Brief Profile:
Strengths: Double Major in Business GPA/MCAT Personal Statement Ran projects in medical settings Leadership positions Loads of shadowing in a variety of settings Resident of Georgia!
Weaknesses: Tough for me to make a case for diversity Definitely took too long on some secondaries Probably should have done mock interviews... Research experience but started researching after AMCAS was submitted...
Unsure: Little college employment experience Have always lived in Georgia Never studied/volunteered abroad
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 06/08/2011
Undergraduate college: University of Georgia
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 132,
C/P 132,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.97
Science GPA: 3.97
Summary of Application Experience
What a year...
Plan your application months ahead. Submit your AMCAS early. Submit your secondaries ASAP. Prepare for each interview to engross your week.
Application Complete, Rejected
Yale University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Applied because Yale seemed like an enriching learning environment. However, after learning more about the school, I began to doubt we would have been a good match. I suppose the adcom picked up on this as well, since I was not invited to interview.
Summary of Experience:
Out of state applicant who took almost two months to finish the secondary. I\'m not surprised about a rejection. I applied because of the excellence of the program and the proximity to Georgia. I hoped that my Southern roots would be enough to make up for not being an Alabama resident. However, after visiting Birmingham this year, I think I will be happy to not attend.
Summary of Experience:
Was hoping for an interview chance, but Harvard has buyer\'s advantage with the thousands of applications. If accepted, I would have likely attended over any other school depending on the interview day. Best business and medical school in the country? How could I say no?
Summary of Experience:
Would love to have interviewed/attended here! School in the middle of New York City filled with unique students and solid values. But my application failed to convince the adcom that I would contribute enough to the class. Oh wellz.
Summary of Experience:
Was quite surprised to receive this interview invitation especially since it was sent so late in the season. I\'m almost certain that I was interviewed because I wrote something about Abraham Lincoln on my application-a detail that my interviewer, a medical historian, seemed fascinated by.
However, aside from talking about Abraham Lincoln, we basically spent the rest of the interview talking about how an undergraduate student could be a member of the American Medical Student Association. AMSA has undergraduate members, but he was so caught up on the idea that the \"Medical Student\" part of the name made that impossible. We hardly talked about anything else (even after my attempt to change the subject several times).
The student interview was somewhat odd. He basically spent thirty minutes asking repeatedly what I wanted the admissions committee to know about me. I was able to fill the time, but I definitely felt like the interview lacked the \"two way street\" element of most interviews.
Baltimore was a rough city, but Johns Hopkins was beautiful. The school had contrasting historical and contemporary buildings. The students I met were pretty remarkable. I would love to have gotten to know them better. Even though they attended one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world, they remained quite humble.
I was rejected most likely because I lacked the same enthusiasm I had in previous interviews. My interest in interviews had burned out by this point, and I had been out of practice for two months. I had also not spent enough time preparing for this interview. Even if I had been accepted, Baltimore would have been a significant negative that I might not have been able to overcome.
Summary of Experience:
Sad about the waitlist; this was my number one choice among those where I\'d interviewed.
The school was filled with undoubtedly the brightest bunch I had seen at any school where I interviewed. These students were, in my view, the best of the best: ambitious, organized, bright.
The interview day was so well structured. The admissions director made me feel like everyone who attended UPenn was going to achieve something great-probably true.
IMO the hospitals were the best I had seen in any interview. The actual medical school\'s design was ok compared to some other one\'s I had seen. Some may disagree but I thought Philly was a really interesting city. In particular, the several blocks owned by UPenn were thriving with culture and people.
My student interview went...ok I think. It was hard to get a read on my interviewer, who seemed mentally preoccupied during the interview. My faculty interview also went...ok I think. We didn\'t seem to click very well. I\'m a little more gregarious in interviews, but he was much more reserved.
Overall, I would love to have gone here. Their MD/MBA program, which combines two of the best medical and business programs in the country, would have fulfilled a dream for me.
