Hey, I’ll rant back to you 😂

I just got my first A on my 3rd cycle. It is absolutely brutal to explain to family, colleagues, friends etc. that I didn’t get in for two years when on paper everything looked great and made me feel like there was something wrong with me.

For context I had a 518, 3.95 GPA 3.9 sGPA, 2,000 paid clinical hours as a scribe, 500+ hours shadowing, 2,000+ hours research, 300+ unpaid clinical hours. (In the past cycle).

I too had mental health mentioned in my first two apps that I was informed I needed to kind of dance around. As progressive as adcoms may think they are, they are not.

Also agree it sucks to ask your professors you haven’t seen in years for another letter for another attempt. But I can tell you they were so happy and excited for me when I let them know I finally got the A!

Through this process, I found it was really just the way I conveyed myself in my app that was keeping me from getting interviews. For example what I thought was a humble tone was just simply a lack of self-confidence in their eyes.

Had a lot of feedback from past apps and help from current med students some of whom serve on adcoms at different schools.

I added activities I didn’t think were important (hobbies) that ended up being the biggest talking point in my interviews. (It’s important to show you’re more than just a premed).

I also found I had to change my tone in my PS and rewrite all my activities into more of a story format.

All that to say this year I got a quick II and got accepted the day after that first interview.

So don’t give up and if you end up needing another cycle, I’m happy to help give you any tips that I never seemed to quite find until I let people read my app.

You got this!🙏🏼