2013-2014 Panic Thread

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I am freaking out right now. I am still waiting on one letter writer. She said she would have it in in May. I emailed her in June and she said she would get it in. Then in July she said she would get it in on Monday...that was a month ago. Now for last 10 days I haven't been able to get a hold of her. BLAHHH. I have all these secondaries to submit but can't get reviewed until it is in!!

Now that I have vented I feel a little better.
 
synth said:
This application cycle has been a cause of such despair that I have turned to religion.
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Haha well i'm praying to all the gods of all the religions I know. May Allah/God/Vishnu/Thor/Ra...etc make our hopes come true.
 
!@%^$!* to how stressful this semester will be
 
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Just got verified last week, and of course never got around to prewriting. So I'm writing secondaries. Churning them out like a mofo. They sound so sappy. Like, sweet jesus. So sappy. And they're all blurring together. Did I use "truly" or "hopefully" too many times in my essays for this school or not at all yet? Why on earth did I pick this school again--did they have the learning communities or was it the other school?
I've fallen in love with every school I've written about, like some sort of premed floozy.


I'm losing all respect I had for myself as a writer, as it all sounds the same. It's like the farting Twilight series, "I love Edward. I love Edward. Edward is so beautiful. I love Edward." But replace "Edward" with [medical school]. Times twenty.

God help us all.
 
I have fallen in love with all the schools I've applied to because they all teach medicine.

Not sure that's an acceptable response on a secondary.
 
juliebethmarie said:
Just got verified last week, and of course never got around to prewriting. So I'm writing secondaries. Churning them out like a mofo. They sound so sappy. Like, sweet jesus. So sappy. And they're all blurring together. Did I use "truly" or "hopefully" too many times in my essays for this school or not at all yet? Why on earth did I pick this school again--did they have the learning communities or was it the other school?
I've fallen in love with every school I've written about, like some sort of premed floozy.


I'm losing all respect I had for myself as a writer, as it all sounds the same. It's like the farting Twilight series, "I love Edward. I love Edward. Edward is so beautiful. I love Edward." But replace "Edward" with [medical school]. Times twenty.

God help us all.
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I'm still prewriting but I feel like I'm falling in love with each school too. Sigh.
 
synth said:
I have fallen in love with all the schools I've applied to because they all teach medicine.

Not sure that's an acceptable response on a secondary.
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Bro you've been premed for 7 years? Sucks bro. GL this year
 
juliebethmarie said:
Just got verified last week, and of course never got around to prewriting. So I'm writing secondaries. Churning them out like a mofo. They sound so sappy. Like, sweet jesus. So sappy. And they're all blurring together. Did I use "truly" or "hopefully" too many times in my essays for this school or not at all yet? Why on earth did I pick this school again--did they have the learning communities or was it the other school?
I've fallen in love with every school I've written about, like some sort of premed floozy.


I'm losing all respect I had for myself as a writer, as it all sounds the same. It's like the farting Twilight series, "I love Edward. I love Edward. Edward is so beautiful. I love Edward." But replace "Edward" with [medical school]. Times twenty.

God help us all.
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Did you know the twilight novels actually began as a hastily written secondary application? Later edited to add vampires and a slightly less sappy love triangle. Totally true, saw it on 4chan
 
Yay panic thread!!!! Gawd I'm starting to wonder if I have a really bad letter or something.
 
ukae said:
Yay panic thread!!!! Gawd I'm starting to wonder if I have a really bad letter or something.
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You don't wanna know. I found out that two of my letters are unsigned and it's been eating at me for weeks. Why would you not sign a letter? :lame:

But yeah, I would rather opt for blissful ignorance. 🙂
 
TheShaker said:
You don't wanna know. I found out that two of my letters are unsigned and it's been eating at me for weeks. Why would you not sign a letter? :lame:

But yeah, I would rather opt for blissful ignorance. 🙂
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I hope you got that taken care of 😏
I have a feeling most schools won't take your letters

edit: that feel when you see fb pictures of your old classmates attending their medical school orientations
Why couldn't it have been me man :cry:
 
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chillaxbro said:
I hope you got that taken care of 😏
I have a feeling most schools won't take your letters

edit: that feel when you see fb pictures of your old classmates attending their medical school orientations
Why couldn't it have been me man :cry:
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This is why I made every effort to not discuss anything involving medical school with any of my peers this summer. It's just tough. Also, that feel when you're at another grueling day of your gap year job and you think, "this wasn't part of the plan..." 🙁

But we're all gonna make it, each and every one of us. Last year just wasn't our year.
 
