Applicants with Acceptances: Why were you accepted?

[SOMBound13]

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Since we all know that it's not only about your stats, what do you think influenced a SOM to accept you? (gender, special research, URM status, under-privileged background, high MCAT, high GPA, bi-lingual, etc.)

I'll go first:

SOM #1 (midwest private) : I think my fluency in Spanish helped. The SOM has a group that helps provide medical care to the Hispanic community. I think my high GPA also helped.

SOM #2 (midwest private) : Same as above

SOM #3 (state SOM): Instate public and I met the threshold.


For all of the above.... 😀 I'm under-represented in medicine. I'm a blond male.

 

[MedPR]

Since we all know that it's not only about your stats, what do you think influenced a SOM to accept you? (gender, special research, URM status, under-privileged background, high MCAT, high GPA, bi-lingual, etc.)


SOM #1 (midwest private) : I think my fluency in Spanish helped. The SOM has a group that helps provide medical care to the Hispanic community. I think my high GPA also helped.

SOM #2 (midwest private) : Same as above

SOM #3 (state SOM): Instate public and I met the threshold.


For all of the above.... 😀 I'm under-represented in medicine. I'm a blond male.

ITT: pad your ego to recover after interviewing and realizing you aren't a special flower.

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[SOMBound13]

ITT: pad your ego to recover after interviewing and realizing you aren't a special flower.

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I know that I wasn't special. My MCAT was rather average. the blond remark is partly a joke....nearly all the SOM pics seem to have dark-haired males.

 

[GoSpursGo]

Since we all know that it's not only about your stats, what do you think influenced a SOM to accept you? (gender, special research, URM status, under-privileged background, high MCAT, high GPA, bi-lingual, etc.)


SOM #1 (midwest private) : I think my fluency in Spanish helped. The SOM has a group that helps provide medical care to the Hispanic community. I think my high GPA also helped.

SOM #2 (midwest private) : Same as above

SOM #3 (state SOM): Instate public and I met the threshold.


For all of the above.... 😀 I'm under-represented in medicine. I'm a blond male.

You don't say

 

[cwrig14]

Cuz I'm a boss

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Because they wanted me.

 

[Spinach Dip]

Wait....

Are you saying that having a high GPA, good MCAT, speaking spanish at schools which have large local hispanic populations, and being an in-state student better than average are all things which can get you an acceptance at med school?

You just blew my mind!!

 

[Ismet]

 

[487806]

 

[typicalindian]

Beats me.

 

[CrimsonKing]

Because the adcoms and interviewers saw something in me that they thought would translate well into me being a physician.

Who knows what quality that was, maybe I'll know when I'm an attending myself.

A lot of the admissions process is arbitrary and voodoo-like. Don't wonder why they accepted you because most likely it comes to something completely intangible.

 

[def1]

Cuz I know how to play the game

 

[deleted127837]

Mastered the Jedi Mind Trick. I was the bear they're looking for.

 

[typicalindian]

Mastered the Jedi Mind Trick. I was the bear they're looking for.

You're just lucky you weren't competing with slothstronaut.

 

[MiracleforMD]

OP is making a solid run at SDN's ****tiest poster list.

 

[Arbor Vitae]

it was my yolo swag lifting. started from the bottom now we here

#jedi mind tricks

#twinkle in my eye

 

[Bearhugs]

Interviewers were mirin' merlins

 

[Konfidence]

My mom did a great job with ironing my shirts. Steam really makes a difference.

 

[La Presse]

it was my yolo swag lifting. started form the bottom now we here

#jedi mind tricks

#twinkle in my eye

Yes. That was what I was waiting for. 👍

"Started from the group home, now we doin' thangs" mentality.

 

[1289]

Nice try op but this thread was doomed. If we knew why we all got accepted this website would probably lose half its business

 

[gmcguitar4]

Did you start a thread just to start a thread?

 

[Sea Otter]

My 4.3 GPA and 47 MCAT probably put me over the edge.

