2020 Cycle Waitlist Support Thread

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osamine said:
Trying to figure out a way to not be poor before the next cycle starts :bigtears:
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Gosh this is so real for me. Not the biggest fan of my current gap year job so I'm thinking about finding something else if I need to reapply. Given how nasty the job market is going to be thanks to the pandemic, finding something that pays well enough to fund an application cycle on top of living expenses is gonna be rough.
 
BeingForItself said:
Gosh this is so real for me. Not the biggest fan of my current gap year job so I'm thinking about finding something else if I need to reapply. Given how nasty the job market is going to be thanks to the pandemic, finding something that pays well enough to fund an application cycle on top of living expenses is gonna be rough.
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I'm looking at your signature, and praying to all the Gods and universes out there that someone shows you love. Hang in there, hopefully some good news comes your way (and mine) soon!!
 
I know these next couple of days and weeks will be crazy and stressful for all of us waiting to hear back. It's easier said than done, but stay positive and hopeful! There are so many of us in the same situation. More importantly, there are so many people that are rooting for you and hoping you get in somewhere, including us on this site. This is a dream for all of us, and one way or another, we will achieve it! Everyone has their own path in life, and no matter the result, it will be nice to get some closure as we continue working towards our dreams. I am currently on 3 waitlists, and I'm hoping everyone gets in soon!!!
 
GarlicCat said:
Just found this thread, and it’s so nice to know that other people are going through the same thing as I am right now. I attended 4 interviews and was waitlisted at all of them. Best of luck to everyone these next couple of weeks!! Hoping that many of us will hear some good news!
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With your LizzyM score? Wow, what in the world do the adcoms want? Wishing the best for you!
 
fdizzle12 said:
With your LizzyM score? Wow, what in the world do the adcoms want? Wishing the best for you!
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Thanks, you too!! My ECs are somewhat average, so that is probably what hurt me the most. But at the end of the day, admissions really is a big crapshoot, so who knows!
 
GarlicCat said:
Thanks, you too!! My ECs are somewhat average, so that is probably what hurt me the most. But at the end of the day, admissions really is a big crapshoot, so who knows!
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Stats only get your foot in the door! Also this is just really competitive process its hard to get in!!
 
With April 30th coming up, I wanted to share a few points I try to remind myself with

1- I am NOT defined by this process. I am an intelligent, ambitious individual with a lot to offer regardless of my candidacy status within a specific school.
2- I will keep only positive thoughts until I hear the decision
3- I will keep up with my physical and mental health to the best of my ability during this process
4- In the event that I do get an R, I already have a plan on what I will do, so I will not be trying to navigate post-rejection with all those emotions

Pleaseeeee stay well everyone. I am thinking of all of you. Wishing you all the best.
 
wcpremed said:
With April 30th coming up, I wanted to share a few points I try to remind myself with

1- I am NOT defined by this process. I am an intelligent, ambitious individual with a lot to offer regardless of my candidacy status within a specific school.
2- I will keep only positive thoughts until I hear the decision
3- I will keep up with my physical and mental health to the best of my ability during this process
4- In the event that I do get an R, I already have a plan on what I will do, so I will not be trying to navigate post-rejection with all those emotions

Pleaseeeee stay well everyone. I am thinking of all of you. Wishing you all the best.
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Just want to add to this and say that the fact that we even got interviews means something!! We're all good candidates who can get into medical school eventually, whether it's this year or another year.
 
GarlicCat said:
Just want to add to this and say that the fact that we even got interviews means something!! We're all good candidates who can get into medical school eventually, whether it's this year or another year.
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Yes absolutely! Great point! I remember the days I was just wishing for one interview!
 
wcpremed said:
With April 30th coming up, I wanted to share a few points I try to remind myself with

1- I am NOT defined by this process. I am an intelligent, ambitious individual with a lot to offer regardless of my candidacy status within a specific school.
2- I will keep only positive thoughts until I hear the decision
3- I will keep up with my physical and mental health to the best of my ability during this process
4- In the event that I do get an R, I already have a plan on what I will do, so I will not be trying to navigate post-rejection with all those emotions

Pleaseeeee stay well everyone. I am thinking of all of you. Wishing you all the best.
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Also one more thing. When I was waitlisted at a few schools many of them said something along the lines of: You have met all of the qualifications to be a matriculant at our school we just have so many competitive applicants. Being waitlisted, while frustrating, means that a medical school has deemed that you would be a successful student at their school. Remember that!!
 
