What about the schools that have had no movement at all so far and have said that they will look at the waitlist in June? Do schools like this usually have less movement overall?
Waitlist movement starts at a school when excess seats are depleted. It generally continues until school starts, though the offers tend to slow over time. If a school has miscalculated the number needed to fill and is still hoping to deplete excess, there may be no waitlist movement at all.
the line is even thinner for us waitlisted folks.. literally A feels so close
If you want to call it that. It's not nearly as big as what happened around 4/30, since it won't involve literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people simultaneously dropping multiple As.
Believe me, it's not that they are sitting on vacant seats and just taking their sweet time. It's that they are fully enrolled, or even over enrolled, but they are telling you to sit tight because they know from past experience that movement can still occur if they lose people to other WLs.
Wow. So sorry.
It’s ok I had a few A’s... edit - can’t afford them tho
I think you should be aware that many med students cannot afford the tuition, which is why med school loan exists
I was advised to do something similar by a medical school dean and decided to go through with it. I added a new letter from a clinical volunteering director that I did not previously have a letter from and sent it to two t20 schools. I don't know how much impact it really had, but I was accepted off of the waitlist at both schools that I sent it to. I'd check with the school's policy about post-interview communication and updates, both schools I sent it to welcomed post-interview communication. Also, remember n=1, someone else might have done the same thing and not have gotten off of the waitlist.
Will they be notified of the LOR? Or would it be more direct to send it to one of their emails
In my personal opinion if you got a 510 and your knowledge base is still strong I'd take a FL and gauge where I am. For me I started studying a month ago and my mcat is in a month. I've been scoring 507-508 on Altius and aiming for 515.
Appreciate you for thinking that my knowledge base is strong 🥲🥲🥲 u guys r my source of ✨strength✨. Anyway, thank you for the solid advice, I will look into Altius!
I was in the same boat! I was forced to study in 3 weeks full time though due to $$ concerns. I think hammering in the AAMC official stuff is most important and efficient. They tend to repeat themselves, as I saw on my exam. Ended up hitting ur score criterion
I personally liked NextStep/Blueprint the best out of all the ones I tried. I felt like the questions were most similar to the real ones I encountered.
I went from 510 to 520 on practice exams in about 8 weeks using AAMC material and drilling some content I wasn't as strong on in my Princeton science workbook
Yeah same the low scores freaked me out a lot haha
What did you email them??
Yes, it is verrrrrry subjective! 🙂 It totally depends on you, where you are starting from, and how quickly and efficiently you can go. No one can know whether 3 months will be too much, too little, or just right for you. You'll know when you start, see where are you, and see how quickly and by how much you are improving.
Agree with what many people said on that it's very subjective
Bro r u me?? We have like the same stats... im still very demoralized and am having a hard time coming to terms with reapp. My app got a little bit better but I didn’t really pick up much nonclinical volunteering which may hurt me.. idk its still rlly hard for me to break out of my funk. I walk around all day moping and hoping for an acceptance to end my misery. Ik its unhealthy but i cant help it
When I applied last cycle, I was figuring things out on the fly and improvising. Like, I didn’t know **** about primaries, secondaries, interviews all of that... all while preparing for my MCAT (which I took in June of last year) and finishing up my undergrad thesis etc. remotely. It was a lot. Like I didn’t even know if I was gonna have a good enough MCAT to apply!! And I still managed to do it! I think of the ways I’ve really grown this year in terms of the app but also otherwise. I moved back home due to COVID disrupting our dorms, managed to live with my toxic ass parents, and set a workout routine which I basically never had in undergrad. While I’m obviously sad I couldn’t get in, I realize that I’m in a MUCH BETTER position this time around. I’ve gained a lot of knowledge about this process along the way which I never had last year. I’ve identified potential areas of weakness like perhaps not having a strong enough “narrative” or story in my PS, or perhaps not coming off as personable in my interviews. I’m researching alternate careers. I’ve been thinking of writing the LSAT because law school doesn’t have interviews 😂😂 and I can try to pass off my hard science degree as an interest in patent law LMAO. I decided to cut my losses and get excited for the future and get working once again — no matter how demoralized I had been feeling! Imma just hold off on putting any schools on my AMCAS until July 1 though because still holding out that tiny sliver of hope and don’t want to spend another 3 thousand dollars if I don’t have to 🤣
Now that it's the end of May, to try to channel your energy into something healthy, I'd reach out to every school that sent me a R to see if they'd be willing to share feedback, and to every WL to see if they'd be willing to share visibility. I'd also focus on CTE deadlines, because those really will be indicative of realistic final-final deadlines for WL movement at your schools. Working on a reapp will also distract you, even if you don't file it until you know it is necessary.
Agreed. The reaching out to WLs to seek visibility referred to visibility on chances of being called off WL, not feedback on weaknesses in application.
Thank you! can I ask if you went through amcas or had your recommender send it right to the school or both? I dont want to submit it myself because I dont want to seem sketchy but I want to make sure they see it
Some of the strongest med students at know at tippy top Med schools needed to reapply or got in off WL last min! Don’t give up hope!
Yes!
How could we go about asking about visibility?
2 months before step1 ull get the call to quickly study for step and ull be admitted...
I dunno. Maybe say that as Memorial Day approaches you are hoping they might see their way clear to giving you a realistic appraisal of your chances of being called off the WL so you can meet external deadlines to make a decision regarding your plans for the upcoming year? They'll probably tell you to sit tight if they haven't told you anything so far, but, maybe a kind soul will show you some mercy and give you a peek into where you stand. It's certainly not unreasonable to ask.
