period applications are kept on file?

[sleep deprived]

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Guys,

After you apply to a medical school, and are either rejected or accepted, how long is your application kept on file in the department of admissions? Do they get rid of it after you either accept or decline? Or is it customary for it to be held for a certain period of time even if you are rejected?
I really need to know. Once I get some answers if you want to know why, I will tell why.

 

[edfig99]

it's probably different for each school, but i would figure they keep them for at least 1 or 2 application cycles. However, with e-AMCAS, it can theoretically be on file forever -- it depends on how long the AAMC wants to keep stuff on its servers.

 

[edfig99]

p.s. if you are accepted and you matriculate at the medical school, then your application is part of your permanent file.

 

[sleep deprived]

So you think a med school I was rejected from 2 years ago might still have my essay somewhere on file that could be easily accessed by current faculty? That really stinks because looking back I really hate the essay I wrote. I am kind of embarresed of it now. If I have something to do with that medical school now in way of their faculty, I guess the faculty member can pull up that application, see my terrible essay, and that I was rejected from the school 2 years ago. That really stinks! What do you think, is this a realistic concern?

 

[Adcadet]

I wouldn't worry. So you wrote a crappy essay two years ago. Write a good one this time around (or whenever). If you interview and it comes up, you can always explain that you were young and immature back then.

What could have been so bad about what you said? Did you admit to being a child pornographer? Did you say really bad things about various med schools?

 

[sleep deprived]

Oh no, I am already in medical school, my second year at that. It is just that I am wondering if the schools I was rejected from still have my essay and application on file. I am not trying to transfer or anything. It is a long complicated story, my concern is that faculty from a med. school I was rejected from 2 years ago could pull up my old application and see it.
I didn't write anything bad about other medical schools, I wrote about a challenge I overcame. But looking back, it's something I would like to forget about. A challenge that I guess was kind of something I wish I had not shared to begin with. Do you think that 2 years later my essay is still easily accesible?

 

[Winged Scapula]

Accessible? Perhaps. Easily? Not likely. Would anyone even try to access it ? I highly doubt it. I'm sure the PDs elsewhere have more to do than reread old essays and file away the topic to use against you at some point later in your career.

 

[carrigallen]

Originally posted by Kimberli Cox
Accessible? Perhaps. Easily? Not likely. Would anyone even try to access it ? I highly doubt it. I'm sure the PDs elsewhere have more to do than reread old essays and file away the topic to use against you at some point later in your career.

my thoughts exactly.

 

[sleep deprived]

Thanks for your input. I guess I won't worry about it. Sits in the back of my head though. I hate writing essays.