Talldoctor96 said:
Also one more thing. When I was waitlisted at a few schools many of them said something along the lines of: You have met all of the qualifications to be a matriculant at our school we just have so many competitive applicants. Being waitlisted, while frustrating, means that a medical school has deemed that you would be a successful student at their school. Remember that!!
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Love it. Thank you for this reminder! Please keep these thoughts in mind everyone!
 
How are you guys dealing with the possibility of having to reapply? I plan on starting my new app next week when it opens but I'm just sad at the prospect of reapplying. Im currently on 3 WL and haven't heard back from 1 school and I'm trying to remain hopeful for an A soon.
 
nichma said:
How are you guys dealing with the possibility of having to reapply? I plan on starting my new app next week when it opens but I'm just sad at the prospect of reapplying. Im currently on 3 WL and haven't heard back from 1 school and I'm trying to remain hopeful for an A soon.
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Just remember that you’ve had an extra year to develop your app, and you will be even more competitive this time around. You’ll get to experience the excitement of getting IIs all over again, and hopefully at some new schools that wouldn’t have interviewed you before! Plus, you’ll be one step ahead of other interviewees bc you’ve already done this before
 
nichma said:
How are you guys dealing with the possibility of having to reapply? I plan on starting my new app next week when it opens but I'm just sad at the prospect of reapplying. Im currently on 3 WL and haven't heard back from 1 school and I'm trying to remain hopeful for an A soon.
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On May 1st I assumed I was not going to be accepted last cycle and began to prepare to re-apply. You have 1 more year under your belt and an ability to really transform your application. I re-wrote everything from my PS, to new activities and new most meaningful. I asked my LOR writers to update my letters and I actually pre-wrote my secondaries. I applied to my DO schools first since that application comes out sooner. I submitted a DO app at NSU on the first possible day, received a II in july and interviewed on August 13th. I was accepted to DO school on August 28th. I believe I was the first wave of med school acceptances in the country for my second cycle.

My second cycle has been successful because I applied early, rewrote everyting, pre-wrote secondaries and completely revamped my app. Now is the time that you should assume you didn't get in and switch your approach to re-applying. If you do get in (and theres a good chance you will) HOORAYYYY.

But let me just saying knowing I was accepted to med school in august of my second cycle literally gave me so much confidence going into my MD interviews this cycle.
 
the way i look at it is if we aren’t accepted this time around from our waitlists, we were meant for something greater. with an extra year to build up our resumes even more, maybe boost gpa or mcat, etc., we will be qualified for even better programs than where we applied for this year! what’s meant to happen will happen so maybe that just means we were meant for higher tier schools next time around
 
wcpremed said:
With April 30th coming up, I wanted to share a few points I try to remind myself with

1- I am NOT defined by this process. I am an intelligent, ambitious individual with a lot to offer regardless of my candidacy status within a specific school.
2- I will keep only positive thoughts until I hear the decision
3- I will keep up with my physical and mental health to the best of my ability during this process
4- In the event that I do get an R, I already have a plan on what I will do, so I will not be trying to navigate post-rejection with all those emotions

Pleaseeeee stay well everyone. I am thinking of all of you. Wishing you all the best.
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This made my day ! Thank you for this motivation and for these words . I’m going to try to remind myself this as well as the days get closer to April 30th . We are definitely not defined by this process ! And should take care of our mental and physical health during this time . The medical school process is so stressful , sometimes we get lost in the whole gist of things. It’s so important to step back and remind ourselves of these things. Thank you for posting


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BrokeButHopeful said:
the way i look at it is if we aren’t accepted this time around from our waitlists, we were meant for something greater. with an extra year to build up our resumes even more, maybe boost gpa or mcat, etc., we will be qualified for even better programs than where we applied for this year! what’s meant to happen will happen so maybe that just means we were meant for higher tier schools next time around
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My options as a re-applicant blew out of the water the options I had last year. I view my re-applicant year as a blessing, as I am going to my dream school. One that HARD PREII R'd me last year.
 
