Undergraduate College: Small LIberal Arts College
MCAT: BS 13, PS 13, VR 12, T
Overall GPA: 3.85
Science GPA: 3.80
Brief Profile:
Double majored in science and something artsy. I had some clinical volunteering but not much, zero non-clinical volunteering. I did have an international health experience. I had some research, decent ECs, and decent leadership experiences. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
AMCAS submitted: 6/10/2011
Applied, Withdrew
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 6/11/2011
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Ah, by virtue of being the one school that I may have chosen Loma Linda over, I bid thee adieu.
Application Complete
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/5/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Harvard's less renowned neighbor with a hilarious name.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 10/11/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Another "well, here goes nothing" submission. Not expecting much.
Johns Hopkins University - "Doesn't really fit me in any discernable way, but if the old man wants me to give it a shot I will. ..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 8/22/2011
- Secondary Completed: 9/8/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Doesn't really fit me in any discernable way, but if the old man wants me to give it a shot I will. Unlikely, to say the least.
Application Complete, Rejected
University of Chicago - "This one didn't sting as much as it should've as a first rejection. I think my pre-med neurosis has ..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 6/25/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
This one didn't sting as much as it should've as a first rejection. I think my pre-med neurosis has progressed into nihilism.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 8/23/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
BAH
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 8/27/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I'm on hold. Probably a rejection. BAH
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/2/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I love so much about the school (MANHATTAN WIEJRI#O:J_#aw) but my humble application's boots are far too thick.
Boston University - "Oh damn you, Boston, if you really did reject me because of a high MCAT score."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/2/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Oh damn you, Boston, if you really did reject me because of a high MCAT score.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/5/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I wasted my goddamn money on this one.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/8/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Great great great secondary! Truly unique and easy to write enthusiastically. To bad it rivals - and perhaps beats - Columbia's baddie to med student ratio.
New York University - "Genuinely well-put together school. Appears to care tremendously about producing well-rounded, quali..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/22/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Genuinely well-put together school. Appears to care tremendously about producing well-rounded, quality physicians. Love me back, NYU.
Columbia University - "An amazing school with a wonderfully flexible curriculum, incredible research opportunities, and the..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/23/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
An amazing school with a wonderfully flexible curriculum, incredible research opportunities, and the highest number of muggings per block in its immediate vicinity.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 10/12/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Me and Stanford are like Lindsay Lohan and sobriety - not a chance.
Northwestern University - "Trying to assuage my fears by imagining being outside in my boxers during a Chicago winter."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 10/12/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Trying to assuage my fears by imagining being outside in my boxers during a Chicago winter.
Georgetown University - "Oh that dastardly wretch Cornell appears to have shorn herself of my love! But I am certain that you..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 10/13/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Oh that dastardly wretch Cornell appears to have shorn herself of my love! But I am certain that you, Georgetown University School of Medicine, my bewitching Beatrice, my delightful darling, my winsome woman, will find my earnest entreaties enticing and grant me an audience in this interview season. Then, you will be forever assured that my affection is real and immutable, and will clasp me securely in your incomparable bosom. Outstanding social and political consciousness to my left, and commitment to primary care on the right - oh, what sweet ambrosia is this?
Tulane University - "Fantastic city, New Orleans. Also has a fantastic commitment to service to the underserved, locally ..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 8/22/2011
- Secondary Completed: 10/11/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Fantastic city, New Orleans. Also has a fantastic commitment to service to the underserved, locally and globally. What's not to like?
Invited for Interview, Withdrew
University of Illinois - "In a horrendous mistake, I didn't see the $70,000 out of state tuition when I applied."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/7/2011
- Interview Invite: 11/13/2011
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
In a horrendous mistake, I didn't see the $70,000 out of state tuition when I applied.
Attended Interview
Cornell University - "My darling, thou hast generously granted me an audience not in vain!"
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 7/12/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/30/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/9/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
My darling, thou hast generously granted me an audience not in vain!
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 8/25/2011
- Interview Invite: 11/13/2011
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Another genuinely patient-oriented school, but it is situated in culturally and spiritually destitute Orange County.
Loyola University Chicago - "I have since found Georgetown lacking and have refocused the attention of my courtly love on the imm..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 9/3/2011
- Interview Invite: 1/3/2012
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I have since found Georgetown lacking and have refocused the attention of my courtly love on the immutable beauty of my lovely, lush, Loyola.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 10/21/2011
- Interview Invite: Yes
- Interview Attended: Yes
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Oh Loma Linda, you may be my only hope.
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: 8/22/2011
- Secondary Completed: 8/27/2011
- Interview Invite: 10/1/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/30/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I think I bombed it. Bah. Probably marking this up as a rejection. AMAZING SCHOOL with a surprisingly chill and normal student population, however.
Attended Interview, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 7/21/2011
- Interview Invite: 8/10/2011
- Interview Attended: 9/30/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Marking this up as a rejection too. People have already gotten their acceptances, their pre-interview holds, and waitlists - I have to assume I'm getting the boot soon.
Summary of Application Experience
6/11/11: Submit primary while boarding my plane from Heathrow to Dar es Salaam, garner odd stares.
7/20/11: Submit Davis secondary an hour before it is due, immediately go about making the most of my Tanzania experience.
8/4/11: Receive rejection from UChicago, while still in Tanzania. Emotional ambivalence prevails.
8/10/11: Return from Tanzania, and briefly have a FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK moment as I realize how tardy my applications are.
8/14/11: Receive an interview invite from Davis! Elation!
8/14/11: Motivation stemming from Davis invite sparks a period of intense application-writing that results in submission of roughly third of secondaries over the next week and a half.
9/01/11: Motivation from realizing, "jesus, it's September!" sparks the submission of another third to a half of secondaries.
9/23/11: Boston rejection. Boston, if you have really relegated yourself to mediocrity by rejecting high-scoring candidates, you are truly an odd specimen. Damn you.
9/24/11: Receive WashU interview invite/feel slightly - but just slightly - dirty (see my description for WashU above).
9/30/11: Davis interview: fantastic people, genuine mission of outstanding patient care and community service, well-run and thought-out interview agenda. Loved it.
10/09/11: Motivation from realizing, "jesus, it's October!" results in final submission of remaining secondaries... excepting Loma Linda of course. You, my little safety you, will have wait until my Davis decision.
10/17/11: UCSF rejection. Low expectations have a way of tempering disappointment.
