Official Rejection Thread: 2012

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Everyone is interviewed by two different people, usually a physician and a professor and also by an admissions person. Nobody is interviewed by the same person on a given day so everyone's experience is completely different. One of my interviews was very laid back and cool and it seemed like that was what most people were experiencing for both of their interviews. Unfortunately, I think I was just the unlucky one to be a non-traditional student to get matched up with, in my opinion, someone who could not relate with a non-traditional student.
 
I'm pretty sensitive too which I know some people consider bad but I do feel it helps me to pick up on a lot of innuendo that others miss and I do feel it will help with patients and being understanding about various situations. I think I stayed calm during the interview but maybe he could tell that I was upset. I don't know. I guess I'm sensitive about being sensitive. 😀

Anyway, he had a serious problem with my "crappy semester", as he called it from 1997. When I told him I got pregnant during that semester and was moving back to Nebraska and my, now, ex-husband moved back before me so I was spending time in both Nebraska and Colorado, he literally could not understand my reasoning and it was not a valid explanation to him. I got 2 Cs, 2 Bs, and an A that semester and dropped out of 2 classes.
 
Well then I hope I don't get that guy, because most of my semesters from 1996 to 2002 were crappy. I'm not going to try and make any excuses to try and justify it though. I just didn't have it together then, and now I do.
 
t-funk said:
I'm pretty sensitive too which I know some people consider bad but I do feel it helps me to pick up on a lot of innuendo that others miss and I do feel it will help with patients and being understanding about various situations. I think I stayed calm during the interview but maybe he could tell that I was upset. I don't know. I guess I'm sensitive about being sensitive. 😀

Anyway, he had a serious problem with my "crappy semester", as he called it from 1997. When I told him I got pregnant during that semester and was moving back to Nebraska and my, now, ex-husband moved back before me so I was spending time in both Nebraska and Colorado, he literally could not understand my reasoning and it was not a valid explanation to him. I got 2 Cs, 2 Bs, and an A that semester and dropped out of 2 classes.
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I agree about the being sensitive thing. It is definitely an asset at times. My problem has been being able to hold back my tears. In the past when I've gone to see professors about something I'm frustrated about I could just feel the tears start to come and I did what I could to hold them back but for some reason I have a hard time stopping them from coming in the first place. My voice even starts wavering which makes it more obvious.

I had several crappy semesters around the same time as you when I first went to college. Really for classes that long ago I don't think you should have to explain yourself much, if at all. The two one-hour interviews is actually something I've been kind of worried about if I should happen to get an interview.
 
I think the chances of getting that guy are pretty slim but you will know it if you do. I walked in and asked if I could sit in the chair, being polite. He completely ignored me and started asking, well stating, his first take on my transcript before I even started to sit down. I really have no idea what he wanted from me since he really didn't ask any questions beyond my transcript and I think he had his mind made up before I even walked in.
 
t-funk said:
I think the chances of getting that guy are pretty slim but you will know it if you do. I walked in and asked if I could sit in the chair, being polite. He completely ignored me and started asking, well stating, his first take on my transcript before I even started to sit down. I really have no idea what he wanted from me since he really didn't ask any questions beyond my transcript and I think he had his mind made up before I even walked in.
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Wow. 😱 Well if I end up getting an interview at KCOM I will make sure to bring some kleenex just in case. :laugh:
 
EEL08 said:
I agree about the being sensitive thing. It is definitely an asset at times. My problem has been being able to hold back my tears. In the past when I've gone to see professors about something I'm frustrated about I could just feel the tears start to come and I did what I could to hold them back but for some reason I have a hard time stopping them from coming in the first place. My voice even starts wavering which makes it more obvious.

I had several crappy semesters around the same time as you when I first went to college. Really for classes that long ago I don't think you should have to explain yourself much, if at all. The two one-hour interviews is actually something I've been kind of worried about if I should happen to get an interview.
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Unfortunately, it was probably pretty obvious that I was upset during the tour with the ambassadors. I really just wanted to leave and get out of there. I agree about classes from 10+ years ago. I just don't think they are that relevant if a person has changed. I am really proud of the fact that I have done a lot of different things and explored a lot of different avenues and that my life hasn't been perfect and can come to medicine bringing all that stuff with me. I couldn't have done that at a younger age both due to my family situation because I was completely on my own from 16 on and just bc of the way that I am. It just sucks when people can't see those things as positive.
 
