Med School that accepts alot of interviewees?

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Depends on the turnover rate of the school.
 
CodeBlu said:
One acronym... M S A R

some schools interview a lot of people, some only interview 500 and accept around 300.
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This is the one weak spot of MSAR actually. OP, buy the US News data (~$20). It lists number of acceptances post interview. Data might be a year or two old but it gives you a general idea of what each school likes to do. Ex, I've seen one of my schools accept almost 70%, while another <20%.
 
Donnie1310 said:
This is the one weak spot of MSAR actually. OP, buy the US News data (~$20). It lists number of acceptances post interview. Data might be a year or two old but it gives you a general idea of what each school likes to do. Ex, I've seen one of my schools accept almost 70%, while another <20%.
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get it for free. look for that thread
 
Also depends on your definition of " a lot". Some would consider 10% to be a lot but that also means a 90% of not getting in
 
I love how no one wants to give the answer cuz they paid for the MSAR and do not want to give out the info. to others who haven't paid for them, lol.

I don't have the MSAR, so don't know other schools, but Tulane accepts around 80% of interviewees. Hope that helps.

P.S. You can also go to school websites and search for their admissions statistics and find it there if the school released it.
 
ppappui said:
I love how no one wants to give the answer cuz they paid for the MSAR and do not want to give out the info. to others who haven't paid for them, lol.
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The MSAR is totally worth the $15, despite its shortcomings. But this information isn't listed in the MSAR; they only have numbers of interviewees and matriculants. Schools must overadmit (twice? three times their class size?) in order to account for those choosing to go elsewhere.

Also, what does any of this matter? According to USNews, one school accepts 56% of the OOS-ers it interviews. Sounds good, right? Except they comprise only 5% of the OOS applicant pool. When you take the product of those granted interviews (5%) and interviewees granted acceptances (56%), you get an overall OOS acceptance rate of 2.6%. Fighting to be in the top half of that 5% pool is gonna be wayyy harder than another school that shares the same rank, which interviews ~25% and accepts ~25% of that pool (overall acceptance rate of ~6%). Being in the top quarter of one school is possibly easier than being in the top half of the other.

Even more complicated (and harder to quantify) is the general competitiveness of a school's applicant pool.

I can throw out some schools (UMich, Northwestern, Brown), but I'd hesitate to make any judgments or feel at all complacent at any point in the process. (Until there's an acceptance in my hand, that is!)
 
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percy said:
Also, what does any of this matter?
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I find it useful to know about schools where I'm granted an interview already. While this may be wrong, I kind of use it to gauge how heavily my interview performance will be factored into a decision. No practical purpose for the info true, but it does seem like some schools use the interview to make sure someone isn't weird that they already pretty much want to accept, while others are really using it to differentiate a bunch of people they like.
 
Donnie1310 said:
I find it useful to know about schools where I'm granted an interview already. While this may be wrong, I kind of use it to gauge how heavily my interview performance will be factored into a decision. No practical purpose for the info true, but it does seem like some schools use the interview to make sure someone isn't weird that they already pretty much want to accept, while others are really using it to differentiate a bunch of people they like.
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There's really no point in your trying to reverse engineer and understand any one school's approach. It's inherently subjective. Even for schools that use points/weighting systems for the final assessment and ranking, the assignment of points for impression, attitude, affability, etc remains subjective.

Do your best to make a positive impression and have a good interview "performance". Assume it matters (because it does).
 
Brown's accepts a huge chunk of people they interview. I want to say over 50%, maybe higher but I don't have the MSAR with me and I don't want to misquote.

That also might have to do with the large chunk of 8-yr BS/MD students they have (now that I think of it though, I don't know if they are interviewed though, so that could throw off any data I thought I had...)

Soo... get an MSAR.
 
According to US News, UVa accepts ~80% IS interviewed and ~70% OOS interviewed.

I think I saw on Tulane's website that they interview around 400 people and accept ~300.
 
I think Tulane is currently the highest
 
AzDesertDoc said:
I think Tulane is currently the highest
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I agree here. They interview a small number of their relatively large applicant pool.

I think they receive 10,000 applications... and they interview 500 or so, and they accept on average 300-400 depending on who accepts and who declines.
 
as oppose to med schools that accept a lot of non-interviewees?
 
Zuerst said:
as oppose to med schools that accept a lot of non-interviewees?
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As opposed to schools that interview FAR more than what they accept => your chance once you get an interview can still quite low statistically

80% at Tulane is very good odds compared to like 15% at mayo once you get an interview

I agree also that your IS schools will probably be 40-70% too giving you good odds, but that can be skewed because a lot of IS schools have auto-invites which means you may not be as competitive of an applicant as you think you are but law demands that you are interviewed
 
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