*Official* "IM Interviews Offered" Thread

[Legend]

Have been lurking for a while.

I am a foreigner in need of a visa. (which puts me at a significant disadvantage)
Decent school
Step I = 240
Step 2 = not taken
Never honored any class or rotation
~Bottom quartile of class (definitely below avg)
Of course not AOA
Research: no med school pubs. Undergrad pubs: blood (cover page), American Journal of Respiratory Physiology

Interviews so far:

Baylor
Vanderbilt
Brown
Mayo, Rochester
Northwestern
Univ of Washington
Emory
UPitt
Dartmouth
Tufts

Rejection: UVA (no visa)
Still waiting to hear from >15 schools

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[phatfarm]

got UCLA and U of Chicago today.

So far:
Michigan
UCSF
UW
Columbia
UC Davis
UCLA
U Chicago

I vote for Tuffgong's list as the list I'd most like to have!

 

[phatfarm]

wow, does no one in this forum have a normal avg step one?

Mine is actually below the mean!

 

[Lukin]

wow christ, are you seriously going to interview at all these schools? how about you leave some for the rest of us

I am couples matching. She is a way better applicant than me (and generally a better person as well) so I am applying to a crap load of programs. I still have not Heard from a bunch. UCSD, UCSF, Colorado. Which of course is we would like to end up.
I probably will not interview at all of the rest I did not cancel.
And I think there are plenty of interviews to go around

 

[Nickel]

I have been lurking for a while too. I hope this is useful. I'm hoping it'll encourage people, because in general I think my application kinda stinks.

My stats:

Probably in the bottom 25%
Clinical: Pass in surgery and peds, High pass in medicine, primary care, and psych, honors in ob/gyn
step1: 221
step2 CS: passed
step2 CK: I took it and released my scores, but for some reason I have not received my score report, despite my requesting it three times. But I guess since I've gotten interviews, I must have passed.
Pubs: One abstract in undergrad...I was the 4th author
Interesting extracurricular activities: I had two kids in medical school.
Not AOA, not even close

On top of this, to this day I STILL have an incomplete application because one of my LORs has not been uploaded.

So here's my list:
Yale-New Haven, primary care
U Conn, primary care
Dartmouth
Vermont
West Virginia
Maryland
George Washington
Brown
Penn-State (Hershey)
Geisenger (PA)

I also got interviews at Franklin Square and Hopkins/Sinai in Baltimore, but I have declined.

Rejected from UNC Chapel Hill. I missed their 11/1 deadline, not that they would have interviewed me anyway.

Waiting to hear from Hopkins Bayview, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Beth Israel, U Mass, Baystate, and a few others that I'm not necessarily excited about. I applied to 22 schools total, but I think it was overkill.

 

[BigBadBix]

I vote for Tuffgong's list as the list I'd most like to have!

I second that. Tuffgong, congrats! You must have some amazing stats. Care to share them with us?

 

[tuffgong]

thank you both for the confidence boost.
my stats are:
step 1 246, won't take step 2 for a few months.
top 30-or-so% at a top 5-10 school. got honors in medicine, psych, and neuro, also got honors in all of my medicine electives this year.
Some research, but no publications.

Thanks again

 

[Internalbender]

step 1: 213
step 2: 250 (studying helps board scores)
cs: passed
non top 50 school
top 50% of class with honors in three and hp in rest of clinical
no research
ambitious slacker

interiviews so far:

Cedars-sinai (whats the open house thing? is that a 2nd rate cedars interview?)
Virginia Mason
USC
Cal Pacific
All of the Kaisers (oak, sf, santa clara, waiting LA)
Providence Portland
St. Vincent's Portland
Legacy Emmanuel Portland
St. Vincents Manhattan
Cambridge Hospital
Cabrini New York
Alameda County Oakland
Santa Clara Valley Medical
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
UC Irvine

will probably cancel 4 or 5.
waiting for expecting: St. Marys, kaiser LA,
waiting for but not expecting: UW, Stanford, UCLA, OHSU, UCSF (ha, right)

 

[BigBadBix]

NYU this morning. Maybe this is a good sign for the week to come...

Updated list (in order received):
UTSW
Colorado
Baylor
Providence St. Vincent
Duke
UW
Providence Portland
Mt. Sinai
OHSU
Cornell
Virginia Mason
UCLA
NYU

 

[Tar Heel Born]

the open house thing? is that a 2nd rate cedars interview?)

To my knowledge, the "open house" is the invitation that everyone has received, and it is the same thing as an interview offer. Not sure why they are calling it that.

