It can be done!

[pietachok]

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So, I'm not posting to brag, I'm posting to hopefully inspire anybody who feels down and out, b/c this has followed 2 yrs of total and utter depression...

I have just gotten into Keck School of Medicine, USC following two cycles of applying not only without acceptances but without interviews...so life can change, and you can do it, and this whole process IS THAT F*ing FICKLE. Some of us are that ridiculously unlucky.

I am not an anti-socially, socially ******ed person who couldn't write an essay or get good letters of recommendation. My grades were weak, but not THAT bad. I was just on the fencepost of the weak candidates and never got the benefit of the doubt UNTIL THIS YEAR. This year I got 7 M.D. interviews and 6 D.O. interviews.

Don't give up!
I will give anybody feedback I can if I think I have anything credible to offer from my experience...so feel free to PM me.
Good Luck!
HUGS to Everybody who is supportive on this forum, and ignore all the vicious vindictive type-A premed types on here...they are not going to be the good doctors...they don't have the good hearts.

Hopefully other people can follow with other good stories....

 

[SBK]

Congrats of the acceptance.

Too bad its at USC.......Bruins 4 Life🙂

oh and to contribute....2.97 UG at UCLA...did a year of SMP and took the MCAT and am going to med school at either Tulane or Wayne State.

 

[sasofras]

So Congrats!!!!!! Im so glad to hear its possible! Wat did u do differently this cycle? I applied for fall of 09 too but havent got any interviews yet and it's very depressing... my GPA is 3.7 but my mcat score is really low. I took it on sep 13th so I couldnt take it again 🙁
I also applied to St. Georges and got an interview and I cant decide if I want to reapply or just got to St. Georges!!

 

[pietachok]

I stopped using my committee letter from my post-bacc program, and I did 1.5 yrs of clinical research at a well-respected med school so that I got 2 LOR's from clinical professors (1 from a 40+ yr clinical prof, and 1 from a chief of a dept) discussing how my grades weren't indicative of the abilities they were witnessing, how I soaked up medical knowledge like a sponge, was curious, had good patient interaction and developed great relationships w/ my patients, and that it was showing a failure in the application system.

My post-bacc committee told me LOR's should be less than a page. Neither of these doc's limited themself and both wrote 2 pg letters.

I would not do research that was only benchwork and expect it to help in the same way.