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Enhance whatever your weaknesses are. Would some more clinical volunteering hep? Non-clinical volunteering? Shadowing? GPA repair? Another MCAT?
If you do have to reapply next year, you don't want to do it with the exact same application you have now...so continue to improve it. Until you have an acceptance in hand, you must be planning to re-apply.
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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?
lol I got my first R like a month ago. Get on my level.
You're only now getting rejections? I remember when I applied to Indiana they rejected me mere hour(s) after I submitted the secondary, probably as soon as the check cleared.
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.
*cough* Hopkins *cough*
Endless silence: *cough* Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Miami, Loyola, Yale, *cough*
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Don't speak abut
If you don't cause anxiety, are you even Hopkins? (can attest as an alum)
If you don't cause anxiety, are you even Hopkins? (can attest as an alum)
There are 50,000 unique individuals applying to medical school. Each applies to one or more schools. In total, these 50,000 applicants make 1 million applications; that's an average of 20 applications per applicant.
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.
The chance of any specific application turning into an offer of admission is low and depends on the school but on average, 940,000 out of 1 million applications do not result in an offer of admission leaving 60,000 offers divided among 20,000 applicants. Your chance of being admitted somewhere are about 40% but your chances of being admitted to any given school are far less.
Now you might say that if schools are giving out 60,000 offers and there are 50,000 applicants, everyone could get at least one offer. However, schools make offers knowing that they are going to be turned down by the applicant who will choose to go elsewhere. If the schools knew that the offer would be accepted, they'd be making far fewer offers, maybe, in total, about 20,000 offers from all the schools combined.
I got 5 rejections from 3 of those schools.
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.
I guess I just view it differently since you know when acceptances are coming out for them. If you don't hear anything by Dec or Jan, you're probably X-ed there. And if you did interview and don't hear anything in March, it's probably time to move on.
Not like the schools that do rolling admissions, so you never know if an II or R or A is around the corner. But I get your point.
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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?
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.
At my school we get about 5000 + applications, we interview around 500, we accept around 350, and we seat around 100.
About half is my guess
<1600 applicants fell into categories by MCAT/GPA from which no applicants garnered admission (e.g. MCAT <486 and GPA 2.80-3.19). That's out of 44,802 for that application cycle.
The whole grid of applicants and matriculants by MCAT and GPA is fascinating (at least to me).
https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstablea23.pdf
I haven’t even been rejected from a waitlist whose school had classes start a month ago, be glad for concrete rejections! Grateful I am a student elsewhere otherwise I would’ve been mad about that, I think at the point of a WL you should hear something back
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