Hello everyone, I applied last cycle, and I remember that as I was applying, I wished that there would be a way to find out how people actually did in the cycle. I know that mdapps has this feature, but it's such a pain in the butt to fill everything out. In any case, this was my result, and I hope that this will be helpful in some way!
Stats:
CA resident
3.74cGPA, 3.82sGPA
1st MCAT --> 31, PS:9 VR:11 BS:11 WR😛
2nd MCAT --> 34, PS:11 VR:11 BS:12 WR:Q
~100 hrs clinical experience at the VA
~100 hrs clinical internship
~60 hrs shadowing primary care physician, neurologist, and a pediatric anesthesiologist
~1 year at a clinical research lab where i take measurements from patients, hand-on experience
~2 yrs at a sensory biophysics lab --> no publications tho 🙁
Officer for a student org
involved in various service clubs
biology TA for 3 quarters
worked as a food service worker
sunday school teacher
Schools Applied:
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
UCD
UCI
USC
OHSU
Creighton
Iowa
MSU
Emory
SUNY Buffalo
NYU
Cornell
NYMC
Einstein
Wake Forest
Vandy
Penn St.
Jefferson
Temple
Dartmouth
BU
Tufts
Tulane
Georgetown
Secondaries: Did all of them except BU (prereq problem) and Vandy (they only send secondaries to those they interview, which is nice I suppose)
Interviews:
Creighton - loved it, it is seriously the school with the nicest people
Wake - biggest surprise: everything was closed on Sunday, and the interview was very non-conversational (basically 15 minutes of them asking me question after question)
SUNY Buffalo - did not enjoy it, the city nor the interviewer (asked me if China will take over the world, um, no? yes, probably?)
Einstein - best lunch of all the interviews
Iowa - great experience, surprised that I liked it so much, small town though
NYMC - ehh
NYU - loved it, great school, awesome location, seemed like the school really cared for their students
OHSU - very average, the interview day was not well planned, had to arrive at 8am just to wait around for about 2 hours, portland is nice though
Waitlists:
Wake, Buffalo (withdrew), Einstein, NYMC (withdrew), NYU
Rejections post-interview: OHSU (wasn't surprised)
Acceptances:
Creighton
Iowa - accepted off the WL right after 5/15, they rank the WL which is really nice
Biggest surprise: No love from any of the CA schools, I know it's super-competitive, but I thought I would get at least one interview, ohh well!
Advice: Just from my own experience, I would recommend people not split the distribution of reach/mid/safety schools into thirds, but increase the amount of mid and safety schools. Of course, I also learned that this whole process is very much a crapshoot, so...apply broadly I suppose.
I hope this has been helpful to everyone, feel free to ask questions/comment! And, of course, good luck to everyone!
Stats:
CA resident
3.74cGPA, 3.82sGPA
1st MCAT --> 31, PS:9 VR:11 BS:11 WR😛
2nd MCAT --> 34, PS:11 VR:11 BS:12 WR:Q
~100 hrs clinical experience at the VA
~100 hrs clinical internship
~60 hrs shadowing primary care physician, neurologist, and a pediatric anesthesiologist
~1 year at a clinical research lab where i take measurements from patients, hand-on experience
~2 yrs at a sensory biophysics lab --> no publications tho 🙁
Officer for a student org
involved in various service clubs
biology TA for 3 quarters
worked as a food service worker
sunday school teacher
Schools Applied:
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
UCD
UCI
USC
OHSU
Creighton
Iowa
MSU
Emory
SUNY Buffalo
NYU
Cornell
NYMC
Einstein
Wake Forest
Vandy
Penn St.
Jefferson
Temple
Dartmouth
BU
Tufts
Tulane
Georgetown
Secondaries: Did all of them except BU (prereq problem) and Vandy (they only send secondaries to those they interview, which is nice I suppose)
Interviews:
Creighton - loved it, it is seriously the school with the nicest people
Wake - biggest surprise: everything was closed on Sunday, and the interview was very non-conversational (basically 15 minutes of them asking me question after question)
SUNY Buffalo - did not enjoy it, the city nor the interviewer (asked me if China will take over the world, um, no? yes, probably?)
Einstein - best lunch of all the interviews
Iowa - great experience, surprised that I liked it so much, small town though
NYMC - ehh
NYU - loved it, great school, awesome location, seemed like the school really cared for their students
OHSU - very average, the interview day was not well planned, had to arrive at 8am just to wait around for about 2 hours, portland is nice though
Waitlists:
Wake, Buffalo (withdrew), Einstein, NYMC (withdrew), NYU
Rejections post-interview: OHSU (wasn't surprised)
Acceptances:
Creighton
Iowa - accepted off the WL right after 5/15, they rank the WL which is really nice
Biggest surprise: No love from any of the CA schools, I know it's super-competitive, but I thought I would get at least one interview, ohh well!
Advice: Just from my own experience, I would recommend people not split the distribution of reach/mid/safety schools into thirds, but increase the amount of mid and safety schools. Of course, I also learned that this whole process is very much a crapshoot, so...apply broadly I suppose.
I hope this has been helpful to everyone, feel free to ask questions/comment! And, of course, good luck to everyone!
