Question about Acceptances after Interviews

[Munchkin57]

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Some of my friends and I were talking about the whole application process and we have a question about it. If a school interviews 400 people and accepts 100, how are those 100 determined? Can it be assumed that all 400 have similar grades, MCAT, ECs and LORs? And then that last cut is made based on interview only, or are all other factors considered again as well? I know a lot of the process is random, and I was just wondering how this part of it worked.

 

[tBw]

Originally posted by Munchkin57
Can it be assumed that all 400 have similar grades, MCAT, ECs and LORs? And then that last cut is made based on interview only, or are all other factors considered again as well?

schools interview applicants with a wide variety of 'paper' qualifications. So inevitably the whole picture is assessed in admitting, The exact weighting, algorithm and procedure varies widely. ie some schools just add numerical scores assigned for MCAT to scores for GPA for interview and if you meet a cut-off okay. Others sit back down and re-discuss each applicant in review.

 

[mlw03]

one school i interviewed at told us straight up that the interview was only "to make sure we weren't serial killers", and that since most people aren't they defer to our paper qualifications for large part. i also would venture there is some variability between candidate paper qualifications. there will be ranges of GPAs and MCAT scres, but over course everyone will at least meet whatever minimum standards that school wishes to set.

 

[Jsscales05]

The interview is in essence a way of screening out outkasts (the love below hehehe), oddballs, and "Oh, man I have an umbilical cord attached to the library and if you take me away from there I will die" kind of people. Schools want to have a well rounded class that not only represents a large demographic sample of students, but who can teach each other and get along with one another. Once you make it to the interview you've made it with the school on paper. Now it is time to put your personality on stage and your off to the races.

P.S. I know about two people that have
gone into a library and forgoten that
their is life outside of it. In fact I only saw these
two people in the library, I looked for tents but
never found them. Damn Library squatters!!!