Did anyone feel apathetic when you received your acceptance?

[Butters]

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Well, I applied to a range of DO and MD schools and COMP just told me that I was accepted. I always thought I would jump up and down screaming when I heard I got accepted, but I didn't. I just said "Great!" and went back to watching TV. I don't know if it's because I would rather have received an acceptance from Drexel or what. Perhaps it was because I always expected myself to get in eventually or maybe it's just the fact that there is much more work to do before I start actually practicing medicine. Maybe I haven't given it enough time to sink in. Anyone else feel the same way?

 

[zenblunder]

I feel you on that one. If anything, it's a little sad knowing that you won't be having much fun for a while. When I got my acceptance, it was more a feeling of "Now the really hard stuff begins."

 

[Robz]

I got my acceptance while I was in Disneyland on another interview trip out west. I was happy but I wasn't jumping up and down waving a flag. I was with a few friends and told them then we all went out of the park to downtown disney and I had a nice big alcoholic drink at the Rainforest Cafe. (it could also be that I was pissed my vols lost to georgia at home that day but I digress)

I was happy but I think I expected it of myself to get in if I had an interview. So, I wasn't overjoyed. It was a small toast and then we went and rode the matterhorn. Good times.

 

[Adapt]

Well, I applied to a range of DO and MD schools and COMP just told me that I was accepted. I always thought I would jump up and down screaming when I heard I got accepted, but I didn't. I just said "Great!" and went back to watching TV. I don't know if it's because I would rather have received an acceptance from Drexel or what. Perhaps it was because I always expected myself to get in eventually or maybe it's just the fact that there is much more work to do before I start actually practicing medicine. Maybe I haven't given it enough time to sink in. Anyone else feel the same way?

Perhaps you're not as enthusiastic then about going to COMP. I felt the same way when my first acceptance came from TUCOM. I was happy and it was a big relief, but then I thought about how I would have to move and stuff.

Are you from CA or out of state? Maybe you're just sad it's just a DO and not a MD acceptance.

 

[Butters]

I think the DO vs. MD thing must be part of it. Though I believe one isn't really better than the other, I still HATE having to explain what DO is and getting **** from my MD friends. I don't want to be a martyr for the DO cause, though I believe in it.

 

[VentdependenT]

Thats ok, you just need to have a large mental bowel movement to unload all the premed sdn mindset feces still cluttering your head. You're entering one grueling, humbling, and fascinating field. Ambivalence is the word. You are encountering it now, and you will for the rest of your medical career.

Its still not too late to turn back 😉 . Now go out and fun damn it!

 

[Mr Reddly]

I was at starbucks. I got the news, thought "gee, that's nice", and went back to drinking my coffee.

 

[Chronotropic]

I was pretty stoked to get my acceptance. Not to worried about having to explain what a DO is. Rheumatlogists, Nephrologists, etc have no problem explaining what they are, why should I?

 

[Fin-Nor]

i was really happy when i got the interview invite. being accepted was also great, but not as much so as the interview.

 

[evescadeceus]

I hear you on this, even though I have not been accepted at OUCOM yet. I am starting to suspect that this is exactly how I am going to feel, even though, of course, I would be very upset if I didn't get in.

I think the marathon dynamic of this application process is what does it to you, particularly if you're working full time while going through it. You're just so exhausted by the end of it that elation is not automatic. I'm thinking back on the months spend studying for the mcat at night, the weeks of constant, and I mean constant, followup with my recommenders in order to get those precious letters, the desperate budgeting that accompanied each trip for an out-of-state interview, and the knowledge that the day I get the acceptance I have to start out-of-town house hunting trips on top of packing up my shack for the move, plus all the thank-you notes I will owe and the hundred questions I will field regarding, "So what are you going to be specializing in?"

If you get an acceptance right after interviewing, which is the case for a lot of lucky folks at OUCOM, I think the "high" can be a whole lot higher. But dragging the whole thing out to the very end, which is what happens to every unfortunate squirming on some waitlist, has a way of taking the joy away.

 

[(nicedream)]

the hundred questions I will field regarding, "So what are you going to be specializing in?"

Oh my god, tell me about it. If I hear "so where are you going to school? and what kind of dr are you going to be?" one more time......

