We have now sent all notifications and want to express our sincerest regrets for those of you who were not admitted this year. All applications were carefully and thoroughly reviewed and the decisions made with great care. We hope the following information helps you navigate the statistics that were provided and better inform you about what the admissions office can and cannot help you with moving forward.
We know receiving the news that you have not been accepted into medical school may be hard to accept, especially if this is not the first time you have heard it. We hope you understand that this letter does not mean you are not suitable to be a doctor, but that this is very competitive program and there are not enough positions for all the good candidates who apply. We understand that it is very disappointing after all the time you spent studying, preparing for your MCAT and taking part in activities that you feel are important to be a well-rounded applicant. However, if medicine is a career that you would really like to pursue, please don’t be discouraged.
As mentioned on our previous blog (May 15) if you received a “regrets” letter you will be able to view your academic and non-academic scores, as well as an indication of how you performed on the interview, on the Applicant Status page. We hope this information will be helpful to you. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any one-on one advising or discuss details about your application but our website offers a lot of information about our selection criteria that could be useful to you. We will not be able to post the statistics of the admitted class until the fall. However, there are several years of statistics on our website. Comparing the information you receive about your application to those of the most recently admitted classes will likely give you a good sense of where your areas of strength and weakness lie.
If being a medical doctor is still a career that you would like to pursue, we would welcome you to apply again. The next application will open on June 10 and our best advice to you is that when you are ready, have a look at the aspects of your application that are ‘average’ or ‘below average’ and see if there are ways you can improve them for the next application cycle. Also, review how you wrote and what you included in your non-academic sections (research, non-academics, employment, etc) and see if there is any way you feel you can better demonstrate what you have accomplished and who you are as an applicant (without exaggerating). Make sure you have appropriate verifiers and if you make it to the interview stage again that your referees know you and fall within the guidelines as they are stated.
Once again, we appreciate your interest in our program and wish you the best of luck whatever you decide.