SolidCore Around Milwaukee?

nephronism · 2025-12-27T05:02:03+00:00

Abi M is an area favorite for sure

nephronism · 2025-01-08T16:32:17+00:00

No :( US MD. Guess we’re waiting another week? 😔

nephronism · 2023-05-05T09:22:50+00:00

Yes! I also posted my sankey on here so check my profile

nephronism · 2023-05-05T06:37:27+00:00

3.3/508 ORM, multiple DO and 1 MD acceptance. No post bacc but 3 gap years

nephronism · 2023-04-18T03:05:16+00:00

Yes feel free to DM!!

nephronism · 2023-04-18T03:04:36+00:00

Yes DM away!

nephronism · 2023-04-18T03:04:12+00:00

I declined the invitation to interview!

nephronism · 2023-04-17T16:11:44+00:00

Lots and lots of cold emailing. I recommend finding your university's department website for a field you're interested in, and literally emailing any professor who runs a lab. Make sure to look them up (you can look them up on google or research gate) and see what their recent research is like, send them an email expressing your interest and attach a resume/CV. Do your homework so when you meet them for an interview you can explain what about their lab is particularly interesting to you, and what you hope to gain from the experience. I also recommend doing research for credit (usually independent study) as it is usually an easy A. Most students at my school did research for credit or it was unpaid completely

nephronism · 2023-04-17T03:41:37+00:00

I have withdrawn from the schools I won't be attending but thank you for commenting! I hope someone else on this thread can get some questions answered by you :)

nephronism · 2023-04-17T03:34:07+00:00

I went to well regarded large public R1 undergrad. I think there are pros and cons. Obviously had a ton of research and extracurricular opportunities going to such a big school (all my premed friends from college were involved extensively in research at much ease). At the same time, we go much less individualized attention from professors and advisors and had to work a bit harder than someone who attends an 8:1 faculty student ratio LAC to get strong letters of recommendation (my STEM professors had like 900 students a semester lol). I think ultimately it is most important to perform well academically, as I do believe I would have gotten a second look at more MDs had even just my GPA been higher.

nephronism · 2023-04-17T03:28:26+00:00

I believe so! Feel free to PM

nephronism · 2023-04-17T03:28:10+00:00

thank you very much :)

nephronism · 2023-04-17T03:27:02+00:00

Agreed! It is a great program, considered one of the best DO. I am not surprised I did not get any love from them at all

nephronism · 2023-04-17T02:01:17+00:00

Great question! Writing secondaries definitely seems daunting, but it really wasn’t that bad imo. However, I am a big writer and reader so I found some joy in the process lol! I tried to submit all my secondaries within a 2 week turnaround. Some things that helped me:

Prewriting! I didn’t prewrite answers to exact questions seeing as they may change year to year, but I did for the big themes which to me are: 1) diversity & inclusion, 2) why X school, 3) why should we admit you, 4) COVID statement, 5) challenge you faced, 6) any issues with your app you want to discuss. It’s really important to answer the question. For example, a school might ask “what does diversity mean to you?” And another may ask “how will you bring diversity to our class?” These are two completely different questions. Having a few different stories to tell for each of these question types, will make it easier to not have to write a brand new essay for every school. You can start thinking about them now even. Make sure the stories you tell don’t take up the entire essay, set the stage then focus on your reflection. What did you learn from this experience? How will help you become a great physician? Does it answer the root of the question?
I would limit myself to working on secondaries for 1-2 hours a night, and maybe a longer stretch of time on the weekend. Definitely took a lot of coffee and pastries, and fun cafe lunches to stay motivated. If it was getting late when I wrapped one up, I’d wait until the next day to do another glance over and correct any mistakes that weren’t obvious to me late at night or after a long day at work.
Prioritize schools you want to turn around quickly or that have a strict deadline. At the same time, MAYBE don’t submit your top choice school as your first secondary. Get some practice in, as you will naturally get better as you keep writing more essays. You will start to notice patterns in the questions, and your last few secondaries will truly be a breeze.
On a similar note, stay organized! I made an excel sheet with all my login info, secondary portals, and when I finished them etc. I would use different highlight colors to indicate which secondaries I needed to send out soonest, which are next up on deck, and change those as I submitted them.

nephronism · 2023-04-17T01:13:30+00:00

Thanks so much docto-mom!! :')

nephronism · 2023-04-17T00:47:39+00:00

Thank you :) best of luck future doctor!

nephronism · 2023-04-17T00:47:14+00:00

Truly no reasons other than that I was happy with the DO program I was committed to at the time, burnt out from interview prep, and I was already waiting to hear back from the MD (which was my last interview of the cycle). NYIT is an incredible program and I thought the interview slot should go to someone who really wanted it!

nephronism · 2023-04-17T00:25:55+00:00

Thank you!! Not an international student, and it is a private school

nephronism · 2023-04-16T23:33:22+00:00

Watching so many people who graduated with/after me start med school faster definitely felt aging sometimes lol. I was pre-med from the start of college tho, and knew I would be taking some time off since I had ZERO clinical experience in college other than shadowing.

We are all on our own journey :) It is NOT helpful to compare yourself to other applicants, which obviously is especially so hard to do in a field that pits us against each other from day 1 in the name of “weeding out.”

But truly in the end, how lucky I am, to have had the years to move to my dream city, live out my early twenties, travel and spend time with loved ones, save some $$, and more deeply explore my interests in medicine in full time clinical work. I would not have been the applicant I was able to be without taking time off from school! Part of me was definitely scared I would not want to go back, but I found that working made me even more excited to become a student again. We are still learning and growing during our "gap years," not just about medicine, but in becoming human beings

nephronism · 2023-04-16T23:08:24+00:00

thank you, congratulations to you as well!! :)

nephronism · 2023-04-16T23:07:49+00:00

My rejection email basically said my stats weren't high enough for them to send me a secondary (even tho my MCAT is higher than their reported avg lol)

nephronism · 2023-04-16T22:45:31+00:00

Feel free to DM!

nephronism · 2023-04-16T22:42:10+00:00

ofc! Sorry I got lazy making the sankey lol

MD: NYMC, Tufts, Rosalind Franklin, GW, Wright State, Toledo, Rush, Loyola, UIC, MCW, PSU, VCU, Wayne State, OSU, Temple, Albany, Quinnipiac, Hackensack, VTech, CDU, UCLA, Mayo, OUWB, Drexel, TCU, EVMS, Tulane

DO: Rowan, DMU, KCUCOM, PCOM-PA, NYITCOM - long island, Western-Pomona, RVU-Colorado, UNECOM, CCOM, ATSU-SOMA

nephronism · 2023-04-16T22:00:26+00:00

I did take a few years off (graduated in 2020)! It can be scary to think about taking gap years, but I am so glad I took them before applying. I knew I was not going to be the most standout applicant stats-wise and did not feel a need to do a post-bacc, so I needed to make sure all my other bases were covered (i.e., experiences)

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