I'm half way there!!!

Today I managed to make some great progress on my medical school applications. First, I completed my essay - a monumental task. Those things can really never be done, but I submitted mine for better or worse. Then I submitted all of the primary applications for the 7 Texas schools and the 6 other schools that I am applying to. Goodbye TMDSAS and AMCAS! WHOOP!!!!!

Then I came up with an ingenious idea. My law school doesn't have a premedical advisory committee, but I created one! I'm so freaking smart. I went to the career services office and asked if they'd be willing to collect my letters of recommendation and send them to the medical schools. Their response was, "um......sure". Despite their confusion over my choice to apply to medical schools, this will make the job a lot easier on the profs (1 letter sent to 1 place rather than 1 letter sent to 8 places with additional instructions about what to send where). Yay!

My MCAT scores and transcripts have all been requested and are either already with TMDSAS and AMCAS or are in the mail. Life is good.

The next steps are to make sure the profs send in the letters of recommendations. If only I could get a hold of them. It is amazing how many profs are inaccessible during the summer. They just up and leave. One prof told me he couldn't write me a letter because he was leaving for a 4 month sabbatical in 2 days. Doh!

Along with finding profs and then hounding them, I have to fill out the secondary applications. I know that some are going to be more demanding than others. I just hope that they don't take me more than the next few weeks. My goal is to fill out all the ones I have in my hands before I get the ones that are only sent to me after AMCAS processes my application. Talk about a laborious process.

Texas moved their application deadline from November 1st to Oct 15th, so the fact that I'm sending out my applications early doesn't mean much, especially considering that I might not be able to get all of my professor's letters of recommendation out before Sept 1st. Eeek! Instead of submitting my application right before the deadline, I'll be at 1 and 1/2 months before the deadline. I suppose that's better than not being early at all, however it is much, much, much later than I originally intended.

It is hard to imagine that when I finally get all this med school application crap done that I will have to immediately start on my bar exam application and then start the grad school applications. Baby steps!