<p>@WayOutWestMom,
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<p>I received my first rejection as I was boarding a flight yesterday which was followed by another II early this morning that way more than made up for any lingering disappointment. 
So, in the past 24 hours I’ve had plenty of “ups and downs”, both literally and figuratively.</p>
<p>Congrats to Tatin G’s D and Plumazul.
Plum- impressive number of MSTP interviews !!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone with good news!!</p>
<p>Congrats indeed. I am happy to see so many students and parents moving along in the process. It just takes one!</p>
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<p>So, is there a magical number of interviews one should have before they can breathe a little and say to themselves they’re surely going to get at least one acceptance? Have you ever heard of someone with say 8+ interviews not get one single acceptance?</p>
<p>@Piggle,
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<p>Thanks. I received another one about an hour ago. That makes it an even 10 and I’m beginning to feel a little overwhelmed. :eek: I am considering withdrawing from several of the five remaining schools where I am complete. :(</p>
<p>As the great Yogi Berra once said: “It ain’t over till it’s over”</p>
<p>@Plum
10 is a great number- then again MSTP is very competitive.
I turned down few interviews in the past few days. I have a hectic schedule this semester and I cannot afford to miss many of the classes.</p>
<p>JC - I suspect your kid is one of those who shouldn’t have an issue getting the one, being from our great State. :p</p>
<p>It is really hard to say you attend 10 interviews and you get one (m2CK’s son proved you don’t even need 3 or 4 for the right candidate). It matters where you applied to and what the chances are at those schools for you (in state, OOS, admit rate for your profile). Baylor college is a great example where someone in state with high stats has a high likelihood while OOS student may be facing 3% admit rate.</p>
<p>But you get ONE, you know you are going to med school. Rest is all about money.</p>
<p>I can’t believe Plum and Piggle are turning down interviews!</p>
<p>Yes, I wouldn’t turn down interviews after reading stories on SDN about the person with 6 interviews who didn’t get in anywhere. </p>
<p>My advice is to interview like crazy, get as many acceptances as you can and then come March see which school came up with the best financial aid package and go with that one.</p>
<p>They seem to have problems dedicating days for interviews. It is 2-3 days for each and when you have 10, that is 30 days out of a 4 month semester. Very hard to keep up in school.</p>
<p>If they have one or two in pocket or believe they will, then they can just turn down a bunch.</p>
<p>D interviewed at 8 schools and did miss some classes the first semester of senior year. Only turned down interviews AFTER securing an acceptance.</p>
<p>^yep, I think you always at least schedule it. You can cancel once you have an acceptance in hand but you can’t get an interview back if you turn them down and later on need it. Obviously you can start to feel a little more confident if the invites are rolling in but there’s simply too much at stake in my mind to withdraw yourself from consideration anywhere until you know with 100% certainty you have a spot somewhere.</p>
<p>D is in a quarter system. Even harder to miss class days, so she is taking a light quarter in terms of hours and difficulty. Coming from Cal, every east coast interview is two full days.</p>
<p>DD scheduled 10 interview, putting the less interesting schools in December & January, when she got her #1 choice acceptance earlier in the fall she cancelled the rest, but had she not gotten in early and had to wait until spring to hear, she would have kept thos winter interviews.</p>
<p>When DD interviewed in DC she flew in the night before and back out the evening of the interview, which may have contributed to her lake of affection for that school/area. It is really rough when you have long distances or rough connections in your travel.</p>
<p>The travel is rough. For the east coast interviews, D is leaving at 6am. to get to the destination by the end of that day. The next day, the interview and a late night flight that gets back in the wee hours. Then try to go to class the next day.</p>
<p>^ In DS’s application year, his “solution” to the problem was that he did not apply to schools that are very far away. Most challenging trips were actually the schools in his home state.</p>
<p>He made this choice even when he applied in the glide year. He just did not like hectic life.</p>
<p>mcat2: I wish D could do that. The statistics are grim for Californians who only apply to California schools. Only 15% of California residents who are accepted to medical school get into a California school. Most of the western states take primarily in-state students. Most of the private medical schools are east of the Mississippi.</p>
<p>TatinG, That is the reason why we did not want our kid to apply to any college when he was applying for college.</p>
<p>Ages ago, I studied at a UC and saw a student who had to live in a motel for a month or two before he could find an apartment. But we were graduate students back then and UGs might not be treated that bad. There was a joke: If you see a student driving a clunker, he must be a poor graduate student. If you see a student driving a brand new or almost brand new car, she must be an UG student. So UG’s life is by and large be better than the graduate school student’s life, unless we are talking about community colleges.</p>
<p>Oops, i meant to type “to apply to any California college” in my first sentence.</p>