2015-2016 Stanford University Application Thread

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Got the secondary recently! Baah the "Health Belief and Attitude Survey" is so confusing...I feel like most of my answers are mild to moderate agree...what do you guys think?
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NotAnotherPreMed said:
Got the secondary recently! Baah the "Health Belief and Attitude Survey" is so confusing...I feel like most of my answers are mild to moderate agree...what do you guys think?
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Yeah this intimidates the hell out of me. How exactly is it used in evaluating you?
 
suchbrio said:
it's anonymous and decoupled, supposedly?
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Supposedly, but then why do it at all, especially inside your application? Not that I think they're bald face lying but it feels prickly.

I'm really sleep deprived this week so I may be edgier than I should be about everything >_>
 
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coatiboti said:
Supposedly, but then why do it at all, especially inside your application? Not that I think they're bald face lying but it feels prickly.

I'm really sleep deprived this week so I may be edgier than I should be about everything >_>
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I just saw it as a way to capitalize on eager beaver med applicants for their own research purposes
 
Got the secondary...but am tempted to withdraw from the school and not fill it out since my stats are right at their 10% and I'm not URM. They also seem like a very stat-whorey school, so it seems like I'm pretty much throwing money to the wind.
 
I know I am late to the secondary party, but I got it back on wednesday as well! 🙂

What's the deal with Q3 about waiving your right to view your application? This is new to me....is it frowned upon not to waive? I'm curious about my letters XD
 
10. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?
Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
Private Practice
Academic Medicine
Health Policy/Administration
Primary Care
Public Health

Into which category would "working in a hospital as a specialist within internal medicine" fall?
 
bonjour13 said:
10. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?
Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
Private Practice
Academic Medicine
Health Policy/Administration
Primary Care
Public Health

Into which category would "working in a hospital as a specialist within internal medicine" fall?
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Academic.
 
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bonjour13 said:
10. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?
Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
Private Practice
Academic Medicine
Health Policy/Administration
Primary Care
Public Health

Into which category would "working in a hospital as a specialist within internal medicine" fall?
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Ya I kinda had the same question. I was thinking of just saying private practice...
 
Applied to this school on a whim...got the secondary and am highly tempted to just not fill it out because I don't think I have any semblance of a real chance. 🙁 3.64/33 and not URM. What do you guys think?
 
bonjour13 said:
10. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?
Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
Private Practice
Academic Medicine
Health Policy/Administration
Primary Care
Public Health

Into which category would "working in a hospital as a specialist within internal medicine" fall?
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Is this a hospital that is an academic hospital (ie where much research is done) or a private practice hospital (ie where the focus is exclusively on clinical care)?
 
charlie517 said:
I know I am late to the secondary party, but I got it back on wednesday as well! 🙂

What's the deal with Q3 about waiving your right to view your application? This is new to me....is it frowned upon not to waive? I'm curious about my letters XD
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You should choose to waive your right so that your application carries more weight
 
ElCapone said:
You should choose to waive your right so that your application carries more weight
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Hmmm, so you can kinda throw away your chance at this school in exchange for seeing your application?
 
ChillDawg said:
Hmmm, so you can kinda throw away your chance at this school in exchange for seeing your application?
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It's like the FERPA waivers you sign for college applications for recommenders and I think that you also had to do it for AMCAS. Theoretically if you have a recommended who sees that you didn't waive your right to see your application they're gonna be like "why did he do that? Did he think I wasn't trustworthy?" Then they wouldn't be as honest with your app rec.
 
bonjour13 said:
Can you please explain why you say that?
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Specializing starts with residency which leads to a fellowship in a subspecialty, which is academic in nature. If you want to sort things into broad categories, there you have it.
 
trev5150 said:
Specializing starts with residency which leads to a fellowship in a subspecialty, which is academic in nature. If you want to sort things into broad categories, there you have it.
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Not necessarily. Depends on whether he wants to ultimately practice in an academic institution/teaching hospital or in private practice. As per your definition, all doctors would be in academic medicine, which doesn't make sense in terms of reality.
 
