2009-2010 Harvard Application Thread

[Podalarius]

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Just to clarify - there are up to three essays on the HMS application:
1) If you're interested in HST
2) If you took time off after college
3) If you're interested in an MD/MBA, MD/MPP, etc.

Like others have noted above, my interview day at HMS was very different from all the rest. The Harvard admissions office really makes no effort to convince you that you should go there. Both my interviewers were friendly, and they knew my application fairly well. Not as well as, for example, Alpert Medical School, but clearly better than just looking at the folder two minutes before I walked into their office, like some places.

As far as I could tell, HMS places a strong emphasis on training leaders in whatever field of medicine they pursue. You can get an MD and residency placement at any one of 120+ schools in the US. Harvard wants to know why you will benefit from the incredible resources they make available to you (and, obviously, therefore, what you bring to their community) so that you can apply them while a medical student and into your career. Of course, it's hard to draw any firm conclusions based on their application materials and interviews, but that seemed to be what they were looking for.

While the admissions office might not go out of their way to convince you to go to Harvard, they are very helpful, and after receiving an offer of admission, I've been impressed with how much they help out students. The students I met during my interview were very friendly, and, obviously sleepy, zpiff, and DNABaby are excellent people.

 

[j-med]

I had letters of recommendation from 4 science faculty from my undergraduate school, 1 from volunteering, 1 from my philosophy professor (a non-science rec is required for HMS), 1 from my current job. Make sure that you submit a rec letter from every lab you ever worked at -- huge pain, start working early on that.

If I am a reapplicant, do you recommend that I get new letters for the required letters? I have three science instructors I can get letters from from undergrad and one lab, as well as two new science ones from my masters (went straight from undergrad to masters), two humanities and one from job.

If I use the old ones it's a bit outdated, but if I tell them to update, at the same time there arent too much to update (since I stopped working with them since). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[j-med]

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[DNAbaby]

Just to clarify - there are up to three essays on the HMS application:
1) If you're interested in HST
2) If you took time off after college
3) If you're interested in an MD/MBA, MD/MPP, etc.

Like others have noted above, my interview day at HMS was very different from all the rest. The Harvard admissions office really makes no effort to convince you that you should go there. Both my interviewers were friendly, and they knew my application fairly well. Not as well as, for example, Alpert Medical School, but clearly better than just looking at the folder two minutes before I walked into their office, like some places.

As far as I could tell, HMS places a strong emphasis on training leaders in whatever field of medicine they pursue. You can get an MD and residency placement at any one of 120+ schools in the US. Harvard wants to know why you will benefit from the incredible resources they make available to you (and, obviously, therefore, what you bring to their community) so that you can apply them while a medical student and into your career. Of course, it's hard to draw any firm conclusions based on their application materials and interviews, but that seemed to be what they were looking for.

While the admissions office might not go out of their way to convince you to go to Harvard, they are very helpful, and after receiving an offer of admission, I've been impressed with how much they help out students. The students I met during my interview were very friendly, and, obviously sleepy, zpiff, and DNABaby are excellent people.

👍

My interviewers split: one asked me a fair number of detailed questions about my application, the other did not talk about it at all. Both asked questions about my past, my relationships in college, my life in general. I posted two articles on my blog to look at: "From All Walks Of Life" and "Relevance and Rigor in Premedical Education" (http://harvardmedgirl.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-medical-schools-are-looking-for.html) I thought both of these articles, especially Dr. Dienstag's are very representative of what Harvard wants to see in applicants.

 

[DNAbaby]

If I am a reapplicant, do you recommend that I get new letters for the required letters? I have three science instructors I can get letters from from undergrad and one lab, as well as two new science ones from my masters (went straight from undergrad to masters), two humanities and one from job.

If I use the old ones it's a bit outdated, but if I tell them to update, at the same time there arent too much to update (since I stopped working with them since). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

I would recommend that you ask for letters again only if you had significant events/changes since you first obtained them. Do not ask again if the person writing your letter could remember you less well by now. On the other hand, if you have maintained a relationship with that person since it could really help make your letter sound personal. If you can get even one of those, it's solid gold.

