3.0-3.3, 33+ Interview Invite thread

[ashbrant]

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3.36 UGPA, 3.07 BCPM, 27P(2003)/ 33P(2005) 3.84 GGPA... 3 interviews, 2 acceptance, will find out about the third on a few weeks. Two rejections, one hold, silence from 9 schools.

 

[LoveBeatles]

Wow! That's amazing! (in response to the post above)..

I just hope that I'll hear soon!

 

[themule]

Wow! That's amazing! (in response to the post above)..

I just hope that I'll hear soon!

LB maybe I missed it but what's your stats?

TM

 

[LoveBeatles]

BCPM 2.82
CGPA 3.00
MCAT 33

LOTs of EC's
and good rec's

Dual bachelor degree

BUT...yeah..I guess my low GPA is really holding me back
(applied to about 40 schools + DO schools)

 

[superfan56]

i don't have a 33+ mcat, but I have an interview at drexel next week...🙂

 

[xogh]

3.25 BCPM, 3.53 CGPA, 33Q, 1 interview and acceptance, 1 rejection, 1 hold, 11 I haven't heard anything from

 

[ask1andy]

3.37 GPA, 39R (P:12V:13B:14). One rejection, two interviews, nothing from 5 schools. I'll keep you guys posted.

 

[drizzt3117]

3.37 GPA, 39R (P:12V:13B:14). One rejection, two interviews, nothing from 5 schools. I'll keep you guys posted.

Only 8 schools? Hopefully they weren't all in CA.

 

[ask1andy]

Only 8 schools? Hopefully they weren't all in CA.

Nope... just two in Texas (Res.) and the rest way out of my league. I may be reapplying next year. We will see.

 

[Maxprime]

interviews++ 🙂

Case interview - just found out. Go people with screwy stats!

 

[drizzt3117]

interviews++ 🙂

Case interview - just found out. Go people with screwy stats!

I told you they were one of the schools that favored the MCAT 🙂

 

[Maxprime]

I told you they were one of the schools that favored the MCAT 🙂

You, sir/madam, are indeed a genius. If we ever cross paths, drinks are on me.

 

[adamMD]

Nope... just two in Texas (Res.) and the rest way out of my league. I may be reapplying next year. We will see.

Why did you only apply to 2 in Texas? As a resident, they are your best chance. No offense but that was dumb.

 

[drizzt3117]

You, sir/madam, are indeed a genius. If we ever cross paths, drinks are on me.

Sounds good, if you get an interview from Keck, which is another school on the high MCAT emphasis list, I'll definitely take you up on that offer 🙂

CW is an awesome school, I think you'll like it! When are you interviewing?

 

[ask1andy]

Why did you only apply to 2 in Texas? As a resident, they are your best chance. No offense but that was dumb.

I realize that this is the common perspective. You have a valid point. Ask yourself this, why would I apply to schools that I have no desire to attend? Spending the money and the time that it takes to interview at all 7 of the Texas schools when I only want to attend 2 is in my opinion a waste of time and money. I do not want to cheapen my medical school experience by compromising on its location.

I know that with my GPA and MCAT that I may not get into the schools that I want the first time around, but its just another year. That is another year to relax before I bust butt for the rest of my life. I know people that have been accepted to the schools to which I applied that have much lower stats that me. It took some of them several tries to get it right, just as it may take me more than one attempt. I have examined the benefits and the cost of applying to less Texas schools and have made an informed decision not to apply to all of them. We will see. Like I said, I will keep you guys posted.

 

[Maxprime]

Sounds good, if you get an interview from Keck, which is another school on the high MCAT emphasis list, I'll definitely take you up on that offer 🙂

CW is an awesome school, I think you'll like it! When are you interviewing?

I wasn't planning on finishing my secondary @ Keck - but now I just may. I saw 2000 OOS applicants and 43 matriculants and was put off a bit. I also remember it being loooong, but I think I may finish it solely on your wisdom - so far you're 1/1.

I have to call & schedule it - I absolutely love CW - such a wonderful school. I'm really excited about the interview.

 

[drizzt3117]

I wasn't planning on finishing my secondary @ Keck - but now I just may. I saw 2000 OOS applicants and 43 matriculants and was put off a bit. I also remember it being loooong, but I think I may finish it solely on your wisdom - so far you're 1/1.

