Application Cycle One: 2006

• Undergraduate college: UMass Amherst
• Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences

• Institution: Harvard Extension School
• Area of Study: Computing and Information Science

• Total MCAT SCORE: 517
• MCAT Section Scores: B/B 130, C/P 128, CARS 129   Detailed Breakdown
• Overall GPA: 3.45
• Science GPA: 3.25

Summary of Application Experience

6/27- Submitted AMCAS. Verification will take forever...
7/6- Sent out GW secondary. Au revoir $105.
7/14- Primary verified! The funs begins!
7/16- Added Ros Frank. A nice school in Chicago, why not?
7/17- Submitted Case secondary. Now if I could only get my LORs in on time...
7/18- Submitted SLU and Jeff secondaries. Trying really hard to not think about how much money I'm spending.
7/19- Submitted Pitt secondary.
7/20- Submitted NYMC secondary.
7/23- Submitted Temple secondary.
7/27- Submitted HMS secondary.
7/31- Yawn. Is this the calm before the storm, or will be storm never get here?
8/2- Mailed BU secondary. Submitted UVM secondary.
8/4- Wake Forest rejection. So much for Southern Hospitality.
8/8- Committee Letter mailed. Soon to be complete. Eeeesh better hurry up with the remaining secondaries!
8/10- Mailed Ros Frank secondary.
8/11- Submitted Tufts secondary.
8/16- Submitted Drexel secondary.
8/20- Submitted Keck secondary.
8/27- Submitted Albany secondary.
9/1- First interview invite from Tufts!! Somewhat surprising and very exciting to have an interview offer so early in the season. Also received a pre-interview hold from GW... not sure if this is a rejection.
9/7- REJECTED by BU. :(
9/20- UCSF rejection. Not surprised, of course. Very nice and warm letter- class act over there.
10/3- Got Case Western interview invite!! I was really expecting a rejection based on the ominous 'status update' e-mail. It's official: Cleveland Rocks!
10/12- Interviewed at Tufts. Very impressed by the school and by the friendliness of the students and faculty. Would go here in a heartbeat!
10/14- Received UPitt rejection. Woe me! What will I ever do now that I can't attend such an amazingly unbelievable unique special school!? I was sooo looking forward to being in their viewbook, too!
10/21- Received rejection letter from GW. Somewhat disappointing, but I wasn't too crazy about the school anyway.
11/1- I'm in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Tufts :) Thank you, Dr. O'Connor!
11/3- Pre-Interview Hold from AMC. This process is so weird- invites from Tufts and Case and a hold from Albany. Crazy...
11/14- .... of the Lambs...
11/15- Received official welcome to the TUSM Class of 2011. Withdrew from Albany, Ros Frank, and UVM.
11/20- My PI wrote HMS admissions to give my application a boost, only to be informed that I didn't make the cut. C'est la vie...
12/15- Interviewed at Case. Truly innovative curriculum, friendly students, and awe-inspiring medical campus manage to overcome the crappiness of Cleveland. My closed file student interview (~30 mins) and open file faculty interview (~90 mins) were both odd in the sense that no real questions were asked. Very hard to read; I have no idea how I did. Stay tuned folks...
12/20- I suppose if the best word you can use to describe your interviews at a school is 'odd', then you shouldn't be too surprised when you DON'T get accepted. Et tu, Case?
2/2- Sent letter of intent to Case.
3/10- Received HMS rejection letter.
3/16- Keck rejection.
3/23- SLUM rejection. Why did I apply there again?
4/3- Placed on the alternate list at Case. This is like a good book I can't put down! What *will* happen next?
4/11- Received Temple rejection.
5/24- Received Drexel rejection. No love from the Philly schools.
7/12- First day of classes at Case. I'm in Boston. I take it I won't be getting off the Alternate List.
7/17- Well, looks like there's not much more for me to do here. The season has come to an anticlimactic end. I am happy to have been accepted and will never have to go through this bullshit again- well not until residency application anyway. At last tally, Case has given me teh boot. Nevertheless, they're pretty classy at Case and I won't hold a grudge against them for inviting me to interview when my numbers didn't give me a chance and then sticking me with the worst interviewer ever (Dr. D---- D---, PhD, you suck). NYMC and Jefferson win the jackass award for not bothering to even formally reject me as of this writing.

Good luck to all future applicants!

Signing off.





Approximate costs to date:
Kaplan MCAT Course: ~$1550
MCAT Fee: $210
AMCAS Primary Fees: ~$700
Secondary Fees: ~$1400
Suits, etc.: ~$600
Plane tickets, hotels: ~$300
Stationary, stamps, etc.: ~$30
Lost income due to reduced life expectancy: To be determined.