 

[DNAbaby]

more LOR questions:

-short story: PI is too busy to write me one, can't get a hold of him. Have an average relationship with him. Will Harvard care if I don't submit this?

-currently working in a research lab for summer and have been here for 2 weeks. do I need a LOR from here? i'd feel weird to request one esp. since he's pushing me to do PhD.

counting ALL LORs incl. the above two, i'd have 8...i think that's pushing it.

I think your default approach to the HMS application should be that they will care about everything. I would try the following: if your PI has a secretary, talk to him or her. It is often the most effective way to get busy PIs to write for you.

You also have some time to wait. Go ahead and submit your primary application now, but do not submit your secondary until you get the letter. Don't be afraid to wait: I submitted my HMS secondary on Sept 29th, two months later than all of my other secondaries. It's non-rolling admissions.

You DEFINITELY need to get a letter form your current lab. It would look bad if you don't have it. I would wait to get this letter as well.

 

[creativekat]

Yeah...I don't know about that summer lab. It's part of a summer research program....

My school uses a letter packet system. If I include all the letters from PIs, that'd make it 8, which I think would be sent to all of the schools using the AMCAS service. That's just really pushing it and I don't think either of the two letters will add anything else. I don't get why it'd look bad...if they called up the PIs, I'm sure they'd say good things about me, but I just don't want to end up sending 8 letters to every school.

Oh and my letters (that have been sent into the career service center as of today) are 2 science, 1 humanities, 1 Dean and 1 professor I volunteered for. I know 3-4 of them are great, with 1 bowing down to my godliness 😀 Of the other three, all of which are PIs, one I barely know (current summer research lab), one will be great, and one will be average. I'll be getting the "great" one for sure, the average one is flaky, and the one I barely know...he's on vacation for the next month or two in another country.

Do you think calling the admissions office would resolve this issue?

 

[j-med]

I would recommend that you ask for letters again only if you had significant events/changes since you first obtained them. Do not ask again if the person writing your letter could remember you less well by now. On the other hand, if you have maintained a relationship with that person since it could really help make your letter sound personal. If you can get even one of those, it's solid gold.

See- but because there is the requirement of letters from certain labs/individuals, I still need their letter. Either I dig up the old copy from my own files (or from the career services from my undergrad school), or I'll have to ask them again personally (which means they may need to update the content, or at least letterhead etc.).
Which do you recommend in this case?

 

[j-med]

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[DNAbaby]

Yeah...I don't know about that summer lab. It's part of a summer research program....

My school uses a letter packet system. If I include all the letters from PIs, that'd make it 8, which I think would be sent to all of the schools using the AMCAS service. That's just really pushing it and I don't think either of the two letters will add anything else. I don't get why it'd look bad...if they called up the PIs, I'm sure they'd say good things about me, but I just don't want to end up sending 8 letters to every school.

Oh and my letters (that have been sent into the career service center as of today) are 2 science, 1 humanities, 1 Dean and 1 professor I volunteered for. I know 3-4 of them are great, with 1 bowing down to my godliness 😀 Of the other three, all of which are PIs, one I barely know (current summer research lab), one will be great, and one will be average. I'll be getting the "great" one for sure, the average one is flaky, and the one I barely know...he's on vacation for the next month or two in another country.

Do you think calling the admissions office would resolve this issue?

In my experience HMS office of admissions was quite uncooperative until the revisit weekend.

 

[DNAbaby]

See- but because there is the requirement of letters from certain labs/individuals, I still need their letter. Either I dig up the old copy from my own files (or from the career services from my undergrad school), or I'll have to ask them again personally (which means they may need to update the content, or at least letterhead etc.).
Which do you recommend in this case?

Hmm... I see. I would ask them to send updated versions. Be sure to give them enough time and to remind them frequently of the deadlines.

 

[zpiff]

Yeah...I don't know about that summer lab. It's part of a summer research program....

