If you can score just as well on the MCAT, you'd be an extremely competitive applicant for medical schools. Maybe it would be a better idea to spend the next year doing an online BSN bridge program and then work a year as an RN? That's what I'm thinking about doing. I think I read that you can actually apply to CRNA programs immediately after you graduate with your RN license since the process operates a year ahead of time anyways.
Regarding AA school, it sounds to me like it's gotten so competitive that it's not necessarily an issue of what we don't have or need to improve on, but an issue of what the competition DOES have. In other words, the last couple of cycles have apparently attracted some really, really competitive applicants that are just on a totally different level of competition, although I can't see how making the improvements you've made doesn't put you on their level.
I see what you mean when you say there's not much you can do to improve your application for Emory next year. I think you will definitely get an interview with Nova. Did you get an interview offer from South?
Honestly, if I were you and if Nova doesn't work out, I would say screw being an AA and just go the CRNA route. It's nothing against the AA profession, but if the AA programs aren't going to recognize the improvements you've made to your application to get into THEIR profession, then I say screw 'em and and show those improvements to CRNA programs, which would actually recognize and appreciate them.
On top of that, Emory doesn't even have the decency to discuss with a single applicant why they were rejected in the first place. It's like they realize that their program is so desirable now that we should feel privileged just to receive a rejection letter in the mail.
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