What sucks is that you can never know for sure what got you the axe. You've already been accepted elsewhere, right?
 
EEL08 said:
My problem has been being able to hold back my tears. In the past when I've gone to see professors about something I'm frustrated about I could just feel the tears start to come and I did what I could to hold them back but for some reason I have a hard time stopping them from coming in the first place. My voice even starts wavering which makes it more obvious.
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The good news is that this stops when you get older. For the time being, you might want to have one or two mentors who keep a kleenex box in their office for you, and occasionally will let you rant.

In my 20's, I was a project manager for a huge engineering firm. I would bang my fist on the table and play the aggressive game as well as the guys, but on the side my (male) boss figured out that to keep me going I had to be allowed to lose it emotionally. Smart guy: kleenex is cheap, and I made very profitable decisions. (...and am now trying to buy my soul back through medicine.)

You have to pity most guys for not having access to crying as an outlet. Really, it gets a TON of work done. Plus it scares 'em to death.:laugh:
 
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DrMidlife said:
The good news is that this stops when you get older. For the time being, you might want to have one or two mentors who keep a kleenex box in their office for you, and occasionally will let you rant.

In my 20's, I was a project manager for a huge engineering firm. I would bang my fist on the table and play the aggressive game as well as the guys, but on the side my (male) boss figured out that to keep me going I had to be allowed to lose it emotionally. Smart guy: kleenex is cheap, and I made very profitable decisions. (...and am now trying to buy my soul back through medicine.)

You have to pity most guys for not having access to crying as an outlet. Really, it gets a TON of work done. Plus it scares 'em to death.:laugh:
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All great points. 😀 Maybe sometimes I'm too self-conscious and worry too much what other people think. My husband is 10 years older than me and is past that point of caring what other people think. Then again he is a guy and maybe he didn't care what other people thought when he was my age.
 
TexasTriathlete said:
I'm going to cry at my next interview and see what happens.
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I would love to be there to see that. You'll have to let us know how it goes. Your next interview wouldn't happen to be at KCOM would it? 😛
 
TexasTriathlete said:
What sucks is that you can never know for sure what got you the axe. You've already been accepted elsewhere, right?
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I can write them next spring or summer and ask but I probably won't bother. I am sure I'll be rejected many more times and since I do have an acceptance, it isn't worth my time.

I don't know if crying would help, but I'd love to hear about that interview. :laugh:
 
t-funk said:
Unfortunately, it was probably pretty obvious that I was upset during the tour with the ambassadors. I really just wanted to leave and get out of there. I agree about classes from 10+ years ago. I just don't think they are that relevant if a person has changed. I am really proud of the fact that I have done a lot of different things and explored a lot of different avenues and that my life hasn't been perfect and can come to medicine bringing all that stuff with me. I couldn't have done that at a younger age both due to my family situation because I was completely on my own from 16 on and just bc of the way that I am. It just sucks when people can't see those things as positive.
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First, let me say I'm sorry that you had a bad interview.

I had a similar experience, was asked inappropriate questions at an interview, but I kept my cool. But after that, I just wanted to leave, not to get a tour of a campus that I knew I did not want to go to. I knew in advance to prepare for the question about kids -- but getting the question in an interviews situation is just not the same. You just can't be prepared for that.

One interesting fact that I was told by one of my interviewers was that with the increase in applicants, the DO classes have been getting "younger" the last few years. He lamented this b/c he was a nontrad when he went to school, and said that he sees DO schools accepting less nontrads when there are plenty of young "allo rejects"(his words, not mine) when they apply in the spring versus the fall when most of the nontrads apply. I think nontrads bring a lot to the table, but some people can't appreciate that.
 
