Application Cycle One: 07/02/2012
Undergraduate college: Yale
Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
Institution: Columbia
Area of Study: Other
Degree Obtained: MA
Institution: Columbia
Area of Study: Premedical Studies
Degree Obtained: Certificate
Total MCAT SCORE: 523
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 132,
CARS 132 Detailed Breakdown
Overall GPA: 3.90
Science GPA: 3.90
Summary of Application Experience
Slow, agonizing torture, like a horror movie. I survived to roll the credits. Netter is not listed here, but thank you Dean E for helping me. Though not rejecting me would have been even more helpful :)
Application Complete, Rejected
Attended Interview, Rejected
Temple University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Another bad interview. Interviewer greeted me like I was something stuck to his shoe, then zoomed in for the kill. I was unprepared, but devised a great answer later. Of course, it never came up again.
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Touro University - Harlem
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Applied on the very last day possible. Surprised to get an interview. Even more surprised to get rejected. Think they thought they were a safety school? I have no safety schools! Guess I didn't make that clear. OK, I admit it. They were a safety school.
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Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Interviewed by psychiatrist, guess it didn't go well
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SUNY Downstate
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Interviewer said I would be a good doctor. Just not trained there, I guess. I never know what psychiatrists are really thinking...
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University of Vermont
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Really liked the school and dean of admissions. And she liked me, but had no vote. Sad. Adcoms really don't like me.
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Worked really hard to get this interview. Then the interviewer suggested I go to nursing school instead. Wow! But thank you, Dean P, for helping me out afterwards...
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Attended Interview, Waitlisted
Tufts University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Had super interviews. I mean, really, really good ones. Woke me up to the harsh reality that adcoms just didn't like me. And I'm a nice guy. That hurt.
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Attended Interview, Waitlisted, Rejected
University of Michigan
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Auto-invite. Should have saved the airfare. Bottom-tier waitlist, would have taken a natural disaster for me to get in. Nice school, liked Ann Arbor a lot.
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UMDNJ - New Jersey
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Dean told me he wasn't convinced I was serious about medicine. I became more convincing. Didn't help, for the most part.
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Albany Medical College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Nailed the MMI, adcom didn't care
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Jefferson Medical College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
Really liked the school. Interviewed by med student and her grandfather. Too bad.
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Columbia University
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: No
Rejected: Yes
Summary of Experience:
So sad... My picture was in their brochure and they didn't take me! Ok, it was a tiny picture, but still...
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Accepted off Waitlist
The Commonwealth Medical College
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: Yes
Secondary Completed: Yes
Interview Invite: Yes
Interview Attended: Yes
Waitlisted: Yes
Accepted: Yes
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
Yay! Thank you thank you thank you Dean BD!
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