<p>The times I’ve seen Judy have always been on a walk-in basis. She’s not always available at that very moment but I have always been able to see her within an hour of walking in. Of course, you don’t have to sit there. You can simply sign your name and come back an hour later. She’s also great via email and responds very fast. Come on. How many health advisors are going to go through the application with you page by page, teaching you how to fill it out?</p>
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<p>It’s on par from the statistics I’ve seen at schools like Emory, etc. The students with 3.5+/30+ at these schools generally get into med school at a 80-90% clip. The 10-15% who don’t make it usually have some sort of red flag on their apps (cheating, not enough extracurriculars, really bad recs, etc.)</p>
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<p>Keep in mind most people applying to med school don’t get into a single one. I don’t care how you get your acceptance or how many acceptances you get, you should be thankful to get into any med school at all. Since the drop out rate from med school is tiny (less than 1%), the challenge is to get into med school.</p>
<p>Med schools rely on the waitlist extensively. For example, one of the schools I interviewed at, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, interview around 900 out of the 7000 applicants they get (that’s a 12% interview rate), accept 225 out of the 900 applicants they interviewed for an overall acceptance rate of around 3%. The 700 people they interviewed but did not get accepted will all be waitlisted.</p>
<p>In fact, many med schools do not reject anyone that they interview unless you punch the interviewer in the face or something. You either get accepted or you get waitlisted. The idea is that because interview rates are in the 10-20% range, everyone who gets interviewed are qualified for the school. So, the school is reluctant to reject any of them. </p>
<p>I interviewed at 13 med schools, got accepted to 5, withdrew from 2, and got waitlisted at 6 med schools. No outright rejections actually.</p>
<p>Edit: I meant no outright rejections post-interview. I got around 13 pre-interview rejections haha</p>