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No one has ever been accepted to all their applied medical schools (counting those who applied to at least 5 or more only)...is this godly achievement ever likely to happen in our lifetime? Has this individual already been born, walking amongst us mortals?
 
aaronrodgers said:
No one has ever been accepted to all their applied medical schools (counting those who applied to at least 5 or more only)...is this godly achievement ever likely to happen in our lifetime? Has this individual already been born, walking amongst us mortals?
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A student in my graduating class did. She applied to 42 MD PhD programs and was admitted to over 20 of them. She did have a perfect MCAT score and GPA and godly publications. Not to mention she was URM and her parents were also MD PhD lol.
 
Had a kid from my undergrad get accepted to 5 or 6 of the 9 or 10 med schools he applied to, and the only ones he wasn't accepted to were because he cancelled the interviews after getting an acceptance from Harvard. I'm sure it's happened, you've just got to be the total package and willing to be a masochist with interviews in order to actually accomplish it.
 
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JJRousseau said:
The point is to find a good fit, not to get into every medical school possible. Bottom line.
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Very true!!!
Somebody can apply to Drexel, Penn State, Albany, and NYMC and get accepted to all of them, whereas another person can get into just Feinberg and their state school and nowhere else. Fit/match, not volume.
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I was accepted to every school that I interviewed at... I count that as a perfect streak. I also heard of a student who only applied to 4 schools, interviewed at all 4 and was accepted at all 4. Impressive, but a pretty weak streak IMO
 
Too much downtime in the offseason, eh @aaronrodgers?
 
Dr. Stalker said:
A student in my graduating class did. She applied to 42 MD PhD programs and was admitted to over 20 of them. She did have a perfect MCAT score and GPA and godly publications. Not to mention she was URM and her parents were also MD PhD lol.
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20+/42 does not equal 100%....
 
There's a scene in Along Came Polly where Leland Van Lew is staring down a massive wave in the midst of a storm while Ben Stiller cowers below deck for fear of both the storm and Jennifer Aniston's anger. Leland sees the wave and goes - in an Aussie accent as enviable as it is charming - "Oh Dear Lord..."

That's how i feel reading Namerguy's blurb.

Shook, to be concise.
 
Swan Ronson said:
There's a scene in Along Came Polly where Leland Van Lew is staring down a massive wave in the midst of a storm while Ben Stiller cowers below deck for fear of both the storm and Jennifer Aniston's anger. Leland sees the wave and goes - in an Aussie accent as enviable as it is charming - "Oh Dear Lord..."

That's how i feel reading Namerguy's blurb.

Shook, to be concise.
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He was a mod here on SDN a few years back so it's totally legit. Most impressive cycle I've ever come across.
 
mwsapphire said:
Very true!!!
Somebody can apply to Drexel, Penn State, Albany, and NYMC and get accepted to all of them, whereas another person can get into just Feinberg and their state school and nowhere else. Fit/match, not volume.
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you literally described my app cycle exactly. LOL
 
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Aiming for perfection is dangerous... He who tries to get everything ends up getting nothing.
 
aaronrodgers said:
No one has ever been accepted to all their applied medical schools (counting those who applied to at least 5 or more only)...is this godly achievement ever likely to happen in our lifetime? Has this individual already been born, walking amongst us mortals?
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Dr. Stalker said:
OP asked for 5/6 out of 10 applications.
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OP was asking for anybody who went 100% and also applied to 5+ schools. That is, someone who got accepted to 100% of their applied schools but only applied to 3 schools would not meet OP's criteria.
 
Again, it's not that impressive if it's all less competitive schools.
If you got 7 schools, lower tier MD and DO, it's still less impressive than a Top School acceptance, I'd take U of Pitt over Drexel and Albany anyday.
 
mwsapphire said:
Again, it's not that impressive if it's all less competitive schools.
If you got 7 schools, lower tier MD and DO, it's still less impressive than a Top School acceptance, I'd take U of Pitt over Drexel and Albany anyday.
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You are at the stage where you don't even know what you don't know.
 
Oops. Scooped.

