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  • User #2252

  • Application cycles: 2004
  • Demographics: Male, Caucasian
  • Home state: Florida
  • Brief Profile: Lots of shadowing.
    Lots of travel.
    Guitar and other such hobbies.
    Patient contact program.
    Campaign Election work.
    Volunteering at a homeless facility.

    Stuff to be done this year:
    EMT training/EMT job, and probably research
  • // Applications //

    Application Cycle One: 2004

    • Undergraduate college: Duke University
    • Undergraduate Area of study: Psychology/Social Sciences
    • Total MCAT SCORE: 522
    • MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 132, CARS 129  
    • Overall GPA: 3.75
    • Science GPA: 3.90

    Summary of Application Experience

    I'm a reapplicant. If anyone is interested in last year's profile, here you go:
    http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?id=1315

    PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you linked here from SDN don't ask me about my app or comment on it in the public thread, unless its going to be of some benefit to someone other than me and you. Just send me a PM, and I'll answer any question you have. The reason I request this is because I feel guilty every time I post in a thread and somehow the thread becomes about me. So, if you want to offer condolences, or lament about the randomness of this process, or even if you want to tell me that I must be socially inept becuase I couldn't get in with my stats, please do it by PM. Thank you kindly.

    It's funny how going through this process once can change your outlook the second time around. First time around, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to go to some of the schools on my list. I would have actually been disappointed if, say, UFlorida was the only school I got into. Now? I love every school on my list. My motto is that when you're a reapplicant, every school is #1. All those questions about curriculums and all that nonsense go out the door. I'll worry about all that should I ever have the luxury of choosing between schools. For now, somebody please just let me in.

    This process is a blast!

    10/15 - It is a very strange feeling to be accepted this early in the process. Last year, I had 5 interviews, got put on 5 waitlists, and waited through the first week of August for some good news when none was coming. This year, I get accepted after my first interview. Go figure. If USF is the only school that accepts me, that will be more than enough for me. We'll see what happens.

    12/11 - My Emory interview may have been my last one. I have no more offers on the table, and I'm not expecting anything further to come. At this point, I feel like that's a good thing. I've done 13 interviews over the last two years, and I've grown pretty tired of the whole process. The interview days themselves aren't bad; I enjoy meeting the other applicants and the med students and what-not. But I'm tired of packing my suit every Sunday afternoon and leaving home so I can sit in my hotel room and watch yet another Sunday Night Football game by myself.

    For now, I plan to just sit on my rear and wait for these other decisions to come in, and then MAYBE I'll try to work a waitlist or two. But I have to admit, right now I'm pretty content with my situation, and too weary of this process to even think about working waitlists.

    12/15 - WTF? Today I got into two schools that rejected me last year. What's the story here? Is this process really THAT random? Or did I do something differently? I don't get it. Because the application that I sent in this year, apart from a completely reworked personal statement, was eseentially the same as last year's. So, was it the new PS? Or were they impressed by the fact that I basically sat on my ass and did nothing my senior year? The only other possibilty is that I'm just somehow interviewing differently. When I failed to get in last year, I kind of forced myself to take the view that there was a reason for it, and that it wasn't just some random thing. So that I would have something to work on for the next time around. And maybe that's just it. Maybe getting knocked on my ass helped change my attitude in a way that I'm not even aware of. Cause otherwise I really don't get it.

    Application Complete

    Virginia Commonwealth University
    Wake Forest University
    University of Rochester
    University of Pennsylvania
    University of California, San Francisco
    University of Florida
    Pennsylvania State University
    Tufts University
    New York University
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    George Washington University

    Application Complete, Rejected

    Northwestern University
    Georgetown University
    Albert Einstein of Yeshiva University
    University of Michigan

    Application Complete, Withdrew

    Brown University

    Attended Interview

    Boston University
    Emory University
    University of Pittsburgh
    Washington University in St. Louis

    Attended Interview, Waitlisted

    Vanderbilt University

    Accepted

    Tulane University
    University of Miami
    Jefferson Medical College
    University of South Florida

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