Well, lesson learned. OU doesn't care at all if you've made straight A's in graduate school, almost finished a Master's of Public Health, devoted months to community service, scored well on the MCAT, expressed sincere interest in the School of Community Medicine program, etc.
All they care about is GPA/MCAT in the first application cycle. Beyond that, you're just a name and a number. All that and I'm a third-time applicant.
Next year I'm applying to many other schools. I bet they only put me on the wait list because it was third application. How cruel. I've followed every single piece of advice from every workshop I attended, and it has landed me with nothing but a cold shoulder.
You'd think an MPH alone and interviewers commenting on my knowledge of health care would give me an edge. Especially since I aced Biostatistics and Epidemiology, two classes med students are notoriously poor at.
Oh well, you lost out OU. You lost out, Oklahoma. I wanted nothing more than to be a public health-focused primary care physician, but if you've decided faux-prestige is more important than the health of the state, then that's your business.
No wonder we rank 50th out of 50 in the Commonwealth Fund's state rankings in health care.
