Who's excited about still not knowing where the @#$% they'll be in the US next year?

[Starvin Marvin]

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In response to all those who are excited at being someplace new next year. Specifically targeted to those with a bunch of waitlists and no concrete acceptances. Always figured that I'd know where I was going by now. Argh!

 

[Heimerfink]

In response to all those who are excited at being someplace new next year. Specifically targeted to those with a bunch of waitlists and no concrete acceptances. Always figured that I'd know where I was going by now. Argh!

<raises hand>

<then cries>

<then checks mail every morning>

 

[ShyRem]

Me. *sigh*

Heimerfink, you only check mail each morning? Dang... I check it at least 4 times a day. Except my gmail account - that one I have the notifier so I can have a heart attack when it turns blue and goes "ding"! (gmail is the one all the med schools have).

 

[Apparition]

Me. *sigh*

Heimerfink, you only check mail each morning? Dang... I check it at least 4 times a day. Except my gmail account - that one I have the notifier so I can have a heart attack when it turns blue and goes "ding"! (gmail is the one all the med schools have).

I feel the same about the blue envelope. Then I get really angry at whoever e-mailed me. Yeah, this process doesn't bring out the best in us. I just wanna know where I'll be in August!

 

[Orthodoc40]

Oh yeah, you mean that email account I created for schools that has been so inactive I wonder why I bothered?!! LOL!!!

I'm so excited I don't know where I will be next year that in order to channel all of the excitement, I'm prepping to re-take the April MCAT!!! How much more fun it will be when I get an acceptance letter in June after wasting all this time getting ready for and re-taking it?? Oh yeah - that'll be a thrill 🙄

 

[-Goose-]

Same boat here. It's down to two schools (ShyRem, I'm going to withdraw from VCU just for you)... The worst part is, I probably won't know until MAY or even JUNE where I'll be...

I do realize how fortunate I am to have choices, but I figure'd we could all use some commiseration (sp?)

-Goose-d

 

[Sophie]

Me! 🙁

I really thought that by now I'd be familiarizing myself with my new city. It sucks for my fiance too, since our current apartment management company wants to know if we'll be staying another year, but he can't afford it on his own.

 

[Starvin Marvin]

I gotta admit, I have a choice too. But I would really really really rather go to any of my waitlist schools than go to the school I got accepted to. 👎

 

[StevenRF]

Yea the whole waitlist thing really blows; it's messing up my summer plans. Was hoping to move to where Id be going in may/june. Argh. Looks like Ill have to bum it on my parents couch.

The worst part though is when your on a waitlist for a school that's your first choice and you'd take in a heartbeat, and then people post "Help me decide a vs b vs c vs d vs e.... " and your school is in their list. It's like stfu!!! Why the hell did they give you the acceptance if you don't even want to go? 😡

Jumping off the soapbox....

 

[OhtheSilliness]

Me Me Me! One for every waitlist I'm on. I check my mailbox 4 times AFTER the mailman has already come for the day... thinking that maybe just maybe a thin envelope with an acceptance somehow slipped through when I brought the mail in. My gmail box is filled with unread email. I just don't see the point of opening email anymore that doesn't deal with med school admissions. I'm up to 156 unread since Feb.

 

[ShyRem]

Goose-d, I love you.

 

[ambaduchi]

yeah it's getting old and not-fun being in limbo. by now, i wanted to give notice on my apartment, quit my job, and buy tickets to a far-flung location to live abroad this summer. can't do any of the above bc i don't know what the hell is going on in my life.

i've been patient. now i'm starting to get grumpy.

and the chipper, kind inquiries of my friends and family as to "so what's going on with med school, where are you going to be?" are beginning to grate on me. i keep wanting to tell them, 'when i know, i'll tell y'all, you're not going to have to ask!'

 

[Moto]

I gotta admit, I have a choice too. But I would really really really rather go to any of my waitlist schools than go to the school I got accepted to. 👎

I thought you said this was targeted towards those w/o a concrete acceptances?

 

[ShyRem]

But they still don't know where they're going, moto.

 

[BasesofHumanity]

In response to all those who are excited at being someplace new next year. Specifically targeted to those with a bunch of waitlists and no concrete acceptances. Always figured that I'd know where I was going by now. Argh!

I definitely fall in this category. I've got four waitlists and a whole lot of waiting. Just try to be busy at work. Med school is the first and last thing on my mind right now. Anyways, you don't want to read about my problems. This process has brought all my insecurities to the surface. So, does anyone know how much more we need to wait? I know about May 15th, but hoping you have a better and more accurate answer.

As far as being excited about next year, I have expressed all sorts of feelings during this process and they are all mixed up right now that I can not distinguish my feelings anymore. I am excited, but I also feel angry, disappointed, proud, happy, sad, insecure, confident, worried, scared, unsure, and the list goes on. But, I am definitely petrified excited about next year.

 

[lookslikerain]

Me me me! No actually I am not excited at all. The good thing about being waitlisted is that it gives you hope. The bad thing about waitlisted is that it gives you hope. 🙁 When I think of being accepted to my top choice sometime this summer, it's exhilirating. But then I think about the alternative ... and it just sucks.

