School You Would Never Apply to Again

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*leans in eagerly with a bag of popcorn, chewing noisily* and what? Damn it! And what? What happens after he removes her blouse?

Come now Guy, what would the Duchess Chantavalle of Cornwall think of you watching this cheap pornographic display? "Royalty" should know better.

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scrappysurfer said:
Colorado: for a MSTP secondary adding up to $135, the rejection letter declared me "not competitive for the class of 2005." At least attempt to be polite.

I know you don't want to hear it, but they did you a favor by saving you the interview expenses. The MSTP students at Colorado are among the most unhappy grad students I have ever met. Their misery tops that of the MD students.
 
GOBUCKY! said:
Vanderbilt...

Flight to Nashville: $200

GuestHouse Inn Room: $60

Given three hours to roam around not knowing where to go, eating, and having an interview only lasting 20 minutes: $5

Getting Hammered at Nashville International Airport and then almost throwing up on the flight back to Wisc because I was so disappointed with Vandy: Priceless

Vandy is also notorious for sending secondaries to people they have no intention on interviewing.
 
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EPA7X1 said:
Vandy is also notorious for sending secondaries to people they have no intention on interviewing.

Here's a fun question...

How is this true if they only send secondaries AFTER you've been invited to interview?
 
EPA7X1 said:
Vandy is also notorious for sending secondaries to people they have no intention on interviewing.
What?! No, Vandy is notorious for sending secondaries ONLY to people they intend on interviewing.
 
Northwestern
- they only gave me a week and a half to fill out their self-serving secondary
- i hated the whole good cop/bad cop routine they pulled at the interview
- they obviously don't appreciate how cool i am! :p
 
Michigan State: send us $100 and we'll send you a secondary. Oh, no nevermind, the check cashed, you're rejected.

UCIrvine: Send us money and fill out a long secondary. Oh we're sorry, we dropped the program you are applying to.

Side note, you guys visited Albany on the wrong day, not my favorite school, but in early november it was the most gorgeous campus I've seen :)
 
DrThom said:
Here's a fun question...

How is this true if they only send secondaries AFTER you've been invited to interview?

This is not entirely true. I recieved my MD/PhD secondary shortly after the Aug MCAT scores were released, sent it back in a week or so.....the deafening roar of SILENCE from Vandyland.
 
scrappysurfer said:
This is not entirely true. I recieved my MD/PhD secondary shortly after the Aug MCAT scores were released, sent it back in a week or so.....the deafening roar of SILENCE from Vandyland.
You didn't follow up? You may have gotten an interview and never scheduled it.
 
From the MSTP website:

After an initial review, applicants who are reviewed favorably will receive a user ID and password so that they can access the secondary application online. At this point, applicants should solicit confidential letters of recommendation from at least three individuals who can address their qualifications for the dual degree. Letters should be sent directly to the attention of Dr. Michelle Grundy, Assistant Director of the MSTP, 340 Light Hall, Nashville, TN 37232-0175.

In the final step of the application process, competitive applicants are invited by the MSTP to interview at Vanderbilt.

I guess it works differently for MSTP.
 
Here are my votes:

BU: took my money ($100) and picture (no essays), then, bam rejection.

AECOM: See BU

UPenn: Application = do you have any connections at Penn? Oh and send us money. :mad:

UCSF: I don't even know why I tried. (I guess this isn't the schools fault :D )
 
Wake Forest: Didn't submit secondary because I thought there was a time limit that I didn't meet THEN they emailed me asking me to submit it and that they would make an acception...what a joke I haven't heard from them since.

U. Mich. Ann Arbor: I think the lost my app and secondary.

I can't complain too much, I only applied to 5 schools and got interviews at the other three. Only one acceptance so far though.
 
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UCSF ... but at least they didn't take my secondary money. That schools seems almost impossible to get in unless you're non-trad. or have the top 1% on the MCAT. I know many people that are much more deserving than myself that didn't even get secondaries. It's kind of crazy in my opinion.

Duke: I don't know what hte hell IW as tihnking applying there! (haha guess that's not their fault) however, the secondary is incredibly long with tons of questions that the want short essays for. I tihnk it was something like 4 essays. needless to say, I didn't even return that secondary cuz I knew there wasn't a shot in hell IW as gonna get in and the essays were a pain in the butt (plus I had just gotten an in state school at the time)

Tulane: they sent me an interview letter before I even sent in my secondary (by accident) then told me they screwed up... then they told me to give them more money and a secondary. after all that recently they sent me a REAL interview invite. Itold them they could keep the itnerview spot.
 