 

[BigBadBix]

To my knowledge, the "open house" is the invitation that everyone has received, and it is the same thing as an interview offer. Not sure why they are calling it that.

I didn't apply to Cedars-Sinai, but both UW and UCLA also used the "Open House" term to refer to their interview dates. Seems to be a West Coast thing. I think it's done in an effort to sound more welcoming and less intimidating, but who knows.

 

[Zolpidem25]

NYU this morning. Maybe this is a good sign for the week to come...

Updated list (in order received):
UTSW
Colorado
Baylor
Providence St. Vincent
Duke
UW
Providence Portland
Mt. Sinai
OHSU
Cornell
Virginia Mason
UCLA
NYU

yo Bix -- yeah, tuffgoing has an impressive list, but yours isn't too shabby either... i'm holding my breath for a lot of those places....

so guess what i got this morning....

a big fat NOTHING.

 

[Zolpidem25]

step 1: 213
step 2: 250 (studying helps board scores)
cs: passed
non top 50 school
top 50% of class with honors in three and hp in rest of clinical
no research
ambitious slacker

ambitious slacker -- i like that. that's me too. hey, mind if i borrow that one sometime? i won't use it during interviews though. and of couse i'l list Internalbender as a reference....

 

[DrNick2006]

Adding U of M today

Updated list (order of preference thus far)

Mayo - Rochester
U of M
UNC
Boston University
Case Western
Cleveland Clinic
UC Irvine
Beaumont Hospital
Yale-Bridgeport
UCSF-Fresno

Have Canceled

Cleveland Clinic Florida
Michigan State
Rochester General Hospital (applied in error thinking it was U of Rochester)
Albert Einstein - Beth Israel

Realistically hoping for:
U Chicago
Beth Israel Deconess
Stanford
UC Davis

Wish List:
MGH
Brigham
UCSF
Duke

Waiting on others ---

 

[DrNick2006]

"STATS" since I havn't posted them for reference

Step I 248
Step II December for both
Non-AOA
Top 1/3rd to 1/2 medical school (whatever that means)
Honors - preclinical years
Honors - Medicine, Peds, OB/GYN
3 basic science pubs in undergrad, none in med school
mild to moderate extra- curriculars
?Good LORS (who really knows?)
A lot of cash for bribes

 

[souljah1]

Adding UPENN invite this morning

UMDNJ-RWJ
UTSW
UCSF
Jefferson
UPenn

 

[tuffgong]

just got Penn by email this morning.

my list:
Michigan
UCSF
UW
Columbia
UC Davis
UCLA
U Chicago
Penn

 

[eidolon]

"STATS" since I havn't posted them for reference

Step I 248
Step II December for both
Non-AOA
Top 1/3rd to 1/2 medical school (whatever that means)
Honors - preclinical years
Honors - Medicine, Peds, OB/GYN
3 basic science pubs in undergrad, none in med school
mild to moderate extra- curriculars
?Good LORS (who really knows?)
A lot of cash for bribes

applied to a bunch of prelim medicine programs at major universities and here are my two cents:
less than optimal Step I (too embarrass to post)
Step II CS pass
Step II CK results pending
not AOA
app about as average as they come

interviews so far:
Northwestern
U of C
Santa Clara Valley
Mount Auburn
Beth Israel (MA)
UCLA-Oliveview
UCSF

hopefully waiting . . .
MGH
BWH
Stanford
UCLA

lesson: don't despair--people on this forum don't all have awesome boards scores; even with subpar boards interviews are still possible!

 

[Internalbender]

ambitious slacker -- i like that. that's me too. hey, mind if i borrow that one sometime? i won't use it during interviews though. and of couse i'l list Internalbender as a reference....

feel free. no patent pending. I think I will leave that out of the interviews as well. its not a great resume addition.

 

[PickyBicky]

Up-dated list:

UPenn 11/7

Last week:
Duke
Univ. of Chicago


~ 2 weeks ago
Columbia


Emory: 10/5 (ERAS and personal email)
UCSF: 10/10 (personal email)
JHU: 10/19 (personal email)
Wash U. -Barnes Jewish: 10/20 (ERAS and personal email)

I'm going to probably cancel UCSF because it's the only school I applied to on the West coast and my fiance lives on the East coast.

-PB

 

[DrNick2006]

Add Mayo -jacksonville

 

[dukeblue01]

Adding U Penn by email and ERAS this AM.

Emory 9/15
UCSF 9/30
Duke 10/10
U of Chicago 10/17
U Penn 11/7

 

[ucladukes]

Mine is actually below the mean!

