too late to apply right now?

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According to AACOMAS, I am only too late for Michigan State. But is it realistic to apply right now? I mean, would I be applying just for a waitlist spot?

(Please respond quickly! I'm thinking hard about this!)

My stats if you're curious are in my mdapplicants profile, link in my signature.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!
 
You might as well apply if you can get your applications out soon. There are people that get accepted eventhough they submitted their applications late.
 
Well if you look at the OP's MDAPPLICANTS profile, you can see how they got to this point.

To the OP, I can understand that money is tight, and this is no cheap process. However, you are really cheating yourself by only applying to the one school. Your stats look good, but it's really late in the process, and you should have come to this point months ago. You could apply, but how many osteopathic schools were you planning on applying to if you could only apply to one school from AMCAS? I think, if it's a money issue, that you should wait five months, save up some $$$, and apply EARLY, like the first of June, to ALL of the schools you can afford to apply to (keeping in mind the cost of secondaries and interviews) and give yourself a realistic shot, instead of frantically grasping at straws at what is realistically the END of this year's application cycle. My school, for example, had already filled over half of the seats two months ago. Even if you apply tomorrow, it will take AACOMAS a month to process you (January 28), another 2-3 weeks after that for secondaries (mid-February), another two weeks for you to fill out secondaries and send them, and who knows how long for them to get around to looking at the secondaries and offering an interview (mid-late March, beginning of April), and look, it's April, a mere two months from the beginning of the next year's cycle.

Wait on UHS, save your money this year, and do this wacky process the right way starting in June. Sorry to sound harsh, but I really wanted to impress upon you the sort of time frame you'd be looking at here. I want you to do well; I'd hate to see you basically flush money down the toilet!
 
indigoblue said:
According to AACOMAS, I am only too late for Michigan State. But is it realistic to apply right now? I mean, would I be applying just for a waitlist spot?

(Please respond quickly! I'm thinking hard about this!)

My stats if you're curious are in my mdapplicants profile, link in my signature.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

You can apply as late as Februrary or March and still get in, but you may have to chance getting on a waitlist.
 
This is about when I applied last year. I applied to 3 DO schools. Got interviewed at 2 and accepted to one.
 
According to AACOMAS, I am only too late for Michigan State. But is it realistic to apply right now? I mean, would I be applying just for a waitlist spot?

(Please respond quickly! I'm thinking hard about this!)


Thanks and Happy Holidays!

yeah i'm still thinkin
 
Apply now. I applied in Feb 2006 and was accepted to schools, including mj1878's school. He was discouraging to me, too. Granted, I had excellent stats, but I applied at a much later date than you will apply.

I didn't see a link to your MDApplicants profile so if your stats are very low then my advice might change. Btw, even if you are waitlisted, the waitlists at most schools move even as late as a couple of weeks before school starts.

(Edit: just realized the original post is incredibly old, but to anyone reading this my advice stands unless your stats are very low!)
 
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