I’m probably being neurotic, and maybe I just need online strangers to bully me into chilling out, but I’ve been getting increasingly worried about having to reapply. I promise I am not writing this post to brag. I’m writing this because three schools I interviewed with (VCU, WashU, Hofstra) recently released waves of acceptances for the dates I interviewed. I received nothing, indicating I was most likely rejected/waitlisted based on historical trends. Considering this, combined with a USF waitlist in November (my only official post-II decision), I’m thinking I’ve done something wrong, especially because VCU is in-state and so many people I see with my stats already seem to have acceptances.
My Lizzy M score is 81, and while I didn’t have any outstanding ECs, I have been told my application was pretty solid. And on paper, it probably is; I'm very grateful to have received 11 interviews, including many reach schools I thought were impossible (Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, NYU). Yet, I don't seem to be converting any of my early interviews to acceptances, which I find particularly worrying at in-state schools like VCU. If some of those schools won't accept me, I highly doubt even more competitive programs will...
Reading posts on here, I began thinking it could be my interview skills. While we're not good judges of ourselves, I felt they all went well with the exception of VCU (due to distracting technical issues) and NYU. It's also worth mentioning that I completed a mock interview with two of my university’s premed advisors in August. I got positive feedback from them then, and since they generally don’t sugarcoat things, I didn’t think that would be a major problem until now. So as of yesterday, I scheduled two more mock interviews with different people before my 11th and final interview in January. Is there anything else I can do right now to maximize my chances for at least one acceptance?
As someone will probably tell me down below, I realize that I should always be preparing for a re-application until an acceptance is in hand. I have a full-time job, but I do need to restart non-clinical volunteering that ended when I moved back home after graduating from college. I’m still trying to find opportunities that I'm genuinely interested in and fit my rotating work schedule, though. I'll continue to work on that and perhaps make it a bigger priority.
With all that being said, I know I’m in a favorable position to get at least one acceptance, but I’m kinda going crazy over this whole process. I don’t have any friends knowledgeable about medical school applications to vent to, so maybe I just need to be told to shut up, stay off these forums, and be patient…