ATSU-KCOM: prionsRbad, t-funk

ATSU-MESA: Collide

AZCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... AZCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b, Chartreuse (app on hold 10/12), prionsRbad (on hold)

CCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... CCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b

COMP: corrupt200

DMU: mastamark, megboo (alternate list 9/24 ), runner898, corrupt200

KCUMB: runner898, prionsRbad (on hold)

LECOM-Bradenton: orchid07 (alternate list 10/15)

LECOM-Erie: PrionsRbad

TOURO-CA: prionsRbad

TOURO-NV: prionsRbad, TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), EEL08, JWE27 (waitlisted - a.k.a., slow death - 10/12)

TOURO-NY: prionsRbad, mastamark, sexyman, Chartreuse

UNECOM: TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), sexyman, mastamark

VCOM: prionsRbad (on hold), corrupt200

Western: prionsRbad ("MCAT not competitive")
 
ViolinCello said:
First, let me say I'm sorry that you had a bad interview.

I had a similar experience, was asked inappropriate questions at an interview, but I kept my cool. But after that, I just wanted to leave, not to get a tour of a campus that I knew I did not want to go to. I knew in advance to prepare for the question about kids -- but getting the question in an interviews situation is just not the same. You just can't be prepared for that.

One interesting fact that I was told by one of my interviewers was that with the increase in applicants, the DO classes have been getting "younger" the last few years. He lamented this b/c he was a nontrad when he went to school, and said that he sees DO schools accepting less nontrads when there are plenty of young "allo rejects"(his words, not mine) when they apply in the spring versus the fall when most of the nontrads apply. I think nontrads bring a lot to the table, but some people can't appreciate that.
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I think that is very interesting that an actual interviewer would say that but I can definately understand that. Personally, I have felt a large kind of split amongst interviewers and their feelings on non-trads. It just really seems to depend on who interviews you. It's so random. One of my most non-trad friendly, so to speak, interviews so far has been an allo interview.
 
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Here's the thing about KCOM that makes this possible non-trad bias a little surprising to me....

Early in the year, I was really researching DO schools, because I didn't know much about any of them. Even TCOM. So I e-mailed admissions at KCOM telling them the kind of applicant I was, and I got back a ridiculously long e-mail from a counselor, talking about their program. She also told me to call her so we could chat a little more, and I did. We spoke on the phone for about 45 minutes, talking a lot about my academic history, their school, and so-on.

I got the impression that this meant they were extremely interested in non-traditional applicants. At any rate, I am looking forward to meeting this lady when I go for my interview, because she was super-helpful.
 
I do not think that KCOM is not non-trad friendly at all. I just think there is a lot of variation in the biases that different interviewers bring to the table and it introduces a lot of chance. My other interviewer actually said that they look for older, more mature students at KCOM but he had been a non-trad himself.

I guess I am also a triple whammy having been a career changer from environmental research and geology, I'm a woman with kids, and a very average to slightly above average GPA and MCAT. You have no kids (that I know of), a related career, and a very high MCAT. You bring no baggage so I think all you have to really do is explain your previous grades. I really think you have avery good chance.
 
If that counselor was actually an executive adcom, then that's great.

My understanding, though, is that typically there's a committee, and one of your interviewers is a member of the committee. The committee votes to accept or reject, so if you land in the reject pile, the member who interviewed you has to fight for you or you're gone. If your interviewing member is having a bad day, or thinks triathletes are posers, or hates Texas, what can you do? This is the basis for applying broadly - it comes down to personalities. It's American Idol.

Just go be yourself. Show 'em who you are. I can't imagine you'll do anything other than make a huge (hopefully great) impression.
 
t-funk said:
I do not think that KCOM is not non-trad friendly at all. I just think there is a lot of variation in the biases that different interviewers bring to the table and it introduces a lot of chance. My other interviewer actually said that they look for older, more mature students at KCOM but he had been a non-trad himself.
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I second this, I think it is more about the interviewers you get than about the school. Again, this whole process is like spending a night at the slot machines in vegas and thinking you will come out a millionaire.
 
Sorry prions. 🙁 Guess it's a good thing I didn't apply there, huh?
 
I think everyone has a bad interview story about a school. Two years ago mine was DMU. Yes, DMU the one everyone loves. Just my luck that day there was a panel with the collective personality of a rock. And about as friendly. Actually, a dark room with one light shining on the interviewee's chair and a disembodied voice asking questions from the darkness would have been a more welcoming experience. So every school has "one of those" that some poor interviewee gets to experience. Yours happened to be KCOM.

