lowk hype. reminds me of the Fortnite live events all those years back lol.

Dang theres like 31000 ppl ahead of me :O

If anyone got there first interview invites later in the cycle, when did you get your invites? And what was your result/stats?

I submitted secondaries between early August to early September. I have not gotten any interviews yet other than one in late January (most likely for the waitlist). My question is, have schools even looked at my application yet?

Why are there people on Admit who submitted secondaries after me receiving interviews? Have I been soft-rejected?

Stats: 3.9+ GPA, 520+ MCAT, 1100+ hrs ER tech, 400+ hrs clinical research, 30 hrs homeless volunteering

Got an early II to my alma mater and state/city school and I thought the interview went great! Was hoping to at least get waitlisted since I’m a lower-stat applicant but I guessed wrong lol. It was my top choice and I was so excited to hopefully start planning the next 4 years in the same city as my partner, friends, and family. Oh well; the moral of the story is to always stay on your toes because the more you emotionally invest in a school, the more the rejection will feel like a punch to the gut. I’m hoping I get another MD invite, but luckily I can focus on acing my first DO interview next month! Just wanted to rant to Reddit because it’s better than beating myself up in my head.

I really like where I live. I have many friends and family here so I would hate to move. Am I the only person going through this dilemma?

Hi all I’ve applied to 34 schools and still have not heard anything. The waiting is so hard. It seems like a lot of us right now. Right?

20M. I'm almost hyperventilating with excitement and go to bed early the day before my municipal 911 EMS job. I've been around other units in the hospital and other clinical jobs and nothing really matches the sheer joy I have when I'm working 911 or the ER. I've literally volunteered to work off the clock and unpaid after my shift ended since I LOVEEE EM. I begged my ER tech boss to let me get on the clock ANY DAY and start IVs and explain discharge info to people. And other ER tech stuff like IM injections, PO meds, etc. Also to splint/boot/whatever. I've literally masked up and ran to work even when extremely sick.

On the flipside, I literally contemplated calling out sick (when I was in perfect health) every day I was working at the SNF and Medical ICU. It was not a good time for me. After going through 4 "cycles" of each specialty in a certain program, I pretty much found the guy assigned to FD or ER and begged them to switch (they usually did since they hated the ER and EMS and found the lack of continuity exhausting).

I shadowed a neurosurgeon and dermatologist (parents really want me to become one) and realized on day 4 that it was 100% not for me. I shadowed an ER doctor and I felt like I was at home. Every. Day.

The lack of continuity doesn't really bother me. I just want to care for people at some of their most vulnerable and scary moments and get them out of the bind they find themselves in so they can go to a specialist and get better, even if "getting better" is reassurance that a 99.1 degree temperature is okay. I want to see it all. Pediatric, adult, and geriatric. Trauma, simple tension headaches, pediatric "my tummy hurts," resuscitations, all of it. I love the "whatever comes through the door, we treat" medicine. I love the street medicine feel. I love the "safety net of society" aspect.

Enough glazing emergency medicine. If I have a very strong EM interest, what medical schools should I be eyeing in Texas? MD or DO.

Initially applied in 2023 rejected everywhere, took a break, got married had a baby, came back realizing I couldn't do anything else but Medicine and got my first Acceptance recently!!

Communities like this helped so much to get the info I needed without any doctors in my family, thanks everyone!

As a non-trad who’s had quite the journey over the last 5 years since graduating college, I was so thrilled when I opened my inbox yesterday. Applying TMDSAS too so pre-matches were rare, I was not anticipating having news so soon.

A year ago I quit my job and started studying for the MCAT, intent on doing the thing that I thought I wanted to do in college, but never was willing to fully commit.

I finally found the commitment and a year later I know I’m gonna be a Doctor!

I still can’t quite believe it.

