please dont be ashamed for how your responding to this. this process SUCKS. I had a breakdown earlier today and oddly the tears made me feel a little better. I really hope you get off a WL. just know you aren't alone in this, I truly hope we hear good news soon
I’m cackling over this but only because I feel it on a spiritual level 🤣 I keep telling myself it’s still early in WL movement but dang it gets rough sometimes
It won't hurt
depends entirely on the school
haha our time will come!
Unfortunately, we are stuck in this prison of expectation and discontentment until we either find something worthwhile to accomplish or the A. Focusing on the former has been my way of coping, because I think doing just that would prevent me from leading a life where my sole existence is reduced to just being a doctor. I‘m not going to lie but that taking this step feels like I have accepted my uncertain*(very conflicting I know) defeat from this cycle, but at least I am finding contentment from my progression in other aspects of my life which doesn‘t have to be career related. Do you have a goal just for yourself that you have been dying to achieve? Relationships? A second career or hustle? There is always more that we could do, but sometime not more that we could do for a particular area. And it is ok to relapse into sadness, I do it too…
Sit at a cafe near the beach and enjoy a cold cup of coffee with no Internet or phone.
I’ve been really focusing on fitness and playing around w recipes (I do the cooking for my family). It helps but I’ve accepted that my mind will never fully be distracted from the cycle
Channeling all my rage and sadness into becoming a muscle mommy
binge shop online with money i dont have
I can't get started on my PS because I am taking an accelerated EMT course right now, going through 10-12 chapters per week. I'm planning on starting late-May when the course ends. The content, motivations, ideas will be similar but the examples and structure will be changed up as I garnered new experiences and learned more. Letters of recommendation will be tricky, try to get at least 3 in by June. Keep sending follow-ups every week. I plan to add one from the EMT course and one from my job this past year.
u can email asking if its ok. some may say no because a LOR is usually for beginning of app cycle.
I feel you, I am actually in a pretty dang similar boat. 4.0/521 with 5 Interviews that became 3 WL. Funny enough my top choice is also among those 3. Statistically, I don't think our odds are that bad, but the dread is real. You're not alone. There are others just like us struggling through this process. We'll pull through.
The new Zelda comes out this coming Friday. I've always been hyped for that and I'm sure it'll take up a lot of my time once it drops but as with many here, I don't think I would enjoy it as much because of this whole process. The dread will be in the back of my mind even when I'm playing peak.
No one knows. Most schools technically keep their WL open until school starts but we all know that the chance of getting off gets slimmer as time progresses.
yea my professors have been MIA too! I was super cool w one tho so when he didn't answer my email I shot him a text. For some reason reaching out to my letter writers is making the prospect of reapplying so much more real than doing the actual application did?? its odd. I pretty much completed my reapp in January LMAO bc I had ZERO faith I'd get any interviews and ended up getting mine (2) between a week-month later. I reached out to old letter writers arund the time too so I don't feel as bad now that I've been a little more pushy.
same here. i'm wrapping up final exams, and i also need to start packing up soon to move home after graduation (literally across the country).
Haha, score twinsies. 3.93/521 and 2 interviews to 2 waitlists. On a side note, if I don't get in this year, I plan to shoot for a 2025 fall admittance. I took my MCAT in August of 2022. Does anyone here know if it'll still be good for that cycle?
It is a crime that someone with your and “True Asian”’s caliber have to wait this long for an acceptance. It is inexcusable and it pains me. I hope you both get off your waitlists this cycle. Our patient population needs smart people like you. It will be their loss to miss out on you both.
Thank you so much for the document! It's a lot of piece of mind to know I probably won't need to retake it. It hurts, but I know why I probably didn't get in this year. My volunteer and shadowing hours got shot because of covid (I'm a trad applicant at an out of state schools, so the combination of restrictions, my major and being away from school really cut into my ability to do stuff), and I was late applicant in the cycle from a combination of bad advisor advice and personal issues. There are definitely people who have more patient and personal experience who deserve the A first... but like, I still want it.
I think the very first and easiest thing they need to do is set some strict guidelines on communicating information to applicants. A very simple monthly update from each school on how and where their process is would be great.
Every school is different so it would be difficult if not impossible to have AAMC conduct the interviews and scores rather than the faculty and students (the actual stakeholders that will have to deal with the applicants they admitted). Also, I don't see how writing the essays in a proctored environment helps with anything as they're supposed to be reflective of your experience and not a test so you're supposed to take your time writing it and it would be unfair to make it otherwise.
I would never trust the AAMC to share our values.
On a Sunday?
Yes! Dean emailed me directly. I was shooketh