Talldoctor96 said:
My options as a re-applicant blew out of the water the options I had last year. I view my re-applicant year as a blessing, as I am going to my dream school. One that HARD PREII R'd me last year.
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What all did you do to improve in such a short time frame if you don’t mind me asking? Would you say it was mostly reworking your app or new experiences/better scores?
 
MindMed_123_A said:
This made my day ! Thank you for this motivation and for these words . I’m going to try to remind myself this as well as the days get closer to April 30th . We are definitely not defined by this process ! And should take care of our mental and physical health during this time . The medical school process is so stressful , sometimes we get lost in the whole gist of things. It’s so important to step back and remind ourselves of these things. Thank you for posting


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You're very welcome. Your reply made my day. Thank you for your reminder!
 
LiveLoveLaugh4444 said:
What all did you do to improve in such a short time frame if you don’t mind me asking? Would you say it was mostly reworking your app or new experiences/better scores?
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Great question-- I did ALOT during my gap year because I knew I was a low stat applicant that I might have to reapply. Basically I rewrote EVERYTHING did a lot more reflection in my essays and added/reorganized a lot of activities. You need a good answer to what you have done to change since last cycle and mine focused on the new clinical, volunteer and research opportunities I had undertaken.

The thing I cant emphasize enough is BE EARLY. EARLY EARLY EARLY it make such a difference. this cycle i got a II, my first one, at drexel in mid august and that was my most reach school based on my stats. pre-write your secondaries and be early!!!

Also I called every school I applied to asking for an evaluation of my app from an admissions officer. EVMS and VTECH said yes and did awesome ones but I was IS for them. I did the same thing and Loyola said yes. I went through my app in detail with someone on the phone turns out they were the director of admissions! She remembered me by name on interview day and was the person to call me to let me know I got in. Little stuff like that can make a difference. The one big thing I learned is have some hobbies in your activities!!! Every person I talked to said I needed to show more of who I was. I talked about coaching and my love for cooking and i talked about it at almost every itnerview! Don't be afraid to show off you who you are and give ur app personality.
 
Talldoctor96 said:
Great question-- I did ALOT during my gap year because I knew I was a low stat applicant that I might have to reapply. Basically I rewrote EVERYTHING did a lot more reflection in my essays and added/reorganized a lot of activities. You need a good answer to what you have done to change since last cycle and mine focused on the new clinical, volunteer and research opportunities I had undertaken.

The thing I cant emphasize enough is BE EARLY. EARLY EARLY EARLY it make such a difference. this cycle i got a II, my first one, at drexel in mid august and that was my most reach school based on my stats. pre-write your secondaries and be early!!!

Also I called every school I applied to asking for an evaluation of my app from an admissions officer. EVMS and VTECH said yes and did awesome ones but I was IS for them. I did the same thing and Loyola said yes. I went through my app in detail with someone on the phone turns out they were the director of admissions! She remembered me by name on interview day and was the person to call me to let me know I got in. Little stuff like that can make a difference. The one big thing I learned is have some hobbies in your activities!!! Every person I talked to said I needed to show more of who I was. I talked about coaching and my love for cooking and i talked about it at almost every itnerview! Don't be afraid to show off you who you are and give ur app personality.
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Thank you so much for such a detailed response! Congratulations on all your success!!!
 
