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I was at Duke earlier this week for my interview. Here's what Wendy (who is wonderful! I hope everybody calling office has been nice to her!) told all of us: The first set of letters will be sent out March 8th and the rest probably will be sent out on the 15th. She did not tell us what the breakdown of the letters would be, so I'm not sure whether only acceptances go out first or anything like that. They will try to post decisions on the website about 5 days after your decision has been mailed to try to give you a chance to get the paper copy first. This information was given to the MSTP candidates interviewing that day, too, so it seems like all decisions will be sent out according to the same timeline. Approximately 750 people were interviewed, and they'll probably accept around 150. Anyway, I hope that this information helped. I loved Duke when I visited, so I'm definitely hoping that decision is an acceptance! Good luck, everybody!! :)
 
Okay, here is the deal as of March 1, 2002.

March 8th is the mailing out date. here is the clencher, they ARE making phone calls on March 8th to accepted applicants.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Anyways, that is today's deal, who knows next week. Someone could call and verify this too!
 
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•••quote:•••Originally posted by waiting anxiously:
•I was at Duke earlier this week for my interview. Here's what Wendy (who is wonderful! I hope everybody calling office has been nice to her!) told all of us: The first set of letters will be sent out March 8th and the rest probably will be sent out on the 15th. She did not tell us what the breakdown of the letters would be, so I'm not sure whether only acceptances go out first or anything like that. They will try to post decisions on the website about 5 days after your decision has been mailed to try to give you a chance to get the paper copy first. This information was given to the MSTP candidates interviewing that day, too, so it seems like all decisions will be sent out according to the same timeline. Approximately 750 people were interviewed, and they'll probably accept around 150. Anyway, I hope that this information helped. I loved Duke when I visited, so I'm definitely hoping that decision is an acceptance! Good luck, everybody!! :) •••••That is indeed what's happening. They are making phone calls for each round, and the info will not be on the website until five days later.

I'm in the office right now, waiting for my alpha. Supposedly I have the guy who likes to quiz ppl about free radical mechanisms... :wink:
 
oh that guy! the [what is a free radical?, what is the capital of indonesia?, Malaysia?, what is apoptosis?]-guy. That dude is funny.
 
No Sweat.

You can do it. i am cheering for you from my desk! :clap:

I don't know of any one else who had that free radical question, besides the person on interviewfeedback.com.

You WILL BE FINE!

Peace
 
Posting from the interview waiting room!! :cool: Impressive!! :cool: I know you'll do GREAT!!! :D :D :D
 
Oh thank God I put down my cell phone as my contact phone number instead of my regular number. I will be out of town, but I still would get a call, (provided I were to be so lucky and get an acceptance). At least this is better than waiting a couple more days until you *really* find out through snail mail. I hate having to wait another week though!
 
Well, the other two guys are reading a newspaper, and I wanted to check a PM for some help with his questions, so... :D

15 more minutes of waiting...... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

But my beta went really well, so, so far, so good. :D
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by brandonite:
•They are making phone calls for each round, and the info will not be on the website until five days later.
•••••So they are doing more than one round of acceptances, right? If so, do you know what the latest interview date they plan to include in the first round is? Otherwise, maybe you'll only have to wait a week before finding out you're accepted. That would be very cool.

Good luck brandonite! :)
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by GS:
•Ok, in honor of choker, I thought I might start this thread, since I am dying to find out about whether or not I get into this school. I just got of the phone with the admissions office. All interviews are done on March 1st, and there are TWO batches of acceptances sent out, YES TWO (2) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> , the first on March 1st and the second on March 15th. I still haven't heard from columbia, but I am going to bury the hatchet and go forward. Those with me say AyE!

:clap: •••••I just got off the phone with admissions. Yes, March 1st is the last day for on-campus interviews. However, they are scheduling region interviews now. Which is great for me considering that I didn't find out about my interview until I happened to check the online status page for the first time today. I guess I lucked out. :D
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by waiting anxiously:
• Approximately 750 people were interviewed, and they'll probably accept around 150. •••••What??? I thought they interviewed something like 1200 last year?
 
alot of schools interviewed less applicants this year. I know Harvard interviewed about 800 last year, but only about 650 this year. AMCAS baby!
 
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Hi Waiting Anxiously,

Duke interviewed only 750 people for the MD program?

EC
 
I am really confused myself. Duke is only offering 150 acceptances! They usually offer 250. Why the *&%$( are they only offering only 150? Also, have they already called people who are they going to accept? Anyway, sorry for being so anxious, but I have been waiting so lonng for a response from Duke!
 
