So someone goes on here and shares an opinion about the school and you brand him a 'troll'? Then you go and spout off your own opinions and pass them off as fact--can't have it both ways.
Um. When someone claims to be part of UQO, and implies that he is too far along to do it over again, yet also managed to post a couple weeks earlier that he's applied to WVa SoM and is waiting for his interview, yes I can have it "both" ways. Which opinions am I passing off as fact? Do you normally throw out vague generalizations in response to specific arguments?
And you still don't know what 'vernacular' means.
Be a good arguer and look it up before explaining why you think this is so, mate. Find the definitions concerning idioms, and common language, and maybe you'll understand the point and why I didn't use another word like "slang". Or, maybe you won't but will continue to make the same assertion.
The bottom line is that UQOchsner is designed for people who should've gotten into med school in the US but didn't, either because they didn't play the med school game, didn't know how to play the med school game, or were non-minorities from California or New York. And unfortunately they are viewed the same as someone from a Caribbean medical school when applying for these US programs.
Sigh. Clearly you don't know UQO students. Nor have you apparently paid attention on this topic.
I will grant you one thing: yes, UQO attracts Americans who by and large did not get into an American school. Shocking! As to your assertion as to how they're viewed by programs...interesting, but empirically premature yet on the face of it still plainly wrong (Ochsner by design takes a significant number of its grads, ergo it cannot be said that they are "viewed the same").
There's a few pro-Ochsner people on here and a few anti-Ochsner, and it's irresponsible for you to insult everyone who doesn't share your opinions.
Well I'll leave it to you to split (people into "pro" vs. "anti" camps). But it does turn out that those with the most condemnation tend to prove either to be trolls (as per above) or those who are otherwise full of fallacious claims.
Anyone here can see my complete history of posts, that I'm pretty obvious whether I'm expressing an opinion or claiming a fact, that I back up what I claim, whether opinion or fact, and that I do know a thing or two about many UQ matters. You, on the other hand, have been shown in your few posts to make many ill-informed, fallacious pejoratives presented as objective facts. To such people who persist in making invalid arguments, yes, I can come across as insulting. I am insulted by insistent sloppy reasoning that inherently casts aspersions on those whom I know and on their decisions, and that serves to impose one's jaded opinion on those trying to make one of the most important decisions in their life.
The facts/evidence-based/whatever you want to call it, show that Ochsner grads are matching into relatively uncompetitive specialties for the most part. Now if I were paying all that money and going through the stress of medical school, I would want a place that would take in all of its students.
Really? You mean the grads are applying (or secretly want) more competitive specialties than they are getting? Or are you trying to say that people who, for example, go overseas for medical school want more competitive specialties than they say they want, or simply get? Do you know of anywhere that "take in all of its students"? Or even like what Ochsner, a highly respected residency training network, is doing to help with placements of its own students? You're really not making any sense, and when people who aren't part of a system have a habit of condemning the system with inflammatory rhetoric while insisting on remaining ill-informed, I call that for what it is.
I don't have every fact. I cannot quote to you the precise number of students who were taken in this year in the over-enrollment and state for you their names. I'm going off exactly what I was told by the administration. The facts you and I are truly privy to are those released by the program, which are inherently biased.
I have no idea how this sudden appeal to ignorance supports your assertion that I first addressed:
UQ will take in anyone with a pulse and dump them back off in the US after the 2 years...the medical school has already overenrolled this year (not by accident).
I also have no idea what
facts you're privy to, as I haven't been able to verify any. As to the facts that I am (or anyone else is) privy to...is that a question? Is there a particular fact that you are challenging, aside from my use of the word "vernacular"?
But I do have theories as to why people who insist on making the most inflammatory and fallacious claims tend to make them, insistently.