My school uses a letter packet system. If I include all the letters from PIs, that'd make it 8, which I think would be sent to all of the schools using the AMCAS service. That's just really pushing it and I don't think either of the two letters will add anything else. I don't get why it'd look bad...if they called up the PIs, I'm sure they'd say good things about me, but I just don't want to end up sending 8 letters to every school.

Oh and my letters (that have been sent into the career service center as of today) are 2 science, 1 humanities, 1 Dean and 1 professor I volunteered for. I know 3-4 of them are great, with 1 bowing down to my godliness 😀 Of the other three, all of which are PIs, one I barely know (current summer research lab), one will be great, and one will be average. I'll be getting the "great" one for sure, the average one is flaky, and the one I barely know...he's on vacation for the next month or two in another country.

Do you think calling the admissions office would resolve this issue?

You could send the letters separately from your schools packet using a service like interfolio. That's what I ended up doing for my extra letters since my schools limits you to 4 total letters and it worked out well. Just make sure that any schools that you're sending these extra letters to know to expect them.

Also, I did end up sending my extra PI letters to all of the schools I applied to and it was never a problem even at the schools that had a letters limit.

 

[DNAbaby]

You could send the letters separately from your schools packet using a service like interfolio. That's what I ended up doing for my extra letters since my schools limits you to 4 total letters and it worked out well. Just make sure that any schools that you're sending these extra letters to know to expect them.

Also, I did end up sending my extra PI letters to all of the schools I applied to and it was never a problem even at the schools that had a letters limit.

👍

I think these are excellent suggestions!

 

[creativekat]

Thanks for the suggestions. Even though HMS is a dream school for me, I think I might just not send in the extra PI letters...it's too much of a hassle...and see how it goes. I called up their office and they said to just send it in. I'm going to call my career services in a bit and ask too.

My dedication to HMS isn't very high right now just because of that letter requirement. After all the work I put in battling 20 fronts at the same time for 3 years, I'm just too lazy to go that much out of my way for one school. I guess I'm getting rejected. 🙁

 

[zpiff]

Thanks for the suggestions. Even though HMS is a dream school for me, I think I might just not send in the extra PI letters...it's too much of a hassle...and see how it goes. I called up their office and they said to just send it in. I'm going to call my career services in a bit and ask too.

My dedication to HMS isn't very high right now just because of that letter requirement. After all the work I put in battling 20 fronts at the same time for 3 years, I'm just too lazy to go that much out of my way for one school. I guess I'm getting rejected. 🙁

Don't give up! I almost didn't send those letters either figuring that I probably wouldn't even get an interview but boy am I glad that I did!

It's funny, those extra 3 letters, which I thought would be my weakest since they came from industry research, ended up being some of my strongest ones and helped me out at many other schools as well.

Best of luck whatever you decide!

 

[creativekat]

It's too much of a hassle; one PI is out of the country and I've known him for two weeks, the other doesn't respond to emails unless they are in his favor (i.e. I want to be his undergrad slave again, I'm giving him $1 million to write me a letter...etc.)

I'll just skip out on the letters and see how Harvard reacts. They can't possibly look through 6000 applications that closely right? If/When I get an interview, I can explain or they can call the PIs that are MIA 😀

 

[LAman10]

It's too much of a hassle; one PI is out of the country and I've known him for two weeks, the other doesn't respond to emails unless they are in his favor (i.e. I want to be his undergrad slave again, I'm giving him $1 million to write me a letter...etc.)

I'll just skip out on the letters and see how Harvard reacts. They can't possibly look through 6000 applications that closely right? If/When I get an interview, I can explain or they can call the PIs that are MIA 😀

I'm not sure what Harvard looks for when reading through apps, but I would assume that they can't possibly sift through that many applications and try to match # of labs worked in to # of PI LORs, especially when some people combine their experiences on Work/Activities of AMCAS.

 

[mdtobe2014]

more LORs questions...

I am a somewhat non-traditional applicant (I'm a graduate student, and only decided that Medicine was the right path for me after working in a clinical research setting)
I have not been in touch with professors from my undergrad except for the ones that I have done research with or were my references for grad school applications and awards.

