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gyngyn said:
Since my last communication there has been quite a bit of movement at Cornell.
There have also been new acceptances at UNC, EVA, UCR, Tufts, GT and CUSM.
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@gyngyn do you think the movement is pretty much over at Cornell? I'm holding out hope and avoiding signing a lease but I don't know how much longer I can live this way >.<
 
Anyone here been accepted off the bottom third of their state school waitlist? It sucks having to play this game.
 
At what point do I start signing up for a new MCAT and studying again? Sitting on 2 WL, one top tier and one state school, and I’m just dreading the thought of retaking the MCAT and doing all these essays again. But most of all it’s another year of this stress I’m dreading the most..
 
kesh32111 said:
At what point do I start signing up for a new MCAT and studying again? Sitting on 2 WL, one top tier and one state school, and I’m just dreading the thought of retaking the MCAT and doing all these essays again. But most of all it’s another year of this stress I’m dreading the most..
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Are you sure the MCAT is what kept you out this time around (so far). Also it feels so late to just start studying to re-take the MCAT. If re-taking you need to do substantially better than your prior performance. I know people who have taken it July and got acceptances. If you start like tomorrow this will give you a max of 2 months to prep and that is probably not enough time.

What have you done to strengthen your app since you submitted your app that you have not updated the schools you applied to on? You can't apply with the same app and expect different results.

It would probably be best to wait a year actually improve your app and then reapply.
 
Dr. Meliodas said:
Are you sure the MCAT is what kept you out this time around (so far). Also it feels so late to just start studying to re-take the MCAT. If re-taking you need to do substantially better than your prior performance. I know people who have taken it July and got acceptances. If you start like tomorrow this will give you a max of 2 months to prep and that is probably not enough time.

What have you done to strengthen your app since you submitted your app that you have not updated the schools you applied to on? You can't apply with the same app and expect different results.

It would probably be best to wait a year actually improve your app and then reapply.
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I think 2 months should definitely be enough time to study for the MCAT. It depends on how you use your study time, not on the actual quantity of it. I only studied for 3 weeks and did very well. Obviously you have to work around your own schedule and if you're working full time it can be difficult, but most med students get less than 2 months to study for the USMLE Step 1, so we should all get good at learning a lot of info in a short amount of time anyway. That being said, I agree with Dr. Meliodas that you need to be sure that your application has substantial improvements when/if you submit again, so I would look carefully at your app before you decide if you should take an extra year or not.
 
Branthebuilder33 said:
My accepted school starts on June 25th even though my waitlist school starts in August, so I put off the move til last minute (June 15th). I'm actively looking for housing but I'm not putting money into it until as late as possible. Maybe you could consider a sublease? Something short term just in case you have to bail.
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I think we are accepted to the same program and I would not worry too much about it if I were you. It's pretty easy to find subleases in that city and I just recently locked down a place and was surprised that most places were available for immediate move-in, so it shouldn't be that hard if you even wait till early June.

When the rest of the students start to look in July/August, however, I'd imagine it gets a little more hectic.
 
Told no movement so far from my only WL 🙁((

How is this possible? Ugh looks like another 2 year lay off for me
 
Tim_Hortons_Cafe said:
Just got in off the waitlist. Never give up hope. Always work towards your dream and fight for it. It's true that the harder i is to get where you want to be and the more you have to work for it, the more you appreciate it when it happens.
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I love how everyone turns into a motivational speaker after getting accepted :laugh:
 
MareNostrummm said:
Lol.. it was the same thing when people got their first interview.
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lol I remember my first interview *sighs dramatically* it was Harvard and imposter syndrome doomed me lol working on that modesty and self-confidence now! even if we have to reapply, we can still do this everyone! also, protip interfolio is your friend I'm asking people for LORs for the second time and it's a little weird honestly.
 
greentea2424 said:
@gyngyn do you think the movement is pretty much over at Cornell? I'm holding out hope and avoiding signing a lease but I don't know how much longer I can live this way >.<
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I do not think it's over.
 
