Pondering... Interview invitations from osteopathic colleges.

[mmikey]

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I've been seeing a lot of pessimism on the school specific forums regarding automatic invitations for interviews based on grades or MCATS. Sure, it does seem we are scoring many of the interviews with a few disappointments, and we also boast numerous acceptances and I think no post interview rejections.

The pessimism stems from perhaps a fear of automatic interview invitations could lead to near automatic rejections or sentences to the voids of a wait list. I have been thinking, aside from all of our grades and MCATS (we tend to do better than average, SDNers), that perhaps these colleges, this early, have minimum requirements for a near-automatic interview. Perhaps some GPA, MCAT, and medical exposure will get us an interview right now.

What's wrong with that?

Have we not just proved that we are capable students with our marks? Have we not met the minimum standards to become medical students? So now we'll be seen face to face for an interview, and if they like us they'll issue an acceptance. Perhaps osteopathic schools believe in us that much? I feel osteopathic colleges want good students, not just astronomical numbers.

 

[DrDre2001]

Good to see your optimism.

Which schools are you talking about specifically? They each are different in terms of how big of a deal getting an interview is. For some schools, getting an interview means you now have a 60% chance of getting in (based on last years admissions), and some schools apparently interview a great deal of people and an interview means you now have a 20% chance of getting in (which is still good, as your chances before the interview were probably less than 10%).

 

[PlayUltimate15]

I believe that DMU may send out automatic invites. It's an interesting concept, but not one that will help me out. 😀 My stats are below all of the other first-batch CCOM interviewees, so I'm purty happy they seem to have considered factors aside from my numbers!

On the MD side of things, University of Michigan sends out automatic invites to applicants with outrageous statistics. I'm talking MCATS above 40 and near-perfect GPAs. Although numbers obviously fail to paint the whole picture, they do indicate (to some extent) test-taking abilities under pressure. Overall automatic invites don't bother me.

 

[drctother]

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