Undergraduate College: Brandeis University
Undergraduate Area of Study: Biological/Life Sciences
MCAT: BS 10, PS 10, VR 10, Q
Overall GPA: 3.54
Science GPA: 3.62
Brief Profile:
AMCAS submitted: 9/6/2011
Applied, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Didn't fill out secondary. I had already done over 30.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Just . . . This was one of the last ones I chose to apply to. It's just too much. I didn't complete the secondary.
Application Complete
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Hold for re-review
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/22/2011
- Secondary Completed: 10/3/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Application Complete, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Mayo Medical School - "Received LOR request.
I kind of knew this one was a waste of money, but hey. You've gotta have on..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Received LOR request.
I kind of knew this one was a waste of money, but hey. You've gotta have one or two reaches on your list!
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Rejected by maaaaail.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
11/28/2011 - MAY status
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Shortest rejection letter ever.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Hold
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/6/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Pooled around 11/7/2011
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/13/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
This school, with its paper secondary, is stupid.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 10/6/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Interviewed here in my first cycle. Please?
Screw you guys.
Attended Interview, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: 11/18/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Loved the school, but I'm from out of state. I had a feeling this wouldn't end well.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/6/2011
- Interview Invite: 12/5/2011
- Interview Attended: 1/18/2012
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Interviewed here last year and the year before. Looks like they've wised up to my antics!
Wait. No they haven't. Can't wait to wait for them again. Got the interview e-mail as I was getting beer with my guy/gal pals from Meharry's interview day.
Also, the tertiary application they're requiring this year is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.
For interested parties, not out on the secondary, out at 1/2 interviews. Didn\'t come up at the second one.
Yeah. No big surprise on the rejection for the THIRD TIME. Fuck you guys. Just open another medical school, Massachusetts. JUST DO IT.
Attended Interview, Waitlisted
Jefferson Medical College - "4/2/2012 - Alum wrote a letter to admissions for me. We'll see if that helps.
High priority waitl..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/6/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/4/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/16/2011
- Waitlisted: 12/1/2011
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
4/2/2012 - Alum wrote a letter to admissions for me. We'll see if that helps.
High priority waitlist. Time to write a bajillion letters to them!
Interview received after an in-the-area e-mail.
Also, the interview here was wonderful. Dr. Callahan and Dr. Brooks were both a pleasure to interact with, and I would love to end up here.
Out at 1/2 interviews here, but not out on the secondary - it just didn't come up.
Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 11/22/2011
- Interview Invite: 1/19/2012
- Interview Attended: 2/17/2012
- Waitlisted: 4/16/2012
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Withdrew from hold list in early May after RFU acceptance.
Hold on 4/16/2012 - Received snail mail.
Took about two months from secondary submission to completion.
Wow. Slow school. I asked, and Linda said this was the first time my application had been reviewed.
For those interested, I was out on this secondary.
Albany Medical College - "Added to waitlist, but decided not to fill out the paperwork. I just don't care that much, especiall..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/6/2011
- Interview Invite: 11/4/2011
- Interview Attended: 12/21/2011
- Waitlisted: 2/2/2012
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Added to waitlist, but decided not to fill out the paperwork. I just don't care that much, especially since Chicago housing is so cheap.
Update: UC List. For now, I'll count this as a waitlist. If I get in off the UC list, I'll count it as an outright acceptance.
I had so much fun here. What a blast. I was laughing throughout my two interviews.
For the LGBT inclined (wanna make out?), out at both interviews here.
Accepted off Waitlist
Meharry Medical College - "Withdrawing on 05/01/2012. This really wasn't the school for me based on the location alone.
Acce..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: 12/5/2011
- Waitlisted: 12/20/2011
- Accepted: 4/12/2012
Summary of Experience:
Withdrawing on 05/01/2012. This really wasn't the school for me based on the location alone.
Accepted on 4/12/2012!
Top 10% of Waitlist.
Slight ew@Nashville. Probably not great for gay applicants (ohai!). I'll be in the closet for this one, sadly.
I connected with a student from there who said issues that affect homosexuals "simply aren't discussed," hence my feeling. I'll definitely take the school seriously, but I recognize that it might not be the best fit from the outset.
UPDATE: Ok, strike that. The interviewer I had openly mentioned sexual orientation when we were speaking about HIV/AIDS, so it seemed appropriate to mention it. Meharry is, in fact, extremely gay-friendly. I misjudged it.
It's definitely not my top choice, but the interview here was absolutely wonderful. I could see myself here, though I concede that I would probably choose Jefferson, UMass, or Albany before it (already rejected from Cooper, which probably would have been my first choice out of all of my interviews).
Moral of the story: If you want to gauge how an interviewer will react to your sexual orientation (if you're not straight), ask about HIV. If they mention gay people in a positive light, bring up your own experiences. It can only help.
Accepted
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 9/6/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/7/2011
- Interview Invite: 4/2/2012
- Interview Attended: 4/16/2012
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 5/1/2012
Summary of Experience:
OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD I GOT IN.
Entered Screening 10/5/2011
Pooled 11/2/2011
Summary of Application Experience
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Interviewed 11/18/2011, rejected 11/28/2011
Third Try. Last time was the wildcard round, the time before was when I didn't know shit, and this is the real thing, hence the huge number of schools. I'm getting in this year. I have to. Mainly because I don't want to take the MCAT again.
Also, the AMCAS submission date reflects when Verification was done and letters were all received by AMCAS, hence the pre-dating of secondaries.
To give a bit of an overview of my application, I'm a gay Cystic Fibrosis patient (slim, hairy, Jewish men, you've been selected to receive a prize. PM for details.). My extracurriculars include:
Most significant:
Cardiovascular Research, 1 year post-college, ongoing (Author on 1 R01 grant)
100+ hours recording books for blind and dyslexic students (Leadership/volunteering - weekly)
Renaissance music choir (Soloist each season)
Others:
50+ hours providing GED instruction to low-income students
50+ hours shadowing in Cardiac Cath Lab (ongoing)
50+ hours shadowing in transplant surgeries.
100+ hours Emergency department shadowing
50+ hours MS infusion center shadowing
Paid choir member
Drosophila research/thesis (high honors in biology from thesis), 1.5 years during college
Transplant research - 1 year post-college
Princeton Review High School and College Tutoring - 3.5 years, ongoing
I battle pokemon, blast zombies, and shoot flaming arrows regularly.
