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Not having heard back from any of the schools I applied to has caused concern that I may have made an error somewhere along the way, and that the schools are simply not reviewing my application. At least if I had a single Pre-II R, I would know that they read my app and made a decision. Can anyone relate to this feeling? I understand that the truth is I'm either silently on hold or haven't been reviewed yet, but having submitted as early as possible for every school, I'd expect to have received at least some feedback so far.
 
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No news at this point is good news, it is still so early. Instead, if you had an R within a month of submitting you would probably be posting about if you had done something wrong to have them reject you so quickly. Just don't think about it and take the time to touch grass or something else you enjoy.
 
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PickaGodnPray said:
No news at this point is good news, it is still so early. Instead, if you had an R within a month of submitting you would probably be posting about if you had done something wrong to have them reject you so quickly. Just don't think about it and take the time to touch grass or something else you enjoy.
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Goro said:
Stay busy. Many schools leave people on limbo for a long time!

As of right now, you are rejected , so work on Plan B for the reapplication.
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Thank you both. I suppose I will use it as motivation for this semester and try not to dwell on it. My next plan for today is to touch grass 🙂
 
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Write poetry! Reddit is getting hilarious. There was one really really funny one that referenced SDN but I can't find it now.

O Admissions, why dost thou mock my quest?
Have I not toiled, and given all my best?
Eight hundred fifty hours in clinic’s keep,
While thou, unmoved, in thine committee sleep.

A thousand hours in service, freely spent,
Yet still thy silence is thine sole consent.
Two papers published, writ with scholar’s might,
But thou seest not, though blinded by the light.

Dost thou seek jesters, clowns with empty deeds,
While true devotion withers, choked by weeds?
If merit earns not even one invite,
Perchance thy judgment, not my worth, is slight.

So keep thy scrolls, thy portals locked and tight—
Another school shall crown me with delight.
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My fear as well with TMSDAS. Others around me are getting interview invites, and COMPLETE SILENCE ON MY END. AT least let me know if there's any red flags on my application. I can't stand this wait. IT's driving me insane. I've completely withdrawn from people around me.
 
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CDaFutureDocMan said:
Not having heard back from any of the schools I applied to has caused concern that I may have made an error somewhere along the way, and that the schools are simply not reviewing my application. At least if I had a single Pre-II R, I would know that they read my app and made a decision. Can anyone relate to this feeling? I understand that the truth is I'm either silently on hold or haven't been reviewed yet, but having submitted as early as possible for every school, I'd expect to have received at least some feedback so far.
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I haven’t heard back from most of my MD programs and I was verified 5/30 and submitted all my secondaries before August. It is stressful—the feeling of not knowing. But we will be a-okay. We can’t do anything now other than wait. Some schools might end up ghosting us all together. Who knows? Control what we can control.
 
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Azaesal said:
I haven’t heard back from most of my MD programs and I was verified 5/30 and submitted all my secondaries before August. It is stressful—the feeling of not knowing. But we will be a-okay. We can’t do anything now other than wait. Some schools might end up ghosting us all together. Who knows? Control what we can control.
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At least you've gotten interview invities. Some of us have heard NOTHING, no interview, nothing. It's frustrating man, I am worried everyday there's a typo on my application or something that has made me blacklisted.
 
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Azaesal said:
I haven’t heard back from most of my MD programs and I was verified 5/30 and submitted all my secondaries before August. It is stressful—the feeling of not knowing. But we will be a-okay. We can’t do anything now other than wait. Some schools might end up ghosting us all together. Who knows? Control what we can control.
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Dude, you have 8 interviews....you are not who this thread is for
 
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Azaesal said:
I haven’t heard back from most of my MD programs and I was verified 5/30 and submitted all my secondaries before August. It is stressful—the feeling of not knowing. But we will be a-okay. We can’t do anything now other than wait. Some schools might end up ghosting us all together. Who knows? Control what we can control.
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The sentiment is nice, but is really tone death when you have gotten an II from almost 1/4th of your schools and have triple the IIs a typical applicant gets.
 
