Should I reapply ED this year?

[rocketbooster]

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I need some advice.

Does applying ED to my state school sound like the best idea? I applied this past year RD with a 27R (8, 10, 9) and 3.63O/3.58S with little volunteering/clinical experience and got waitlisted. My waitlist rank sucks and I have no chance of getting in.

Now, I want to reapply ED with my same GPA and 28R (8, 10, 10). The state school's averages are about 3.75O, 3.65S, and 28.4 (9.2, 9.8, 9.4). They love reapplicants and are obsessed with volunteering and clinical experience.

Over this last year, I volunteered fulltime and got clinical experience in the process as well as did research at this school's med school. My MCAT only went up 1 pt, which is lame because I was expecting in the 30s considering my AAMCs were mid-30s errrr.

Now to give you some background on my ED chances. I will be granted an automatic interview because I meet certain minimum MCAT+GPA numbers and they accept 60% of ED interviewees.

I've been in continual contact with the Dean of Admissions and she highly recommends that I apply ED.

Is there any reason not to ED? I know it ruins my chances applying at other MD schools, but I'm not going to receive any other interviews with my MCAT even if I apply broadly. Trust me, I learned that the hard way this year.

The question remains...should I apply to DO schools now as well? SDNers assure me that it is legal to apply ED to an MD school and apply DO at the sametime, but I feel it is dishonest.

Anyone?

 

[235009]

go for the ED application.....no reason not to if you want to go to that school. i agree that you are probably a long shot everywhere else with your stats and average ECs.

when do they get back to you about ED? you can probably hold off on the DO application until then if it is early enough...will save you alot of money if you end up getting in.

 

[rocketbooster]

go for the ED application.....no reason not to if you want to go to that school. i agree that you are probably a long shot everywhere else with your stats and average ECs.

when do they get back to you about ED? you can probably hold off on the DO application until then if it is early enough...will save you alot of money if you end up getting in.

no, see, that's the thing. my ECs LAST year when I applied were average and I still got waitlisted there through RD. now, my ECs are phenomenal, no joke. 😀

good point, though, on waiting for DO. I'm going to be highly competitive at DO, so I would probably be fine applying DO later in the game.

anyone else?

 

[261766]

emergency department? what?

 

[Sam32]

emergency department? what?

ED=early decision

RD=regular decision

 

[261766]

i know i know. haha i actually thought it said emergency department at first...med school does that to you.

 

[rocketbooster]

heh, okay...now that we all know what ED is...🙄...back to the topic at hand please!

 

[slick27]

Apply early to the medical college of WI

 

[rocketbooster]

Apply early to the medical college of WI

uhhh why?

why would I apply ED there over my state school??

 

[slick27]

Do you have any ties to the milwaukee area? If you do, I think you'll have a better shot at MCW.

 

[rocketbooster]

Do you have any ties to the milwaukee area? If you do, I think you'll have a better shot at MCW.

nope, no ties. besides, I compared my state school's #s to MCW's and my state school has lower ones. 😛

plus, I don't want to live in WI. screw that cold weather.

 

[Mattabet]

I've been in continual contact with the Dean of Admissions and she highly recommends that I apply ED.

This line says it all for me. If you didn't have a good shot; it'd just be cruel for her to say that. Go for it, you sound like you'd be happy there.