Anyone come off the waitlist?

[metalmd06]

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Hey real medical students. What's up? I'm an aspiring medical student, agonizing over possibly getting into medical school this go around. I was interested to see if there are any medical students on here from SUNY Stony Brook who were accepted by being pulled off the waitlist. If so, how long did you wait??

 

[MadameLULU]

Moving to pre-allo.

 

[metalmd06]

Oh well. I knew I wouldn't be getting any answers on the pre-allo forum. You might as well just delete the topic.

 

[homebuilder]

I was on the wait-list at SUNY SB 4 years ago and never came off. I don't think the wait lists move much nowadays due to the # of candidates that are applying to med school. Good luck though, you only need 1 acceptance to be a med student, which is what happened to me, so it's all possible.

 

[metalmd06]

Did you make any efforts to be proactive in the time that you were waiting or did you just, well, wait? I already wrote a letter of intent to Stony Brook and if I am waitlisted I will consider writing another one, even if it won't help. I know how the wait-list works there and if you're not in the top 20 then I don't think you have too much of a shot. I just really don't want to wait another year... I want to move forward with my life, not backward!

 

[scowdeva]

Did you make any efforts to be proactive in the time that you were waiting or did you just, well, wait? I already wrote a letter of intent to Stony Brook and if I am waitlisted I will consider writing another one, even if it won't help. I know how the wait-list works there and if you're not in the top 20 then I don't think you have too much of a shot. I just really don't want to wait another year... I want to move forward with my life, not backward!

I think that if you're being proactive about your file you are doing everything that you can. My plan is to send out a letter right when/if I get the notification that I'm on a waitlist, and then send another right before May 15. Then you just have to let fate do it's thing. I hope it works out for you! Just keep reminding them how much you love them.

 

[metalmd06]

I'm just starting to get really discouraged now. I'm a non-traditional applicant with a sub-par GPA (C's in Calculus and Physics II) because I was taking classes full time at Harvard while working full time as a medical assitant. I got a 30P (9PS 9VR 12BS) on the MCAT and while I was happy I was looking for something more in the mid 30's (and that's what I practiced at). I felt I did excellent in my first interview of the day and then in the second one I did not talk enough about my clinical experience. I only applied to Seven schools: Rejected from Downstate, Interviewed at SUNYSB, withdrew from BU and Yale, never even acknowledged at NYU and in limbo at NYMC and AECOM. When I got that interview invite I was pumped and I felt like I really had a shot. Now I feel like I blew it. I have connections throuh friends of family at SB and I thought that might help but in my heart I knew the process was too iron-clad for any of that influence. I'm 24. I have the intellecutal ability, the drive and a clinical instinct that I discovered while working as an MA. Now, I'll most likely have to wait another year, possibly take more classes, retake the MCAT, apply all over again and it really sucks. I want to move forward with my life, not backward!

 

[DocPsychosis]

MS-1 here. I was accepted to UTMB pretty early (November '06) but waitlisted @ UT-Houston and UTSW, my first and second match choices respectively. I was offered and accepted a spot at Houston mid-May, just before I graduated. That was a stressful couple of weeks, you can bet.