I declined interview from one school last year, will it effect me this year

[emno]

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Hi,

I appied to only 1 DO school last year and I got a call from them for interview. I told them that I have decided to take a year break and requested them not to conduct my interview. The school had fixed my interview date.

I will be applying to same school this year. Will it effect my chances there?

thanks

 

[TriagePreMed]

Nobody can tell you for sure, but it is within common sense to think this school won't want to bother with a flake. You shouldn't have applied last year if you didn't want to go, unless you changed your mind because of a family tragedy or something else urgent, but what's done is done.

 

[emno]

I applied before I took my MCAT and I did not do well in MCAt. So I thought to improve my application. and the school withdrew my application.

 

[cliffhuxtableDO]

you declined an interview? are you on hard drugs?

if you would've gotten in you could've tried to defer... but not even going to the interview... well, i wouldn't hold your breath.

 

[emno]

you declined an interview? are you on hard drugs?

if you would've gotten in you could've tried to defer... but not even going to the interview... well, i wouldn't hold your breath.

I just wanted to give one more try to improve my MCAT to get a better choices.
My advisor told me that it is better to refuse the interview then not going after getting selected.

 

[futuredoc4432]

I applied before I took my MCAT and I did not do well in MCAt. So I thought to improve my application. and the school withdrew my application.

you got an interview without your mcat score in??

 

[lokiperson]

I just wanted to give one more try to improve my MCAT to get a better choices.
My advisor told me that it is better to refuse the interview then not going after getting selected.

Hmm.. so you didn't want to go the interview from the ONE school you applied to so you have better choices the next cycle? What exactly was the point of even applying to that ONE school? If you had applied to multiple schools, then I could kind of see what you were getting at.. but saying you applied to only one and then declining the interview because you wanted better choices doesn't make a whole lot of sense..

 

[p30doc]

I just wanted to give one more try to improve my MCAT to get a better choices.
My advisor told me that it is better to refuse the interview then not going after getting selected.

LOL advisors. It is better to decline an interview than to decline an acceptance, but it would have been better to just attend if accepted instead of wasting a year of income earning potential to end up in the same place.

 

[JaggerPlate]

I know it's not what you want to hear ... but I'd be willing to be money it affects you. Like others have said, you should have gone and deferred a potential acceptance. Regardless, it's in the past now ... just apply and see what happens.

 

[mmikey]

I'd just go for it. If the question comes up why you deferred, be honest and say that you wanted to take a year off to explore interest X. Just be prepared to back up your reasoning!

 

[saylorsdad]

I would say it probably will effect you and you should have attended the interview last year. by any chance did you decline the interview because of mcat score less than they required? or was do your backup and that is the only interview you received? not trying to start a flame war just asking a fairly obvious question that you may have to defend.

 

[emno]

My MCAt score last year was a 23. I thought I do not have any chance for an MD so I thouht to give it one more try and take a year break. Try hard for a good MCAT and then go for MD or DO which ever comes. MD > DO. I wanted to give one try to MD school before settling down for a DO. a 23 was not at all in competion for an MD. I wanted to compete once again for MD and if fail then be happy whatever it comes.
I told the lady who called me that I want to take a year break and plan to apply next cycle.

 

[sideways]

You're hosed bro. Your "advisor," with 99% certainty, ruined your ability to go to medical school in the US. I'd remove her from my holiday card list if I were you.

BTW, I have a theory. I think that the field of medicine wants people that have the ability to properly figure out the hurdles of getting into medical school for themselves. Thus they have "the advisor": an incompetent ***** that tells you exactly the opposite of what you should do.

Any person willing to leverage their future on the advice of some fool worth 38k/year that has never done anything remotely similar to applying, let alone attending, medical school doesn't really belong in medical school.

 

[TriagePreMed]

My MCAt score last year was a 23. I thought I do not have any chance for an MD so I thouht to give it one more try and take a year break. Try hard for a good MCAT and then go for MD or DO which ever comes. MD > DO. I wanted to give one try to MD school before settling down for a DO. a 23 was not at all in competion for an MD. I wanted to compete once again for MD and if fail then be happy whatever it comes.
I told the lady who called me that I want to take a year break and plan to apply next cycle.

Then what was the point of even applying to this DO school to begin with? Talk about immature choices. If I were you, I'd save the cash of sending an application to the school you declined interview.

 

[emno]

It was my first cycle. I applied to the school. Then some one adviced me that give one more try to boost your MCAT and may be next year you have better choices. I knew that with a 23 I dont have any choice and even may not be able to make it any where. But I still applied to one school. When I got a call from the school, I called them back telling that I want to take a year break.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

My MCAt score last year was a 23. I thought I do not have any chance for an MD so I thouht to give it one more try and take a year break. Try hard for a good MCAT and then go for MD or DO which ever comes. MD > DO. I wanted to give one try to MD school before settling down for a DO. a 23 was not at all in competion for an MD. I wanted to compete once again for MD and if fail then be happy whatever it comes.
I told the lady who called me that I want to take a year break and plan to apply next cycle.

