I can understand that, and I distinctly remember posting a few days/weeks ago that a woman's personality is MORE important than her looks. I was also joking about the Nursing statement, and I didn't feel that it went too far. If you took offense to it, you should build some more self-confidence, because you are both a woman and probably the single most qualified applicant of the 2010 application pool. While your experiences make you different than a lot of other applicants (Math background, CG, Leadership, and amazing GPA/MCAT), you have done everything necessary to gain acceptances to most medical school, as a woman. I can't say that of myself, as a guy. Medicine doesn't care what sex you are (assuming you're not applying later in life and planning on having children), it's about who is the most qualified for the job, and you are very qualified, ksmi, so I think that's why I'm somewhat shocked that my comment affected you so much. I think I assumed you would take it as a joke, the way it was intended, and possibly come up with a quippy comeback... But I guess not. If it really did offend you, I apologize.