Oh god all these secondaries D: It's like a giant spam-fest in my inbox

-Applicant that just got verified
 
TheBossDoctor said:
Oh god all these secondaries D: It's like a giant spam-fest in my inbox

-Applicant that just got verified
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Lol the first few secondaries were exciting to receive..the later waves created a sense of drowning
 
juliebethmarie said:
Just got verified last week, and of course never got around to prewriting. So I'm writing secondaries. Churning them out like a mofo. They sound so sappy. Like, sweet jesus. So sappy. And they're all blurring together. Did I use "truly" or "hopefully" too many times in my essays for this school or not at all yet? Why on earth did I pick this school again--did they have the learning communities or was it the other school?
I've fallen in love with every school I've written about, like some sort of premed floozy.


I'm losing all respect I had for myself as a writer, as it all sounds the same. It's like the farting Twilight series, "I love Edward. I love Edward. Edward is so beautiful. I love Edward." But replace "Edward" with [medical school]. Times twenty.

God help us all.
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THIS. At this point a school goes up a million points in my estimation when they have a question on their secondary which I've already answered for another school. "Great, you want to know how I'm diverse!!!"
 
I feel like giving gifts to all the schools whose secondaries have no essays (or at most, an additional info essay). I've only submitted 15 secondaries during week 1, and I have 20 more to do before hitting that 2-week deadline :scared:
 
TheBossDoctor said:
I feel like giving gifts to all the schools whose secondaries have no essays (or at most, an additional info essay). I've only submitted 15 secondaries during week 1, and I have 20 more to do before hitting that 2-week deadline :scared:
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:bow: :bow: If I completed 15 secondaries I would be done!
 
Is submitting in early September already considered late?
 
I'm getting concerned about not having any interview invites. I was verified on 8/7, sent 11 secondaries on 8/8 and the remaining 12 on 8/13 with a few last week (Drexel and WF). At some schools they haven't marked my application complete (NYMC, Albany and UVM), but at others I've been complete for 2.5-3 weeks.

I guess what worries me is that some people on here have upwards of 5-6, even 7 II's already, and the only activity in my direction is a LOR request from Mayo and the receipt of two secondaries from schools that screen.

Anyone feeling the same way right now? Or is it a bit premature to be worrying at this point?
 
Endure said:
I'm getting concerned about not having any interview invites. I was verified on 8/7, sent 11 secondaries on 8/8 and the remaining 12 on 8/13 with a few last week (Drexel and WF). At some schools they haven't marked my application complete (NYMC, Albany and UVM), but at others I've been complete for 2.5-3 weeks.

I guess what worries me is that some people on here have upwards of 5-6, even 7 II's already, and the only activity in my direction is a LOR request from Mayo and the receipt of two secondaries from schools that screen.

Anyone feeling the same way right now? Or is it a bit premature to be worrying at this point?
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Way to early in the process bro; chill. II's for you are forthcoming.
 
Endure said:
I'm getting concerned about not having any interview invites. I was verified on 8/7, sent 11 secondaries on 8/8 and the remaining 12 on 8/13 with a few last week (Drexel and WF). At some schools they haven't marked my application complete (NYMC, Albany and UVM), but at others I've been complete for 2.5-3 weeks.

I guess what worries me is that some people on here have upwards of 5-6, even 7 II's already, and the only activity in my direction is a LOR request from Mayo and the receipt of two secondaries from schools that screen.

Anyone feeling the same way right now? Or is it a bit premature to be worrying at this point?
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premature but totally understandable. I've learned that applying to med school is just about the worst thing you can do for your self esteem haha but you really haven't been complete very long, I wouldn't worry about it. They will come!
 
Worried about IIs, I finished roughly all of my applications around the middle-end of July and have 3.9 + 40 mcat, yet most of the schools I applied to have already started giving out interviews and many people complete after me are getting invites. If people after you are getting invites and its been about a month since you were complete, is it time to give up hope? Just feels like it is unlikely schools come back to people complete in July as the cycle progresses.
 
