@GoldenRock , thanks for detailed response. Guess my D is in same situation as yours. Best of luck and let me know once you hear from AMC.
Anyone heard from Drexel, Lehigh or Muhlenberg about their MD programs with Drexel?
@GoldenRock @NJTDad same here D did not get a response from GWU and no communication does leave one in limbo, I hope they convey clearly one way or another.
Update from VCU: All notifications would be sent out by end of January. Interviews on several dates next couple of months.
Has anyone else gotten the Siena supplement? I already got the interview two weeks ago, but they sent an email yesterday saying that we needed to submit a supplement to AMC that has really similar questions to the supplement for the Leadership in Medicine Program.
Finally got thru GWU. According to the person I spoke, email will be sent out thru this week. So we can still hold on to thisâŚ
Penn State says no decision is made on my S yet and not to loose hope as updates will be sent until end of Jan even if the interview date is in FebâŚ
UConn : decisions have no been made yet and should hear something late Jan to early FebâŚ
My D. applied to Pitt, PSU, GWU, VCU, Drexel and PLME. No update so far from any place.
I donât think PLME has any updates. You just find out on March 31
@GoldenRock CORRECTION: In the earlier post I mentioned Union/AMC and RPI/AMC interview is an all day event.
I got confused with UMKC timings. AMC interview is in fact from 8 to 1 PM. After the interview you are encouraged to visit undergrad campuses.
@IfnousWHO I am on STEP #4 for REMS ⌠for the past 5 weeks.
Received GW supplement yesterday.
Any word from:
Drexel (other than UG admission that came out on Dec17th)
Villanova (after submitting supplement in mid Dec)
UMiami after submitting video response
@HS2DirectMed Would you please shed some more light on AMC interview? What happens during 8 to 1 pm? Are there 2 distinct interviews, 1 for RPI/AMC and 1 for Union/AMC or just 1 interview by AMC committee members? Did you get a choice of interview dates or they just informed you with a specific date and time? Did AMC say the interview is MMI or panel or both? Thanks,
Does anybody knows what is AMC/RPI & AMC/UNION interview format?
@Goldenrock, @HS2DirectMed , @narkor an all others for AMC
@upstream had forwarded this sometime back. Amazing and helpful feedback and details from @SLCMom from 2014 . I am reposting this since it is more timely now that the interviews are being scheduled. Good Luck to all!
For those who are going to AMC interview:
Iâm 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!
@WaitingtoKnow I called GWU yesterday about the med program and they told me that a decision (Iâm guessing an interview or rejection) would come by the end of January. Are they doing it in batches?
@niddzz44 Guess so.
REMS applicants:
@IfnousWHO - Step #4.
@NJTDad - Step #4.
@svnya123 - Step #4.
@jhgong - Step #4.
@steminspire - Step #4.
@bsmdkid - Step #4.
@bunnicula23 - Step#4.
@Sam999 - Step #4.
@sonpat - Step #4.
@HS2DirectMed - Step #4.
@RandomSATBaller - Step #3.
@tunetheday - Step #3.
@agirlasweater - Step #3.
@goaltobemd Thank you much for posting the detailed info about AMC interview process.
I called BU and people who donât get invited to the interview would not hear anything until the regular decision result comes out.
@IfnousWHO Step 4 for REMS as well!!
@jhgong did they say if they will continue to send out email for interviews or they are done?
@Sam999 Hello there! I got it on my home phoneâthey left a message to call back. Once I did call back they gave me all the info and said they would email me a followup by today in the afternoon confirming the interview date. So far, they have not done this.