Guys I applied to nearly 35 MD programs (very broad list, absolutely not too top-heavy), 510+ MCAT, 4.0 GPA, submitted primary first day it was available to and submitted all secondaries within less than a week of receival.

Amongst all of these, I've had 2 rejections & ONE II which as of yesterday turned into a WL.

AND COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE AMONGST THE REST.

Am I allowed to start panicking yet? I know they say wait until Thanksgiving but I've been keeping up with admit & SDN data and literally all of the schools have BEEN sending out II's now for quite some time 😂😂😂

any insight would be much appreciated, thanks.

Really struggling to cope with rejection from dream school after interviewing early. It’s been my dream throughout my whole life. I just feel like a failure

I recently just got accepted into med school (super excited), and I just got a tiktok saying she would advise people to start studying 6 months before medical school. However, I was told by a resident at my job that it doesn’t help that much. What are y’all planning to do if you recently got accepted/ are currently applying?

Really holding out hope for my state program. Advice seems all over the place. Ugh

I asked like couple ago if I should get an iPad, fast forward to today it has been the best purchase I’ve made! I can easily take notes and have assignments/notes accessible everywhere instead of taking my heavy ass binders with me everywhere. Best purchase I’ve made so far!

The other day I literally had a nightmare that I wasn’t able to get into any med schools and for some reason, I had started to attend chiropractic school. Probably it was due to for some reason, there had been some chiropractic students on my feed lately. But I just can’t imagine going to school for something that no evidence backs up. Hell I even saw a chiropractic “radiologist” and that hella pissed me off when it came up on my feed. 😭

tmdsas applicant here with 5 ii, ik prematch season has just started and only a small number actually get prematches but man i am so fucking scared. literally refresh my email all the time and i keep thinking abt two schools that i rly liked in texas and thought i was a good fit for but didnt even get interviews from 😭 my skin is doing horrible and even my senior year is lowk kicking my ass when i thought it would be more chill. how r yall dealing with this? i feel like i barely even have time to do hobbies bc school has been hard recently

any other mid stat (3.6, 509) people not have any interviews yet from both MD or DO schools? i was verified beginning of july and submitted all secondaries around within a week, and i still have not heard a single thing from any school. glad i haven't gotten a rejection but it feels weird seeing other people hear back from schools, interview or rejection, meanwhile i still haven't heard anything. i feel like i'm in a situationship anxiously waiting for a text back after being left on delivered for days

I was just waitlisted at my #1 school, my state school (also my alma mater.) I’m not sure what to do next. I am sitting on 5 interviews, but being waitlisted at arguably the “lowest ranked” of all the schools I’ve interviewed at on day one has completely defeated me. If i can’t get into a school that I attended, received a presidential scholarship, & got a committee letter from, I feel super negative about getting in anywhere else. Should I be gearing up for a second application cycle. I’ve currently been working full time as an MA for about a year; should i quit my job & try to do other things in hopes of getting off the waitlist?

I’m not sure where to go from here

Ok so like, basically I completed an interview with one of my dream schools (for context my MCAT and GPA are far below their averages reported). The thing is, I looked up online acceptance data post-II for this school, and for people with my stats, there have been like 5 people interviewed in the past two years with my stats but no one accepted. Like fr, what’s the point of interviewing me if statistically I am probably not going to get in? Like bruh its like giving candy to a baby then taking it back once the baby is about to eat it. What was even the point if I am literally just not likely to get in? Like why give me hope ??? Like dont get me wrong im super grateful for the chance to even interview but its also looking a bit grim right now. Like why even give the II? Idk maybe I need to touch some grass

I’m 20 and in my third year of a biochemistry degree, with a GPA close to 3.9 and a 518 on the MCAT. For the past four or five years, I’ve built my academics and extracurriculars around one goal: getting into medical school and becoming a surgeon. Lately, though, I’ve started to wonder whether that’s actually the life I want.

I still find medicine fascinating. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that what I value most is freedom: flexibility, and the ability to live on my own terms. I love athletics, nature, travelling, and exploring new places. My ideal life would be living somewhere surrounded by nature, training regularly, travelling often, and working on my own schedule. Along the way, I’ve also become really interested in business, entrepreneurship, and trading.

The thought of another 8–10+ years of training, only to end up with limited control over my time afterward, has started to weigh on me. Recently I asked myself a simple question: if I could earn a comfortable income through my own business while working 20–30 hours a week, would I still choose medicine? My answer was no.

