Med Apps + School = Suck

Dang it's been quite a while.. I really am doing a poor job of keeping this up to date haha. Sorry about that :p.

Anyways, I ended my internship at Bosch on August 16 and flew out to Cali soon after. I was visiting my girlfriend and didn't really get much done with my med school apps. But I wasn't really bummed about that, Cali was basically a mini vacation after all the hard work I had done.

My primary application was verified on August 28 which basically means a ton of schools started sending me their secondaries. Within the first couple of days, I had already submitted like half of my secondaries. What sucked though was that fell right around when Labor Day weekend was about to start so a lot of schools didn't process it until after. The only problem with that is that my application starts review a little bit later than it normally would have, but not much I could really do about that.

What I've come to realize though is when you're applying to medical school, you really come to hate when schools ask a secondary question that's different than all the other schools. Most of the time, schools will ask "what can you contribute" or "why this school". There are some other variations on the questions, but usually I can recycle my essays. Every now and then though, you get a school that will ask some out of the blue question like, "how do you define respect?" It's at those moments I'm like wtf?!?! and begin to question whether I even want to apply. For the most part though, I think I've overcome most of those situations. Honestly though, I'm just ready to be done with all the secondaries. It's such a long process. With school starting now too, I really want to get all my secondaries in before school picks up. It's gonna be a crazy semester so I don't think I'll have much time in a couple weeks to write solid essays.

Luckily though, I'm almost at the end! Originally, I was applying to 20 schools (i think) but now I think i'm only applying to 17 (not including the two cali schools that pre-screen). I dropped three schools basically for the reason above, they asked different secondary questions. Also, they were located in areas that were sort of remote/didn't really see myself living there for four years. I'm currently at 14/17 with Stanford and UPenn almost ready to go (hopefully, fingers crossed!)

Anyways, that's pretty much it for now! Thanks for checking in! :D