 

[DrSolus]

'cuz we know how to flame an sdn thread like a boss.

people be hatin' - honestly though, no clue, lol.

Edit: If you've got the balls, maybe you should ask the schools yourself (has anyone ever done this?)

 

[deleted127837]

You're just lucky you weren't competing with slothstronaut.

my dreaded arch nemesis!

 

[ChartaBona]

Because I wasn't obese this cycle.

 

[MedPR]

Interviewers were mirin' merlins

lulz

 

[MedPR]

it was my yolo swag lifting. started from the bottom now we here

#jedi mind tricks

#twinkle in my eye

no spaces in hash tags.

#classoverswag

 

[thekay]

cuz i got the looks

 

[Guero]

. . . If we knew why we all got accepted this website would probably lose half its business

+1
OP, you might want to really consider closing/deleting this thread before the flaming really gets out of hand.

 

[MedPR]

+1
OP, you might want to really consider closing/deleting this thread before the flaming really gets out of hand.

 

[Guero]

LoL, you're such a sadist MedPR.

 

[VictorAlpha]

i'm in ....
(no pun intended)



for srs, I just walked in and honestly I felt kind of like

but then immediately the Dean, followed by the rest of the ADCOM, walked in all...

at which point I was all...

(...bored at work...) 🙂

 

[sinombre]

Family member on the adcom. Srs.

 

[VictorAlpha]

one of my friends who was accepted told me that they said when she interviewed she just had a bouncy personality

 

[Arbor Vitae]

no spaces in hash tags.

#classoverswag

i was being totally sarcastic, but i am ashamed for the spaces, I'm not hip with it

 

[VictorAlpha]

i was being totally sarcastic, but i am ashamed for the spaces, I'm not hip with it
#howtotweet #ihaveareallife

.

 

[MedPR]

i was being totally sarcastic, but i am ashamed for the spaces, I'm not hip with it

I'm not really either and I'm proud of it 🙂

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[Palam]

Get the grades and you'll get considered. Sell yourself well enough and you'll get accepted. That's ultimately what it boils down to.

 

[Nobodyspecial11]

yeah ya know why they accepted me?

they said I always start worthwhile threads.

srs.😍

 

[Midifelder10]

Since we all know that it's not only about your stats, what do you think influenced a SOM to accept you? (gender, special research, URM status, under-privileged background, high MCAT, high GPA, bi-lingual, etc.)

I'll go first:

SOM #1 (midwest private) : I think my fluency in Spanish helped. The SOM has a group that helps provide medical care to the Hispanic community. I think my high GPA also helped.

SOM #2 (midwest private) : Same as above

SOM #3 (state SOM): Instate public and I met the threshold.


For all of the above.... 😀 I'm under-represented in medicine. I'm a blond male.

Are you trolling or serious. Reasons you are in:
(1) Good MCAT
(2) Great GPA
(3) Hardest Major on planet earth

Your spanish speaking ability probably contributed 0.0 to your final points tally. I hope you were not serious when you started this thread.

 

[MedPR]

Are you trolling or serious. Reasons you are in:
(1) Good MCAT
(2) Great GPA
(3) Hardest Major on planet earth

Your spanish speaking ability probably contributed 0.0 to your final points tally. I hope you were not serious when you started this thread.

What's his major?

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[Guero]

What's his major?

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I believe it was engineering. (On mobile like you so can't verify ATM.)

 

[Midifelder10]

What's his major?

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Chem E

 

[MiracleforMD]

EE is undoubtedly harder than ChemE.

 

[erutha95]

.

 

[Midifelder10]

EE is undoubtedly harder than ChemE.

Nope.

 

[wonderdog]

Because I have potential

 

[MedPR]

Cmon let's be real, Biology (BA not BS) is the Hardest major.

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[JBruin]

Get the grades and you'll get considered. Sell yourself well enough and you'll get accepted. That's ultimately what it boils down to.

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[MiracleforMD]

Nope.

Splitting hairs because I think ChemE and computer science are probably next hardest but why do you say so?