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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process [/quote]

Curious why are you involved, they are an adult? No one helped us years ago, no one helped my premed and their friends who got in without help other than the school's advisors/faculty. It really has not changed dramatically since 1997, in fact now the requirements are all listed in detail, the "encouraged" experiences (clinical/shadowing, science research) are now required so it is less nebulous and less reliant on having excellent premed advising to explain the "suggestions" are mandatory.[/quote]

Only in that he asked to look over his essays. But once they have applied and submitted the supplemental essays, which they are encouraged to do within two weeks, the med schools often go dark for months. They reach out to the people they want to interview and leave everyone else hanging until they decide they might want to interview more.

The lack of basic communication was frustrating. A doctor friend of mine told me that the med schools admissions offices were inundated and running behind in the process. So how hard would have been to send a letter to the applicants to let them know that? Would have taken 3 minutes to draft a form letter. Candidates are left twisting in the wind. There are no announced admit/deny/WL dates as with university.

One school then said it wanted wait-list applicants to do a 1,000-word essay about why the candidate wanted to be off the wait list — this after they had already written two other essays about why they wanted to go to the school. What’s the point of that other essay?

The whole process was a mess. He got in, so this isn’t sour grapes but just pointing out that the system has a lot of flaws. And many doctor friends I know say that it has in fact changed significantly from when they applied. [/quote]

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