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Interview feedback anyone?

I have an interview this week and am curious how many interviews there are and the length of the interviews?

Any tips would be appreciated...
Cheers
 
I interviewed Nov. 13. Interview is one on one with a professor. I can't imagine being judged on much because my interviewer and I barely talked about medicine. We talked about my hobbies and other random things. He was very nice though! Very relaxed. Interview lasted about 20 minutes. I suggest trying to go in the morning because the interview is first. I interviewed in the afternoon and did not realize the interview was last. I liked that the school has multiple buildings, although the facilities seemed a little dated. I wish they had given me more information about the school/program/facilities etc. They didn't tell us how long it would take to hear back or if we should expect an email or letter, but the students I talked to said about 2 weeks and a letter in the mail. PM if you have any questions! Good luck!
 
Just submitted my secondary lol, hoping for some love
3.5/3.4 31 MCAT IS
 
Interview feedback anyone?

I have an interview this week and am curious how many interviews there were and the length
arilc99 said:
I interviewed Nov. 13. Interview is one on one with a professor. I can't imagine being judged on much because my interviewer and I barely talked about medicine. We talked about my hobbies and other random things. He was very nice though! Very relaxed. Interview lasted about 20 minutes. I suggest trying to go in the morning because the interview is first. I interviewed in the afternoon and did not realize the interview was last. I liked that the school has multiple buildings, although the facilities seemed a little dated. I wish they had given me more information about the school/program/facilities etc. They didn't tell us how long it would take to hear back or if we should expect an email or letter, but the students I talked to said about 2 weeks and a letter in the mail. PM if you have any questions! Good luck!
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Thanks for the insight!

Cheers!
 
Anyone know if the adcom is receptive to update letters?
 
Hey fellas,

Was wondering if any of you had any clue of when they might extend the next wave of interview invites. Judging by this thread, the last interview invite was extended on 10/09 and they haven't given any since. Makes me wonder how they plan to fill a class of 300 students, especially since many osteopathic applicants are putting down their 2000$ non-refundable deposits to other schools around this time.
 
3.82, 29(11,7,11)
NJ resident
Volunteered at 2 hospitals
Shadowed about 10 doctors

How bad will that 7 hurt me?

Good chance here?
 
Anyone else interview yet? I interviewed yesterday (11/20), and while almost everything I saw at the school was positive, my interview seemed painfully short. I was interviewed by a faculty member who barely introduced himself (I'm not sure if he was a DO or MD or PhD or what), and only spent about 15 minutes asking me very simple questions like "What was your MCAT?" "How was your GPA?" and oddly enough "Have you been interviewed or rejected anywhere else yet?" Every chance I tried to elaborate on something I did or accomplished in my undergrad he would seemingly just gloss over it and go on to the next question.

Overall, not a bad interview, I didn't feel awkward at all and he didn't say anything that made me think he was disapproving of my admission, but he definitely gave the interview a somewhat bland note. I'm not sure if he was just rushed or if he was genuinely uninterested in interviewing candidates or whatever. Anyone else with a similar experience...?

Other than that though the school seemed great. I really liked the Doctor-Patient Continuum curriculum and am still impressed at the alumni I know from here, in addition to the rather impression residency placement of it's graduates, including several who went to to chief residency positions at prestigious academic medical centers.
 
PhoenixRising18 said:
Anyone else interview yet? I interviewed yesterday (11/20), and while almost everything I saw at the school was positive, my interview seemed painfully short. I was interviewed by a faculty member who barely introduced himself (I'm not sure if he was a DO or MD or PhD or what), and only spent about 15 minutes asking me very simple questions like "What was your MCAT?" "How was your GPA?" and oddly enough "Have you been interviewed or rejected anywhere else yet?" Every chance I tried to elaborate on something I did or accomplished in my undergrad he would seemingly just gloss over it and go on to the next question.

Overall, not a bad interview, I didn't feel awkward at all and he didn't say anything that made me think he was disapproving of my admission, but he definitely gave the interview a somewhat bland note. I'm not sure if he was just rushed or if he was genuinely uninterested in interviewing candidates or whatever. Anyone else with a similar experience...?

