<p>atomom, one of my college boyfriends (summa cum laude Harvard, great MCATs) was rejected from every med school he applied to back in the day. What he did wrong was have an argument (not serious he thought) about the AMA with the person who was going to write his main recommendation. He ended up going to grad school in chemistry, dropped that after a year, spent a year working in a hospital and reapplied with recommendations from the doctors he worked with. He’s a radiologist today. 
I think the seasoning and humbling was probably good for him.</p>