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Technically, my post-graduation is everything since last May (but I've worked since high school). 😉 Some of them I'm not referencing (2+ years at Kinko's, working for the ad company).
Technically, my post-graduation is everything since last May (but I've worked since high school). 😉 Some of them I'm not referencing (2+ years at Kinko's, working for the ad company).
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30? oh you're just a baby!!!!!Being 30, I love you.
I've been in college since 1994 (BSLA, MA, Ph.D., BS post-bacc). How the hell did that happen? 😉
Being 30, I love you.
I've been in college since 1994 (BSLA, MA, Ph.D., BS post-bacc). How the hell did that happen? 😉
I wasn't going to include it but it sort of is important in some aspect of what I've did and when. Such as I was a student athletic trainer my freshman year when I was pre-med (before I switched to business). I also had a competitive internship (in business) as well. So even though my grades weren't the best, I always had a job. If I include only after graduation, I only had 2 (well technically 3 if you count my part-time position with the same company I worked seasonally during college starting senior year of high school). So I was torn on whether or not to include my college experience. I've been told that everything after high school is game from some, others like penguin already had it filled with jobs. What's a girl to do?I included only post college work and left out minimum wage jobs in high school/college that will annoy adcoms and make them throw my application in the garbage (or recycling bin).
So I was torn on whether or not to include my college experience. What's a girl to do?
So I wrote an email to one of my LOR writers, thanking him for sending it (somewhat) promptly and asking if I could buy him dinner as a thank-you gift.
His response? "Well you don't really need to do that, but I'm not one to pass up a free meal."
🙄 men
So I wrote an email to one of my LOR writers, thanking him for sending it (somewhat) promptly and asking if I could buy him dinner as a thank-you gift.
His response? "Well you don't really need to do that, but I'm not one to pass up a free meal."
🙄 men
oh punkin, if I'm sending you food, it's something I baked for you. you haven't been in the Random non-MCAT thread, so we'll forgive you for not knowing.Hell, I'll write you a letter for a free meal. I've got the right initials after my name.
"pingouin is really neat. She is made of turtle meat. Let her be a doctor."
There. I like Thai food. FEDEX it so it won't get cold. 😀
oh punkin, if I'm sending you food, it's something I baked for you. you haven't been in the Random non-MCAT thread, so we'll forgive you for not knowing.
and if- by some miracle- I get an interview at Pitt, I *promise* I'll let you buy me dinner. 😀
oh. and that poem's going in my sig. 😍
Hell, I'll write you a letter for a free meal. I've got the right initials after my name.
"pingouin is really neat. She is made of turtle meat. Let her be a doctor."
There. I like Thai food. FEDEX it so it won't get cold. 😀
how did you know that's my favorite kind? 😍
Hey, if you get to Pittsburgh, I'll be happy to give you the tour and some greasy food.
how did you know that's my favorite kind? 😍
Hell, I'll write you a letter for a free meal. I've got the right initials after my name.
by the way, just a side note on this since I feel the need to vent... as I said several pages ago, a few schools I spoke with were fairly insistent on having a non-sci LOR. now, I haven't had a non-sci class since '98, but I was able to dredge one up from undergrad (c/o '96).
OTOH, I am employed in a clinical position at each of my city's two medical campuses, and have a private clinical practice in my field. so from one of the hospitals and my private practice, I have letters from 2 different MDs with whom I work very closely. (uh, including the one who's open to me paying for a meal 🙄 ) they know my clinical work, they refer patients to me as an independently-practicing clinician, they seek out my opinions as part of case coordination....... and both are faculty at one of the local schools. these are not by any stretch physician "shadowing" letters.
clearly the idea of "who pingouin is now and why you should let her in" is better described by these physicians than by someone who has not (literally) seen nor spoken with me in 10+ years. and YET- the above-unnamed schools still informed me that they would not accept the MD letters, but will take the PhD letter from waybackwhen.
/rant
Gotta love academic hoops. Meh.
exactly. so I jump through them... because I want to stand out and be remembered, but not as "the woman who threw a hissy fit about whether she had appropriate LORs". there are tens of thousands of us and what- 150-ish of them including MD/DO schools?
sit down, don't rock the boat. 😎
Holy crap! I don't know how some of you do this. Like Quix, with all your degrees and inputing in each course. my 300 credits are taking me forever. And I'm only submiting to AACOMAS! I can't imagine doing BOTH! Some of your are really dedicated!!!
Because greasy food is sunshine dipped in love. Mere mortals like us are powerless against it. 😉
ok, Quix, you cannot take me there. for me, coleslaw =What's the name of the place that is in the warehouse area that puts a pound of coleslaw on their sandwiches (there's charicatures all over the walls)? I ate there twice when I was at a conference in Pittsburgh and it was great!
ok, Quix, you cannot take me there. for me, coleslaw =![]()
After posting those, I am *so* going into cardiology...
Congrats!!!!!!!
Refresh your application page- I think it takes a little bit to update to "Ready for Review". I remember seeing "Waiting for Transcripts", but it flipped over pretty quickly.
if it helps, I had 0 "honors and awards" and only 1 thing I listed as "leadership"i'm mailing out request for transcripts today. I'm hoping to finish most of the app this week. I forgot when I took 2 classes so I had to request an unofficial transcript. I also need to work on my PS but everything else is done.
My honors and awards section is so small though 🙁
patience, grasshoppa 😀Good call - I was on hold for an AMCAS rep when I tried this and discovered that my status had changed. 🙂
patience, grasshoppa 😀
Does honor roll count?if it helps, I had 0 "honors and awards" and only 1 thing I listed as "leadership"
"NEVER! Give me instant gratification or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
Does honor roll count?![]()
methinks you're taking a few liberties with that quote there...
*rimshot*