Dukee:
They have not yet made any calls; except for a couple of MSTPs. The calls will be made on March 8. I don't know anything about the 150 acceptances thing. I guess they think they're now big-timers :D --(j/k)
 
Dukee: They usually make 200 initial offers, not 250, plus any that come off the waitlist (so the final tally might be closer to 250 when all is said and done.)

Last year, however, things got a bit tight -- they didn't get nearly as many turn-downs as they were expecting, and they were almost overbooked. So this year they must be offering fewer acceptances off the bat in order to avoid the same problem. This means, of course, that more people will get pulled off the waitlist than usual.
 
thanks guys. that makes me feel a little better. I heard through this thread that only 750 were interviewed, but that number is confusing also, since usually closer to 1200 are interviewed. Anyway, I am tired of thinking about my chances in terms of numbers. I will cross my fingers and hope for the best. My verbal mcat is so low (...a 7), but I still somehow got lucky with an interview in november. I was surprised b/c they invited me before my August mcat scores arrived. I do not have many interviews, so I was hoping for Duke, but we will see...
 
dukee,
wendy told me that they are definitely cutting down the number of interviews this year, mainly due to the amcas debacle. so that might answer your question. :cool:
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by omores:
•Dukee: They usually make 200 initial offers, not 250, plus any that come off the waitlist (so the final tally might be closer to 250 when all is said and done.)

Last year, however, things got a bit tight -- they didn't get nearly as many turn-downs as they were expecting, and they were almost overbooked. So this year they must be offering fewer acceptances off the bat in order to avoid the same problem. This means, of course, that more people will get pulled off the waitlist than usual.•••••Hehe - I'm logged to your account now, omores... :wink: Thanks again.

They are offering 200 acceptances. I heard that about five times yesterday, from everyone from the Dean of Admissions on down. First round - March 8th. Second round, March 15th. They will TRY to call. If not, they'll go out by mail (not sure whether it's priority or not), and it will be up on the website about five days later. They don't want people to find out first on the website.

Things were interesting yesterday... :wink: I had the strange interviewer. Thanks to help from a certain person on SDN (thanks - you know who you are! :wink: ), I was ready for most of the questions. But then he started to go off on a wierd geography tangent, and I proceeded to get five answers in a row wrong (capital of Australia (Canbera! Who knew??), current president of South Africa, etc...). And, then, after my five wrong answers in a row, he abruptly ended the interview! We were only fifteen minutes in, out of a total half hour. I decided I couldn't let things end this early, so I rambled on for five minutes about how I loved Duke, etc, etc, etc... Anyway, after that, I just sorta limped out of the office... I figure ending the interview halfway through after five wrong answers in a row probably isn't a good sign... :( The good thing is that I did pretty well on the first part, so maybe this was some wierd psychological test. Who knows?

Anyway, we only have to wait a week. I'm loving the place down here! Omores has been great (and patient with me)! I'm somewhat convinced she's a genius, so I'm proud to be a fellow Canadian. :D The school is amazing, and I've wandered around campus for the past five hours with a fellow interviewer. I really like the city.

Just one more anxious week... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
brandonite, if you get into duke, you gonna go for sure? If I get into both Duke and NUMS, it's gonna be a real tough decision cuz i loved it at NUMS, but then again I haven't been down to Durham.
 
I'm still strongly considering staying in Canada, on account of the cost.

It'll be a tough decision. I don't really have a strong desire to leave Canada. But I did really like Duke...
 
So does anyone know at approximately what time they might be making these calls on Friday? During work hours or in the evening (like Stanford)?
dlc
 
They didn't say.

They actually said they were going to "try and make phone calls", so I suppose it's possible that they won't call us at all! Though, I did get the feeling that they would.

But, I have no idea if it'll be at night or during the day...
 
I think the reason Stanford called in the evening was because they are on the west coast and it is a 3 hour difference with the east coast. So if someone from D.C. got the phone call from Stanford at 6:35 p.m. it is only 3:35 p.m. in Palo Alto. Therefore it is still during the school's office hours. My guess is that if Duke is going to call it will be sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 5 pm or so.
 
GS,
I thought I had remember Choker saying that the latest Stanford calls is 11:00 PM (8:00 PM their time), which is why I wasn't sure.
 
stanford calls in the evening because the committee meets in the afternoon and they get out late. they are so excited they just call everyone right away - whether it's late on the east coast or not.

since duke isn't having one night of admissions fun but rather releasing lots of decisions, i bet it's someone's job to call during working hours.
 