Look at it this way: KCOM just isn't where you were meant to be. Some other place will be lucky to get you. 🙂 Breathe. And go eat chocolate. It makes you happy. Really. Particularly dark chocolate.
 
EEL08 said:
Sorry prions. 🙁 Guess it's a good thing I didn't apply there, huh?
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It's ok 🙂 Pomona, CA is a little too close to my family anyway! :laugh:
 
prionsRbad said:
It's ok 🙂 Pomona, CA is a little too close to my family anyway! :laugh:
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That's one of the reasons we'll be getting the heck out of Texas! :laugh:
 
I hope I don't get the same interviewer as t-funk. I will get reamed also, as I also have had couple bad semesters. I don't know how I will react though, lol.
 
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Ccom :-( if they are not interested, why send me a secondary?


ATSU-KCOM: prionsRbad, t-funk

ATSU-MESA: Collide

AZCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... AZCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b, Chartreuse (app on hold 10/12), prionsRbad (on hold)

CCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... CCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b, corrupt200

COMP: corrupt200

DMU: mastamark, megboo (alternate list 9/24 ), runner898, corrupt200

KCUMB: runner898, prionsRbad (on hold)

LECOM-Bradenton: orchid07 (alternate list 10/15)

LECOM-Erie: PrionsRbad

TOURO-CA: prionsRbad

TOURO-NV: prionsRbad, TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), EEL08, JWE27 (waitlisted - a.k.a., slow death - 10/12)

TOURO-NY: prionsRbad, mastamark, sexyman, Chartreuse

UNECOM: TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), sexyman, mastamark

VCOM: prionsRbad (on hold), corrupt200

Western: prionsRbad ("MCAT not competitive")
 
No love from any Midwesterns. App on hold at AZCOM, rejection letter from CCOM today. 🙁 (CCOM really hurt, I love the Chicago area. Have tons of family there and its close to home. O well!!)
 
desijigga said:
No love from any Midwesterns. App on hold at AZCOM, rejection letter from CCOM today. 🙁 (CCOM really hurt, I love the Chicago area. Have tons of family there and its close to home. O well!!)
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when were u complete??i was complete on 9/20 and havebt heard back yet. where r u from btw
 
desijigga said:
No love from any Midwesterns. App on hold at AZCOM, rejection letter from CCOM today. 🙁 (CCOM really hurt, I love the Chicago area. Have tons of family there and its close to home. O well!!)
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i wouldnt sweat it if i were you, you have plenty of great interviews coming up!
 
desijigga said:
No love from any Midwesterns. App on hold at AZCOM, rejection letter from CCOM today. 🙁 (CCOM really hurt, I love the Chicago area. Have tons of family there and its close to home. O well!!)
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Wow, just a straight up rejection? 🙁 Why am I starting to dread almost being complete again? :scared:
 
ShyRem said:
I think everyone has a bad interview story about a school. Two years ago mine was DMU. Yes, DMU the one everyone loves. Just my luck that day there was a panel with the collective personality of a rock. And about as friendly. Actually, a dark room with one light shining on the interviewee's chair and a disembodied voice asking questions from the darkness would have been a more welcoming experience. So every school has "one of those" that some poor interviewee gets to experience. Yours happened to be KCOM.

Look at it this way: KCOM just isn't where you were meant to be. Some other place will be lucky to get you. 🙂 Breathe. And go eat chocolate. It makes you happy. Really. Particularly dark chocolate.
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Mine was DMU as well.
 
Congrats Meg on CCOM. I know that's the one you wanted so that's great!!
 
Corrupt200 said:
Ccom :-( if they are not interested, why send me a secondary?


ATSU-KCOM: prionsRbad, t-funk

ATSU-MESA: Collide

AZCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... AZCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b, Chartreuse (app on hold 10/12), prionsRbad (on hold)

CCOM: TexasTriathlete (will not petition for un-rejection... CCOM, you are officially dead to me), sleepmd2b, corrupt200

COMP: corrupt200

DMU: mastamark, megboo (alternate list 9/24 ), runner898, corrupt200

KCUMB: runner898, prionsRbad (on hold)

LECOM-Bradenton: orchid07 (alternate list 10/15)

