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How will this person's MDAPP look?!...List the credentials,stats etc... The more ridiculous and outrageous the better!
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We must begin with saving African babies. (I know, that was a gimme)
 
Half URM/Half other URM, 4.0 in Molecular Bio-physics, Anthropology, and Religious Studies.

38T on MCAT because he/she didn't study
 
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URM- one of two survivors from the Long Lost City of Atlantis.


 
Research experience: created a type of alcohol with the same (joyful) effects as ethanol without the lingering hangover/cirrhosis/vomiting/awkward morning after with the casual acquaintance in your bed. Published results in Science as first author.

I challenge anyone to come up with a more significant scientific breakthrough than that.
 
<<< see mdapps. 😀
 
can probably trace blood line back to Leonardo Da Vinci or Hippocrates.
 
but there's more...

this elixer also cures STDs, post-herpetic neuralgia and mange (used only in dogs for this purpose). It prevents both cancer and balding. The applicant has donated the income from the patent for this product to a foundation he established to rebuild medical facilities destroyed by Katrina.

He biked across America last summer to raise money for cancer research and arrived home just in time to hold grandpa's hand as he breathed his last. Grandpa's stethoscope has a place of honor in the applican's dorm room as a memento of the man who inspires the applicant to serve the sick.
 
The ideal applicant would already be finished with medical school and have been family practice in a rural community for 30 years already. Maybe then the adcoms would figure he'd be dedicated enough and have the proper motivations to apply.
 
The perfect med school applicant:

1. Brad Pitt😀
2. 5.00 GPA (I've heard of this before...don't remember where though)
3. 45T MCAT
 
Second coming or incarnation of (insert deity of your choice here) who can already cure any disease by wiggling their nose or whatever, and only needs a medical license so they can legally practice medicine. Bonus points if they can do that whole multiply bread and fish thing. Would be great for student events and seminars, except it would have to be pizza and sandwiches.
 
LizzyM said:
but there's more...

this elixer also cures STDs, post-herpetic neuralgia and mange (used only in dogs for this purpose). It prevents both cancer and balding. The applicant has donated the income from the patent for this product to a foundation he established to rebuild medical facilities destroyed by Katrina.

He biked across America last summer to raise money for cancer research and arrived home just in time to hold grandpa's hand as he breathed his last. Grandpa's stethoscope has a place of honor in the applican's dorm room as a memento of the man who inspires the applicant to serve the sick.
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Yes, but can he dance?
 
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4.0 ee/biochemistry/philosophy triple major from mit, 45T, research that developed cure for *insert random disease*, hospice, has to have won two gold medals (one in the summer, one in the winter), actually IS a saved African baby.
 
I think LizzyM just described half of my entering class.

Holy over-achievers Batman!
 
OCallag said:
4.0 ee/biochemistry/philosophy triple major from mit, 45T, research that developed cure for *insert random disease*, hospice, has to have won two gold medals (one in the summer, one in the winter), actually IS a saved African baby.
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Nah, a perfect applicant is someone who has no qualifications whatsoever and yet gets accepted to every med school s/he applies to.
 
GPA: 4.0 from Harvard or MIT with some triple major in bioastrophysics, contemporary dance, and anthropology.

ECs: founded several student organization, including but not limited to: Students for Curing Cancer, AIDS, and MSR-anything. President of Chess club. Taught Chess and Polka to underprivileged kids in (insert sketchy, underdeserved area here). Spent several summers and Fall of junior year abroad in Africa, deworming orphans and researching new condom technology (See Nature, Vol. 1827, pages 123-508; or Maxim current issue) creating a cheaper condom made of polyethylene and coconuts for the indigenous people of Africa. Also cured cancer while in Africa.

Founded several non-profits in school while working 4 full-time jobs to pay for his tuition and his dying sister/mother/brother/etc.

Took the MCAT twice, 35R and then 39T, but totally should have gotten at least a 40.

Last books he read are: The Eloquent Universe by Hawkings and also memorized the Finnish/English dictionary because he likes languages. Developed his own language which he hopes to write about in a dissertation.

Oh, and he's a triathelete, has completed 3 Ironmans.

