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Hello everyone,
I know there are some other threads about this topic on this forum, but I wanted to get your opinion on my specific case, as no two cases are identically similar.
I applied to essentially all MD schools except for 3 MSTPs (Stanford, UCLA, UCSF) this past cycle, and ended up with 3 interviews with one acceptance a couple of days ago. I had already been planning on re-applying 2-3 months ago, with a set MCAT date on June 5th.
What I am planning on doing is holding the acceptance at the medical school, take the MCAT June 5th, receive my score early July, and based on that decide whether or not I will reapply.
I understand that many people would advise me to take the MD acceptance, but although the school is great, there is no MD/PhD program there. I am pretty convinced that I want to pursue that path, but the reason why I did not apply to all MSTPs last cycle was because I didn't think my application was the most competitive.
I think I am more competitive now, with this year spent in a top immunology lab and a co-authorship on a paper under review at Nature Immunology. I am also working on my own first author-paper. For those reasons, I would reapply to almost all MD/PhD programs.
But of course, this all comes with risks. Aside from the obvious uncertainty of the whole process, I am also worried that a lot of schools will not even bother checking my application upon seeing that I am a reapplicant...
Here are my stats:
cGPA: 3.66
sGPA: 3.75
MCAT 33Q (13BS, 12PS, 8VR) - Expired, retaking June 5th.
Lots of research experience. Good clinical/volunteering. Good LORs.
I appreciate your input.
I know there are some other threads about this topic on this forum, but I wanted to get your opinion on my specific case, as no two cases are identically similar.
I applied to essentially all MD schools except for 3 MSTPs (Stanford, UCLA, UCSF) this past cycle, and ended up with 3 interviews with one acceptance a couple of days ago. I had already been planning on re-applying 2-3 months ago, with a set MCAT date on June 5th.
What I am planning on doing is holding the acceptance at the medical school, take the MCAT June 5th, receive my score early July, and based on that decide whether or not I will reapply.
I understand that many people would advise me to take the MD acceptance, but although the school is great, there is no MD/PhD program there. I am pretty convinced that I want to pursue that path, but the reason why I did not apply to all MSTPs last cycle was because I didn't think my application was the most competitive.
I think I am more competitive now, with this year spent in a top immunology lab and a co-authorship on a paper under review at Nature Immunology. I am also working on my own first author-paper. For those reasons, I would reapply to almost all MD/PhD programs.
But of course, this all comes with risks. Aside from the obvious uncertainty of the whole process, I am also worried that a lot of schools will not even bother checking my application upon seeing that I am a reapplicant...
Here are my stats:
cGPA: 3.66
sGPA: 3.75
MCAT 33Q (13BS, 12PS, 8VR) - Expired, retaking June 5th.
Lots of research experience. Good clinical/volunteering. Good LORs.
I appreciate your input.