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I havent been on here in a while...does anyone know what happened to the low gpa thread?
I havent been on here in a while...does anyone know what happened to the low gpa thread?
It didn't get into med school?
It didn't get into med school?
Wow, didn't expect that from L2D....not funny...I second ExtremeUnderdog.It didn't get into med school?
Wow, didn't expect that from L2D....not funny...I second ExtremeUnderdog.
This thread contains the highest ratio of writing to thinking I have ever seen
I thought it was funny, BTW
Ah yes...exemplary in form of why sdn and the nontrad forum perfects the predestined gabble of it's elite for their own pretense while undercutting the hopes of the less certain at our expense. In consistent monotonous brute force.
This forum is useless. Unless getting in is a forgone conclusion and you want advice on how to reshuffle your portfolio for liquidity.
Low gpa. No cash. Uncertainty. Get up out of this mf'er before these people infect your psyche with their **** talking.
The low gpa thread is on the post-bac forum.
LOL! You're funny! I agree with you. The whole point of the non-trad. forum, or any forum for that matter is to help one another out. Obviously if you're a pre-med, you know the expectations and your deficiencies. We're here to overcome them, not be bogged down by them.
I havent been on here in a while...does anyone know what happened to the low gpa thread?
Again, my post above was a joke. Without a healthy sense of humor you should not go down the medicine route (read House of God for some insight as to why this is so).
But comedy aside, I disagree with some of the implications of this above post. Sometimes a healthy dose of reality is the best help one can provide. It's nice to believe that all deficiencies can be overcome, but the reality is that some can, some cannot. The folks who constantly play cheerleader often are the most harmful people on here, because they may cause folks to spin their wheels eternally and pass up other opportunities to have a good and happy life. Telling someone to follow a dream they cannot possibly attain would not be help. Having someone sit you down and set you straight is good once in a while is a very positive thing. (Again, that's not what I was dong in my above post, but I think there is room for this kind of cynicism on SDN, and it plays at least as important a role on here than the cheerleading).
I think most folks on here can dig out of most holes if they are willing to put in the time. But there are starting points that could mean many many years of grade rehabilitation. There are also the folks who have exhausted MCAT retakes, have been expelled, have huge blemishes in their backgrounds where it is less likely they will ever secure US admission. Advice has to be realistic and targeted to specific backgrounds. If eg someone doesn't have a prayer of getting into a US allo school, they should know that going in -- you are not doing them a favor letting them get blindsided.