until I get more LOR's in.
 
Northwestern by email today.
 
This year's thread is kicking last year's thread in the butt in terms of post speed and numbers. At this time last year it says we were only up to post #23.

Last year at this time I had 3 interviews and the next week or two gave me the majority of them all. Thus, prepare yourselves.

Mahler says:

Hoer auf zu beben! (Cease to tremble)
Bereite dich zu leben! (Prepare yourself to live)

To continue, for completeness' sakes, despite being not quite relevant:

Aufersteh'n, ja, Aufersteh'n wirst du
Mein Herz, in einem Null
Was du geschlagen
zu Gott wird es dich tragen! -Mahler

You will rise again
My heart, in a moment!
What your heartbeats have beaten
Will carry you to God.
 
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