<p>Medialboy, My son’s interview in Drexel was easy. it lasted less than 30 min. He says it was just a easy chat.</p>
<p>All the best to your 2nd interview bsmdgirl07!!! </p>
<p>Is anyone else except bsmdgirl07 received the cmmunication on the B2B first interview decision? If so, please share the date and mode of communication. Our son attended the first interview and he is yet to receive an email or letter in the regular mail. Thanks. </p>
<p>@IMGDAD I have a question on “PA student criteria” that TCMC uses. We are from California. Suppose our daughter goes for usciences/TCMC. When our daughter applies for TCMC med school interview, do you think at that time TCMC would consider her a PA student after having spent 3 years at Usciences? Or they go back to where you did your high school? If parents move into PA, before her TCMC interview, would they consider her a PA student because parents are from PA at the time of TCMC interview? </p>
<p>My kid got a letter from Baylor today which is same as the email received last week. 3/28 interview date and details will be sent by BCM.</p>
<p>i got rejected for b2b, but thats alright bc i only need one to get one of them, right!?(:
@dad2013, congratulations to your daughter!</p>
<p>My son got rejected from AMC a week after submitting the supplemental!</p>
<p>He had his interview at UMKC today. It went rather well but according to him, there is no way to prepare for the MMI because all the questions were situational. There were ten stations, and each student spent 10 minutes in each station, two for reading the scenarios and eight for interview. UMKC received more than 1100 applications this year, but only around 800 completed the applications. They are interviewing 320 students over 4 days. They hope to offer 60-70 places to in-state students, 30-35 to regional students, and 15-20 to out-of-state students. This year the decision will come out at the end of March by emails. According to my son, the Toledo Chemistry Placement Exam was very easy.</p>
<p>@bamd2014, I do not have the answer to your question about residency status. I suspect that it probably varies from one school to another.</p>
<p>I was rejected from B2B, Case Western, Washington - Washington etc. I was not even invited for interview. Some of my stats include Valedictorian, Perfect SAT Score, Perfect SAT Subject Tests ( Math, Biology, Chemistry ), 3 years of research in medical field, 500 hours of hospital volunteering etc. It is totally depressing. This is my first post. Please go easy on me.</p>
<p>Has anybody done their HPME interview?</p>
<p>Did anyone hear back from HPME this week?</p>
<p>@MedAspirant - are you serious? Wow that is unbelievable. I know Baylor and Washington are very selective but I would have thought you would get an interview at Case. Were they the only ones you applied to? Just out of curiosity I would call the schools and ask them why you didn’t get an interview.</p>
<p>IMGDAD - sorry to hear about AMC. On UMKC, where does Texas resident fall - regional or national?</p>
<p>“I am confused about the “pay anything over 9% family income to 400%” and the part of the sliding scale “2% to 9% where it is capped””</p>
<p>Think in solid numbers. If you are a family of 4 earning 95k (before deductions) you have no subsidies.<br>
The subsidy amount itself is based on the premium and 9% of your income. So your premium per year is 10,000, you make 50000, 9% is 4500 which means you can get a subsidy of 5500 (10000 - 45000).</p>
<p>Since some on medicaid get it free, the percentage you have to pay is incremental. So a family of 4 may be earning 22,500 and get insurance for free under medicaid but once they go up in salary to lets say 26,000, they start moving to regular insurance and pay around around 2% of their income at the lowest level. As the income starts going up, it reaches 9% and that is the cap.</p>
<p>Medaspirant - sorry to hear about your rejections. Did you get any interviews? What other schools did you apply to? What state are you from and are you male or female?</p>
<p>@MedAspirant, I am sorry to hear about the rejections. I had wanted to post this earlier but just not sure if the post was a joke or was for real.</p>
<p>@texapg, unfortunately Texas is considered national, but the students only compete with the national applicants, in their own application pool, and the probability of getting offered is still around one third, with three students for each place in each of the application pool, in-state, regional, and out-of-state.</p>
<p>@IMGDAD
Sorry to hear about AMC but glad his UMKC interview went well. It is just amazing what he’s accomplished at his age, and your daughter too! You must be one proud parent.</p>
<p>@MedAspirant
Sorry to hear your news but do not let it get you down for too long. It is not predictable whether one gets an interview or not, and it is definitely not an indication of your worth. If you have seen previous posts you’d know that my daughter received 10 rejections in a row. It is also very human to try to understand why, but in the end it may just be the collage’s perceived “fit” or even plain dumb luck. Best wishes and hang in there!</p>
<p>I am a male. I got the invitation for UMKC interview and declined the offer. I got the invitation for UPitt GAP and planning to attend. I did not attend the B2B Interview, but Baylor offered a group discussion instead of interview for the students who confirmed late. I am guessing that might be the reason I was not selected for second round interview. Waiting for North Western HPME and PLME. </p>
<p>@MedAspirant
In that case I really don’t think you have any reason to beat yourself up. You received an interview invitation for UPitt GAP which is very competitive, so you should be proud of that. You did receive an interview invitation for UMKC and it sounds like the B2B interview as well. And you have not received a rejection for Northwestern. So, that is already ahead of many of us (my daughter was rejected for UPitt and Northwestern). You’ll get where you need to go one way or another if you keep up your good work, so hang in there.</p>
<p>Any one has information and opinions regarding the A-PRIMTIME program with UTPA UTH/UTMB?</p>
<p>@MedAspirant, I haven’t posted much in this thread but DS also has been rejected from many of the same BS/MD programs as you. Similarly to you, he also has high stats like perfect ACT and GPA, two medical research, lots of EC and leadership, shadowing but no hospital volunteer hours. He is waiting on decision from two more direct programs.<br>
The bright side is that DS has several other undergraduate program acceptances with good merit awards besides waiting on more top school decisions.
Although I knew getting into BS/MD is ultra competitive, I am just a little surprised that it’s this difficult. </p>