USF Still hope for Interview?

[neurofan]

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I have applied to all Florida schools and Drexel and Temple. I have gotten interviews at Miami and Drexel, but USF is my first choice and I haven't heard from them. Does anyone know if there is still hope of getting an interview at USF?

 

[Hurricane95]

Of course there is. Don't stress out so much. I don't know how USF's timetable is compared to the other Florida schools, but I know UF invites people straight up through at least January, so don't worry. I'm sure they do something similar. When were you complete at USF by the way? I was complete in late september and still haven't heard anything. Good luck!

 

[neurofan]

Of course there is. Don't stress out so much. I don't know how USF's timetable is compared to the other Florida schools, but I know UF invites people straight up through at least January, so don't worry. I'm sure they do something similar. When were you complete at USF by the way? I was complete in late september and still haven't heard anything. Good luck!

I completed in mid August

 

[cjc6d]

I went through this whole app process last year, and I interviewed the very last day possible at USF (late Jan I think), and there were people in my group that had complete apps for months. I wouldn't worry about it - there were still spots available at that time in Jan.

 

[gujuDoc]

USF typically starts EDP interviews in the second week of September, let's those people know if they got in the next week afterwards, and then a week after that in the 4th week of September they start giving the regular interviews.

This year, regular season started at Sept 26th. Interviews are always on Mondays and after the Oct 15th date, they generally get back to you within a week or two with your status: hold, waitlist, acceptance, or rejection.

Once regular season starts, they interview weekly until March sometime.

There is a minor exception for Christmas break and during Thanksgiving week. Those weeks there is a slight break from interviewing. But once the break is over, interview schedules resume. My friend got the last possible interview date last year. But he still managed to get high enough on the waitlist that he got accepted in mid May, and is a current MS1 at USF COM.

If you really want to talk to someone about your application status and for reassurance, I'd talk to Mr. Rel Larkin the USF admissioins director at the medical school.

You can contact him through SDN, cuz he posts under the name REL.

Or you can get a hold of him through his email address which you can find on the website: http://hsc.usf.edu/medicine/mdadmissions

 

[REL]

The applicant pool builds on a daily basis. As files get completed we will send you an email to advise you of file completion and also give you a gist of our process. Briefly if you have met the minimum requirements your file will be placed an a pool of applicants which may be selected for an interview. The perfect applicant will be one who has max'd out the numbers and has shown a strong motivation to be in medicine and help people (volunteering, leadership, etc). Our pool builds over the course of several months and we visit the eligible pool to construct an interview group on a near-weekly basis. Completing an application early allows you to be in the pool for selection early while there are fewer applicants and also puts you there for selection for many more weeks than many. I suspect we are one of the few schools who really, really stress the "motivation" aspects, and of course would like to see competitive numbers. Logically we will comb the pool each week for the high numbered, perfectly motivated applicant to invite for the next group. As you might surmise there are few perfect applicants.
I am also of the belief that we are one of the leaders in having a very diverse class for medical schools. Diversity is much more than ethnicity and gender. It includes such things as age, degrees, rural, city, undergrad institution, experience, culture, etc. Having a diverse student body increases the learning experience of the class and emerses classmates into the world in which they will serve. We are lucky to have a very large group of diverse clinical teaching facilities in the nation's 5th most diverse large city area population in the US. This helps you to get diverse training in facilities which have heavy patient loads of a very diverse, large poplulation.
When we construct an interview group we will visit the eligible pool and using many factors invite a group to interview. Since we visit this on a near-weekly basis, if your file is complete and you are in this pool, your file may be selected in any give week from the end of September through March. As already noted, there were open seats in the class at the end of the interview season. It might be best to approach this process as a marathon rather than a sprint. At most schools early file completion and a looooooonnnnngggg silence does not mean that you will not be interviewed. I hope this helps.

 

[jj08]

