I feel badly for posting on here in such a negative manner. However, I feel like no one in my life truly understands what I am feeling right now so I feel the need to embarrassingly post on here my feelings for no other reason than to get it out of my system.

I got rejected from my dream medical school today. It's the place I grew up getting treatment from as a kid, toured when I was in in high school and always fantasized about. While I knew that it was always a long shot for me, it just hurts to be at the day knowing that its not going to happen and having that day be one where I have no MD interviews thus far.

Today, I am filled with sadness about how many extremely qualified people do not get admitted to medical school every year. While I always knew that many qualified people get rejected from medical school, it wasn't until I am sitting here with a 520 MCAT and 3.98 GPA that I really realized this truth (and btw I have countless research, volunteer, leadership, clinical experience and played an NCAA sport so don't come at me for that stuff). Meanwhile, I am watching my undergraduate friends with much less experience get into top law schools and masters programs.

I really don't mean for this post to be a "Boohoo, I deserved to get into medical school" post but rather a post about how broken our medical school admissions process is. It is truly saddening to see the physician shortage grow and grow and yet the acceptance rates to medical school continue to be ridiculously low.