I think you might be confusing college apps vs med school apps. I don't think any med school is getting 50-60k apps...
They're talking about 50-60k total apps to medical school in a single cycle
There were just over 55,000 applicants to US Med schools in 2022.
According to MSAR, last year there were 7268 total apps, 727 interviewed. Van's website says they receive on avg ~6200 applications yearly, and they expect to send ~600 interviews this year. But they also say they would start sending IIs in mid-July, apparently, it hasn't happened yet.
Where are you watching the tracker?
Yeah, this year they didn't send secondaries until when, July 26?
They say online "the earliest date date to be invited to interview" is July 31st, not necessarily that they'd start going out by then.
Update: I hath now received secondary
medschool.vanderbilt.edu
Nobody according to the tracker online: Welcome to MD Admissions
I was just looking at this. Last year it looks like IIs went out around the 3rd week of August, which was about 4 weeks after the first secondaries were sent out. They sent the first secondaries out around July 27th this year, so while we may see IIs in the next week or two, it's also possible that we won't see any until early September.
Bro it ain't even a question. We already knows he's caught another dub@toastedbutter are you one of the five bro
I said that like 4 days ago when there were no interview invites that had gone out at the time according to the tracker?
I swear this guy has like 15 interviews so far haha. Legend@toastedbutter are you one of the five bro
That is awesome. You were among the 5?
Do it
??? They clearly said they are not.
Respectfully disagreed. It’s “how did you first become interested”, for which a why us could easily fit the prompt with some slight modification.
Agree. You can start off your essay with your initial interest in the program then expand to show why you have continued interest. If you have strong ties, then you can incorporate those but modifying a “why us” essay should not hurt you.
True, I didn't think of it in that broader sense
No. Their official policy is that primaries are under constant review for a secondary throughout the cycle. If you don’t get a secondary you won’t find out until you receive a formal rejection later in the cycle.
It looks like people got them through mid September last year? (Also, highly recommend looking at CycleTrack.org for tracking apps and seeing what happened in past years!)
Haha nah man, plenty of schools have skipped over me so far (12 from my list if you want to be exact). This is just a product of luck and submitted 2's early. Your time is coming!
Thanks bro! You too
not skipped, ur secondaries are marinating in their inbox my boy
idk i wasn't the best at statistics, but something tells me that the data supports the rejection of this null hypothesis. this supports the alternative hypothesis that you are just built differently.
Let's goooo toasted! Fully opened this thread knowing that I would see your name here too🤩
Nah they’re either sending one later or know you’re going somewhere better and yield protecting.
