Oct/Nov: What % of Medical Schools have you heard back from?

[Mr.Monster]

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Any reapplicants in this thread? I just got waitlisted from my only interview and just the thought of having to do this again is killing mee

Most of the class at many schools comes from the waitlist.

 

[twentyeightmiles]

Check out @twentyeightmiles with 22/24 - probably the highest percentage I've ever seen.

Oh hey I was just creeping and noticed this shoutout. 😛 23/24, 22II, 12 attended, probably two more to attend.

Tempted to withdraw from the final school out of envy of @begoood95 's beautiful 100%...

 

[begoood95]

Oh hey I was just creeping and noticed this shoutout. 😛 23/24, 22II, 12 attended, probably two more to attend.

Tempted to withdraw from the final school out of envy of @begoood95 's beautiful 100%...

Yeah... Half of the reason I withdrew was cause I already got the II from my top choice and tbh I'm tied of waiting right now + I didn't like the other two that much so...

It felt so good

 

[tekkenman11]

Any reapplicants in this thread? I just got waitlisted from my only interview and just the thought of having to do this again is killing mee

I applied two years ago but I heard back from my first school Thursday and was accepted. Just hang in there! Be sure to send the school updates later in the cycle.

 

[ScreenName23]

Any reapplicants in this thread? I just got waitlisted from my only interview and just the thought of having to do this again is killing mee

I'm a reapplicant. Stay hopeful! Good things come🙂

 

[Longshot6]

IIs at 5 (attended 2, accepted at one and will hear next week on the other)

3 holds

2 rejections

Expecting more rejections in the coming weeks.


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I have seen you on nearly every school list thread! Congrats on gettting in!

 

[Piglet2020]

We’re now in November folks.

Update: I got 1 additional II since posting and I withdrew from 3 schools.

 

[mcdocky]

8/18
II: 4 (1 acceptance)
H: 2
R: 2

 

[Premed2295]

Ive heard from 2/47. 1 II, 1 rejection. 45 are silent

 

[BuckStrickland]

Most schools don't give rejections until early 2018 right? I think number of II's would be more useful than the "heard back" statistic

 

[EverStriving]

4/18 so far here, but I was complete most places in September so I figure I'll just have to be patient.

Silence: 14
Pre-II rejection: 1
II: 3
IA: 1

2 of my II are at my top 3 choices so I can't complain 🙂.

 

[Piglet2020]

Do you guys think location matters for schools not in your state? For example, ALL of the II’s I’ve gotten are from schools in neighboring states. My rejections come from schools far from my state. The rest of schools are silent.

 

[catmullclark]

Do you guys think location matters for schools not in your state? For example, ALL of the II’s I’ve gotten are from schools in neighboring states. My rejections come from schools far from my state. The rest of are silence.

I think it's not a big factor. The interviews I've gotten have been spread around the US. I'm from the northeast and have received some love from the west coast. A couple friends of mine have also received interviews from all over the US (we're all from the northeast).

 

[EverStriving]

I'm in California and have gotten 2 II in the Midwest and 1 on the east coast.

 

[jazzmetal]

18 primaries
17 secondaries (still waiting on one that screens)
0 IIs
2 rejections (one was from my verification school)
Complete at only a handful by early August, a few more by end of August, and all the rest were mid-September or later.
This cycle is sure not playing out as I'd expected, on either side. Can't believe I wasn't complete more places earlier.
Fingers still crossed! Congrats to all who have acceptances in hand, and good luck to everyone waiting!

 

[studiene]

Do you guys think location matters for schools not in your state? For example, ALL of the II’s I’ve gotten are from schools in neighboring states. My rejections come from schools far from my state. The rest of schools are silent.

I'm a PA resident and one of my two rejections thus far was from a school out in CO. Two of my three IIs have been from in-state schools, and the other a neighboring state. However, I still have plenty of far schools and close schools to hear back from yet

 

[chaim123]

14/23 = 60% for me

9II + 1 acceptance
3 pre-II rejections
1 pre-II "on hold"
and silence

 

[extramilemed]

18 primaries/secondaries
3 pre-II rejections
1 post-II acceptance
8 IIs, 6 attended
6 silence

so 67%?

 

[skk_]

16 primaries/secondaries (half reach/top 20, half in-state schools). Most were complete in mid-September, although a few were complete at the very end of August, and 3-4 during October.

