@jt4321 Villanova sent notification to few on Dec 9th and gave 9 days deadline to submit the Drexel Supp App.
For VCU, they have not send interview notifications for BS/MD program to any one yet, though they have sent acceptance to UG few weeks back.
do the bsmd programs care about senior grades???
@GoldenRock Thank you. Yeah, received the admission for undergrad for VCU. Waiting for the next notificationâŚAny idea if there will be another supplemental like Union-AMC?
@teenager congratulations on Albany interview!
Anyone hear anything from Lehigh?
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 didnât 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 programâs 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 â 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 ârollingâ 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 âfinalâ 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 â 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 donât 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 didnât 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 âgetting to know youâ session, going around the room asking about the studentâs 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 âvery coolâ.
⢠The interviews were 30 to 40 minutes, some (my daughter thought only one but she wasnât 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 âdown timeâ, it is just an unusually busy day. Each combined program student only gets one interview.
⢠@IMGDAD â I donât 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) â coming out of the elevators, turn to the right, go to the end and youâll 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 didnât and got lost but were fine once we backtracked to the library). You donât 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 â that is the âpillarsâ (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!
heard back from Hofstra UGâŚgot into the honors program but only received a 27,000/yr scholarshipâŚheard only the top 30 are given a full rideâŚand only 15 admitted to bs/mdâŚ
@dadofhskid I only applied to LIM. I only applied to my state flagship 8 year and LIM, since I was really interested in healthcare management and not being a regular doctor⌠i had choices for interview date.
@upstream thank you for reviving this post in this yearâs thread. Indeed wry detailed and helpful.
@gettingdat2400 congratulations! Did you get the amount of scholarship in your letter by mail? I still havenât received a hard copy of the admissions packet. I can see the electronic version on the portal but it doesnât say the amount! Also, did you et it today? 88mom88 got it the day before. I am wondering where is mine?
Hofstra bs/md dates are up which means we should be getting notification soon if we will move forward or not
@narkor yes, D has applied to Union and Siena combined but not to RPI
And no news from Siena, submitted AMC application thru Union today
soooâŚdo bsmds care about senior grades at all?
@dynamitesamurai yes? mid year reports come out
@dynamitesamurai I think most undergrads ask for the mid year reports. But from what was discussed in last yearâs thread, the medical colleges donât ask for them. I would still wait for someone who knows this better to answer. You may look for this in previous yearsâ threads.
anyone know about Rochesters interviews? I submitted part one a few days ago, but when i go onto the request a interview page it asks for a log in that donât have?
@sonpat the log in credentials are the same for both the interview page and portal
can we keep a running list of the status of each of the BS/MD programs? Here is what I could get from all the posts. Please do correct if anything is wrong:
UMiami: got email for sending video (my son got this)
Penn State : got interview email for feb 10th (my son got this)
TCNJ: this is confusing. I read someone got interview and someone got rejected. So not sure what is happening with students who have not heard. My son has not heard anything.
drew : some got interview email
SBU : some got interview email
rochester (REMS) : alumni interview (goldenrock has good info on page 28). My son has not applied for interview yet.
UPitt : did anyone get interview? i read some post but confused
Union LIM : some got interview email
drexel: no notifications
GW : no notifications
BU : no notifications
Hi Forum,
I have received my acceptance to Drexel University, but nowhere on my portal does it say anything about acceptance into or qualification for interview. I sent them a ticket to see the status of that, and I will fill you all in as I find out!
U have to click âupdatesâ and it gives you your bsmd update. Sadly I did not make it
@adamrocks for which college?
Drexel. I guess if u did not get that message you will get an interview