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lstone13 said:
I once tried salted chocolate before, and I think the idea is the same with bacon and chocolate or bacon and maple syrup. The salty and sweet flavor combination is supposed to enhance the sensation of each flavor...
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Bacon and chocolate?? I love, love, love bacon. And I love, love, love chocolate. The two together sound doubtful though. 😕

You guys are making me hungry.
 
Pitt is a mean medical school that makes no sense. Stated goals: accept 10 people. Waitlist 9990 people. Re-evaluate waitlist in April, effectively making Pitt the most cruel non-rolling school ever.
 
rockaction said:
Pitt is a mean medical school that makes no sense. Stated goals: accept 10 people. Waitlist 9990 people. Re-evaluate waitlist in April, effectively making Pitt the most cruel non-rolling school ever.
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That does suck, sorry dude.
 
rockaction said:
Pitt is a mean medical school that makes no sense. Stated goals: accept 10 people. Waitlist 9990 people. Re-evaluate waitlist in April, effectively making Pitt the most cruel non-rolling school ever.
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agreed. pitt is going to lose out on many a student who would rather get their life all set in stone before the summer starts. i guess if its your #1 school you could wait it out, send an amazing loi. if it were a specific private in cali, i would wait until the cows came home.

given that the olympics just ended and we have no sports talk, food for thought: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02heart.html
 
rockaction said:
thanks dudes. it's just frustrating...I want to know where I'm going next year, and it sucks to have it all up in the air with a top choice...
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I'm in the same boat. Waiting to hear from Columbia this week.
 
bobsmith said:
Yeah, the longer they wait, the longer they're giving their waitlisted people a chance to fall in love with another school. But hey, they can do what they want.

...and if you're talking about the private school I think you're talking about, I just want to say that it's a stupid fancy school with stupid fancy California sunshine. ...but yes, I will be waiting too.
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agreed - their waitlist, their perogative. we are just pawns in their game (to take the helpless view of it, which i don't always favor).

:laugh: i am talking about that one. and its cloudy today (feel free to laugh in school's face: :meanie: mwhahahahaha, no sunshine for you!).

p.s. a patient just sneezed in the waiting room and it sounded like the baby panda sneeze. trying...not...to...laugh.
 
Evidently, the Hopkins adcom is meeting tomorrow to discuss Jan/Feb interviews!! (according to a current med student on SDN) I can hardly contain my excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :luck:
 
violincuty said:
Evidently, the Hopkins adcom is meeting tomorrow to discuss Jan/Feb interviews!! (according to a current med student on SDN) I can hardly contain my excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :luck:
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:xf: hopefully a good phone call coming your way!
 
violincuty said:
Evidently, the Hopkins adcom is meeting tomorrow to discuss Jan/Feb interviews!! (according to a current med student on SDN) I can hardly contain my excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :luck:
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Oooooooooh, :luck::luck::xf:! Good luck!
 
brooklynblunder said:
haha that Pitt email is ridiculous
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it took OSU one afternoon to decide your fate and they would tell you 10 business days afterwards. how on earth does it take Pitt 8 weeks to simply toss everyone into the waitlist?
 
my friend got a verbal offer from accenture last year in october, saying they will offer the position in writing in early november. in early december they said because of the economy, they will extend positions in january. in late january, they said they couldn't offer positions at the moment, because of the financial crisis, and they put him on the waitlist for a job. meanwhile he had already stopped looking for jobs because he thought he was set with a sick job and recruiting already was pretty much over. so he went to like 20 job interviews, couldn't land one because of the market, so he had to apply to a master's program. he started the master's program, paid his deposit and accenture finally gave him the offer this October after classes started and everything.

i know it must have sucked for him to go through it, but we just watched pursuit of happyness and acted like nothing was wrong and kept it moving cuz in the end, we all knew he would be more than fine. dude is making bank now.
 
Just wanted to toss my "Pitt is ridiculous" vote in there. Inches away from withdrawing. My fiancée and I were prepared to move out to Pitt about 4 months ago, but now, it's really looking like we can't wait that long to know, especially with wedding planning and stuff.
 
brooklynblunder said:
my friend got a verbal offer from accenture last year in october, saying they will offer the position in writing in early november. in early december they said because of the economy, they will extend positions in january. in late january, they said they couldn't offer positions at the moment, because of the financial crisis, and they put him on the waitlist for a job. meanwhile he had already stopped looking for jobs because he thought he was set with a sick job and recruiting already was pretty much over. so he went to like 20 job interviews, couldn't land one because of the market, so he had to apply to a master's program. he started the master's program, paid his deposit and accenture finally gave him the offer this October after classes started and everything.

i know it must have sucked for him to go through it, but we just watched pursuit of happyness and acted like nothing was wrong and kept it moving cuz in the end, we all knew he would be more than fine. dude is making bank now.
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On a side note, the economic crash saved my life. I don't play it up in the med school admissions process, but I was in the process of interviewing for some i-banking/management consulting positions precisely when the crash happened. Got into the final 10 for a position with Bain I would have definitely taken. But because of the crash they took only 2 instead of the normal 18. Had offers elsewhere but had an epiphany in the meanwhile and decided to turn 'em down and work towards med school. Saved my life, I kid you not.
 
brooklynblunder said:
bain is sick, bro. would that have been in boston?
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Chicago. Bain was my dream firm. They were like the cool McKinsey, less uptight. And second interview day there made med school interview day look like a day at the beach. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the process for medical school is absolutely grueling compared to business, but case interviews for consulting are ridic.
 
