Only one interview and 2 rejections so far...really worried :(

[lonewolf94]

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Took post down.

 

[mmm_cats]

Keep doing relevant stuff in case you need to reapply. Hopefully you will succeed, but if not, apply less top heavy next year

 

[efgih]

Ye I would agree with the chinese food box...list looks top heavy considering your stats (unfortunately numbers matter). Did you apply late?

 

[lonewolf94]

Ye I would agree with the chinese food box...list looks top heavy considering your stats (unfortunately numbers matter). Did you apply late?

I sent most secondaries by August 20th...and a few in early Sept :/

 

[RunawayGrape]

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[stickgirl390]

I applied to UB too! Still haven't heard anything though. I agree with what everyone else was saying. You seem to have placed all your eggs in the same basket.

And if it helps, I have 3 friends who are M2s at UB and all three didn't get accepted until April. I hear that particular school likes to waitlist everyone until the last minute.

 

[625233]

Too top heavy. The ivies and friends have median GPAs of 3.85+ and 35-38 MCAT medians. Your stats are good enough for tier 2 schools, think Emory, BU, etc.


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[625233]

Not to mention the superstar level ECs accepted students have at those schools.


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[gyngyn]

I count 6 schools on your list where you have a good chance at an interview if you are a NY resident.
That's scanty for NY, but there is still some time left.

 

[Yorick]

A lot of top-heavy and low yield schools and some confusing choices - assuming you're a NYS resident, Rutgers and RWJ take few OOS. If you didn't go to Brown for undergrad, then that was a pretty poor choice, most of their class are from special programs and Brown graduates.

 

[efgih]

I sent most secondaries by August 20th...and a few in early Sept :/

That's not bad. Yeah your stats are a bit low for the top schools (although they are good stats!). Your ECs are good. Hopefully you will get one or two more interviews, and rock those. Med school admissions is a crapshoot honestly, and it sucks

 

[Goro]

Aimed somewhat too high, perhaps essays poorly written.

Hi all! Getting really worried here since I applied to ~30 schools and have only received one interview (Buffalo) and two rejections (Case Western & Boston University). I'm a NYS resident. I sent most of my secondaries by August 22nd. It's already December :/ Here are my stats:
- MCAT: 515
- GPA: 3.72 overall / 3.61 sci
- Started non-profit to deliver hygiene amenities to the homeless
- Clinical volunteer under eye surgeons (i.e. corneal transplants, cataracts, etc.)
- Clinical shadowing under plastic surgeon
- Leader in community service fraternity
- Plenty of research experience: wrote undergraduate honors thesis & working full-time in a lab during my gap year
- Published case report in Dept. of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical Center

Note: I also sent update letters / letters of interest to about 16 of these schools.

List of schools:

• Dartmouth (Geisel)
• Brown (Alpert)
• Case Western (University)
• Cleveland Clinic College (Lerner)
• Wash U
• George Washington
• Georgetown
• U-Chicago (Pritzker)
• U-Penn (Perelman)
• Drexel
• Boston University
• Tufts
• Temple (Lewis Katz)
• Penn State
• Hofstra (Northwell)
• University at Buffalo
• Northwestern (Feinberg)
• Mount Sinai
• Stony Brook
• Albert Einstein
• SUNY Downstate
• Rutgers NJMS
• Robert Wood Johnson
• NYU
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Harvard
• Yale

Any advice would be great! Thanks 🙂

 

[Goro]

I think that you should have gotten some love, or get some love from the following. If you're a nY resident, and didn't grow up in, or go to college in NJ, then those were donations from day 1.


Dartmouth (Geisel)

• George Washington
• Georgetown
• Drexel
• Boston University
• Tufts
• Temple (Lewis Katz)
• Penn State
• Hofstra (Northwell)
• University at Buffalo
• Stony Brook
• Albert Einstein
• SUNY Downstate

 

[TheBiologist]

well this is concerning because I have similar stats

(don't apply this cycle tho)

 

[droidz]

There's time yet, nothing much you can do anyway so it's no use worrying so much anyway

For ref I've only 1 II and 2 rejections as well. 76.5 LizzyM. Granted I sent my stuff in later than you but still, at least we have the one II right? Spend your time prepping for the interview like me if you haven't done it yet rather than worrying about things you have no control over 🙂

 

[787593]

If you take out the low-yield schools (Drexel, BU, Georgetown, Tufts, and maybe I missed a few), your list looks a pretty top-heavy. Your stats are just at that point where they're not quite competitive for the "elite" schools, yet very competitive for state schools. I'm surprised Downstate hasn't sent you an II though.

What's the proper definition of a "low-yield school?" Thanks!

 

[sdhere1234]

What's the proper definition of a "low-yield school?" Thanks!

Schools that get tons of applicants like 10k+ so even with stellar stats it's a crapshoot.