I understand your sentiment. I thought I had all the right elements and well written essays and all that, but part of it does have to do with randomness. Schools are shifting through 5 to 10 thousand applications when they are looking for like 100, so decent application getting looked over is easily plausible
This really summed up the process quite nicely. From the conversations I had with physicians and students who serve on the admission committee, this process is ultimately not fair at all. There are so many factors that come into play. This is why just getting accepted into A medical school is such an impressive accomplishment in the United States. In other parts of the world , it is mostly a merit system (if you have the numbers, then you are automatically in). In the U.S, the idea of "holistic" admissions works in the favor of some applicants and not in the favors of others. I think the goal of your application is to stand out as much as possible. Pursue a cool hobby. Have a unique clinical EC schools have never seen before. These are things that will make you stand out in a crowd of thousands of applicants.
Does eating lot of extra rough wheat bread help get lot of acceptances? If so, I would like to try.
️Just to piggie back off this, what are you guys doing about Casper? Are you guys scheduling it now as well?
I’m just scared that it’ll be less last minute and more on the nonexistent/limited side
Wayne state again? I have only seen people got pulled out from Wayne state in this thread... 🙁
Haha yes! Warrior MD!!
I can only say it's sluggish on the west coast. Even very nice schools on the east coast are moving.
Why wouldn’t you apply to DO schools also along with MD schools?
From what you’ve seen would you say there is more promise for WL movement this year as compared to last year? And if there’s movement on the east coast shouldn’t that have a trickle down effect to some west coast schools?
To add to this, many DO schools have a preference (for a few, I think it’s required) for one of your letters of rec to be written by a DO if you happen to shadow/work in a clinical setting. It’s more of a general rule though, since you can get accepted without DO-written letters (I got DO acceptances with two MD-written letters, though there could have been confounding variables). Something to keep in mind.
It’s important to apply to both DO and MD. I rather go to DO school than a carribean school if US MD schools doesn’t pick you. That’s just my opinion. Good luck.
From here, it appears almost identical to last year except that the over-acceptance that happened at one school seems to have been avoided.
There were a few but one was exceptional.
I heard from one medical school that there have been a lot of students deferring or declining their acceptance due to the corona virus. Would you say that is true?
I heard the same thing from a faculty of one medical school too!
That has not been our experience.
www.medpagetoday.com
I highly doubt that because getting into med school is a lifetime accomplishment so not sure who would give up that opportunity lol. But that’s just my opinion.
I’m just repeating what admissions personnel told me. If they are deffering to next year they are not technically losing there career.