I have to call & schedule it - I absolutely love CW - such a wonderful school. I'm really excited about the interview.

USC is a great school, it's just really expensive and they don't offer merit based scholarships. Its one of my top choices, and would be the most convenient school for me to attend b/c I already work there heh.

 

[MDRus]

USC is a great school, it's just really expensive and they don't offer merit based scholarships. Its one of my top choices, and would be the most convenient school for me to attend b/c I already work there heh.

gotta love the drizz!!

why did you withdraw from so many schools?

 

[drizzt3117]

gotta love the drizz!!

why did you withdraw from so many schools?

I withdrew from those schools b/c I would rather go to UW over any of the ones on that list... It was one of my top five schools even before I visited for a number of reasons (Madison is my hometown, I own a house there, it would be relatively inexpensive to attend, and is a great school with incredible opportunities) and I liked it even more after visiting. I figure since I've spent the money, I'll see what happens with the rest of the process but I would be thrilled to attend UW.

 

[MDRus]

I withdrew from those schools b/c I would rather go to UW over any of the ones on that list... It was one of my top five schools even before I visited for a number of reasons (Madison is my hometown, I own a house there, it would be relatively inexpensive to attend, and is a great school with incredible opportunities) and I liked it even more after visiting. I figure since I've spent the money, I'll see what happens with the rest of the process but I would be thrilled to attend UW.

makes sense. you are very lucky to be in that position so early in the process. congrats to you!!!

 

[drizzt3117]

makes sense. you are very lucky to be in that position so early in the process. congrats to you!!!

Thanks 🙂 It definitely takes a lot of the stress out of the process. Now I can wait and see what happens. I think a lot of us will be pleasantly surprised with what the future brings by June or so, though! Did you interview at Yale already?

 

[PatchesNBrownie]

3.2 Overall, 3.3 Science, 34N, Top 10 undergrad, BME major. 6 rejections, bunch of holds, no interviews.

3.36 UGPA, 3.07 BCPM, 27P(2003)/ 33P(2005) 3.84 GGPA... 3 interviews, 2 acceptance, will find out about the third on a few weeks. Two rejections, one hold, silence from 9 schools.

Have you heard anything from anyone yet? Your application package sounds really good!! 😕

 

[Saregamapadanis]

MAN!
3.17 gpa and a 35 mcat. I got interviews and acceptances from DO schools but not MD. MD schools... where is the love?🙁

Give a fella a chance is all I ask.

 

[xanthomondo]

MAN!
3.17 gpa and a 35 mcat. I got interviews and acceptances from DO schools but not MD. MD schools... where is the love?🙁

Give a fella a chance is all I ask.

3.6/33 here, still not hearing much from any school except for 1 interview and 1 rejection (complete at 8 others)

 

[Saregamapadanis]

3.6/33 here, still not hearing much from any school except for 1 interview and 1 rejection (complete at 8 others)

yea man, and the rest of my application is great too. Research, volunteering, work experience, community service, travelling abroad. I guess now I regret working at 2 part-time jobs and those extracurricular activities. If only I had a decent 3.6, or atleast a 3.4, I am positive I would have gotten into one of my state schools in NY with my mcat and other parts of my application.

MD schools, where is the love?, sigh.

 

[MDRus]

3.6/33 here, still not hearing much from any school except for 1 interview and 1 rejection (complete at 8 others)

i have similar stats but so far i am having better luck than you. looks like you didn't apply to enough schools. or did you aim too high? or did you apply late?

i bet it will still work out for you.

 

[Vihsadas]

Submitted secondaries at a bunch of schools now. My last LOR is really late. He just hasn't turned it in yet. Really kinda peeved about that, but what can ya do?
Hopefully his tardiness doesn't completely kill my already ridiculously late application...

 

[themule]

bump for updates

TM

 

[Phenol312]

3.37 overall BCPM 3.19
31R (9PS, 10VR, 12BS) ... not 33+ i know but i only had 6 weeks to prep for the MCAT anyway 😛
Strong LORs
long term committed ECs (nothing health related though...arg)

Of the 12 MD schools i have applied: 2 rejections (GWU and Georgetown), 1 "continual" review (slow death from penn state) and 9 silences...

started AACOMAS about 2 weeks ago waiting to get verified applying to NYCOM, PCOM and UMDNJCOM.

if i got one interview i would consider it a great success at this point.

