University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 31, 1980
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Med hopefulswatch mail
By STEVE MAUN Staff Reporter
An end to the anxiety is near for the committee. "We have a person who may soon receive a letter from the selection committee. It will read." By the action of this committee, you have not agreed with your decision.
Letters from the selection panel at the University of Kansas Medical Center, containing the fate of about 400 medical school applicants, were mailed yesterday.
Walter Gehlbach, of directors at the Med Center, said yesterday that the letters would inform applicants whether they had received, accepted or chosen as an alternate.
all of the applicants have completed rigorous admission requirements and have passed the premedical advisers, grade point averages, Medical College Admissions Test, or GPA.
GEILBACK SAID academic records were important, but a bookworm with no outside activities could be denied access on the basis of a personal interview.
Delores Furtado, associate professor of microbiology and chairman of an interview committee, said it was difficult to obtain a record of the ability or was unilling to communicate.
Glebhach one applicant who scored an 11 on a medical college admissions test, who was rejected because he accepted, was rejected because the selection committee said he was "cold"
At the other extreme, an applicant with a score of 7.8 was accepted on the basis of his demonstrated academic ability and personal interview, Glebach said.
"This is not just a bunch of people trying to get in medical school," Furtado said. "These are individuals. I learn about the course, the interview and interview him as an individual."
ABOUT 400 of the 874 applicants were invited to be interviewed.
"The information we do have is a form telling us where they are from, their excruciable activities, their awards and special background information." Fortado said.
Six committees conducted the six interviews three weeks ago. Each committee had more than four faculty acutely trained from the music science clinical departments, a physician appointed by the Kansas Medical Society, and a Kansas resident appointed by the governor.
Committee members received the forms and information so the appointee could become familiar with the background. Questions during the interim meetings have or may not come in front of the form.
Furtado said that the applicants were interviewed in groups of three for 45 to 50 minutes and that the committee members did not use academic credentials before the interview.
"I want to make a person feel as if somebody cares about them. I ask things about his history and interests," Furtado said.
APPLICANTS ALSO write an essay on why they want to become a doctor. Some of the essays were only a few lines, while others covered the entire page, she said.
Furtado said most students cited concern for people, the challenge of knowing, a desire to understand the complexity of
Awareness and an ability to communicate are the most important qualities, she said.
the body, or the satisfaction derived from curing someone.
"Medicine is work that deals with people, but progress in medicine comes from intellect," Furtado said.
She said that a person who was a scholar but who did not handle the interview well had a role in medical research.
"It's not usually what you say but more what you don't say." Furtado said.
Gelbach said an applicant's ethnic background, whether his father was a doctor or whether he was from a rural area, and no hearing loss, had no bearing on admittance decisions.
"The percentage of individuals accepted into the medical school is in direct proportion to the number of applicants." Gehlbach said.
HE SAID there were no minority acceptance quatuors to meet. If more minority students apply, then the chance that more will be accepted improves, Geblach said.
For example, 25 percent of the 874 applicants this year were females. Fifty-eight women, or about 25 percent of the 218 applicants accepted, were women.
“Obviously, when you have an ethnic name or color, it is visible, but it doesn't enter into the interview level, because it will be filled to fill quotes. It is open competition.”
This year's medical school class will have 200 students. The selection committee accepts more than 200 because it anticipates withdrawals, Gehlbaad said.
Whenever the number of students enrolling falls below 200, one of 32 alternates is admitted to the class.
Sales war rages among colleges but KU runs a passive campaign
By RICK HELLMAN Staff President
The continuing nationwide decline in the number of high school graduates has some colleges fighting for their lives in the recruiting battle for incoming freshmen.
Staff Reporter
But there seems to be little pressure at the University of Kansas, where enrollment is up again this semester.
Even so, John Myers, director of admissions and records, said recently KU's problems were different from those of smaller colleges.
"The small colleges are more dependent on student fees, whereas here, student fees pay for only 25 percent of a student's education.
"The small liberal arts college of 500 has a real sales problem on their hands," he said, "but I think KU is a very marketable place right now."
HOWEVER, IT doesn't mean that KU sells itself.
"We are not going to sacrifice the quality of our institution," he said. "We're not going to admit a 'D' student from New Jersey just to have the numbers."
Myers and his staff visit more than 200 individual high schools in Kansas and in traditional KU strongholds out of state each year.
But Myers is adamant about the integrity of KU's recruiting efforts.
In fact, Myers said, the very word recruiting "makes me nervous . . . it implies huckstering."
Yet Myers' office is the center of KU's efforts to attract suitable students to fill its ranks. He estimated the University sends information to prospective students each year.
state. All potential college students in the state have an opportunity to visit one of these fairs in their area.
In addition, a staff member attends each of more than 40 college fairs around the
KU ALSO HAS a WATS line prospective students may call for information about the school.
Combined with about 4,000 individual visits to the campus, which the office coordinates, these measures constitute a formidable recruitment effort.
"Don't get us wrong though," Myers said. "Selling higher education is not like selling soap—at least not yet."
If a planned promotion this spring works, students are expected to be flocking here in droves.
April 25 is the date for Expo '80, a program designed to bring high school students from around the state to the Lawrence campus.
Expo stands for Exploration and each of the University's departments will have a program for interested students on that day, Myers said.
KU, with an enrolment of more than 24,000, and diverse programs, can still afford to let the students come to it. While other area colleges don't seem be hurting for students either, they do seem to take a more intensive approach to student recruiting.
JOAN WALLET, director of admissions for Ottawa University, said her office continues to do "all the traditional things"
but tries to be more creative in its use of those elements.
Wallent said a common method of student recruitment was to buy lists of prospective students and send them information about the university.
"The methods of dealing with those lists have become updated with more marketing tools and techniques," a catalog and say let us know if you're interested, that's dumb marketing. . . We have to concentrate on getting the interest people and then capitalizing on that interest.
"Let's face it, we're marketing a product and education is a product."
KANSAN Police Beat
An armed robbery and burglary were reported yesterday to the Lawrence police.
A man armed with a .22 caliber pistol walked into McNeill's Retail Liquors, 618 Arizona St. Tuesday and left with $150 to police to a police report. There are no suspects.
a television, a stereo system and a silver teapot, valued at $1.120, were taken tuesday from the residence of Huiyu Tubbs, 2,125 The report said there were 10 suspects.
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