Feedback from schools

[CycloneDO]

---

Members do not see this ad.

I was wondering if it would be appropriate to get feedback from schools that I applied to but was denied an interview? I only interviewed at one school and would like more feedback.

Also the thought of writing a new personal statement makes me cringe. I think it was one of my strengths in my application but I know I can't just reapply with the same essay. It focused primarily on specific situations from my time as a medic in the military. I hate to give that strength up but how do I rewrite without resaying the same thing?

 

[boone95]

I was wondering if it would be appropriate to get feedback from schools that I applied to but was denied an interview? I only interviewed at one school and would like more feedback.

Also the thought of writing a new personal statement makes me cringe. I think it was one of my strengths in my application but I know I can't just reapply with the same essay. It focused primarily on specific situations from my time as a medic in the military. I hate to give that strength up but how do I rewrite without resaying the same thing?

It wouldn't hurt to ask them. You may not hear back from some, but who cares. Any advice you can get is good to have.

I reapplied and didn't totally change my PS... just updated it and tweaked it. Maybe after not reading it for a couple months then coming back to it will give you some new ideas. It may also be a possibility to add something about the year you've had off.

 

[fahimaz7]

They are going to talk about your GPA and your MCAT. With a 3.2 and a 25.. Bring it up (even for DO) and keep trucking!

 

[nontrdgsbuiucmd]

Yes you should request feedback - the more the better! I rec'd feedback from a ton of schools that I'd not interviewed with, got some great advice, and was accepted as a reapp to a school that had not interviewed me 1st time around (& opted out of the waitlist for another school due to this 1st acceptance - was a reapp to school #2 after not being interviewed there either in the 1st round)

I'd looked at the feedback from the schools as one component of my decision to reapply to the school -- if they said in the feedback session that they essentially only accepted instate candidates or OOS candidates who were attending school in that state, I learned that reapplying there would be a poor call. But if the school outlined which areas they were interested in, and I had nailed 3 of the 5, I learned to beef up those other 2 (or write more explicitly about them in the PS) rather than writing off that school. Getting feedback from each school is really the only way to do that.