Anyone else get rejected by their alma mater?

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I got that news today,pre interview. Not going to lie, kinda sucks. I'm going to take my alumni donation for the year and take myself out to dinner.
I wasn't even sure that I wanted to be back up there for four more years, but it would have been nice to be wanted.

jbar 🙁

 

[ahumdinger]

yeah, i got rejected from pritzker pre-interview. I often wonder how much autonomy the medical school has from the rest of the university, and especially the College, at any rate, the university had better keep pritzker on a shorter leash, because it's gonna hurt alumni contributions big time. Right now, the biggest donors are the Business School graduates, and of the undergrads, the pre-meds probably have one of the greater potentials for giving back to the school. But we get no love from Pritzker. they are notorious for rejecting their undergrads pre-interview. Jeez, at least save us some face and interview us! And the university always complains about how we have one of the lowest alumni give-back rates and how that hurts our rankings..blahblah. Oh well, it's their loss.

for christmas I got a card with a nice nostalgic picture of people playing in the snow on the Uchicago quads. It asked me to think of the College Fund in this years holiday season. I seriously considered writing back to the tune of:

Thank you for your correspondence. Your request has been carefully reviewed by the sole committee member. I regret to inform you that we are unable to pursue your request further. Please understand that every year the committee receives thousands of qualified requests and not everyone can be accomodated. Best of luck in your other pursuits.

 

[dr.z]

I got one too last year. I'm never giving them any donations.

 

[SailCrazy]

I'm a soon to be alma mater reject: deferred pre-interview (aka rejection in March)

 

[45408]

my alma mater will never have a med school, so that was kind of precluded, but if it did, it probably wouldn't be too hard to get into 😛

 

[StevenRF]

Interviewed at my school and was then put on the alternate list. I think that was just a nice way for them to not flat out reject me. LOL The irony is that for the last year and a half my biochem major advisor has been telling me that he would be "quite surprised" if I didn't get in.

I'm with you guys though, screw the alumni donations. If I get another letter from Harry Winkler asking me for money, Im gonna go staple it with my rejection letter to Sample's door and start a med school reformation.

 

[BaylorGuy]

I have an interview at my alma mater no Jan 6....but then again, my alma mater and my alma mater's medical school aren't technically on speaking terms (actually, the only thing they have in common are the name...aside from that, nothing else.)

 

[crazy_cavalier]

I got one too last year. I'm never giving them any donations.

HAHAHA man that's funny. Too bad that's how I reacted too

no alum money for you, yew-vee-ayy. 👎

 

[C.P. Jones]

i feel like i've basically been rejected by UConn w/ last year's "bottom third" waitlist, and a hold this year 😡 😡 😡

 

[QuantumMechanic]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college? What about those of us who don't have a school of medicine affiliated with our undergraduate institution? I guess we're just SOL then, right? Or maybe I should've not turned down my acceptance to U of Chicago undergrad so I could've bitched about not getting an interview at Pritzker? People bitch enough about AA, the arbitrariness of gpa/mcat, and the ability of EC ****** to rise above the pack, and other "meaningless" factors in the medical school admissions process to really necessitate another stupid factor into this ridiculous ordeal.

 

[C.P. Jones]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college?

not when that med school and undergrad school are also your state school...should i be happy about this? 😀 😀 i think not

 

[deuist]

I, too, was rejected by my alma mater---and I stayed on for a masters and still got turned down. There are very few schools that favor their alumni.

 

[noonday]

i'd kept hearing rumors that my undergrad alma (ivy) would at least give alums an interview. looks like i'm proving that one wrong...

my grad school alma really pressured me to apply, personally. phone call and all, but i'm waiting on that one, too.

 

[RunnerMD]

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[SailCrazy]

...so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college? ... What about those of us who don't have a school of medicine affiliated with our undergraduate institution? I guess we're just SOL then, right? ...

