I'm a mid/low stat applicant, and I'm very grateful that I have a DO acceptance and I will be attending this fall, but I just got a rejection from the last MD school that I interviewed at, even though I thought the interview went super well. I'm just feeling sad about the whole cycle. I'm surrounded by people who are going to top schools, and it makes me feel a little bit like a failure. I'm very happy that I have been accepted, and I know I am going to be a doctor regardless, but I just feel disappointed knowing that I am going to have to work even harder and take more exams to still have worse odds at a competitive specialty and to be looked down on by my peers for the rest of my career. What sucks even more is this last MD school I was hoping for would've been a 5 hour drive from my bf, but now I will be 2300 miles away, making long distance even harder.

The worst part is I have no one to blame but myself. I am overrepresented, non-disadvantaged, and had so many advantages growing up, and I still have low/mid-stats. I feel like a spoiled failure who wasted my parents' money applying to so many schools. I should've worked harder, and it feels like having to do long distance is my fault because I didn't get into a school closer to my partner.