 

[batman1983]

Submitted secondaries at a bunch of schools now. My last LOR is really late. He just hasn't turned it in yet. Really kinda peeved about that, but what can ya do?
Hopefully his tardiness doesn't completely kill my already ridiculously late application...

I had the same problem too. Its a bitch, since you really cant get on their case for being late cuz they are doing you a favor. I had to turn in my apps in late Sept/Oct even though I had finished my secondaries in July because one my LOR writers didnt do it till late Sept.
As for updates about me, did my only interview and got more preinterview rejections(Brown and Minnesota decided to succumb to peer pressure and join with Georgetown, Chicago in rejecting me, sigh......). So grand total of 5 rejections, 1 interview, and $3k down the drain😡

 

[ashmarj]

3.26 Overall, 3.15 Science, 34R...4 interviews (one of which I withdrew and the other in December), 2 acceptances, 3 rejections, 1 hold, and a heck of a lot of silence...but I'm not complaining. 🙂

Good luck to the rest of you all! I never expected the cycle to go so well for me considering my GPA. I think it just goes to show that some schools really do look at the other components of your application.

 

[rgarrig]

ascascasc

 

[exacto life]

34, 3.2 GPA, 3.5 BCPM, 4 interviews, 2 acceptances, 1 waitlist, 2 rejections

 

[0Complications]

34, 3.2 GPA, 3.5 BCPM, 4 interviews, 2 acceptances, 1 waitlist, 2 rejections

👍 Congrats! What schools did you get acceptances from?

 

[Vihsadas]

3.26 Overall, 3.15 Science, 34R...4 interviews (one of which I withdrew and the other in December), 2 acceptances, 3 rejections, 1 hold, and a heck of a lot of silence...but I'm not complaining. 🙂

Good luck to the rest of you all! I never expected the cycle to go so well for me considering my GPA. I think it just goes to show that some schools really do look at the other components of your application.

34, 3.2 GPA, 3.5 BCPM, 4 interviews, 2 acceptances, 1 waitlist, 2 rejections

Wow! Congrats to both of you! I'm sure you guys are going to do awesome. Great job on this app cycle. I hope to report back with similar news...I'm not getting my hopes up though. Staying realistic.

 

[superwillis]

3.29, 3.2 BCPM, 36 MCAT
4 interviews, 2 acceptances so far (waiting to hear from other 2).

Never thought I'd get anything with my GPA and no post-bacc - good luck!

 

[Christo1]

3.29, 3.2 BCPM, 36 MCAT
4 interviews, 2 acceptances so far (waiting to hear from other 2).

Never thought I'd get anything with my GPA and no post-bacc - good luck!

Hey man, where did you get the acceptances, oh and Congratulations!

 

[tncekm]

Are you kidding me? One of my cousins transferred to Berkeley from Harvard because his family moved from Boston to Cali and his GPA dropped from a 3.9 to a 3.3 as a biochemistry major. In his opinion it was harder to keep A's at Berkeley.

And I have a friend who kept a 4.0 as a bio major (that was post physics, through calc III, etc) and he got his first B at a local JC in a General Chem II class; he said the difficulty of courses wasn't much different, just the level of competition between peers. He had to move from Berkley for some family related junk, and he went premed and needed to get some prereqs out of the way before he applied, so that's why he was at the JC.

I know professors who went from UC Davis and Cal Tech to Cal State schools and they said that some of their most impressive students came from state schools.

Largely, people who go to top-tier schools are paying for the prestige, not the education. Professors at many of these schools are too consumed with their research to really give their students a great education.

Why do people always talk about this lame subject?

 

[littlealex]

And I have a friend who kept a 4.0 as a bio major (that was post physics, through calc III, etc) and he got his first B at a local JC in a General Chem II class; he said the difficulty of courses wasn't much different, just the level of competition between peers. He had to move from Berkley for some family related junk, and he went premed and needed to get some prereqs out of the way before he applied, so that's why he was at the JC.

