Honestly you did not miss too much. Most of what they covered could already be found by thoroughly reading their website. It was a 90 min webinar (roughly 60 min presentation about the school, course curriculum, life on campus etc, and the admissions process including their "holistic" review...the last 30 min were devoted to Q&A). Key takeaways for SDNers were that they said that OOS applicants do not need to have higher metrics (GPA, MCAT) than IS to be admitted and that they are treated the same as IS. The important issue, however, is that roughly half their class has to be reserved for IS so statistically OOS applicants have less of a chance since there are far more total OOS applicants than Michigan applicants for the same number of seats available). They also said they are slightly behind schedule due the increased volume of applications this year so that it may be a bit longer than the 6-8 week turnaround time for those complete in July. They also said if you've graduated from college already, don't take community college courses to raise your GPA or to complete outstanding prereqs but to take those classes through a University Extension program / post-bacc, etc. i fount that to be a bit strange since they explicitly state on their website that community college classes are acceptable but that ONLY upper div bio courses should be taken at a 4 year institution.
and I'm not sure if it would be a red flag or if they understand that it's different up here.
