Finally got a II from his undergrad med school.
congrats!
D is done with home state interviews. Lot of silence outside of two pending OOS IIs. 
@GCmom415 hang in there. That one will come. Calm before the storm everyone…
Congrats.
@texaspg, Re: “D is done with home state interviews.”
She is much better than DS. If I remember it correctly, DS had not done any for his IS interviews round this time of year. Every IS interview happened in Octobor. His first IS interview was BCM, likely on Oct. 1st.
DS sumitted his IS applications later than most applicants (his OOS applications were even later and at one time he said he was not interested in submitting any OOS besides BCM 
Hmmm…sometimes I thought if I did not “intervene” when he said this, his life journey could be very different – at least a different girlfriend, one that may be more willing to stay in the south!)
Your D has done very well (done with all IS med schools!) so far. (Yeah…as it is well known that, applying OOS as a Texas resident could be a liability except for the few very top med schools, Chicago excluded.) Many OOS med schools would not want to “compete” against, say, UTSW and BCM. She will have a good outcome.
I don’t know how to ask this question without seeming sort of ignorant (which I probably am). I know that in state applicants have a better chance of admissions at a public school than oos applicants have.
I am trying to figure out why my D only has one II so far and then silence from everyone else. That one II is from our state public and it came just 4 days or so after she submitted her secondary. How come they were so fast and everyone else is so slow? Do in state publics automatically interview all in state applicants? (I don’t think so, but maybe that is a reason it came so fast?) Maybe it is just a mystery.
I have the impression that the admission criteria for ANY public schools at any level (college or med school) are less dependent on the factors that require human interpretations (like the quality of ECs.)
(I think many here have already known that many public med schools even do not accept any OOS applicants, or put all of these OOS applicants in the lower priority queue. This could be very unlike the UG college applications, where some state schools (colleges) could still be drooling over the higher tuitions paid by the OOS students.)
Therefore, it is understandable that their process could be faster.
BTW, occasionally look up your spam folder in your email box. I heard of a horrible case that some II email was treated by the emailer as a junk or spam mail and was placed there.
The instate vs. out of state thing completely depends on the particular state and SOM. Some have no preference whatsoever (for example, several CA public med schools have no instate bias) and others are 100% instate only. Most fall somewhere in the middle and using the MSAR is pretty important to figuring that out.
It is still relatively early for interview invites— the stars are all getting invites right now. There are many invites to go out in the next 3 months to good candidates who are waiting right now.
I know everyone says that any US med school is great and you can match to any residency you want.
Son had an interview in one of the newer school. One of his interviewers told him that he’s great and he would love to have him at the school and teach him but off the record he really belongs in a school like Columbia especially if he wants to match for the specialty he wants. He was a little shocked and didn’t know what to say to this. He actually really liked the school and would be happy to go there. What’s this all about?
I would venture to say that there are faculty members who are unhappy with their program/location no matter where they work.
Matching into competitive specialties used to be much more of an “old boy network” than it is now. It used to be who your preceptor knew was very important. Today a great deal of that has been eliminated thru the “all in” Match. Programs can no long withhold residency positions from the Match for students that their buddies have recommended. (Used to be incredibly common. Have a friend who’s in an extremely competitive surgical subspecialty. He only applied to and interviewed at 3 programs for residency. Three! All because his surgical preceptor had friends running those programs and my friend was more or guaranteed to be accepted at all of them… Applying to only 3 today would be career suicide.)
For some competitive specialties your son may need to do one or more away/audition rotations early in MS4 (before ERAS opens) to expand his recs so they’ll appeal to a broader region than just the locale where the newer school is located. For some specialties this is a practically a requirement regardless of where you go to med school; for others, not so much.
One of our long time posters (and now an attending!) commented that in many ways it’s better to be in the top10% at a smaller/newer/less prestigious school where you can be the rock star when it comes to applying for residencies and get lots of attention & help from your PDs than it is to be in the middle of the pack at top school where all the attention & help is lavished on their own top 10%. His observation certainly mirrors my own w/r/t the process at the stateU D1 attended.
First pre interview rejection today. Surprisingly from one of our newer state school.
Read something interesting on SDN. Apparently October and November is considered the most busy months for getting interviews. This should give hope to those still waiting. :-*
Happy to report
A first interview invite
2 weeks from today!
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Congratulations!
My D has 3 interviews coming up-2 of which require a flight and all will have one overnight stay. Missing classes and labs is difficult(but not impossible) and this is getting expensive fast. And here I thought the applications were spendy! But so very happy and excited for her. Really crossing our fingers for several other favorites.
They add up very fast especially if someone is going from coast to coast.
Good luck to all with the upcoming interviews!
Makes me glad mine took a gap year!! I don’t think there’s anyway she could have managed the travel with her classes… not to mention the expense! At the time I didn’t understand why she didn’t just go ahead, but now I think it was the right move for her. She’s able to use her money from her salary to travel and save for Med school, and her job is giving her great experience and continued research. I think my next one waiting in the wings to begin this process will do the same thing after seeing her sister go through it!
Finally!! First interview invite!!!
excellent news.