SCN1a said:
lol I remember my first interview *sighs dramatically* it was Harvard and imposter syndrome doomed me lol working on that modesty and self-confidence now! even if we have to reapply, we can still do this everyone! also, protip interfolio is your friend I'm asking people for LORs for the second time and it's a little weird honestly.
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i just asked all of my profs to resubmit LORs again. What is interfolio and is it better than having all my letter writers set up an amcas account to submit the LORs?
 
golgi body said:
i just asked all of my profs to resubmit LORs again. What is interfolio and is it better than having all my letter writers set up an amcas account to submit the LORs?
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I'm new to this but I believe that interfolio is a service that stores LOR's for you and you are blinded to them so its a secure place for you to store recommendations and then upload them at your own leisure to the AMCAS service without bugging people to do it. but I could be wrong as I just found out about it.
 
I guess I’ve just been assuming this, but is it true that acceptance calls happen from around 9-4 on weekdays and not on weekends?
 
caddy2013 said:
I guess I’ve just been assuming this, but is it true that acceptance calls happen from around 9-4 on weekdays and not on weekends?
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They are usually during business hours but sometimes occur on weekends (especially near the end).
 
golgi body said:
i just asked all of my profs to resubmit LORs again. What is interfolio and is it better than having all my letter writers set up an amcas account to submit the LORs?
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SCN1a said:
I'm new to this but I believe that interfolio is a service that stores LOR's for you and you are blinded to them so its a secure place for you to store recommendations and then upload them at your own leisure to the AMCAS service without bugging people to do it. but I could be wrong as I just found out about it.
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Interfolio: it is an approved LOR Management tool. The AAMC has this tool listed on their LOR page.
I used Interfolio for both cycles and highly recommended it. The reasons are:
- They keep the LORs for five years or more, depending on your subscription. If you take the non-trad route and think it is better to get the LOR now when the connection is still great, go for it.
- There is an option to blind so you cannot read the LOR and AAMC can verify it with Interfolio.
- The LORs that are uploaded directly to AMCAS will be erased from the AAMC server after one application cycle and not transferrable like other material (Activities, PS, Bios). I could not contact one of my lab managers to rewrite LOR for my 2nd cycle, so I just went up to Interfolio and reused the old LOR from him instead.
- Collect all letters to one place, Interfolio, and send all of them to AMCAS once, instead of tracking each letter individually.

Not affiliating with Interfolio, just thought it is a useful tool
 
onyxbell said:
Reading somebody's post about getting off a WL with a full COA $$$ offer at my top choice WL school thread felt like an arrow to my
knee.
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SCN1a said:
lol I remember my first interview *sighs dramatically* it was Harvard and imposter syndrome doomed me lol working on that modesty and self-confidence now! even if we have to reapply, we can still do this everyone! also, protip interfolio is your friend I'm asking people for LORs for the second time and it's a little weird honestly.
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Do schools accept letters that are over a year old?
 
Dr. Meliodas said:
Are you sure the MCAT is what kept you out this time around (so far). Also it feels so late to just start studying to re-take the MCAT. If re-taking you need to do substantially better than your prior performance. I know people who have taken it July and got acceptances. If you start like tomorrow this will give you a max of 2 months to prep and that is probably not enough time.

What have you done to strengthen your app since you submitted your app that you have not updated the schools you applied to on? You can't apply with the same app and expect different results.

It would probably be best to wait a year actually improve your app and then reapply.
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I'm 90% sure it's my MCAT. Not that it was bad, just not fabulous (sitting in the 70th ish percentile). I just finished getting dual degrees (bio and chem), 3 minors, summa cum lade, departmental honors, honors program, scholars program within my major, 3.83 cumulative, around a 3.6ish science I believe, 20+ credit hours every semester, 2 years of undergrad research, academic chair/other leadership in my sorority, worked as a general and orgo tutor at a center and privately for 3 years, supervisor and marketing leader at said tutoring center 20 hrs/week, tons of shadowing (official and non-official bc my parents are physicians), I guess my volunteering wasn't super over the top but I definitely did several charity drives and fundraising events. I feel like I was so confident when the process started and now karma is ****ting on me. I'm on the WL at Wash U and I just want them to love me as much as I love them.... 0 acceptances, 2 WL. My other mistake was I should have applied to more private schools I guess. My state school I'm on the WL for essentially told me in my interview that if I were in state I'd already be accepted so that's awesome..
 
