I’m blessed to have been given an A to a DO school (in-state), but it’s so hard to be grateful and excited for it knowing I’ve interviewed and been waitlisted at much better schools in much better locations closer to home…

I’m not even that worried about the increased COA or difficulty or distance in itself, all of those things are not that bad and I know it’s all 100% dependent on my ability and drive. I just can’t shake the fact that i interviewed at my dream reach school and got rejected and am likely going to end up at a school where my MCAT is 10 points above the average. It’s so depressing knowing I could have been at my dream location close to my friends and family and am possibly gonna end up being somewhere too far to come home on weekends (where I also know nobody). I just feel like I put in so much extra work after graduating that got me 4 in-state, solid, close-to-home MD interviews just for me to end up at the last school I applied to as a safety.

I know I sound so ungrateful and there’s 100000000 worse situations than mine, I just had a completely different picture of where I’d be right now at the start of the cycle.

I know there’s a solid chance I get off a different waitlist that would be much better than this school but I’m starting to lose hope and the possibility of me ending up at this school is becoming more and more real.

At the end of the day, I am happy to be such a big step closer to my goals of being a physician, I am just a little upset that my hard work hasn’t seemed to pay off like I felt it would.