Wish I would have applied there...

[tacrum43]

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Does anyone else have a school or two that they wished they had applied to in retrospect?

For me, it's the University of Chicago. I know I wouldn't have much of a chance there, but the more I learn about it, the more awesome it seems.

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Chicago for me too. It was even on my AMCAS, and I was just too lazy to fill out the secondary. Makes me so mad.

And Baylor.

After all that freaking premed work, I can't believe I got lazy in the homestretch. Dumb!

 

[Daichi Katase]

Chicago for me too. It was even on my AMCAS, and I was just too lazy to fill out the secondary. Makes me so mad.

And Baylor.

After all that freaking premed work, I can't believe I got lazy in the homestretch. Dumb!

umich and duke.

 

[medicomel]

Yeah, I also have to say I regret not having applied to U of Chicago.

 

[MollyMalone]

UMich. Baylor. There was another one but I'm blanking on it now.

Sigh. Gotta love hindsight. 🙄

 

[speranza]

Cornell. Also U Chicago.

 

[potato51]

I couldn't apply to a lot of schools because of my old MCAT, so I was stuck with TMDSAS schools or Baylor (which I didn't apply to), but if I had the chance, I would definitely have tried out UMich, Wash U and Pritzker. And maybe Columbia or Cornell to see if I could finally live my dream to live in NY. I'm happy with Texas schools though.

ETA: Also the Mayo, because I'm crazy and I want to be in a small class for once.

 

[gdbaby]

Colorado and Chicago---oh wait, it has just been so long since I have heard from them I began to doubt whether or not I submitted secondaries!

This may sound funny, but I am going to say Drexel. I got lazy and didn't want to have to go get a certified check when all my other apps were happy to risk it with my checking account. But it sounds like a lot of fun people are going to be there.

I had know idea what I was doing when I chose my schools. My logic was so different than most people's.

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Jeeze- you think Chicago would extend their deadline for people to come crawling back???

 

[p00psicleSTICK]

Haha it's kinda funny because I didn't know UChicago was such a good school until AFTER I applied there. UChicago is one place I'm very glad that I applied to... but I haven't heard back from them yet. 🙁

 

[gdbaby]

Jeeze- you think Chicago would extend their deadline for people to come crawling back???

Wouldn't that be hysterical? I could just see the email sent out by Chicago

Dear people who had wished they applied here:

Normally we laugh in the faces of applicants who, out of ignorance, self-doubt, or misinformation about Hyde Park, chose to pass over our kick ass institution. Yes, we kick a** and you are just waking up to that fact now. So, consider this your "flashing blue light special." We will begrudgingly allow you mishaps to submit secondaries until midnight tonight. You will have to answer three extra essays and submit a $500 check, but now you know it is worth it, don't you?

Gdbaby, you may resubmit, but we still won't talk to you.

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Could happen. They must be desperate. They let Q in for crying out loud.

 

[bkflaneur]

Chicago for me too. It was even on my AMCAS, and I was just too lazy to fill out the secondary.QUOTE]

same here. i was so sick of writing new essays for secondary applications at that point. i think the chicago secondary required 3 essays. it was too much. but now, i wish i'd done it.

 

[p00psicleSTICK]

3 essays too much? You didn't applied to many places did you? You should try applying to UConn. They give you like 7-9 questions and 5 pages to write all your answers. 3 essays is average. I remember UChicago questions being pretty straightforwrd and easy compared to other med schools...

 

[bubbleyum]

wish i had applied to:
loyola, rochester, jefferson.

wish i had NOT applied to:
all the schools that i got rejected from! 😡

 

[Apparition]

Wish I had applied to Einstein, Colorado, Jefferson, Boston, Georgetown but most of all Einstein and Colorado.

 

[QofQuimica]

Could happen. They must be desperate. They let Q in for crying out loud.

Dude, all I can say is, *I'm* glad you didn't fill out your secondary to Chicago. Or Baylor. 😛 😉

I regretted not applying to Pitt. I did apply at the last minute, but it may be too late for me to get into that CSTP even if they accepted me to the school. 🙁 I wish I had heard about the CSTP there last summer instead of in Nov.

