when should I start realistically thinking about reapplication?

[premedbarista]

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Applied to 32 schools and so far 1 rejection and then complete silence. I know that many IIs come out in October, but I feel like the fact that I haven't gotten any interest yet as a high MCAT/relatively decent ECs profile means that my bad writing may have killed me. I'm trying SO hard not to be neurotic about this, but I'm genuinely worried I'm not going to get in anywhere and wondering at what point would it be time to think about preparing to reapply? like what the steps would be for that? I'm not even sure what I would do with an extra gap year - i've got clinical exp, service, research hours, etc all done already; I don't need and can't afford to take some sort of graduate classes like an SMP.

Basically having a hard time imagining what my next steps should be right now if I assume I'm going to have to reapply and would love advice on if I should give myself more time before thinking abt this or start preparing asap.
thanks!

 

[polymerization]

My plan was always to apply MD initially, but always with the caveat that if I didn't get any/enough attention by Thanksgiving, I'd apply DO. Like you, I don't know what I would do to improve aside from playing the "improve my metrics by fractions of a point/sacrificing aimless hours at the altar of community service in view of the thousands of hours I already have" game.

Until then, we continue to wake up in the middle of the night, frantically opening our inboxes, hoping the dream that roused us from sleep materializes in real life, too.

Cheers to asking this question at 4 am (or earlier), my sleepless friend. May the sandman visit before the sun rises.

 

[premedbarista]

My plan was always to apply MD initially, but always with the caveat that if I didn't get any/enough attention by Thanksgiving, I'd apply DO. Like you, I don't know what I would do to improve aside from playing the "improve my metrics by fractions of a point/sacrificing aimless hours at the altar of community service in view of the thousands of hours I already have" game.

Until then, we continue to wake up in the middle of the night, frantically opening our inboxes, hoping the dream that roused us from sleep materializes in real life, too.

Cheers to asking this question at 4 am (or earlier), my sleepless friend. May the sandman visit before the sun rises.

I work night shift so most of my posts on here are in the middle of the night 🤣

 

[Butalbusaur]

Applied to 32 schools and so far 1 rejection and then complete silence. I know that many IIs come out in October, but I feel like the fact that I haven't gotten any interest yet as a high MCAT/relatively decent ECs profile means that my bad writing may have killed me. I'm trying SO hard not to be neurotic about this, but I'm genuinely worried I'm not going to get in anywhere and wondering at what point would it be time to think about preparing to reapply? like what the steps would be for that? I'm not even sure what I would do with an extra gap year - i've got clinical exp, service, research hours, etc all done already; I don't need and can't afford to take some sort of graduate classes like an SMP.

Basically having a hard time imagining what my next steps should be right now if I assume I'm going to have to reapply and would love advice on if I should give myself more time before thinking abt this or start preparing asap.
thanks!

As the GOAT LizzyM says: Thanksgiving is when you should start panicking. You should always be trying to improve your application throughout this process, but I have faith you’ll get some love at some point.