You've summed it up fairly nicely, I think! 👍

 

[StevenRF]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college? What about those of us who don't have a school of medicine affiliated with our undergraduate institution? I guess we're just SOL then, right? Or maybe I should've not turned down my acceptance to U of Chicago undergrad so I could've bitched about not getting an interview at Pritzker? People bitch enough about AA, the arbitrariness of gpa/mcat, and the ability of EC ****** to rise above the pack, and other "meaningless" factors in the medical school admissions process to really necessitate another stupid factor into this ridiculous ordeal.

I think the deal is that there is kind of a "I was good enough to get into your undergrad and then succeed, but now Im not good enough for your medical school" type of feeling, at least for me.

 

[crazy_cavalier]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement

1.) no one said we expected auto-acceptances.

2.) if you're not in a position to feel the quasi-"betrayal" of your alma mater, then maybe you can't sympathize, and since that's the case, keep quiet k k? 👍 🙂 😀


seriously though I know where my alum money is going, and where it's *not* going

 

[71263]

I wasnt rejected from my alma mater 😀 😀 😀








... then again, my alma mater doesnt have a med school 😳

 

[riceman04]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college? What about those of us who don't have a school of medicine affiliated with our undergraduate institution? I guess we're just SOL then, right? Or maybe I should've not turned down my acceptance to U of Chicago undergrad so I could've bitched about not getting an interview at Pritzker? People bitch enough about AA, the arbitrariness of gpa/mcat, and the ability of EC ****** to rise above the pack, and other "meaningless" factors in the medical school admissions process to really necessitate another stupid factor into this ridiculous ordeal.

gosh, is it really that serious

 

[Conqueror]

I'm @ Vanderbilt, and my saga with them is interesting...

I got a rejection letter in September, pre-interview. The letter said something to the effect of "since you're a Vandy student, you can come by the office and we will tell you why you were rejected so you can be aware of our take on it."

I figured what the hell, let's find out my weaknesses so I can adress them on future secondaries/interviews. I show up and am seen by the director of admissions (Pat Sagen, for anyone applying there). She says, "Well, I don't have your file handy, but generally our average numbers are XXXXXXXX." I say "I am in that range." She says, "Oh, well, in that case, your extracurriculars were probably a bit weak." I say, "Strike two" (I am the president of 3 service orgs and involved in numerous other orgs). She says she has no idea why I was rejected, in that case, and invites me to come back and talk to the Dean of Admissions (Hal Helderman).

So I show up a few days later, and he says, "yeah, we accidentally released your rejection letter before the proper number of people had reviewed your AMCAS. You actually have an interview."

WTF? I was grateful for the interview, but at the same time I was pissed because he knew in advance of my situation and no one had taken steps to notify me of the mistake. Their attitude was "well, if he doesn't ask questions, he'll never find out, and we won't have to deal with it."

I interviewed and got waitlisted, which is the outcome I expected all along. Oh well.

CQ

 

[jbar]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college?
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It's not that I felt that I should have gotten more consideration from my school becuase I'm an alum. It is a fact that I love my College and bleed green for it.(school color) It sucks when you feel rejected by something that you love, that you aren't good enough for them. (for some reason this makes me think of dating, hmmmm)

jbar

 

[SirTony76]

My Aunt tells how she applied to 8 medical schools and Univeristy of Michigan (her alma mater) was her only rejection.

 

[Conqueror]

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Ugh give me a ****ing break, so apparently going to a place for undergrad gives a sense of entitlement to be given greater consideration for that school's medical college?

Actually, it's a pretty well documented fact that it does indeed get you special consideration. Vanderbilt's admissions staff bluntly told me as much in person, and even my original (mistaken) rejection letter said as much: "this decision was especially difficult given your Vanderbilt affiliation."

So yes, attending a school for undergrad does indeed get you special consideration. If you can't handle that fact, then maybe you should have considered undergrad at a school with a medical wing.

CQ

 

[yodel]

Actually, it's a pretty well documented fact that it does indeed get you special consideration. Vanderbilt's admissions staff bluntly told me as much in person, and even my original (mistaken) rejection letter said as much: "this decision was especially difficult given your Vanderbilt affiliation."

So yes, attending a school for undergrad does indeed get you special consideration. If you can't handle that fact, then maybe you should have considered undergrad at a school with a medical wing.