LECOM-Erie: PrionsRbad

TOURO-CA: prionsRbad

TOURO-NV: prionsRbad, TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), EEL08, JWE27 (waitlisted - a.k.a., slow death - 10/12)

TOURO-NY: prionsRbad, mastamark, sexyman, Chartreuse

UNECOM: TexasTriathlete (awaiting un-rejection), sexyman, mastamark

VCOM: prionsRbad (on hold), corrupt200, pattheaggie (on hold)

Western: prionsRbad ("MCAT not competitive")
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So i have heard that being put on hold is about the same as being rejected is this true? If so go ahead and count me in.
BTW the worst interview that I have had so far has been at school in Texas. I walked in and the interviewer begins to read my essays (said he didnt have time before) and as he is reading I can hear him mumbling certain parts of my essay out loud. Then he begins to start laughing at what I had wrote (which I thought was pretty weird because i went through a lot during my freshman year, and i put lot of heart and sole into the essays). So there I am sitting in my chair after 6 or 7 mins. becoming more self concious after every chuckle, wondering what I got myself into. Oh and this was my very first interview!
 
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UCDavisdude said:
when were u complete??i was complete on 9/20 and havebt heard back yet. where r u from btw
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Complete on 9/25. I am from the Great Lakes state of MI 😀. I hope you get more love than me from CCOM.
 
PattheAggie said:
So i have heard that being put on hold is about the same as being rejected is this true? If so go ahead and count me in.
BTW the worst interview that I have had so far has been at school in Texas. I walked in and the interviewer begins to read my essays (said he didnt have time before) and as he is reading I can hear him mumbling certain parts of my essay out loud. Then he begins to start laughing at what I had wrote (which I thought was pretty weird because i went through a lot during my freshman year, and i put lot of heart and sole into the essays). So there I am sitting in my chair after 6 or 7 mins. becoming more self concious after every chuckle, wondering what I got myself into. Oh and this was my very first interview!
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HA HA HA! OK, I don't mean to laugh, but that is downright CRUEL and UNUSUAL! Since you mention a lot of "sole" in your post, it's very fitting because it's likely 1.) the guy was a major bottom-feeding fish from the North Sea 2.) I would have planted my Johnston and Murphy somewhere during the course of that particular interview and then walked out!
 
PattheAggie said:
So i have heard that being put on hold is about the same as being rejected is this true? If so go ahead and count me in.
BTW the worst interview that I have had so far has been at school in Texas. I walked in and the interviewer begins to read my essays (said he didnt have time before) and as he is reading I can hear him mumbling certain parts of my essay out loud. Then he begins to start laughing at what I had wrote (which I thought was pretty weird because i went through a lot during my freshman year, and i put lot of heart and sole into the essays). So there I am sitting in my chair after 6 or 7 mins. becoming more self concious after every chuckle, wondering what I got myself into. Oh and this was my very first interview!
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I think being on hold is much better than being rejected. Megboo was put on hold at KCOM then got an interview what seemed like not too much later.
 
gasapple said:
HA HA HA! OK, I don't mean to laugh, but that is downright CRUEL and UNUSUAL! Since you mention a lot of "sole" in your post, it's very fitting because it's likely 1.) the guy was a major bottom-feeding fish from the North Sea 2.) I would have planted my Johnston and Murphy somewhere during the course of that particular interview and then walked out!
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haha...I like number 1. I didnt even realize i spelled it that way, I really need to learn to proof read. But man I definately should have followed the course of action that you laid out on the second choice. But because I dont have the stats to blow off any school (need all the chances I can get) I just sucked it up.
 
EEL08 said:
I think being on hold is much better than being rejected. Megboo was put on hold at KCOM then got an interview what seemed like not to much later.
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Thanks, thats good to know.
 
desijigga said:
No love from any Midwesterns. App on hold at AZCOM, rejection letter from CCOM today. 🙁 (CCOM really hurt, I love the Chicago area. Have tons of family there and its close to home. O well!!)
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I got accepted at AZCOM but didn't even get an interview at CCOM! I got the reject letter in the mail yesterday (10/29).
 
jltuttle said:
I got accepted at AZCOM but didn't even get an interview at CCOM! I got the reject letter in the mail yesterday (10/29).
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That sure is ass backwards! :laugh: Congrats on AZCOM!
 
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