Obviously, your subscription to this thread is interfering with your schoolwork. All I can say is that you'd better not miss rous sarcoma virus on your next test.
Obviously, your subscription to this thread is interfering with your schoolwork. All I can say is that you'd better not miss rous sarcoma virus on your next test.
Actually, the truth is that I have completely forgotten what rous sarcoma virus is and what it does. Is that the chicken one? I seem to remember it has something to do with chickens. Or maybe I'm making that up. 😳
See, I was paying attention in MY rous sarcoma seminar.
See, I was paying attention in MY rous sarcoma seminar.
Hmm, maybe they stopped in for tea (cells, that is. Get it?
)Hmm, maybe they stopped in for tea (cells, that is. Get it?
Eosinophilia....occurs in parasitic reactions, allergic reactions, and interestingly, Addison's disease. One of my medicine attendings mentioned the last one, and I didn't believe him until I looked it up and saw it for myself. Seriously, I don't know why you'd have eosinophils in the thymus. When I googled it, I saw you could have eosinophilia in Hodgkin's lymphoma and CML. Is that what you're learning about? Please respond, I must know why there would ever be eosinophils in the thymus!
Now that I think about it, it can't be CML, because you said he was a 12-year-old.
Not for medical students, it can't. One of my Step 2 resources makes the excellent point that in real life, anything can be anything. But they can't do that to preclinical students on their exams, or to clinical students on the boards, because otherwise we won't be able to figure out what diagnosis is being tested. 🙂
Right, that's what I looked up. I hadn't ever heard of that before my attending mentioned it. Kind of cool.
Did you check your Iapply status page? If there's nothing, you might want to contact the UP office. For CCLCM, I'm not sure if you'll get any info, but you could try calling them too.
Hmm, maybe they stopped in for tea (cells, that is. Get it?
Eosinophilia....occurs in parasitic reactions, allergic reactions, and interestingly, Addison's disease. One of my medicine attendings mentioned the last one, and I didn't believe him until I looked it up and saw it for myself. Seriously, I don't know why you'd have eosinophils in the thymus. When I googled it, I saw you could have eosinophilia in Hodgkin's lymphoma and CML. Is that what you're learning about? Please respond, I must know why there would ever be eosinophils in the thymus!
Now that I think about it, it can't be CML, because you said he was a 12-year-old.
This is such a let-down. I thought I was going to hear about the latest and greatest in thymus eosinophilia research from you, but my excitement was obviously premature. Well, at least now I know that they're not teaching you guys stuff on the UP side that they're holding out on us.See, this is the part where I disappear for a month and say nothing.
Actually, I have no idea why there were so many eosinophils in the thymus (well) beyond the normal levels. We just happened to be looking at slides of thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes in histo lab. This particular thymus slide, though, had a ton (and I mean a ton) of eosinophils roaming around--more in vascularized areas, but also pretty far into the parenchyma of the thymus. We looked for macrophages, neutrophils, and plasma cells to check if it were a more general sort of proliferation en masse of leukocytes, but we didn't see any. We asked around a little, but no one there at the time had any idea what might've caused the eosinophils to localize to the thymus...
Also, we're not doing anything vaguely related to that in lecture, so this is unfortunately a rather independent observation...
This is such a let-down. I thought I was going to hear about the latest and greatest in thymus eosinophilia research from you, but my excitement was obviously premature. Well, at least now I know that they're not teaching you guys stuff on the UP side that they're holding out on us.
Sure, the secondary deadline is December 15. Call the UP office and ask them to open your secondary again so that you can fill out our essays.
Yeah, I saw those links too. First human study that comes up if you google eosinophilia with thymus is this Pediatrics article from 1959. But it looks like that study was done on fetuses and newborns, not twelve-year-olds!
They're posted in this thread somewhere and also in the pre-allo forum. Just do a search and you'll find them. Or maybe one of the current applicants will be nice enough to type them again for you. There is no additional secondary fee. Once you've paid for Case's secondary, you've paid for ours too.
Ok, I wasn't sure what you meant when you said you worked in a lab part-time. I just wanted to make sure you knew that you need to be involved in hypothesis-driven research as opposed to working as a tech. But you don't have to have designed and conducted your own project from scratch. If you were the one who designed those programs, and you can explain the purpose, hypothesis, and application of the overall project, then yes, I think you'd have a shot. Besides the prompts that brooklynblunder posted, make sure you write the research essay also. It's required for CCLCM but not the UP, so you might not have done it before. Oh, and if your PI didn't write you a LOR, you should get him to write you one, because that's a CCLCM requirement too. I think that covers all the main requirements, but you might want to read over the CCLCM admissions process page.
Hmm, I think what you should do is talk to your PI about it. Tell him that you want to apply to CCLCM now too and that it's like applying for an MD/PhD program. Ask him if he thinks his letter would be appropriate for an MD/PhD application research letter. If not, and he's willing to write another one that focuses on research, then it's probably a good idea. By the way, I'm assuming that you sent fewer than six letters so far. If you've already sent six, I wouldn't send a seventh without calling the admissions office to ask permission first.
Hm... do most students at CCLCM and Case have cars? Do you guys sort of feel obligated to buy AWD due to the snow?
I think I heard during financial aid talk that people probably need cars..
Most people in both programs do have cars, especially for the clinical years. At CCLCM, they will tell you it's best to have a car for the first two years also, because some people get sent out to remote locations for their longitudinal clinics. There are a few people who get by without cars, but it does make your life a lot easier in many ways to have one. As for the AWD versus front-wheel drive, that's going to depend on personal preference, I guess. Personally, I would go for AWD, although plenty of people get by just fine with regular front-wheel drive. But if you already have a reliable car, you probably don't need to sell it for an AWD.Hm... do most students at CCLCM and Case have cars? Do you guys sort of feel obligated to buy AWD due to the snow?
I think I heard during financial aid talk that people probably need cars..
I know exactly what you mean. That's why I am always skeptical when people talk about the waitlist, holds, and things like that. Waitlists = folders in a file cabinet that are never looked at again, unless you write them, and even then it may not come out to be "re-reviewed". But still, I can never help hoping for the best.
But last year didn't seem like a great year for waitlist movement, at least from my lowly, singular perspective. It seems to vary by year; last year apparently had a large number of people get in from post-interview hold, but not necessarily true for previous years, so you never know.
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I really hate seeing people say things like this that are self-defeating and out of perspective. You guys need to remember that SDN is far from being representative of the average pre-med. In the real world, most MATRICULATING med students don't come in with stats like that. If you look at the AAMC data (bottom chart), the averages for allo med school matriculants have only increased slightly over the past decade, from 3.56 to 3.66 GPA and from 30 to 31 MCAT. That's hardly an exponential increase! So, paki20, a 3.6/30 would still be considered competitive, while a 3.8/35 would be extremely competitive.
Heh, I often make that joke about CCLCM, that it's a good thing I jumped on this bandwagon before it became a bandwagon. But seriously, who knows? Medical school admissions (and medicine itself) is so different now than it was in the 1960s or 1970s when your PI trained that he can't even say if he would have wanted to go to the 21st century version of med school at all.
Yes, we do. You should have gotten the hosting info with your interview invite. If you didn't, call the admissions office tomorrow and ask for it. Remember, start calling from the middle or bottom of the list instead of the top to avoid problems with A-fatigue. (A-fatigue = hosting burnout by people whose last names start with A.
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