Thus, I have more than enough letters from PIs (I have worked with 5 different PIs) which would actually make me go over the 6 letter limit, as I also have some letters from science professors (both undergrad and grad)

HOWEVER, I don't have any humanities letters, mostly because for my degree, I only had to take a few humanities electives and I took most of those in the first couple of years of undergrad...In addition, when I actually asked one of my humanities professors for a letter, she told me she only gives letters to people that have actually worked with her.

So I don't know what I should do. Personally, I would think that people I've actually worked with (like my PIs) would be able to write a more personal letter anyways, but I'm not sure how picky the Harvard Adcom really is 😕

I really want to apply, and I'm really interested in the HST program, especially since I have an interdisciplinary background and I want to keep doing research.

Any advice??? Thanks!!

 

[interleukin6]

so, for those of us who are working in a lab starting this summer, we should wait until September (or whenever we feel comfortable asking our PI for a LOR) to submit the Harvard secondary.

But I have another question - say I've already submitted secondaries for Cornell, Yale, WashU, etc. - would it be best to submit this extra LOR from my summer research PI in September too? (i.e. after I have already submitted my secondaries and am considered "complete"). Should I contact each school to make sure they know to expect this extra letter?

Thanks!

 

[johncalvin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but applying HST requires that you took calculus-based Physics.

So keep that in mind while applying.

 

[housemd?]

Anyone receive secondaries from here yet??

 

[ksmi117]

Anyone receive secondaries from here yet??

Nope. Last year was on July 17th, so maybe this week.

 

[xmsr3]

I just read on another thread that for college seniors who are applying to new pathways there is no secondary.

Is this true? I know that HMS has 2 programs, New Pathways and some other program that requires advanced calc which I didn't take.

So if one is applying to New Pathways what do we do? Will Harvard email us and ask us which program we want to apply to? Then if we say New Pathways we just pay the fee and wait?

 

[JJMrK]

I just read on another thread that for college seniors who are applying to new pathways there is no secondary.

Is this true? I know that HMS has 2 programs, New Pathways and some other program that requires advanced calc which I didn't take.

So if one is applying to New Pathways what do we do? Will Harvard email us and ask us which program we want to apply to? Then if we say New Pathways we just pay the fee and wait?

Pretty much.

My guess is that there is a secondary, and you check which programs you are interested in. If you click one that requires an essay, an essay box pops up. If you don't you pay, submit, and wait.

 

[sleepy425]

Pretty much.

My guess is that there is a secondary, and you check which programs you are interested in. If you click one that requires an essay, an essay box pops up. If you don't you pay, submit, and wait.

this is correct, there is a secondary, but if you're just applying NP, you check the box, then there are a couple of simple questions (I remember they asked you to list any days where you knew you'd be unavailable for an interview, they may have asked one other thing, but I can't remember). If you apply HST, there's the essay you have to write too. Overall it's a very simple application

 

[ucbcal]

Has anyone received a secondary from Harvard yet? If so, can you please post the essay prompt and the character/word limit?

 

[dw2158]

Has anyone received a secondary from Harvard yet? If so, can you please post the essay prompt and the character/word limit?

1. if someone had received the secondary, i bet you $1,000,000 that they would have posted here already.

2. read. there is no essay.

 

[sportsfreak]

so I don't know how much of a chance I have at getting into Harvard, but I really want to go
I am from Penn, 3.7 science and cumulative gpa, 34 on MCAT

Do I have a decent chance to get in?

 

[275779]

so I don't know how much of a chance I have at getting into Harvard, but I really want to go
I am from Penn, 3.7 science and cumulative gpa, 34 on MCAT

Do I have a decent chance to get in?

omg yes you have a chance! didnt your premed advisors tell you your chances?!, coming from a top 10 school, u need a 3.5+, 33/34+ to satisfy the numbers for harvard for non-urm, about 30+ for urm, then to get an interview its all about your essays/activities, and for harvard, when you get an interview, your gpa and mcat dont matter, they just accept you based on the interview/essays, i mean remember, like HALF of pple to get in have mcats below 35/36, and HALF of pple who get into havard have gpa's below 3.76 and coming from Penn ur gpa means more than another school, those numbers wont hold you back from applyign anywhere 🙂, but i cant comment further because I know nothing about your activities

