Originally posted by TroutBum
Does anybody know what criteria Vanderbilt uses? I got rejected outright after the initial screen, they don't even have my letters of rec yet! I thought I'd be pretty competetive at least for an interview, I've got a 3.5/38. Anybody have any insight?
On the bright side, I no longer have to do their f*#% secondary.
Good luck to everyone else!
Troutbum,
That is ridiculous that u got screened out! - u should def. email them! well you are right about the bright side plus I guarantee other schools won't respond to you that way. best of luck
But i am confused - did you ever get an email that said something like this:
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has received a file indicating that you have completed your AMCAS application. You may now complete and click "final submit" for your Vanderbilt online secondary application. We are so excited that you are an applicant to Vanderbilt's 2003 First Year Class!
Every applicant applying to Vanderbilt is invited to complete Vanderbilt's online secondary application at
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/prospective_medstu.php .
Invitations to interview at VUMS will be mailed as soon as screening is completed. This is accomplished on a rolling basis. You can expect to hear from us about 4-6 weeks from the date of the transmission of your AMCAS application to Vanderbilt.
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they claim that everyone is invited to a secondary but you didn;t even do yours. So does that mean they rejected you after transmission without recieveing anything other than AMCAS from you? So in their initial screen, do they do only one of two things
1) invite to interviw
2) reject
is there no 'hold' category? - like after 4-6 weeks post AMCAS transmission - can they say , "we don;t want to reject you right away, but maybe we'll interview you later
Anyone have any idea how this works, please explain to me.
Thanks in advance