It's like a pre-orientation that gets you accustomed to the area, faculty etc. Most of them seem to focus on covering a lot of the topics normally covered in a pre-req class so it may be good for people who need a refresher course on basic concepts or for those who've been out of school for a while
A) That's horrific and I'm sorry you've had to experience that many waitlists. I know how brutal it is.
It's funny. The school that I'm waitlisted at isn't on the list lol.
And then if you own property where you currently live... and you're planning on doing one of those buying/selling things where the proceeds from your old house directly go to the down payment on your new house without ever hitting your bank account first...
And then if you own property where you currently live... and you're planning on doing one of those buying/selling things where the proceeds from your old house directly go to the down payment on your new house without ever hitting your bank account first...
It's like what if I put my house on the market too late and it doesn't sell before I move? What if I put it on the market today and it sells tomorrow, and I haven't even given notice at my job yet and neither has my spouse and the person wants to move in next week?! What if I sell early and everything goes fine, and I've bought a new place where I think I'm going... and then I get off a waitlist at a school I'd rather go to three hours after I get the keys to my new place, hundreds of miles away from that school?
All the uncertainties. I'm feeling you.
No, but I know that on average schools like to accept roughly 2:1. Obviously some will be less and some will be more. I remember that when I was trying to calculate acceptance rates off of MSAR when I was applying, getting an acceptance rate from the matriculation rate generally meant that they accepted about 50% of people who interviewed.
Very roughly, let's assume you have a 50% chance at each interview. Obviously we know that's not entirely true in real life because it depends on a whole host of things, but for kicks: (0.5)^6 = 1.5, meaning you would have about a 1.5% chance of getting rejected from all of them, 1.5% chance of getting accepted to all of them, and a 97% chance of getting accepted to at least one.
This is very true. Now that I'm in medical school, I can say that I severely underestimated how many truly extraordinary people there are that you're competing with. That being said, you don't get that many interviews by accident! You've done the work. You have a phenomenal MCAT. Your GPA is completely fine. I'm sure your extracurriculars are great, and the medical schools have obviously taken notice. You have a great deal to be proud of, and I think that come May you will have some good news.
Guessing you saw in UMN thread that waitlist won’t hear any type of rank until after 4/30. I think they overfilled the class honestly, no acceptances on SDN for the last 6 weeks of interviews is weird.
That makes sense haha. I had it in my mind that there weren't more than a 100 MD schools which is why I confused for a sec
Have a few. A ring I found in a field and a few items on my key chain. Love the blue eyes lol
My mom got a sticker for her car with the logo of a program I won’t make it off the ranked waitlist into. Hoping my friend gets in and it can be a gift for them. Haven’t asked mom if she ripped it into shreds from being mad yet lol. (She’s not extreme just has to get work emails weekly from my faculty interviewer and it annoys her)
FYI Maybe start finding housing at the acceptance now so there’s more options if you can. This would be best if your waitlist schools are cheaper, so losing the deposit at the current acceptance apartment isn’t a big deal in the long run if you make it in off the WL, and if you don’t make it in you get to live somewhere you actually want at the current acceptance.
