And so begins another week.

I am a little tired of checking my email account every ten minutes to see if another Med school has decided to give me a shot at the big time. I have one official interview, and apparently another interview in the pipeline as soon as this one school gets around to emailing me or so I was told by the admissions office of said school.

I am a little tired of heading off to look at other postings of people in a better position, or in the same position, or a worse position than me at the marvelously wonderful and sometimes painfully useless website studentdoctor.net. Lots of funny people with good attitudes who I believe will become excellent physicians and than there is the other half with not so good attitudes who will probably become excellent surgeons. Arguments often ensue about numbers, stats, acceptance, rejection, MD vs. DO etc., and it seems to me that this whole process is actually quite more arbitrary than anyone could hope to imagine. I have one friend who has a slightly better MCAT score than myself and the same GPA who applied early and has had four interviews and some rejections. Another friend who applied late, has the same MCAT score as I do, but a better GPA and has had multiple interviews and multiple acceptances. I have an interview at one school that the latter also has, but the former does not. It would be impossible, I think to correctly ascertain anybody's chances as many factors come in to play outside of the numbers game (MCAT, GPA). The essay, the letters of recommendation, race, background, place of undergraduate study, Extracurricular activities. All of these things and more seem to play a role in all of this. Even the people who claim that all you have to do is apply early, while the numbers of interviews may be better, do not necessarily mean that acceptance is guaranteed. It is true to some extent that the more places you interview the more likely you are to be accepted, but regardless of the time that you interview no one can assume that you are only going to be waitlisted. There is a lot of crap that people write about this stuff wherein the above has happened to them, but again, it all appears to be pretty arbitrary.

The bottom line: Your application will be reviewed pretty thoroughly by most schools, however if someone is having a bad morning the day your application is reviewed, chances are you are not going to get an interview. That's it...totally arbitrary.

I am not too sure of where this post is heading or if it makes any kind of sense. That is the trouble with trying to write spontaneously.

One could try and piece together some information based on the experiences of other people in the same situations, but that does not mean it will be the absolute truth for them or anyone else. The only absolute is the vodka.

I am off to check my email. :)

All Best,

MVH