With a 2.4 science gpa you got 0 chance at MD schools.
The way to improve your chances is to go do a post-bacc and raise your gpa and then take the mcat after. If you did well in your post-bacc your mcat will probably go up.

 

[BassCaster]

so did you retake and score higher then 23 for this cycle? don't make the same mistake this year!

 

[Hextra]

I think the part that gets most people is you got an interview with your stats. This puts you ahead of the majority of that school's applicants (few interviews are usually given compared to the # of applicants), and puts you in a great position to actually be accepted.

You should have gone to the interview--what did you have to lose? An acceptance = woohoo I'm gonna be a doctor! Rejection = same spot you're in now, though you could probably ask the admissions office what you can do in the future to improve your application.

I think if you apply again to this school, you will absolutely have to have a good reason to explain to them why you declined an interview. I hope for your sake the school isn't bitter about such things.

GL

 

[emno]

With a 2.4 science gpa you got 0 chance at MD schools.
The way to improve your chances is to go do a post-bacc and raise your gpa and then take the mcat after. If you did well in your post-bacc your mcat will probably go up.

I have a 3.6 GPA (3.46 sGpa, 3.76 nonscience GPA).

so did you retake and score higher then 23 for this cycle? don't make the same mistake this year!

I took it again on 5/22 and waiting for the result. Not sure how I did. I am sure I will not make that mistake. I just wanted to see if I have more choice next cycle. I am waiting my MCAt (took on 5/22)

I think the part that gets most people is you got an interview with your stats. This puts you ahead of the majority of that school's applicants (few interviews are usually given compared to the # of applicants), and puts you in a great position to actually be accepted.

You should have gone to the interview--what did you have to lose? An acceptance = woohoo I'm gonna be a doctor! Rejection = same spot you're in now, though you could probably ask the admissions office what you can do in the future to improve your application.

I think if you apply again to this school, you will absolutely have to have a good reason to explain to them why you declined an interview. I hope for your sake the school isn't bitter about such things.

GL

Now at what stage I can explain this.

I thougt it is not a big deal I wanted to take a year break and try to get more choices. I called the school politely that I want a year break and they sent me an email confirming that my application is withdrawn. I did nopt creat any problems with them and jus immediately after getting an interview call, I requested to cancel it. How can these school be so punishing that you be honest and tell them Hey I want a year break and they say, OK, we will not talk to you in future. I understand that it is immature for me to apply when I was not ready to go to the school. I feel it is more immature and irresponsible for teh school to punish me that I said no to their interview. Do i not have right to take one more chance to improve my application to get more choice. Aas I said I am not sure if my MCAt is improved but dont I have a right to try to take a chance.

as My MCAT was only 23, I did not apply to other schools. And I did not want to settle only without exploring my choices and try to improve my MCAT. though I am not sure if my MCAT is improved(result awaited).

 

[Neurocentric]

I have a 3.6 GPA (3.46 sGpa, 3.76 nonscience GPA).

I took it again on 5/22 and waiting for the result. Not sure how I did. I am sure I will not make that mistake. I just wanted to see if I have more choice next cycle. I am waiting my MCAt (took on 5/22)


Now at what stage I can explain this.

I thougt it is not a big deal I wanted to take a year break and try to get more choices. I called the school politely that I want a year break and they sent me an email confirming that my application is withdrawn. I did nopt creat any problems with them and jus immediately after getting an interview call, I requested to cancel it. How can these school be so punishing that you be honest and tell them Hey I want a year break and they say, OK, we will not talk to you in future. I understand that it is immature for me to apply when I was not ready to go to the school. I feel it is more immature and irresponsible for teh school to punish me that I said no to their interview. Do i not have right to take one more chance to improve my application to get more choice. Aas I said I am not sure if my MCAt is improved but dont I have a right to try to take a chance.

as My MCAT was only 23, I did not apply to other schools. And I did not want to settle only without exploring my choices and try to improve my MCAT. though I am not sure if my MCAT is improved(result awaited).

Not to be rude, but the way this is typed and worded makes me wonder how you have a 3.6 GPA (like you said).

Anyway, though, you are definitely allowed to improve yourself and your scores.. but you got an interview. That means that with your GPA and MCAT score, they still wanted to interview you. At that point, you would have only needed to improve yourself if they still ended up rejecting you. It was a waste of time, really, to apply, wait for an interview, and then decline. You should have withdrawn your application immediately, or not even applied at all. But the fact of the matter is, you got an interview when the school knew your stats, so it was silly to withdraw.

