I love this thread. It gives me a place to vent...
University of Not in A Million Years, School of Medicine
Dr. B. Ite Me
666 Beast Way
Your Personal Hell, CA 00000
Dear Nikibean:
Hi. Guess what? After keeping you in obsessive-compulsive despair for the past 7 months while you've been "on hold," we acknowledge that you have an "outstanding record" (translation: you're the diet-coke of qualified- just one calorie, not qualified enough). We know, we know, you've been checking your email every 15 seconds, we know that you've been slaving away in clinics before you spent $30,000 to undertake a post-bac program, and we'd love for you to send another $40,000 to us, but we already went through 200 other potential donors- I mean, students, and uh, frankly, I just didn't get around to reading your application. Try having a normal f*cking application next time - your narrative evaluations were tedious. Like we'd ever grant admission to a lowly UCSC student, even if she did graduate with spectacular honors like PBK. You didn't spend enough money on your undergraduate education. Please, apply to an Ivy league, get a second degree, travel to a small country, disarm it, rebuild it singlehandedly, start an entire medical system with your own money, and then we might consider you. Oh, having a recommendation from the surgeon general *might* help you in the future, as one from the director of Biodefense from a major research institution didn't.
Oh, and by the way, you suck.
And your mother wears army boots.
Yours truly,
B.Ite Me