Maybe an incredibly dumb question to ask

[RemainPositive]

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Hello yall,

All these stress these days regarding interviews (just bombed my first one 🙁) and application has led to a dramatic decrease in my brain capacity.

A nice member on SDN recently told me that on the back of the ADEA book that there is a table of # interviewed + # offers made by each school. It appears to me that most schools accepts more than half of the students they interview, some even >70%, even if the students are OOS. Is this true?! Because this would really cut away a lot of the stress I'm feeling right now, because I always though interview usually only result in <30% acceptance rate at private schools, at even less at OOS. But a lot of the schools seem to offer a higher % chance to OOS applicants they interview than instate

Thanks for your help!

 

[artist2022]

I wouldn't say most schools accept more than half of the students they interview. Out of 52 schools that listed stats, 28 of them had rates over 50%, but only 14 of them had rates over 70% for OOS.

Private schools tend to be more forgiving on stats, have larger class sizes, and can interview more people, so I think their rates are higher than 30%. Public schools, on the other hand, tend to have low OOS acceptances rates, but you have to look at how many people they interviewed. UCLA, for example, accepts 94% of the OOS students they interview, but they only interview 16 people. You have to look at both the numbers and the percent to figure out what they mean- can't have one without the other.

As for the interview, the first interview is always the hardest. It's hard to know what to do, what to say, etc, but just make sure you've learned from it. Try to find out where you went wrong, and definitely improve on that for your next interview 🙂 Good luck!

 

[RemainPositive]

I wouldn't say most schools accept more than half of the students they interview. Out of 52 schools that listed stats, 28 of them had rates over 50%, but only 14 of them had rates over 70% for OOS.

Private schools tend to be more forgiving on stats, have larger class sizes, and can interview more people, so I think their rates are higher than 30%. Public schools, on the other hand, tend to have low OOS acceptances rates, but you have to look at how many people they interviewed. UCLA, for example, accepts 94% of the OOS students they interview, but they only interview 16 people. You have to look at both the numbers and the percent to figure out what they mean- can't have one without the other.

As for the interview, the first interview is always the hardest. It's hard to know what to do, what to say, etc, but just make sure you've learned from it. Try to find out where you went wrong, and definitely improve on that for your next interview 🙂 Good luck!

Thank you artist!

Just wanted reassurance that the numbers on the back are true, especially for some of the private ones! This definitely will make me sleep easier

 

[Faux]

Oh yea, I remember doing the math before my interviews and just relaxed after realizing that fact. After like two or three interviews, its more likely a question of "where" rather than "If".


Just don't be a douche during the interview.

 

[2TH MVR]

True story. My 1st interview for ortho residency at UMKC. Extremely nervous. Drove to the interview (one state over) with my gf. Cold, damp morning. So nervous that I got laryngitis. Laryngitis?!?!. Never had it before. Never had it since. Imagine trying to interview and ask questions when you cannot even talk? They actually felt sorry for me. Not sorry enough to invite me back for another interview though. As someone else posted .... once you know the process .... the subsequent interviews are less stressful.

Good luck.

 

[oceanicvibe]

but only 14 of them had rates over 70% for OOS.

Which ones!? lolz

 

[artist2022]

Which ones!? lolz

Was looking at the spreadsheet in this thread: Dental School Statistics
But basically about half of the 14 are private schools (because they don't favor IS over OOS). Some of remaining ones (ie UCLA, OSU, TAMU, OHSU, UMKC, etc) are state schools that don't interview many OOS to begin with, and that's why they end up accepting most of them (hence the high rates). That's why I said you gotta look at both the percents but also the number accepted.