I hope this does not affect your chances this year, but like most have said, you better be sure you have a great explanation. Just saying, "I wanted to improve my stats," really isn't enough, especially because (reiterating this again) they wanted an interview even knowing your MCAT score.

 

[lokiperson]

I have a 3.6 GPA (3.46 sGpa, 3.76 nonscience GPA).

See, now this is where you're throwing everyone off. In the Underdog Thread you stated this:

Thanks for your wishes. But I had burnt out so WELL in my studies that I am not sure how I did on 5/22. I am keeping my fingers crossed but really not sure how I did. and at times I fel that I did worst then the first MCAT.
3.6 is my GPA. My science GPA is 2.4x and non science is 3.7x (My application is not varified so not sure exect numbers and I have been lazy to calculate it my self).
I had taken a few courses at community college in my high school where in I made a 4.0 and as AACOM consider the community school GPA also, it boosed by GPA. My college GPA is 3.5 but when you add it with teh community college GPA, it is 3.6.

If that was a typo, it would be best that you reply to that thread to correct yourself because you've created quite an uproar.. ha. Same with this thread because now the picture is a little more clear. With a better MCAT score, you could conceivably give yourself many more options. Although I can't quite remember, but I think there was a section on the AACOMAS application that asks if you've ever applied.. or maybe it just asks if you're a re-applicant. In any case, I would have a solid explanation as to why you applied the first time and withdrew after receiving an interview because it may very well come up in future interviews.

 

[emno]

That was a typo. It was 3.4 and not 2.4. I am sorry for the typo.
when ever I come to teh site, I jut type very fast and make typo/gram mistakes.
My question is where I need to explain why I did apply. But I want to be honest and tell them the truth that I wanted to improve my stats to get a better choice. It is diferent that I might get 23 in MCAT again. But I wanted to give it a try and did. If the school want to be so much concerned about my first time application, it is my bad luck. But my only intension was/is to improve my MCAt and then give it a final try.

Thank

 

[HimeMomo]

enmo, you have bad grammar...

 

[emno]

enmo, you have bad grammar...

i looks like that. but beleive me I am not that bad.

when I refused the interview i did not have any idea that it may become a big deal in my future applications.

Did any one has an experience of refusing interview and the applied in next cycle?

 

[drerp88]

👍 hahah so true

You're hosed bro. Your "advisor," with 99% certainty, ruined your ability to go to medical school in the US. I'd remove her from my holiday card list if I were you.

BTW, I have a theory. I think that the field of medicine wants people that have the ability to properly figure out the hurdles of getting into medical school for themselves. Thus they have "the advisor": an incompetent ***** that tells you exactly the opposite of what you should do.

Any person willing to leverage their future on the advice of some fool worth 38k/year that has never done anything remotely similar to applying, let alone attending, medical school doesn't really belong in medical school.

 

[seap3]

enmo, you have bad grammar...

i looks like that. but beleive me I am not that bad.

when I refused the interview i did not have any idea that it may become a big deal in my future applications. (this sentence is ok for a message board)

Did any one has an experience of refusing interview and the applied in next cycle?

Sorry emno, but it really is that bad. It's been somewhat painful reading some of your posts. I was wondering if perhaps English was not your first language. Not trying to be mean, but it may be something you need to work on before you apply again.

 

[mmikey]

i looks like that. but beleive me I am not that bad.

when I refused the interview i did not have any idea that it may become a big deal in my future applications.

Did any one has an experience of refusing interview and the applied in next cycle?

I feel it wouldn't be a big deal, just don't tell them that you wanted to improve your stats to improve your choices. You choose a medical school you want to apply to because you had an interest to attend there. Give them something else, you continued volunteer activities, you needed to work to save money before applying, etc etc. If you *honestly* feel this is a huge deal, send the nice admissions people an email and ask them if it will look bad that you decided to wait a year because of X. Just don't don't don't tell them you wanted to improve your stats so you can have more choices.

 

[emno]

I feel it wouldn't be a big deal, just don't tell them that you wanted to improve your stats to improve your choices. You choose a medical school you want to apply to because you had an interest to attend there. Give them something else, you continued volunteer activities, you needed to work to save money before applying, etc etc. If you *honestly* feel this is a huge deal, send the nice admissions people an email and ask them if it will look bad that you decided to wait a year because of X. Just don't don't don't tell them you wanted to improve your stats so you can have more choices.

I appriciate your advice.
I plan to just apply to the school again and will handle it when the and if the question arises. The best answer looks to be that I wanted to save money.


thanks