It may be a little early for this question, but those people that are starting to get interviews, are they in-person or zoom? I noticed on the Syracuse/Upstate information page they state that the interviews will be MMI format and in-person. I know prior to COVID most interviews required travel since they were in person, but I am curious how many are now going to stick with zoom vs. going back to the traditional in person interviews.
Do Rutgers Newark/NJMS BA/MD interviews come in waves? It looks like some people got interview invites.
Is it true that Augusta admissions for OOS are based on stats and supplements including the video essays and not necessarily any further interviews? Any tips for the supplemental application and the video essays please? Appreciate any input that can help to make this step as good as it could be, doing video essays for first time 
Can someone confirm the deadline to apply for the professional scholars program at Augusta is the 11th Dec. or 10th? On the portal it says 11th (hope midnight 12/11 11:59 PM) however got an automated email today that it is due today the 10th. Can someone please confirm? Thanks
They cant have different dates from their website.
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How many of the applicant pool of Rutgers NW are called for interview before being forwarded to next step? My kid got the interview email, and seeking any suggestions pleease on how to prepare? This is the first such interview and would be thankful to help try best.
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Does Rutgers interview ALL candidates they deem suitable before forwarding to NJMS or only some? I thought the interviews are from the med school.
Rutgers - Newark interviews about 75% of the applicants before forwarding them to NJMS.
Read my post #316 above eon interview tips.
The best way to prepare is to do Mock Interviews.
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Does affiliated college/NJMS program have in-state preference?
NJMS: For BS/MD -NO
For traditional route MD - Yes
Yes, I meant combined medical program (ex. TCNJ/NJMS). Thank you for answering my question.
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We got the rejection from St. Bonaventure/GW today. Went into the junk mail, so didn’t see it at first
I am curious too about the in-state/OOS. My daughter got an interview and we live in Wisconsin. The interview is with a TCNJ professor.
Sorry to hear about SB/GW rejection and good luck on the interview at TCNJ!
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We got rejection from SBU too. When did you get the interview invite at TCNJ? Which feeder school?
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I cannot confirm, but my free advice is…don’t wait until the last day to submit anything…ever. You never know what computer glitches or power outages or whatever will happen (I’m speaking from experience…this happened to us ONE time only). Hopefully you submitted on time.
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Baylor bs/md has dropped
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My S got selected for Baylor faculty session. Can someone let me know roughly how many students are selected at this stage and how many would be interviewed by the medical college?
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Physician here. You can go to any med school in the US, small or big, private or public. Your med school rank and board exams determine which competitive residencies you get into. It’s a lot different than high school and college where there is so much variation in terms of the type of school you went to. Med schools teach the same stuff no matter where you go. It’s hard everywhere.
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I would confirm this is 100% as a physician in practice for 19 years. As a patient, you DO want to have higher scoring medical students get into the more competitive residencies. The students that score at the top are the ones you want making good clinical decisions on you when you are hospitalized. We can tell within 5 minutes which kids were admitted via DEI/PassFail or got there on their own merit. Believe me you do not want a weakly performing student taking care of you as a resident or an attending physician. They do not know what they are doing and make the whole team get behind. No one will say this out loud. This is just from experience in the hospital and in the clinic. I don’t care what race someone is as long as they pull their weight and do their fair share. Higher scores are better for patients. Now that does not mean that the highest scoring students also have the best bedside manner; those are not related.
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