3/16 IIs so far (Stanford, Penn, Mayo MN), so 19%. Interestingly, I wasn't complete at either Stanford or Mayo until October and they were the last two secondaries I submitted. Zero response from all of my in-state schools outside of Penn (PA resident) despite being the earliest applications I put in, most in August.

Honestly not fully sure what to make of this application cycle where i'm 3 for 8 on IIs from my reach schools, but 0 for 8 on IIs from the schools I was originally aiming at.

 

[jazzmetal]

Honestly not fully sure what to make of this application cycle where i'm 3 for 8 on IIs from my reach schools, but 0 for 8 on IIs from the schools I was originally aiming at.

This is making me want to sneak in a few more reach secondaries before the deadline. Maybe the schools with higher stats can more afford to take a chance on unusual mid-stat applicants? Or you're just a rockstar and your state schools are thinking of yield protection. 🙂

 

[878956]

This is making me want to sneak in a few more reach secondaries before the deadline. Maybe the schools with higher stats can more afford to take a chance on unusual mid-stat applicants? Or you're just a rockstar and your state schools are thinking of yield protection. 🙂

I am sure this guy has beast stats. Stanford and Upenn are both obsessed with numbers. I think, ADCOMS take applications as they go, but if someone with better numbers applies later, that application will be given consideration before yours.

 

[878956]

16 primaries/secondaries (half reach/top 20, half in-state schools). Most were complete in mid-September, although a few were complete at the very end of August, and 3-4 during October.

3/16 IIs so far (Stanford, Penn, Mayo MN), so 19%. Interestingly, I wasn't complete at either Stanford or Mayo until October and they were the last two secondaries I submitted. Zero response from all of my in-state schools outside of Penn (PA resident) despite being the earliest applications I put in, most in August.

Honestly not fully sure what to make of this application cycle where i'm 3 for 8 on IIs from my reach schools, but 0 for 8 on IIs from the schools I was originally aiming at.

LizzyM number?

 

[skk_]

This is making me want to sneak in a few more reach secondaries before the deadline. Maybe the schools with higher stats can more afford to take a chance on unusual mid-stat applicants? Or you're just a rockstar and your state schools are thinking of yield protection. 🙂

I am sure this guy has beast stats. Stanford and Upenn are both obsessed with numbers. I think, ADCOMS take applications as they go, but if someone with better numbers applies later, that application will be given consideration before yours.

My LizzyM is 75 so i'm competitive-ish stats-wise for Stanford and Penn (a little bit on the low end, but close enough to their medians). This includes two C+s in my freshman year however (including one in Gen Bio), although that (thankfully) acted as enough of a wake-up call that I was able to drag my GPA kicking and screaming to where it is over the next 3 years.

I was not realistically expecting IIs at Penn, Stanford, and Mayo with very late secondaries since stats-wise I would have been very borderline even if my apps were early. If I were to speculate wildly, I feel for Stanford at least my research experience may have sold them enough to want to check me out in person (I was a CompSci and Neurobio double major, and worked on CS-centric cross-disciplinary medical research over all four years of my degree, including with a few publications). All my other ECs are very middle of the road (almost nothing outside of volunteering and some shadowing, and neither doing anything exciting, although with decent hours). I'm also ORM (Asian).

Part of the reason I left both my Stanford and Mayo applications until October was because my pre-health advisor at my undergrad institution had been adamant that even thinking of applying to those schools with my application (and particularly the two C+s) would be a "waste of time". Given that my only IIs have been from these schools, I definitely can't say that I regret taking the advice of some folks on SDN, ignoring my school's pre-health office, and applying anyway though 🙂.

 

[Engineeringaway]

2 II from MD schools
Applied to 8

3 II and 1 acceptance from DO schools
Applied to 4

No rejections or holds yet just "under review" at all the other schools

 

[jazzmetal]

I was a CompSci and Neurobio double major, and worked on CS-centric cross-disciplinary medical research over all four years of my degree, including with a few publications

I've heard that publications are *huge* for Stanford - something like 50%+ of their entering class has been published. And your premed advisor sounds... uninformed. Glad you decided to take the chance! Your background would be great for Carle-Illinois - they're just starting their cycle, too, so you'd be early. Congrats on a strong cycle so far!