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brooklynblunder said:
woah! day before my bday! are we invited?
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Dude yeah. If you guys get tickets out here, let me know ahead of time and I'm sure we'll figure something out 😉 If it changes things, it will not have an open bar, hahaha
 
BBender716 said:
Chicago. Bain was my dream firm. They were like the cool McKinsey, less uptight. And second interview day there made med school interview day look like a day at the beach. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the process for medical school is absolutely grueling compared to business, but case interviews for consulting are ridic.
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yea they are. do you have to do math exams like the options kids
 
brooklynblunder said:
yea they are. do you have to do math exams like the options kids
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Hahaha no, but I took that, too.

It's way crazier. They give you a VERY open ended business problem/question and then you must ask questions and ask for appropriate data to which they'll either give you or tell you "no... you don't need that." Then they throw in twists.

Typical setup:

"A company that produces trash container liners is experiencing a decline in profits. What should the company do to turn around their decline in profits?"

Then you go into: what are their variable/fixed costs, then they give you them in the form of a time-series chart and you break those down and see if there are any telling trends. Then you ask about revenue and whether quantity or price is changing and why either or both are changing and what can be done to fix it. Most of the time quantity is decreasing and so you go into marketing questions about who's buying, who isn't, why that might be, the 4Cs, 5Ps, etc.

All of this btw, is quantitative and you have to do math, in front of them, on paper (or preferably mentally) on the spot while they wait and stare, lol

Here's an example: http://www.joinbain.com/apply-to-bain/interview-preparation/practice-case2-quest1.asp?stage=1&ques=1


EDIT: oh and on second interview days, you do this multiple times for 8 hours, hahaha
 
DrYoda said:
That's crazy. I had heard the consulting interviews were pretty nuts.
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You literally have to practice to get better at them. Must have done about 50 cases with either friends or interviewers. It's a good time to invest in a fancy pen to flash around when doing math on the paper in front of them, hahaha
 
BBender716 said:
Yeah but then they make bank for two years and then go to any business school in the country afterwards so it's worth it for those who are into it, lol
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****....id rather slave away for the rest of my life elbow deep in african baby excrement. much more appealing 😀
 
thank god i didn't go the business route! that looks maddening.
 
i think i like pre-meds more than business kids. some of the people in stern and wharton are really square
 
brooklynblunder said:
i think i like pre-meds more than business kids. some of the people in stern and wharton are really square
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agreed

i go to a small school and all the pre-meds here are friends and stuff. i don't understand the sentiment around here that all pre-meds are gunner jerks cause i've only run across a handful of gunners...the rest are all cool peeps imo
 
brooklynblunder said:
i think i like pre-meds more than business kids. some of the people in stern and wharton are really square
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There's some in both camps, but I feel that business school has more stinking rich people than medical school. There are some rich sons/daughters of doctors, but they aren't stinking rich :laugh:
 
rockaction said:
agreed

i go to a small school and all the pre-meds here are friends and stuff. i don't understand the sentiment around here that all pre-meds are gunner jerks cause i've only run across a handful of gunners...the rest are all cool peeps imo
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i can name 5 premeds at my UG that I would ever consider friends. one of them is my girlfriend.

i am envious of you and your premed friends 🙄
 
i dont think i know any gunner pre-meds but i dont really hang in that circle. most of my friends are business and the rest are artsy. yuppies and hipsters
 
My friends are mainly a bunch of drunks (couple business, and LINGUISTICS :laugh: majors with some people in my non-gunner non-bio major)
 
rockaction said:
agreed

i go to a small school and all the pre-meds here are friends and stuff. i don't understand the sentiment around here that all pre-meds are gunner jerks cause i've only run across a handful of gunners...the rest are all cool peeps imo
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brooklynblunder said:
i dont think i know any gunner pre-meds but i dont really hang in that circle. most of my friends are business and the rest are artsy. yuppies and hipsters
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I don't really know any gunner premeds at my school, I just don't like most of them. A lot of them are just dumb Greeks that spend most of the week smashed and the rest studying like there's no tomorrow or asking people for notes.

I'm sure the premed population sucks more at really competitive sciencey schools and big state schools.
 
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