Mine too

 

[phatfarm]

Mine too

Looks like I'm in good company then!

 

[ucladukes]

Adding Mayo-Jacksonville

UTSW
Baylor-Houston
Baylor-Dallas
UT-Houston
Cedars-Sinai
UCLA-Olive View
USC
UC Irvine
SLU
Rush
UIC
Loyola
Cleveland Clinic-Ohio
Case Western/UHC
Cleveland Clinic-Florida
Miami/Jackson Memorial
Mayo-Scottsdale
UNLV
Einstein-Montefiore
U. of Maryland

Likely to cancel: UT-Houston, Cleveland Clinic Ohio and Florida, Case Western, and Einstein-Montefiore

Eagerly awaiting/hoping for: Harbor-UCLA, Scripps-Green, UC Davis, Emory, Northwestern, BU

Wishful Thoughts: UCLA, UCSD, MGH, BWH, BIDMC

 

[Zolpidem25]

Adding U Penn by email and ERAS this AM.

Emory 9/15
UCSF 9/30
Duke 10/10
U of Chicago 10/17
U Penn 11/7

ok, so Penn sent out a buttload of interviews today then apparently.

grrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[phatfarm]

Adding U of M today



Realistically hoping for:
U Chicago
Beth Israel Deconess
Stanford
UC Davis

Wish List:
MGH
Brigham
UCSF
Duke

Waiting on others ---

Do you really think that Stanford is on the level of UC Davis, BID, and UofC? I thought of it more along the lines of your wish list...

 

[Tar Heel Born]

ucladukes,

are you couples matching? that is a boatload of programs, and scattered all over the map too!

 

[DrHeartMD]

Just got Penn via eras and email

MS IV at middle tier school
USMLE Step 1: 257
USMLE Step 2 CS: Pass (not sent yet)
USMLE Step 2 CK: To be taken
AOA
Lots of research experiences, no pubs, 2 case reports in woodwork
Good letters of recs from not super well-known people
Photo - (I think it's the photo that's killing my app )

No particular order:

Columbia
cornell
UPenn
UPitt
Tufts - NEMC
BU
Brown
Mt Sinai
Emory
Cedars Sinai
UCLA
U Chicago
St vincents NY
Westchester Med NY
UMDNJ - NJMS
UMDNJ - RWJMS
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Einstein - Montefiore

Waiting for: MGH, B/W, JHU, Duke, UCSF, Stanford, Yale, NYU, BIDMC
we'll see if they ever come

 

[sz]

WEll the flood gates never did open for me .... I'm still dealing with trickles

GW
UIC
penn state (but then I go there )
UCI
UCSF/Fresno
Univ of Arizona
Temple
Univ of Wisconsin
Loyola
Rochester
Loma Linda
Brown
USC (personal email only, no ERAS notification)
Cedars sinai

 

[Legend]

just got 2 interviews over 10 minutes.

Stanford and NYU !!

 

[souljah1]

Just got Stanford as well

 

[lasix]

my list thus far in no particular order:

cornell
northwestern
yale
michigan
wash u (st. louis)
cedars sinai
nyu
penn
harbor-ucla
stanford
mt. sinai

awaiting about a dozen others . . .

 

[tuffgong]

yeah, stanford as well...didn't expect one so late in the day.

 

[ucla2usc]

Just got Stanford and UPENN today

Before (in order)

UCSF
U of Chicago
Columbia
Harbor
USC
Cornell
Cedars
UCLA

pending: Boston x3, JHU, Duke, UW, UCSD

 

[doctorjb77]

that's an awesome list!!
would you mind posting your stats?
just curious who stanford and ucla are giving out interviews to.
thanks,

 

[ucla2usc]

that's an awesome list!!
would you mind posting your stats?
just curious who stanford and ucla are giving out interviews to.
thanks,

thanks, I'll pm you my stats. people at my school have figured out my user name (kind of obvious if you know me) so i'd rather not make an anouncement to my class about my stats

 

[quidnunc]

Did the Stanford, UPenn and NYU interview invites all come through e-mail/ERAS, or ERAS only? Thanks.

 

[quidnunc]

Can anyone post the dates available to interview at Baylor in January? Thanks.

 

[quidnunc]

That's Baylor in Houston.

 

[GIMed]

That's Baylor in Houston.

So I've been reading this for a while and finally decided that I'm so freaking out that I just have to post.

First to answer your question...
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in January are the dates for interviewing at Baylor (based on availability of course).

