Should I be worried?

[DrOwnage]

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Hi everyone,

I sent in my secondaries a lot earlier this year than last (I'm a re-applicant). Last year I started sending my applications around September, finishing them in early October. This year I finished mostly all of my secondaries from July 15th to early August. Although now its almost mid-October and I have only heard back from 2 schools, UC Irvine and Michigan, which were both rejections. I applied to 22 schools and I'm starting to get worried that I haven't heard back from more schools at this point in time. I am a pretty competitive applicant with a 30Q MCAT, 3.90 GPA from UCSB in pharmacology (3.95 Upper Division Bio GPA) and have a bunch of research and volunteer work. Should I be worried? Because sitting around for 3 months not getting responses kinda sucks lol.

 

[Etorphine]

your grades are fine. How close were you with your LOR writers? Could you have a red flag in one of those? Also, how much time did you spend on your LOR? Can you tell us about your schools applied to?

 

[mauberley]

Should I be worried?

No. Partly because it's only October, and partly because I'm guessing you won't channel that worry into useful activity.

 

[DrOwnage]

Thank you for responding first of all 😀.

I was the biology advisor for 2 years at UCSB, and the undergraduate biology advisor wrote me a letter of recommendation. We were really close and he literally told me that he wrote me a really good letter. My other letter writers were my research advisor (who I was close with) and my pharmacology professor, who I also have no doubt about. So I have 3 letters I sent to all the schools. I also have a letter from my minister at my at local church that I sent to Loma Linda.

The schools I am applying to: UC Davis, USC, Baylor, Iowa Carver, Creighton, Wisconsin, Emory, Ohio State, Miami Miller, Tufts, Mt Sinai, Colorado, Drexel, Charles E. Schmidt, Jefferson, Feinberg, University of Illinois, Loma Linda.

I just keep hearing from friends that applied a month after me and have already had an interview, so it's getting me worried 🙁.

 

[sector9]

Thank you for responding first of all 😀.

I was the biology advisor for 2 years at UCSB, and the undergraduate biology advisor wrote me a letter of recommendation. We were really close and he literally told me that he wrote me a really good letter. My other letter writers were my research advisor (who I was close with) and my pharmacology professor, who I also have no doubt about. So I have 3 letters I sent to all the schools. I also have a letter from my minister at my at local church that I sent to Loma Linda.

The schools I am applying to: UC Davis, USC, Baylor, Iowa Carver, Creighton, Wisconsin, Emory, Ohio State, Miami Miller, Tufts, Mt Sinai, Colorado, Drexel, Charles E. Schmidt, Jefferson, Feinberg, University of Illinois, Loma Linda.

I just keep hearing from friends that applied a month after me and have already had an interview, so it's getting me worried 🙁.

What's your MCAT score breakdown?

 

[DrOwnage]

MCAT: Verbal: 8 Phys: 11 Bio: 11

 

[MrBird]

Med school is hard to get into with any stats.