I wouldn't apply to UCSF again, because they tore out my heart this time. When you get an interview invite you pretty much think you're in, because more then 40% get in, but then ~60% of those people (including me) are just wrong.

I apologize in advance to anyone going to Duke.

I wouldn't apply to Duke again. I was sick of hearing about 'THE LEADERS OF MEDICINE' and 'THE HARVARD OF THE SOUTH'. Also, for a school that presumes to be all about ethical integrity, they sure don't have any. "To insure your privacy and the integrity of the admission process, no decisions will be discussed via telephone or transmitted via e-mail at any time or under any circumstance". :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Dear Duke, you will never be Harvard, you will never be Hopkins, and don't ever forget you're in frickin Durham, sucks for you!
 
Baylor...once I went to the interview I was so turned off...it was awful. They sucked up $250 or whatever for the AMCAS...waste of money...could've been used on good food :) :p
 
Bigsheed920 said:
Gagglefuk.......hahaha....... and I agree with Mt. Sinai......add Duke to the list too.....great school but man is it hard to even get an interview.......they had one tooo many ?s on that secondary.

Why do you say it's hard to get an interview at Duke? They interviewed over 1,000 applicants this year, out of a pool of less than 3,000 completed secondary apps (and everyone who applies gets a secondary). That's an over 33% chance at an interview at a top 5 school...sounds like pretty good odds to me! I'd bet it's nowhere near that high at other top tier schools...just a thought.
 
Okay... I absolutely can't believe no one's mentioned the entire "system" they have down in Texas.

1) Awesome how they make their app almost like the AMCAS, but just different enough you'll have a headache making sure it's all fine

2) Even more awesome how they ask for line counts instead of word counts. Line counts... on an apparently arbitrarily shaped input box.

3) They are the gold standard in "call us, write us, or even think about us and we swear we'll hunt you down and personally gag you to death with your own application."

4) The above wouldn't be so bad if Ms. Robinson's third grade class hadn't designed the layout of their website, making it virtually impossible to definitively determine whether the answer to your question is there (in which case you will die if you contact them) or not (in which case your fate may be the same, but you'll at least feel more justified).

5) Alright. I know Texas is great and people just love to stay there and all, but if most every school bases their entire presentation on exactly how they stack up to the other Texas schools, without recognition of the other 49 states... time to wake up and look around a little bit.

6) A match. This whole process doesn't suck enough right now, so they add a match.


All that being said, UTSW is pretty sweet in their automatic in-state tuition deal, and the schools tended to have reasonable secondaries. But please, for the love of all things holy, just join AMCAS already.

I'm done.
 
scott858 said:
I apologize in advance to anyone going to Duke.

I wouldn't apply to Duke again. I was sick of hearing about 'THE LEADERS OF MEDICINE' and 'THE HARVARD OF THE SOUTH'. Also, for a school that presumes to be all about ethical integrity, they sure don't have any. "To insure your privacy and the integrity of the admission process, no decisions will be discussed via telephone or transmitted via e-mail at any time or under any circumstance". :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Dear Duke, you will never be Harvard, you will never be Hopkins, and don't ever forget you're in frickin Durham, sucks for you!

I'm sorry, but I think this rant totally crosses the line...it's vitriolic, inflamatory, and unnecessary. I don't need your apology for going to Duke Med, and I don't think any other Dukies want it either. I absolutely love Duke and I love Durham (and I grew up in New England!), so there's no need for your sympathy.

I know the application process is frustrating at times, and this thread is all about venting, but this rant crosses the line. State your opinion and state your frustrations, but don't try to demean, insult and devalue the wonderful experience so many of us have at Duke just because you didn't get in, or because you found the application process to be frustrating. The fact is, many students volunteer a great deal of their own time to make the appliation process as smooth as possible for people like you, and for you to dismiss that outright is, quite simply, infuriating. Then again, this post makes me confident that the system actually works, because we wouldn't want to admit someone who'd say things like this anyway! Still, to suggest, as you did, that Duke admissions lacks integrity is just downright dishonest in itself...how ironic. :rolleyes:
 
VCU - just not right for me because of location mostly
Michigan State - no hospital on campus
UCincinnati - why did i think i would be okay with living in cincinnati?
Drexel - reputation


definitely not meaning to offend any of these schools... all med schools are great. these ones just weren't right for me, and i should have been smart enough to know that beforehand.

also, if i could add some schools i would have added some more top twenties, like columbia and cornell, just to see.
 
brothersboff said:
Okay... I absolutely can't believe no one's mentioned the entire "system" they have down in Texas.

