How is it even helpful to know that waitlists are moving for others? Doesn’t mean I’ll get the call. I feel like this site hasn’t really been helpful since I haven’t gained anything by watching other people get IIs and A’s.

I’m ngl I knew I’d be a reapplicant last April just by a hunch. I didn’t expect this many interviews (7), but now I know exactly why I am a reapplicant, and some things I can’t fix in the next few weeks. I wrote about being interested in surgery and procedures, which adcoms don’t care about because apparently it shows I lack patient connection and empathy, compounded by the fact I have 3000 hours as a scribe with no direct patient contact. My personal statement read as a resume without any reflection as to why I want to be a doctor. My W&A descriptions boiled down to “look at rare thing I saw while doing thing.” My secondaries were generally nothing special. I have no research productivity.

And last but certainly not least, I screwed up all of my interviews except 2. I learned about the MMI rubric for one school from a former student interviewer, and it essentially confirmed that I got the lowest score possible on all of the schools that did MMIs. My trad interviews were no better, with interviewers thinking the hobby I listed on my app was stupid and generally not liking my answers to a lot of questions. I’d rather not have gotten any of these interviews in the first place if my application wasn’t good enough for acceptance anyway.

I’m applying to ~60 schools this time because I have an expiring MCAT. Is it unreasonable to quit this career path after failing a second time? Idk what to pivot to after this though. I want nothing to do with medicine or academia though if that’s what it comes to