 

[878956]

My LizzyM is 75 so i'm competitive-ish stats-wise for Stanford and Penn (a little bit on the low end, but close enough to their medians). This includes two C+s in my freshman year however (including one in Gen Bio), although that (thankfully) acted as enough of a wake-up call that I was able to drag my GPA kicking and screaming to where it is over the next 3 years.

I was not realistically expecting IIs at Penn, Stanford, and Mayo with very late secondaries since stats-wise I would have been very borderline even if my apps were early. If I were to speculate wildly, I feel for Stanford at least my research experience may have sold them enough to want to check me out in person (I was a CompSci and Neurobio double major, and worked on CS-centric cross-disciplinary medical research over all four years of my degree, including with a few publications). All my other ECs are very middle of the road (almost nothing outside of volunteering and some shadowing, and neither doing anything exciting, although with decent hours). I'm also ORM (Asian).

Part of the reason I left both my Stanford and Mayo applications until October was because my pre-health advisor at my undergrad institution had been adamant that even thinking of applying to those schools with my application (and particularly the two C+s) would be a "waste of time". Given that my only IIs have been from these schools, I definitely can't say that I regret taking the advice of some folks on SDN, ignoring my school's pre-health office, and applying anyway though 🙂.

LizzyM 75 is good enough for any school. Compare SDN to your pre-med peers in real life, it's not even close. Average person in my area (in real life) would be happy with a 510. in SDN, it feels as if you failed the exam. SDN gives a false sense of reality. People really don't understand how hard it is to get a 520 (97%) on an exam where most people are taking it did above average or at the top of their respective schools.

 

[KdotLB]

29 MD apps, 1 DO app

6 MD II, 2 MD rejections

8/30 schools so like almost 30%?


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[kopftonmd]

I'm at the same thing as the last iteration of this thread. Heard back from 10/22 schools, crickets from errybody else.

 

[MareNostrummm]

Just two holds and 3 Rs. So 5/38 or 13%.

Lol @ all the people on SDN running around with 10+ IIs. Looks like a winner take all situation.

Update: now I'm at 9/38 1.5 weeks later. Still bad news only though. (3 more Rs and 1 more hold)

 

[BuckStrickland]

Reapplicant, waitlisted from both schools I interviewed at this cycle
What are the chances of getting more interviews at this point lol

 

[ShadowGryffin]

What are the chances of getting more interviews at this point lol

Well if planeblue's II tracker is to be believed, there's at least 40% of the possible II's left. In other words, the odds are at least decent lol.

Besides, we're still relatively early in the cycle. A waitlist now isn't a death sentence. Chin up!

 

[BuckStrickland]

Well if planeblue's II tracker is to be believed, there's at least 40% of the possible II's left. In other words, the odds are at least decent lol.

Besides, we're still relatively early in the cycle. A waitlist now isn't a death sentence. Chin up!

40% in november sounds good, my MCAT expires this cycle though so if I have to reapply next year I have to take it again :/

 

[ShadowGryffin]

40% in november sounds good, my MCAT expires this cycle though so if I have to reapply next year I have to take it again :/

Mine expires next cycle (when I'll be applying) so I'm familiar with that feeling. Just gotta get accepted in one cycle or spend three months of hell retaking the MCAT and probably doing worse. No pressure, right?

But look at it from the school's perspective: At this point most schools have yet to send out between a half and a third of their IIs. They don't know for sure if the remaining people who have yet to interview will be amazing or total busts, so they really don't know just how good the people they've already interviewed are in comparison. The important thing is somebody pulled your app out from the stack of thousands and said "This person is interesting, we need to talk with them." And you didn't get a post-interview rejection, so you know they're at least considering you.

 

[Piglet2020]

I wonder what dates are available if 40% of II’s are available. The schools I follow have given II’s in October with only late December/January dates available now. I guess if you’re invited in December, you might be lucky to schedule one in January... or wait until Februrary and March.

 

[BuckStrickland]

I wonder what dates are available if 40% of II’s are available. The schools I follow have given II’s in October with only late December/January dates available now. I guess if you’re invited in December, you might be lucky to schedule one in January... or wait until Februrary and March.

Yeah we're getting up there, the latest dates probably in March/ April right?

