The process needs to be easier and less expensive.
Sarah Householder spent her senior year of college crisscrossing the U.S.: from campus in Connecticut to New York , Illinois , Minnesota, Maryland, Wisconsin, Georgia, and, each time, back again. At the time, Householder lead her college’s premier all-female a cappella group with her jazzy soprano voice. But she wasn’t touring—and she hardly had time for harmony. The impetus behind her jet-setting lifestyle? Getting into medical school.
Householder, now a third-year at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, applied to 21 schools—just four above the average—between August 2017 and February 2018. She was lucky enough to interview at 11, usually flying out on short notice. She kept packing her suitcase time and again in hopes of getting in and, more importantly, getting a good financial aid package. “The biggest thing I remember is the time, just how much time it took,” says Householder.
in applications this last cycle, interview offers were more valuable than ever. But they also were less time-consuming, less expensive to attend, and therefore abit fairer and easier for doctor hopefuls who can’t shell out to try to impress committees. We can even hope that one small piece of the medical school industrial complex has been toppled for good.This is all because the interviews this year, as so many things did, went virtual.
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