1) Awesome how they make their app almost like the AMCAS, but just different enough you'll have a headache making sure it's all fine

2) Even more awesome how they ask for line counts instead of word counts. Line counts... on an apparently arbitrarily shaped input box.

3) They are the gold standard in "call us, write us, or even think about us and we swear we'll hunt you down and personally gag you to death with your own application."

4) The above wouldn't be so bad if Ms. Robinson's third grade class hadn't designed the layout of their website, making it virtually impossible to definitively determine whether the answer to your question is there (in which case you will die if you contact them) or not (in which case your fate may be the same, but you'll at least feel more justified).

5) Alright. I know Texas is great and people just love to stay there and all, but if most every school bases their entire presentation on exactly how they stack up to the other Texas schools, without recognition of the other 49 states... time to wake up and look around a little bit.

6) A match. This whole process doesn't suck enough right now, so they add a match.


All that being said, UTSW is pretty sweet in their automatic in-state tuition deal, and the schools tended to have reasonable secondaries. But please, for the love of all things holy, just join AMCAS already.

I'm done.
I agree that the TMDSAS website sucks...and that the "line" limitation is a bit silly, but I think you are missing the point of TMDSAS. The match is a great way to allow the most number of Texas residents to go to medical school in Texas (if a matching system wasn't a good method then it wouldn't be in use with residency placement...yet it is). People who apply from out-of-state will *gasp* have to fill out two applications (AMCAS and TMDSAS), and I'm sorry that's such an inconvenience, but for a lot of people in Texas TMDSAS is their only shot.

The reason Texas schools compete against one another is because we have seven public medical schools (soon to have nine: Austin and the Valley). It only makes sense that the schools (who are marketing mostly to TEXAS residents) will want to trump one another to get the best in-state students. Point being...the system was designed for Texas residents who want to maximize their chances of getting into one of our public medical schools.

Oh yeah...I hear the whole process is going to be overhauled or even removed in the near future. Oh well...I'm already finished applying :) Good luck to everyone applying this summer!!!!
 
I'll grant that the system is designed for Texas residents and therefore the pitches at the schools can logically focus on them. However, if the texas schools (esp. UTSW and, recently UT Houston) are wanting to really build their national reputations then that ought to be reflected. It doesn't seem to be.

Also, the system is definitely not just a pain to out-of-staters. If you're only looking in-state then you're still forced to deal with the bass-akwards TMDSAS system. If you're a texas resident who, gasp, wants to consider non-texas schools or even Baylor then you're just as saddled with the hassle of two different application systems. I honestly wonder if Texas wants to make it more difficult for their top condidates to look outside of Texas. I can see the logic if that's the plan, but it does give their people the shaft.

As for the match, I'm not really sure at all how a match guarantees more texas residents get in to texas schools, nor am I at all convinced that the existence of the residency match program proves this is a good system. The normal system of admiting your top candidates and then drawing from waitlists seems to work well elsewhere. Granted, more administrative hassle, but it also creates so much gaming and second-guessing (on both sides). I would just rather have a straight-forward system of we-like-you-do-you-like-us admissions and waitlists. The national residency program may or may not be a good idea, but it's also dealing with a much larger and more complicated scale than 7-9 schools.
 
TMDSAS does not prevent top students in the state from applying outside of Texas. I applied to many top schools outside of Texas and was accepted into most of them. It's obvious that we aren't going to agree on this issue so I'm going to stop posting about it. You refer to TMDSAS as "bass-akwards," but the application is almost identical to AMCAS...so unless you want to refer to AMCAS as "bass-akwards" as well, then you shouldn't go there.

The match guarantees that top students who want to stay in Texas go to the school of their first choice, while less-than-amazing applicants are guaranteed a spot at the college highest on their list, rather than being wait-listed OVER and OVER and OVER.

AMCAS:
If a top student applies to all schools, they will probably be accepted to most of them, whereas a less-than-amazing applicant can apply to the same schools but will be wait-listed at all of them. That is quite demoralizing...rather know now than later.

Anyway, I'm done. Again, good luck to all of you!
 
MeowMix said:
I know you don't want to hear it, but they did you a favor by saving you the interview expenses. The MSTP students at Colorado are among the most unhappy grad students I have ever met. Their misery tops that of the MD students.