So far I've received interviews from Emory, U Colorado, and Baylor, basically within hours-days of submitting my application in September. Since then, nada. I'm waiting on Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Mt Sinai, BW, MGH, UCSF, UCSD, and UW.

My stats are:
Step 1: 248 (no step 2 yet)
Honors in all clinical rotations except Surgery (pass)
excellent LOR
minimal research
nominated for AOA at top 15 school.

So what went wrong? I know that the remaining programs are competitive and all, but aren't I competitive? I was hoping for some love post-dean's letter release, but still a week later my mailbox is empty!

 

[BigBadBix]

Did the Stanford, UPenn and NYU interview invites all come through e-mail/ERAS, or ERAS only? Thanks.

NYU came through both e-mail and ERAS.

I'll have to let others tell you about Stanford since they (along with Columbia and UCSF) apparently don't care for my HP in Medicine. I feel like the lack of invites from these competitive programs does not bode well for BWH/MGH...

 

[InternalWhizzzz]

it seems more IMGs are getting interviews than aMGs? what gives?

 

[BigBadBix]

it seems more IMGs are getting interviews than aMGs? what gives?

The IMG's applied to many more programs than the AMG's, and the interviews they are getting are (for the most part) at less competitive programs.

 

[BigBadBix]

BID today.

Updated list (in order received):
UTSW
Colorado
Baylor
Providence St. Vincent
Duke
UW
Providence Portland
Mt. Sinai
OHSU
Cornell
Virginia Mason
UCLA
NYU
BID

Still waiting on: UC Davis, UCSF, Stanford, UCSD, BWH, MGH, Columbia

 

[InternalWhizzzz]

The IMG's applied to many more programs than the AMG's, and the interviews they are getting are (for the most part) at less competitive programs.

thanks for the s upport but have you looked at some of their interviews? Mt. Sinai, Albert Einstein, Stonybrook, Yale and Emory?

those programs aren't exactly shabby

 

[BigBadBix]

thanks for the s upport but have you looked at some of their interviews? Mt. Sinai, Albert Einstein, Stonybrook, Yale and Emory?

those programs aren't exactly shabby

I did look at their interview thread before I replied, and while the programs listed may very well have excellent training (I don't know much about most of them), what I was referring to was how competitive those programs are. This is really the deciding factor in getting interviews and is not necessarily directly correlated with program quality.

In regards to your specific examples (since I have far too much time on my hands ): the Yale on the IMG list is not the main program but an affiliate at Bridgeport. The Mt. Sinai on the IMG list is the one in FL, not the one in NYC. Emory is not on the IMG thread at all, and Stonybrook and Einstein, though they may be very solid programs, are not highly competitive. Again, these may all be great programs, but it is simply not as hard to get an interview at them than at most programs you see listed on the AMG thread.

I am not trying to demean the IMG's interview lists and in fact I agree with your observation that they are longer than those of most AMG's. I'm just replying to your question regarding why this discrepancy exists.

 

[AugIM]

Did the Stanford, UPenn and NYU interview invites all come through e-mail/ERAS, or ERAS only? Thanks.

UPenn and Stanford used ERAS with the forward to my email account, too. No clue about NYU though - apparently I didn't make their cut?

Updated list:
Medical College of Georgia (9/15)
Wake Forest (9/15)
Emory (9/15)
GWU (9/28)
Washington University (10/3)
Georgetown (10/7)
Vanderbilt (10/10)
Thomas Jefferson (10/10)
UVA (10/13)
UAB (10/17)
University of Chicago (10/17)
Duke (10/20)
Northwestern (10/21)
Yale (10/21)
Columbia (10/24)
Brown (10/27)
UNC (11/1)
UPenn (11/7)
Stanford (11/7)

And no, I don't intend on going to them all - will probably weed the list down to about 10 or so.

 

[BigBadBix]

There is just no rhyme or reason to this process. Why would I get NYU and Duke but not Columbia, Stanford or even UC Davis, while others are in the exact opposite position? It just doesn't make any sense. And then you have GIMed, who has great stats and on paper should be getting interviews from a bunch of places and isn't.

I knew going into it that it would be like this, but somehow I'm still surprised at how random it all seems. It would almost be better if I didn't check out this site so much - now if I get an invite from Columbia I'll feel like I was an afterthought or something, instead of just being excited about it.

 

[firstdoc]

UPenn yesterday. Boston University today

Updated List:

Temple
Jefferson
UPenn
Michigan
Univ of Chicago
Northwestern
Maryland
Tufts
Boston Univ
Pittsburgh
Cedars Sinai
UConn

Still waiting on 16 others!!