Poll: How many times did you apply?

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Poll: How many times did you apply M.D. before getting accepted M.D.?

  • 1

    Votes: 104 83.9%

  • 2

    Votes: 15 12.1%

  • 3

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • 4

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • 5+

    Votes: 2 1.6%
  • Total voters
    124
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Poll: How many times did you apply to U.S. allopathic medical schools before getting accepted to any U.S. allopathic medical school?
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Only once thank god! I slacked all of senior year and tanked my gpa. Haha! I know I'm terrible.
 
Only once, and it was only going to be once.

If I hadn't gotten in then I wasn't going to be getting an MD in this lifetime.
 
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alwaysaangel said:
Only once, and it was only going to be once.

If I hadn't gotten in then I wasn't going to be getting an MD in this lifetime.
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Just curious, did you get any "What will you do if you don't get in this year?" questions? If so, how did you answer them?
 
Robizzle said:
Just curious, did you get any "What will you do if you don't get in this year?" questions? If so, how did you answer them?
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Yup at 3/4 interviews and I told them - I wouldn't reapply.

I had been considering NP or PA only a year ago anyway (right before I bit the bullet and decided to take the MCAT - this fact has usually already come up when asked "Why MD") and if 20 schools had turned me down at a point in my life when I felt my application was as strong as it could be then I would have taken their word for it that I wasn't meant to be a doctor and gone to do NP or PA instead. I don't have the time, money or energy to do the application process again and I believe I could do almost as much good as an PA or NP as I could as an MD and I'd rather not wait another year to start doing it.

It went over really well at every interview I went to and I was accepted at 3/3 that it came up at. I don't believe the only good answer is "reapply" and since that simply wasn't true for me there was no way I was going to claim it was.
 
alwaysaangel said:
Yup at 3/4 interviews and I told them - I wouldn't reapply.

I had been considering NP or PA only a year ago anyway (right before I bit the bullet and decided to take the MCAT - this fact has usually already come up when asked "Why MD") and if 20 schools had turned me down at a point in my life when I felt my application was as strong as it could be then I would have taken their word for it that I wasn't meant to be a doctor and gone to do NP or PA instead. I don't have the time, money or energy to do the application process again and I believe I could do almost as much good as an PA or NP as I could as an MD and I'd rather not wait another year to start doing it.

It went over really well at every interview I went to and I was accepted at 3/3 that it came up at. I don't believe the only good answer is "reapply" and since that simply wasn't true for me there was no way I was going to claim it was.
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Damn, definitely ballsey, but much respect for tellin the truth.
 
Damn.... Nice answer. Deeeeeep
 
Honestly, until I talked to one of my MCAT students last year it NEVER occurred to me that anyone would go through this bull**** more than once.

And when I asked her "what would you do if you didn't get in" expecting some back up career and she said "apply again" it took every ounce of strength I had for my jaw not to drop to the floor.

I have mad respect for those of you who want this enough to do it more than once.
 
Robizzle said:
Just curious, did you get any "What will you do if you don't get in this year?" questions? If so, how did you answer them?
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More important question:

Did any of you put on an amused face and say, "Why wouldn't I get in?"
 
Tired said:
More important question:

Did any of you put on an amused face and say, "Why wouldn't I get in?"
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how about

Interviewer: So this is your 13th interview?

Me: Nope. Second.

Interview: So you have a bunch scheduled after this one?

Me: nope.

really long awkward silence...

:laugh:
 
pennybridge said:
how about

Interviewer: So this is your 13th interview?

Me: Nope. Second.

Interview: So you have a bunch scheduled after this one?

Me: nope.

really long awkward silence...

:laugh:
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Sweet! How did the interviewer pick "13th"? Wrong file? Random guess?
 
Tired said:
Sweet! How did the interviewer pick "13th"? Wrong file? Random guess?
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well it was a closed file interview, so probably my fine suit and crotch bulge :smuggrin:
 
When I started school, there was a guy who had supposedly applied and been rejected nine times before being accepted on try #10.

I wonder what the record is?
 
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Tired said:
When I started school, there was a guy who had supposedly applied and been rejected nine times before being accepted on try #10.
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why would a school accept someone like that? talk about red flags...

edit// I know there's a 50 cent "I got shot nine times!" joke in there somewhere....
 
pennybridge said:
why would a school accept someone like that? talk about red flags...

edit// I know there's a 50 cent "I got shot nine times!" joke in there somewhere....
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You got me. He had a really hard time. I'm graduating this year, and he's currently still working on MSII year after taking a year off for unspecified reasons.
 
Tired said:
You got me. He had a really hard time. I'm graduating this year, and he's currently still working on MSII year after taking a year off for unspecified reasons.
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was he Phil Spector?

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because that would explain a lot.
 
I thought I would never apply again, but after being rejected sans interview at every MD school last year, I had a realization. I am not the type of person to give up after one shot, so why should med school be any different? I reapplied this year, and also applied to DO schools. Granted, I still don't have any MD acceptances, but I was accepted to something like 6 or 7 DO schools. I am still waiting on one MD decision though, hopefully good news might be coming my way soon because this school has always been my top choice, from the time I decided I wanted to do medicine. If not, I'll be happy at NYCOM, the DO school I chose. But no way was I giving up on medicine after one go at it.
 
Robizzle said:
Just curious, did you get any "What will you do if you don't get in this year?" questions? If so, how did you answer them?
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Not exactly that, but I got asked "What career path would you chose if medicine wasn't an option?"
 
pcguy2 said:
Only once thank god! I slacked all of senior year and tanked my gpa. Haha! I know I'm terrible.
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Yeah, I'm currently working on that (tanking my gpa). I mean, I'll probably get a bunch of B's, but still, after struggling to get A's all the time, it feels like serious slacking.

A small part of me really wants to strive for the A, but the other 90% of me doesn't really care anymore. I want to know what it's like to be a normal college student who slacks and doesn't care about B's for once.
 
I hear ya baylormed. After 2 years of pushing myself, i wanted my third to be care free and relaxed. And it paid off!
 
Two times baby! Busted my balls to get an M.S., do research, land publications, etc after I failed in my first attempt. Too many long, sleepless nights that year...
 
It will probably take me two times to get in. I realistically cant see being rejected everywhere next year. If that happens though I probably can get into a top 10 or 20 law school pretty easily as Ive heard that law schools just want to see a high lsat and gpa and dont care about much else.
 
MEG@COOL said:
It will probably take me two times to get in. I realistically cant see being rejected everywhere next year. If that happens though I probably can get into a top 10 or 20 law school pretty easily as Ive heard that law schools just want to see a high lsat and gpa and dont care about much else.
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Yes yes, you told us. Good luck finding the "smarter" adcoms next year.
 
Tired said:
Yes yes, you told us. Good luck finding the "smarter" adcoms next year.
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actually im just going to write my essay as if the adcom were my highschool student counsil
 
Robizzle said:
Just curious, did you get any "What will you do if you don't get in this year?" questions? If so, how did you answer them?
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As you know this is my 4th year in the process, and I was asked this question. I told them that I would do everything in power to improve my application and explore other paths into a medical career.

At all 5 of my interviews--I was told something along the lines of you won't be reapplying next year.

I have no idea of what adcoms want :oops:
 
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