Rejections 2006-2007

hell no from washington, einstein, and cleveland clinic. Not a good day.

No thanks today from OU (Good thing I hate Stoops!
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So far I've been shafterd by this list of fine institutions:
MUSC
KUMC
UMKC
Kentucky
Louisville
Carolinas
FL-Gainesville
UT-San Antonio
UT-Southwestern
LSU-New Orleans
LSU-Shreveport
St. Louis University
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Wake Forest

31/5/15

"You suck" from

UW
New Mexico
Banner Good Sam
Stanford
South Alabama

in the last couple of days

SUNY Buffalo....with the added feature of seeing a list of my fellow losers.

No go from Univ of Washington

Lets just be friends from Virginia

I figured that I have been reading this forum without posting long enough. Here is my story, and I hope that this helps other people.
37/5/14.

Interviews:
University of Kansas (Only available date is 1/6)
West Virginia (Only available date is 1/6)
University of Illinois (12/27)
Brown (1/9/07)
Southern Illinois University (1/6/07)

Wait List:
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dartmouth

Rejections
University of Chicago
Loyola
Indiana University
University of Michigan
Stanford
Yale
Vermont
Wisconsin
Virginia (12/8/06)
Vandy(12/7/06 by mail)
Fort Wayne
UPenn
Duke UNC

Still waiting:
Pittsburgh
Penn State
Minnesota
Mayo
Cinncinati
University
Northwestern
Rush
Louisville
Washington Univ
Michigan State (told over the phone that they are in the process of sending out there second wave of interviews)
UCSF
Minnesota
Missouri Columbia
University of Tennesse
University of Houston
Baylor
Iowa (Told over the phone that they are done giving interviews)


This whole process has been very frustrating. To answer all of the peoples questions about USMLE. The 230 cutoff is for real at >95% of programs. This year particularly most programs have set a cutoff of even higher. I have heard this from the Dean of my medical school, who has talked to different programs. I have a 228/92, am AOA, and am having a very hard time getting interviews. I say this to let other people know. I am still waiting on a lot but after having read othe peoples replies am not holding my breath.

I would like to wish everyone the best of luck.

I don't mean to step on toes but the 230 Step 1 cutoff is largely, in my opinion, a myth. Certainly, if it does exist, it is flexible based on additional info (AOA status, Step 2, LOR's, interesting experiences on your resume). Sub-230 Step 1 is NOT a death sentence.

I say this only because I have a Step 1 of 220 and have received more than 20 interview offers, at least three from allegedly "top tier, numbers-focused" programs.

I would not have posted this at all, but I remember looking at Orthogate last year with a 220, convinced I would struggle to achieve the Magic #10 interviews. That is not the case. You can make yourself stand out in other ways.

Exactly.

If this whole cutoff of 230 topic also rubs you the wrong way, then please post some of your information in the new "cutoff" thread intended to finally debunk this ridiculous myth. Dr. Hibbert - you're info could be very useful to future applicants, so please share what you feel comfortable doing so.

I think having a low Step 1 score will probably cut your interviews in half, and having low clinical grades / non-AOA will cut your interviews in half. For instance, if you have great extracurriculars, LOR, research, AOA and 235, you can get 40 interiews (out of applying to say, 60 places in all "tiers" of competitiveness). If you have low clinical grades, you might get 20 interviews. If you have low step 1, you might get 10 interviews. If you have no interesting extracurriculars, you might get knocked down to less than a handful. A high step 2 might lessen the blow of a low step 1 in the case of some schools. Regionality and unknown "connections" may help you get interviews in several cases.

This is probably only a general guideline in my opinion, but judging by my experience and looking at other posts, it seems to be roughly accurate. Several PD's have commented on my application and what they think helped or hurt me. We'll see what happens in March.

19 offers /24 rejections /24 no word (probably 10 of which are rejections)

No from Iowa (I actually didn't think I applied there but evidently I forgot to deselect it)
Interviews full as of now but we'll let you know from Baylor (barring a tragic epidemic amongst applicants, I won't hold my breath)

Don't try to hard to make sense out of the process. There will always be some great number applicants who get surprising rejections and there will always be some low number applicants who get surprising interviews (and probably some surprising matches). If you think about it too long you will go nuts. Just make the best application you can and be ready to roll with the punches.

I will not be spending my vacay in Grand Rapids, MI this year.

My application is not grand enough for Grand Rapids.

(wow that was bad, sorry)

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center says no... today 12/12

> 321 applicants....

haha....so does that mean 322?


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did anyone else get the retarded email from HSS?

i got a rejection from missouri yesterday, I think. They didn't say in the email where they were rejecting me from (that's always nice).

Sawbonz - I got 2 retarded emails from HSS today.

They were retarded because they included an attachment with a rejection. Hopefully your email has a better outcome, but might want to check for an unreferenced attachment.

ya I got 2 emails also. The part I thought was retarded was the actual letter they wrote. It was like whoever dictated it fell asleep in the middle of doing it, and then woke up and started over again. The first 2 paragraphs say the same thing!!

I for one consider it an honor to be rejected by HSS.