If you’ve just walked out of a medical school interview, it’s normal to replay every answer on the drive home and wonder what your chances look like now. The schools that publish their numbers have a hopeful answer for you!
We checked medical schools’ own admissions pages on November 3, 2026. 20 of them publish both how many applicants they interviewed and how many offers they made for the same recent cycle.
At those schools, between 26% and 67% of interviewed applicants got an offer, and the median was 44%. That’s a little under one in two. Across all of their applicants, most of the same schools made offers to fewer than 1 in 10.
The table below lists every school, its cycle and a link to the page each figure comes from.
Post-Interview Acceptance Rates by Medical School, 2026
A post-interview acceptance rate, often shortened to post-II acceptance rate, is the share of interviewed applicants who got an offer. Every school below published both numbers for the same cycle on its own site.
How we got these numbers. Each rate is the number of offers of admission a school made divided by the number of applicants it interviewed, for the same cycle, using the figures on the school’s own admissions page or class profile. We opened every page on November 3, 2026, and the cycle is shown as the school labels it. Some schools count applicants interviewed and others count interviews completed. Colorado’s figures come from its admissions tracker as of April 2, 2026, so that cycle may not have been final. University of Washington figures are its MD-only tables, with in-region and out-of-region applicants added together. Offers include applicants who later enrolled somewhere else. We left out any school where we couldn’t find both numbers for the same cycle on its own site, rather than estimating. AAMC’s national FACTS tables report applicants, acceptees and matriculants but not interviews, so there’s no official national post-interview rate.
The highest rates were at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (67%), the University of Cincinnati (66%), the University of Kansas (64%) and UNT Health Science Center's Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (64%).
The lowest were at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (26%), Harvard Medical School (28%) and Baylor College of Medicine (29%). Even there, more than one in four interviewed applicants got an offer!
You'll also see post-II acceptance rates passed around on forums like SDN and Reddit, often with no source. Tap any school's name in the table to open the page its numbers come from.
Cycles run from the fall 2024 entering class to 2026, so check each school's cycle before you compare two of them.
How to Read a Post-Interview Acceptance Rate
A post-interview acceptance rate is the number of offers a school made divided by the number of applicants it interviewed in the same cycle. The overall acceptance rate you'll see quoted elsewhere divides the same offers by every applicant, so it comes out much smaller.
Post-interview acceptance rate = offers ÷ applicants interviewed
Overall acceptance rate = offers ÷ all applicants
What Percent of Medical School Interviewees Are Accepted?
At the median school in our table, 44% of interviewed applicants got an offer. Those are good odds to walk out of an interview with! As an interview-to-acceptance ratio, that's roughly one offer for every two to three applicants a school interviews.
Wayne State's Class of 2030 shows how far apart the two rates sit. The school received 12,843 applications, completed 1,471 interviews and made 630 offers for a class of 299.
That's an offer for about 1 in 20 applicants and for 43% of the people it interviewed. Once you're in the interview room, you're in a much smaller pool! The figures are from Wayne State's class profiles page.
Offers per Seat Change the Rate
Offers include applicants who later chose another school, so a school makes more offers than it has seats. Ohio State made 406 offers for an entering class of 214, for example.
A school's post-interview acceptance rate depends on how many offers it needs to fill each seat. Wayne State and Harvard both interviewed about five applicants per seat.
Wayne State made about two offers per seat and Harvard about 1.3, so 43% of Wayne State's interviewees got an offer and 28% of Harvard's.
Schools also count a little differently. Some report applicants interviewed and others report interviews completed, and not every school says whether MD/PhD applicants are in its count. We’d treat a gap of a few points between two schools as noise.
Schools Not in the Table, Like NYMC and Michigan
We left out any school that didn't publish both numbers for the same cycle on its own site.
When we checked on November 3, 2026, we couldn't find both for New York Medical College or the University of Michigan Medical School, so neither one is listed.
If a school publishes how many applicants it interviewed and its class size, divide the class size by the number interviewed.
Schools make more offers than they have seats, so the school's post-interview acceptance rate is higher than that number. It's a quick way to size up any school on your list!
Your own odds at any school still come down to your file and your day.
If you’d like help with the next step, our guides cover medical school interviews, the GPA medical schools look for and median MCAT scores for the top 100 U.S. schools.
For your overall odds, our guide to the chances of getting into medical school walks through the national numbers. You've got this!
