<p>large envelope from penn state today included acceptance to the 6-7 year program!</p>
<p>exactly one month since the 2/8/ interview date.</p>
<p>Congratulations!
Could you please offer some advice for future applicants?</p>
<p>Could you tell me what region you live in? Thanks!</p>
<p>@theking101, be on the lookout for the BS/MD results thread for this year after all the acceptances for BS/MDs come out in April or before. others ( and myself included) will try to offer advice for future applicants.</p>
<p>How late in April are decisions released? UG all seem to release by April 1 and give until May 1 to decide, but programs don’t publicize that information.</p>
<p>it was postmarked 3/6/12 and arrived 2 days later in the northeast</p>
<p>from what i know, to get in this program get the highest sat’s you can in one sitting( can’t even apply if less than 2100) and be in the top 10 percent of your class. That may very well get you an interview in which you then have to show how you have demonstrated interest in medicine during your high school career ( volunteering, shadowing) and that you are a caring person.
You do need high Sat’s to get that interview opportunity.</p>
<p>I live in Southern California, got my acceptance letter today as well.</p>
<p>Did anyone get rejections?</p>
<p>I was rejected.</p>
<p>I got a rejection too, came in a small envelope on 3/9 in the northeast</p>
<p>Mine came today as well. I thought my interviews went well, but I guess not.</p>
<p>Did anyone have a change in the online status at myPennState?</p>
<p>if one got in, the status should be accepted for summer 2012 online</p>
<p>rejected! just for future applicants my critical reading/math was 1580. and i shadowed with an anesthesiologist in the OR at a regional trauma center. great job whoever got it!</p>
<p>I really liked the program before but interview/pre-interview day sold it so it’s most likely where I’m going. Even though it’s only two years undergrad, all the med students I talked to seemed to have loved their time at Penn State. A lot of them had a good amount of AP credit so they were able to take fun classes and do study abroad and overall had a really fun/relaxed time. I also like how in this program in particular, the progs are pretty tight which is something I liked a lot. And Jefferson is a solid med school in a great city so overall I def. think this program is solid.</p>
<p>cestlavie728, your 1580 is great, your shadowing was a little unusual( in a good way) and certainly demonstrated interest; my take would be that there were so many great applicants that there was little difference in many cases between those who got in and those who did not, such as maybe area of interest( say family practice v. anesthesia,
or hours volunteering in a caring capacity, or state of origin, or just rapport with the two interviewers or just bad luck/ good luck).I’m just assuming you interviewed.
I’m just trying to help you make sense of something that ,I agree ,seems almost unexplainable. Although some of the people who posted here who did not even get interviews was inexplicable also. Good luck- you are going to have other great choices, I feel.</p>
<p>Apparently, for this program, once one gets to the interview stage, it’s a clean slate as in academics aren’t factored into the final decision. With the student interview and the faculty interview, they’re trying to asses if they can see you being a doctor a few years down the road.</p>
<p>^
…Wait I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. If one has really good academics this policy could be disadvantageous. Does that mean an even greater emphasis is placed on extra curricular activities?</p>
<p>I have decent stats, I got 6 interviews, but my ones at Penn Sate both went relatively poorly. Student wouldn’t make eye contact and mumbled the whole time, and the faculty grilled me about whether my parents wre pressuring me into the program because I was Indian and my siblings were doctors.</p>