Dr. C Troy, its mdapps like yours and LifeTimeDoc's that confirm that luck is such a major part of this process. your mdapps is really impressive. Are you able to convey all of it concisely/coherently?
I feel I've done extremely well at all my interviews.
However, my UA Phoenix interview was with a PhD, and he just wanted me to talk about my research, and that was all he cared about, so I wasn't really too happy with that one, since I'm doing MD and not MD/PhD, so I don't know how useful me describing the intracacies of my research will be to the Adcom.
SUNY, it really wasn't an interview, my interviewers just talked about the school with me for an hour each, and we talked primarily about skiing and the weather for whatever reason, probably because I missed the scheduled intervew date due to a weather-based flight cancellation.
Mayo was the only school where I really discussed my ECs, and I really feel as if those were my best interviews.
So to answer your question, yes I did, however, unless I get an interview at the school, I won't be given the opportunity to "shine" in that sense
And the UofA doesn't really take out of staters, with the exception of Montana and a few other states, due to the state legislature's desire to increase AZ's physician retention rates, since the idea is that students that come from AZ will become doctors that stay in AZ.