And he likes puppies and babies.


Only problem? I question his social skills. Can he appreciate the hilarity of Eddie Izzard or Robin Williams? Kathy Griffin? If not, then he should totally just aim for his safeties, like Yale or Stanford.
 
BananaMonkey said:
ECs: founded several student organization, including but not limited to: Students for Curing Cancer, AIDS, and MSR-anything. President of Chess club. Taught Chess and Polka to underprivileged kids in (insert sketchy, underdeserved area here). Spent several summers and Fall of junior year abroad in Africa, deworming orphans and researching new condom technology (See Nature, Vol. 1827, pages 123-508; or Maxim current issue) creating a cheaper condom made of polyethylene and coconuts for the indigenous people of Africa. Also cured cancer while in Africa.
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3 times. Cured cancer 3 times in Africa
 
BrokenGlass said:
Nah, a perfect applicant is someone who has no qualifications whatsoever and yet gets accepted to every med school s/he applies to.
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And he/she only applied to one top-tier to save money, and did early application to save time and anxiety.
 
Ethnicity: half native american/half african american
gpa: 4.0
mcat: 45

ECs
-cured cancer
-cured aids
- works with ******ed dolphins
- adopts starving children from foreign countries and raises them as their own
- cured common cold
- president of pre med, honors, and volunteer organization
- 4-5 years of pure volunteer work
- star athlete

Schools applied: Harvard (awaiting secondary, fingers crossed), JHU, and UCSF (safety school ... har har)
 
JaggerPlate said:
Ethnicity: half native american/half african american
gpa: 4.0
mcat: 45

ECs
-cured cancer
-cured aids
- works with ******ed dolphins
- adopts starving children from foreign countries and raises them as their own
- cured common cold
- president of pre med, honors, and volunteer organization
- 4-5 years of pure volunteer work
- star athlete

Schools applied: Harvard (awaiting secondary, fingers crossed), JHU, and UCSF (safety school ... har har)
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:laugh::laugh:
 
A perfect applicant is the one who wakes up every morning knowing that his dad is on the admission committee.
 
outside of grades and out of total seriousness - i don't think it is the person who has wanted to do medicine their entire life and has a 4.0 from a prestigious undergradute insitution.

i personally think the best applicant would be someone who has had a twisty windy path that has led them to medicine. they found medicine. they have tried other fields and done other things. this can stil be someone who goes straight out of college.
 
foreverLaur said:
outside of grades and out of total seriousness - i don't think it is the person who has wanted to do medicine their entire life and has a 4.0 from a prestigious undergradute insitution.

i personally think the best applicant would be someone who has had a twisty windy path that has led them to medicine. they found medicine. they have tried other fields and done other things. this can stil be someone who goes straight out of college.
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you're no fun.
 
Techmed07 said:
you're no fun.
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just my thoughts. i think the fact that i was unsure about medicine entering college and thus spend two years as an accounting major with two big internships and a full time job with Ernst & Young makes me a better applicant than the person who grew up with MD parents and never get anything else a shot.
 
In short, becoming a doctor may seem humdrum and a come down compared to my life so far, but I am willing to unlearn a few things so I won't be so far ahead of my fellow medical classmates. And don't worry about my disability; I can still perform an angioplasty and thread several needles while doing 500 one-armed finger pushups.





hahahahahahahahahahahaha
 
To be actually like serious:

I like the Half and Half URM idea. Their father is Native American, mother is Mexican.

They went to an Ivy League school, double majored in Biochemistry (for the biology side) and Philosophy.

There were a championship athlete in a NCAA team.

They opened a clinic for underserved populations during undergrad.

Of course, sky high GPA and MCAT.

One of their LOR's is written by a Nobel prize winner, who they did research in his lab and became published.
 
The perfect medical school applicant to me would be unique. But since any deviation from the status quo immediately gets one's application trashed...to me the perfect medical school applicant cannot exist.
 
2008orbust said:
We must begin with saving African babies. (I know, that was a gimme)
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Blondnuttyboy said:
Half URM/Half other URM, 4.0 in Molecular Bio-physics, Anthropology, and Religious Studies.

