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37d agoEdited 37d ago

is anyone else surrounded by really successful friends this cycle

I didn't go to an ivy but still a respectable private school for undergrad, and my best friends are all pre-med. We've all taken the same prereqs at the same time, and some of my friends are also the same major as me. I know all of their ECs with some even overlapping with mine. Our GPAs are all similar, but I do have a lower MCAT score (by like 2 or 3 points).

We're all in different cities for our gap year and we haven't called/texted about how the cycle was going for us like at all. But we met up today for the first time since graduation and they told me they all have 10+ interviews, with most being t10-t40 range. One of my friends even told me that he has an interview in 2 days but is kind of tired of them and doesn't want to do it (??????). That interview is with a t20 school, but he already has an acceptance to another t20 with a half tuition merit scholarship.

I am obviously super proud of my friends and their success because I witnessed firsthand how hard they work, but I can't help but also feel like a BUM compared to them. I have 0 acceptances rn, and am sitting on 1 post II R, 1 WL, 1 decision to hear back from, and 1 interview left. And none of these schools are remotely similar to the prestige of the schools that my friends have been interviewing/accepted at.

I know imposter syndrome will follow me wherever I go, but this is the first time I've felt it with my best friends. I don't even know why I'm posting this but just needed to vent ig. Not sure if anyone else is in the same boat but man. Deep down, I couldn't even enjoy being with my best friends for the first time in a while because of this.

Edit: I also want to add that this whole situation makes me want to kind of drift away from my friends because I hate feeling like this. I want to be supportive and be there for their wins, but at the same time, I feel super bad about myself. They want to go on trips before we start school since it's the "last time" but I dont even know where I'll be going/if I'll get in to any school at all. I keep wanting to ghost their texts and not share anything about what's going on in my life with them, but i know this is super bad and not the path I should be going down... HELP

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