Do schools know if you were rejected the previous year???!!!!

[flaktroop3r]

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Hi.

Lets say that I applied last year to only 3 schools: A, B, and C. Now, if I'm applying to schools C, D, and F this year, then will schools D and F know that I was rejected from A, B, and C the previous year? Or will they think that I'm a first-time applicant? I don't want to strike anyone as a loser...

Thanks.

 

[Amy B]

They won't know unless you applied to their school and then they will ask what you've done between the first time you applied and this time.

I don't recall the subject ever coming up in any of my interviews, but if it does, just answer "Yes I applied previously." And leave it at that unless your interviewer presses you for more info, but they really wouldn't have any reason to.

 

[mooklyster]

Lots of people do not get in the first time around. Schools know this, and some even like to see the fact that you kept trying. Hopefully you did something to upgrade a bit in the year...ie. an extracurricular, volunteering etc. Even if not, they do not mind, usually no prejudice. They will however hold it against you if you got in somewhere but it was not up to your standards and decided not to go. That they see and apparently do not like at all.

By the was...what happened to school E?

 

[flaktroop3r]

Thanks for the replies.

However...

1) Are you sure of that because it never came up duirng your interviews.... or because you know that for a fact, independent of your experiences? I have to be certain, as I want (or actually, need) to say 'NO' when asked by the interviewer, "Did you apply to medschool last year?"

2) School E sucks. They'll take my $$$ and reject me right away.

 

[medic170]

Don't I recall AMCAS asking on the central application if you have ever applied to med school before? Maybe I am remembering wrong, but I think it asked that.

 

[ZOT! ZOT!]

Don't I recall AMCAS asking on the central application if you have ever applied to med school before? Maybe I am remembering wrong, but I think it asked that.

When you're choosing schools, they ask if you are a reapplicant for each and every school and you have to answer yes or no. The right thing to do would be to say yes, because if they find out you are a reapplicant and you say know, that's a credibility issue. Maye even worthy of an AMCAS investigation?

 

[Amy B]

AMCAS does ask if you have applied to the schools you are applying to, but it only asks if you are a reapplicant to the school you are applying to. If the OP is applying to schools C,D, F and has never applied to those, then they do not have to say yes. But if they apply to school they have previously applied to, then they have to answer yes.

There is not anything that asks if they have ever applied to med school in general. I have applied before but this time I applied only to schools I hadn't applied to before. So my application never had any where on it that I was applying again, and it only came up once in an interview. The other interviewers did not know I was a reapplicant because I had never applied to their school.

There is nothing to be ashamed of if they ask if you have applied before. They will more than likely not ask you about it. They have too much more to talk about. Don't lie if it comes up. Lots of applicants have to reapply. Don't be worried about telling them if they ask whihc they probably won't

Good luck.