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chillstill said:
At least you've gotten interview invities. Some of us have heard NOTHING, no interview, nothing. It's frustrating man, I am worried everyday there's a typo on my application or something that has made me blacklisted.
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I’m not sure if this will help you, but the anxiety doesn’t disappear the moment you receive your first II. The reality is that we’ve all been working virtually every second of our adult lives toward this goal, and the entire process feels like a referendum on our worth as individuals (and even if it’s not, the impact is the same). That awareness is likely to persist throughout the entire cycle until we finally receive an A. Plenty of people interview at 4 or 5 schools to get WL -> R.

It feels existential because it is. I genuinely believe that a significant portion of applicants in waiting would be devastated by failure. Some of us only have one shot and can’t afford to reapply. With FAP, I spent over $3000 on applications, and without it, I would likely spend nearly $10K. Who has that kind of money sitting around as an undergraduate, twice or thrice like some applicants?

We are the people who wanted to control everything, the “most neurotic/least chill,” because the process conditioned us to be this way through what it implicitly rewards. Now, for the first time in our adult lives, there’s nothing left to do. That’s completely incompatible with the coping mechanism for that frustration, which is to do something productive, even if it’s indirect.

All the reassurances that it’s still early in the cycle come across as tone-deaf and even patronizing because they don’t acknowledge the core truth: we are at a pivotal, transitional point in our lives, and a single decision will absolutely change the entire trajectory of our life opportunities. And because the process is not uniformly reciprocal (we're all on different "timelines" per se), all of the uncertainty is magnified.

This whole process really sucks. Refreshing your e-mail every 37 seconds and having full on stress responses to notifications from Mason Philpot on a near-weekly basis is brutal. Being glued to SDN, Reddit, and Admit and unconsciously trying to reverse engineer school processes feels like a notch or two away from conspiracy theory. But what can you do? It's only the rest of your life.
 
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chillstill said:
At least you've gotten interview invities. Some of us have heard NOTHING, no interview, nothing. It's frustrating man, I am worried everyday there's a typo on my application or something that has made me blacklisted.
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sardinetoast said:
Dude, you have 8 interviews....you are not who this thread is for
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PickaGodnPray said:
The sentiment is nice, but is really tone death when you have gotten an II from almost 1/4th of your schools and have triple the IIs a typical applicant gets.
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I have gotten II’s yes—but I also worked my tail off this last year to save up 6k to put up out of my own pocket to apply to all these schools. I want to hear back, even if it’s just a rejection.

I’m absolutely blessed to be in the position I’m in. Doesn’t mean I can’t be there for my fellow humans and share how we both feel the same!
 
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Azaesal said:
I have gotten II’s yes—but I also worked my tail off this last year to save up 6k to put up out of my own pocket to apply to all these schools. I want to hear back, even if it’s just a rejection.

I’m absolutely blessed to be in the position I’m in. Doesn’t mean I can’t be there for my fellow humans and share how we both feel the same!
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By nature of the fact that you have heard from 1/4 of the schools you applied to, and 8 of those are with IIs, you actually don't feel the same. I'm not invalidating your concerns, but your concerns are different than the majority of students who haven't heard from a single school.

Also we all worked our tails off to get here, you are not an exception. If you can't understand how your comments are tone deaf, then you need to do some introspection
 
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Azaesal said:
I have gotten II’s yes—but I also worked my tail off this last year to save up 6k to put up out of my own pocket to apply to all these schools. I want to hear back, even if it’s just a rejection.
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Jesus dude, you think other applicants haven't worked just as hard if not harder to apply with their own money? I've applied a few times, each with my own money, working to save up enough to apply each cycle throughout the year. What you are saying is no longer coming across as empathetic but a flex, I hope you have the emotional intelligence to realize that.
 