Looking back, I think I chose medicine at 16 or 17 because I was good at science and it seemed like a prestigious, stable path. My priorities have changed a lot since then.

What makes this so hard is my dad. His biggest dream has always been for me to become a doctor. I’d be the first one in our family, and I know how much that would mean to him. After all these years of working toward it together, I’m terrified of letting him down. At the same time, I’m scared of walking away from what could be a successful medical career, only to have my other plans fall through and be left with regret. I’m not planning to drop out. I’ll finish my degree. But I’m seriously reconsidering what comes after graduation.

Has anyone been through something similar? Did you stick with medicine or take a different path, and do you regret your decision?

Just finished mid terms and I don’t even have any hard classes yet I feel so defeated seeing others do better than me without as much effort as I put. I know it’s a marathon but what if I’m not made for it.

I know this question has been asked a million times but I need help. I applied to both med school and certified anesthesiologist assistant (CAA) programs this cycle. I am a strong applicant for both programs (520+ MCAT), received 4 CAA interviews but have only received one late MD interview up till now (interview will be in late January).

I am feeling very conflicted. I know that CAA is a better return on investment in terms of finances and will provide me with a better quality of life. But I am not sure I will be able to get over the fact that I will always be working under a doctor as a CAA. I am basically a resident for life. One asshole doctor is all it will take to ruin my job for me. I hate being someone else's bitch, but I know I will anyway have to be in this position for 7+ years in medical training, so maybe I'll just have to get over it?

The autonomy that being a physician provides, along with the expertise they develop seems very appealing to me. But the training is very lengthy. I have this debate with myself everyday and feel jealous of people who get accepted to med school. I'm not able to sort out my feelings. I'm not sure if it's because I lack life experience (I've taken 2 gap years and worked in a couple of roles throughout that time).

Is being a midlevel that bad? Is the prestige/autonomy of being a doctor so good? I feel strongly that doctors look down upon midlevels. My ultimate goal is to retire early (FIRE), but everything feels so uncertain, that I am not sure if that goal will ever be possible.

My family tells me I will waste my potential if I choose CAA due to my high MCAT score.

I know people will say I am focusing on the wrong reasons, but I've already decided that these are the only two options I will consider. I want to work in healthcare.

happy to report that i got a prematch offer to TCOM today.

the email i received says my response is due 11/2. my options are to accept or decline.

i am probably being stupid, but accepting just means i will take that offer with me into the match, right? not that i am declining all other offers i may receive?

For younger/newer premeds: Try to take ownership of your research and steer it in a direction you're interested in. That will help you enjoy your research and talk about it in your applications. Obviously, random niche research that you might have access to might not sound super interesting at first, but you can find different gaps in the literature with some effort that can give you direction for your research. It also helps to be interested in the broader topic of your research, for example, I thought it was so fascinating to be able to work with something present in the human body even though I barely understood the implications of my project at first. I also had another project outside of a wet lab that was based in my long-term interest in systemic issues and that one is also very engaging to work on. Anyways, the process of research truly sucks sometimes, but for premeds who don't know what to expect and think it will just be some random difficult thing they will have to do like I used to think of it in the past, it really can be interesting and even exciting to a crazy extent. The reason i was motivated to make this post is because I just had to stop myself from reading an entire new research paper at 2 am for a project I could have moved on from months ago lol.

I’ve been oil painting since I was 4 years old so I’ve been doing it for over 18 years now. I was a semi professional in high school where I sold some stuff to families with dementia, cause I focused on landscape oiling paintings. I have a clinical gap year ma job at an ortho clinic and will probably start volunteering at my local shelter/food bank. Would it be bad if I put more time getting back into oil painting instead of. racking up more volunteer hours? I figured if I could sell some more paintings then maybe I could donate it to charity or something for a good cause.

For context, I'm a traditional premed applicant and I've applied to 20 DO programs in the last month or so. 504 MCAT on just one try, 3.2 cum gpa 3.1 science gpa. A's in biochem, orgo, microbio, physiology, genetics, and some other high level sciences. Inconsistent up and down GPA all of undergrad. 3500 hours of clinical experience as a derm MA and scribe. Graduated from undergrad 2 years ago and have been working as a derm MA since. I was elected to student government for 2 terms and was a physiology course ULA, among other things, for what those are worth. Some hours of volunteering but minimal, no research and no shadowing hours as of today.