I don't know. I don't think the MSTP students in my class seem too unhappy. Their biggest complaint seems to be that sometimes it is difficult on them since some of the PhD cores are at the same time as some of the required MD classes which requires them to choose which one to go to and watch a video for the other. Also, I really don't think the MD students are too unhappy either. Just the standard bitching you get at any medical school (prof's could be better, exam question # 23 was unfair etc). Sure things could be improved but they could be improved at any school that you go to.
 
Prophecies said:
TMDSAS does not prevent top students in the state from applying outside of Texas. I applied to many top schools outside of Texas and was accepted into most of them. It's obvious that we aren't going to agree on this issue so I'm going to stop posting about it. You refer to TMDSAS as "bass-akwards," but the application is almost identical to AMCAS...so unless you want to refer to AMCAS as "bass-akwards" as well, then you shouldn't go there.

The match guarantees that top students who want to stay in Texas go to the school of their first choice, while less-than-amazing applicants are guaranteed a spot at the college highest on their list, rather than being wait-listed OVER and OVER and OVER.

AMCAS:
If a top student applies to all schools, they will probably be accepted to most of them, whereas a less-than-amazing applicant can apply to the same schools but will be wait-listed at all of them. That is quite demoralizing...rather know now than later.

Anyway, I'm done. Again, good luck to all of you!


Just my .02...I am not a Texas resident, and I still found the TMDSAS system to be both less burdensome and MUCH cheaper than the AMCAS system...Like the admission dean asked at my UT-Houston interview..."Have any of you had the misfortune of dealing with that mess that is AMCAS?!" :p

I may not be a Texas resident, but I got here as quick as I could! ;)
 
dewzen said:
I was like that about BU initially but they take care of you in the interview, really set up something nice. Plus it's kind of nice to give a 100 bucks as opposed to a 100 bucks and three essays
I totally agree!! The interview was unlike any of my others (I had 5 more...and really nothing matched BU).
 
Mayo: Please send us a check so we can take a look at your AMCAS.

Wake: Just a bad interview day all around. First, getting greeted by the medical center's guild (wife's of doctors club). Mmmm, what kind of message does that send to women interviewees? Second, "you are not interviewing for the waitlist, we still have 10-12 spots available", only to find out later by one of the student tour guides that their class has been filled for 2-3 weeks. Third, no merit money for out-of-staters (isn't Wake a private school?) Finally, the whole interview routine. Three 15-minute interviews where they drill you about ethics.

UAMS: Please send us 100$ and fill out this secondary application because we are too lazy to retrieve this information from your AMCAS. Also, the whole "since you're a state resident, we don't feel the need to show you around our campus because you're gonna matriculate here anyway" attitude.

All right, enough.
 
GOBUCKY! said:
Vanderbilt...

Flight to Nashville: $200

GuestHouse Inn Room: $60

Given three hours to roam around not knowing where to go, eating, and having an interview only lasting 20 minutes: $5

Getting Hammered at Nashville International Airport and then almost throwing up on the flight back to Wisc because I was so disappointed with Vandy: Priceless

:laugh: gotta have a keen wit to get through this process!! You'll get in somewhere...or you'll do well in whatever you end up doing :laugh:
 
Tufts, Temple, NYMC, USC and Drexel...ya'll have had my secondaries for 6 ****ing months already...do ya think ya could git around to rejecting me??!?
 
LauraMac said:
VCU - just not right for me because of location mostly
Michigan State - no hospital on campus
UCincinnati - why did i think i would be okay with living in cincinnati?
Drexel - reputation


definitely not meaning to offend any of these schools... all med schools are great. these ones just weren't right for me, and i should have been smart enough to know that beforehand.

also, if i could add some schools i would have added some more top twenties, like columbia and cornell, just to see.


I agree that the area around Cinci sucked. I feel sooo much safer at my undergrad, in the middle of Detroit! Though I must admit, I am still considering Cinci, there hospitals were very nice and the school was alright.


In truth, Id say Wright State is the only one I wouldnt. I know only ~10% is out of state, so I know that hurts my chances, but Id have to say they have been the rudest school to deal with over the phone. They wont tell you $h%t and are just downright rude about it. I havent heard anything from them, then I called again last week and they told me they were done interviewing... and I still havent been told anything (ie a rejection). I havent dealt with anything like this from any other school. You know other schools can look up your file and tell you "oh its been reviewed x times" or something, they wont even take your AMCAS, theyll just say "we cant say anything". Well how do I even know they didnt loose my file or something, as I havent heard anything and they have been done interviewing for a little while! I dunno, really was a tone type of thing, and just rude all the time.
 
