@chihuahua1 @ lax1997
For NEOMED program, the stat for oos is 197/21/4. Good luck!
Once you get an interview from the NEOMED program, your chance of getting into the program should be at least 20%. The actual acceptance rate is hard to predict. If I were to guess, it might approach 40-50% of the OOS interviewees will be accepted into the NEOMED program. Therefore, the acceptance rate of the OOS interviewees should not deter one from attending the interview.
@starwatch they said they woudl contact me at a later date. They both called and emailed. and I doubt yours will be cancelled since i don’t see any future weather problems within the next week or so.
@hs2directmed I do have research experience but not as much perhaps as others do. I never worked in a formal laboratory under a professor, although i will starting this month.
For those who are going to AMC interview:
I’m posting an excellent report on AMC interview day by SLCMom from last year.
SLCMomPosts:
03-11-2014 at 2:57 pm
RPI/AMC trip report.
Interview day: Monday 3/10/14
• There were 7 students: 3 for RPI, 2 for Union, 2 for Union/RPI.
• Check in was 8 am on the letter but upon arrival, the schedule stated 8:15 am registration with 8:30 am orientation. Since everyone arrived early the orientation was moved up to 8:15 am.
• Orientation was for students and parents, very informal, in a meeting room, conducted by Maria (sorry didn’t catch her last name), very nice lady. Only slide shown was the AMC map to tell parents where they can go hang out and get food on their own. Mostly her providing information and answering questions.
• Information provided during the orientation session:
o Each program (RPI, Union, Siena) would invite up to 80 students to interview.
o Each program’s goal is to enroll 15. Based on past statistics on the number of acceptances sent versus the number of students eventually enrolling, AMC is planning to send 30 to 40 acceptances for admission to each program.
o They have sent out the first round of acceptances for admission – 15 for each program. However, they have not received any acceptances from the students saying yes they are coming. Maria will be calling each student to get an idea of whether the student is planning to enroll or not. She made the comment that those who already know they are not attending should let AMC know so the slot can be freed up for someone else.
o AMC is not planning on sending “rolling” acceptances after this first round. They are continuing to interview every Monday and Friday with the last interview being March 31. To be fair, they will rank everyone and the last admission committee meeting (always on Wednesdays) will be April 2. If AMC is not able to send the decision by the end of that week it will be the week after at the latest. All the “final” acceptances or rejections (or wait listing) will be sent at the same time.
o Each student is ranked on the whole application not just the interview – the interviewer will score and write a brief summary of the interview. The decision would be accept, reject, or under consideration until all the interviews are done. Then, those that are still under consideration may be put on a wait list. It is rare, but AMC has taken people off the wait list even after May 1, with the agreement of the undergraduate college. One last year, I think I heard Maria said.
o If AMC miscalculates and ends up with more than 15 enrollees in a program, the acceptances would not be revoked. However, that has not happened since Maria has been there. Last year, I think 14 enrolled for Union and 13 for RPI (not 100% sure of the numbers as I don’t have the info package with me right now, but definitely not 15). Information for Siena is not provided as the students interviewing that day were only for RPI or Union.
• At 9 am the director of the combined program (sorry I didn’t catch him name) came in to have a group session with the students, parents were dismissed then. According to my daughter, it was also pretty informal, supposed to be a “getting to know you” session, going around the room asking about the student’s EC and/or research activities. In addition to bench work in a lab, there were descriptions of You Tube business, software applications in health care, etc., which my daughter said were “very cool”.
• The interviews were 30 to 40 minutes, some (my daughter thought only one but she wasn’t sure) interviewers had to interview 2 students. That day, the regular medical school interviews were also going on (they use MMI, 8 stations, 2 minutes to read 8 minutes to respond) so the interviewers were busy and Maria warned that some students would have to wait until their interviewer was free but not to freak out over all the “down time”, it is just an unusually busy day. Each combined program student only gets one interview.
• @IMGDAD – I don’t know if it is the same interviewer your daughter got but one of the students reported being grilled on medical ethics throughout the interview! Some of the rest (including my daughter) reported getting general questions by the interviewer going over the supplemental application and asking for details.
• Logistics if you are staying at the Hilton Garden Inn:
o Parking is free but do get a parking pass from check in you need to display it on the dash.
o It takes 10-15 minutes to walk from the lobby (second floor, same as check in and breakfast) – coming out of the elevators, turn to the right, go to the end and you’ll see the start of the enclosed bridge to AMC. Follow the excellent directions in the interview letter, especially towards the end when you get to the library (we didn’t and got lost but were fine once we backtracked to the library). You don’t need to go outdoors at all.
o If you are running late, it may cut out a couple of minutes if you take the elevator straight to the 1st floor (where you came in after parking), go out the door and cross the road (jaywalk carefully please) to AMC – that is the “pillars” (it will be pretty obvious why) entrance/lobby referred to in the interview letter, the rest of the directions are the same.
• Logistics if you are not staying at the Hilton Garden Inn:
o Maria will give out free parking passes to AMC parking during the orientation session.
• Logistics if you are going to RPI campus tour after a Monday interview:
o It did take a full 20 minutes to get there, what with the interview day finishing at 1:15 pm and having to finish up packing and checking out etc., do give yourself enough time. The first stop of the tour is the Student Union building right across from the RPI Admission Office, so if you are late just go find the tour in there and join them.
