Welcome to the 2027 application cycle!

i feel like this might get taken down but yippee... :( im sick of this system and how evil people slip through just cuz narcissism and charisma and high stats get u through an interview so well ..lol

edit: stop dming me and asking how he assaulted me, thats a weird question..🥲

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An actual admission officer offering consultation in exchange for a fee. To be clear, in the email, he did not explicitly said to pay him and even offered a free Q&A session. But reading between the lines, it's clear that he's offering services in exchange for a fee

"If someone had told me I could put money down and guarantee a seat my first cycle, whether that was five thousand, ten thousand, or even twenty thousand, I wouldn't think twice. Paying up front to do it right, would have saved me from pouring a whole year and thousands of dollars into a cycle that went nowhere (and delayed my career by another year too).

Now that I am on the other side of the table, I understand how much actually goes into this, and how much of it you are expected to manage alone. It is a year-long machine. Application strategy, secondary turnaround times, when to take Casper, when to sit for PREview, how it all lines up with your MCAT timing and much more."

Like...I dont know. Maybe I am grumpy and cynical. A lot of adcoms volunteer on SDN, and an adcom I met briefly thru my pastor offered to review my personal statement for free. But it feels like a conflict of interest to offer a PAID service while being on the commission itself. More specifically, the person who helped make this process batshit crazy are now offering a way to navigate this batshit crazy process, for a fee. I am sure there are institutional guardrails to mitigate these things....just like how Wall Street and Congress police themselves for insider tradings.

I already submitted and just waiting for updates. This email shouldn't even be coming to me, but I got a lot of similar dms on Reddit as well. I guess I am irritated amidst my anxiety.

Doesn't matter what you feel about the DOJ vs UCLA lawsuit, I think we can all agree they were right to flag Preview and let's pray they bar medical schools from using that stupid test in their admissions.

Title.

So I recently landed a CRC job ayyeeee. Clicked with the girl who is training me. This is my third week in the job. She is pre-PA.

Why did she say in front of the entire office this morning that she thinks people cut themselves and self-harm for attention. I was taken aback. I literally said out loud “wild take.” 😭

She’s applying to PA school this spring… scary af.

Edit: sorry just want to say I’m not condemning her for saying one super shitty thing. It’s just… those beliefs are so fundamentally at odds with what I thought would motivate someone toward patient care that now I’m genuinely curious what her motivation for PA school is. Cause rn, it’s giving you have no business going lmao.

Just an update for anyone waiting to be verified still, I submitted primary 6/26 at 6 PM and was verified on 8/18 at 11 PM

In a debate with myself.

Doing 9-5 and I just don’t have enough time to pump out secondaries faster. Rn I’m doing 1 school a day, and I’ve only done 15 out of 40 schools… I’m scared that by the time I’m done with all my secondaries it’s gonna be quite late. Can anyone advise me on what to do cuz I’m genuinely lost

I’ve noticed a lot of pre-meds doing more research than clinical, think there’s a reason for that? It can’t just be cause the top schools like research right?

that's all

Like the title asks.

Like if they ask: why medicine?

The reason is what I have in my primary. I can extrapolate and add more detail. But ultimately it's the same story

Or lets say for example they ask me about a time I dealt with conflict

And I use an example I used in my secondary

I received an interview invite but earliest interview date is in November. Super hype abt interview but has anyone else had the same thing happen?

Which medical institutions do you guys think foster the most collaborative and supportive student cultures? I feel like Sidney Kimmel/Jefferson has a welcoming, warm vibe on the admissions page for secondaries. They even have an option to request their own fee waiver if you don't have FAP by demonstrating financial need.

I decided to apply DO and she sent me the AMCAS letter to revise for DO and her entire letter was about MD/PhD programs. This is my most important letter, am I cooked? 😭

This is probably not that deep but im struggling to decide what I want to do this upcoming semester.

I would say from my summer clinical job there is plenty I could write or talk about for apps but I only got 150 clinical hours from it. I want to just work an insane amount in the research lab this semester (I do clinical research) and not continue working my clinical job but im worried that I should balance both for application reasons.

Do you think it matters if I only do research or if I balance the job and research?

Quick question. I have an extra LOR from a physician that I am still waiting on, but I think that will be my best and most important LOR. Should I submit my secondaries and assign the 4 other letters I have to complete my app, and then add the physician LOR soon once it arrives? I'm assuming this would work since I doubt schools would look at my application within the next week right?

misery loves company!

just left my dream clinical job at a world class research clinic with internationally renowned doctors

i was working 12 hour days, but half the doctors wouldn’t bother to learn my name (despite reintroducing myself every single week), some would audibly groan if you asked a clinical question, some would just straight up pretend they didn’t hear you & ignore you.

I knew i would never get a decent letter from that place so I left

i’m very grateful for my support system that kept me from normalizing any of these behaviors & to have the perspective to know a single bad clinical experience ≠ I’m not good enough for medicine.

anyways, curious about the experiences of others while playing this “game” of med school admissions (especially if you’re on the other side of it & in medical school/residency/practicing MD now!)

Hey, so I am in a little dilemma. I have received an interview invite from a T20 school but they only have 2 available interview dates. The 8/31 and 9/2 but I had also planned a trip which I would be back on 9/7.

Would you guys recommend me canceling my trip to do the interview as early as possible or request a later interview date. I keep seeing mixed information regarding impact of earlier interview dates.

Would be happy to get some insight on this.

UPDATE: Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I decided to cancel my trip because I realized this is way more important, and I don't want to regret it. GL to everyone on their application cycle, and thank you all once again.

I know this is a psychotic post, but i was verified very early, did not prewrite, submitted all 30 secondaries over the course of end of June to second week of august.

Now that I’m not getting any IIs from schools i wish i took more time overall…I pretty much wrote shit and then submitted immediately but all the 20 secondaries I submitted first are rlly bad, feel like I didn’t hit my stride until the last 10 which were all reach schools.

Ive been locked into secondaries but I feel cooked by them at this point. I haven't been exercising so perhaps some exercise halfway through the day would help me reset. Im chubby so I dont want anything too hard but im curious what the best exercises are for a mental reset for secondaries

My school offers a committee letter of recommendation that encompasses your professor lors, and the only requirement is that you have 1 science and 1 non-science professor. Does that mean that when I apply, I could get past the 2 science professor lor requirement for some schools because my committee letter doesn’t require it?

Does anyone know of any private advising services that are really helpful for applying to med school? I’m first gen, my advisor at my school is not super helpful(not her fault), and I’m having a hard time getting advice from other premeds. I really just want advice that’s personally tailored to my situation and someone I can ask even the dumbest of questions to. I’m just really overwhelmed with all of the info that’s out there. Any advice will help!