TommyGunn04 said:
I'm sorry, but I think this rant totally crosses the line...it's vitriolic, inflamatory, and unnecessary. I don't need your apology for going to Duke Med, and I don't think any other Dukies want it either. I absolutely love Duke and I love Durham (and I grew up in New England!), so there's no need for your sympathy.

I know the application process is frustrating at times, and this thread is all about venting, but this rant crosses the line. State your opinion and state your frustrations, but don't try to demean, insult and devalue the wonderful experience so many of us have at Duke just because you didn't get in, or because you found the application process to be frustrating. The fact is, many students volunteer a great deal of their own time to make the appliation process as smooth as possible for people like you, and for you to dismiss that outright is, quite simply, infuriating. Then again, this post makes me confident that the system actually works, because we wouldn't want to admit someone who'd say things like this anyway! Still, to suggest, as you did, that Duke admissions lacks integrity is just downright dishonest in itself...how ironic. :rolleyes:

dookies :laugh:

ok my list:

U Wisconsin: i never returned my secondary. my good sense kicked in first.

Case: i have no research experience and therefore couldn't answer their research question AND send $85 for the purpose of finding out they wanted researchers.

MCO: no thanks...keep your 5 yr program. :thumbup:

any HBCU med schools: sorry but u they show NO LOVE to URMs that are from mainstream universities in my case. Guess i'm not "different" enough..booooo

VA schools: took my money....haters!

Iowa: i'm so far down on the waitlist it doesn't even matter.

I should have stuck w/ 10 schools that were in my state or surrounding
states...would have saved money.
 
I'd never look at Howard again; it's application process is nestled between cluster fu*k and circle jerk.

dc
 
This process has been overall horrible. Most of the schools I applied to have either rude or dishonest admissions offices (this is not to say they arnt great places for medical education)

1) Wake Forest: I did not even get a secondary even though I went to school and now work there. When I called the admissions office to ask my status sometime in nov they told me no decision had been made yet, oh yes it has considering i got the rejection later that day. Then I asked why I got rejected? Because my MCAT (31S) and my gpa (3.54) were too low... whatever to that. Not bitter i didnt get in, just bitter because i didnt even get a secondary or an honest un generic answer as to why.

2) UMDNJ: Horrible interview experience. My interviewer told me to go to the caribbean. Enough said what I think about her. :thumbdown:

3) Tufts: They seem to be in a blackhole and do everything on their own timetable with no correspondence what so ever. Plus it costs a 100 bills.
 
LoveDoc said:


Can you really blame them for not having integrity though? I mean, their ENTIRE SCHOOL was founded with blood money from the tobacco companies...Interesting how everyone conveniently forgets that.

Note, I am not a vindictive hater (Didn't apply to Duke at all). I just have a vendetta against the whole upper south. :smuggrin:
 
LoveDoc said:
MCO: no thanks...keep your 5 yr program. :thumbup:

Um - Five year program?? What in the heck are you talking about? MCO is a four year program just like everyone else.

Personally, I found the students, faculty, and interviewers at MCO to be the most laid back and friendly of any interview I attended.
 
MCO is a four year program but has a five year program available for a few students each year
 
KEC said:
MCO is a four year program but has a five year program available for a few students each year

thanks for clarifying.
 
eralza said:
C'mon, no votes in the hat for Howard?!
Lost secondary applications...an admissions office that can't figure out the difference between their a$$ and a hole in the ground... a mysterious email address where you can send all your questions that can't be answered by the admissions office... not bothering to send rejections for up to two years after applying.
I work for the government, and Howard admissions makes us look like a benchmark organization!


I second that! I called them and asked about my application...if they have everything, they told me they don't keep track of such things... "that's too much paperwork"
 
Dartmouth-- I would have been miserable living in NH.
 
reggae girl said:
I second that! I called them and asked about my application...if they have everything, they told me they don't keep track of such things... "that's too much paperwork"

I remember on the howard app last year they blacked out 2003 and wrote in 2004 on one of the forms!

There was also this other story about a guy that got an interview even though he didnt submit his secondary, he called to tell them and they rescinded the interveiw, got a reject letter later, and was subsequently waitlisted ( i think) then admitted!! All without doing a single thing but check off the AMCAS box.
 
getunconcsious said:
Can you really blame them for not having integrity though? I mean, their ENTIRE SCHOOL was founded with blood money from the tobacco companies...Interesting how everyone conveniently forgets that.