I know professors who went from UC Davis and Cal Tech to Cal State schools and they said that some of their most impressive students came from state schools.

Largely, people who go to top-tier schools are paying for the prestige, not the education. Professors at many of these schools are too consumed with their research to really give their students a great education.

Why do people always talk about this lame subject?

Uh... people at top schools are not paying for the prestige. You evidently did not goto a top school... We pay for the incredible opportunities that we get, we pay so we get to enjoy top-level competition and find out if we are worth a damn.

 

[tncekm]

Uh... people at top schools are not paying for the prestige. You evidently did not goto a top school... We pay for the incredible opportunities that we get, we pay so we get to enjoy top-level competition and find out if we are worth a damn.

Can't deny the additional opportunities at some of the top private institutions; point taken there.

However, nationally standardized testing takes care of the competition factor. Although I can imagine being in a more competitive environment would be quite the motivation to hit the books.

I only brought it up because I used to subscribe to the idea that I'd be getting screwed out of my education by not going to a top school. But, after taking some nationally standardized tests (and determining whether or not I'm "worth a damn"), talking to a few professors who had previously taught at and researched at top-tier institutions, speaking with friends of mine who have attended top-tier institutions, and then realizing I've had great research opportunities and the opportunity to actually know and communicate with my professors (which has led to professors offering to write great LOR's which not only reflect my performance, but my personality and my interpersonal skills), I'm not feeling so disadvantaged or uneducated and don't regret my decision to stay local.
👍

 

[themule]

Can't deny the additional opportunities at some of the top private institutions; point taken there.

However, nationally standardized testing takes care of the competition factor. Although I can imagine being in a more competitive environment would be quite the motivation to hit the books.

I only brought it up because I used to subscribe to the idea that I'd be getting screwed out of my education by not going to a top school. But, after taking some nationally standardized tests (and determining whether or not I'm "worth a damn"), talking to a few professors who had previously taught at and researched at top-tier institutions, speaking with friends of mine who have attended top-tier institutions, and then realizing I've had great research opportunities and the opportunity to actually know and communicate with my professors (which has led to professors offering to write great LOR's which not only reflect my performance, but my personality and my interpersonal skills), I'm not feeling so disadvantaged or uneducated and don't regret my decision to stay local.
👍

Hey take it to another thread this thread isn't about who's school can kick who's school's a$$. This is about what the thread title says it's about.


TM

 

[Wombat Jones]

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[Wombat Jones]

Wow! Congrats to both of you! I'm sure you guys are going to do awesome. Great job on this app cycle. I hope to report back with similar news...I'm not getting my hopes up though. Staying realistic.

Realistic is good... but I'll be stunned if you don't start getting some interviews pretty soon. This game isn't even close to over.

 

[tncekm]

Hey take it to another thread...

My bad. You're right.

 

[0Complications]

I graduated with a 3.0 overall. Since then, I completed additional cousework, increasing my GPA to around 3.3. 36 on the MCAT.

24 applications:

Three pre-secondary rejections, two interviews completed, six interviews scheduled, one acceptance.

Congrats!! Where was your acceptance to?

 

[themule]

U rochester rejection yesterday. WTF? Any body have updates?

TM

 

[LoveBeatles]

U rochester rejection yesterday. WTF? Any body have updates?

TM

I got the Rochestor rejection too!! No love... no love... (are you NY resident, TM? )

I know that I shouldn't panic yet, but I just feel like time is running out (and I think SDN fuels this notion as well)

hopefully it works out for all of us!

 

[themule]

I got the Rochestor rejection too!! No love... no love... (are you NY resident, TM? )

I know that I shouldn't panic yet, but I just feel like time is running out (and I think SDN fuels this notion as well)

hopefully it works out for all of us!

No I'm OOS. I would agree that SDN fuels the neurosis, but it's disheartening to only get rejections and others are being accepted.

TM

 

[RoadRunner17]

Gonna bump this one up... does anyone have anything to add to my burgeoning SDN pre-med neurosis?

 

[Maxprime]

I'll update - 3.0/40, 1 MD/PhD acceptance, 3 waitlists, 15 rejections. Apply broadly!