Summary of Experience:
Sad day. Waitlisted. After a long, long wait. I would love to have gone here!
I received my secondary early, but I took way too long to complete it. I spent over a month trying to complete the 5-page autobiography. On top of that, I wasn\'t able to schedule my interview until 2 months after my secondary submission. My late response time undoubtedly hurt my application in Vandy\'s rolling admission process.
The interview day was extremely comfortable. Students would come into the waiting area and talk to the applicants, and the students seemed like cool people to be around. The lecture I spectated was amusing; the professor made the class laugh at least three times.
My first interviewer had read through my application. She was quite a joy. She came from Lebanon, and we talked about what it was like to learn English as a primary language.
My second interviewer knew only my name, which Vandy did intentionally. She was stern but interesting to talk to. We talked about the ethical dilemmas faced between medicine and business.
Summary of Experience:
So I missed the \"U of M is Awesome\" boat for sure. The faculty was nice. The process was straightforward. But my distaste for U of M can be summarized by what one of my tour guides said: \"The hospital is designed so you never have to go outside during winter.\" He considered that a good thing. I, however, began to feel claustrophobic thinking of so much snow. Sure I could handle some snow, but not as much as Ann Arbor gets.
Ann Arbor did not seem like an appealing place to live; snow and a bad economy have clearly worn the place down. My family is from Michigan, but they are from the upper peninsula, which is much more beautiful.
This was my first interview, and I think it showed. I was nervous. And my phone began vibrating during one of my interviews-how embarrassing! I don\'t think my interviewer noticed, but the event threw me off. There were three interviews all of which were too short. I felt like each interviewer failed to get beyond the same superficial questions.
And I just have to say that I thought the admissions faculty sent out decisions in an extremely disrespectful way. They sent out emails in essence asking where we were going to be celebrating the night acceptances were phoned. Even before I knew I was waitlisted, I felt uncomfortable with such communications especially since they announced that only half of all who interviewed in my group were accepted. Whatever. It certainly left a bitter taste in my mouth. For now, I will be \"celebrating\" the fact that I will not be living in the grungy, white north.
Summary of Experience:
Longest interview day by far. The medical school (and the rest of Emory) was beautiful. The students were extremely friendly as well as the faculty; they seemed like happy people.
Part of the day was spent travelling to Grady Memorial Hospital, which appears to be a stellar place to learn medicine.
We were told from the beginning of the day that our tour guide would also be interviewing us, which did make the tour less comfortable. She was, however, quite friendly.
In contrast to what many people have said about the group interview, mine was unenjoyable. I felt like our interviewers were drilling us, whereas others had described the group interview as \"conversational.\" Some of this could have come from the other people being interviewed with me, who seemed disinterested in what the other interviewees were saying.
Really enjoyed my 1-on-1 faculty interview. He even emailed me to congratulate me after my acceptance.
Summary of Experience:
MCG is a nice little school in a nice town. Augusta reminds me somewhat of Savannah in the architecture of the buildings. The school is extremely affordable. The faculty was extremely friendly; the head of admissions reminded me of my sweet Southern aunt.
I applied because MCG was affordable and favored in-state students, and I left the interview day seeing myself being happy attending the school. The faculty interview was extremely friendly, and I\'m fairly certain he was trying to recruit me to the school. I would have enjoyed having my interviewer as a mentor or professor.
I have no interest in the Masters, but I hear that renting out living quarters during the Masters is quite lucrative...
Summary of Experience:
Mercer is a spacious, well-kept campus. My mom\'s alma mater is Mercer\'s pharmacy school. The medical school is TINY! The school isn\'t connected to a hospital- a major negative. And the school is the most expensive to which I applied-another major negative.The school\'s mission is to create doctors for the under-served populations. The faculty was the friendliest I\'ve seen. However, given my alternatives, I just would not want to go here.