 

[unfrozencaveman]

Dude, all I can say is, *I'm* glad you didn't fill out your secondary to Chicago. Or Baylor. 😛 😉

I regretted not applying to Pitt. I did apply at the last minute, but it may be too late for me to get into that CSTP even if they accepted me to the school. 🙁 I wish I had heard about the CSTP there last summer instead of in Nov.

I kid, I keeeeed!!

 

[DarkFark]

I feel the opposite way- I should have applied to fewer schools. I was too conservative.

 

[DolfinGrl11]

wish I would have applied to:
Stanford, UMich - both so good that I was intimidated and thought I was too dumb to get in.

however, at some crazy point I thought I was too dumb to get in anywhere so I applied to some schools I wish I hadn't now because I wouldn't really want to go.

>sigh< 🙄

 

[somewhere2010]

wish i had applied: penn - everyone seems to have loved it there, but i was anti because i wasn't excited about philly.

wish i hadn't applied: stanford - don't think i want to go that far away...and harvard - i don't think their curriculum meshes so well with me after all (new pathway)

 

[jbone]

Loyola and U of Tenn. Already did 40 schools why not 42? I'm pathetic. 🙁

 

[Mixtli]

NYU and Columbia. I didn't give NYC schools a shot.

 

[drmota]

duke. thats it.

-mota

 

[QofQuimica]

I kid, I keeeeed!!

Heh heh, yeah, me too. No, really. 😀 😉

Seriously, I'm majorly bummed that you and Burnsie could be living together in your mansion while I'll be halfway across the country. 🙁

 

[greendot]

Cornell

 

[owenmichael]

Cornell. Also U Chicago.

man everyone wishing U chicago. Personally, I still am filled with bitterness after the med schools dean went off about how its ridiculous for students to get expect to have a chance because they think "they're good people" when test scores are how the world works. I wish I could find the exact quote.

Oh well, explains why two kids that I know that cheated their way through college, were horribly arrogant and cocky got in there, but rejected from MCW and their state schools.
(and yes I got rejected from U of C;P)

 

[dajimmers]

Stanford and Pitt. But I'm happy with how things are working out so far, and didn't really need any more.

jbone: 40? You're crazy!!!

 

[StevenRF]

Hawaii!!

 

[C.P. Jones]

3 essays too much? You didn't applied to many places did you? You should try applying to UConn. They give you like 7-9 questions and 5 pages to write all your answers. 3 essays is average. I remember UChicago questions being pretty straightforwrd and easy compared to other med schools...

6 questions,3 page limit for UConn just in case anyone starts thinking 9 questions is crazy

i wish i had applied to Loma Linda

why does everyone want to apply to UChicago...i didn't even look at schools over there, just seemed a bit weird to me

 

[DrKitty]

Boston University. I decided not to submit a secondary to BU after learning how many people on SDN were rejected, and I did not feel like writing the professionalism assay, while submitting without the assay didn't seem good enough. Now I regret not being able to find out my own chance at this school 🙁

 

[FictionalGirl]

For a reduced rate of $50 you may e-mail me your boston secondary, I will read it (more than they'll do, hehe), and forward you my rejection letter, so you can feel that you had the same BU experience the rest of us did *grin* just kidding

 

[p00psicleSTICK]

6 questions,3 page limit for UConn just in case anyone starts thinking 9 questions is crazy

Sorry about that. It's been a while since I submitted the secondary and I just remember myself taking forever to finish their secondary.

 

[funshine]

I'm wishing I chose schools more carefully based on geographic location (more east and west coast schools, less midwestern/southern schools!)

(+) USC, Loma Linda, Cornell, UMass, NYU, UMich, Northwestern, Tufts, BU

 

[C.P. Jones]

Sorry about that. It's been a while since I submitted the secondary and I just remember myself taking forever to finish their secondary.

not that the exact number even matters....it does take forever!!! This time i just "fixed up" my essays from last year, so it was a little easier, but they changed the last question!!! so that was a bit annoying

 

[MrBurns10]

I think I would have liked to apply to UW-Madison. I'm out of state so I didn't even consider it, but my brother is getting his PhD there so it would have been cool living close to him and I really liked the town when I visited. Not sure if I would have gone there with oos tuition had I gotten in, but it would have been nice to at least look at the school.