ElCapone said:
Not necessarily. Depends on whether he wants to ultimately practice in an academic institution/teaching hospital or in private practice. As per your definition, all doctors would be in academic medicine, which doesn't make sense in terms of reality.
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Thats's why it's a broad generalization. I didn't define anything. It was just a suggestion based on limited information. You are reading far, far too much into a basic response, and making assumptions. That can get you into trouble. I'd watch that if I were you. You'll make it too easy for some lawyer someday.
 
ChillDawg said:
Hmmm, so you can kinda throw away your chance at this school in exchange for seeing your application?
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it says you must enroll so you'd probably have to get an acceptance and matriculate first before you can be considered a student at Stanford and have rights to your file. So in short no haha.
 
trev5150 said:
Thats's why it's a broad generalization. I didn't define anything. It was just a suggestion based on limited information. You are reading far, far too much into a basic response, and making assumptions. That can get you into trouble. I'd watch that if I were you. You'll make it too easy for some lawyer someday.
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Eh, it seemss, even at first glance, that they are asking in which environment the applicant could see themselves practicing in. You're generalizing to the point of uselessness.
 
trev5150 said:
Thats's why it's a broad generalization. I didn't define anything. It was just a suggestion based on limited information. You are reading far, far too much into a basic response, and making assumptions. That can get you into trouble. I'd watch that if I were you. You'll make it too easy for some lawyer someday.
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This was your original response to his question:
trev5150 said:
Academic.
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So I didn't generalize anything. Maybe you should learn how to be self-aware about the things you say, and quit being so thin-skinned. That can get you into trouble. I'd watch that if I were you. You'll make it too easy for some lawyer someday 😉

Also, nice attempt at trying to sabotauge @bonjour13. Too bad your gunnerism isn't very subtle.
 
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bonjour13 said:
10. What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?
Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting:
Private Practice
Academic Medicine
Health Policy/Administration
Primary Care
Public Health

Into which category would "working in a hospital as a specialist within internal medicine" fall?
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So to answer his question...(I am also curious), if you did not care whether it's an academic or private hospital, or small clinic and whatnot...what would the answer be? Public health? or stick to Academic and dont bother to generalize so much??
 
charlie517 said:
So to answer his question...(I am also curious), if you did not care whether it's an academic or private hospital, or small clinic and whatnot...what would the answer be? Public health? or stick to Academic and dont bother to generalize so much??
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I think Academic health fits that option better, maybe private practice since you can still own a practice yet be affiliated with a hospital to do procedures (my Gastroenterologist does this). Public health is like population analysis stuff which would be a bit of a stretch imo.
 
SoCalPipeDreamer said:
So uh... is anyone else not seeing a "Private Practice" button on Q10?
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Yeah I didn't see one on my secondary. I just put primary care and assumed the umbrella term, I.e. You aren't an academic physician or any of the other identifiers. Perhaps "primary Care" in this context just means when you're a clinician?
 
panda16 said:
Yeah I didn't see one on my secondary. I just put primary care and assumed the umbrella term, I.e. You aren't an academic physician or any of the other identifiers. Perhaps "primary Care" in this context just means when you're a clinician?
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Stanford is interested in producing physician leaders, not run-of-a-mill private practice physicians. If you are not interested in being a physician leader I would re-evaluate your fit with Stanford's mission. If private practice is missing, I would suspect that is the reason. Primary Care is not an umbrella term and has a very specific range of practice, I would not use that as a catch-all for private practice.
 
ThinkReallyFast said:
Stanford is interested in producing physician leaders, not run-of-a-mill private practice physicians. If you are not interested in being a physician leader I would re-evaluate your fit with Stanford's mission. If private practice is missing, I would suspect that is the reason. Primary Care is not an umbrella term and has a very specific range of practice, I would not use that as a catch-all for private practice.
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I mean, "Private Practice" was an option on last year's application so I wouldn't think that it's a deep-seated philosophical/institutional reason that it was omitted this year...maybe they just wanted to simplify things?

