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Looking for perspective and possibly advice here:
I submitted my AMCAS primary app on Friday, and although I thought I had double-checked everything, I discovered yesterday that there was one section that I apparently hadn't updated from last cycle (when I applied at the last second to just 2 schools in my home area). In a "most meaningful experience" box, I had gone well out of my way to emphasize how an experience had led me to want to serve my home community. It's pretty emphatic about this because last year I was only applying within my state, and I wanted to show commitment to my home area after a former career that involved traveling a lot. And while it would still be nice on some levels to serve my home community as a doctor, I wouldn't have emphasized that at all this year if I had caught that, because it's not a defining part of what I want to do as a doctor and I assume it'll make me pretty undesirable to all OOS state schools (and maybe some private schools).
On the plus side:
I submitted my AMCAS primary app on Friday, and although I thought I had double-checked everything, I discovered yesterday that there was one section that I apparently hadn't updated from last cycle (when I applied at the last second to just 2 schools in my home area). In a "most meaningful experience" box, I had gone well out of my way to emphasize how an experience had led me to want to serve my home community. It's pretty emphatic about this because last year I was only applying within my state, and I wanted to show commitment to my home area after a former career that involved traveling a lot. And while it would still be nice on some levels to serve my home community as a doctor, I wouldn't have emphasized that at all this year if I had caught that, because it's not a defining part of what I want to do as a doctor and I assume it'll make me pretty undesirable to all OOS state schools (and maybe some private schools).
On the plus side:
- I only designated 1 school on AMCAS so far, and I intend to designate 20 total, so I could still revise my school list in light of this mistake.
- My PS this year says nothing about serving my home community, and talks a lot about wanting to help reshape the healthcare system, which I intend to apply to MD/JD programs to do (and I chose all the OOS public schools on my current school list for their MD/JD program, so hopefully it'll be clear that I have a good reason for why I want to apply to them).