38T on MCAT because he/she didn't study
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Techmed07 said:
URM- one of two survivors from the Long Lost City of Atlantis.
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pazan said:
Research experience: created a type of alcohol with the same (joyful) effects as ethanol without the lingering hangover/cirrhosis/vomiting/awkward morning after with the casual acquaintance in your bed. Published results in Science as first author.

I challenge anyone to come up with a more significant scientific breakthrough than that.
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amwatts0322 said:
antidote for AIDs?
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deuce924 said:
can probably trace blood line back to Leonardo Da Vinci or Hippocrates.
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LizzyM said:
but there's more...

this elixer also cures STDs, post-herpetic neuralgia and mange (used only in dogs for this purpose). It prevents both cancer and balding. The applicant has donated the income from the patent for this product to a foundation he established to rebuild medical facilities destroyed by Katrina.

He biked across America last summer to raise money for cancer research and arrived home just in time to hold grandpa's hand as he breathed his last. Grandpa's stethoscope has a place of honor in the applican's dorm room as a memento of the man who inspires the applicant to serve the sick.
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pharmy614 said:
The perfect med school applicant:

1. Brad Pitt😀
2. 5.00 GPA (I've heard of this before...don't remember where though)
3. 45T MCAT
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BananaMonkey said:
GPA: 4.0 from Harvard or MIT with some triple major in bioastrophysics, contemporary dance, and anthropology.

ECs: founded several student organization, including but not limited to: Students for Curing Cancer, AIDS, and MSR-anything. President of Chess club. Taught Chess and Polka to underprivileged kids in (insert sketchy, underdeserved area here). Spent several summers and Fall of junior year abroad in Africa, deworming orphans and researching new condom technology (See Nature, Vol. 1827, pages 123-508; or Maxim current issue) creating a cheaper condom made of polyethylene and coconuts for the indigenous people of Africa. Also cured cancer while in Africa.

Founded several non-profits in school while working 4 full-time jobs to pay for his tuition and his dying sister/mother/brother/etc.

Took the MCAT twice, 35R and then 39T, but totally should have gotten at least a 40.

Last books he read are: The Eloquent Universe by Hawkings and also memorized the Finnish/English dictionary because he likes languages. Developed his own language which he hopes to write about in a dissertation.

Oh, and he's a triathelete, has completed 3 Ironmans.

And he likes puppies and babies.


Only problem? I question his social skills. Can he appreciate the hilarity of Eddie Izzard or Robin Williams? Kathy Griffin? If not, then he should totally just aim for his safeties, like Yale or Stanford.
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Revenant said:
The perfect medical school applicant to me would be unique. But since any deviation from the status quo immediately gets one's application trashed...to me the perfect medical school applicant cannot exist.
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.... I think mostly everyone on this thread that posted a response understands that.
 
This is kind of a fun thread. 🙂

I agree with most the points so far, but I think they also need at least two olympic gold medals (one summer sport, one winter sport). And two Nobels, one for Medicine and one for Peace.
 
and their only flaw is that sometimes they work too darn hard
 
Never been in a relationship. That shows true commitment to the field of medicine.

Should probably take a vow of celibacy upon entering medical school too. Sex is time wasted studying!
 
BE A ROBOT! or find cure for aids..
 
I agree with everything ppl have said so far. I must also add that he/she should speak at least 5 different languages, led several peace protests. He/she got to Katrina sites before President Bush Got there. Must also be a Division I NCAA athlete in Track and field, Baseball, Football, and Basketball. Knows how to Juggle, and must give up sex for studying.
 
FutureeMD said:
I agree with everything ppl have said so far. I must also add that he/she should speak at least 5 different languages, led several peace protests. He/she got to Katrina sites before President Bush Got there. Must also be a Division I NCAA athlete in Track and field, Baseball, Football, and Basketball. Knows how to Juggle, and must give up sex for studying.
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you said that as if it were something difficult to do.
 
anyone with a URM status, above average stats, helped save african babies, etc.
 
foreverLaur said:
outside of grades and out of total seriousness - i don't think it is the person who has wanted to do medicine their entire life and has a 4.0 from a prestigious undergradute insitution.

i personally think the best applicant would be someone who has had a twisty windy path that has led them to medicine. they found medicine. they have tried other fields and done other things. this can stil be someone who goes straight out of college.
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I knew I should have applied to Harvard. I definitely don't have a 4.0 and have tried a lot of different things. Some have used the word fickle, but it was all part of my brilliant plan to get into med school. Mwah hah hah :meanie:.
 
