Diagnosis: Med. School Applicant....SDN is a Mental Health Risk

[MichiMO]

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I discovered SDN a week ago after being waitlisted from my number one school with no other acceptances. I was desperatly searching the internet for ANYTHING that might give me the slightest bit of information that could somehow make that feeling of limbo a little less limbo-like.

Then I find SDN! An apparent solution!

The only problem is that there are so many people who write in with so many different oppinions. My list of unknowns has only increased because now I have all the conflicting opinions of SDNers plauging my mind.

I have come to realize we are all sickly obsessed. I have checked this page a hundred times since last week and, from the number of posts some people have made, I am guessing you all are in my same neurotic habit of waiting anxiously several times a day for new posts on SDN. Why? Because we all want to KNOW, to find some sort of reassurance that we will get in medical school.

But it is not SDN, it is the entire medical school application process that makes you somehow think you can calculate your chances of being accepted. I can tell you right now that you can't. It is completly fundamentally RANDOM. We all just need to CHILL OUT.

But who am I to talk? Do I know how to stop the neurosis? Absolutly not. Will I check this site first chance tomorrow? Absolutly.

All I can hope is that I don't need a doctor by the time I become one!

 

[Samoa]

Welcome to SDN!

 

[irlandesa]

well, if you don't like SDN you should just leave b/c lots of OTHER people benefit from it and I am right. And I credit SDN, God, GW Bush, and my irrestible charm and genius for getting me into med school, so stop whining!!!!😀

J/K, just wanted to pre-empt some of the typical SDN remarks that might arise on here since there are some pretty volatile personalities on here (admittedly, a bit hypocritical of me to say so, but 'tis true). so many people on here get in off the WL at all kinds of schools, and if I remember correctly, UA was about halfway through their waitlist by mid-May last year. Try doing a search on the Arizona waitlist or find the WL movement thread from last year if you haven't already, maybe that will provide some comfort. I agree with you that 99.99% of people on here need to relax (self included..) good luck and welcome!🙂

 

[soonerpillow]

I'm applying this year, but had no idea what to do or what to expect. Then I found SDN a few weeks ago and I'm checking it three times a day! I just get so stressed out sometimes, so I look for ways to alleviate that stress (i.e. somehow increase my chances of getting accepted) by checking SDN a whole lot. It can be either the high point or low point of my day, depending on what I read here. Is that sad or what?

 

[Sweet Tea]

you're only checking 3 times a day and you're calling yourself obsessed??

amateurs!! 😉

 

[aznwangsta]

Well I feel a kinship with fellow premeds through SDN. Makes me wanna start a SDN club at med school...one thing we could do is donate some time on SDN to alleviate fears of applicants in the process.

 

[Sweet Tea]

but the real question is whether or not you'd list membership in the SDN club as one of your extra-curricular activities...

why yes i am feeling silly this morning. thanks for asking. 😉

 

[aznwangsta]

Besides helping improve community health, is there nothing more noble than helping alleviate fears of hapless, frenzied med applicants? Actually, they're just as likely to be malnourished, poor, and in much need to compassion as other downtrodden.

-silly right there with ya

 

[::Seabass::]

Originally posted by soonerpillow
I'm applying this year, but had no idea what to do or what to expect. Then I found SDN a few weeks ago and I'm checking it three times a day! I just get so stressed out sometimes, so I look for ways to alleviate that stress (i.e. somehow increase my chances of getting accepted) by checking SDN a whole lot. It can be either the high point or low point of my day, depending on what I read here. Is that sad or what?

Just wait till you are mid-application process, pre/post interview, and stressed about waitlists. It gets MUCH worse.

 

[Neuronix]

I second that. Now that I'm waitlisted ("tip top of the waitlist") at my #1 choice I'm checking my e-mail and SDN about 10 times a day.

BTW, Sweet Tea I had a huge internal debate with myself about whether or not I should list organized Internet gaming as an EC. I organized events and led teams in leagues and even broadcasted a match or two on Internet radio. Eventually, I decided against it.

 

[mgw519]

I think I'm in danger of losing my job. It is now 10:46 AM and I have probably done 15 minutes of work.

SDN is truly addictive. I think it's very cruel that *just* as I'm hitting the max stress level waiting to hear back from schools, my work in clinical trials work mysteriously slows down due to various reasons. So, what do I fill my free time at work with?

You're reading it right now.😕