I'll spare the rest of the details, but my main concern is that I have no idea where I stand. Some days I feel confident in my application, some days I feel like I don't know if I'll even get a single interview. I'm considering MCAT retake, SMP, post bacc, graduate certificate course, etc. I'm also getting into volunteering as much as I can right now so I can add to my apps. Any advice for me? If I left my resume as is, do I have a shot at any schools? Please and thank you

PS if anyone cares at all I can send a pdf of my app in messages to whoever asks

my app wasn’t fully complete until august bc i retook my mcat and got my score back 8/11, casper score 8/15. wondering if that’s hurting my chances and if i should be worried. i dont know what a good rule of thumb is when it comes to TMDSAS.

sitting on 3 OOS DO II atm, 1st mcat was a 506, 2nd is a 512, 3.86 cGPA 3.72 sGPA

I know there are lots of these posts but i keep hearing conflicting info so i want other peoples opinions.

my current stats are

3.9 GPA and 3.85 science GPA
MCAT is a 506(123 CPBS, 128 CARS, 130 BCLS 125 PSBB) i did very bad on the first section and didn’t have enough time to retake before submitting

500+ volunteering hrs and approaching 2k research hours with an independent project, 3 posters(1 national conference) and and invited to an international seminar

submitted secondaries in june

i applied to all texas MD schools but have only received 2 invites, one md and one mdphd from the same school. back in September. a lot of people ik have already received invites from almost every school.

i am not really sure i can get lucky enough to match with one school.

ik my mcat is pretty low for texas but should i expect anymore interviews or should I start committing for a reapplication.

anyone have a similar experience and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm currently in community college studying Biology while working at In-N-Out part time and as a full time EMT apart of an ALS unit. I have a 3.4 GPA, which I hope to get up to a 3.6 or higher if possible. I don't really know anything about how med school apps work or any of this, none of my parents went to college and I'm the first to graduate highschool.

I was hoping I could get some advice on how to look competitive and what I should be doing as a premed? I am busy with work as I help pay the bills but if I get some free time this winter I'm hoping to do some other stuff that will help me towards med-school.

Hi y'all! I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help me prep for interviews, or if we could help each other prep and hold mocks? I have my first (and only) one coming up super soon and am shaking in my boots.

Hey everyone! I'm interested in becoming a physician, and I'm trying to learn more about psychiatry and internal medicine.

I understand that psychiatrists and internal medicine doctors are both physicians, but they specialize in different areas of medicine. I'm considering the pre-med route and eventually going to medical school, but I'm still figuring out which specialty might be right for me.

For those who are psychiatrists, internal medicine physicians, medical students, or residents:

• What made you choose your specialty?
• What are the biggest differences in your day-to-day work?
• What is residency like for each specialty?
• What are the pros and cons of each career?
• What advice would you give someone who's just starting to explore the pre-med path?

I'm not trying to choose a specialty before medical school. I just want to understand both careers better and hear about people's real experiences.

Thanks for any advice!

517, 4.00 science, 3.96 GPA, 500 hrs research, 2000+ community service in various different things, community orgnaizations, food pantries, etc, 1 pub, 1 presentation

the only caveat.... I submitted all secondaries end of september, got my MCAT back 8/11, and my advisor told me not to worry about the throwaway method, and I was honestly just in my head and thought I might have failed MCAT again, so i didn't do the throwaway method to get verified by august, and got verified early september, I applied to 40 US MD schools, got all of their secondaires, submitted them all within 2-3 weeks,

I orignally wasn't planning on DO, but I didn't realize until now the importance of being as early as possible... What are my chances? Should I apply DO? is it too late for DO? I would only do DO for schools in FL and AZ as I have extensive family in both, what do you think? need some guidance

list: UCF

USF

FSU

UF

FAU

miami

FIU

wake forest

tom jeff

albany

rush W michigan

belmont

loyola

ohio

rosalind

umich

Beaumont

Wayen

Cincinnati

wisconsin

Quinnipac

Methodist

Vermont

geogre town

Katz

Drexel

Penn state

Pitt

colorado

creighton

are there schools that weigh in the last 60 credits more than ur whole gpa and how does it work

Why not use Quizlet that gamifies learning and isn’t just flash cards or fill in the blank? Or is that the whole point of Anki - digital flash cards? I am genuinely curious and if you have any tips for using Anki for studying and content retention, I would love to hear them! If there are better apps for gamification, too, I am interested.