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EBM doesnt mean adverse outcomes dont occur. It just means it gives the best shot at a good outcome. There are also instances when information is limited, like responding to a code, john doe situation unusual anatomy etc where the above saying could also apply. You are expected to do the best you can with the information and the evidence you do have.
Welcome. I too have no interviews.
There is something wrong with your app or your school selection. I have the exact same LizzyM and am doing ok.
I sent in 31 MD secondaries, complete between Aug 22nd and Sept 10th.
I was complete a little before you. My app is objectively worse than you. You will be fine. Stick with the turkey rule and you should be fine.
Mine is a 62-63! Just keep on keeping on 🙂
It is funny that you looked up my lIzzyM and didnt read his first post in this thread.his is nearly identical. Ergo my advice to critically look at the app or school selection and apply the turkey day rule for him. Refraining from freaking out untill late November would be ideal but he created the whole thread.
But he also was complete 3-4 weeks ago. You can't apply your anecdotal evidence to his app, especially since he was complete later. There are people complete earlier than him with better LizzyM that have no IIs too. Nobody knows whether or not one Monday morning he might get 3 IIs all at once. Saying something is wrong with his app is pretty presumptuous.
Yes I made that mistake. I assumed he was complete earlier. I also have kept referring to the turkey rule so there is that.
I would literally die.
#underdog - My MCAT is less than the 10% at every school I applied to (and all MD schools).
Would you say it's normal for applicants like me to have no interviews at this point?
Turkey rule! ask after november.
I do feel inadequate when I see LizzyM's greater than 75 so this must be true.
But it is seriously delusional, needing to score in the 95th percentile of the MCAT to even feel adequate after having a 4.0. Just shows how warped things get on here.
Not sure if you actually haven't seen my stats yet in this thread. I have a 3.47 and 520, and I was complete at 31 MD schools between Aug. 22nd and Sept. 10.
How did your essays turn out?
Ok I guess? They flow and work well from a literary standpoint. They're nothing earthshattering because I'm not earthshattering.
Nah PS is probably right under EC's in terms of value. Secondaries are probably right under PS.
My ranges are arbitrary and not scientific. Based them on three points being a standard deviation for matriculants on the mcat.
I feel like if your essays are good they add no value. If they're bad then you're auto-rejected.
You only need one interview to get into medical school!
Your icon picture, just followed up with what that fool is doing now, i.e. attempted fraud at a car dealership
tfw I am actually an underdog despite everyone's protests in the thread
Now what? did all your other schools reject you? If not, then you're still an ok applicant with decent numbers
Ha, so much conjecture in threads, I must've missed where someone possessed the empirical evidence that characterizes someone as an "underdog"...
That is the thing, I dont mind listening to him and offering support. The problem is when every thread becomes a "Look at me, I am doomed" It gets old.
Dude I'm not acting superior. I just started filling out my AACOMAS. Also I haven't posted in this thread in like 2 weeks
