I have an interview coming up. Do any of you know if the admissions committee already have a decision to accept you or not even before they conduct the interview when they offered you one? It seems like they give people interviews but they end up not admitting the same people because their grades/mcat are not high enough. Does everyone with interviews basically stand on the same field and your acceptance is based on how you interview goes? Thank you.
pre-decision before interview?
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no decision has been made, thats for sure. but i for one, dont think that everyone that is at an interview is on a level playing field. the interview is part of the admissions decision but may or may not carry a lot of weight. as you can read in many of these threads, theres people that feel they had a bad interview and still got accepted...some had awesome ones and still got rejected. so this must mean that all of the other factors in your application are coming into play, and thats only fair, we are not making professional interviewees, we want the best doctors who have shown commitment blah, blah, blah....no one reallly knows but all you can do is your best when youre in the situation. im pretty sure the committee doesnt directly deal with the picking of the files that get interviewed, they only deal with the decision of the interviewees that will be offered an acceptance. good luck 
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No, they review your entire app once the interview is over. If your interview goes well, your grades are satisfactory, and your overall app meets what they are looking for in their student body that year, you will most likely be accepted.
The interview can kill you even if everything else looks good if you bomb it. if you ace the interview, it can really help you squeeze in there if your grades are not that great.
The interview can kill you even if everything else looks good if you bomb it. if you ace the interview, it can really help you squeeze in there if your grades are not that great.
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I would have to agree with the above. We don't know what the candidates are like before we get their file (20-30 minutes beforehand) and then meet them. All we know that your file must have prompted an invite, so you passed "round 1."
To comment on whether you think you did well or not, there is no way to know for sure. Perhaps if you think you did bad, the interviewers think that you answered the questions well under stress, etc. It's hard to tell from personal subjection. As always, call the school if you get rejected and see what you can improve upon.
To comment on whether you think you did well or not, there is no way to know for sure. Perhaps if you think you did bad, the interviewers think that you answered the questions well under stress, etc. It's hard to tell from personal subjection. As always, call the school if you get rejected and see what you can improve upon.
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gsrimport said:
No, that is completely incorrect. Most schools don't give the interviewers access to grades and mcat, and several schools don't even use those scores in the final decision. The MCAT and GPA are used to narrow down people to invite to the interview, and other factors are used to make the final decision after that field has been narrowed down.
This is unique to osteopathic schools, however.
BOTTOM LINE: If you were invited for an interview, then you grades and MCAT were adequate for admission. It is now time for you to convince them they were right during the interview.
