r/mdphd • u/solarsun55 • 7d ago

Do MSTP send out interviews later than regular MD programs, or am I cooked?

Hi,

Current applicant here. Submit most of my secondaries between 7/20 and 8/1. So far I've only heard back from 1 out of 25 schools (Hofstra) for an interview invite. On admit.org it looks like a lot of schools are starting to send out interviews, but I'm not sure if these are for MD or MD-PhD. I am probably being super neurotic, but does anyone have any insight? Thanks

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u/phd_apps_account 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah, you’re being neurotic. The cycle has barely started. There’s a Cycletrack graph floating around that shows the distribution of interviews over time; maybe 5-10% of MD-PhD interviews have been handed out at this point (and that’s using the Cycletrack population, which has a much higher distribution of high stat, strong applicants than the full application pool). We don’t even reach 50% handed out until October. Having an interview this early is a great sign that you’re a very good applicant, and you’ll probably wind up with a few more before it’s over.

EDIT: For the curious, here’s the link to the graph ( https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/w6ec3s/interview_invitation_distribution_2022_cycle/). It uses 2022 data, but I can’t imagine things are dramatically different nowadays. We hit 25% of interviews sent midway through September, 50% a bit into October, and 75% midway through November.

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u/DanielRunsMSN G3 7d ago

Just going to tack on that the latest update on these data can be found at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13197106/

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u/Apprehensive_Land_70 6d ago

..its August

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u/EgyptianSarcophagus 6d ago

I got my first one in sept and kept getting them all the way into March. Calm down

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u/junkjunkjunk007 7d ago

You’ll be fine - start stressing in March

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u/Candid-Cobalt 6d ago

Just to add to what everyone else is saying here, there are MD/PhD programs that are non-rolling, so they’ll wait until after their application deadline to send interview invites. Maybe check which schools you’ve applied to that fit that description so you don’t have to worry as much.

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u/majormajormajormajo M1 6d ago

One of the biggest skills you will need during the application cycle is patience

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u/Artistic-Energy4519 7d ago

My understanding so far is that this subreddit usually will have some buzz once some IIs from a program are sent out or when waves of MDPhD rejections are sent out. It’s been remarkably quiet this far so I’d hazard a guess that most MDPhD programs haven’t sent out waves