Let me know if anyone has additional questions. Also, please correct me (fellow CC folks who attended AMC interviews) if my memory is faulty on some points.
Good luck to everyone!
thanks guys @upstream @lax1997! that helps a lot. i just know someone who got an interview for youngstown and lives in VA. but like if they accept ONE person maybe out of the 7-10 people interviewed for youngstown…thats pretty low! I’m different; i would go bcuz 1. I believe in God (anything can happen! ;)) 2. there’s always a chance;never doubt
most people get interviewed for neomed for like at least 2 universities but she got one interview just for ysu. her chances are lower but its still equally high.
idk.
@chihuahua1 I would go if she can swing it. I really liked YSU when I visited (the best out of the 3 schools actually). And like you said, anything can happen!
@lax1997 did u apply to neomed? ik u got into PLME (i said congrats way back but CONGRATS again lol its a big deal) i applied to plme for RD. I WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE to go! its an amazing school and program. i actually have my interview on wednesday on the phone. was the interview hard? i dunno wat to expect 
eek i have a 31 ACT which is pretty low for PLME but im also first gen. does that make a difference? i always believe in miracles so i dont really put a large deal of importance on scores etc. lol ik it may sound weird but thats how i roll hahaha
@chihuahua1 Thanks! Yes, I did apply to NEOMED and then had to withdraw my application after I was accepted to Brown PLME ED. My Brown interview was awesome and my interviewer was so nice and we had a great time talking! Don’t stress about the interview at all and just be yourself. We talked for an hour and 15 minutes and we laughed and genuinely had fun! (She was in the first handful of calls that I made after I got my decision, and she was so happy that I had called her since they don’t find out who got in until about a week after the applicants do). During the interview, we talked about a lot of random things (eg. the new iPhone 6 had just come out so we even talked about that)! She did not ask any trick questions or anything. Since I mentioned to her that I was a PLME applicant, I don’t even know if she knew that in advance or not. She did not ask anything about why medicine, why do you want to be a doctor, or anything like that either. She did not ask why Brown, but with everything I told her about my visits, she had to clearly see how much I loved Brown and why I wanted to attend! My ACT score was the weak spot in my application (29 composite, 30 “superscore” which they sort of consider, but not really). Also my ACT was really low in only one section. In multiple sittings, I scored a 32 or higher in every section except English (so I don’t know if that made a difference or not). However, I feel that my essays were all 10/10 and my Why Brown was absolutely strong demonstrating my love for Brown and what I would add to the campus community. I also had one LoR that was over the top amazing. I also think that my application had a truth and genuineness to it. Nothing was forced or done for the application and it showed in so many different ways - EC’s, coursework, essays, intended concentration, my passion for medicine, etc. I’m sure that First Gen will help you for Brown undergrad admission but honestly I don’t know how it factors in to the PLME decision. Scores are definitely not everything for Brown or I would have never gotten in or in to the PLME. Thank God for Brown and their truly holistic admission process! A miracle happened for me so it can happen for you too! Best of luck to you as you go through the rest of this crazy process! Let me know if I can answer any other questions.
Another friend of mine was deferred ED at NEOMED at all 3 consortium schools and then got rejected today from NEOMED at all 3 consortium schools RD. Stats: 32 ACT, 3.8 GPA, top 10% of class, licensed and working EMT. No research. In state.
@lax1997 WOW Thanks! Thats great advice! i really appreciate it. hopefully my interview is chill and fun …urs seemed like a nice one. but thats amazing that u got in esp to PLME. i remember when i was looking at the average accepted students page data i saw that the averages for test scores were WAY above mine haha. But i think that in hs i wasn’t all about test scores; i really wanted to excel in other activities and i think brown values that. Let’s see what happens…did u submit any supplemental forms online for brown?
Thanks again! 
Is NEOMED Early Action or Early Decision? Do you send score reports to all 3 campuses or just one?
Does visiting Brown have a major impact on your admission?
early action, send to one, and i dont think so
Got NEOMED interview! OOS, and I’m really surprised (and happy) because my sister who did BSMD a while ago had a way better profile than me but she didn’t get the interview for NEOMED.
@starwatch wow! Congrats!
Which school(s) did u get an interview for? (Akron etc.) ru going? Wat r ur stats? lol srry for the questions but ik a girl who got an interview for ysu oos(just wanna compare). Do u know the number of oos they accept for each undergrad school and how many they interview?
@chihuahua1
I got the interview for Youngstown, and I’m definitely going. I have no idea how many OOS students they accept for each school or how many they interview. Looking at last year’s NEOMED thread, one poster speculated that each feeder school (Youngstown, Akron, etc.) gets one OOS student for the program, but that seems off to me because then last year there was a 100% yield for OOS students which seems highly unlikely.
As for stats, I’m not going to post any specific details until all admissions decisions come out because many of my friends use CC and I’d rather not be identified. I have decently high GPA and SAT scores, shadowing, various published research papers, and many other ECs. Good luck!
Is RPI still sending supplemental for AMC. Are they done. we did not receive yet…
@popsys yeah i haven’t received one either 
@chihuahua1 I did not submit any supplemental materials to Brown.
Did anyone hear back from SBU/GW about the second interview at GW?
Any tips/idea about the Drexel interview? Is there a writing portion at the interview or anything like that?