 

[RayhanS1282]

0 - acceptances
1 - pending outcome
0 - waitlists


I cry myself to sleep every night muttering find a happy place.

 

[FenderHM]

I gotta admit, I have a choice too. But I would really really really rather go to any of my waitlist schools than go to the school I got accepted to. 👎

Hey at least you have something concrete Marvin, some of us are faced with figuring out what to do for another year if we don't get off a waitlist....

 

[LucidSplash]

But they still don't know where they're going, moto.

True dat. I only have one concrete acceptance, but with one waitlist and one waiting to hear from one school, both of which I will choose over my acceptance. Its really nerve wracking for my husband though because moving to the place where the acceptance is pretty much means a change of careers, when he just started this one and is working to build his business. Getting into my top chioce means he doesn't have to find a new career or even change workplaces.

 

[Nodelphi]

I'm in the same boat... only problem is my wife and child are in that boat with me so it really is no fun. We live in New Orleans and our house flooded. Right now we're living in a trailer outside my parent's house and unsure if we should rebuild our house or not.

See I've been accepted out of state but I would really like to get into a local school because my wife could keep her job, my daughter would grow up near her grandparents and we'd be able to rebuild the house little house we've come to love.

It's been really rough waiting on such a big decision but you just have to try to relax and go where life takes you. It'll work out, wherever we all end up. Best of luck to all of us!

 

[p00psicleSTICK]

Me! This sucks. Med school and my GF are all I think about. I need a life.

 

[Orthodoc40]

I suppose, philosophically speaking, none of us truly know where we will be at this time next year.....

 

[Medikit]

The feeling I had last year on two waitlists with no acceptances was absolutely horrible. It's really rough and I wish you guys the best for getting through it. I hope that many of you get accepted and that those of you don't have more enthusiasm than I did for getting started on the application when it comes. Don't give up.

I wrote this last year to try to encourage myself and others on SDN: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=201133

My sentiment might sound familiar to some of you, it's updated for your class.

 

[willow18]

I was talking with a friend yesterday about med school etc, so he nonchalontly asks "so if you get in, when do you start?". I say, "oh, in August, i've got another 6-7 months." He looks at me and goes, wtf? Then I realized, that if/when I do get off the waitlist, i'll have 1/2/3 months to prepare for my future life in a new city. Talk about baptism by fire.

Waitlists: 3
Acceptances: 0
Pending: 3

 

[runlolarun]

<raises hand>

<then cries>

<then checks mail every morning>

O acceptances
2 pending
1 waitlist

Some one please save me from this purgatory of waiting. I will not break down and cry. Oh god I am crying. Yes, I too am tired of people asking "how the med school thing is going?" I try to keep busy at work and not think about it and that works for a few hours, but then I do have to come home and check the mail.

 

[CatsandCradles]

reading all of these post makes me want to cry. 🙁

It's no wonder I so many people are on SDN. We need to support one another emotionally.

 

[nikibean]

Nikibean raises her hand and joins the others on the couch here...

1 acceptance, out of state

1 waitlist.

2 pending outcomes

1 interview to go.

And just met someone who lives 1.5 hrs from Sac/Davis- one of those things where you go, "Oh, **** this is pretty rad and somehow it just...works. uh-oh."
I feel like I have to be reserved because of the fact I have NO idea where I'll end up. I have an offer for a Canyon trip leaving mid-June (cant go if I have to move...), and enough mileage to have a free ticket to go ski with my new friend in South America this summer if I want. Can't do anything yet. Frustrating.

 

[diosa428]

5 interviews - 1 acceptance, 4 waitlists. Yes, it definitely could be worse, but I am waitlisted at my top choice and will move there the day before classes start if it comes to that. Sooo I may not know until August where I will be next year.... not excited about trying to figure out living arrangements at the last minute.

 

[Dr. Giggles]

0 acceptances
2 waitlists
1 post-interview rejection
FIVE yes FIVE decisions pending....

Schools are completely hanging me out to dry. I actually stayed home all Spring Break for the sole purpose of staying chained to my mail box, but I've heard absolutely nothing for three weeks. Makes my blood boil. 😡 Could schools be less considerate? Sorry for the tirade.

 

[dr.choc]

Oooh oooh pick me. I have been waitlisted at 3 of the 5 schools that I interviewed at. My boss keeps asking me (EVERY DAY) if I am going to stay or should he find another instructor to teach my lab this summer. My family keeps calling me dr. and asking which school I will choose. To make matters worse...I have a decision that is in the mail that could take up to two weeks to get to me. I wanted to apply for the HSC scholarship but the deadline is 3/31 augh. Now I consider myself to be a pretty patient person, BUT these long waits are really starting to get to me. I am trying to be my usual "Glass half full while waiting for a refill" self...NOT WORKING!!! My poor friends are getting dragged to the pit of doom right along with me. SOMEBODY HELP!!! Okay, I am done 😱. Thanks for letting me vent.