Other than that though the school seemed great. I really liked the Doctor-Patient Continuum curriculum and am still impressed at the alumni I know from here, in addition to the rather impression residency placement of it's graduates, including several who went to to chief residency positions at prestigious academic medical centers.
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I interviewed yesterday as well. My interview was also very short about 10-15 minutes but I had a very different interview experience. My interviewer was super chill and nice. We just had a conversation with relation to my application, aspirations, and ECs. He gave me plenty of time to elaborate upon my answers and was very engaged in our conversation.

Seems as though we had different interviewers Phoenix. The school is awesome with great facilities and clinical sites. I actually thought the DPC was curriculum was a bit different/weird. It seemed as though your entire first two years of medical schools are random and out of order according to the DPC once their is NO syllabi... at all.

Anyway, I heard from the medical students that 75% of NYers who interview get accepted... So all you in-staters don't blow off your interview!

Feel free to PM me about the interview/stats/etc..

Cheers!
 
Ubiquinator said:
I interviewed yesterday as well. My interview was also very short about 10-15 minutes but I had a very different interview experience. My interviewer was super chill and nice. We just had a conversation with relation to my application, aspirations, and ECs. He gave me plenty of time to elaborate upon my answers and was very engaged in our conversation.

Seems as though we had different interviewers Phoenix. The school is awesome with great facilities and clinical sites. I actually thought the DPC was curriculum was a bit different/weird. It seemed as though your entire first two years of medical schools are random and out of order according to the DPC once their is NO syllabi... at all.

Anyway, I heard from the medical students that 75% of NYers who interview get accepted... So all you in-staters don't blow off your interview!

Feel free to PM me about the interview/stats/etc..

Cheers!
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Does this basically mean that you're accepted as long as you don't TOTALLY screw up? Did they ask you why D.O or NYCOM? What was the toughest question they asked you guys?
 
Columbia09 said:
Does this basically mean that you're accepted as long as you don't TOTALLY screw up? Did they ask you why D.O or NYCOM? What was the toughest question they asked you guys?
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Columbia09... relax!

The interview was very conversational and there is no need to stress about it. Just be yourself. Regarding screwing the interview up, you shouldn't screw it up at all. Don't give the interviewers/adcoms a reason to questions your potential or accept you. I'm not going to comment on what questions they asked because that would spoil the fun for you when you interview!...

I asked the medical students about the stats NYIT-COM they usually accepts. They said the majority of applicants they accept have >3.6 & >27.

Cheers
 
Ubiquinator said:
Columbia09... relax!

The interview was very conversational and there is no need to stress about it. Just be yourself. Regarding screwing the interview up, you shouldn't screw it up at all. Don't give the interviewers/adcoms a reason to questions your potential or accept you. I'm not going to comment on what questions they asked because that would spoil the fun for you when you interview!...

I asked the medical students about the stats NYIT-COM they usually accepts. They said the majority of applicants they accept have >3.6 & >27.

Cheers
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Do they have a cut off MCAT?
 
Columbia09 said:
Do they have a cut off MCAT?
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I think you should be putting all your time and energy into doing the best you possibly can on the mcat rather than asking nitty gritty questions about NYCOM's take on the mcat.

Focus and destroy the mcat!

Cheers
 
Ubiquinator said:
Columbia09... relax!

The interview was very conversational and there is no need to stress about it. Just be yourself. Regarding screwing the interview up, you shouldn't screw it up at all. Don't give the interviewers/adcoms a reason to questions your potential or accept you. I'm not going to comment on what questions they asked because that would spoil the fun for you when you interview!...

I asked the medical students about the stats NYIT-COM they usually accepts. They said the majority of applicants they accept have >3.6 & >27.

Cheers
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Hey Ubi, would you be able to enlighten us on about how many candidates were at your interview?
 
jiggerachi said:
Hey Ubi, would you be able to enlighten us on about how many candidates were at your interview?
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So they were two interview groups: morning and afternoon. 10 interviewees for each group, so 20 total. They interview 2 days a week so that 40 a week, 160 month etc etc.

