2015-2016 New York Medical College Application Thread

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Did anyone else think this test was ridiculously easy? 99% of the answers were common sense... The only one I remotely struggled with was coming up with a negative influence answer (trying to be vague here, are we not supposed to disclose the questions?)
 
billchacho said:
Did anyone else think this test was ridiculously easy? 99% of the answers were common sense... The only one I remotely struggled with was coming up with a negative influence answer (trying to be vague here, are we not supposed to disclose the questions?)
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yea i wouldnt disclose the questions
 
Terribly acting... But it wasn't a terrible test. I'd rather do secondary essays because I feel like less of me is making it through each question.

I wonder what information they have when 'grading' it. Could I have just made up stories that sound grand? Does NYMC get a copy of the responses?
 
I thought it was pretty cool, actually. Some of the ethical scenarios were quite interesting and I found myself feeling quite strongly about a couple of issues as well.
 
Some of the scenarios were easy to write about because I've been in the situations before. Others I was worrying whether or not I was covering the main points expected... tried to incorporate ethics as much as possible into my responses. I type pretty fast (120 WPM), but I was still writing from beginning to end. Literally had no time to think for these scenarios. That was personally my approach, don't know how it turned out. Doing this in person would be much easier, from experience.
 
yeah my answers ended up being pretty short because I didn't wanna run out of time. I felt like I couldn't always expand on the questions cuz of that
 
I had to switch from Chrome to Internet Explorer and back to Chrome again, but I was actually able to complete it!
 
k good night SDN may we all rest easy and not get nightmares of CASPer
 
stgt9202 said:
k good night SDN may we all rest easy and not get nightmares of CASPer
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Dream sweet

casper_sleep.jpg
 
HarryH00d said:
You guys are all complaining like this was the worst thing since your first freshman chemistry exam.... I would go through all of that again...every technical hiccup...every video with bad acting.... as opposed to coming up with more essays about diversity or why I think NYMC aligns with my learning style, professional goals, blah blah blah
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I personally would rather write essays untimed with an opportunity to gather my thoughts. Preferably in an environment without technical difficulties and the possibility of my typed-in answers disappearing because of someone else's mistakes.
 
CellPowerhouse said:
I personally would rather write essays untimed with an opportunity to gather my thoughts. Preferably in an environment without technical difficulties and the possibility of my typed-in answers disappearing because of someone else's mistakes.
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Grand...Now go through those thoughts 33 more times for 33 more schools pretending like you're not recycling essays.
 
Done! One of those videos was shot at McMaster University at one of my favorite places to sit and relax lol
 
"To the CASPer team,

A professional online testing company should be well aware of the number of people registered for a test date and time, and should have checked prior to this time that its servers are capable of handling the web traffic.

Moreover, I was late to the birthday of a family member because of this delay.

Frankly, I am extremely unimpressed with this testing service and will be giving my feedback to the school that used it. I feel that each and every student affected by the problems today should get a FULL REFUND of their testing fee – whether they need to reschedule or not.

CASPer, please act professionally and take responsibility."

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They said no to the refund
 
My account got deleted and I had to reregister.. I hope I don't have to pay the fee again. I'm just sad I have to wait till August to take the next test 🙁
 
How screwed are we with the timing if we missed today's test? I had no idea that the next one would be offered August 16
 
Monster_Cat said:
This personality test is one of the most *****ic smoldering piles of crap I've ever seen a medical school require and justify:
1) How the HELL is it an objective test? Just because you call something objective and can scrunch it into making statistical sense doesn't mean it is objective. I wish more scientists would get this. Personalities are inherently subjective, dynamic, and variable within individuals. This thing is just dumb, and it's even dumber that this school is using in the decision making process.
2) There's room for most personality types in medicine, so saying a certain personality type means you aren't fit for medicine, or using it in the decision making process is irrational at best, and discriminatory at worse.
3) This stupid thing is literally going to hold up our applications because of the broken website and the fact that we have to literally schedule months in advance to fill out a frickin multiple choice test. At the very minimum this school should give us another site where we can take this test or another (Myers-Briggs is probably just as "objective" as this one), or just upload the test online or make their own.
4) Whoever thought requiring this test was a good idea to add this to the application should be fired.
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tl;dr
 
Monster_Cat said:
2) There's room for most personality types in medicine (Really??? I guess you're the expert), so saying a certain personality type means you aren't fit for medicine, or using it in the decision making process is irrational at best, and discriminatory at worse.
4) Whoever thought requiring this test was a good idea to add this to the application should be fired (Nailed it).
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Fineeeeeee. I will read.
 
