accepted after how many times?

[nev]

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so how may times have you SDNers reapplied to med school before getting accepted?

 

[nev]

I'm just asking this question to do a minor research on med school selections

 

[nev]

Interesting...I was thinking people usually get accepted to medical school at the most after 2 tries....

 

[.edu-MD]

Interesting...I was thinking people usually get accepted to medical school at the most after 2 tries....

Are you sure you phrased the question the way you intended? The poll asks for how many times someone RE-applied. Your post is referring to the total number of tries (which would be one more than the number of RE-apps).

 

[nev]

Are you sure you phrased the question the way you intended? The poll asks for how many times someone RE-applied. Your post is referring to the total number of tries (which would be one more than the number of RE-apps).

I meant re-apps....I made a mistake. Its my first time I'm posting a poll and I dont know hoe to fix it

 

[.edu-MD]

I meant re-apps....I made a mistake. Its my first time I'm posting a poll and I dont know hoe to fix it

Then I would venture to guess most people who are accepted are accepted on their first try (0 reapps). Of those who aren't accepted on their first try, it'd be interesting to see how many just move on to some other endeavor or try again. At any rate, many would probably choose not to reapply even once. Likewise, among those rejected after two reapps (3 total apps), even fewer would try a 4th time.

 

[FoughtFyr]

A straw poll in my M1 class showed that >50% were re-applicants with almost all being accepted on their second application (N was roughly 50 as I remember with ~26 as re-applicants and only 3 having greater than 2 applications). Just anecdotal. I think AAMC might have real numbers on this.

- H

 

[MoosePilot]

I technically applied three times. The first time I applied to one school (the one I'm most likely going to go to). I knew my application sucked and I was freaked out by the whole process. So I sort of gave it a half-assed try. To tell the truth, I'm not sure at what point I quit. I'm pretty sure I didn't submit a secondary. I'm hoping they'll let me check my application file and there'll be records going back that far.

Then I had (have) an 8 year military career and reapplied. The Air Force makes me pull back my application before it's considered at that school.

This year, I got permission to apply and applied to 20 schools. I'm accepted to two, waiting to hear from another, and withdrawing from most of the remaining.

 

[QofQuimica]

Then I would venture to guess most people who are accepted are accepted on their first try (0 reapps). Of those who aren't accepted on their first try, it'd be interesting to see how many just move on to some other endeavor or try again. At any rate, many would probably choose not to reapply even once. Likewise, among those rejected after two reapps (3 total apps), even fewer would try a 4th time.

I applied four times and got in this time. 👍 But I voted "three times" in your poll, nev, b/c I only RE-applied three times.

 

[MoosePilot]

I applied four times and got in this time. 👍 But I voted "three times" in your poll, nev, b/c I only RE-applied three times.

I voted in the same manner. I applied three times, which is two reapplications.

As for my story, has anyone else ever just let an application trail off and not know at what point you abandoned it? I was completely afraid of this question and it did come up. I was a reapplicant, but I couldn't, in all honesty, tell them exactly the outcome of my first application. Admittedly, it was in 1995-96, but still...

 

[QofQuimica]

I voted in the same manner. I applied three times, which is two reapplications.

As for my story, has anyone else ever just let an application trail off and not know at what point you abandoned it? I was completely afraid of this question and it did come up. I was a reapplicant, but I couldn't, in all honesty, tell them exactly the outcome of my first application. Admittedly, it was in 1995-96, but still...

Yes, that happened to me, too. I was pretty sure that I got accepted to one school and waitlisted at the other, but then the first one told me I had been waitlisted, so maybe I got them confused. 😳 The second school didn't have records going back that far, so the mystery may never be solved. 😛 What I ended up doing was telling both schools that I had been waitlisted ten years ago.

 

[MoosePilot]

Yes, that happened to me, too. I was pretty sure that I got accepted to one school and waitlisted at the other, but then the first one told me I had been waitlisted, so maybe I got them confused. 😳 The second school didn't have records going back that far, so the mystery may never be solved. 😛 What I ended up doing was telling both schools that I had been waitlisted ten years ago.

You'd think I'd remember, but the process was so different! AMCAS was a sheet of paper I got from the pre-med advising office. I printed out my personal statement, cut it out, taped it onto the paper, and then photocopied the whole thing so it looked like it had been typed on. I also didn't know any of the stuff I've learned from SDN and I wasn't a huge pre-med club type, so I think I applied in Fall of my Senior year, despite having taken the April MCAT. It was dumb. I'm accepted to the school that I applied to then, though, 10 years later.

 

[QofQuimica]

You'd think I'd remember, but the process was so different! AMCAS was a sheet of paper I got from the pre-med advising office. I printed out my personal statement, cut it out, taped it onto the paper, and then photocopied the whole thing so it looked like it had been typed on. I also didn't know any of the stuff I've learned from SDN and I wasn't a huge pre-med club type, so I think I applied in Fall of my Senior year, despite having taken the April MCAT. It was dumb. I'm accepted to the school that I applied to then, though, 10 years later.

Me too. Both of those schools accepted me this time around. I only applied to three schools total at the time, and the third one never bothered to even send me the rejection letter.

I seem to remember that my AMCAS was on a floppy diskette. They mailed it to me, I typed up my app on my school's Apple IIe, and then I mailed the disk back to them. This was in 1996. We didn't have no internet apps back then. 🙄

 

[Saluki]

We didn't have no internet apps back

Wow... Like the dark ages...

 

[FutureDocDO]

I applied four times and got in this time. 👍 But I voted "three times" in your poll, nev, b/c I only RE-applied three times.

Wow. That's some determination you have there. Congrats!!!

 

[nev]

Thanks for the replies and for voting, everyone. I really admire those who actually had the heart to reapply <2 times to med school. You'll make gerat doctors ....guaranteed!

 

[QofQuimica]

Wow. That's some determination you have there. Congrats!!!

Thanks. I'm really looking forward to starting. 😀

Thanks for the replies and for voting, everyone. I really admire those who actually had the heart to reapply <2 times to med school. You'll make gerat doctors ....guaranteed!

Well, there's certainly nothing like a little personal failure to teach you empathy for the shortcomings of others. 😉

 

[EvoDevo]

Thanks. I'm really looking forward to starting. 😀


Well, there's certainly nothing like a little personal failure to teach you empathy for the shortcomings of others. 😉

Word to that. 👍