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Why You Might Not Get an Offer After an Interview
Even at the school with the highest rate in our table, about a third of interviewed applicants didn’t get an offer. If that’s you, it’s a hard week, and you’re not stuck!
Four things can explain it, and you can work on every one of them before your next interview or your next cycle!
Something Else in Your Application Held You Back
An interview invitation tells you a school saw enough to want to meet you. The committee still weighs your whole file afterward, including your MCAT score, your GPA, your experiences and your letters.
If you reapply, a stronger score can help, and our MCAT retake guide walks through when a retake makes sense.
Your Answers Sounded Rehearsed
Practice helps, and it can tip over into answers that sound memorized. When every answer circles back to why you’ll make a great doctor, even a question about your favorite book, it can come across as a pitch.
We’d suggest answering the question you were asked and letting the conversation go from there. If the interviewer wants to hear how an experience shaped you as a future physician, they’ll ask.
Nerves Got in the Way
Interviewers are picturing you as a classmate and, one day, as a doctor caring for patients. If nerves kept you from making eye contact or opening up, they may not have seen much of who you are.
Mock interviews with a friend, an advisor or a mentor help interview day feel familiar, and each one you do makes the next a little easier!
If you'd like a coach for this, our medical school application coaches run realistic mock interviews, traditional or MMI, and give you feedback after each one. They're med students who've been through it themselves!
Our guide to mock interview options covers other places to practice, too!
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Something Outside the Interview Room Counted Against You
Interview day includes the tour, lunch with students and every conversation in the hallway. Being curt with a student guide or glued to your phone between sessions can get noticed.
We’d suggest treating every person you meet that day, from the parking attendant to the dean, the way you’d treat your interviewer.
If you're working through a rejection right now, our guide on how to deal with med school interview rejections walks you through the next steps. A no from one school this cycle can still turn into a yes from another!
What to Do While You Wait to Hear Back
The weeks after an interview can feel long! Each school sets its own timeline for decisions, so its admissions page is the first place to look.
A few things help while you wait:
- Send a short thank-you note to your interviewers if the school accepts them. Our guide to thank-you letters after medical school interviews has samples you can adapt!
- Check your email and each school's applicant portal often, and look in your spam folder too :)
- If a school waitlists you, read its instructions closely, since schools differ on whether they want updates from you. Our guide to how medical school waitlists work covers what comes next.
- Keep preparing for the interviews still on your calendar. Each one gets a little easier!
The free checklist above walks you through every phase that's left, including waitlists!
Post-Interview Acceptance Rate FAQs
What Are the Chances of Getting Accepted After a Medical School Interview?
At the 20 schools in our table, the post-interview acceptance rate ranged from 26% at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine to 67% at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the median was 44%.
Your odds at a given school depend partly on how many offers it makes for each seat in its class.
What Is the Interview-to-Acceptance Ratio for Medical School?
At the median school in our table, 44% of interviewed applicants got an offer, or roughly one offer for every two to three people interviewed.
The post-interview acceptance rate ran from about 1 in 4 at Mayo Clinic to 2 in 3 at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Which Medical Schools Have the Highest Post-Interview Acceptance Rates?
In our table, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (67%), the University of Cincinnati (66%) and the University of Kansas (64%) had the highest rates. Each one is the school's own figure for its most recent published cycle.
What About NYMC, Michigan and Schools Not in the Table?
When we checked on November 3, 2026, we couldn't find both the number interviewed and the number of offers for the same cycle on New York Medical College's or the University of Michigan's own sites.
If a school publishes its class size and how many it interviewed, dividing the first by the second gives you a floor for its post-interview acceptance rate.
Can You Get Rejected After a Med School Interview?
Yes. At every school in our table, at least a third of interviewed applicants didn’t get an offer. If it happens to you, the four reasons above are a good place to start before your next interview.
Does a Med School Interview Mean Acceptance?
An interview means you’ve reached the final round. At the schools in our table, roughly half of interviewed applicants got an offer, while most of those schools made offers to fewer than 1 in 10 of all their applicants.
How Long After a Med School Interview Do You Hear Back?
Each school sets its own timeline. The school’s admissions page is the first place to look, and if you’d like a date for a school on your list, you can ask at the end of your interview day or email the admissions office.
Get Help Before Your Next Medical School Interview
You've already earned an interview, and that's a big step!
If you'd like support for what comes next, our 1:1 medical school application coaching pairs you with a med student who's been accepted. Your coach can run mock interviews with you, traditional or MMI, and help with secondaries and thank-you notes too!
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