Just was on LinkedIn and saw this girl had 10 papers and was curious as to how she’s first author on all. Her dad is the freaking PI of the lab bruh like WTF.

in highschool i was an above average "average" student. i never asked to take advanced or ap classes, i just stayed content in regular classes but i always did well.

i made the decision i wanted to go to med school like, my senior year so kind of late anyway. i went to community college for 1.5 years after graduating as a bio major for transfer, i got pretty sick and felt unmotivated to do anything. i felt i didn't have the health anymore. i wasted a year, kind of. i took a gap year to focus on my health and figure out what to do. i had a couple surgeries and now on meds that have been helping a lot.

i'm in school again, this time for a bsn in nursing. i'm not in the program just yet, i will be next fall if all goes well (i should be guaranteed a slot, as long as i apply) i'm a great applicant.

but now i'm kind of just i don't know, dwelling? is this the wrong decision? i'm 21. once i start the nursing program it's 3 years for my bsn (3 year min req to finish nursing program regardless of my credits considering me a junior) i can be a nurse by 25 and if i want more, go for an aprn. or... i stop. i go premed again. so let me ask ..

has anyone had a similar experience, or feeling you are just too late?

if i go premed, my stats look like:

70 total credits (after current sem) 3.7 (or 3.8) overall gpa / 3.8 (or 3.9) science gpa, depends on how this current semester goes, but since cc and uni gpa's are separate now, i should be looking at a 4.0 sci gpa at my uni (taking biomolecular sci and orgo i for reference) but it would essentially take me 1.5-2 years to finish my bachelor's in biology or whatever else i can swap my major to that applies all credits

i don't. have. any. other. experience. this is where i feel i lack the most, what makes me the most unmotivated and like, a failure. i fell so behind.

has anyone else had little to no experience at this point? are you doing well now? what did you do to start?

what are your best recommendations to get back on track?

money is also a big factor. i don't have a lot of it. genuinely minimal, poor family. don't get much aid cus my family is on the "line." so i pay for school paycheck to paycheck. i don't want this to be my set back though, so i'd love to hear recommendations that are low money requiring or free

and just any advice you can think of

and what are your thoughts on finishing my bsn? take med school prereqs as my extracurriculars in my bsn? work a nurse for a couple years and apply to med if i truly end up unhappy?

I'm a first gen college student who got into med school without supportive parents and a no name undergrad. This road came with lots of doubt, even from my mom who was very doubtful that I had the ability to become a doctor because she didn't feel like i was "smart enough". Throughout the journey, I constantly questioned why people would want to help me or tell me advice because i'm literally a nobody. As I've grown older, I realized that it just never hurts to ask. Many of these people are also first gens. Others who are non first gens love to help too because they are genuinely kind people. Some might relate to you because of a common hobby, personality, or they see the determination in you.

ALL they can say is NO. This will NOT take away from your value as a human. Please never hesitate to reach out to people whether it be online or in person. Many of these people have gone on to become my mentors and introduced mentees to me as I've progressed through this journey. Remember, your best way to show gratitude to these mentors is to become what you aspire to be and return the favor by helping someone they introduce down the line. No one has ever told me this, and I hope this will help those out there who are too timid like I was to ask for help.

No matter how hard it seems right now, if you really want it, you should take the chance and push for it. As the common mantra goes: you're only 20x/30x/etc once

I got my second waitlist today (I only got 2 II), this time at my dream school, which is also in-state. I don't want to sound out of touch, because I know people are in very different boats. With that said, this seems like the appropriate place to ask for advice. I'd love advice on how to not go insane waiting until May, and also would love honest opinions about what this may mean for the trajectory of the rest of my cycle. Praying this isn't neurotic, I just could use some input :/

I'm a senior as a CS major and just decided to switch, my gpa is low because it was not a priority. The internships never cared about my gpa, it was skills outside of college that helped me get them. Focusing on GPA never gave me enough time to work on the extra skills. When I do care about GPA my grades are pretty good. Would it be okay to explain it as such to med schools, or is this not a valid reason?

I'm still enrolled at a Caribbean vet school. The purpose of this post is to gather info on how WFs from international schools are reported to AACOMAS, and to see what people think of my situation and if I have a shot.

I've had to medically withdraw from two separate semesters of school due to complications from a knee injury. Attending school on an island is hard enough, but even more so when you have health problems.

Now my transcript contains multiple WFs and WPs. I was already worried about my withdrawals, but now I'm especially worried about how my grades will be evaluated by WES and reported to AACOMAS. Something I had not thought of before. My veterinary school excludes both WF and WP grades from its GPA calculations. However, I understand that AACOMAS normally treats WF grades as Fs???