Dr. Stalker said:
OP asked for 5/6 out of 10 applications.
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Actually he didn't. He asked for a 100% acceptance rate in those who applied to 5+ schools.

aaronrodgers said:
No one has ever been accepted to all their applied medical schools (counting those who applied to at least 5 or more only)...is this godly achievement ever likely to happen in our lifetime? Has this individual already been born, walking amongst us mortals?
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Fair enough. 100% hit rate with 5+ schools. There was one UG I do know that did this from my year. He applied to 8 DO programs and got into all 8.
 
BombsAway said:
You are at the stage where you don't even know what you don't know.
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I meant relatively.
I'd think a Harvard acceptance is more impressive than multiple less competitive schools.
I should have made that more clear- multiple accepts is still impressive. Sorry about that.
My bad.
Also ,EODGuy, you're one of the folks who went nuts over the "light skinned Pakistani" thing in my sig so...
 
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gonnif said:
@mwsapphire you are coming off in the thread as unintentionally snooty. For 95%+ of practicing doctors, no one give much a hoot at which school you went to. Docs are more interested in where you did residency for the most part. And likely 99% of patients have rarely asked where a doctor went to or would know the difference even if they asked what school. It is difficult to get into any medical school (MD or DO), takes much work to get thru, significant effort to do well on the boards (which are the prime factor as to what specialty)
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Right, I didn't mean to do that, I clarified it in the next post. Totally my fault.
If we're talking about bragging rights, as this thread seems to be, that's all I was trying to point. Any acceptance is impressive, multiple to lower tier is still impressive, I was just trying to point out med school is about match and even a perfect candidate can have just one acceptance.
Completely my fault. I realize that now. Sorry.
I don't care where someone goes to school, my point is merely in the context on this thread which seems to be more about bragging rights than practicality.
I'm embarrassed * puts hand over face*
 
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Yield protection would be an added wrinkle in the whole 100% acceptance thing. If you're good enough to get into all of the schools on the top of your list, you might also be good enough to get a rejection from a safety school that knows you'll have better offers. Tough to apply broadly and have everyone from your safetyest safety school to your reachiest reach give you a serious look.
 
efle said:
A literal top 5 sweep would be Harvard Hopkins Penn Stanford UCSF! This person is the only thread I've ever seen that said all 5 of those (narmerguy missed it by 1 school, Penn)
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Yes that's the post that I linked to...
 
Swan Ronson said:
There's a scene in Along Came Polly where Leland Van Lew is staring down a massive wave in the midst of a storm while Ben Stiller cowers below deck for fear of both the storm and Jennifer Aniston's anger. Leland sees the wave and goes - in an Aussie accent as enviable as it is charming - "Oh Dear Lord..."

That's how i feel reading Namerguy's blurb.

Shook, to be concise.
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Are you for scuba?


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mwsapphire said:
Again, it's not that impressive if it's all less competitive schools.
If you got 7 schools, lower tier MD and DO, it's still less impressive than a Top School acceptance, I'd take U of Pitt over Drexel and Albany anyday.
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I agree. But more importantly I read your posts as well intended without pretense.


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mwsapphire said:
Again, it's not that impressive if it's all less competitive schools.
If you got 7 schools, lower tier MD and DO, it's still less impressive than a Top School acceptance, I'd take U of Pitt over Drexel and Albany anyday.
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I think any MD school regardless of tier is good.. That's if you want to truly be a doctor..
 
See y'all at John Hopkins, UCSF, Washington U, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.... 'cause I need to be going to all of those schools... clearly. I have some crazy good ECs: Former President of the USA, CEO of 15 different companies, volunteered 18,000 hours, and received the Nobel Peace prize. I got my Pre-med degree at Harvard and my PhD at Yale in Public health... all by age 12. For the past four years I have done research on how to stop cancer and have a viable cure. I have published over 100 papers in Nature. I have been a successful Lawyer and have volunteered at the supreme court winning all the cases. I will be applying at age 16.

Wish me luck! I have an A- in advanced theoretical physics and am worried I will not be able to get in to any of my schools! Should I be worried and just apply to DO schools instead? My MCAT score is perfect. Does that show humanness? Should I just go Caribbean?

COUGH...
 
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Has anyone applied to the South Harmon Institute of Technology?


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