Questions for those who have been accepted

[rgporter]

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1. How many schools did you apply to?
2. How many offered secondaries?
3. How many invited you to interview?
4. How many acceptances did you recieve?

I am just trying to get an idea of what the ratios look like.
e.g. secondary/applications, Interview/secondaries, acceptance/interviews.

P.S. thanks to all who take time to respond to my idle curiousity.

 

[kito]

1. Too many.
2. Too many.
3. Not enough.
4. Ask me later.

 

[Gleevec]

How did these non-EDP schools get around the Oct 15th rule?

 

[thackl]

1
1
1
1

😀

 

[tBw]

From last year:

19 schools applied to.

All but one offered me a 2ndary.

Of the remainder I was offered 11 interviews and got 4 rejections post-2ndary and three I withdrew from pre-returning a 2ndary.

I attended 7 of the interviews and turned down the remainder.

I was waitlisted at one school and accepted at the rest of the schools at which I interviewed.

I was lucky in that my first acceptance was about a week after my first interview and that enabled me to start eliminating schools from consideration early on.

 

[Jsscales05]

Here is my list
Applied to 15
Secondaries: 14 (pending one from UNC)
Interview invites: 3 so far
Acceptence: 1

 

[....]

I applied to about 16 schools, a wide range from harvard to NYMC.

I didnt fill out three secondaries.

I have been rejected presecondary from stanford and post secondary from gtown though i think i just pissed them off by calling to much. No lie...

I have recieved interviews at four schools and have not heard from the rest. Though some have given interviews to others.

I will most likely cancel on interview and use the cash to send my secondary to duke and UAB.

I have one acceptance so far. (which is all that matters!)


Gleevec thats a good question, I was told "we break it"
I think its just an agreement between schools but no one is obligated under threat of some sort of force to comply. I mean, some schools just dont use AMCAS, they just decide not to. Maybe the same for the oct 15th rule. Though it seems pretty universal.

 

[spoons]

To these that got accepted:

Can admission committee in different schools talk to each other, as in discuss/share what I wrote on their secondary essays?

 

[mlw03]

here's my info on this:
applied to 21 thru amcas (very wide range)

received secondaries through all

sent secondaries back to 17

received 9 interview invites so far

have gone on 4 so far, and have 3 more scheduled and will withdraw from the other 2 since they're lower ranked in my head than the 1 school i've been unofficially accepted at

 

[....]

MLM03 where would that be????

PM if neccesary

 

[redrocky]

From last year:

1) applied to 18 schools (all CA schools xcept 1 and various out of state schools) -- applied late, at the end of September
2) offered 17 secondaries
3) invited to 2 interviews (UCSF and SLU)
4) waitlisted at both, accepted to SLU (SLU started before UCSF's waitlist movement, though there isn't much movement)

Good luck!!

 

[wolferman]

Applied to 22 schools.
All of them gave secondaries or requested $$.
11 interview invites (went to 7 of them).
Received 3 acceptances.

 

[rgporter]

bump

 

[greenwave34]

applied to 17
secondaries from 12
3 interviews (so far)
1 acceptance (so far, waiting on U of Chicago and U of Wash)

Mcat: 31/O
GPA: 3.96 (Science major)
College athlete
Lots of EC's/volunteering...

Hope that helps someone out there.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

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"Promote your strenghts, improve your weaknesses, celebrate uniquenesses."

 

[UCIgrad2002]

this is a great thread! let's keep it going!

 

[bbawco1]

Amcas:6
Secondary from all
Interviews from 3 so far
1 acceptance
withdrew from rest

 

[PianoGirl04]

Haven't gotten any acceptances yet, but I figured I'd join in the fun...

AMCAS: 11
Secondaries: 11
Interviews: 2 done, 3 more scheduled...waiting on 6
Acceptances: hopeful!
And a partridge in a pear tree! 😀

 

[jmarra03]

I applied to 42 schools ( osetopathic and allopathic)
I recieved 39 requests for supplementals so far
I interviewed at 5 schools ( I was offered more but I got my first choice so I stopped interviewing)
so far I have been acceoted to two schools and I am waiting to hear from the other three

 

[premed2]

jmarra - where have you been accepted?

 

[91Bravo]

Good lord! 42 schools?! You should be granted an acceptance based on tenacity.

 

[jmarra03]

WVSOM west virginia School of Osteopathic medicine
and UNECOM University of New England COllege of Osteopathic Medicine.

I will be attending UNECOM.

 

[UCLAMAN]

MDApplicants.com

 

[GoodMonkey]

from last year

applied 13
secondaries for 12 of them
turned in 11 secondaries
offered 8 interviews
attended 7 interviews
rejected post-interview 1
waitlisted post-interview 2
accepted post-interview 4 -- and withdrew from all waitlists at this point, so i don't know if i would have gotten into them or not.

 

[donnyfire]

but I knew exactly where I wanted to be.
my stats
3.86 GPA
32R MCAT
Tons of EC's inc. research, patient care (paramedic), leadership, publications.

spoons, I don't know for sure if ADCOMs talk to each other, but I would assume that on some level they do. I think med schools are a fairly small community, and it just seems to me that people in admissions would somehow know one another, if even on a limited basis.

 

[taehong81]

AMCAS: 10
Secondary: Decided to turn in only 7 secondaries
Invited for Interview: 7

So far gone to 5 interview and have two coming up in this month and next month. Just been enjoying this long application ride. 😀