So my girlfriend of 5 years (3 long-distance in college) is going to be matriculating next year to her university's medical school next year through an early admission program. I am applying this cycle, and my top priority is going to medical school in the same city as my girlfriend because I have really hated being long-distance in college, and we committed a long time ago to getting married at some point in the future. Her medical school as well as another medical school in the city are top 20 medical schools, and there are a handful of lower ranked medical schools in the city (3 that are outside the top 50). My goal is to get into these schools, preferably the Top 20 schools.
The assistant admissions dean for one of the top 20 schools came to my school and I got to sit down and talk with her in a one on one meeting, and I brought up that among other things I really liked about the school, that I would really like to attend it because my SO will be starting medical school there the same time I am, and I wondered if I should mention that on the application. She said that yes, I should mention it, and it was something that was relevant to them, and to send her an email when I sent in my application. I applied to both schools, and mentioned on the "is there anything else" and "family connections" lines of the applications that about how my SO will be attending medical school there , and my top priority was being in the same city for medical school and how I'd be strongly inclined to attend if I was accepted. I also applied to the three lower ranked schools. I applied to 14 other schools, a mix of top schools, reaches, and safeties, the list being a little more top heavy because I considered the three lower ranked schools in the city safeties.
So flash forward to now, my committee letter got sent in mid-August so I think that's when I was complete. I only have one interview invite to a school in the city, one of the lower ranked ones. On top of that it's the public school and I'm OOS, so I'm actually not sure I will get in despite that it's a "safety". I currently have four interviews total: University of Michigan, Yale, CCLCM, and the lower ranked school in the city. I have been rejected from the University track of Case Western, but have not heard anything from the 15 other schools, including the two schools that are my first choices. To give more info on my competitiveness, I have a 3.9 sGPA /cGPA and 37 MCAT, and attend a top undergrad. I have a defined area of strength on my application, I am well rounded with ECs, my premed advisor (who wrote my committee letters) said that my PS and LORs were strong.
So my question is, is there anything I can do at this point to help myself get into the schools in the city that I want to get into? I would really like to try and get into one of the Top 20 schools if I can because I want to go into academic medicine and do research. I have another connection to the school that my girlfriend is attending as well, I worked in a lab there for a summer and the PI wrote me a (strong) LOR for med school. The PI knows both me and my girlfriend, and I might be able to reach out to him to see if he can do anything for me. However, I'm not sure what sort of action is appropriate/how much he can do.
So I guess a few questions:
1) I can't tell if the reason why I haven't heard back from a lot of schools is because they haven't processed my application or because they've already looked at it and don't want to invite me for an interview right now. If it's the former, I'm not sure if anything I do at this point will make a difference, but if it's the latter I feel like I should try and make some sort of effort to try and reach out to the schools I want to go to. Which leads me to question 2.
1) Should I try and do something proactive like contact the admissions office of the schools and tell them that I am very interested and that they are my top choices? I have had prior correspondence with the assistant admission dean for one of the schools, as I mentioned above, and I could email her some sort of letter of interest(though I think it's already clear to her that I'm interested, just don't know if she remembers me). For the other school I have the PI who wrote me a LOR and my girlfriend is matriculating there. Should I ask the PI to see if he knows anyone on the medical school adcom/ should I ask my girlfriend to reach out to the admissions dean? I don't know what would help/ what would be considered inappropriate and hurt. Should I try now, should I try later on in the cycle? I don't really know what the best course of action is right now.
3) If I got engaged to my SO, would this make a difference to the adcom? Like I said, we're committed to being married, but didn't really think we needed that label until we got into medical school / some years down the line. But if it would help me get into a med school we have no problems with getting engaged/married right now. Although I'm not sure how I would send an update letter about this.
4) I didn't mention to the lower ranked schools that I wanted to be in the city for a specific reason, should I update them to let them know that in addition to x, y and z about their program my first priority in choosing a med school is being in that particular city? I've heard some schools won't invite you if they think you're using them as a safety.
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Want to go to medical school with significant other, advice needed
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