CQ

vanderbilt does give special consideration to their undergrads and a good chunk of each class does come from vandy, but i get the sense that most schools don't do this (at least not to the extent of vandy).

 

[pagemmapants]

Same deal here. Complete 9/26 and not a peep since. Especially insulting since I walk by the med school hallway on my way to class almost every day.

 

[C.P. Jones]

Same deal here. Complete 9/26 and not a peep since. Especially insulting since I walk by the med school hallway on my way to class almost every day.

i walk by the yale med admissions office/office of the dean every day at work, but i'm not going to try to apply there 😛 you should pop in there and say "yo, what up w/ my app"

 

[Pewl]

Actually, it's a pretty well documented fact that it does indeed get you special consideration. Vanderbilt's admissions staff bluntly told me as much in person, and even my original (mistaken) rejection letter said as much: "this decision was especially difficult given your Vanderbilt affiliation."

So yes, attending a school for undergrad does indeed get you special consideration. If you can't handle that fact, then maybe you should have considered undergrad at a school with a medical wing.

CQ

I can assure you that being a UCLA undergrad does NOT give you special consideration in the eyes of the UCLA med school =P

 

[gdbaby]

So I haven't been rejected yet, although I can smell it (I hear they spray their rejection letters with Drakar Noir). But I am going to be rejected from the school where I TEACH!! Crazy.

 

[gary5]

I was waitlisted at mine. Adcoms don't want their class to be highly inbred and so they only take so many alumni. It makes sense when you think about it. So, focus on getting into another school at the same level.

 

[thinknofu3]

Yup, i've been jilted by Northwestern so far...I've been invited for interviews at Pritzker, Penn, Mayo and BU - but no love from the 'Cats for me :-( I suppose I could still get an interview, but at this point I feel like it'd just be for the waitlist...

 

[risnwb]

got the rejection in december. not happy at all, considering i know people with considerably lower stats, fewer extra currics, and poor writing skills, who were granted interviews.. mad mad mad

 

[Dr.Pdizzle]

got the rejection in december. not happy at all, considering i know people with considerably lower stats, fewer extra currics, and poor writing skills, who were granted interviews.. mad mad mad

lol I feel your pain somewhat. There is a I know girl that got accepted to MSU-CHM who just played her cancer card throughout the whole process. Okay yeah she had a cancerous tumor when she was like 6, it was removed, and she survived.

What she did in the meantime at college was cheat off of me on a biochem exam, cheat during her labs (she never has any clue what the hell she is doing so she just copies off of you after your done), zero extracirriculars except working as a waitress to pay for her cell phone, credit cards, and tanning expenses, oh and she had a 26 on her mcat and a 3.1 gpa.

Yeaaaa...kinda pissed at my alma mater for letting her in because I know the type of person she is. Adcoms get the wool pulled over their eyes way too often it seems. 👎

 

[omgwtfbbq?]

no state love. 😍 <---- nope

 

[unfrozencaveman]

I'll join the ranks of Quakers on deferred interview status. After all I did for them...

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Weird- check out this email I just got from the alumni association:

Resolutions for a Penn Alumni

In 2006 I will...

1. Learn something new, as long as it's not from the medical school.

2. Benefit from resources available to Penn Alumni, whatever they may be.

3. Embrace the arts, because you will have the time, while not attending our medical school.

4. Contribute to the gift that keeps on giving: a Penn education, for someone other than you.

5. Volunteer my time to make Penn even better, which by the way, is completely over.

6. Cheer for the Quakers: Go Penn! Or cheer for Princeton, we don't care.

7. Read (your deferral) -- and read some more (rejections will be sent by mail).

8. Get in touch with old friends and make new ones, perhaps while lambasting the school on the internet.

9. Engage locally and globally in Penn activities. Like putting a flaming bag of poo in admissions.

10. Celebrate all that is BEN! Go fly a metal kite, you're not tricking us into letting you in AGAIN...


Oddly prophetic isnt it? Those alumni association guys are good!

 

[politik]

If I get another letter from Harry Winkler asking me for money, Im gonna go staple it with my rejection letter to Sample's door and start a med school reformation.