The applicant pool builds on a daily basis. As files get completed we will send you an email to advise you of file completion and also give you a gist of our process. Briefly if you have met the minimum requirements your file will be placed an a pool of applicants which may be selected for an interview. The perfect applicant will be one who has max'd out the numbers and has shown a strong motivation to be in medicine and help people (volunteering, leadership, etc). Our pool builds over the course of several months and we visit the eligible pool to construct an interview group on a near-weekly basis. Completing an application early allows you to be in the pool for selection early while there are fewer applicants and also puts you there for selection for many more weeks than many. I suspect we are one of the few schools who really, really stress the "motivation" aspects, and of course would like to see competitive numbers. Logically we will comb the pool each week for the high numbered, perfectly motivated applicant to invite for the next group. As you might surmise there are few perfect applicants.
I am also of the belief that we are one of the leaders in having a very diverse class for medical schools. Diversity is much more than ethnicity and gender. It includes such things as age, degrees, rural, city, undergrad institution, experience, culture, etc. Having a diverse student body increases the learning experience of the class and emerses classmates into the world in which they will serve. We are lucky to have a very large group of diverse clinical teaching facilities in the nation's 5th most diverse large city area population in the US. This helps you to get diverse training in facilities which have heavy patient loads of a very diverse, large poplulation.
When we construct an interview group we will visit the eligible pool and using many factors invite a group to interview. Since we visit this on a near-weekly basis, if your file is complete and you are in this pool, your file may be selected in any give week from the end of September through March. As already noted, there were open seats in the class at the end of the interview season. It might be best to approach this process as a marathon rather than a sprint. At most schools early file completion and a looooooonnnnngggg silence does not mean that you will not be interviewed. I hope this helps.

Does USF actually reject applicants post-secondary or do all applicants (who were granted a secondary) go into this pool?

 

[baby4you]

The applicant pool builds on a daily basis. As files get completed we will send you an email to advise you of file completion and also give you a gist of our process. Briefly if you have met the minimum requirements your file will be placed an a pool of applicants which may be selected for an interview. The perfect applicant will be one who has max'd out the numbers and has shown a strong motivation to be in medicine and help people (volunteering, leadership, etc). Our pool builds over the course of several months and we visit the eligible pool to construct an interview group on a near-weekly basis. Completing an application early allows you to be in the pool for selection early while there are fewer applicants and also puts you there for selection for many more weeks than many. I suspect we are one of the few schools who really, really stress the "motivation" aspects, and of course would like to see competitive numbers. Logically we will comb the pool each week for the high numbered, perfectly motivated applicant to invite for the next group. As you might surmise there are few perfect applicants.
I am also of the belief that we are one of the leaders in having a very diverse class for medical schools. Diversity is much more than ethnicity and gender. It includes such things as age, degrees, rural, city, undergrad institution, experience, culture, etc. Having a diverse student body increases the learning experience of the class and emerses classmates into the world in which they will serve. We are lucky to have a very large group of diverse clinical teaching facilities in the nation's 5th most diverse large city area population in the US. This helps you to get diverse training in facilities which have heavy patient loads of a very diverse, large poplulation.
When we construct an interview group we will visit the eligible pool and using many factors invite a group to interview. Since we visit this on a near-weekly basis, if your file is complete and you are in this pool, your file may be selected in any give week from the end of September through March. As already noted, there were open seats in the class at the end of the interview season. It might be best to approach this process as a marathon rather than a sprint. At most schools early file completion and a looooooonnnnngggg silence does not mean that you will not be interviewed. I hope this helps.

Being complete for long time and not having an interview yet means that we are less qualify as an applicant ? or could it may be that our file has not been looked at as of yet ?
thanks

 

[chemwiz14]

does anyone know the acceptance rate to usf after an interview there?

 

[REL]

Does USF actually reject applicants post-secondary or do all applicants (who were granted a secondary) go into this pool?

We have not rejected any applications yet -- we generally wait for the August MCAT scores to be released before we begin that process.

 

[REL]

Being complete for long time and not having an interview yet means that we are less qualify as an applicant ? or could it may be that our file has not been looked at as of yet ?
thanks[/QUOTE

Most files have been reviewed within two weeks of being final. The selection process is complex and the interview season is long for the applicant and the school. Usually in the early going there are several applicants who bring very high numbers and have done very well in the EC's. They will often be selected in the first interview groups.

 

[REL]

does anyone know the acceptance rate to usf after an interview there?

If you are talking total acceptances from the first interview day to the day class begins, we interviewed slighty less than 350 last year and made offers to about 190 to fill the 120 seat class. That is about average in making 1.5 offers for each available seat.

 

[jj08]

USF typically starts EDP interviews in the second week of September, let's those people know if they got in the next week afterwards, and then a week after that in the 4th week of September they start giving the regular interviews.

This year, regular season started at Sept 26th. Interviews are always on Mondays and after the Oct 15th date, they generally get back to you within a week or two with your status: hold, waitlist, acceptance, or rejection.

Once regular season starts, they interview weekly until March sometime.

