Do adcoms pay attention to things like muscle tone during interview?

[listener23]

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I know due to human nature adcoms pay attention to beauty. That got me thinking, would being muscular give any short of advantage or do they not care? There was a thread about how people cant help but give the advantage to the more attractive candidates. Would muscles have the same or similar effect.

Additional info: I'm not talking physically fit but noticeably ripped.Also assume the candidate has competitive GPA, MCAT and ECs

 

[deleted407021]

What happened to you in high school?

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

 

[listener23]

What happened to you in high school?

Lol Im trying to maximize my chances, i don't think bulking up 2 months before an interview for a slight advantage is a waste. My thinking is an adcom will prefer a stronger physician just in case of a emergency situation like a patient falling out of bed or a patient needing to be restrain

 

[The Buff OP]

Okay, now you are just trolling. 🙄

 

[darkjedi]

if you can't deadlift 500lbs in the room i throw you out of the interview

 

[listener23]

Okay, now you are just trolling. 🙄

its the same question here : http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...-attractive-on-med-school-interviews.1074872/ but with an added twist.

 

[Mycoalwin]

Not sure how they would see if you're ripped through your suit... ?

 

[listener23]

If might be helpful if only former or current adcoms respond...

Adcom did you ever notice an interviewees muscle?

 

[listener23]

Not sure how they would see if you're ripped through your suit... ?

maybe if you do intense workouts or your pecks and shoulders?

 

[darkjedi]

If might be helpful if only former or current adcoms respond...
Adcom did you ever notice an interviewees muscle?

I already told you, if you're not part of the 1000lb club, your app is tossed immediately

 

[Kochanie]

If might be helpful if only former or current adcoms respond...

Adcom did you ever notice an interviewees muscle?

Why not just get shredded? Nothing to lose.

 

[hoihaie]

you wear a suit dude, how you gonna show your muscles?

 

[Lawpy]

I already told you, if you're not part of the 1000lb club, your app is tossed immediately

Should be 2000lb since 1000 is generous (i can do it in my sleep)

 

[MrLogan13]

It helps if you tear off your suit while flexing those muscles, all while yelling, "HULK SMASH!!!"

 

[darkjedi]

Should be 2000lb since 1000 is generous (i can do it in my sleep)

2000lb club gets you full scholarship

 

[Lawpy]

2000lb club gets you full scholarship

You got yourself a deal!

 

[Promethean]

Lol Im trying to maximize my chances, i don't think bulking up 2 months before an interview for a slight advantage is a waste. My thinking is an adcom will prefer a stronger physician just in case of a emergency situation like a patient falling out of bed or a patient needing to be restrain

Well, you have already answered your own question. Why even ask anyone else?

As a nurse, I can't tell you how few times a physician was involved in keeping a patient from falling, or helping to restrain one.

 

[2Pints]

Lol Im trying to maximize my chances, i don't think bulking up 2 months before an interview for a slight advantage is a waste. My thinking is an adcom will prefer a stronger physician just in case of a emergency situation like a patient falling out of bed or a patient needing to be restrain

Not that I think it's beneath MDs to help out with a patient falling out of bed or with restraining a patient. We have docs that will rotate in on compressions and one doc in particular who forever earned my respect putting an 18 gauge peripheral on a patient with crap for veins. I've never personally seen a doctor help hold down a patient. The scariest nurses on my unit are not the most muscular ones either. Maybe you should get a job as a tech on a psych floor or in the ED so you have a more realistic view of what happens at the bedside.

As for impressions an admissions committee, your time would probably be better spent researching interview questions, finding a good suit and getting it tailored. I hope getting buff isn't a genuine strategy.

 

[listener23]

Nevermind i'll assume the answer is yes.

Logic: if the adcom notice you have a above average built, it will provided added visual memory.

 

[2Pints]

Nevermind i'll assume the answer is yes.

Logic: if the adcom notice you have a above average built, it will provided added visual memory.

Hmm with that logic maybe I should get implants? Can just throw that on top of my future student loans.

 

[Lamel]

Some people devote undergrad to volunteering or research to gain an advantage in the application process. But I have been bulking and cutting for the last 3 years because I know that this is more important. Thanks for agreeing OP.

 

[The Buff OP]

its the same question here : http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...-attractive-on-med-school-interviews.1074872/ but with an added twist.

I believe they would know that you are a buff guy if the see wide shoulders and traps popping out of your suit.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

I've never personally seen a doctor help hold down a patient.

Although this is highly irrelevant to the OP...

I don't know a single one of my co-residents who HASN'T had to help hold down a patient.

 

[darkjedi]

Lol Im trying to maximize my chances, i don't think bulking up 2 months before an interview for a slight advantage is a waste. My thinking is an adcom will prefer a stronger physician just in case of a emergency situation like a patient falling out of bed or a patient needing to be restrain

bro you can't bulk in 2 months

 

[listener23]

Some people devote undergrad to volunteering or research to gain an advantage in the application process. But I have been bulking and cutting for the last 3 years because I know that this is more important. Thanks for agreeing OP.

Its says assume the person has competitive EC's. This is not a strategy to replace the big 3 (MCAT, GPA,EC's). Its an attempt to add to the human element of the process....

 

[Promethean]

bro you can't bulk in 2 months

I know, right? And I'm sure that the time he would need to devote has no better use. Like, if adcoms see that your muscles are shredded, they don't care that you haven't researched anything about their school. I mean, it is obvious that you had your priorities in order, right?