TheLastofUs said:
...is it time to give up hope? Just feels like it is unlikely schools come back to people complete in July as the cycle progresses.
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It is not time to give up hope until you get a straight up rejection! This is probably not how it goes at all but I tell the following to myself to make me feel better: at each school there are several app readers who are each given a stack of applications when they have read their last stack. Your adcom is probably just a little behind 😳

I like to imagine a frazzled gray-crazy-haired professor with coffee stains everywhere and an office full of scattered papers, trying to piece together paper application pages that flew apart based on their AMCAS numbers at the top :laugh:
 
chillaxbro said:
I hope you got that taken care of 😏
I have a feeling most schools won't take your letters

edit: that feel when you see fb pictures of your old classmates attending their medical school orientations
Why couldn't it have been me man :cry:
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TheShaker said:
This is why I made every effort to not discuss anything involving medical school with any of my peers this summer. It's just tough. Also, that feel when you're at another grueling day of your gap year job and you think, "this wasn't part of the plan..." 🙁

But we're all gonna make it, each and every one of us. Last year just wasn't our year.
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Hey guys, think of it this way; by this time next year you won't even remember panicking about acceptances.

I can say this much: my gap year definitely has helped with coursework, even though I thought it was a waste of time until about a week ago.
 
psswrd said:
Ahhhh I'm sick of checking the threads and email several times a minute.

I wish this whole process was a bit more active. Like make me do 50 pushups and run a mile everyday for 2 weeks and then i'll get small pooled or something.

There's absolutely nothing I can do during this time between submission and interview invite.
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:laugh::laugh: That's exactly how I feel. Thanks for making me smile.
 
psswrd said:
Glad I amused you. I just got rejected by Starbucks for a job so I'll take anything positive. 😕
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It's OK. I just got rejected from a Princeton Review job to teach MCAT. The reason? I failed the qualifying exam (yea...out of all things). I took the MCAT less than 4 months ago and got a 13 on the section I applied to teach, but I've already forgotten A LOT 👎 Welp



What's also sad is my concept of money now. I always compare everything to the cost of secondaries. I bought a $100 concert ticket the other day and didn't even think twice about it. My thought process? "It's only the price of one secondary; I'm turning in $3,000 secondaries, so what harm is another $100 gonna do?"
 
psswrd said:
Glad I amused you. I just got rejected by Starbucks for a job so I'll take anything positive. 😕
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I was rejected by McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, the Cheesecake Factory, Macy's, and JC Penney's. I didn't even think it was possible to be rejected by McDonald's. :laugh:
 
Cheer up peeps! It's almost September! And you know what that means: It's about...to go...down. Bring on the interview invites!
 
psswrd said:
Glad I amused you. I just got rejected by Starbucks for a job so I'll take anything positive. 😕
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I was also rejected by Starbucks...probably I'm too big of a customer to lose. 😛
 
SilverCat said:
I was rejected by McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, the Cheesecake Factory, Macy's, and JC Penney's. I didn't even think it was possible to be rejected by McDonald's. :laugh:
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You'd be surprised, I was rejected at every fast food place I applied to as well back when I was graduating. I don't know why I put in my resume for those places, it was obvious that they realized I was overqualified (that's what I told myself too 😛 . Money is money though.
 
TheBossDoctor said:
What's also sad is my concept of money now. I always compare everything to the cost of secondaries. I bought a $100 concert ticket the other day and didn't even think twice about it. My thought process? "It's only the price of one secondary; I'm turning in $3,000 secondaries, so what harm is another $100 gonna do?"
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+1
This. This this this.
 
I am late. Horribly, horribly late. People are talking about attending interviews and I just barely submitted my application. I don't even have a good reason to be that tardy. Now all I can do is sit and nibble my nails, waiting to get verified. :scared::scared::scared:
 
milski said:
I am late. Horribly, horribly late. People are talking about attending interviews and I just barely submitted my application. I don't even have a good reason to be that tardy. Now all I can do is sit and nibble my nails, waiting to get verified. :scared::scared::scared:
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I am with you milski. It's one of the worst places to be and there is not much you can do to make yourself feel better. Best thing to do in my opinion is to prewrite secondaries and avoid almost all SDN threads 😛
 
milski said:
I am late. Horribly, horribly late. People are talking about attending interviews and I just barely submitted my application. I don't even have a good reason to be that tardy. Now all I can do is sit and nibble my nails, waiting to get verified. :scared::scared::scared:
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Why would you drop the ball so hard after spending so much time studying for the MCAT and presumably doing very well on it?
 
cybermaxx12 said:
I am with you milski. It's one of the worst places to be and there is not much you can do to make yourself feel better. Best thing to do in my opinion is to prewrite secondaries and avoid almost all SDN threads 😛
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I have not posted a thing or even checked my private messages since AMCAS opened for submissions. 😳

Yes, I think I'll be ready with all the secondaries by the time I get verified. Polishing the PS turned out to take longer than I expected and finding silly typos and mistakes after a full week of re-reading and editing just sucked. Anyway, that's behind me, best of luck to all of us.
 
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