My son’s Cornell interview is on a Thursday and NYU interview is on the following Monday. Since he doesn’t have classes on Friday, he is going to come home on Wednesday evening, do the interviews in NYC and go back on Monday evening. We live close to NYC on the Amtrak NE Corridor route.</p>
<p>Yes, he did apply to Vanderbilt, Emory and Duke in the south and has an interview with Vanderbilt next month. His problem is that he was complete very late (first week of Sept) at most schools including Mayo, CCLCM, Emory and Duke. Hopefully, they get to his app soon.</p>
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He will take train from his hometown. He is used to doing it, as he spent most of August working in NYC, commuting from home.
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For me NYU is on a Tuesday.I will attend Vandy interview next week.I didn’t expect to hear from vandy ( I had taken far too many AP credits , & was not sure they will be ok with that)</p>
<p>My stats are similar to your son’s. I was one of the first completed batch & that might have been a factor. Both schools I mentioned just started their interview , still actively sending out interviews and I am pretty sure that he will hear from them soon. </p>
<p>CCLM interviews only 5 people a day and I am guessing they have a long interview cycle as well.</p>
My son took AP Credit for Physics 1 and Inorganic Chemistry (AP Chemistry). He classified Biochemistry with lab as chemistry was still 2 credit hours short of their requirement. He classified some other science course with some Physics content as a Physics class.</p>
<p>My son turned in his secondary 35 days after he received it! I thought that pretty much sealed his fate. But to my surprise, he got the interview invite just a few days after submitting the secondary. </p>
<p>Vandy will admit only 88 (as opposed to 105 normally) this year. They consequentially will also be extending fewer interview invites (rumored to be <500 as opposed to ~550) and acceptances (rumored to be ~250 as opposed to ~300).</p>
<p>I hope you both overcome the AP Credit issues and get acceptances.</p>
<p>That yield is pretty typical for a top private (other than HMS, Stanford etc.). I think WashU has the worst yield of the top schools, may be as a result of chasing too many of those high stats kids.</p>
<p>Vandy does have scholarships, but not many.</p>
Or, chasing too many of those high stats kids not only in the heartland, but also on the coasts?</p>
<p>It is rumored that unlike the college, generally speaking, the “best” applicants tend to choose the schools closer to where they live.
very few students will give up, say, ucsf, for wustl if they have a choice. The ranking is less important for med schools – even less for residency programs I would guess. (Some CCer said you need to have a “good look” in order to have a good odds to have IIs to the top residency programs – more and more like the application to some jobs in the real world, like running for the Presendency needs to be taller. )</p>
<p>Hopefully, you do not have one kid like mine Find her a good bf in the home town, then you can be assured that she will not run far away from your home town. If she has had “not a random boy” who is from another far away state, you may as well give up the hope that she will come back home for med school.</p>
<p>I believe BDM once posted that the kid should go to a school that is not within the driving distance from his home (like 500 miles away?) If his parents are like some of the more concerned parents here (maybe like me?), the distance should be doubled. He said this in the context of the choice of college, not med school. Maybe the parents-child relation becomes more “relaxed” after the kid is in a professional school so he does not mind choosing a med school not far from his home?</p>
<p>Okay, this is a serious question for the parents/applicants who are going through this or have been through this already…How much of a role is/did the cost of the medical school play in this process for you? Our D is applying to schools ranging from $13K-$51K. I’m interested in hearing viewpoints on why you’d choose to attend a higher price school over a lower price one assuming you were accepted at both.</p>
<p>jc10, the familiarity of the living environment already and closer to the circle of existing friends, a better need-based FA (just because our family is relatively poorer than many other families which send their child to the med school), a smaller class size (about a half of the size), a better dorm, a smaller city, no grade in the first two preclinical years, and frankly, as shallow as it may be, a better name recognition to lay persons (not to the experts.)</p>
<p>Please note I do not include a better education environment in the above as I think most med schools are good in this regard.</p>
<p>A big downside is that we could not visit our child as frequently as we could in the coming years if he came back to our home state for med school. We often miss him terribly. If he ends up “settling down” there, it will be like this for an even longer time.</p>
<p>For an applicant (or his/her parents) who is still in the middle of the application process, TatinG’s answer is 1000% better than mine for an apparent reason. This advice is given with a good intention.</p>
<p>“no grade in the first two preclinical years”</p>
<p>This is what someone in a top 5 school told me recently was a big factor (stayed back in undergrad school). It is essentially pass/fail at several of the top schools which the State schools won’t adopt any time soon (don’t know if there are any out there who already did).</p>
<p>I suspect many of the kids/parents of kids posting here will be presented with some of the choices. Some of the top schools do have financial aid. Whether one qualifies for it and whether the parents see it as a valid cost (or kids want to borrow big chunks of money) will determine where they end up.</p>
<p>Congratulations to TatinG’s daughter. Now she stands a 50% chance of getting into the 4th best research medical school.</p>
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Number of in state interview invites are similar to that of other top schools. Number of out of state interview invites are among the lowest among all medical schools. </p>
<p>Here is the information for UCSF:</p>
<p>Applications: 3395 IS, 3406 OOS Secondaries: ~1500 total Interviews: 342 IS, 154 OOS Acceptances: 179 IS, 94 OOS Matriculations: 132 IS, 33 OOS</p>
<p>My son received and submitted UCSF secondary. An interview invite from UCSF would be delightful.</p>
<p>^ 10% within California is probably low because they have many many qualified candidates. They are eliminating many upfront if they are accepting 50% of the interviewed candidates.</p>
<p>I have heard of in state students being turned down for an interview with 4.0/40 who have gotten merit scholarships from a well known numbers school.</p>
<p>^ There are many top 20/30 schools that admit well over 50% of the interviewees and some like Northwestern even admit over 75% of the interviewees. Last year Northwestern interviewed 731 and accepted 518!</p>
<p>Checking in here with congratulations to Mr.P on his excellent interview experience, to kal123’s son and TatinG’s daughter for their recent (and multiple) invites, and to plumazul for her NYC quadrifecta. Kudos to one and all for weathering the travails of strange airports, random hosts, dicey websites, imminent bankruptcy, and general unpredictability.</p>
<p>DS, who was verified early and who began interviewing in August, will have completed all but his last interview by October 7, pending news from Cricketland. His experiences have been largely positive, with the exception of one interview—we hear you, Pinkstuffz—where he was grilled, flipped, and fried, well done. I echo TatinG both on the randomness of the process (the NYC school that came calling early on was the one I least expected to) and the lack of love from IS publics with lower stats averages. All in all, DS is good and ready to be done with this phase of the process, and back to the normalcy of classes, PBL sessions, sports practice, and hanging out with friends.</p>
Find her a good bf in the home town, then you can be assured that she will not run far away from your home town. If she has had “not a random boy” who is from another far away state, you may as well give up the hope that she will come back home for med school.</p>