Rejection Always Stings...At Least A Little bit...

I finally submitted the secondary application for The Medical College of Wisconsin last night. Yesterday I spoke with one of my letter writers and confirmed that she is getting them done, I think her letters will be at the schools next week by Friday, maybe earlier. The ochem professor's letters should go out this week. The bio instructor's letters got out about 2 weeks ago, so next week I should be having fully completed secondaries at 5 or 6 schools.

When I talked to my ochem instructor about my MCAT score he sounded surprised that it was as high as it is. He thought that I would have a good chance of getting into my School of Choice.

Wake Forest emailed me with an attached PDF saying that they did indeed evaluate my application but because of the competitiveness of the current bunch of students, they could not accept my application this year. Hmm. The MSAR book says their median MCAT last year was 30, 1 less than the national average. Of course the GPA is way up there, about average for a med school but much higher than mine. Wake Forest's average incoming med student had a science GPA of 3.68. Good, but not stellar. I would have liked to find out exactly which criteria I was failed on and what numbers they were looking for. Well, on the bright side, that's $55 less to shell out for a secondary app fee and less time needed to fill out the app. Still and all, rejection is not fun.