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I have been avoiding getting on SDN for a while due to personal pride but I’ve come to a point where I’m in need of guidance from the collective experience/knowledge of all the SDN’ers out there.
My situation: I am applying this cycle and though I received many quick secondary invitations, I have had almost 2 months of 0 correspondence from schools. I’ve received secondary invites from all but one school (unfortunately my #1, a Texas school). I am a Utah resident but currently live in Texas with my wife and daughter (and have ties to stay here).
Application strengths: I scored well on the MCAT. I also have 600 hours or so of clinical experience as a phlebotomist/MA and have some solid volunteer work. I’ve done 100 or so hours of research and overall have good yet pretty standard EC’s.
Red flags: My freshman semester I dropped a 5 credit calc class and ended up getting a 2.7 GPA with only 10 credits (and a C in Gen Chem). I bounced back and was consistently around a 3.8-3.9 until I took O Chem. My first semester of O Chem I got a C due to some pretty reasonable personal situations (but got A’s in the rest of my courses for a 3.5). The next semester I took a B- in O Chem 2 as it was pretty difficult to play catch up after a tough first semester.
The bottom line: I was expecting that with showing steady improvement, my mediocre GPA would at least be viewed more positively, especially being that I did well on the MCAT. I applied to the University of Utah, Mayo (AZ), Baylor, and 6 Texas schools. I thought that I would be getting II’s by now but after 1 1/2 months of nothing, I’m starting to worry. I submitted both TMDSAS and AMCAS on 6/10 ish and completed all secondaries within a day or 2 of receiving them.
I worry that one of my LOR writers wrote something terrible. I get angry about affirmative action (I’m a white, middle class male). I constantly worry that my gmail account is filtering out anything related to medical schools. Is this normal? Do I need to wait it out? Have I been passed up on? I’ve never done the application process before and this is honestly driving me crazy. Don’t be afraid to be brutally honest.
My situation: I am applying this cycle and though I received many quick secondary invitations, I have had almost 2 months of 0 correspondence from schools. I’ve received secondary invites from all but one school (unfortunately my #1, a Texas school). I am a Utah resident but currently live in Texas with my wife and daughter (and have ties to stay here).
Application strengths: I scored well on the MCAT. I also have 600 hours or so of clinical experience as a phlebotomist/MA and have some solid volunteer work. I’ve done 100 or so hours of research and overall have good yet pretty standard EC’s.
Red flags: My freshman semester I dropped a 5 credit calc class and ended up getting a 2.7 GPA with only 10 credits (and a C in Gen Chem). I bounced back and was consistently around a 3.8-3.9 until I took O Chem. My first semester of O Chem I got a C due to some pretty reasonable personal situations (but got A’s in the rest of my courses for a 3.5). The next semester I took a B- in O Chem 2 as it was pretty difficult to play catch up after a tough first semester.
The bottom line: I was expecting that with showing steady improvement, my mediocre GPA would at least be viewed more positively, especially being that I did well on the MCAT. I applied to the University of Utah, Mayo (AZ), Baylor, and 6 Texas schools. I thought that I would be getting II’s by now but after 1 1/2 months of nothing, I’m starting to worry. I submitted both TMDSAS and AMCAS on 6/10 ish and completed all secondaries within a day or 2 of receiving them.
I worry that one of my LOR writers wrote something terrible. I get angry about affirmative action (I’m a white, middle class male). I constantly worry that my gmail account is filtering out anything related to medical schools. Is this normal? Do I need to wait it out? Have I been passed up on? I’ve never done the application process before and this is honestly driving me crazy. Don’t be afraid to be brutally honest.