SpyF0X said:
I think 2 months should definitely be enough time to study for the MCAT. It depends on how you use your study time, not on the actual quantity of it. I only studied for 3 weeks and did very well. Obviously you have to work around your own schedule and if you're working full time it can be difficult, but most med students get less than 2 months to study for the USMLE Step 1, so we should all get good at learning a lot of info in a short amount of time anyway. That being said, I agree with Dr. Meliodas that you need to be sure that your application has substantial improvements when/if you submit again, so I would look carefully at your app before you decide if you should take an extra year or not.
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How did you do MCAT prep? I did Kaplan and I didn't do poorly (70th ish percentile) but I thought I would have done better. Just in case I need to start again.....
 
Got an email from my WL school today asking me if I was still interested in being on the waitlist to be considered for admission. From the school specific threads, several people who got this email were later on accepted so....who knows...
 
kesh32111 said:
How did you do MCAT prep? I did Kaplan and I didn't do poorly (70th ish percentile) but I thought I would have done better. Just in case I need to start again.....
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First- Sorry, I didn't mean for that to come off so humble-braggy, it was more intended to be an "anyone can do it!" kind of thing lol. But I used Kaplan too, and I think because I only had 3 weeks I was just panicked into working harder at it than I ever had before. I learned them really well, mostly by rewriting and verbally explaining things that I was struggling with. And the biggest thing was that I was meticulous about practice questions and exams. I did questions every day and then I think I did 4 or 5 full practice exams (kaplan and AAMC) and would spend hours afterwards going over every question, figuring out why I got it wrong/right and learning about the other answers too. Also I think I might have just had a lucky or weirdly good test day because I scored 7 points higher on my actual exam than I did on my best practice exam. Obviously different things work for different people but I hope this helps, and feel free to message me if you have more specific questions!
 
fldoctorgirl said:
Got an email from my WL school today asking me if I was still interested in being on the waitlist to be considered for admission. From the school specific threads, several people who got this email were later on accepted so....who knows...
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Curious as well which school this is! PM please? Rooting for you either way!!! 🙂
 
fldoctorgirl said:
Got an email from my WL school today asking me if I was still interested in being on the waitlist to be considered for admission. From the school specific threads, several people who got this email were later on accepted so....who knows...
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I got the same one from SLU yesterday as well, but who knows whole process is a crap shoot
 
Welshman said:
It makes them look bad if you’re 50th and 49 people are committed elsewhere so they accept you next. That’s my guess
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I think they are trying to protect themselves from being sued or giving people false hope. Also they can't field that many specific inquiries. There are too many variables and the people answering the phones are not on the ADCOM so they can't say. Your only hope of an honest answer is from the dean and bugging them about your status may do more harm than good. But I know some deans will shoot straight with applicants, others will send you a generic email about how the class is full.
 
JustAddWatah said:
6th cycle applicant here. Just got off the waitlist with only a month before class starts. I was only a few days away from pressing the submit button on my 7th cycle.

~~ B E L I E V E ~~
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6 cycles?!?! I can't even imagine how happy you must be feeling right now CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
 
kesh32111 said:
I'm 90% sure it's my MCAT. Not that it was bad, just not fabulous (sitting in the 70th ish percentile). I just finished getting dual degrees (bio and chem), 3 minors, summa cum lade, departmental honors, honors program, scholars program within my major, 3.83 cumulative, around a 3.6ish science I believe, 20+ credit hours every semester, 2 years of undergrad research, academic chair/other leadership in my sorority, worked as a general and orgo tutor at a center and privately for 3 years, supervisor and marketing leader at said tutoring center 20 hrs/week, tons of shadowing (official and non-official bc my parents are physicians), I guess my volunteering wasn't super over the top but I definitely did several charity drives and fundraising events. I feel like I was so confident when the process started and now karma is ****ting on me. I'm on the WL at Wash U and I just want them to love me as much as I love them.... 0 acceptances, 2 WL. My other mistake was I should have applied to more private schools I guess. My state school I'm on the WL for essentially told me in my interview that if I were in state I'd already be accepted so that's awesome..
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idt mcat really matters unless its top tier schools, i had a 3.3 ugpa, 3.75 smp, and a 514 which isn't top tier but better than avg. and my friend is sitting in the same boat with a 522. There's a lot that goes into it.
 
voodoomamajuju said:
6 cycles?!?! I can't even imagine how happy you must be feeling right now CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
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Haha thank you. Not a lot of people lurking around the premed forum here with a 5+ year username badge who isn't a moderator lmao.

Not sure if this makes anyone feel better or worse, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel for everyone even if its not this cycle. (pretty long tunnel personally tbh)
 
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