Do MD/PhD programs follow the same strategy as MD-only programs, where they go down a list by completion date and send sequential interview invites and rejections? Or is it based on some other method like prioritizing the best candidates for interviews first?
MD/PhD applicant evaluation/II order
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^this. Not sure where u heard that it goes by complete date. The better your app, the earlier you will interview provided you are also complete on time (before IIs start going out)
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Despite how individual schools process applications, the safest thing to do is to be complete early, even for schools that claim they don't have rolling admissions.
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For sure. The earlier you are complete, the better it is. But, schools are trying to get the best applicants they can get, not the applicants who submitted the earliest. How they combine that with application processing is anyone's guess.
About the rolling admissions, keep in mind that even if a school has non-rolling admissions (everyone gets notified in March, for example), almost every school is going to have a rolling interview invite system. There's almost no other way to do this. While some schools may issue II's in a less continuous fashion than others (2-3 waves of II's for the cycle instead of II's every other week), if you aren't in their database, you can't be considered for that wave of II's.
