Miracle med school acceptance stories

[uclaussr]

So a lot of people including myself are feeling very nervous and hopeless with this process. So i was hoping we could get a thread going of people who got in to med school despite the odds. I'll start:

Someone got into UCSF with 2.8 and 24 MCAT 2 years ago.

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[AlexB]

So a lot of people including myself are feeling very nervous and hopeless with this process. So i was hoping we could get a thread going of people who got in to med school despite the odds. I'll start:

Someone got into UCSF with 2.8 and 24 MCAT 2 years ago.

i feel ya brother/sister

 

[Poliscidoc]

Could check out the underdog thread in the Pre-DO

 

[RadioCure]

Not to be discouraging, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a single "miracle" acceptance anywhere. The ones that seem like miracles only do because you're looking at bare stats; chances are they have unbelievable ECs, life experiences, or circumstances.

In other words, add "No shadowing or research, never had a job, world record couch potato, and submitted a 1 paragraph personal statement," and I'll be impressed.

 

[mdbound1987]

Not to be discouraging, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a single "miracle" acceptance anywhere. The ones that seem like miracles only do because you're looking at bare stats; chances are they have unbelievable ECs, life experiences, or circumstances.

In other words, add "No shadowing or research, never had a job, world record couch potato, and submitted a 1 paragraph personal statement," and I'll be impressed.

This is true. I do know someone who is headed to a top 40 school this fall who had a 3.4 (strong upward trend from a 2.6 freshman year) and a 18 mcat. Like the person above said though, this person's ECs, shadowing, etc. were outstanding.

 

[morning]

Not to say that he had bad stats, because he didn't, but MilkmanAl's MDapps profile is pretty awesome. He got rejected from over 2 dozen medical schools only to be accepted at University of Arkansas (of all the places?) in May.

This is probably gonna seem so stalkerish I look at peoples' MDapps profiles out of curiosity and that just stuck out in my mind.

 

[Poliscidoc]

Not to say that he had bad stats, because he didn't, but MilkmanAl's MDapps profile is pretty awesome. He got rejected from over 2 dozen medical schools only to be accepted at University of Arkansas (of all the places?) in May.

This is probably gonna seem so stalkerish I look at peoples' MDapps profiles out of curiosity and that just stuck out in my mind.

Wow and now we know who has a "list of people". But what about the guy with a 3.4 or so non-urm who got into Harvard? (I also keep a list, lol)

 

[NotAsking4Much]

Stats are like the tip of an iceberg.

Recs, ECs, connections, life experiences, essays, etc. play a much important factor. Most people on SDN focus too much on stats...