Waitlisted at 7 schools 0 acceptances; 525 MCAT; Adcom advice?

[Throwaway5129]

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Absolutely is a seller's market. Since starting school, the average or median MCAT at my school has risen from 512 to 517. That's just crazy.

Assessment: You're a typical high-achieving, socially-bland ORM that medical schools can fill many times over. They don't need to act on you now. People who get in early are 100% solid and meet some aspect of institutional mission. Tells you a bit about the state of things when a publication and 525 is meh.

You'll probably get in from off the waiting list, but medical school admissions is just getting weirder and more unpredictable by the year. They act like they're picking the second coming of Jesus or Mohamed, but in fact, they're picking people for the only viable career in health care remaining.

I doubt OP’s application itself is just meh. I think OP’s interviewing was the problem. He/she was probably just really nervous during interviews

 

[Walter Raleigh]

But I feel that his EC's are phenomenal. I can't get past how confounding it is that he hasn't gotten in anywhere with his stats.

Especially if "coauthor on top journal" means "co-first author on Nature/Science/Cell paper"!

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Tony Robbins? I'd say that would be someone like Bill Clinton - one of the most charismatic people to ever speak the English language, by many accounts. Of course, fairly few applicants have one-in-ten-million charisma!

 

[altblue]

Tony Robbins? I'd say that would be someone like Bill Clinton - one of the most charismatic people to ever speak the English language, by many accounts. Of course, fairly few applicants have one-in-ten-million charisma!

How did you manage to convince yourself that you're an adcom?