Don't Treat Your Med School Application Like a Checklist | Application Renovation S5 Ep.4

[@rebekahjohnson329]

He seems like a genuinely awesome person, it was just probably the lack of clinical and volunteering hours that hurt his chances

[@edhcb9359]

It was his schools list. As an ORM with a 514 MCAT(126 CARS) he really only had a decent shot at a few of those schools.

[@Maddawg31415]

Totally agree. The ORM/URM thing is obviously gonna be a tad less emphasized given recent events, but I doubt it will be 100% omitted. 90% of the schools are dream schools- he needs to cut that down by a third and add 10+ more high-yield schools.

[@edhcb9359]

@@Maddawg31415 I don’t see it being less emphasized. Schools can get around it by saying they are looking for economic diversity.

[@Maddawg31415]

@@edhcb9359 I agree they will get around with it. The trouble is does that mean the concept of ORM/URM moves from less race-based to more of that economically privileged/unprivileged-based? It might be a decent surrogate for race (along with zip code), but it ain’t as perfect as the real thing.

[@edhcb9359]

@@Maddawg31415 The way that it’s been, it’s really benefited upper middle-class and wealthy URM’s. For example, our neighbor kid who is one quarter black, one quarter, white, and half Asian got accepted to Harvard(undergrad) with good but not stellar grades and scores and no real hook except that he put African American as his race on his application and Harvard jumped at it because his parents have the money for him to be “full pay”.

[@JoeG2324]

this is pathetic. we know race is the reason he didnt get in. 514 mcat is in the top 10% and he has straight As. no reason not to get in.

[@msmeez]

I'm curious if the chiropractor stuff should be omitted. While I totally get that the seed is there, I feel like every doc I've worked with during med school has dealt with the medical fall out of a patient who visited a chiropractor (from sub arachnoid hemorrhage in the neuro ICU to a broken sacrum due to undiagnosed ankylosing spondylitis getting adjusted in rheum) . Obviously there are people out there who receive appropriate care from chiropractors, but I feel like the immediate stigma is pretty visceral for a lot of docs. It feels like something that could immediately bias the reader against this kid

[@Orangesoda65]

Chiropractors cannot provide “appropriate care,” since their entire ideology is not based in reality. The stigma is there for a reason.

[@dorothyc6037]

Stats are not everything. He did not make the case for why medicine.

[@emilyh3644]

looks like the school list, chiropractor stuff, and lack of clinical experience and meaningful volunteering were his downfall

[@theindianstallion6134]

An applicant (athlete) can get into a top school without much clinical experience. I know of many such candidates who have gamed the system. I think his problem may have been his demographics and not selling why medicine (which many candidates successfully bs anyways)

[@dmd2803]

A lot of his experiences are projected into the future instead of hours already accumulated, this is one of the red flags. And unfortunately the clinical assistant job is only 3 months ://

[@alex47927]

Yeah the personal statement definitely was not great. I didn’t think most of the activities were that bad but the personal statement felt very vague and the clinical experience paragraph was the only one that seemed to fit. But he had enough experiences he should have got interviews. Instead, he shot himself in the foot with that school list. Most of the private schools were top 10 schools and hardly any research + 514 is not good enough for them

[@PaulaGFSilva]

Does working as a massage therapist count as clinical experience?

[@emilyh3644]

yay new episode!

[@rk-jc9se]

Screwed the pooch with the chiro. He should have just said physical therapist