Throw in the towel?

[neurotictenner]

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So silence has been the name of the game for the last 3 months....I got 2 II from state schools in July/early-August, put on post-II wait list at one, and still yet to hear from the other, even though they've been sending out decisions over 2 weeks now....Got one rejection, and silence from the other 17....I've been complete since July at every school I applied to.

Time to give up on any more IIs this cycle? For more insight, LizzyM 74.1, several academic awards/honor societies, ORM, solid clinical exposure (local and overseas), volunteering, research too (no major pubs, 1 conference), music, and solid service and tutoring.

Sent in an update letter to each of these schools in Sept/during October too...Don't know what more I can do/could have done.

It's been a miserable last few months, and I just can't seem to cope with the lack of action.

Also been applying and interviewing for a slew of clinical research jobs for 6 months, and getting the same response: "We're highly impressed with your qualifications, but unfortunately, we have given the position to someone else"

Just been a downward spiral for me, and I can't catch a break in anything at the moment. Losing sleep, can't focus, and now the stress is taking a toll on my body. Also feel like I'm letting my family down, spending all this money on applications, travelling for job interviews, and getting nowhere.

Any advice?

 

[Coltuna]

Be patient. No news is good news.

 

[Conflagration]

It's only November. You can't know what the other 17 will say, and since you have had early interviews, you're obviously at least interesting to some of the schools you applied to- the decisions will come. Just be ready for them.

 

[21Rush12]

Just try your best to focus on other things. Don’t let it consume you, I know it can be overwhelming.

You’re not even close to throwing in the towel, just try to take a step back and find something else to occupy your mind and time with. News will come, and stressing over waiting for it won’t make it better news or make it show up faster.

It’s a long cycle, we aren’t even in the new year yet.

Good luck to you!


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[Dox4lyfe]

I actually wrote my college essay about NOT throwing in the towel when it seemed like **** was going against me, and I got into my dream school.

Moral of the story: Don't throw in your towel. Stay patient, optimistic and always push forward.

 

[BurntFlower]

There are people who haven't received any II yet...

 

[CloverBale]

jesus christ you have 2 II stop complaining

 

[gyngyn]

Gonnif's New 10 Rules for Submission Hope and Interview Timeline
Rule 1: Take a Breath.
Rule 2: With a 40% overall acceptance rate, all applicants must assume they will be rejected
Rule 3: All applicants should assume that they will be a reapplicant and should continue to enhance their records from the moment they submit
Rule 4: About 25% of applicants each cycle have applied at least once before
Rule 5: About 40% of matriculants take the MCAT more than once
Rule 6: At each individual school, at least 80% of applicants must be rejected prior to interview
Rule 7: 40% of applicants with GPA 3.8 or higher do not get an acceptance, 60% with GPA 3.6-3.8 do not get an acceptance
Rule 8: Almost half of all matriculants get a single acceptance; almost a quarter of all matriculants get a single interview invite
Rule 9: Acceptances off the Waitlist will continue thru early August
and
Rule 10: Nothing has come to completion until the corpulent woman has vocalized musically (or something like that)

(Bonus question: who is the woman in rule 10 and what city and team is she connected to?)
(@Goro and @LizzyM cant play)

Brunnhilde!
I believe it was coined by Ralph Carpenter and first reported in the Dallas Morning Snooze in reference to the Aggies...

 

[Disciple of Sattar]

What would "throwing in the towel" even mean? If it means preparing yourself for another cycle, every applicant should be doing so until they have an acceptance in hand. If it means withdrawing your applications because you don't have an acceptance yet, don't do that.

 

[NeuroSoph75]

Maybe there's a problem with your school list... Which schools have you not heard from? Also, I don't think you're letting your family down by applying to a competitive degree program and planning for the future by actively working to improve yourself...

 

[Goro]

It's been a miserable last few months, and I just can't seem to cope with the lack of action.

Any advice?

SDNers are strongly advised to stop thinking that they're God's gift to Medicine, and that med schools will be falling all over themselves to send out IIs to them.

 

[sat0ri]

Gonnif's New 10 Rules for Submission Hope and Interview Timeline
Rule 1: Take a Breath.
Rule 2: With a 40% overall acceptance rate, all applicants must assume they will be rejected
Rule 3: All applicants should assume that they will be a reapplicant and should continue to enhance their records from the moment they submit
Rule 4: About 25% of applicants each cycle have applied at least once before
Rule 5: About 40% of matriculants take the MCAT more than once
Rule 6: At each individual school, at least 80% of applicants must be rejected prior to interview
Rule 7: 40% of applicants with GPA 3.8 or higher do not get an acceptance, 60% with GPA 3.6-3.8 do not get an acceptance
Rule 8: Almost half of all matriculants get a single acceptance; almost a quarter of all matriculants get a single interview invite
Rule 9: Acceptances off the Waitlist will continue thru early August
and
Rule 10: Nothing has come to completion until the corpulent woman has vocalized musically (or something to that effect)

(Bonus question: who is the woman in rule 10 and what city and team is she connected to?)
(@Goro and @LizzyM cant play)

Rule 7 is scaring me... Is this because a good amount of people with >3.8 do poorly (or mediocre) on the MCAT?

 

[sat0ri]

So silence has been the name of the game for the last 3 months....I got 2 II from state schools in July/early-August, put on post-II wait list at one, and still yet to hear from the other, even though they've been sending out decisions over 2 weeks now....Got one rejection, and silence from the other 17....I've been complete since July at every school I applied to.

Time to give up on any more IIs this cycle? For more insight, LizzyM 74.1, several academic awards/honor societies, ORM, solid clinical exposure (local and overseas), volunteering, research too (no major pubs, 1 conference), music, and solid service and tutoring.

Sent in an update letter to each of these schools in Sept/during October too...Don't know what more I can do/could have done.

It's been a miserable last few months, and I just can't seem to cope with the lack of action.

Also been applying and interviewing for a slew of clinical research jobs for 6 months, and getting the same response: "We're highly impressed with your qualifications, but unfortunately, we have given the position to someone else"

Just been a downward spiral for me, and I can't catch a break in anything at the moment. Losing sleep, can't focus, and now the stress is taking a toll on my body. Also feel like I'm letting my family down, spending all this money on applications, travelling for job interviews, and getting nowhere.

Any advice?

If it's any consolation, you have an amazing application. I'd be a lot more worried, personally, if I had a more mediocre app. So I think you can take everyone's "chillax" advice a bit more earnestly

 

[sat0ri]

No, its because a good amount of people to medical school and this is an Olypmic class even where most everyone is good but only the top 3 win medals

Haha well I think I understand your acronym now, because this is definitely "****'ng" on my hope! Let me repeat rule 1 a few thousand times now...

 

[Thienyl15]

Everything else aside, you reapplied immediately after last cycle. How much did you improve between then and now?

 

[onyxbell]

YOU HAVE TWO BLARDY IIs! Spare a thought for those without any.

 

[LizzyM]

"Pre-meds... most of us are going pro in something other than medicine." (Apologies to the NCAA for paraphrasing their tagline.)