Can anyone call medical schools post-acceptance giving negative feedback about you?

[QueenOfJunkertown5]

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I was given online advice to never tell anyone what medical school you were accepted to because if they are maliciously envious or just don’t like you they can call up that medical school giving negative feedback about you in an effort to get the school to rescind your acceptance.

The issue is, I’m a scribe and literally everyone is asking me if my progress. I already told one person where I’ve been accepted, and I fear that (we work with over 30 doctors—many who I don’t know well but may have bad first impressions of me?) one doctor may just call up a medical school and try to get me rescinded.

(1) Are medical schools receptive to advice (whether by mail, email or phone call) from others—including doctors sharing negative feedback (“I don’t think this acceptee has what it takes for medicine because XYZ” or “I’ve noticed some behaviors that I find concerning etc”)? Basically, the one making the report can say something like it’s their ethical duty to inform the school etc.

(2) Do medical schools have the right to rescind an acceptance for that negative feedback?

(3)When are medical schools allowed to rescind an acceptance?

 

[JustaDO]

Sometimes, I read posts like this and have a faint hope that this may be a trolling attempt.

 

[Robin-jay]

Very unlikely.

You have a higher probability of being in a fatal car crash on your way to work.

 

[Lucca]

Yah the only people I wouldn’t let know where I was accepted are precisely the people who advise me to not tell others where I’ve been accepted

 

[Goro]

Sometimes, I read posts like this and have a faint hope that this may be a trolling attempt.

Do NOT underestimate the angst and neuroticism of pre-meds!

OP, anyone calling an Admissions office and saying "you can't accept QueenOfJunkertown5, she's a bad person!!!" will be treated as someone with a grudge, and nothing more.

 

[Robin-jay]

Do NOT underestimate the angst and neuroticism of pre-meds!

OP, anyone calling an Admissions office and saying "you can't accept QueenOfJunkertown5, she's a bad person!!!" will be treated as someone with a grudge, and nothing more.

How often do the ADCOMs get such a call? Once a year? Never?

 

[Goro]

How often do the ADCOMs get such a call? Once a year? Never?

I've never heard of it happening at my school.

@gyngyn

@LizzyM

@Pathdocmd

@Med Ed

 

[gyngyn]

I've never heard of it happening at my school.

@gyngyn

A couple of times a year.

 

[Kgizzle]

A couple of times a year.

Pre-med neuroticism intensifies...

 

[Lawpy]

A couple of times a year.

How did you approach it? Are these calls treated seriously or ignored or taken into account?

 

[gyngyn]

How did you approach it? Are these calls treated seriously or ignored or taken into account?

They are generally made against applicants who were not accepted.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Probably depends on why they are calling. If they are just making stuff up that is easily unverifiable I'd imagine that zero people care. If they say, "I caught X stealing or being violent and have a number of people who can confirm this including X's boss" then yeah they will probably listen and dig deeper into you, and they absolutely can rescind an acceptance for that.

 

[Robin-jay]

They are generally made against applicants who were not accepted.

Is it generally professors who do this?

 

[QueenOfJunkertown5]

How did you approach it? Are these calls treated seriously or ignored or taken into account?

Also, I’d imagine the school has full rights to rescind the acceptance based on such a report? The issue is, some people withdrew their acceptances from other schools in anticipation of becoming a student at that institution.

 

[LizzyM]

I've never heard of calls like this happening.

 

[gyngyn]

Is it generally professors who do this?

It has only been a professor once in my recollection.

 

[Robin-jay]

It has only been a professor once in my recollection.

Of the very few times this happens then, its usually employers then?

 

[gyngyn]

Of the very few times this happens then, its usually employers then?

They rarely identify themselves. They seem to be students or exes (or both).

 

[wholeheartedly]

They rarely identify themselves. They seem to be students or exes (or both).

lovely

 

[Goro]

They rarely identify themselves. They seem to be students or exes (or both).

I figured as much. Are the complaints at least creative?

 

[Med Ed]

I've never heard of it happening at my school.

@Med Ed

Have not heard of this happening, either. The only way I can think of such a call having any impact is if the applicant falsified part(s) of his/her application.

 

[gyngyn]

Have not heard of this happening, either. The only way I can think of such a call having any impact is if the applicant falsified part(s) of his/her application.

The one case in which a professor reported an applicant was for falsification of an application.

 

[gyngyn]

I figured as much. Are the complaints at least creative?

More odd than creative.

 

[Robin-jay]

They rarely identify themselves. They seem to be students or exes (or both).

Has a student or ex ever identified themselves (since professors or employers probably would)?

 

[Pathdocmd]

I've never heard of it happening at my school.

@gyngyn

@LizzyM

@Pathdocmd

@Med Ed

A few years ago a doctor sent a letter about a person that was shadowing with him. He said that he suspected the applicant that he/she cheated on a test. The person didn't even apply to my school. Ignored it.

 

[gyngyn]

Has a student or ex ever identified themselves (since professors or employers probably would)?

Yes.

 

[Oo Cipher oO]

Not exactly the same thing but always a good idea for new pre meds to be exposed to a cautionary tale.

Remember, remember the rescindence of November

 

[Mr.S]

Do NOT underestimate the angst and neuroticism of pre-meds!

OP, anyone calling an Admissions office and saying "you can't accept QueenOfJunkertown5, she's a bad person!!!" will be treated as someone with a grudge, and nothing more.

This is not neuroticism, this can potentially happen!!!!
If the right person calls the admissions office, they can absolutely recind.. SHoot there is precedent that medical schools have recinded your degree after being conferred.
So best advice is "Trust NO ONE"

 

[Goro]

This is not neuroticism, this can potentially happen!!!!
If the right person calls the admissions office, they can absolutely recind.. SHoot there is precedent that medical schools have recinded your degree after being conferred.
So best advice is "Trust NO ONE"

A meteorite hitting the school can also potentially happen.

Yes, people have had their degrees Rescinded, or have been dismissed after matriculation. But these rise to the extremely rare occasions, and the events that caused them are exceedingly valid.

It takes a lot to get kicked out of medical school, but the mere word of somebody calling in and saying bad things isn't going to do it