 

[jbone]

Stanford and Pitt. But I'm happy with how things are working out so far, and didn't really need any more.

jbone: 40? You're crazy!!!

No I'm not crazy, just average. Not a genius like most of ya'll. But had 11 inteviews at both DOs and MDs so far. Oh well. 😳

 

[zzman]

Wow... see i found SDN pretty late in my med school app process. I applied to 11 schools. 4 in top 5 schools, 8 in top 30, and GW, Temple. Point is... i wish i knew what I was doing :/, i would have added and eliminated many schools 😕

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Duke, and pretty much every NY school

 

[DrRads101]

why does everyone want to apply to UChicago...i didn't even look at schools over there, just seemed a bit weird to me

What do you mean by schools "over there" and what "seemed a bit weird" to you?

 

[jbrice1639]

honestly, i think i have the opposite problem...i applied to schools i wish i hadn't applied to...mostly to schools i had no desire to go to. northwestern, tufts, wash u, georgetown, creighton...

despite getting waitlisted from uchicago, i'd probably leave that one on my list since it was an enjoyable interview day and it is an amazing school. i definitely wish i'd applied to less schools, though, since i knew i wanted to go to loyola, rush, or uchicago from the beginning anyways.

( i second the question about what was weird about schools "over there" )

 

[Jon Davis]

U Maryland. Good school.

On the other hand, I have a list of schools I wished I never applied to. (I let my friend convince me of applying to a bunch of schools I had no business applying to. He used the whole, "The apps process is crazy, YOU NEVER KNOW!" Thats so bullsheet!)

Here it is (I am ashamed of being such a dullard):
- Harvard
- Cornell
- Columbia
- Northwestern
- UPenn
- Yale

Needless to say, I have NEVER heard from these people yet. I assume a rejection letter will be coming very soon.

 

[67192]

Oregon Health and Science University. 🙁

 

[sanford_w/o_son]

What do you mean by schools "over there" and what "seemed a bit weird" to you?

fasten your seatbelts. uninformed mid-west bashing ahead . . . 😉

 

[LucidSplash]

Drexel. Its not they've given out interviews to SDN August MCATers like candy exactly, but they've given more than enough to make me jealous. Plus, I feel left out of the multiple threads begging Drexel for interview. 🙄

 

[jbrice1639]

fasten your seatbelts. uninformed mid-west bashing ahead . . . 😉

i know...i just like watching people talk about chicago like it's a farm town of 500 where everyone is everyone else's cousin and they all wear overalls with no shirts or shoes

 

[tacrum43]

i know...i just like watching people talk about chicago like it's a farm town of 500 where everyone is everyone else's cousin and they all wear overalls with no shirts or shoes

I went to high school in a farm town of 800. 😀

And everyone knows that Chicago is really just an airport hub you have to stop in on the way to the coasts. 😉

 

[Sophie]

UC Davis and UC Irvine. 🙁

 

[waterlily]

wow I'm surprised this many people would want to apply to chicago in retrospect. can someone inform me what's so amazing about the school?

 

[sanford_w/o_son]

wow I'm surprised this many people would want to apply to chicago in retrospect. can someone inform me what's so amazing about the school?

i'm not informed enough to give an exhaustive list, and those with more knowledge may disagree with some points, but here's a start:

--a top midwestern hospital with national recognition in areas such as cancer treatment and other specialties
--students are very involved in pt care
--supportive learning environment
--great match list
--pt population is not typically well-off
--level one peds trauma center, expanded and rennovated e.d.
--campus is on the main university campus
--interdisciplinary-friendly program at a very interdisciplinary university
--non-trad friendly, academic-medicine friendly
--classrooms and library are in newish buildings, new comer' children's hospital, new (huge) interdisciplinary research building right across the street from the med school, main hospital is nice (although not quite as cushy as nwu hosp, i admit)
--supportive students
--chicago (althought not in the funest part, it's in easy access)