What happens if you aren't accepted to Med School?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Is there a second chance? Can premed students apply again the next year to the same Med School or to other Med Schools. Or does not making it into Med School during the first chance pretty much you failed?</p>

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<p>AMCAS and most medical schools will never turn down your money. you can submit a primary application as many times as you want and the vast majority of the schools will send you secondaries (asking for 60-130+ bucks) every single time</p>

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<p>Yes, you can apply again if you are initially rejected. However, medical schools will look to see if you improved your application any since your initial rejection, and if you haven’t, expect to be rejected again. From what I hear, if you are initially rejected, then usually over the summer you can call medical school admissions offices from schools you’ve applied to and they will be more than willing to give you advice on how to make your application stronger, whether it be doing a post-bac to make your gpa stronger, get a higher MCAT score, more volunteering/clinical experience, or anything else (or any combination thereof).</p>

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<p>If you’re rejected, you can try calling the admissions offices, but they’re not going to give you a detailed blow-by-blow of why you weren’t admitted. It’s more like hinting, from what I’ve heard.</p>

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<p>It depends on the school. University of Washington will go over the weak points with an applicant if they want to set up an appointment and meet with them. I got in elsewhere, though, so I didn’t bother (and I had a pretty good idea of what my weaknesses were in the first place).</p>

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<p>it really does depend on the school …SUNY upstate for instance has a very friendly admissions staff and during the interview they invited us to contact them if we were left without any acceptances…i’ve heard some schools however just tell you to talk to your pre-med counselor or blow you off</p>

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<p>Like others have said, you can reapply but you need to make substantial improvements in your application. If you had a low GPA, you need to bring it up before reapplying, if you had low MCAT, you retake, if you didn’t have good ECs you work/volunteer, etc. </p>

<p>There’s also the risky and pricey SMP option…</p>