When will I potentially get interview invites?

[deweystrontium]

Hey all. So I got verified on August 2nd and 3rd. I've turned in about half of them (got like 25) and I'm hoping to be complete by the 10th. When do you guys project I'll receive interview invites?

cGPA is 3.9+, sGPA is 3.9+, and MCAT is 520 (everything else on my app is pretty strong or so I've been told)

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[TakotsuboOkazaki]

It could take a number of weeks (or months) to receive interview invites once your application is considered complete.

 

[bananafish94]

With those stats you will get quite a lot. I'd put money on getting several through August and September. But you never know, you could still be getting them all the way into April. Don't worry, you're golden.

 

[mindlight1]

Your app sounds great, but no one can really say when you'll get a II. Hang in there!

 

[FreeRadicals]

Those stats though...

 

[Mr.Monster]

It’s a long process. Even if you are accepted in October when acceptances are first released, you may interview at and be accepted to more schools. For example, I interviewed at the school I am attending in December and accepted in January. The schools I was accepted to earlier, I turned down. Best of luck!

 

[letsgetstarted1234]

Stats are great.... just like one of the reapplicants I am working with this year......

this terrifies me lol

 

[Mr.Monster]

this terrifies me lol

It’s important to remember that getting into med school amounts to a lot more than your stats.

 

[deweystrontium]

Stats are great.... just like one of the reapplicants I am working with this year......

Can you tell us a little more about this applicant? What was lacking in this applicant the first cycle?

 

[Lucca]

Can you tell us a little more about this applicant? What was lacking in this applicant the first cycle?

Story is always the same:

1 or more of the following:
1. Applied late
2. Poor interview/social skills
3. Missing critical component of app (clinical experience usually)
4. IA /criminal record
5. Negative (read: not just bland and benign but actively negative) letter of rec.
6. Shallow, narrow, and top-heavy school list.

 

[deweystrontium]

Story is always the same:

1 or more of the following:
1. Applied late
2. Poor interview/social skills
3. Missing critical component of app (clinical experience usually)
4. IA /criminal record
5. Negative (read: not just bland and benign but actively negative) letter of rec.
6. Shallow, narrow, and top-heavy school list.

How late is late? I got verified the beginning of August and am in the process of turning around secondaries by the 14th.

I have ~250 hours non-clinical volunteering, 1000+ hours of research with 1 pub, students jobs 20 hours a week, 150 hours of clinical volunteering, and 60 hours of outpatient shadowing (niche nephrology). Does this raise any flags?

Also, is my school list decent:

Albany Medical College
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Duke University School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
New York Medical College
New York University School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Stanford University School of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Tufts University School of Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

 

[Lucca]

How late is late? I got verified the beginning of August and am in the process of turning around secondaries by the 14th.

I have ~250 hours non-clinical volunteering, 1000+ hours of research with 1 pub, students jobs 20 hours a week, 150 hours of clinical volunteering, and 60 hours of outpatient shadowing (niche nephrology). Does this raise any flags?

Also, is my school list decent:

Albany Medical College
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Duke University School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
New York Medical College
New York University School of Medicine
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Stanford University School of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Tufts University School of Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

that is a hella long list. I have no idea how people apply to this many schools, I even feel my list was too long in hindsight. Good luck on secondaries, honestly.

Complete before Labor Day = On Time is the wisdom provided by the adcoms on this forum. Any point after that is "late" but how much it hurts depends on a lot of factors. For example, how late are we talking? Complete in September means that you've probably only missed the first and maybe second wave of IIs at most schools that always go to the most competitive candidates anyways. Complete in October means that your complete app is being fully evaluated for the first time at a point in the cycle where more than 60-70% of all IIs for that cycle have already gone out. That said, if you have a fantastic application, then being late will not affect your app so much. I know plenty of people with otherwise exceptional apps who submitted in August and ended up accepted, but that is because other than being late they were still exceptional applicants. If you have a LM > 70, then it looks like you have a well rounded app that wont be helped or hurt by your proposed timeline.

 

[Goro]

Hey all. So I got verified on August 2nd and 3rd. I've turned in about half of them (got like 25) and I'm hoping to be complete by the 10th. When do you guys project I'll receive interview invites?

cGPA is 3.92, sGPA is 3.96, and MCAT is 520 (everything else on my app is pretty strong or so I've been told)

Patience is a virtue, the need for instant gratification is not.


Schools stratify the apps as they come in and don't send out IIs merely in chronological order.