On a different topic, is there anyone else who submitted their secondary July 10th and is still seeing the message on the status page about "A unique log-in was sent to..."
 
Do we get to see our results as well or just NYMC. I feel we should as we paid for the testing.
 
nwts said:
On a different topic, is there anyone else who submitted their secondary July 10th and is still seeing the message on the status page about "A unique log-in was sent to..."
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I submitted 7/9 and there have been no changes on my status page.
 
Yes, and it will stay there even when you're complete - like a tracking feed. For example, my page reads:

SECONDARY APPLICATION
This section contains updated information about the status of your Secondary Application.
  • 07/09/2015 - A unique LOGIN ID and PASSWORD was sent to the email address listed on your AMCAS application in order for you to complete the NYMC Secondary Application.
  • 07/14/2015 - Your Secondary Application was completed by the Office of Admissions and is currently under review by the Committee for Admissions.
 
HarryH00d said:
Yes, and it will stay there even when you're complete - like a tracking feed. For example, my page reads:

SECONDARY APPLICATION
This section contains updated information about the status of your Secondary Application.
  • 07/09/2015 - A unique LOGIN ID and PASSWORD was sent to the email address listed on your AMCAS application in order for you to complete the NYMC Secondary Application.
  • 07/14/2015 - Your Secondary Application was completed by the Office of Admissions and is currently under review by the Committee for Admissions.
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Hmm, mine doesn't have that second bullet point yet. In due time, I guess.
 
HarryH00d said:
Yes, and it will stay there even when you're complete - like a tracking feed. For example, my page reads:

SECONDARY APPLICATION
This section contains updated information about the status of your Secondary Application.
  • 07/09/2015 - A unique LOGIN ID and PASSWORD was sent to the email address listed on your AMCAS application in order for you to complete the NYMC Secondary Application.
  • 07/14/2015 - Your Secondary Application was completed by the Office of Admissions and is currently under review by the Committee for Admissions.
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Thanks for telling me. I only have the first message, though, so I don't think I'm complete.
 
lol back to casper though. is it still in progress/does it still say resume test for anyone who took the test after all the commotion and finished?
 
the prophet said:
that's a good point. isn't this sort of like a personality test? i feel like everyone is pissed right now haha
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yea no my only problem is that we will be judged against people who perhaps take it next week or in august and may have good testing conditions. at times during the exam i was being interrupted by notifications and concentration was broken repeatedly since i needed to reload every page. Hopefully they take these conditions into account or let us retake in better conditions. also did people go with their gut or the ethical thing to do. I mainly went with what made sense and was ethical, but sometimes not the nicest thing to do.
 
CASPER was truly a Ghost. My memory of Casper has always been the lovable and likable ghost. Thanks for dashing my good memories of Casper 🙁 Sorry to say but submitting the NYMC Secondary was an awful experience and this one tops it. Very poor execution all the way around!
 
was this the first time NYMC used casper?
 
Monster_Cat said:
Nope, of course you don't 😡. It's only logical that a test as *****ic as this would have some lame rule about not telling us the results. It's only logical to stick more idiotic bs rules on top of a test like this. -_-



I don't have to be an expert. Go to any hospital and interact with multiple doctors or volunteer with them, there's room for almost any personality and that's there, no dumb test should prevent that. Plus think about how subjective and variable personalities are, or even your own is, even on a weekly basis. It's insulting to us to treat this thing as an objective measure or use it as an admissions criteria to anything, especially given how much effort us applicants put into stuff that is actually meaningful and matters. They might as well look at our astrology signs to determine how fit we are for medicine, or give us tarot readings on the interview day. It's an insulting joke and whoever uses the results of this to screen applicants is practically the modern day equivalent to a flat-earther.
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at least tech support was hot
 
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