Limit on the number of times an applicant can apply...

[happygirl]

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Does any one know which schools do not accept applicants who have applied two or three times before?

Thanks in advance!

 

[RxnMan]

U of colorado basically tells applicants to not reapply after the third time. That's the only one I've heard of.

 

[doc lee]

Loyola nicely wrote me a letter saying they don't take 3-time applicants unless they've shown drastic improvement. After I wrote a letter saying that I didn't even turn in 2ndaries the previous two times, and that I had drastically improved my application, they gave me a reject anyway. I feel like writing a protest letter again, this time filled with several colorful expletives telling them to fornicate themselves, and question whether or not the school is the spawn of the antichrist.

 

[dmacdonald95]

Are they even allowed to not consider third/second-timers? I'd think that's some form of discrimination or something..

 

[Law2Doc]

Are they even allowed to not consider third/second-timers? I'd think that's some form of discrimination or something..

They set the requirements, so they can consider whatever pool of applicants fit those requirements. So long as you are not a federally protected class (and reapplicants to med school are not) it is not illegal discrimination.

There are benefits to getting all your ducks lined up in a row before pulling the trigger. It is often far better to miss a cycle or two (or more) and make yourself more competitive rather than keep applying year after year without having made substantial enough improvement.

 

[kc222]

Albert Einstein explicitly states not to apply after the third time and I never received Georgetown's secondary which is automatic. So don't apply here if it's your third time.

 

[datsa]

Harvard states that they only allow two applications.

 

[GujuMD]

U of MN-Twin Cities: you have to wait a year after two consecutive applications and then you can apply the third time.

 

[Wrigleyville]

Put yourselves in the shoes of the admissions people. Would you want to see someone's application for the 3rd/4th year in a row? Unless that applicant had some huge accomplishment or substantially improved scores/grades, they're the same person they were the previous two/three application cycles when no one else was willing to accept them.

Even schools without official cutoffs are likely to take a really close look at the scuff marks on your application the 3rd go around.