Question about how applications are reviewed

[Quicky]

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Does anybody know if most schools print out the secondaries and review paper copies or if the applications are usually viewed completely on a computer?

 

[TopSecret]

Does anybody know if most schools print out the secondaries and review paper copies or if the applications are usually viewed completely on a computer?

Probably both since many people would have to sift through the applications.

Some may even do a bit of Googling to get a bit of background info on people like my department chairman used to do when screening applicants for residency. I'm thinking they also check out Facebook and other social networking sites to get an idea of what the candidates are like outside of the application.

 

[Mattabet]

I recall seeing a fair number of paper secondaries on the interview trail; oftentimes the interviewer had them at hand for reference.

But yeah, I'm sure they're looked at electronically too, at least initially. It'd be kind of a mess to have 1000 multi-page applications lying around your office.

 

[MN premed]

Probably both since many people would have to sift through the applications.

Some may even do a bit of Googling to get a bit of background info on people like my department chairman used to do when screening applicants for residency. I'm thinking they also check out Facebook and other social networking sites to get an idea of what the candidates are like outside of the application.

Hum, facebook, really? My privacy settings on facebook are cranked pretty high, like only friends of friends and my networks can search for me, and then only friends are able to see stuff in my profile, and people who are on my "limited profile" can't see pictures tagged of me or certain photo albums on my page. Do you think I'm safe? I really don't want any medical schools being able to see anything on my facebook page

 

[calnation]

I would mega crank the privacy settings and make yourself unsearchable and only viewable to friends during medical school applications but that's just me.

 

[TopSecret]

Hum, facebook, really? My privacy settings on facebook are cranked pretty high, like only friends of friends and my networks can search for me, and then only friends are able to see stuff in my profile, and people who are on my "limited profile" can't see pictures tagged of me or certain photo albums on my page. Do you think I'm safe? I really don't want any medical schools being able to see anything on my facebook page

Yeah, you're probably safe. I was surprised that my department chairman would go to that extent to find out the truth behind some applicants. It might because his daughter was college age and a likely Myspace user. Who knows. But I can tell you that there are attendings who are on Facebook, including myself and a bunch of friends who are in practice all over the country. Even some of my attendings during residency pop up on my list of suggested friends and I'd get friend requests from them.

It's a good way to keep in touch and network even among older docs.

 

[SpaceDementia]

I've always wondered why people get nervous about the Facebook thing... if someone isn't your Facebook friend, can they even see anything besides, at most, your profile picture?

 

[MN premed]

I've always wondered why people get nervous about the Facebook thing... if someone isn't your Facebook friend, can they even see anything besides, at most, your profile picture?

It depends on your privacy settings. If you don't set them to be that way, then people can see more than just your profile picture.

I don't care if any medical schools know that I have a facebook, so I think I will keep myself searchable to friends/networks. I just don't want them being able to see anything past the profile picture! I may be pre-med, but that doesn't mean that I don't party like any other regular college student!

 

[ygree001]

I've always wondered why people get nervous about the Facebook thing... if someone isn't your Facebook friend, can they even see anything besides, at most, your profile picture?

Depends on your privacy settings. You should definitely check them if you've never set them or haven't in a while.

 

[Sangria]

Does anybody know if most schools print out the secondaries and review paper copies or if the applications are usually viewed completely on a computer?

i'm sure they print them at some point, since a lot of the time the interviewers get copies and if you send them an e-mail update sometimes they reply by saying that they printed it and put it in your file, so I imagine that there is a physical file