I emailed my state school about my rejection, no reply?

[TheAppleJuice]

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I emailed my state school about a month ago asking if they provide advice for people rejected. I had above average stats and they interview a lot of instate applicants so idk what went wrong

but they never replied... should I send them another email at this point? @Goro @gonnif there is no information on their website as to whether they give feedback, and I emailed a few other schools who replied already that they do give feedback

 

[Goro]

I'd say that the lack of a reply IS your reply.

Alas, not all school will give you feedback...but you tried!

 

[Goro]

Another thing...you asked the question. Med school admissions people aren't there to give you advice.

They *may* provide feedback...it's hit or miss, as you have seen.

 

[TheAppleJuice]

I'd say that the lack of a reply IS your reply.

Alas, not all school will give you feedback...but you tried!

Some of the schools I emailed did reply with the answer that they don't provide feedback.. but they did reply. Don't you think a school would at least reply to an email?

 

[ineedhelpplse]

Just call the admissions office

 

[Goro]

Some of the schools I emailed did reply with the answer that they don't provide feedback.. but they did reply. Don't you think a school would at least reply to an email?

My wife is always dismayed when people fail to respond to emails.

This facet of human behavior is very common (the lack of replying, not the dismay)

 

[HomeSkool]

Some of the schools I emailed did reply with the answer that they don't provide feedback.. but they did reply. Don't you think a school would at least reply to an email?

Not necessarily. Think about the volume of work going through the admissions office right now. They may have deliberately declined to reply, or your message may have been overlooked. Either way, this isn't the kind of thing you follow up.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

Look at it this way....they received thousands of applications. This is a busy time for them and they likely have limited resources for the entire process. They don’t have the time to individually look up the reasons why most were rejected, so they don’t. If they responded to you, and you told others, then they could soon be inundated with similar requests.

I don’t know exactly how the process works. Maybe some adcoms here can provide input. When an applicant is rejected, are they simply rejected or are there notes added to the file giving the reasons why? Is there a rubric in their file which would indicate shortcomings? If no reasons are noted, then sometime later getting questioned by rejected applicants would take a lot of time to sort out. And even if reasons are noted, not sure that the one person reading the email really has the right to disclose what was written.

 

[deleted480308]

SDN is for advice.....not adcoms

Tell us your situation and maybe you’ll get guidance here

 

[PreMedMissteps]

I emailed my state school about a month ago asking if they provide advice for people rejected. I had above average stats and they interview a lot of instate applicants so idk what went wrong

but they never replied... should I send them another email at this point? @Goro @gonnif there is no information on their website as to whether they give feedback, and I emailed a few other schools who replied already that they do give feedback

An app is more than just GPA and MCAT scores. What else is on your resume? Shadowing? Which specialties did you shadow and for how long? Volunteering? Community involvement? Research?

A parent recently contacted me with the happy news that her daughter was accepted to her #1 choice, a highly ranked instate public. Daughter had a perfect GPA, but not great MCAT....around 507. She said that they were so surprised because some of her daughter’s instate friends had similar GPA but higher MCAT but were not interviewed. The parent thought that the system is random, but it’s really not. Her daughter had excellent ECs...research, volunteering, involvement with low-income communities, etc. i think the perfect GPA in a science major was also a big plus because it strongly suggests that she’ll be able to handle med school classes. Her app was well-reviewed before she submitted to catch any syntax errors, clarity, etc. Who knows what the others submitted and how extensive their resumes were. The process is not random.

 

[Med Ed]

I emailed my state school about a month ago asking if they provide advice for people rejected. I had above average stats and they interview a lot of instate applicants so idk what went wrong

but they never replied... should I send them another email at this point? @Goro @gonnif there is no information on their website as to whether they give feedback, and I emailed a few other schools who replied already that they do give feedback

Agree with @ineedhelpplse that a phone call would be the obvious thing to do.

This is not exactly the least busy part of the admissions cycle, so your request may have simply been lost in the shuffle.