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PickaGodnPray said:
Jesus dude, you think other applicants haven't worked just as hard if not harder to apply with their own money? I've applied a few times, each with my own money, working to save up enough to apply each cycle throughout the year. What you are saying is no longer coming across as empathetic but a flex, I hope you have the emotional intelligence to realize that.
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sardinetoast said:
By nature of the fact that you have heard from 1/4 of the schools you applied to, and 8 of those are with IIs, you actually don't feel the same. I'm not invalidating your concerns, but your concerns are different than the majority of students who haven't heard from a single school.

Also we all worked our tails off to get here, you are not an exception. If you can't understand how your comments are tone deaf, then you need to do some introspection
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First off, I never said I worked harder than anybody. Me putting up money to get in is something we all can relate with—it’s not some “Oh look what I did”. If you took what I’m saying as a declaration of how “hard I worked to be here” then flipped it to “you’re flexing now bro” then y’all deserve a gold medal for jumping to conclusions.

Second of all, @PickaGodnPray, you definitely have worked your tail off to get here. That’s what’s up! And I’m proud of you for how far you’ve come. But don’t try to come at me and say I have no idea what it’s like and how I can’t relate. I have always tried to be positive to my peers, so if you take what I’m saying as negative—you’re fighting that battle with yourself.

Alas, @sardinetoast. Mate, how are YOU going to tell me how I feel isn’t like the others? That’s wild. You are trying to say that “we all worked hard to be here”…when did I say that I was the only one? Like?? I’m saying I get it, we put up a ton of effort, money, blood, sweat, and tears. We just want to hear back. For some, it hasn’t arrived yet—doesn’t mean I don’t get how they’re feeling. Come on now.
 
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Azaesal said:
First off, I never said I worked harder than anybody. Me putting up money to get in is something we all can relate with—it’s not some “Oh look what I did”. If you took what I’m saying as a declaration of how “hard I worked to be here” then flipped it to “you’re flexing now bro” then y’all deserve a gold medal for jumping to conclusions.

Second of all, @PickaGodnPray, you definitely have worked your tail off to get here. That’s what’s up! And I’m proud of you for how far you’ve come. But don’t try to come at me and say I have no idea what it’s like and how I can’t relate. I have always tried to be positive to my peers, so if you take what I’m saying as negative—you’re fighting that battle with yourself.

Alas, @sardinetoast. Mate, how are YOU going to tell me how I feel isn’t like the others? That’s wild. You are trying to say that “we all worked hard to be here”…when did I say that I was the only one? Like?? I’m saying I get it, we put up a ton of effort, money, blood, sweat, and tears. We just want to hear back. For some, it hasn’t arrived yet—doesn’t mean I don’t get how they’re feeling. Come on now.
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This was definitely written by chatgpt thats crazy work
 
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Azaesal said:
Ahh yes, when you run out of things to say, you grasp at straws
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I'm actually not out of things to say. I just find it frustrating to try to explain common empathy to someone who doesn't seem to understand it, despite several people telling them that they are being tone deaf. I didn't say that you couldn't understand the stress of applying, but you simply cannot understand being where most students are right now, with no interviews or communication from schools. You are lucky for that! Be glad you cannot relate. I'm sure you are still stressed, and I never said you weren't.

In life, there will be things you can't relate to, and spaces that are not for you.
 
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sardinetoast said:
I'm actually not out of things to say. I just find it frustrating to try to explain common empathy to someone who doesn't seem to understand it, despite several people telling them that they are being tone deaf. I didn't say that you couldn't understand the stress of applying, but you simply cannot understand being where most students are right now, with no interviews or communication from schools. You are lucky for that! Be glad you cannot relate. I'm sure you are still stressed, and I never said you weren't.

In life, there will be things you can't relate to, and spaces that are not for you.
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Now that’s some wisdom I can get down with
 
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