Surprisingly, only 2 out of 10 interviewees in my group were IS!

Morning group interviewers in the morning, then the afternoon group arrives. Both groups go on the tour, presentation, etc together. After the tour, its time for the afternoon interviewees to face judgment day whereas the morning interviewees can happily wave goodbye and be on their way.

If you can schedule for the morning session, do it. Getting the interview out of the way first makes the entire day a lot more enjoyable.

Cheers!
 
Ubiquinator said:
So they were two interview groups: morning and afternoon. 10 interviewees for each group, so 20 total. They interview 2 days a week so that 40 a week, 160 month etc etc.

Surprisingly, only 2 out of 10 interviewees in my group were IS!

Morning group interviewers in the morning, then the afternoon group arrives. Both groups go on the tour, presentation, etc together. After the tour, its time for the afternoon interviewees to face judgment day whereas the morning interviewees can happily wave goodbye and be on their way.

If you can schedule for the morning session, do it. Getting the interview out of the way first makes the entire day a lot more enjoyable.

Cheers!
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Thank you, Ubi. Best of luck to you.
 
Hi all,
Been complete for almost 2 months. Gpa 3.65 Sgpa 3.47, MCAT 25. Applied and also have family in the state, though I am OOS. Should I give up hope based on my mcat? I have good ECs with shadowing, etc.
 
Hey for ppl who interviewed....did they give you a status check confirming that your file is complete?
 
dedicated2be said:
Hi all,
Been complete for almost 2 months. Gpa 3.65 Sgpa 3.47, MCAT 25. Applied and also have family in the state, though I am OOS. Should I give up hope based on my mcat? I have good ECs with shadowing, etc.
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It's probably going to be tough for you considering that you are OOS. The general rule is that OOS students should have above average GPAs and MCAT scores but I'm sure there are a couple of people who do get in with OOS status. Good luck !!
 
How I feel waiting for an ii since July:
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Does anyone know when the ad com will be meeting for the November interviews? Or when the letters will be sent out?
 
buddy9 said:
Does anyone know when the ad com will be meeting for the November interviews? Or when the letters will be sent out?
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I interviewed back on 10/30 and we were told about a month or so.
 
Columbia09 said:
ALso if anyone can address this that would be great
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Columbia09 said:
It's probably going to be tough for you considering that you are OOS. The general rule is that OOS students should have above average GPAs and MCAT scores but I'm sure there are a couple of people who do get in with OOS status. Good luck !!
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I got my acceptance in the mail a few days ago and I am OOS and have and MCAT score of 24. For those of you who are worried, this may just go to show that MCATs are not everything and there is hope, so good luck!
 
Ski.the.East said:
I got my acceptance in the mail a few days ago and I am OOS and have and MCAT score of 24. For those of you who are worried, this may just go to show that MCATs are not everything and there is hope, so good luck!
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Congrats...when were you complete? Are you URM? Thanks
 
Ski.the.East said:
I got my acceptance in the mail a few days ago and I am OOS and have and MCAT score of 24. For those of you who are worried, this may just go to show that MCATs are not everything and there is hope, so good luck!
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Congrats! Gives some hope! Mind sharing when you were complete and other stats?
 
dedicated2be said:
Congrats! Gives some hope! Mind sharing when you were complete and other stats?
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Hey no problem... cGPA: 3.80, sGPA: 3.63, MCAT: 24. I have a ton of EC's and great LOR (from Doc's, prof's and research PI). Someone else asked so I will also add that I am Caucasian.

Also, a side note - I am totally declining my acceptance. I did not enjoy the school at all and the post above reaffirms much of what I felt while interviewing there. Most students looked miserable and hardly anyone was nice/excited to have us applicants there, Ha!
 
I forgot to mention that I was complete in September.... but from what I have seen with other schools your complete date hardly means anything. People are reviewed all the time and in no particular order. Its a crap shoot out there so just let go and be patient. Its hard, I TOTALLY get that, but there is no reason to get worked up over something you cannot control.
 