 

[Banned]

It could happen, but the odds are small.

I had an interviewer who was a competitive power lifter in college, so we talked about that for a few minutes.

 

[listener23]

bro you can't bulk in 2 months

Im currently in nice shape i was a star athlete in high school and Ive been going to my school gym faculties throughout undergrad

 

[listener23]

I know, right? And I'm sure that the time he would need to devote has no better use. Like, if adcoms see that your muscles are shredded, they don't care that you haven't researched anything about their school. I mean, it is obvious that you had your priorities in order, right?

It says assume the person has competitive EC's. This is not a strategy to replace the big 3 (MCAT, GPA,EC's). Its an attempt to add to the human element of the process....

 

[NickNaylor]

I think it's time to step away from SDN for a bit.

 

[Lawpy]

It could happen, but the odds are small.

I had an interviewer who was a competitive power lifter in college, so we talked about that for a few minutes.

Great username

 

[2Pints]

Although this is highly irrelevant to the OP...

I don't know a single one of my co-residents who HASN'T had to help hold down a patient.

OP mentioned it as a scenario for needing to be buff. My main point was that people's ability to hold down a patient isn't always about "buffness".

 

[darkjedi]

Im currently in nice shape i was a star athlete in high school and Ive been going to my school gym faculties throughout undergrad

bro that makes bulking in 2 months even more ridiculous

 

[listener23]

bro that makes bulking in 2 months even more ridiculous

Ridiculous as in more difficult or as in pointless

 

[darkjedi]

Ridiculous as in more difficult or as in pointless

i'll let you guess

hint: it's both

 

[listener23]

The problem you guys are having with understanding the importance of this is because you are attempting to quantify the human element of the process. Every human is different. Adcoms are humans. Some human place a lot of value on aesthetically pleasing human attribute some please little to none.

 

[Mycoalwin]

Guys... just do a bunch of pushups before your interviews.

 

[goft20]

Yeah brah. Do you even life. #swolelife


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[ZaneKaiser]

All you need is the post-workout pump

 

[mcloaf]

The problem you guys are having with understanding the importance of this is because you are attempting to quantify the human element of the process. Every human is different. Adcoms are humans. Some human place a lot of value on aesthetically pleasing human attribute some please little to none.

No, the problem we are having is that you won't stop posting.

 

[Mayday_]

you wear a suit dude, how you gonna show your muscles?

 

[Major]

I know due to human nature adcoms pay attention to beauty. That got me thinking, would being muscular give any short of advantage or do they not care? There was a thread about how people cant help but give the advantage to the more attractive candidates. Would muscles have the same or similar effect.

Additional info: I'm not talking physically fit but noticeably ripped.Also assume the candidate has competitive GPA, MCAT and ECs

 

[Eppur Si Muove]

I believe they would know that you are a buff guy if the see wide shoulders and traps popping out of your suit.

Need stats for OP H/W/BP/Sq/DL

 

[Goro]

No, and asking insipid questions doesn't help either.

I know due to human nature adcoms pay attention to beauty. That got me thinking, would being muscular give any short of advantage or do they not care? There was a thread about how people cant help but give the advantage to the more attractive candidates. Would muscles have the same or similar effect.

Additional info: I'm not talking physically fit but noticeably ripped. Also assume the candidate has competitive GPA, MCAT and ECs

Our committee meets every two weeks. We can barely remember faces, much less names. And I can assure you that in >12 years of doing interviews, not one of my fellow Adcom members has said as a prompt to another: "Don't you remember that guy? He's was the one that really, really buff".

However, *****s we remember.
Nevermind i'll assume the answer is yes.
Logic: if the adcom notice you have a above average built, it will provided added visual memory.

 

[Doctor Strange]

No, but really... For every adcom that gives a flying crap about it, there's probably another one that has the opposite opinion. When you start looking at dumb little minutiae like this, you're going about this whole process the wrong way. Just look nice, and leave it at that.

 

[Time Table]

Everyday that you don't work out, I am. So uncles you wanna be that twig bitch at the interview, I Suggest you pick up some weights, princess. #swolelife

 

[listener23]

No, and asking insipid questions doesn't help either.

I know due to human nature adcoms pay attention to beauty. That got me thinking, would being muscular give any short of advantage or do they not care? There was a thread about how people cant help but give the advantage to the more attractive candidates. Would muscles have the same or similar effect.

Additional info: I'm not talking physically fit but noticeably ripped. Also assume the candidate has competitive GPA, MCAT and ECs

Our committee meets every two weeks. We can barely remember faces, much less names. And I can assure you that in >12 years of doing interviews, not one of my fellow Adcom members has said as a prompt to another: "Don't you remember that guy? He's was the one that really, really buff".

However, *****s we remember.
Nevermind i'll assume the answer is yes.
Logic: if the adcom notice you have a above average built, it will provided added visual memory.

Thanks got it, and ouch.

 

[NickNaylor]

Thanks got it, and ouch.

If you could use your brain and some semblance of common sense along with self-control to not post asinine threads about whatever vomit comes out of your mind you might find that people would be more willing to be more gentle with your posts. Of course I doubt you care and I'm putting the likelihood of you getting banned in the next 30 days as >75%, but just a tip.

 

[The Buff OP]

Need stats for OP H/W/BP/Sq/DL

Idk man do some post searching and find them.