Has anyone gotten an acceptance call during the day? Both of the schools I was accepted to that called called at night (and they are on the east coast).
 
Hello everyone :wink:
I just had a regional interview this friday. Do you think my letter (supposing I get one) will definitely go in the March 15 batch or can it come earlier?
This will make my third post :D
 
This'll be my 900 and something'th post. :wink:

I would say that you're almost certainly going to be on the March 15th decision day. I think there is some extra paperwork that goes with regional interviews, and there's a bit more of a delay there. I'm guessing that I'll be on the 15th as well, given that I didn't interview until last week.

Good luck!
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by brandonite:
•This'll be my 900 and something'th post. :wink: •••••Go, brandondite!! :D And on that note, I'll have to leave the field to you and Dra. Foxy and Amy Beth, and Scooby and get some sleep so I can make my flight in the morning!! :) G'night all.
 
Any feelings that they might send out letters early like some other schools have done? It would probably depend on when the committee is meeting, so I hope that is soon!
 
I wish they would because I'm going to be on break for both dates - away from my mail and my phone!!! groan. They seemed pretty definite about the March 8th and 15th dates, though, especially since they have to wait for regional interview information.
 
The commitee is meeting sometime this week - not too sure when.

As to letters... I do know that they're going to put them on the website about five days after they call, and I think they said they were sending out letters as well. I'd think that they would call and send the letters at the same time, so you'd just have the delay of the mail system in there.
 
•••quote:•••During work hours or in the evening (like Stanford)? ••••It was probably during the evening for you dlc because you're in the eastern time zone and Stanford is obviously pacific...that would mean that if they called near the end of the day (e.g. 3-4ish) it would be 6-7pm for you. So, assuming you're on the east coast, it would probably be a safe assumption that if they didn't call by 5p, you probably wouldn't be getting a call (that day!).

GOOD LUCK!
 
this was never answered, so i guess i'll bring it up again- can anyone confirm that duke only interviewed 750 people this year?
 
does anybody know how many students were interviewed (really know, not just rumors...). I heard 750 from this thread, but this does seem low. I think maybe this may not have included regional interviews, but I could be wrong...
 
wendy in the office told me about 800, which seems to be in the ballpark of what everyone is suggesting
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Duke interviewed that few people. After they didn't really have anyone decline their invites last year, they might have felt they could cut the number of interviews and still be extremely successful in getting their class. Hey, I would jump through the ceiling with joy if they would let me in, and I think everyone else here would too. I don't know if them interviewing less people really says anything important though, because whether they interview 800 or 1200 they are still going to take the top 200 applicants. Its just a matter of taking out those who were the most marginal for the interview. Praying for that phone call on Friday, so best of luck to all of you!!!!!

(Plug for Duke -- this is a great place, so pat yourself on the back if you do get in.)
 
Bumping this guy up!

Two days to go... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
Boo Yah!
 
The waiting is killing me!!!! I am so scared of going to the mailbox <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
First person that hears tomorrow has to post to SDN to let us know what's up - ie, are they calling work or home, what time they call, etc...

Odds are about 1 in 4, so there should be a bunch of SDN'ers getting good news from Duke tomorrow! I'm kinda thinking that I'll be in the second batch, as it hasn't even been a week now since I interviewed ( :D ), but I'm still hoping... :wink:

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!! :D
 
Do you know if they call everybody who is accepted??? I don't even want to go to school tomorrow... I'll be like checking my voice mail every hour!
 
That was the impression I got.... The adcom is meeting sometime this week (maybe tomorrow - not too sure), and they are going to go through as many applications as they can. Those they don't get through will get discussed next week. And I think they were calling all acceptees.

I wish I knew what number they were calling. I can't exactly remember which number I had down ony secondary. Maybe I'll have to leave my cell phone on vibrate tomorrow during my classes... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
Bradonite,

You can still access your secondary from the web. I think I went to Drako's page about online secondaries. It says you cannot make corrections but you can print and view your submitted application. On the application, it asked for permanent phone numbers as well as daytime phone numbers

Check it out!!
 
Here's the link:

<a href="https://www1.applyyourself.com/aylogin.cfm?id=DUKEMED" target="_blank">Duke Secondary Application</a>
 
I don't know if this is useless info but I just called duke and they said they will "START calling tommorrow and finish up calling EVERYONE who has been accepted sometime next week".

You guys can always call back to see if that info is correct.

means D-day is more like D-week.

Okay, that wasn't funny. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
 
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