Cynical personal statement?

[gerido]

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Nonsense. In retrospect, some of the "padders," as you called them, informed me about myself and about medicine, but as I said before, I didn't NEED them to know I want to do medicine; understand the difference? I did them because you simply have to if you want admission, but I got out more than I expected. There is nothing immature in all this. It is the adcoms who are immature and who don't "get" that whether someone volunteers, does research, etc. tells them little about the true interests and inclinations of applicants. This is a fact; you see it in undergrad with the athletes who never play sports in college and the star musicians who never play another note once they get in. The whole gist of my question was whether a small dose of honesty, that for many people some of the activities are done purely for admissions purposes (and I think the adcoms know this), was so bad. I guess it is. Back to the sugar-coating...

You are full of BS. You just want to adopt a method that can make you stand out of the crowd. This is just another tactic to get into medical school, you are no better than anyone else who "padded" their application with what you called insincered activities. You are trying to come up with a creative ploy to manipulate the adcom.

You are simply asking the question on SDN to see if it is worth taking the risk. I doubt you give a **** about candor... If you do, you wouldn't need to ask the question.. or even care what people think. It this point of the application process (considering this is your second time) you are well aware of what the adcom looks for and the competition that you face.

I'm not trying to judge you or anything, you gotta do what you gotta do... but get off your high horse man.