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My friends, the time for R's has come.
Enhance whatever your weaknesses are. Would some more clinical volunteering hep? Non-clinical volunteering? Shadowing? GPA repair? Another MCAT?@gonnif when you say enhancing, how would you recommend it?
Just curious about the numbers here. When you say 80-90% of 1 million applications will be rejected, are you talking about primary applications that don’t receive secondaries?In terms of applications: out of the nearly one million individual applications that will be received by all medical schools this year, somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 will be approved by adcoms for acceptance. This means 80-90% of all applications will be rejected
in terms of applicants: across an applicant pool of about 50,000 with about 10,000 getting a single acceptance and 10,000 getting multiple acceptances. That means 60% of the applicants will get no acceptances, 20% a single acceptances and 20% multiple acceptances. So everyone, even those with multiple acceptances, will get many, many more rejections.
Now is that time that everyone continue to enhance their record for a possible reapplication for next cycle as the odds are stacked against you. If you dont start enhancing now, you will not have any improvement to apply in the immediate next cycle
lol I got my first R like a month ago. Get on my level.My friends, the time for R's has come.
The time may come that you would prefer the nice, crisp closure of a Rejection Notification as opposed to the endless wait of the uncommunicated "silent rejection," where you are kept hanging endlessly.My friends, the time for R's has come.
The time may come that you would prefer the nice, crisp closure of a Rejection Notification as opposed to the endless wait of the uncommunicated "silent rejection," where you are kept hanging endlessly.
Endless silence: *cough* Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Miami, Loyola, Yale, *cough**cough* Hopkins *cough*
*cough* Hopkins *cough*
Just curious about the numbers here. When you say 80-90% of 1 million applications will be rejected, are you talking about primary applications that don’t receive secondaries?
Then does the 50,000 applicant number refer to applicants who received interview invites out of the 100,000-200,000 who received secondaries?
Out of the 50,000, only 20,000 receive at least 1 acceptance. So starting from the 1 million applications, that’s a 20,000/1,000,000 or 2% chance of getting accepted?
Endless silence: *cough* Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Miami, Loyola, Yale, *cough*
Endless silence: *cough* Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Miami, Loyola, Yale, *cough*
The point is that they don't send rejections. You can wait and wait and if you haven't had an interview, you may never know officially where you stand until very late in the cycle if at all.For some reason, I thought Harvard was non-rolling and released acceptances in March.
The point is that they don't send rejections. You can wait and wait and if you haven't had an interview, you may never know officially where you stand until very late in the cycle if at all.
In terms of applications: out of the nearly one million individual applications that will be received by all medical schools this year, somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 will be approved by adcoms for acceptance. This means 80-90% of all applications will be rejected
in terms of applicants: across an applicant pool of about 50,000 with about 10,000 getting a single acceptance and 10,000 getting multiple acceptances. That means 60% of the applicants will get no acceptances, 20% a single acceptances and 20% multiple acceptances. So everyone, even those with multiple acceptances, will get many, many more rejections.
Now is that time that everyone continue to enhance their record for a possible reapplication for next cycle as the odds are stacked against you. If you dont start enhancing now, you will not have any improvement to apply in the immediate next cycle
60% of applicants do not get any offers of admission. If each has applied to an average of 20 schools, that's 50,000(.6)(20) = 600,000 rejection letters right there.
20% of applicants get one offer of admission. If each has applied to an average of 20 schools, that's 50,000(.2)(19) = 190,000 rejection letters to people who eventually get in somewhere.
Finally there are the lucky 20% who get more than one offer. Let's say, on average, they get an average of 5 offers having made 20 applications. That's still 15 rejections (or perpetual waitlists) despite being wildly successful by any standard. That's 50,000(.2)(15)=150,000 rejection letters.
MD only. I don't know how many unique applicants there are if we count everyone who made an application to one or both of these options. @gonnif @Goro can you weigh in on how many DO slots there are to fill and what proportion of DO applicants get in somewhere?Are these data including DO schools? Or does this apply only for MD?
There are about 8,000 DO School seats.
At my school we get about 5000 + applications, we interview around 500, we accept around 350, and we seat around 100.
Of those 50,000 how many have no business at all applying to medical school?
About half is my guessOf those 50,000 how many have no business at all applying to medical school?
Of those 50,000 how many have no business at all applying to medical school?