Hey Ski......congrats again.....when was ur interview date?
 
Jjkwest1 said:
Hey Ski......congrats again.....when was ur interview date?
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Very early November... took a while to hear back but as promised it was within 4-weeks of the interview and you get ample time to decide. If I were to go I would not have to pay the deposit until mid January.
 
Ski.the.East said:
Hey no problem... cGPA: 3.80, sGPA: 3.63, MCAT: 24. I have a ton of EC's and great LOR (from Doc's, prof's and research PI). Someone else asked so I will also add that I am Caucasian.

Also, a side note - I am totally declining my acceptance. I did not enjoy the school at all and the post above reaffirms much of what I felt while interviewing there. Most students looked miserable and hardly anyone was nice/excited to have us applicants there, Ha!
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Hey congrats and thanks for sharing! I'm actually sad to see the other posts and your feedback that most people looked miserable. Regardless congrats on your acceptance and good luck for whichever school you choose!
 
dedicated2be said:
Hey congrats and thanks for sharing! I'm actually sad to see the other posts and your feedback that most people looked miserable. Regardless congrats on your acceptance and good luck for whichever school you choose!
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Thanks!
I am definitely not one to bash on other schools because everyone has their own opinions. I know there were a few people after interviewing said they loved the school and would go there no matter what, if they were accepted. However, I just wanted to give my bit of insight as to what I felt and how it compared to other schools I have been too. Yes, it is a LARGE class and that may be a lot of why I felt the way I did. The bigger problem I had with understanding the school was that if 300+ students are paying $54,000 a year where is all that money going?! For me, the school lacked updates a new-age technology... many other schools I have seen tried to WOW its students which was not hard with state-of-the-art facilities they offered.

I just want to emphasize that this is a very important decision in our lives as physicians and I would never let the name or location of a school strictly determine if I was going there. It has to be about the fit and what you feel while being there. Anyway, you may very well like it - you'll just have to see for yourself and good luck with getting an interview!
 
Ski.the.East said:
Thanks!
I am definitely not one to bash on other schools because everyone has their own opinions. I know there were a few people after interviewing said they loved the school and would go there no matter what, if they were accepted. However, I just wanted to give my bit of insight as to what I felt and how it compared to other schools I have been too. Yes, it is a LARGE class and that may be a lot of why I felt the way I did. The bigger problem I had with understanding the school was that if 300+ students are paying $54,000 a year where is all that money going?! For me, the school lacked updates a new-age technology... many other schools I have seen tried to WOW its students which was not hard with state-of-the-art facilities they offered.

I just want to emphasize that this is a very important decision in our lives as physicians and I would never let the name or location of a school strictly determine if I was going there. It has to be about the fit and what you feel while being there. Anyway, you may very well like it - you'll just have to see for yourself and good luck with getting an interview!
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Thanks again for your input!
 
Ski.the.East said:
I got my acceptance in the mail a few days ago and I am OOS and have and MCAT score of 24. For those of you who are worried, this may just go to show that MCATs are not everything and there is hope, so good luck!
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CONGRATS DUDE !!! What were your GPAs and ECs ?
 
Hey all! I'm a first year at Nyitcom and I finally have a little bit of a break. I'd first like to say that with a large class size of over 3oo we've got our fair share of different "med school" personalities; the complainer types, the ones that eat, drink, and live medical school and are miserable doing it types, the gunner competitive types, the ones that always seem to be having fun, study "only an hour a day" and are the first to finish the exam in 15 minutes types (they make it look easy, damn them!), I think its safe to say that among all of these people it isn't difficult to find a niche. Anyway what I'm trying to say is, take everything you read here and elsewhere on the forum and realize that only you know yourself, if you're able to adapt and if you'll work hard and thrive. The school is not without its flaws, for sure, but so far I'm happy here.