Note, I am not a vindictive hater (Didn't apply to Duke at all). I just have a vendetta against the whole upper south. :smuggrin:

Well, if you'll do some research, you'll find that the vast majority of the funds used to establish Duke were from the Duke electric power empire, not from tobacco. And the "entire school" argument is just ridiculous, especially considering the gifts given before and since the main campus was founded (Trinity College was founded in 1838, and wasn't founded through "blood money.") I could make a similar argument that Arnold Schwarzeneggar's (sp?) governor's campaign was paid for by body-building and his taking steroids, when that is so long ago as to be irrelevant now.

The blood money statement, however, is just crazy. Trust me, people did not realize the incredible dangers of smoking in the early 1900's--it was considered pretty harmless. People also thought smoking opium was fine for a while. Coca-cola originally had cocaine in it. It's amazing how many things were once considered, <gasp>, perfectly acceptable before people knew better.

I could make a good argument that the ENTIRE COUNTRY of the United States was founded through "blood money" from the slave trade or from the killing of Native Americans. Doesn't that make you want to move to another country, for example..... I don't know, tell me which country is without reproach. When you figure it out, move there.
 
exmike said:
I remember on the howard app last year they blacked out 2003 and wrote in 2004 on one of the forms!

uh... they did that this year too. :eek:
 
getunconcsious said:
I love how easy it is to inflame southerners. :laugh: :smuggrin: Like shooting fish in a barrel!

Funny, I thought the same thing about correcting ignorant people from Nevada. Do they actually teach real subjects there, or is it all stripping, prostitution, and gambling?
 
gary5 said:
Absolutely NEVER apply to Mayo. They sent me this letter: "You must send us money before we consider you." (I think it was before the secondary.) I sent the money, then they send me the rejection letter. What a terrible example of a way to treat people.

I'll second this. The way Mayo handles things turns the application process into a cheap fundraising scheme.
 
Singing Devil said:
Funny, I thought the same thing about correcting ignorant people from Nevada. Do they actually teach real subjects there, or is it all stripping, prostitution, and gambling?


Hmm... I've noticed that most southerners are disgusted at the more egalitarian attitude of the west in general and nevada in particular. I guess they're just more at home with their nearly caste-like system of class-based discrimination. I say this from experience, having lived in Virginia for a few years. And don't even get me started on the Victorian-era morals, of which we have a perfect example here. God forbid that the almighty Commonwealth of Virginia acknowledge that people gamble and go to hookers! Nevermind that Nevada laughs all the way to the bank by taxing these 'illicit' revenues.
 
Old_Mil said:
I'll second this. The way Mayo handles things turns the application process into a cheap fundraising scheme.

I am biased, b/c I love Mayo - but how is their process worse than all the schools that don't filter - where everyone, even with a 2.0 and 10 total on the MCAT gets a secondary. They don't look at your AMCAS or your secondary info before you send in the money...

Examples:

Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Cornell, GW, etc.

EVERYONE who checked a box on the AMCAS gets a secondary from them and many other schools (indeed, I think that most are non-filtering), and they do not look at your file until you have sent the $$.

Some I now think of as "semi-filtering" where everyone above a numeric cutoff of gpa and MCAT gets a secondary, but they don't review your AMCAS or anything until after they receive the $$.

I guess this is out of context of the thread, but my beef with the application process was that I wished more schools did "filter" - I felt swamped with applications and fees. So I guess I wouldn't apply to so many schools again.
 
Vermont: Cashed my check and never cared to tell me that I had an incomplete app (apparently my letter of recs never got to them)...sent me a rejection letter 3 months after their application deadline
 
Cheerfulgrrl said:
I am biased, b/c I love Mayo - but how is their process worse than all the schools that don't filter - where everyone, even with a 2.0 and 10 total on the MCAT gets a secondary. They don't look at your AMCAS or your secondary info before you send in the money...


I agree with you that the non-filtering schools are annoying. But, people hate Mayo because there's no reason for them to charge that much just to look at an AMCAS app. They should be willing to look at it just for the initial AMCAS fee. This is what UCSF does. Then, if you get a secondary, they charge you for it. I think they probably have close to the best system. It's not terribly expensive, and they don't give you false hope or waste your time.
 
Thanks to all who posted - I've whittled my list down to about 18 thanks to the posts here. Some were longshots, so I figure I'm just saving money in the long run.
 
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