<p>but what happens if you're an aspiring doctor and you go to a good pre-med school like, say, john hopkins. JH's academics appear to be really tough so say you get 3.5 GPA throughout your undergrad career, which is for john hopkins, extremely respectful. so then the time comes for med school apps and you get rejected to EVERY SINGLE MED SCHOOL. what happens? do you reapply to lower-tier schools? do you find a new career focus? kinda random question but just wondering...</p>
<p>Some people might pursue another career, others take a year off and do some research/humanitarian work and then apply to med school again the next year. Others might try the D.O.-route (Doctor of Ostheopathy...botched the spelling, sorry), while others might go to med school in the Carribbean.</p>
<p>id apply to lower-tier schools to begin with, but if you still get rejected then id get a master's degree and reapply in two years. hopefully, your gpa will go up while you get your masters.</p>
<p>It's Johns Hopkins :)</p>
<p>Of course, at schools like JHU this is very rare.</p>
<p>But nationally speaking, in 2005 roughly 20,000 kids were rejected by every single medical school they applied to (compared to 17,000 admitted somewhere). It's not a rare circumstance at all, and many people's responses vary considerably.</p>