Reapp during an SMP?

[CriticalCond]

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So I am waitlisted at all the schools where I interviewed and have applied to some SMP's I have a good chance of getting into. Since I'm older I would like to roll straight from an SMP into med school, which means prepping my application now, however I'm unclear about the timing for this. Do I wait until I am rejected from the waitlist to resubmit? Submit while I'm still on the waitlist? Just need a little guidance.

Also anyone who has had the experience of reapplying immediately upon enrollling in an SMP please feel free to chime in. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated!

 

[DrMidlife]

Yes, reapply while you're waitlisted, and get your primary and secondaries done early. Don't wait out your waitlists.

If you're on waitlists now that means two things:
1. You can realistically reapply during your SMP. This is in contrast to people who aren't close to getting accepted and think simply being enrolled in an SMP is what med schools want to see.
2. You need to think ahead about what happens if you get an MD acceptance before you finish your SMP. An MD acceptance is contingent on finishing the programs you're enrolled in, so you have to petition your MD school and your SMP school to let you terminate the SMP. If your MD acceptance comes after the drop deadline in spring semester, you don't get your tuition money back, so you might as well finish the thing.

Best of luck to you.

 

[CriticalCond]

Thank you!

 

[Goro]

Foolish move. What do you think will improve in the time between you start the SMP and the application cycle? One good semester? That's not going to be enough.

You need to apply with the strongest possible packet. If that means waiting until the SMP is done, and you've shown AdComs that you can handle a medical school curriculum, then it's worth it.

If you're pulled off the wait list, then fine, all of this is moot. But re-applying with pretty much no improvement is like magic thinking: doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.

So I am waitlisted at all the schools where I interviewed and have applied to some SMP's I have a good chance of getting into. Since I'm older I would like to roll straight from an SMP into med school, which means prepping my application now, however I'm unclear about the timing for this. Do I wait until I am rejected from the waitlist to resubmit? Submit while I'm still on the waitlist? Just need a little guidance.

Also anyone who has had the experience of reapplying immediately upon enrollling in an SMP please feel free to chime in. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated!

 

[DrMidlife]

My advice is based on my experiences in the EVMS SMP, where 3-5 students get accepted at their home state public schools while enrolled in the SMP, sometimes as early as November, sometimes as late as May. These typically are students who were waitlisted at those schools before starting the SMP.

Waitlisted is an "almost". Without that "almost", the situation is entirely different.

 

[CriticalCond]

The only place I've seen it successfully done is into a school with a strong, if unofficial, linkage to the program. I'm only planning on reapplying to places where I am currently waitlisted with the addition of maybe one or two more.