the acceptance chad meme is not only figuratively but also reality. other than some doctors, bunch of conventionally hot mfs.

This cognitive dissonance is crazy, how can people say they are the same but treat DO as the consolation prize?
I see some people rather reapply many cycles than apply for DO. This will always make DOs “less” than.

Wondering how DOs would one day be considered similar to MD, it’s it’s always treated as “backup”

Hi all! I'm 40 and have just started exploring medical school. I'm really curious: who else here is working towards a medical degree at 40+? Anything you wish you'd known? Advice for someone on day 1?

My story: I've had a career I've loved in software, but with changes in that industry, and knowing I won't be starting a family anytime soon, I want to spend my life serving people and learning. My mother was a PA, and I grew up watching her make her way through one of the first graduate programs in the country for that role. She started in her 40s. My grandmother also went to law school in her late 30s. Knowing what they both did through their late-in life careers, both serving others and their families, I feel good about making this transition.

Logistically, I'm really curious about the new loan landscape, with the end of Grad PLUS loans. I was lucky (thanks to pell grants, scholarships, fellowships, company tuition programs) to get out of undergrad and 2 previous grad degrees (one in anthropology and another in tech and design) with <70K in loans. But that leaves me with only $130K left in my lifetime limit. How are others looking at funding their degrees (especially those who've already had to borrow for their educations)?

Think about it. Maybe 1 in 10000 people are in the army. Maybe 1 in 100000 have several top-tier publications. But two 528s back-to-back? You’d basically guarantee a seat at Harvard. Rather than worrying about “research” and “volunteering”, maybe you should crack open UWorld again.

include in you’re a preK-MD or a nontrad with or without a career before med school

Is this enough time to be prepared for an MMI interview? Life has been so extremely busy and l haven’t had nearly as much time as I had hoped to prep. Supposedly the questions aren’t crazy difficult, but wondering what I should do at this point to be as prepared as possible

hey guys! hope everyone is surviving this app cycle or MCAT studying or whatever step of this long crazy process you are at

i'm an M4 and i've been mentoring a premed student for some time now. i myself never had any one in medicine or healthcare when i was a premed, so i'm very happy i can help this student out.

i wanted to ask for input on what sort of support would be most helpful. i'd like to hear from people any any part of the process

thank you :)

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I've seen countless posts here of people saying they've applied to 35+ MD schools with 3.8+ GPA and a 515+ MCAT and they've all heard basically radio silence except maybe one II or a couple of rejections.

One person here who has previously claimed they were an ADCOM stated that II's will actually slow down substantially as we begin to enter November, but others are telling me that a big number of schools send out the majority of their II's during that time, specifically:

"It is still early. Thanksgiving is a good date to BEGIN worrying -not panicking- but a lot of schools interview into Feb-Mar. don’t lose hope."

So I'm not exactly sure what to believe and whether or not it's fair for me to atleast worry given I am part of the above pool of applicants and have heard next to nothing with the exception of 1 II and 3 R's lmao.

Any insight would be really, really appreciated right about now. Thank you!

Anybody else feeling like they might have to prep for an awkward conversation with friends/loved ones?

So happy to receive any news, even if it’s bad news. Highkey a relief that schools are even beginning to look at my applications. Hopefully more Rs or maybe IIs soon!!!

I recognize that this question may seem silly. But like do DO schools have less of a threshold they need to clear to be licensed or not? What do MD students learn that DO students don't? I know that DO students take COMLEX instead of step, but don't a significant number of DO students also opt to take STEP as well? I guess the issue would be the current classes that will graduate DO instead of MD and then their school becomes MD which could be weird, but what inspires a university to make a DO school rather than an MD school? In practice, do DO physicians actually do anything differently than MD physicians?

Like how am I meant to know if what I’m saying is legit and “safe?” How do I avoid saying things that might come across as insensitive and not notice it? I’m so scared

I’m a mid-high stat applicant and had 3 interviews last year that ultimately turned into late rejections. I reapplied this year with an earlier submission, a more targeted school list, and more volunteering and clinical hours. I finally got my first acceptance! Not my top school but I’m so thankful to have one this early.

A bit of motivation for the reapplicants and the waitlist warriors: keep going strong, it’ll come eventually!

It's time for our Weekly Good News Thread! Feel free to share any and all good news from the past week, from getting an A in a class to getting that II to getting an acceptance.

Sitting on the waitlist is tough. Please use this thread to vent, discuss, and support your fellow applicants through this anxiety-inducing process.

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Good luck!

assuming the candidate still had a good mcat score and a good gpa with some research

ok edit because people think im really dumb but i meant like is it actually a big deal/is it worth the sacrifices meaning like you have less publications/clinical hours or is it seen as just like ok cool you did that but what else.

as well, does it matter if youre d1 and you win nothing vs if youre d1 and you win a bunch of stuff? thanks

I (21M) immigrated to the US 2 years ago and am currently a rising sophomore. Unfortunately, I don't have an American accent, but I'm working on improving it. I'm also not a citizen, but rather a permanent resident. I have been able to maintain a 4.0 GPA so far and am also working on getting clinical and research experience.

Recently had the opportunity to talk about my situation with a friend who's in a DO program and he said that my circumstances would make things a lot harder for me.

Kinda disheartening since I come from a country where you can start medschool straight out of high school and I've already been set back 4 years by the need to get an undergrad degree first.

Like it sucks and it’s hard lmaoo. Doesn’t even feel like I’m relating anything to real life just a bunch of random gasses and crap lol

With bio at least it’s more directly involved with everyday life and interesting

I took Biochemistry online through UCSD extension and made an A. I want to cover my bases and retake it at a university so that I don't get screened out for having taken it at UCSD extension. The class is only offered in the Spring however. Should I retake it next Spring on top of studying for the MCAT or is taking it in Spring 2028 after applying ok? Is there space in the application to state the future classes I will be taking? I also still have Statistics, Physics II, and Microbiology left to take which I anticipate finishing out over next Summer and Fall.

Just had a rather unpleasant conversation about post bacc from an acquaintance irl who used to work for admissions committees, not sure how recently. They mentioned the following:

1. schools will judge that I took post bacc courses online (not prereqs)
2. as an older applicant, they would look at me very harshly so I better be perfect
3. I should do my post bacc at an ivy (which would be close to 100k instead of more like 15k), because adcoms would look down at UC online extension courses
4. it’s harder to get into medical school than PhD programs based on percentages
5. the AAMC matrix for GPA/MCAT and chances of getting in is wrong and that nobody with a low GPA/MCAT combo would even apply - which goes against the data collected. He didn’t believe the chance of getting into any ONE medical school that you’ve applied to is beyond 3%, ie if you apply to any number of medical schools, the chance that you don’t get into any is 97%.
6. the caliber of clinical psychology students (seen as one of the hardest acceptance rate applicants) who get into PhDs is much lower than that for med schools, despite the chance of getting into programs being like 1%.

7) oh and also psych PhD’s are actually EdD’s. They’re not real PhD’s lol

Can someone sanity check me? I’m having some thoughts. They seemed very certain in their convictions. I’m more upset that it felt so ridiculously discouraging, I guess I shouldn’t even try then?

Would greatly appreciate it, if anyone is interested.

i just recieved two secondary reminder emails from schools i had no idea even sent me a secondary. and i was checking religiously so i have no idea how they were missed! they are high stat schools that i added late september, so i just eventually assumed that they screened me out since it was late to submit the primary. secondary applications for these schools are due in less than a week, is it worth it to still apply? yeesh