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Hey guys, my application was on the later end with secondaries completed late september through mid october. I have only received 1 II so far at Hofstra with 7 rejections.
Even though its too early to determine how successful this cycle will be, I'd like to pinpoint the fault of my application and find out why I am not faring better. I have 7 rejections from, Mayo (pre-LOR), Vandy (Pre-sec), Rochester, Dartmouth, Pitt, Cornell, and BU (super later here though). I also never got a secondary from UCLA and am in state with a 3.74/34
(13-9-12).
I understand these rejections are pretty good schools so far, but no LOR request from Mayo and no secondary from UCLA (I know i didn't pass the auto screen nbecause of my 9 in verbal, but they rereview applicants that don't pass the screen) makes me feel that this is a fault in my application.
People have told me that my mdapplicant file looks solid, and so I am pinpointing my faults to either the phrasing of my application (PS and EC summaries) or LOR.
My LOR were from a G.E. Marine Bio course at community (for Science LOR), my P.I. (for Science LOR), and an arts and letters teacher (for Non-science). None of them knew me particularly well. They knew my name and my participation in class, but I didn't go to office hours (though the classes were 20-30 students). My P.I. wrote me a 4 page LOR but i didn't do much in his lab, I did send him a summary of all my EC's so he probably incorporated my entire being into his LOR. But like I said, I didn't do much.
I was hoping someone that faired well this cycle, or a med student can glance at my PS/summary of my EC section and tell me if it is terrible or not. If that turns out to be okay (so long as it isn't terrible), I will know that my LOR are keeping me down. I would really appreciate it :]
Even though its too early to determine how successful this cycle will be, I'd like to pinpoint the fault of my application and find out why I am not faring better. I have 7 rejections from, Mayo (pre-LOR), Vandy (Pre-sec), Rochester, Dartmouth, Pitt, Cornell, and BU (super later here though). I also never got a secondary from UCLA and am in state with a 3.74/34
(13-9-12).
I understand these rejections are pretty good schools so far, but no LOR request from Mayo and no secondary from UCLA (I know i didn't pass the auto screen nbecause of my 9 in verbal, but they rereview applicants that don't pass the screen) makes me feel that this is a fault in my application.
People have told me that my mdapplicant file looks solid, and so I am pinpointing my faults to either the phrasing of my application (PS and EC summaries) or LOR.
My LOR were from a G.E. Marine Bio course at community (for Science LOR), my P.I. (for Science LOR), and an arts and letters teacher (for Non-science). None of them knew me particularly well. They knew my name and my participation in class, but I didn't go to office hours (though the classes were 20-30 students). My P.I. wrote me a 4 page LOR but i didn't do much in his lab, I did send him a summary of all my EC's so he probably incorporated my entire being into his LOR. But like I said, I didn't do much.
I was hoping someone that faired well this cycle, or a med student can glance at my PS/summary of my EC section and tell me if it is terrible or not. If that turns out to be okay (so long as it isn't terrible), I will know that my LOR are keeping me down. I would really appreciate it :]