Great idea!

 

[Will Ferrell]

If I get another letter from Harry Winkler asking me for money, Im gonna go staple it with my rejection letter to Sample's door and start a med school reformation.

Fonzie?

 

[drhouse]

I can assure you that being a UCLA undergrad does NOT give you special consideration in the eyes of the UCLA med school =P

Are you sure about that? I'm a UCLA undergrad and I got an interview with a GPA below their average. Really hoping you're right and it wasn't a courtesy interview.

 

[Mr. Tee]

Weird- check out this email I just got from the alumni association:

Resolutions for a Penn Alumni

In 2006 I will...

1. Learn something new, as long as it's not from the medical school.

2. Benefit from resources available to Penn Alumni, whatever they may be.

3. Embrace the arts, because you will have the time, while not attending our medical school.

4. Contribute to the gift that keeps on giving: a Penn education, for someone other than you.

5. Volunteer my time to make Penn even better, which by the way, is completely over.

6. Cheer for the Quakers: Go Penn! Or cheer for Princeton, we don't care.

7. Read (your deferral) -- and read some more (rejections will be sent by mail).

8. Get in touch with old friends and make new ones, perhaps while lambasting the school on the internet.

9. Engage locally and globally in Penn activities. Like putting a flaming bag of poo in admissions.

10. Celebrate all that is BEN! Go fly a metal kite, you're not tricking us into letting you in AGAIN...


Oddly prophetic isnt it? Those alumni association guys are good!

lol

 

[drhouse]

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[drhouse]

actually... i think it does. I hear a good chunk of the ucla med class are from ucla undergrad. I know my stats should not have gotten me an interview there and therefore I strongly believe my having gone to UG there gave me the boost. (of course i have no basis for this statement except my personal observation and talking with others. therefore, and im sure you will, take this with a grain of salt)

now i can only pray this will lead to an acceptance as well.

Do you have any idea if they will actually let us in with below average stats (I'm 3.57, 35R)? I mean they only interview 600 people, how many can they possibly interview from UCLA? This whole UCLA waiting thing is making me sick to my stomach. I hope I'm not just sitting around waiting on something that is just a big farce to appease their undergrads.

 

[FenderHM]

Yeah Cornell busts us up with harshly curved classes and then Weill Cornell med can't even give me an interview...

I'll remember who scratched who's back when I'm a rich doctor though....

 

[deleted50541]

My alma mater, U Rochester, gave me the boot last cycle, but I really wasn't disappointed. In fact, the idea of having to spend four more years of my life in that hellhole kept me from reapplying this year.

If I never set foot in Rochester again, it will be too soon.

 

[AStudent]

I got rejected pre interview from Michigan State even though I spent 4 years and the better part of 50k. As a rule they don't take their own grads.

 

[gary5]

I was waitlisted by my Alma Mater and I was devastated by it because I hadn't received any acceptances yet. I later was accepted elsewhere, so then it didn't matter that much.

 

[captainbsm]

Basically it is all about who you know at Vandy and who that person knows at Vandy. You can have a 3.3 at Vandy and still get into med school. It is all about the connections and being an alumni 🙂 sometimes...

 

[otemd]

Basically it is all about who you know at Vandy and who that person knows at Vandy. You can have a 3.3 at Vandy and still get into med school. It is all about the connections and being an alumni 🙂 sometimes...

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Complete generalization. I know of many people who have great MCAT scores and a good GPA (over 3.3 certainly) and didn't get into Vandy as a Vandy undergrad. Try someone I know with a 42 and 4.0, who got waitlisted there.

 

[LuisitoMD]

rejected pre-secondary 😎

 

[oneaat]

i didn't want to flush another 200K down that toilet anyhow...

 

[-Goose-]

i was rejected pre-secondary by vanderbilt, right away... went to talk to them and they were like... blablabla... we can't take too many vandy undergrads b/c it looks bad... blablabla... found out it was a 'mistake' (sent it out before they were supposed to, not that it changed anything, though).

didn't expect to get in with my mcat anyways (30), just kind of made me mad how fast they rejected me... but, like I said, I was definitely expecting it.