And I don't know if you were directing your presumptuous comments about "re-evaluating fit" to me or to someone else on this thread, but the tone and acerbic nature of the comment was wholly unnecessary.
 
panda16 said:
And I don't know if you were directing your presumptuous comments about "re-evaluating fit" to me or to someone else on this thread, but the tone and acerbic nature of the comment was wholly unnecessary.
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I was trying to help anyone who is missing a key factor in choosing their schools and writing their secondaries. I was not implying that you did not fit, only that an applicant should re-consider how they fit with Stanford's mission if they are having trouble choosing from the given options.

It is important that an applicant fits with a schools mission, as schools are looking for a certain type of applicant. I would highly suggest watching this video by an Stanford Admissions's Dean:

 
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ThinkReallyFast said:
I was trying to help anyone who is missing a key factor in choosing their schools and writing their secondaries. I was not implying that you did not fit, only that an applicant should re-consider how they fit with Stanford's mission if they are having trouble choosing from the given options.

It is important that an applicant fits with a schools mission, as schools are looking for a certain type of applicant. I would highly suggest watching this video by an Stanford Admissions's Dean:

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Dr. Garcia has nice hair
 
I'm unsure about sending in my secondary to Stanford. I have it all done, but I don't know how competitive I would be for this school and I don't want to be tossing money to the wind or be dumb for thinking I could get into a top 5 research school. I visited the area a few times and love this school and state. I would jump to at least get an opportunity for an interview. So I would love some feedback and advice please!

4.0 GPA/35 MCAT; OOS (just a public state university, not ranked top 20 or anything); non-URM (Asian), traditional 4-year student, strong ECs, BUT my issue mainly lies in research. I was involved as an intern in a Clinical Research Program at a big hospital and have some bench research experience through a program at my university which required me to do a small research project, but I don't have any poster sessions or publications to show for any of my research experiences. So I don't know how valuable my research experience would be. And I know Stanford is a heavy research school so I don't know how competitive I would be...

I need some more insight so if anyone could offer it to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
 
polarbearpractitioner said:
You think I'd still have a shot an interview with my research background?
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None of us have a crystal ball to peer into the minds of the members of the admissions committee. They may be looking for other things than research. Give it a shot and see! 🙂 Think of it this way: when next summer rolls around, will you regret not giving Stanford a try?
 
polarbearpractitioner said:
I'm unsure about sending in my secondary to Stanford. I have it all done, but I don't know how competitive I would be for this school and I don't want to be tossing money to the wind or be dumb for thinking I could get into a top 5 research school. I visited the area a few times and love this school and state. I would jump to at least get an opportunity for an interview. So I would love some feedback and advice please!

4.0 GPA/35 MCAT; OOS (just a public state university, not ranked top 20 or anything); non-URM (Asian), traditional 4-year student, strong ECs, BUT my issue mainly lies in research. I was involved as an intern in a Clinical Research Program at a big hospital and have some bench research experience through a program at my university which required me to do a small research project, but I don't have any poster sessions or publications to show for any of my research experiences. So I don't know how valuable my research experience would be. And I know Stanford is a heavy research school so I don't know how competitive I would be...

I need some more insight so if anyone could offer it to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Let them tell you "no".
 
Thank you guys, I appreciate the responses. I probably will go for it so I don't have regrets as you all have said. Good luck to everyone applying!
 
musicalfeet said:
Got the secondary...but am tempted to withdraw from the school and not fill it out since my stats are right at their 10% and I'm not URM. They also seem like a very stat-whorey school, so it seems like I'm pretty much throwing money to the wind.
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my GPA was in their 10th percentile, not URM.

not sure where you got the impression that they are a "stat-whorey school"...I will say that if you are a boring applicant, do not apply
 
So for Q13, if we have publications that are accepted but not published or e-published yet do we have to exclude them? I have one that was recently accepted at a really good journal and don't want to exclude it but lord knows how long it will take them to actually get it out there.
 
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