There is a minor exception for Christmas break and during Thanksgiving week. Those weeks there is a slight break from interviewing. But once the break is over, interview schedules resume. My friend got the last possible interview date last year. But he still managed to get high enough on the waitlist that he got accepted in mid May, and is a current MS1 at USF COM.

If you really want to talk to someone about your application status and for reassurance, I'd talk to Mr. Rel Larkin the USF admissioins director at the medical school.

You can contact him through SDN, cuz he posts under the name REL.

Or you can get a hold of him through his email address which you can find on the website: http://hsc.usf.edu/medicine/mdadmissions

Hey Guju (or REL if you're around)!

Since you are pretty knowledgeable about USF can you answer a question for me? So from what I gathered, USF likes to see a history of volunteering in their applicants. During undergrad, I did quite a few internships in different departments (peds, er, etc) where I was doing scut work. Do you think that the committee will realize that my internships entailed the same experiences as volunteering through the hospital?

 

[QofQuimica]

Hey Guju (or REL if you're around)!

Since you are pretty knowledgeable about USF can you answer a question for me? So from what I gathered, USF likes to see a history of volunteering in their applicants. During undergrad, I did quite a few internships in different departments (peds, er, etc) where I was doing scut work. Do you think that the committee will realize that my internships entailed the same experiences as volunteering through the hospital?

If you are still working on your AMCAS, you can put that info in the activities section, and then you can write a paragraph that explains exactly what you did. Try to make the title as explanatory as possible, but then use the description space to give details about the internships. People debate here about how long of an explanation to give, but for each of my activities, I talked about what I had learned from my experiences and why they were meaningful to me.

I also asked Mr. Larkin for permission to submit an update to my file about a new activity that I began after submitting my AMCAS, and he did allow me to do that. So if you've already submitted your AMCAS, you might ask him whether you can submit a brief explanation of your internship to be added to your file.

 

[jj08]

So if you've already submitted your AMCAS, you might ask him whether you can submit a brief explanation of your internship to be added to your file.

Q-

Always so helpful and so brilliant! 🙂 That's a great idea. I will definitely do that. Only thing is, I've read some of REL's posts on sdn and it sounds like USF specifically wants medical volunteering (i.e. hospital volunteer). I may be wrong but it sounds like USF would rather see "hospital volunteer" than "Pediatrics Internship." 🙁

 

[QofQuimica]

Q-

Always so helpful and so brilliant! 🙂 That's a great idea. I will definitely do that. Only thing is, I've read some of REL's posts on sdn and it sounds like USF specifically wants medical volunteering (i.e. hospital volunteer). I hope my internships cut it!

My understanding is that USF is looking for two things from you (besides your grades and MCAT, of course): that you are knowledgeable about what physicians actually do (which you show via your shadowing activities and other clinical experience), and that you are a person who enjoys helping others (which you show via your volunteer activities, teaching, mentoring, etc.). I think that as long as you have significant and meaningful patient contact and service activities, it will not matter that you didn't work in a hospital specifically.

 

[gujuDoc]

To add to what Q said.......

USF seeks both medical and nonmedical volunteering, and also some shadowing if possible.

Medical volunteering could be in a hospital, or it could be in a medical clinic, doctor's office, etc. It could also be in a facility like Hospice or a nursing home.

All constitute as medical facilities.

Community service, can be any other non medical volunteering that you do.

Shadowing: 'nuf said.

 

[SandManxx]

I just recieved my mcat scores Verbal= 6 Physical = 10 and Bio = 10 with a 3.97. I also have strong volunteer and research experiences. Are my dreams of USF dead becuase of one section? And if so, does this apply to others school?

 

[bwells46]

I have applied to all Florida schools and Drexel and Temple. I have gotten interviews at Miami and Drexel, but USF is my first choice and I haven't heard from them. Does anyone know if there is still hope of getting an interview at USF?

Until the school has rejected you, hope, you have.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

 

[gujuDoc]

I just recieved my mcat scores Verbal= 6 Physical = 10 and Bio = 10 with a 3.97. I also have strong volunteer and research experiences. Are my dreams of USF dead becuase of one section? And if so, does this apply to others school?

It depends if the committee likes you. There might still be a chance, although you'd probably get one of the last interviews, like my friend who's an MSI did.

I had two friends with a 26 MCAT 10 6 10 and 11 6 9

So both had 6 in verbal. The first person with the 10 6 10, got a 3.9 gpa as well and had interviews at both USF and Rosalind Franklin. He got into Rosalind Franklin in mid spring and in late April, he got off the wait list for USF COM, and is now a MS I at USF.