2008orbust said:
We must begin with saving African babies.
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OCallag said:
... actually IS a saved African baby.
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BananaMonkey said:
Spent several summers and Fall of junior year abroad in Africa ... Also cured cancer while in Africa.
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HoboCommander said:
... helped save african babies, etc.
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Interviewer: So far you look like you would be a great fit for our school. Perfect 4.0 GPA from Harvard, aced the MCAT with a 45 while simultaneously performing CPR on a fellow test taker who passed out during Verbal Reasoning, and numerous research experiences. So, tell me about your clinical experiences.

Applicant: I worked in a clinic providing charity care to the under privileged during all 4 years of college.

Interviewer: That must have been very rewarding. So, what part of Africa did you work in?

Applicant: Africa? I didn't work in Africa.

Interviewer: What?! Well .... I guess we can make an exception, given your other outstanding credentials. Saving babies in Latin America or Asia is almost just as...

Applicant: I volunteered in this country...

Interviewer: (sigh) I'm sorry, I'm going to have to put you on the alternate list.

Applicant: ...and they were geriatric patients.

Interviewer: (closing file) Ahem, well then, thank you for coming down, and I'm sure some over seas medical school would love to have you.
 
the audacity of volunteering stateside! capitalist bastards.
 
Tourterm said:
Interviewer: So far you look like you would be a great fit for our school. Perfect 4.0 GPA from Harvard, aced the MCAT with a 45 while simultaneously performing CPR on a fellow test taker who passed out during Verbal Reasoning, and numerous research experiences. So, tell me about your clinical experiences.

Applicant: I worked in a clinic providing charity care to the under privileged during all 4 years of college.

Interviewer: That must have been very rewarding. So, what part of Africa did you work in?

Applicant: Africa? I didn't work in Africa.

Interviewer: What?! Well .... I guess we can make an exception, given your other outstanding credentials. Saving babies in Latin America or Asia is almost just as...

Applicant: I volunteered in this country...

Interviewer: (sigh) I'm sorry, I'm going to have to put you on the alternate list.

Applicant: ...and they were geriatric patients.

Interviewer: (closing file) Ahem, well then, thank you for coming down, and I'm sure some over seas medical school would love to have you.
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LOL :laugh:Ahh so I'm sitting in the tutoring center & since my "tutee" didn't show, I'm reading sdn & just busted out laughing. Now a few people are looking at me like I'm crazy..but thanks for that.
 
JaggerPlate said:
Ethnicity: half native american/half african american
gpa: 4.0
mcat: 45

ECs
-cured cancer
-cured aids
- works with ******ed dolphins
- adopts starving children from foreign countries and raises them as their own
- cured common cold
- president of pre med, honors, and volunteer organization
- 4-5 years of pure volunteer work
- star athlete

Schools applied: Harvard (awaiting secondary, fingers crossed), JHU, and UCSF (safety school ... har har)
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******ed dolphins. FUnniest post ever 👍👍👍
 
AND the applicant is blind yet they go jogging in traffic while reading flash cards.
 
LizzyM said:
but there's more...

this elixer also cures STDs, post-herpetic neuralgia and mange (used only in dogs for this purpose). It prevents both cancer and balding. The applicant has donated the income from the patent for this product to a foundation he established to rebuild medical facilities destroyed by Katrina.

He biked across America last summer to raise money for cancer research and arrived home just in time to hold grandpa's hand as he breathed his last. Grandpa's stethoscope has a place of honor in the applican's dorm room as a memento of the man who inspires the applicant to serve the sick.
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You must be speaking of DropkickMurphy.....I hear he was a true humanitarian. :laugh:
 
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