 

[dw2158]

omg yes you have a chance! didnt your premed advisors tell you your chances?!, coming from a top 10 school, u need a 3.5+, 33/34+ to satisfy the numbers for harvard for non-urm, about 30+ for urm, then to get an interview its all about your essays/activities, and for harvard, when you get an interview, your gpa and mcat dont matter, they just accept you based on the interview/essays, i mean remember, like HALF of pple to get in have mcats below 35/36, and HALF of pple who get into havard have gpa's below 3.76 and coming from Penn ur gpa means more than another school, those numbers wont hold you back from applyign anywhere 🙂, but i cant comment further because I know nothing about your activities

firstly, i am out of breath just having read that. periods are your friend. 🙄

secondly, i can't tell if you're kidding because that post was kind of all over the place. you're right that those numbers wouldn't disqualify anyone but i think you're mistaken about the power of a top 10 school and "satisfying the numbers."

 

[DNAbaby]

so I don't know how much of a chance I have at getting into Harvard, but I really want to go
I am from Penn, 3.7 science and cumulative gpa, 34 on MCAT

Do I have a decent chance to get in?

In my experience strong numbers help a lot, but it's your overall application that makes an impact. Not all schools show their love the same way, though... I think your numbers will close some doors, but you should still have some decent chances. The surest way not to get in somewhere is not filling out their secondary. I'd go ahead with cautious optimism.

 

[275779]

In my experience strong numbers help a lot, but it's your overall application that makes an impact. Not all schools show their love the same way, though... I think your numbers will close some doors, but you should still have some decent chances. The surest way not to get in somewhere is not filling out their secondary. I'd go ahead with cautious optimism.

i was just saying those numbers shouldn't close doors to harvard, maybe some other schools, but if u have amazing activities/essays, than it shouldn't close doors to anywhere. i know many pple from my school (top 10) who got interviews to basically everywhere with close to those those numbers, even lower (non URM), but i also know some with numbers higher than that who only got interviews to about half or so, and yes, a top 10/25 for some (some schools rank other undergrads in order to value the gpa's) school does carry a lot of weight, for example, for baylor, their average gpa is a 3.82, but for students from my school, the average gpa of somoene who gets in is like a 3.55/3.6, i have a sheet with all the average gpa's for students from my school for the schools they get into for the past five years, maybe it's matriculate, i forgot, and they are anywehre from .05-.3 lower than the school's actual average, for harvard i know specifically those numbers are good enough for an interview, my ex used to be a student on the ad committee, he said anything below a 3.5 and 33 is concerning, but i think if u have like a 3.5, ud need a higher mcat, and vice versa, but of course it doesn't guarantee an interview, i know pple with 38 mcat/3.9 gpa who didnt get an interview, for my school, the avg was like a 3.7 and 33.5 for harvard (i know, low right!), other schools have higher mcat's like around 36 or so, i dunno how other school's work, but according to the sheet i have, i'm sure it's something similar, but i think the main message is that they look at ALL of your application! ur numbers are very important, but not as important as some think

 

[zpiff]

so I don't know how much of a chance I have at getting into Harvard, but I really want to go
I am from Penn, 3.7 science and cumulative gpa, 34 on MCAT

Do I have a decent chance to get in?

If Harvard is a school that interests you, you should definitely apply. While your numbers are a little bit lower than the average, the admissions committee does a great job ensuring that the class is made up of really interesting people from diverse backgrounds.

They might see something they really like in your personal statement or ECs! Best of luck!

 

[275779]

firstly, i am out of breath just having read that. periods are your friend. 🙄

secondly, i can't tell if you're kidding because that post was kind of all over the place. you're right that those numbers wouldn't disqualify anyone but i think you're mistaken about the power of a top 10 school and "satisfying the numbers."