 

[kaikai128]

Agreed there with nicedream (although this is off the subject)...I have not applied yet, but my boss asked and I told him where i was going to apply. His remark was, "so you are going to be one of those bone crackers"...

 

[(nicedream)]

Agreed there with nicedream (although this is off the subject)...I have not applied yet, but my boss asked and I told him where i was going to apply. His remark was, "so you are going to be one of those bone crackers"...

I just leave the word "osteopathic" out of the name of the school when people ask where I'm going and I know they won't know what osteopathic medicine is. Then they just say "oh cool" instead of barraging me with further questions.

 

[Dr.ImCute]

I was more excited about my interviews than my acceptance.

Its weird, cuz I totally thought I SUCKED in my TUCOM interview... and I figured there was no way I was getting in, but I got my acceptance... and I was STILL chill about it. I think its that oh crap I got a lot of work ahead feeling that kills the joy of an acceptance.

But also, I get this feeling in the back of my head like, dude, theres no way you'll get rejected, so basically you're in, and you've known that you're in for a while... my brain is crazy like that I guess. 😀

And I think if COMP finally accepts me (I'm waitlisted), I'll probably be like... FINALLY, that damn administration finally realized what they would be missing out on! 😉

I got over the DO vs MD thing a long time ago when I looked at the paycheck difference... $0.

 

[Mr Reddly]

Oh wait. Some of you guys are apathetic cuz it's DO? (I hit the "new posts" button and didn't realize this was in the DO thread.... oops). To anyone that is. Mine was an MD back in October. And I was still apathetic.

As for people asking "What's that?", most people don't know what anything is! Shoot, when I tell people Case accepted me, their response is "Where's that? Is this for EMT or somethin?" Some people ask where I went to school and I say I started off at Johns Hopkins and then wen... They interrupt me to ask "What's John Hopkins? Never heard of it."... Ya, what ever.

As to "What kind of doctor are you going to be, I say "A good one." If that doesn't shut them up, I say "A rich one." ...like I have any clue what kind of doc I'm gonna be.

 

[Pooh Chong]

Reddly,

I went to JHU also. I just caught the omission of the s in Johns...what attention to detail. So many people think it's John Hopkins...it doesn't bother me too much, but everytime someone says it that way I always think about how it's Johns.

I felt apathetic as well. I think the first acceptance caused a great deal of relief rather than joy. With each new one after that...it's ways like..."oh, sweet"....back to whatever else I was doing.

 

[(nicedream)]

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I felt apathetic as well. I think the first acceptance caused a great deal of relief rather than joy. With each new one after that...it's ways like..."oh, sweet"....back to whatever else I was doing.

Relief, that's a perfect word for it.

 

[specialkay]

Hi everyone,

My feelings towards acceptance were of great relief as I wouldn't have to re-apply for the upcoming year as I thought that was the road I was heading down!!

I was also relieved that all the hard work paid off, esp because applying felt like playing the lottery, many many times. As a post-bacc student at a school that has a very ill-defined post-bacc program, it was hard not to talk to others who had been accepted long ago to MD programs without feeling a twinge of jealousy.

It was also hard to be the only pre-DO in the mix of the pre-health professional club ... but I looked at it as an opportunity to educate people about osteopathy. I was just relieved that I could be a part of the Osteopathic community because the work is so cool (geez, this is starting to sound like my personal statement).

It was really funny, but after three years of telling other pre-meds what it was and getting strange looks from the young 'uns when talking about Osteo schools, I pretty much just wanted to sit back, fill out my applications and tell the pre-meds that Osteopathy was a TERRIBLE profession, one where you were paid half as much as MD's, did twice the work, and had to specialize only in PROCTOLOGY or be a POOP doctor.

So, when I got my letter of acceptance I was incredibly happy that my hard work paid off, I got to enter a field I enjoy, leave my school of all pre-allos and move to a cheaper state. I truly hope all of you can have that same feeling.

Kay

 

[Dr.ImCute]

What are you talking about?

I went into osteopathy so I could specifically be a POOP doctor!

 

[specialkay]

Dare to dream darling, and maybe your dreams will come true!!

