I dont believe anything too radical was said just the fact that under 25 seems too low for the standards DO school's take these days. Im not talking about 26 or 28 being bad or stupid(those are fine scores!), just below 25 being questionable in terms of how much work was put in....There are examples of well capable doctors getting 24's, but this is not the average, that is why there are indeed cutoffs, you cannot argue that with me. Also the disadvantaged thing gets to me, because i grew up disadvantaed but I'am not anymore, I don't see how it affected my schooling at all, I think we all had a fair playiing ground, so why tip the scales in any direction?
Its suprising how just from one statement people can go so far as saying the person making that statement isn't a kind and caring person. I care more about other people than I do about myself, it is for this reason that I work so hard, if it was about money I would simply join a profession more suited for that.
I come from a family of MD's and Im still applying DO because I truly feel it is where I belong, due to my interest in helping third world countries, being that I'am from one. I can help people without any supplies other than my hands, which is truly amazing. We all care about people, it is natural, but that should not get in the way of our professional side. I have met top doctors who would make Dr. House look like mother teresa, they are very confident and sometimes arrogant, but they are amazing doctors, sometimes I believe their confidence and ego is what makes them such amazing doctors.( not sure if its a coincidence that they are all surgeons). I dont judge my doctors by how nice he is, but how he does his job, I dont think there is any correlation between how nice someone is and how seriously he takes his job as a doctor or how good he is.
I also never said I should be considered over anyone, I guess I was merely expressing my worry and angst in waiting on NYCOM. I'm usually an easygoing and nice guy but this process is killing me because this has been my mission and dream for almost my entire life. We can not always be perfect and show no emotion or say illogical stupid things. Its difficult in a subjective world not to grasp onto any type of objectivity, like gpa or mcat scores, im sure at one point or another we all fell victim to this(is religion, science, quantification of the world around us by objective standards not proof of this? All the standardized tests we are submitted to as we age, all the competitive spirit they breed into us?). Sadly its what has been conditioned into me, going to competitive schools all my life, i didnt create this daunting machine of education. In fact one of the things that made me go DO was seeing the relaxed atmosphere of some of the schools I was given tours of, the focus on uplifting the entire class, rather than making it so competitive that only a the top few survive.