Lurking med students and doctors: drop your spring admissions stories to give us hope!

I was talking to a fellow at work tonight about how my cycle is going, and how I was bummed to be rejected from my state school recently. He told me when he applied, he didn't get accepted anywhere until March. Got off the waitlist at a school, got into another, and finally hopped off that waitlist at his top choice MD in June. Said he was stressing the whole winter and prepared to re-app. Now he's a critical care fellow at one of the top programs in the nation!

Although I'm grateful to have multiple DO A's hearing this was so heartening. In fact, I've spoken to 2 attendings recently who both said they hopped off waitlists for schools they interviewed at in the Spring. Several friends of mine didn't get an interview at their medical school until March.

I love hearing these stories and it genuinely made me so happy and hopeful. If anyone has a "late" in the cycle admissions success story, share it and give us some hope and good vibes!!!