If it didn't work out this year for you, take heart. Admissions committees highly value reapplicants. Schools know how competitive this process is, and they appreciate persistence. “I kept waiting for schools to look at me weird—to judge me—because I was a reapplicant,” says one client who worked with Apply Point after being rejected. “They didn’t. And the time between my applications gave me a chance to gain life experiences and improve my interview skills. I matured. And honestly, if it’s your biggest, darkest secret that you’re a reapplicant, you will get over [your embarrassment] if being a physician is the only thing you want to do. Once I told others that I had reapplied, all these people came out of the woodwork, saying, ‘Oh, me too.’ [After reapplying], I was accepted to every school where I interviewed. And I was by no means even middle of the road in my med school class. I excelled. Being rejected and having to reapply was not a predictor of my success.”
More good news: You can recycle a lot from your first application. You can use the same references. How you've reflected on past experiences in your essays probably hasn't changed much, and why would it? You don't have to reinvent your takeaways. Your Personal Statement can be altered/updated or redone based on new experiences, but that might not be necessary.
Your W&A must be updated with a few fresh work experiences and activities or continuations of the same ones you wrote about in your first application. For example, say you've continued doing the same job as a research assistant in a lab, maybe with a couple of new responsibilities—give that entry a half-redo. (Staying in the same gig is a great look, by the way. It shows your continued interest in an area and that someone likes working with you.) Schools want to know that you spent the last year learning and spending time with patients.
Check out our med school application tutorials (including the interview and post application process) here or get in touch here.
More good news: You can recycle a lot from your first application. You can use the same references. How you've reflected on past experiences in your essays probably hasn't changed much, and why would it? You don't have to reinvent your takeaways. Your Personal Statement can be altered/updated or redone based on new experiences, but that might not be necessary.
Your W&A must be updated with a few fresh work experiences and activities or continuations of the same ones you wrote about in your first application. For example, say you've continued doing the same job as a research assistant in a lab, maybe with a couple of new responsibilities—give that entry a half-redo. (Staying in the same gig is a great look, by the way. It shows your continued interest in an area and that someone likes working with you.) Schools want to know that you spent the last year learning and spending time with patients.
Check out our med school application tutorials (including the interview and post application process) here or get in touch here.
