How would anyone knowing how many schools you have interviewed at affect anything?? Also looking at your sig, you're already accepted to 2 MD schools so...? Congratulations are in order!!!
I thought some schools avoid offering acceptances to students they know might not commit.
Technically that holds some water, but asking "how many interviews have you had" is a terrible way of assessing that. I'm gonna call that bolded statement dumb in that instance (not you, OP, but any school that does that...which should be none) because interviewing at multiple places as a marker for "not committing" is a terrible recruitment strategy. It's all a game and everyone knows how it's played. It is improper for anyone to assume that. If that were the case, you should only apply and interview at one and only one school which is the school you matriculate to...which is nonsense.
Maybe not inappropriate...but maybe anxiety-producing, uncouth or distasteful at worst in the eyes of the interviewee. In reality, the interviewer is likely asking in lieu of other small-talk like "where are you from?" etc. Highly doubt anyone cares. Especially in October. Maybe in Feb/March if they ask, it'd be weird if the interviewee only had 1 interview.
Sorry, I edited my original post to reflect what I truly meant. Yes, yield rate is something institutions want to keep high... my point was that asking "how many interviews have you had" in October is an awful way to measure "commitment."
Don't worry about it.
When I interviewed at McGovern, I talked for 12 minutes of my 20 minutes interview about my research, then concluded by saying "and that's why I don't want to do research anymore". Then, when she tried to salvage me by telling me there were other kinds of dry research like public health, I told her about how I was taking a medical geography class because "I had a hole in my schedule and nothing else to do".
You weren't me so you're good