No, you are wrong, I was just talking about Harvard, about satisfying the numbers, and how a top 10 helps (helps more at some schools than others, maybe not much at all at some), But of course, higher numbers do help. I know someone who told me how it works there, dunno about other schools. basically if you're an amazing person, you'll get in 🙂

I wrote a book, my book doesn't have many periods, but it's published, so i don't need to use periods in a non-academic setting if i dont wanna, minding your own business is your friend 🙂

 

[ksmi117]

No, you are wrong, I was just talking about Harvard, about satisfying the numbers, and how a top 10 helps (helps more at some schools than others, maybe not much at all at some), But of course, higher numbers do help. I know someone who told me how it works there, dunno about other schools. basically if you're an amazing person, you'll get in 🙂

I wrote a book, my book doesn't have many periods, but it's published, so i don't need to use periods in a non-academic setting if i dont wanna, minding your own business is your friend 🙂

What is this book called?

 

[dw2158]

No, you are wrong, I was just talking about Harvard, about satisfying the numbers, and how a top 10 helps (helps more at some schools than others, maybe not much at all at some), But of course, higher numbers do help. I know someone who told me how it works there, dunno about other schools. basically if you're an amazing person, you'll get in 🙂

I wrote a book, my book doesn't have many periods, but it's published, so i don't need to use periods in a non-academic setting if i dont wanna, minding your own business is your friend 🙂

wow. notice in my post i said "i think you are mistaken." not "no, you are wrong." because i was engaging in polite discourse... which you promptly took in another direction.

how is my frustration with a run-on sentence not "minding my own business?" you stopped minding your own business when you piped up out of nowhere to give admissions advice to the person that asked. now, there's nothing wrong with that since this is a discussion forum and you wanted to discuss. but i should be allowed to join in the discussion.

and, yeah, what's the book?

 

[failureatlife]

Writing a book (more or less) says that you have ideas and can convey them. It says nothing about grammar and punctuation (which is handled by the editors who have to standardize everything).

You should try to write in proper English even in an Internet forum so that others can understand what you're trying to say...what's the point of writing if no one understands it? I had a hard time following along, because there were commas everywhere, and were run-ons and I just wanted to explode from itbecauseIendedupreadingeverythinglikethiswithoutastopinthemiddle!

 

[275779]

wow. notice in my post i said "i think you are mistaken." not "no, you are wrong." because i was engaging in polite discourse... which you promptly took in another direction.

how is my frustration with a run-on sentence not "minding my own business?" you stopped minding your own business when you piped up out of nowhere to give admissions advice to the person that i asked. now, there's nothing wrong with that since this is a discussion forum and you wanted to discuss. but i should be allowed to join in the discussion.

and, yeah, what's the book?

sorry i didnt mean to be mean about the "wrong" comment! just wanted to make my point clear, pple dont realize it makes a diff where you go, so that they can make decisions about where/how to apply, and I just dont like pple criticizing my grammar online, kinda annoying, it reminds me of 4th grade when I my teacher was scary and mean, but you can comment all you want about the content of what i said!

the book is called Fantasy Mishaps, fiction book, not out yet, hopefully sooon 🙂 no its not dirty, lol

 

[275779]

Writing a book (more or less) says that you have ideas and can convey them. It says nothing about grammar and punctuation (which is handled by the editors who have to standardize everything).

You should try to write in proper English even in an Internet forum so that others can understand what you're trying to say...what's the point of writing if no one understands it? I had a hard time following along, because there were commas everywhere, and were run-ons and I just wanted to explode from itbecauseIendedupreadingeverythinglikethiswithoutastopinthemiddle!

wow you must hate j.d. salinger, lol
sowy ill try to make it easier to read next time, be nice 🙂

 

[LAman10]

sorry i didnt mean to be mean about the "wrong" comment! just wanted to make my point clear, pple dont realize it makes a diff where you go, so that they can make decisions about where/how to apply, and I just dont like pple criticizing my grammar online, kinda annoying, it reminds me of 4th grade when I my teacher was scary and mean, but you can comment all you want about the content of what i said!

the book is called Fantasy Mishaps, fiction book, not out yet, hopefully sooon 🙂 no its not dirty, lol

that's a good way of BSing hahah, so that when we google it and get no hits, there's a justification!

where's my secondary?

