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Yeah, neither have I. It's driving me crazy being the outlier.
I used the same LORs+an additional one. 2 of my letter writers explicitly said they were shocked that I didn't get interviews last cycle. I had a committee letter/packet, so my adviser read all of my recs. I reached out to her a weeks ago to see if I could probe for any negative letters, and she just said she thought I was very competitive and should expect interviews. I obviously can't be sure about the recs though.
I completely scrapped and rewrote my PS this cycle. Had 5 people give me feedback, including my adviser and someone who does admissions consulting. It's nothing extraordinary, but it's well-written and answers why medicine/why me
You're applying to a combination of top tier and low-yield schools as a reapplicant which is a big no-no. Next cycle you need to have large swath of schools including a lot of low tiers. Yeah you might get yield-protected at some, but you should be able to get IIs assuming a large enough list by virtue of being a cream of the crop applicant.Schools this cycle:
Albert Einstein
BU
Cal Northstate
Columbia
UCLA (Reapp)
Emory
Dartmouth (Reapp)
GW
Georgetown
Harvard
Mount Sinai
Keck
Loyola (Reapp)
NYU
Northwestern (Reapp)
OHSU
Rosalind Franklin (Reapp)
Rush (Reapp)
Stanford (Reapp)
Tufts (Reapp)
UCSD (Reapp)
UCSF (Reapp)
UCD (Reapp)
UCI(Reapp)
UCR (Reapp)
UChicago (Reapp)
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
VCU
Brown (Reapp)
You have both Harvard and CN"U" on your list. We can safely say that you have covered the Alpha and the Omega.Honestly, these were the schools I most wanted to go to, and I didn't have the budget to add more because I assumed I would be paying to attend interviews. I thought I was competitive enough to at least get an II or 2 from them.
Yes, few hundred hours of underserved volunteering. I actually ended up getting and attending a single II at a top 10 school since posting this, so I'm even more confused as to why I have no love from other schools.