Got my first MD acceptance today from a waitlist! I was so sure that I'd have to wait till May at the earliest. I got WL'ed at almost every MD school I interviewed at (5/6), so I was honestly starting to expect the worst. Keep your heads up guys!
 
enchantments said:
Got my first MD acceptance today from a waitlist! I was so sure that I'd have to wait till May at the earliest. I got WL'ed at almost every MD school I interviewed at (5/6), so I was honestly starting to expect the worst. Keep your heads up guys!
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Congrats! What school??
 
Just came here to share that I was recently accepted off the waitlist at my top choice school! This is my second year applying and I wanted to echo everything that was said above that reapplying is not the end of the world and can truly be a blessing in disguise. My first cycle I had two interviews that resulted in two waitlists and no acceptances. This year, I completely revamped my application and got a new job that I was actually excited about. I was lucky enough to get 5 MD interviews and 2 DO interviews this cycle but again was waitlisted at ALL programs. I was already preparing for my next steps when the acceptance e-mail came through 🙂 I know how frustrating it is to be on the waitlist (I have officially sat on 9 lol) but it is so worth it once you're finally accepted. Everyone keep your heads up! There is a light at the end of this tunnel. Good luck to everyone in May!
 
premed1245 said:
Just came here to share that I was recently accepted off the waitlist at my top choice school! This is my second year applying and I wanted to echo everything that was said above that reapplying is not the end of the world and can truly be a blessing in disguise. My first cycle I had two interviews that resulted in two waitlists and no acceptances. This year, I completely revamped my application and got a new job that I was actually excited about. I was lucky enough to get 5 MD interviews and 2 DO interviews this cycle but again was waitlisted at ALL programs. I was already preparing for my next steps when the acceptance e-mail came through 🙂 I know how frustrating it is to be on the waitlist (I have officially sat on 9 lol) but it is so worth it once you're finally accepted. Everyone keep your heads up! There is a light at the end of this tunnel. Good luck to everyone in May!
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Congrats! Did you hear back today?
 
How are you all navigating volunteering/clinical experiences/job searches in preparation for re-applying in the midst of covid-19?
 
Quick question, would it be too late to send in update letters? I sent one in mid March which was LOI/update but I was wondering if doing one now right before Waitlist movement would help in anyway. The only new development since my last letter is some virtual volunteering in covid research through my employer (university).
 
expressojoe said:
Quick question, would it be too late to send in update letters? I sent one in mid March which was LOI/update but I was wondering if doing one now right before Waitlist movement would help in anyway. The only new development since my last letter is some virtual volunteering in covid research through my employer (university).
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you have nothing to lose send it now
 
do y'all think the movement on/around April 30th will apply for people who interviewed in late February? I'm on the high priority waitlist for one school but I have absolutely no idea how many people are on it
 
painfullytired said:
do y'all think the movement on/around April 30th will apply for people who interviewed in late February? I'm on the high priority waitlist for one school but I have absolutely no idea how many people are on it
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The overarching answer to this is that it is very school specific, but anecdotally I saw someone at one of my schools I’m waitlisted at who interviewed in feb/March, got waitlisted and then got an acceptance call later that day. My personal opinion is that it’s totally random tho
 
Anyone else waitlisted rn and struggling hardcore with re-vamping your personal statement for reapplication? I loved my personal statement the first time around so I don't know how I'd even change it. With TX apps opening on freaking FRIDAY, I'm freaking out trying to re-write everything on a time constraint. Are y'all significantly changing your PS? Any advice?
 
ChooChooTrain51 said:
Anyone else waitlisted rn and struggling hardcore with re-vamping your personal statement for reapplication? I loved my personal statement the first time around so I don't know how I'd even change it. With TX apps opening on freaking FRIDAY, I'm freaking out trying to re-write everything on a time constraint. Are y'all significantly changing your PS? Any advice?
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Same position here. I have a few ideas of how to change up my ps but really liked how it turned out for this cycle. Im personally going to wait for another week to week and a half before I start to rewrite. I think I'll keep the main theme of the ps but probably change some of the supporting details/examples I used
 
really? Thats interesting! But is this only possible to see the school pop up on Choose your medical school tool, if you already have access to it previously? or does the tab for choose your medical school pop up?
 
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