Medical Dismissed from Medical School...What are my chances reapplying?

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Hello,

In general, can anyone here speak on a student's chance of being readmitted to medical school after being dismissed from another medical school?
I can't sugar coat this, as close to zero as you can get. In all my years of being on SDN, I know of only 2-3 people who pulled this off. I believe they all were readmitted to the same school they were dismissed from.

If this happened to you, your medical career is over. Time to move on.
 
Same as what Goro stated. I've only seen 1-2, and not even personally as they were posts here on SDN. From what I've read, they were also re-admitted to the same school.

Whether or not it will even be the slightest bit possible for you will also depend on the circumstance(s) by which you were dismissed, which is(are) not provided here.
 
After reading your post shared from another forum, my thoughts are this...

You applied 6 times apparently before being admitted and you did not pass your first year. Without more information, it appears that you may have struggled with undergrad with having to repair GPA to match your MCAT which was mentioned to be old. You then struggled with 1st year only to be dismissed. It appears the struggle was great because if it was only 1-2 classes, most would have either remediated and moved on, or been offered to repeat the year. You were dismissed. That tells me that grades were extremely low and/or you failed more than 2 classes. This is not a good track record, and demonstrates even more that you'd be less than likely to be re-admitted. Going Caribbean would be a disaster for you with even less support and higher costs with lower chances of residency because you now have an addition transcript showing failures and would be Caribbean student.

It's time to cut the losses and utilize your MPH and make way in that sector so that you may still be involved with healthcare in some way. At this point, your involvement in healthcare will not be as a physician, and I'm sorry to say that, but someone has to say it.
 
After reading your post shared from another forum, my thoughts are this...

You applied 6 times apparently before being admitted and you did not pass your first year. Without more information, it appears that you may have struggled with undergrad with having to repair GPA to match your MCAT which was mentioned to be old. You then struggled with 1st year only to be dismissed. It appears the struggle was great because if it was only 1-2 classes, most would have either remediated and moved on, or been offered to repeat the year. You were dismissed. That tells me that grades were extremely low and/or you failed more than 2 classes. This is not a good track record, and demonstrates even more that you'd be less than likely to be re-admitted. Going Caribbean would be a disaster for you with even less support and higher costs with lower chances of residency because you now have an addition transcript showing failures and would be Caribbean student.

It's time to cut the losses and utilize your MPH and make way in that sector so that you may still be involved with healthcare in some way. At this point, your involvement in healthcare will not be as a physician, and I'm sorry to say that, but someone has to say it.
Yikes… with that knowledge, getting in on the 6th try means you were thrown a real lifeline chance on you, and you just blew it. To be dismissed means you pretty much failed all your classes and no amount of remediation was deemed to be sufficient enough. You were already carrying in a questionable record which a school gave you a chance to overcome. I always feel bad when someone fails out, but we folks in admissions get a lot of heat standing up for someone we really believe could do it only to be disappointed in spite of all the signs that say otherwise.
 
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