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What does it take to NOT get in to Medical School with 4.0, very high MCAT, lots of medically related EC's (shadow, various volunteering, research), leadership experiences, good interview skills that have been tested many times, minors that show deep interests in unrelated and related fields?
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<p>1.) Failing to apply to a sensible spectrum of schools.
2.) What Shades and NCG say in posts #17 and #18.
3.) Misperception of the factors given, e.g. I have friends who insist that they have phenomenal interviewing despite not being able to hold a socially acceptable conversation and are infuriated when medical schools reject them.</p>