Mine expires next cycle (when I'll be applying) so I'm familiar with that feeling. Just gotta get accepted in one cycle or spend three months of hell retaking the MCAT and probably doing worse. No pressure, right?

But look at it from the school's perspective: At this point most schools have yet to send out between a half and a third of their IIs. They don't know for sure if the remaining people who have yet to interview will be amazing or total busts, so they really don't know just how good the people they've already interviewed are in comparison. The important thing is somebody pulled your app out from the stack of thousands and said "This person is interesting, we need to talk with them." And you didn't get a post-interview rejection, so you know they're at least considering you.

Just registered for the May 5th MCAT, I just wanted to see what dates were available and they were already filling up xD I got 520 last time, fml

 

[Piglet2020]

Officially heard back from 40% of schools for me, mirroring the 40% rate of II's for this month. Too bad it's the month of rejections for me though haha. T_T

 

[Asagiri]

Rejections: 3
Holds: 1
Interview Invites: 7
Phone Interview: 1
Silence: 19

39% of schools have responded so far.

 

[DBC03]

Ok, finally at 33% - Five Rejections, Two Holds, Five Interviews (Four completed, one to go, three acceptances, will hear after Thanksgiving on the other). So that’s 12 out of 36 schools. I will probably withdraw from a few at this point. For those wondering, “where are my IIs???” Three of my five were at schools I was not originally planning to apply to...


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[bunnyluvr]

For those wondering, “where are my IIs???” Three of my five were at schools I was not originally planning to apply to...

Literally same. 3 of my 5 IIs were from schools I added later.

 

[pewpew95]

2 II's and 3 rejections out of 25 secondaries (not including withdrawals in this count). I'm not even getting rejected from my reaches

 

[pewpew95]

I applied to 6 MD/PhD programs for which I am not competitive at all and thought I would have been rejected by now at least lol

 

[bunnyluvr]

I applied to 6 MD/PhD programs for which I am not competitive at all and thought I would have been rejected by now at least lol

if you haven't heard back from MD/PhD programs then you're either on the hold list or it's a school that doesn't defer to MD. Most programs get back to us quickly to give us at least somewhat of a fighting chance in the MD-only pool (emphasis on somewhat...)

 

[DBC03]

if you haven't heard back from MD/PhD programs then you're either on the hold list or it's a school that doesn't defer to MD. Most programs get back to us quickly to give us at least somewhat of a fighting chance in the MD-only pool (emphasis on somewhat...)

I only applied to a few programs. Definitely on the hold list at one (that considers you for MD only at the same time) and have no idea what’s up with Colorado, but they don’t send you to the MD only pile, so maybe that’s what’s up there.


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[Piglet2020]

Anyone get an II recently? Def noticed the slow down in II’s on SDN. Ahh I just want to hear back from at least 50% of schools already.

 

[STcmOCSD]

Update post TX prematch opening.

8 II, 3 acceptances. 80% heard back from.

 

[catmullclark]

Anyone get an II recently? Def noticed the slow down in II’s on SDN. Ahh I just want to hear back from at least 50% of schools already.

Yeah things have definitely slowed down quite a bit. Been hearing some form of news weekly until the last two weeks. Could just be pre-Thanksgiving chill time.

 

[skk_]

Anyone get an II recently? Def noticed the slow down in II’s on SDN. Ahh I just want to hear back from at least 50% of schools already.

Almost definitely due to how late I put in my applications (not complete at most schools until mid-Sept), but I've received more IIs over the last two weeks than I received during Sept and Oct combined (entered Nov with 3 interview invites, currently at 9 IIs).

 

[pewpew95]

Almost definitely due to how late I put in my applications (not complete at most schools until mid-Sept), but I've received more IIs over the last two weeks than I received during Sept and Oct combined (entered Nov with 3 interview invites, currently at 9 IIs).

Did you rub the special thread for those II's??? Collecting data points for science

 

[Venom33]

Complete early-mid august for all 9 or 10 I applied to.. only one pre-II rejection. Thats it! ... Lot's of silence since August

 

[bunnyluvr]

I think MD/PhD programs have picked up significantly since the deadline is Nov 15 for most of them so now they're inviting from the hold lists. Activity on our end has jumped I imagine it'll be similar for MD-only for the pulling from hold list after deadlines wave of invites. Maybe next week?