 

[pharaoh88]

I think fwkid is really onto something here! Who needs periods anyway, exclamation points and lots of commas are good enough... and way more fun!!!!!

Anyway, I'm so excited about Harvard, getting an interview here would be amazing, the more I learn about the school the better, so exciting, but w/e, it's great they don't have secondary essays, hopefully, that will stay the same this year!!!!! So, what were we talking about here, it was the impact of stats are Harvard, no, Hmmm, well I think generally you need very high stats as well as outstanding experiences and great personal qualities to have a shot here, yes, it is Harvard, after all,

Sorry...I'm in a playful mood at work today and I couldn't resist

 

[275779]

that's a good way of BSing hahah, so that when we google it and get no hits, there's a justification!

where's my secondary?

wow, how can u comment. u dont even know me, ur mean. and fyi, therre are 1000s of books that are out and if u google them, u cant find em. i never claimed to have a best seller. i jsut found this forum a few days ago, hopefully this is a misrepresenation of the pple who are going to be in med school!

 

[ksmi117]

wow, how can u comment. u dont even know me, ur mean. and fyi, therre are 1000s of books that are out and if u google them, u cant find em. i never claimed to have a best seller. i jsut found this forum a few days ago, hopefully this is a misrepresenation of the pple who are going to be in med school!

Please chill out.

 

[trueBelief]

Of ALL my 21 school forums, this is the only place where I see some heated discussion. Let's try to be as professional as we can here 🙂

 

[DNAbaby]

Of ALL my 21 school forums, this is the only place where I see some heated discussion. Let's try to be as professional as we can here 🙂

👍

 

[LAman10]

wow, how can u comment. u dont even know me, ur mean. and fyi, therre are 1000s of books that are out and if u google them, u cant find em. i never claimed to have a best seller. i jsut found this forum a few days ago, hopefully this is a misrepresenation of the pple who are going to be in med school!

I'm just messing, bro, I was simply commenting on your diabolical ingenuity, being able to foresee that some of us would google your book, and then formulating a back-up plan by telling us ahead of time that it's not published, i mean honestly, it was good so 👍 and as for the periods, you're right, commas are so much better because I can simply use my middle finger (which is much stronger than my ring finger), while we're at it let's just stop using the 'o' and 'l' keys and put the ring finger out of commission for good,,,, granted, some people will be upse that they can't use 'lol' anymore, but who cares? 'lol' is SO overused anyway, you'd have done the world a favor by getting rid of it!

yes, i will be like this in med school too, but i don't stand a fighting chance at harvard, so if this is where you're gonna end up, you prob won't have to deal with me!

 

[275779]

I'm just messing, bro, I was simply commenting on your diabolical ingenuity, being able to foresee that some of us would google your book, and then formulating a back-up plan by telling us ahead of time that it's not published, i mean honestly, it was good so 👍 and as for the periods, you're right, commas are so much better because I can simply use my middle finger (which is much stronger than my ring finger), while we're at it let's just stop using the 'o' and 'l' keys and put the ring finger out of commission for good,,,, granted, some people will be upse that they can't use 'lol' anymore, but who cares? 'lol' is SO overused anyway, you'd have done the world a favor by getting rid of it!

yes, i will be like this in med school too, but i don't stand a fighting chance at harvard, so if this is where you're gonna end up, you prob won't have to deal with me!

i think u have a good chance based on ur profile
i'm just gonna ignore the rest of what you said 🙂

 

[ksmi117]

So back to the topic at hand... I think Hahvard forgot about us. 🙁

 

[LAman10]

i think u have a good chance based on ur profile
i'm just gonna ignore the rest of what you said 🙂

hah fair enough

So back to the topic at hand... I think Hahvard forgot about us. 🙁

meh you win some, you lose some

 

[Beta Cell]

👍

DNAbaby, your blogs are top notch. I can tell you honestly that your blog is the only blog I've ever read in its entirety, including external links. Keep it up until I apply next year, pretty please.