Hopefully I can address some of these concerns.
UAMS has a typo in the oath
Meh. It's annoying, but is that really a big deal? I'm a grammar Nazi and came across tons of typos in official communications when applying to med school. I'll have to let the school know about the oath thing, though. If you could point it out, that would be much appreciated.
do not require the students to dress professional ( I saw a student during the interview walking around with an abercrombie and fitch T-shirt saying, " I mowed your mom's lawn"!!!)
Students leading interview tours are, in fact, required to dress "professionally" (shirt, tie, slacks for guys, dresses for girls, white coats for all), so whomever it was with the A&F shirt probably just tagged along for the tour to lend some more insight. Wouldn't you consider it a good thing that some random student was enthusiastic enough about the school to spend his Saturday morning filling you in? If you're just talking about some guy you saw walking around, not someone involved with the tour, I suggest you lighten up. Do you really want to be required to dress semi-formally whenever you want to go to campus? Believe me, you will have your share of professionalism rammed down your throat regardless of where you go.
a student told me a story about someone getting stabbed at taco bell across the street.
People make the area out to be
much worse than it actually is. I don't doubt that incident occurred, but welcome to living in an urban area. You're not going to find a neighborhood where nobody has been the victim of a violent crime. Also, that event hasn't happened within the last year. I lived in the dorms, across the street from that Taco Bell, until late July, and I haven't heard anything in the news about it since then. The area around school is a simple middle-class neighborhood. That's it.
The two interviewers also spent more time talking to each other than to me!!!! I hope they liked each other.
That's a product of the relaxed atmosphere they try to create for the interview. If your representation is accurate, it doesn't sound like they were particularly effective interviewers, but they did want to be there. All interviewers are volunteers.
I hope that UAMS doesn't count on the fact that they are the only medical school in the state as the reason for filling the class with top ranked Arkansas residents.
Quite frankly, I think they're more interested in getting people who like the school and have a decent chance of staying in the area to practice than getting Arkansas's top students. The facilities here are all brand new (except the M1 classrooms), and your classmates are likely to be very cool people, on the whole. If a relaxed atmosphere and new hospitals aren't your thing, there are plenty of schools full of hypercompetitive students that would love to take you, I'm sure.
They should realize that the students are also interviewing THEM and that they too should be on their best behavior.
See my previous comments about the relaxed atmosphere.
By the way, how could you have already been accepted to another school? "Normal" acceptances won't be issued for 2 weeks, and I was under the impression that you couldn't apply anywhere as long as you had an outstanding EDP application. Also, aren't EDP's binding? That is, if you got accepted via EDP, wouldn't you be unable to apply - let alone interview - anywhere else?
I think our stats were something like 3.5/28 with an OOS average of 3.6/33. The rest of that is absolutely spot on and great advice.