 

[Test Boy]

Is UHS now called the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences? If so, why the name change?

 

[tastytreat]

I was pretty psyched when I got in. Maybe it was because Michigan State does their acceptance/denial by phone with the applicant having to call and ask. That was quite possibly the most stressful phone call I've ever made but I won't deny doing a little jig when the admissions person said I was in.

 

[Robz]

Is UHS now called the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences? If so, why the name change?

Yes it is...there are few threads about this in the osteopathic forum. I think they wanterd to have the city included and other scienes as well cause they are expanding into research

 

[nate2973]

I know that if I get accepted I will be hollaring at the top of my lungs and then chugging some beers. I have been busting my butt so long that that is the least I can do.

 

[amccague]

Has anyone got any advice from family, other docs, dentists?
I got my acceptance and was actually one of those jumping up and down.
But lately ive been talking to people, my dentist says to be certain i want to do it, the field has changed so much, there is no money there, etc etc. Do you guys get that too? Family is supportive and excited i think. I either get the "Oh why do that there no money there" OR " Wow cool you must be smart" But not many inbetween.
Sorry if this in the wrong forum.

 

[hilikus]

do cosmetic dentistry, thats where the dough is 🙂

 

[JunkintheTrunk]

when i called my mom and told her i got into KCOM (my first acceptance) she was like "oh".....i was so pissseeddd!!! i think she assumed that i would decide to go to the first school i got into, plus she thought i was lowering my standards to go to a DO school (which i applied to late, just in case i didn't get into any of the MD schools i applied to). it turned out to be more than a "just in case" choice though, i also really ended up liking the philosophy a ton, and could picture myself being a DO. i finally convinced my mom otherwise, and that DO's are good docs that are everything a good MD is 😀

 

[divinity09]

I think it was the happiest day of my life, followed by two more, the day I got my acceptance at KCOM. I called everyone and sent emails. My friends were screaming on the other end of the line and people through a party.

I can imagine it being anticlimactic, especially when you realize the work ahead, and the changes that are going to have to happen, but when you work for so long at something you know you want to do, you have to feel at least a little satisfaction.

If you're ambivalent because you got accepted at D.O. vs. M.D., maybe you shouldn't apply to D.O. "just in case", because you think there is a huge difference. There is a difference, but the opportunities and qualifications are exactly the same. I know quite a few people who turned down M.D. acceptances to go to D.O. schools. I hate to break the news to some, but the only people who care about "D.O. vs. M.D." are premeds and the old guard, and the people who listen to them. If you look where graduates of D.O. schools are placing for residencies, you'd see Hopkins, UCLA, Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, Yale, etc. aren't too obsessed over the degree. At the University of Florida Medical School (M.D.), they explain to the students what and who D.O.'s are, and it's in a completely positive light.
I didn't mean to lecture on something that we see over and over again here.

Congratulations to everyone who did get accepted, especially to D.O. schools, but also at allopathic programs. I hope you realize you actually reached a really hard goal. Enjoy your summer (if you get one), and then get ready for the 30+ challenging years ahead of you. And yes, good luck explaining 'what a D.O. is', it comes with the territory.

-Aaron

 

[Chrisobean]

even though i sort of "expected" my acceptance, i was jumping up and down, it was the greatest day! everyone was so happy for me b/c they knew how much i busted my ass to get here. i finally get to go back to school (which ive missed SO MUCH working for 2 years) and i finally get to be close to my bf again. i cant wait to start!

 

[VentdependenT]

You will all feel the pain soon enough once the reality sets in that you will all be physicians. Especially when you haven't slept for 32 hours straight post call on trauma service and you're stitching up some drunken pugnacious (good word, use it) a$$hole's arm in the trauma center. This is after he got into a cocaine/methamphetamine and etoh induced ballpin hammer fight with his hillbilly cousins over a yuker game or something completely idiotic. C-collar city.

Having nice folks working with you makes ALL the difference. My intern (university of chicago guy) and I were almost peeing our pants we where so giddy from exhaustion as we pumped this drunken pendejo full of more versed so I could get my stitches in.

Have fun this summer!

 

[Chrisobean]

obviously, dont ruin it for me 🙂

 

[Robz]

pugnacious


nice