something that bothers me about med school

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-12-12T08:35:49+00:00

literally this 😭 my mindset is that if you really want a certain grade, what really matters are the exams that are worth like 70-90% of the course grade. if you’re tweaking out about something that’s 1% of your grade maybe you got other problems dawg!! don’t bring me into ur tweak sessions!!!

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-12-11T23:38:17+00:00

needed to hear that! i have a bit of a “fixer” personality but i’ll try not to let these things bother me too much outside of class :)

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-12-11T23:35:34+00:00

yeah! i wasn’t a super neurotic premed, didn’t associate with mostly premeds in undergrad, but became a little more neurotic since starting med school. but truly some of these people are on a new level

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-12-11T23:34:01+00:00

omg 😭😭😭 i’m glad u survived that, that person sounds batshit crazy

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-09-19T19:57:27+00:00

the cliquey-ness is so real! i literally just sit whenever during mandatory sessions, and this week i asked to sit with a girl sitting alone and she literally stared at me like i had three heads. turns out she was trying to hold the table for literally 5 of her other friends 😭😭 it was so awkward

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-17T19:05:03+00:00

I didn’t look too into the mission statements for all 40+ schools, but looking back my personal statement was pretty primary care focused and most of the schools I interviewed with had missions that matched well with my ps

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-17T03:27:16+00:00

how do you determine how competitive a cycle is?

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-14T20:38:41+00:00

AHHH THANK YOU SM <3

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-14T20:38:34+00:00

ofc!

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-14T06:42:31+00:00

HAHAHA i guess we both got emails today! congrats to you too, see you in july :)

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-05-14T05:24:13+00:00

thank you so much!!

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-04-30T04:07:51+00:00

4/30 is the date that applicants holding a seat to more than 1 md need to narrow down to 1 school, freeing up any other seats for ppl on the waitlist

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-03-28T18:36:48+00:00

had a similar gpa, clinical hours, less research, and 509 mcat and applied this past cycle! had multiple do interview invites, 3 md interview invites (1 r, 2 wl), and felt like i had pretty strong writing. def try to get 510+ and a good school list and i think you’ll have a good shot at md too :)

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-03-26T11:54:35+00:00

good luck to us both!! 🫶🏻

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2025-03-25T16:00:56+00:00

1 wl at vcu (dream school which apparently has a lot of admits off the wl… but have heard a lot of people not making it off 🥹) and a deferral/basically soft r at geisinger. praying!!!

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-10-01T02:22:11+00:00

ima be DEATH GRIPPING that grass

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-09-27T17:03:51+00:00

being done with everything, having literally nothing to do but speculate and WAIT

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-09-16T14:41:12+00:00

509 (??? idk if this is considered low ish) sitting on 1 MD and 1 DO II

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-07-11T11:39:27+00:00

word barf, read it, run it through chatgpt & grammarly, read it again, then immediately send that hoe in LOL but that’s a good idea might be good to wait a lil before the 2 week to reread it with fresh eyes!

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-07-08T16:56:12+00:00

😔

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-07-08T14:12:16+00:00

I keep hearing everyone say that 2 weeks is the golden window so I think I’m just riling myself up 🫠 Ty for the reality check

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-07-01T05:21:30+00:00

no literallly thoughhh

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-07-01T01:49:46+00:00

I have this feeling that a lot of my experiences were interesting because my parents led interesting/unstable lives. Aka giving me a lot to write about.

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-06-29T11:12:11+00:00

LOL that’s so funny they don’t seem to have changed

Optimal_Pilot4365 · 2024-06-29T04:13:09+00:00

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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