Rejections 2005

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utlonghorn50

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i thought it would be a good idea to have a place for people to post their rejections if they want. Congrats on all the interviews.
 
It's a good idea. I have rejections from Cornell, Wayne State and Cleveland Clinic.
But I'm an old IMG, so it's not very significant for most of you, guys.
 
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1. Cleveland Clinic
2. John Hopkins
3. UNC
4. Baystate
5. Baylor
6. Virginia Mason
7. Utah
8. Vandy
 
Cornell (for the second time) today 10/27...like it didn't hurt enough the first time!!
 
Medical College of Georgia

(none others yet)

Maybe instead of making a new post, people who posted here can simply go back and edit their original post. This way we won't end-up with like 400+ responses like on the other "invite" thread.
 
jocwyo and hoyden, baylor is one of the programs I am interested in going to next year. If you dont mind, what kind of stats do you have. Thanks for the help. Congrats on your other interviews.
 
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Well, I am an IMG, first of all. An old one 🙂 With lots af experience in anesthesiology/critical care and pediatric anesthesiology/pediatric critical care in home country. Average scores. Some research experience in home country.
So my creds in any dimension are not significant for you, since you are an AMG.
 
utlonghorn50 said:
jocwyo and hoyden, baylor is one of the programs I am interested in going to next year. If you dont mind, what kind of stats do you have. Thanks for the help. Congrats on your other interviews.


I don't mind at all.

Step 1 220, Step 2 225 (taken early), upper half of class, solid research w/ 2 publications, average LOR
 
jocwyo-

I am upset after reading your post! I have a 219 Step 1, am in upper half of class, did research. Not taken step 2 yet. You seemed to be a good applicant, why were you rejected? Are you an american grad? What would you have done differently?
 
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Wakeforest via snail mail today. No hard feelings though as I have no connection to that program or the Southern U.S. as a whole. Still sucks to get rejected though.
 
1st rejection.... but for transition year at Mayo Scottsdale. They can GFT. Wasn't that interested anyways.
 
Same as above, rejected from Mayo TY in Scottsdale. I'm not surprised, they told me earlier this year that they have never taken a DO before.

Oh well, still hoping for more,

Lefty
 
buddym said:
jocwyo-

I am upset after reading your post! I have a 219 Step 1, am in upper half of class, did research. Not taken step 2 yet. You seemed to be a good applicant, why were you rejected? Are you an american grad? What would you have done differently?

I am from a DO school (AZCOM) - maybe that made a difference - although they have taken DO's in the past. I'm not sure why - the stars weren't aligned this time.

My letters of recommendation weren't swell (though none were negative) - all were from visiting anesthesiology electives.

I'm not sure what I would have done differently - perhaps rotated through Baylor as an elective.

Good luck - hope that your attempt is more successful.
 
mgh today... guess i was expecting that 👎


jocwyo said:
I am from a DO school (AZCOM) - maybe that made a difference - although they have taken DO's in the past. I'm not sure why - the stars weren't aligned this time.

My letters of recommendation weren't swell (though none were negative) - all were from visiting anesthesiology electives.

I'm not sure what I would have done differently - perhaps rotated through Baylor as an elective.

Good luck - hope that your attempt is more successful.
 
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Right....so I wanted the flood gates to open but, not in this direction...........Cornell rejection 11/4...............bastards!

-B 🙁
 
bthings said:
Right....so I wanted the flood gates to open but, not in this direction...........Cornell rejection 11/4...............bastards!

-B 🙁


Deans letter released... 4 to 1 in favor of rejections
 
got my first anesthesia boot today from UCSD... regrettably; according to them.
 
Well.....the most amazing thing occured today. I received an interview at Colorado after being rejected.....also verified that it was not a mistake. Very weird....but made it my day!! 😀 😀
 
FYI, U of Florida Gainesville, according to my source, had as of beginning of Nov, about 10 slots left for interview invites with 200+ applications to be reviewed, they gave out most of interviews early on, so THE EARLY BIRDS got the worm.
 
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1. Cornell
2. Virginia Mason
3. Mass Gen
4. Wake Forrest

Did anyone notice that most of the programs rejecting people had to scramble to fill last year?
 
kcgasser said:
Did anyone notice that most of the programs rejecting people had to scramble to fill last year?

Really?! How interesting...
Can you, please, name them all?
I'm not being sarcastic, I have genuine interest.
 
some "notable" places that did not fill after the match last year
(per the homepage for scutwork.com).....


Rush
Wake Forest
SLU
Cornell
NYU-don't know much about this program
Vanderbilt
Washington
Penn State (Hershey)

By the way, there are many reasons why programs don't fill and sometimes they will choose to keep those positions empty as opposed to filling them with candidates that they deem less than deserving. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
 
MY first 2 yesterday via e-mail...at the same time...ouch. That doesn't feel very good 🙁
Colorado
Florida (Gainesville)

Well, at least I know, I still gave 7 programs I havne't even heard from....
anyone hear from UT Southwestern? Tulane?
 
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