***2019-20 Medical School Applicants and Their Parents***

D’s Texas apps are complete. AMCAS has not released her app yet and so no secondaries being worked on at the moment.

@texaspg forgot that Texas is a whole different system!

Hello all–as a former medical school admission director I hope to be able to offer some suggestions and advice here during this stressful process!

It’s certainly difficult to keep up with secondaries but very important to get a complete file available for review as quickly as possible. Often answers can be “repurposed” across schools–a fine line as the reader can identify a “cut/paste job” easily but recurring themes from the student should make the rigor of secondaries a bit more manageable! Good luck to her!

Daughter finishes her masters on Friday, then plans to knock the 7 left out this weekend. She got her re-take MCAT scores yesterday and improved 7 points!!! So happy for her! Now her score is 3/4 points above the average for every school, and a guaranteed interview at a few! Whew!!! Still holding out for that first II!

Congrats to your daughter for finishing her masters and the MCAT score! Happy interviewing!

@moonpie Congratulations to your D for the improvements and wishing her great success this cycle!

@moonpie Congratulations to your D and GL with applications. Anchor Down!

@srk2017 thank you!!! She found out today that she got the coveted A in her gross anatomy, which means she got a 4.0 in her SMP! She’s so excited. Truly left no stone unturned. All her secondaries are in. I will travel up to her in a couple weeks and have a few vacation days to hike and explore, then she’s coming back home for her “gap” year. She will be anchoring down continuing her research! So excited for her!

First interview today! Went as well as she could expect! MMI format, team-building, etc. A little different, but she enjoyed the day, and thinks it went well! Fingers crossed for a more to come!

@moonpie, congratulations to your D on the first interview, she now has the kinks and jitters out!

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Congrats on your D’s interview! Crossing my fingers she gets happy news in October.

@moonpie, Congrats for good first interview and wishing for me.
Anchor Down!

It went great! Waiting on the next interview … and hopefully more II’s!

Good luck to those who are waiting on October 15th results!

No news yet… no rejections, no acceptances. This. Is. Torture.

Wine, more wine. Hang in there.

@CottonTales, Between waiting on interviews/acceptance with the younger one and residency interview process with the older one… I’m kinda losing it. Actually pouring a glass of wine right now because I’m home alone tonight and can’t stand the quiet.

Second interview went great, and she loved the school! 2 more coming in the new year. Radio silence from the other 9 schools. Such a weird interview season! Hoping for an acceptance soon… but at least no rejections??? I really thought she’d have had more interview invites at this point, but trying to not get discouraged. Meanwhile the older one has too many residency II, and hasn’t been in one place more than 2 days since November 1. She is so looking forward to being in 1 place over Christmas! Her residency interview season is going great, and she is loving many of the programs.

@moonpie - Great! Lot of kids on SDN are saying they also haven’t heard from many schools.