Does anyone have experience sending WES evaluations to AACOMAS? Does WES convert WF grades into Fs, even when the university excludes them from its GPA? Even if WES does not, does AACOMAS recalculate foreign coursework and apply its own policy? Also, does the CGPA included the GPA from WES?

Or I would love to know what you think of my situation. Am I toast? Would you drop another professional program to commit to med school 100% when you have such slim chances?

Thank you so much in advance!

Just saw this new addon on ankiweb, it's pretty funny. It's like pomodoro method that gives you a survey at an interval you set in the settings. You get compensated for the surveys. I set it to give me a survey every 150 cards, so I make a few bucks every day during my reviews. You can cash out on the website after like $5 with paypal or whatever, adki.app.

Here's the code: 1931590926

At least I didn’t bomb but I felt like it was pretty average performance. How do I stop overthinking this… 😭 🙏

in light of several stressful interview posts i've seen, i thought i'd share one of my interview experiences from last cycle, where my interviewer at one of my top choices told me i was a poor fit for mdphd and would be a bad doctor and a bad PI (literally verbatim).

i thought i was never getting in and cried after. anyway, i got into that particular school and had 9 As total 🤷‍♂️

it really isn't over until you get an R.

Being the first person in ur fam to pursue medicine is not for the weak. My name got on a Nature paper this month and my fam has no idea how special and huge it is for me. They too focused on how much they dislike I am taking a gap year 💀 💀 Its so difficult to explain how long and intense the process of getting into med school is to ppl who arent in the medical field

As title says Im a non-trad (20f) student who is a police dispatcher, I have a 3.8 currently, work 40-50 hrs a week to pay for my undergrad (they cover 90% of my tuition, about 60k a year for full-time). I just got my first research offer with a well respected microbiologist at my uni, and I plan on doing some volunteering/ shadowing at the hospital my mom works at during the summer.

Just looking for some advice or to see if you guys think it will be enough for me to get into medical school, Im really nervous because I wont be able to get clinical hours since I work full time already.

Thanks :)

Hey,
Just looking for some advice…I haven’t heard back from any schools yet. I submitted secondaries late July, mostly through August. Can I send update letters yet? Or is it too early?

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currently prepping for interviews and reflecting on like my entire journey

but basically i was raised in a very very traditional and conservative immigrant family that was honestly very rascist, homophobic, etc. i was never like them and kind of faced a lot cognitive dissonance growing up. in college when i was away from them, i made a point to learn about and give back to the very communities my parents hated the most (trans folk, those who use substances, sex workers, uninsured populations, etc.).

im expecting that in interviews i may be asked why i decided to pursue so and so or how my background has shaped my journey to medicine. i guess my honest answer would be to break the cycles of stigma and hate i grew up in and i feel a deep social responsibility to create safe spaces for these communities because my family taught me to do the very opposite. I'm worried that this comes off as if i like hate my parents and im wondering how i can go about presenting this in a more neutral way

my thoughts are i guess acknowledging that my parents grew up in an ethnically homogenous society and they've been taught to think that way, but there really is no excuse for some of the things they have said.. and i really struggle to be neutral about that.

Basically, I did worse on my MCAT than expected, which (in my mind) sort of foreclosed any hope of getting into what was at that time my dream school. I was sad for a while, but I eventually processed it, and began to get excited for the schools that were actually in my stat range.

However, I recently received a II from my dream school (which I wasn’t even going to apply to after receiving my MCAT, but did so just because I had already pre-written the essays), even though my MCAT is 6 points below their median.

Even though I know I should feel really happy, and start preparing and such, I can’t shake the feeling that there’s no point, because my stats are so far below their median that they are probably only interviewing me because I practically professed my love for them in my secondaries, and they just want to throw me a bone or something.

Throw in a relatively low post-II acceptance rate, and I’ve lowkey been wondering if it wouldn’t have been better if they hadn’t just rejected me, because then I’d be able to focus on the interviews at schools I have a real shot at it, and not get all excited over something that will end up disappointing me all over again.

Is this a common feeling? Are there any ways to get past it?