My pediatrician's son

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I was at my pediatricians office today because I had to take my brother to get a PPD. Anyway he knows about my quest to become a physician and we had a little chat regarding medical schools because his son is a first year student at SUNY Downstate. He told me he had a 3.8 something GPA and a 36 MCAT and applied to 13 schools, interviewed at all of them and only accepted to 3.. the three NY state schools. He mentioned Cornell and NYU as a few of the other schools he applied to. He also said he had very good ECs, "you name it, he was in it" he said. With these stats and his rejections/did not hear back from with the schools I'm wondering how this can be possible? The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that he did not apply broadly enough and the other ten schools he applied to were top tier medical schools or something. What do you think?

 

[armybound]

maybe he doesn't interview extremely well.

 

[LEdaddy]

maybe he doesn't interview extremely well.

I second that and "you name it, he was in it", doesn't necessarily mean that he had solid leadership roles in his EC's.

 

[dd128]

Yeah I've seen schools that have a list of like a dozen different things they're looking for in applicants. I'm sure gpa, mcat, and ec's are at the top of the list, but that's only three things on a very long list. And like army said the guy may not be that personable and his interview was in the toilet 😉

 

[Captain Fantastic]

I second that and "you name it, he was in it", doesn't necessarily mean that he had solid leadership roles in his EC's.

+1

Also parents often aren't the most objective when evaluating their kids. Did the dad read his son's PS or the science professor's LORs? My parents don't have a clue what I've really been doing. All they know is what I tell them, which is bascially my ballpark numbers and that my application just has to be among the best the medical school has seen in the past few years. And any school could only be so lucky to have me as a student. 😉 (Thanks for the support, Mom.)

There's more we don't know than what we do know about this guy's application.

 

[Dendrite]

+1

Also parents often aren't the most objective when evaluating their kids. Did the dad read his son's PS or the science professor's LORs? My parents don't have a clue what I've really been doing. All they know is what I tell them, which is bascially my ballpark numbers and that my application just has to be among the best the medical school has seen in the past few years. And any school could only be so lucky to have me as a student. 😉 (Thanks for the support, Mom.)

There's more we don't know than what we do know about this guy's application.

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I was just about to say that the kid may have had impersonal (or negative) LOR's and perhaps his personal statement and secondary essays just didn't fit with the schools' missions.

 

[Chuckwalla]

I has to be his interview skills. He was interviewed at all 13 and only got into 3, it seems his stats and ECs cut it but his interviews killed him.

 

[Lshapley]

Sounds like a bad interviewee. Still, 3 acceptances is good in the end.