Medical school applications are physically, emotionally, and financially draining. It is completely natural to be disheartened if you are rejected on your first try. What’s next? You might re-evaluate your career goals, question everything, and finally, sit down once more to formulate a new action plan. If you’re absolutely certain ... Read more
Joel Butterly
Updated June 23, 2022 by Joel Butterly
Med school admissions is a numbers game. Here’s how to increase your chances for the next time. If you got only rejection letters this application season, you might be thinking your dreams of attending med ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 23, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
After months of ambiguity, wondering if you will receive interview invitations and if you have been accepted or rejected, being waitlisted by a medical school can introduce new stress to your application cycle. Especially if ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 24, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Unsuccessful medical school applicants face a quandary. What to do next? A popular option has been the master’s degree in public health. Students figured it was a way to spend a year doing something “health-related.” ... Read more
Monya De
Updated March 1, 2019 by Monya De
Everyone reading SDN likely knows that gaining admission to medical school is difficult. It not only takes years of preparation, exceptional academic performance, and hours dedicated to extra-curricular activities—the process takes resiliency and tremendous determination. ... Read more
Renee Marinelli
Updated June 26, 2022 by Renee Marinelli
I was seated on a child-sized plastic chair along a wall in the classroom when the teacher summoned me to the front of the room. She handed me a sheet of stickers and, in broken ... Read more
Nicole Hawkins
Updated June 26, 2022 by Nicole Hawkins
The 2018 AMCAS application cycle has started! If you plan to apply to attend medical school starting in Fall 2018, the application is now open for you to begin working through the nine different sections ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 26, 2022 by AAMC Staff
You are an applicant (or reapplicant) in the current medical school admission cycle who has not yet received an interview invitation, who has been waitlisted, or who is awaiting a decision post-interview. In any case, ... Read more
Bryen Turco
Updated June 26, 2022 by Bryen Turco
In an ideal world, your first attempt at applying to medical school would also be your last. You would apply, receive several interview invitations, and at least one acceptance letter. However, for many medical school ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
In Part One of this series, we discussed post-baccalaureate pre-medical programs for career-changers (i.e. those who have not yet taken any of their medical school prerequisites). In this article, we will address a different kind of post-baccalaureate ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
I am a reapplicant. Those are four words that every reapplicant shies away from and for understandable reasons, having been one myself. Those words are full of fear, self-doubt, and perhaps some shame. And that’s ... Read more
Lee Burnett
Updated June 27, 2022 by Lee Burnett
Unfortunately, roughly half of all applicants to American allopathic medical schools will not receive an acceptance letter this spring. If your application process has concluded in this disappointing manner, ask yourself these questions before you ... Read more
Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
Updated June 27, 2022 by Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
How to survive your initial rejection and move on to re-apply to school.
Kara Hessel
Updated June 27, 2022 by Kara Hessel
Updated August 12, 2021. The article was updated to correct minor grammatical errors. As I peruse the SDN pre-professional forums, I routinely come across threads of a similar theme: “My GPA is shot; is my ... Read more
Lee Burnett
Updated June 27, 2022 by Lee Burnett