I'm first generation college student and my process of application has been ROUGH. No one in the family knows what I'm doing. When I'm applying for jobs or volunteering in glide year, people would be confused all the time why I'm not med school already. Some of them even suspect I'm lying to them. I just am not accepted in anywhere yet. I'm telling the truth when everyone keeps asking where I'm going for med school. The dubious looks on them when I said I don't know or when I disclosed where I'm waitlisted from makes me lose interest in interacting with them. I just don't want to spend anymore of my mental strength dealing with toxic people with no trust or respect for others' trajectory. I'm tired of dealing with those who reach out just to get the info out of you and disappear when they know you're not a doctor yet.