Snitches get stiches, don't 6ix9ine yourself
We're not in the 6th grade. OP should double check with the Admissions Dean.
It’s all fun and games until OP gets an acceptance rescinded.
TBH, I can see an acceptance being rescinded because something comes back on Certiphi that a school did not feel was adequately or accurately disclosed on an application, but I really cannot see a school waking up at the 11th hour and rescinding an acceptance due to a mistake it made with respect to 3 months on a MCAT test date.
Don't worry about it. I had to retake a 523 due to expiration (didn't apply to medical schools for 3 and half years after the first try, and then I decided all of a sudden that I wanted to do medicine really bad). No need to explain at all.
I don’t expect to get in here anyway. I would love to, just a high reach. Low post II acceptance rate
It’s in MSAR and will say “oldest accepted MCAT”
Why not if a GPA of 3.9 is deemed materially superior to a GPA of 3.8?I would never presume to speak for the great @Goro, but, speaking for myself, you are misconstruing what @WedgeDawg did with the calculator. He assigned a value to a MCAT range that is subsequently weighted and combined with 9 other variables to calculate an index that is then meant to be used to suggest a mix of schools to apply to. To extrapolate that to assume that the arbitrary MCAT range cutoffs he used for that purpose implies that adcoms at any particular school use the same cutoffs to evaluate candidates is to misunderstand what WARS is all about.
Aren't you the one who posted on the Duke thread that the admissions dean told you that 510+ is all treated the same?Trust us -- 519/521 is not a distinction that drives admissions decisions, anywhere. Too many other things go into how a file is scored for MCAT differences within the test's margin of error to mean life or death for anyone, anywhere, arbitrary break points in clever school selection tools notwithstanding.
I dunno. Maybe because, with grade inflation, and with 3.73 being the average GPA of matriculants, there is a huge difference between a 3.8 and a 3.9 in terms of what percentile of applicants each GPA represents, while there is literally a 1%-ile difference between a 519 and a 521, which is immaterial, especially at that end of the bell curve (97%-ile vs. 98%-ile)?
MIT isn’t as grade deflationary as some other schools like UC Berkeley.
There’s also a big difference in grading standards at different schools and in the difficulty of coursework taken by different applicants.
Meaning what? That maybe there isn't a big difference between a 3.8 and a 3.9, depending on the "grading standards at different schools and in the difficulty of coursework taken by different applicants"?
So much so that it has been emphasized multiple times that they are useless metrics for some applicants (See: reapplicants, reinventors, non-trads, etc.)
The LizzyM score is just a simplistic index combining MCAT and GPA. It's as valuable or useless as those two numbers individually. WARS has been co-opted by us to become something it was not originally designed to be. It's an index meant to help curate a school list. It's not supposed to be gospel regarding your strength as an applicant, although that is certainly how it is seemingly used nowadays.
That is actually an excellent point. I've known about the wars for years and always thought of it as the latter but you're completely right.
Its 10 AM.
Actually I don’t even think any of my schools are releasing today but I was still hopeful that one may come in
So, you're basically admitting that you're trolling?
Some schools have very rapid turnarounds. People who interviewed a week ago will hear back today. Often these schools will say that applicants won’t hear back until late October or early November so they are not inundated with calls today.
Okay, sounds reasonable, but, will you admit that making a post on the first day As are released saying you haven't received any As, then being told to chill because it's only 10AM, and then responding that you don't think your schools are releasing As today, but you were hoping to receive one anyway, sounds like a troll post to the average layperson?
Get off of SDN for awhile
ngl, this made me do a double take haha
does that mean you got acceptances but you didn't accept them? bold move cotton
Probably should but such an anticlimactic end of the week. Wanted to keep some momentum going into mid October after an II Monday morning but nothing since.
Lol no I’d be fine with going to any of the schools I interviewed/applied
lol, I love by how one by one your worries slowly change. Started out with 0 IIs in early August and thought it was over for you. After 3 IIs you thought it was over. Now you're at 8 IIs (?) and think no chance of acceptance.Update: Got another II this morning but still no acceptance
I have 9 now but yes moving goalposts. That’s how I’ve always been. Once one worry is over, start worrying about next thing. Terrible trait to have
Someone with 15+ interviews is a unicorn, don't compare yourself to those individuals. Pre-meds are neurotic (myself included) and even by @Goro's advice we are to always prepare for re-application until an acceptance is in hand. That being said you're in an extremely coveted position of having NINE IIs. Even myself at 4 should count my lucky stars. Despite neither of us having an acceptance yet, the odds are increasingly in our favor of getting an acceptance past 3 IIs. Breathe and realize that there are people who don't even have a single II yet. Many of those same people will be matriculating with you next year. The cycle is long and we should try to be patient (as hard as that is). Congratulations so far, there may be more IIs to come for both of us!
Honestly your application must be absolutely stunning to have such a serious IA but still have at least one T10 school interested in you. Congrats.
Hello sir. I know it feels frustrating. But it took me 2 cycles and 8 WL before I got my first A. Your time will come, a WL is not a rejection. You need to stop comparing yourself to others. You know nothing about random strangers on the internet. Getting accepted to medical school is hard, but your time will come. My advice, take a breather from SDN and go watch a movie in theaters!! or take yourself out to a nice dinner.
I don't think what's holding you back at those WL schools is your conviction and IA's, because those things are pretty cut and dry, either it's a go or no go. The fact you are WL'ed there means you are admissible but somehow not their first choice. It's still early in the season and you have plenty decisions to wait for.
You had A's previously, so obviously your interview skills are fine. where did you get WL? low, mid or top tier schools?
Those were in person, but I’ve always been told I’m a good interviewer even over zoom
Not necessarily. There's always some yield protection going on at lower tier schools. They'd like to offer A's to people who are most likely to enroll first. Think Geisel.
No, they may invite you to an interview only to deem you wouldn’t actually come there after the interview
Only schools that are truly never yield-protecting are probably T10's. Even T20's tend to guard against that.
Is hard because now I’ll have to wait until at least Thanksgiving before I get accepted and my aunts, uncles and cousins etc. always asks about it. Hoped I would have one by then.
You are incorrect. Resource protection is done prior to interview. No school is going to waste an interview slot with an Adcom attitude of "they won't come here".
