I am interviewing on October 19th.
I drove out to DCOM yesterday to take a tour and get my bearings for the area.
The facility is very nice and new. The staff and faculty seem very welcoming+ genuinely excited about the program. The area is well extremely extremely rural.
I found out the stats for the class of 2014. Average MCAT: 24.4, 3.32 science gpa, 3.43 cumulative, 3.53 non-science. They interview 400-500 and accept around 262 for a class of around 162. My basic math skills tell me that if you interview you will have a 50% or greater chance of gaining an acceptance. I will gladly take those odds.
I'm honestly surprised our numbers aren't a little higher. My class rocks! Our very first lab practical had an average over 80%, I want to say like 85% even. It was crazy! Our prof was VERY happy with this, and he has had somewhere around thirty years experience doing med school anatomy!
Student host programs are always fun! You go Grace. I hear it's a 1.5 hour drive from the airport to the town, that is one expensive taxi ride. Maybe we should carpool, some company, and some saved cash for us broke med school applicants!
Definitely don't do a taxi. Most people rent cars. If you can network through the website, you might be able to get one rental car to split the cost, but I don't know...it might get hard to time flight arrivals and all that. Good luck with that!
Congrats to everyone who has been offered an interview so far!
Here is the deal.....
This place is awesome, the interview is really relaxed, the people are friendly, and the school is amazing.
I could not have made a better choice than the one I made to come to LMU-DCOM.
Good luck to all who have applied and don't stress out about the interview. It is by far the most non threatening environment I have ever been in when something so important was at stake. I am sure Grace E. will agree with me.
Come the night before if you can and go to the Pizza Hut dinner. It is a time where y'all will get to meet with current students and ask whatever you want to ask about the school, the area, etc.... None of it has any impact on your interview, it is just so you can ask those questions that you don't want to ask the people interviewing you. It is a great way to find out first hand from those currently enrolled what life is like in the Metropolis that is Harrogate and Cumberland Gap TN. and what life is like at DCOM.
Again, good luck to all who have applied and all who are awaiting their interviews. Any questions, let me know.
A fellow classmate appears! But who is it...??
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I will be driving with my friend from Michigan more like a road trip, but just wanted to ask u guys is it okay if I bring him with me to the pizza thing and the interview???
Absolutely...it's great to have some support!
Thanks for clearing this up! I have some questions as I am filling out the secondary application. I have nothing to list for professional experiences besides undergraduate research. I was paid during summers and full time so I was considering if I should include this?
Also, I only have one significant volunteer experience listed for 2 years. I was considering attaching a resume to add more but it would just restate what's on my AACOMAS. I put a lot of time and thought into the AACOMAS so I feel attaching a resume would be redundant.
Does anybody know if they accept additional letters of recommendation. I have two additional but don't know if they just want the DO letter and committee letter.
Thanks!
I honestly don't even remember what I put for professional experience- is there already a clinical experiences section? If not, maybe job shadowing could go there? If you don't have any, though, don't sweat it. I'm not sure that paid research counts, but I guess it might. Honestly, I really don't think it's worth stressing over- just don't do obviously wrong things like listing paid stuff under volunteer work or try to call things volunteer work that really aren't.
I wouldn't bother attaching a resume that restates stuff on AACOMAS. They evaluate all of it when they review your app. If, however, you can't fit everything on the secondary app that you want (and you didn't already cover it in the primary), just put "see attached resume" on your secondary and enclose it with your app.
I think they'll accept an extra letter, probably just one. I would email Janette to ask first though and explain why you wish to include it. You'll want to have a decent reason for it, so that it doesn't come across negatively (aka you being really insecure about your app or you wanting to really show off, etc)
I got an interview invite today!!!
I just got an interview November 2nd. Pretty excited about this school from what I've seen on their website and from my pre-med advisor. I'm all about the outdoors so this seems like it'll be a very nice fit for me. Any information on how the interview is run at LMU-DCOM?
Interview invite for November 2nd. Sweet!
Just got an interview invite....Nov 8th. Very Excited!! My first one 🙂
Hey everyone,
Got a call today, interview is Nov 9.
CONGRATS on all the new interview invites!
I also am interviewing in October and was complete in July. Do you think admissions accepts a greater percentage of applicants, than normal, during the first few interviews?
Absolutely. This is why there is an advantage to applying early. The same student applying in August can get in easily but get waitlisted or rejected in March (speaking from personal experience here). On the same token, though, it's not a guaranteed acceptance by ANY stretch. Just increased odds in my opinion.
