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To everyone reading, this happened over a year ago and OP has most likely moved one.
To answer your question, I have no clue what happened. However, the engineer below OP had an interview from a school he turned down several years back (SDN logic would dictate that he shouldn't have gotten an interview).
So I will state what I have seen through the years reading the responses. There have been several instances on here where DO acceptances were turn down and said applicants got accepted into MD (oh and yes DO schools also). However, these are a small handful (but more than anecdotal).
However, you have to remember almost everyone approaches this process as "one in the hand is worth two in the bush." We advocate the risk adverse approach because it takes a lot of effort, time, and money to get into medical school. So why waste years of your life pursuing those "two in the bush." As I mentioned in the example above with my friend, he had a several birds in the hand but wanted that large turkey of an MD school. He pretty much let go of his acceptances to pursue the dangerous route of a post-bacc and nearly lost game dearly because of it.
This is not to say your chances are nearly zero of getting accepted again. It is more to say is it really worth it to spend extra years of your life and at a greater risk of not getting in again to pursue a greater opportunity. Delaying gratification for too long can hurt you in the long run, a very important lesson that should be learned sooner than later.
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