Just to relax your nerves a bit and give you some hope, I took at whole 3 minutes out of my day (you can thank me when you attend the school with various gifts
, seriously though I really like Reese's) and I went back to last years thread:
Apparently I was accepted on May 22nd, 2015 (great day). I was, I think, like the 5th or so person accepted off of it. I think things are a little behind this year, but I would expect some movement, as with every year to start in mid May, it continues all the way until late July, which is pretty cool/crazy. There was someone in my class accepted two days before white coat off of the wait-list. That would've been an incredible series of events haha, I never asked who it was but I bet it was an awesome feeling.
Just to continue in the vein of awesome acceptance stories, not to feed my ego, but when I found out that hold-list members were at least accepted to the following year's class (because remember hold-list was kind of a new thing last year, we didn't really know where we stood) was the same day I was given permission to defend my thesis. I did a MS in computational biology and about a month before in April, when I went to schedule my defense, we found out that the data I used to build all of my analysis on was incorrect, it was given to me by someone who failed to do their end of checks and I just happened to find out the errors by noticing some weird anomalies in my dataset. In comp bio it is hard to discover things like this because your datasets are usually massive.
I had like 1.5 years invested in this project and I thought I wasn't going to graduate because of these errors. Luckily we found an alternative more complete dataset, and since it was comp bio all of my code was written and just needed some slight edits. I rallied, didn't sleep much and completed all the code and got back solid results in about 3 weeks. In a week I ended up defending my thesis successfully, graduating with my MS, publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal and my thesis in the school library, and finally getting accepted to medical school. When a month prior I literally thought none of that was going to happen.
Not to give anyone false hope, but always stay positive and roll with the punches, you don't know how things can change if you work hard enough.