I chose Nyitcom because it has everything, is part of NYCOMEC, and it's close to home. It's got a full-time faculty that is committed to helping students--especially the anatomy department. I seriously do not know if they even go home. And the cadaver lab is open until 2am, not that I make it a habit of going there by myself... The OMM lab is large with lots of tv screens so you can see what the professor is doing close up from anywhere in the room as opposed to the tiny bare minimum classroom-style you might find at smaller schools. But then you get to work one on one with attending professors and teaching assistants assigned to your smaller groups to make sure you are doing the techniques right. We have something called Doctor-Patient Relationship Lab (kind of a lame name) and an ICC lab where we work within smaller groups with attending physicians and standardized patients on history taking and physical exams and there is even a robot simulator that we will mainly use in our second year. We have ICC practical examinations with the standardized patients that are recorded so that we can look back and see how best we can improve. Our library is no library of congress but there is a seat for everyone and we have access to multiple copies of all our textbooks and some of our text books are even offered to us free of charge on an internet site called inkling. I have yet to purchase a book other than an anatomy atlas. If you want to do a group study thing, though, you'll have more luck in the cafeteria or in the group study rooms at the undergraduate library. Being a part of an extracurricular club is pretty easy too, you basically just show up to a monthly meeting held during our allotted lunch hour. All the different clubs will host meetings with free food (usually pizza) between 12-1 and there are always different guest speakers like residency directors from around long island (some of them are Nycom grads themselves).

So what are some down sides? One complaint that deters a lot of premeds from coming to Nyitcom is the tuition and of course if you find an equivalent school for a more reasonable price where you think you'll excel, go for it. I think one reason the tuition is high is because being a relatively young school, there is no endowment fund, and is therefore 100% tuition driven. Another thing that is somewhat annoying is Nyitcom's new push for "active learning". What that means is that students have even more "homework", hundreds of pages of reading to be done before lecture because lecture is not really lecture anymore but an opportunity for the professor to incorporate what you've learned in your preview work and make it more clinically relevant and interactive. It's actually a brilliant idea, but is very exhausting for sleep deprived first years who sometimes just want to be spoon fed some info. Some students have stopped attending lecture altogether because they can easily "stream" them from home on double speed. To make things a little easier some of the professors have taken to prerecording "preview" lectures so that we won't have to read as much from the textbook (yay!) But on top of watching these preview lectures, and "streaming" your classroom lectures, you also are responsible for watching virtual classroom sessions which are about about 2 prerecorded classroom sessions per week that there just wasn't enough time for in the week to be given an actual time slot for the professor. The way medicine is taught is sometimes so strange-- it's the race to learn as much information as you can about helping people but it's done in such an impersonal virtual way--I dunno it kind of rubs me the wrong way. What I just described is for the lecture based program though so if you are interested in the DPC program they'll have something different to say. The small case-based DPC program is completely different--they only have a few exams per year and they get assigned to work under a primary care physician this January.

Anyway, not sure what state-of-the-art facilities the previous user was comparing Nycom's to, I suppose our library could do with a few upgrades, but all I know is that so far I am not lacking in anything. If anyone has questions you might be curious about, please feel free to message me. Back to studying.
 
just wanted to pitch in my interview update. So most of the people I interviewed with were instate but I thought the staff/students were quite friendly. While my interview was short, I thought it went well. Other people had different perspectives (but I think it largely depended on who interviewed us). Overall felt a good vibe from the school. My stats: MCAT: 29 GPA sci: 3.5 cumgpa: 3.6 and i'm in state
 
drkitcat said:
Interviewing this week, any last minute tips?
Thanks!
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Prepare to wait a long time for interviews... depending on when you go for yours it could be upwards an hour. When I interviewed they had only two interviewers and 30+ applicants. Interviews also only last about 15-20 min. Laid back, open file. Dont freak.
 
Im curious, does this school have an instate bias? Also, any ideas on when the next round of interviews is coming?
 
Does anyone know if there was a followup email to the supplement? I cannot find anything in my inbox but it could just be because gmail is a little quirky. I was all submitted in August.
 
corinneselene said:
Does anyone know if there was a followup email to the supplement? I cannot find anything in my inbox but it could just be because gmail is a little quirky. I was all submitted in August.
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There is, you should have received an email confirming your paypal confirmation
 
Anybody heard any decisions from the school yet?
 
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