What the Heck is going On?????

[Charcoal]

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Has anyone else been put on hold at their "safeties" and been granted interviews at their reaches???

What is going on?

 

[flip26]

depends on what you are calling a safety vs a reach...

Answer for me is "no." I have gotten interviews at all the schools I fully expected, and am waiting on the "reachier" ones...

 

[Charcoal]

Here, Safeties are schools that, according to my LizzyM score are safety schools--schools with average MCATs and GPAs well below mine. Reaches are schools with averages slightly above mine.

 

[Slowpoke]

Hasn't anyone ever told you this whole admissions thing is a crap-shoot?

 

[Trexate]

If he gets put on hold, we'll all get put on hold! It'll be anarchy!

 

[amikhchi]

when you're applying a 3rd time, there's no such thing as a "safety" school, more like a safety country... so technically i've been put on hold at several of my *reach* schools and rejected from several other ones... i hate this process with a passion

 

[daisy44]

I wish that was the case with me. I've gotten interviews at almost all my safeties, but few at my reaches.

 

[Long Dong]

according to my LizzyM score are safety schools--.

What's a LizzyM score?

 

[mdeast]

I'm on hold at 2 of my "safeties"... if there is such a thing in med school admissions... and have gotten interviews at 3 reaches already. It's common practice...don't waste time interviewing well above applicants (who probably won't come to your school anyway). By putting you on hold, it's give you time to be accepted at other schools (that may be more desirable to you) and gives you a chance to withdraw. Which, I think in this process, is a very courteous thing to do for the sake of other candidates (I plan on doing it once I get an acceptance). If by December you still haven't withdrawn and/or you decide to write a letter of interest, they'll know you're more serious about enrolling and then may offer you an interview for later in the season.

To be honest, it's a pretty fair practice that in the end probably benefits the med school from wasting time on applicants who aren't serious about coming to their school, and alternatively, from applicants wasting time and money interviewing at places they don't want to end up at.

 

[Baller MD]

What's a LizzyM score?

(GPA x 10) + MCAT

Don't know why it's called LizzyM score though.

 

[CoolWhipp]

(GPA x 10) + MCAT

Don't know why it's called LizzyM score though.

Adcom on the forums made it.

 

[Longshanks]

Guys, the score is just used as a quick estimate to see where you at are number wise. It in no way accounts for all the variability involved in the admissions process or what adcoms or specific members may be looking for when review applications. Also, just because a school's average is below 'your LizzyM' doesn't make it a safety, it simply means you have competitive numbers. There are essentially no safeties in this process, unless of course you're the top 90% of their matriculant pool, then I think it may be safe to call it a safety.

 

[Longshanks]

no idea how that triple post happened

 

[Longshanks]

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