Is BS/MD a crapshoot?

COCONUTMONKEE
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:45:41 +0000

I’m a BS/MD applicant and I’m wondering if anyone here has been rejected from lower-tier BS/MD programs and accepted by higher-tier ones like HPME, PLME, Rice/Baylor. I just got rejected by UMiami and Penn State w/o interview. Does this mean that I will also be rejected from my top choices like Rice/Baylor? My mom suspected that perhaps lower-tier BS/MD programs look for different qualities in applicants or don’t like having a big fish a small pond.