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Every time I get a rejection letter, I think I'm turning into bitterer old man~ even though, I'm already numb...
I think I need some therapy....
Any psychologist around here~
 
What are you talking about you have one acceptance, to a very good school. Don't expect anyone around here to feel sympathy for you. Be grateful for what you have- the opportunity to become a Doctor. This is not a popularity contest, it is not about how many schools you get accepted to, but about the quality of the school (and PCOM is stellar) and what you do once you are there
 
You have an acceptance to PCOM and you are complaining? That's pathetic... Maybe you should give your acceptance to someone who really appreciates it. Then you'll have a real reason to feel "numb."

I'm not usually one to be mean, but that is just plain ridiculous...
 
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CRAWLING IN MY SKIN, I FEEL SO NUMB
 
Assuming you're bummed about that drexel rejection....

Pre-allo is over there ---->

You'll get more sympathy there. Just sayin...
 
Hmm, if I were accepted I would be happier.
 
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Jae said:
Every time I get a rejection letter, I think I'm turning into bitterer old man~ even though, I'm already numb...
I think I need some therapy....
Any psychologist around here~
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What does "bitterness" and "numbness" mean to you? What's underneath your bitterness and numbness? What if it had nothing to do with medical school rejection letters? Is it absolutely true that you are "becoming a bitter old man?" What are you avoiding facing and accepting? What's really going on here?

Meditate on these...

As a side note, I'm curious why you are choosing to focus on your rejections when it is clear that you have already been accepted to a wonderful medical school. There is something juicy here for you to examine. Good luck.
 
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spicedmanna said:
What does "bitterness" and "numbness" mean to you? What's underneath your bitterness and numbness? What if it had nothing to do with medical school rejection letters? Is it absolutely true that you are "becoming a bitter old man?" What are you avoiding facing and accepting? What's really going on here?

Meditate on these...

As a side note, I'm curious why you are choosing to focus on your rejections when it is clear that you have already been accepted to a wonderful medical school. There is something juicy here for you to examine. Good luck.
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hmm...do we have a future psychiatrist on our hands here? 👍 Very good points
 
I think the OP is bummed because apparently the DO isn't fully recognized in his homeland; where is that by the way? All I have to say is give it a little time - the global DO push is underway and China, arguably the only Asian country that matters - at the very least the Asian country by which other Asian countries model, is currently recruiting DOs and is heavily promoting the creation of osteopathic schools on their soil. Rest easy with the DO, friend. The global DO push is underway and has been for some time.
 
If anything you should laugh. Laugh at what those schools are clearly missing out on by not accepting you. One school saw the potential within you, and that is all that matters. This is how I deal with rejections, anyway, and I have almost 3 times as many.
 
Um, you got into PCOM - get over it.
 
I really don't think it's fair to ridicule Jae for feeling bummed out about his rejections. When I first started the my post-bac program, I thought I was going to ace my way through it like I did in college and get into a super stellar medical school (and in my mind, it had to be allopathic - i didn't know anything about osteopathic). And when I took my MCATS -2xs - and did poorly on each, I felt like my whole world came crashing down. I never thought I would get into medical school and thought the idea of applying DO was equivalent to failure. Once I learned about it, my mind was completely changed and I am now proud to be part of the PCOM Class of 2012. I know I am going to be a doctor and I know that I am going to do fantastic at PCOM and love it, but it still emotionally sucks to get a rejection. I am not ungrateful for my PCOM acceptance, but it still stings everytime I get a rejection letter because I think I am good enough to be at those schools while some numbers might say otherwise. I think that's all that Jae was referring to.
 
LauraDO said:
What are you talking about you have one acceptance, to a very good school. Don't expect anyone around here to feel sympathy for you. Be grateful for what you have- the opportunity to become a Doctor. This is not a popularity contest, it is not about how many schools you get accepted to, but about the quality of the school (and PCOM is stellar) and what you do once you are there
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+ like 1000

if this guy didn't have such a comprehensive mdapp i'd think he were a troll
 
fireflygirl said:
I really don't think it's fair to ridicule Jae for feeling bummed out about his rejections. When I first started the my post-bac program, I thought I was going to ace my way through it like I did in college and get into a super stellar medical school (and in my mind, it had to be allopathic - i didn't know anything about osteopathic). And when I took my MCATS -2xs - and did poorly on each, I felt like my whole world came crashing down. I never thought I would get into medical school and thought the idea of applying DO was equivalent to failure. Once I learned about it, my mind was completely changed and I am now proud to be part of the PCOM Class of 2012. I know I am going to be a doctor and I know that I am going to do fantastic at PCOM and love it, but it still emotionally sucks to get a rejection. I am not ungrateful for my PCOM acceptance, but it still stings everytime I get a rejection letter because I think I am good enough to be at those schools while some numbers might say otherwise. I think that's all that Jae was referring to.
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Prepare to get ridiculed when you have something and complain about not having more while other people have nothing.

In retrospect, after reading gasapple's post and his MDapps, I am assuming that he is Korean and is bummed about not having practice rights in that country as a DO. Now THAT is a valid thing to be bummed about 🙂
 
Jae said:
Every time I get a rejection letter, I think I'm turning into bitterer old man~ even though, I'm already numb...
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I am getting sick of this, I don't know why people get angry at the system here in America.
if you see how they accept medical students in India or china, you will think that the American system is a cake walk.

You people don't know how lucky you all are to be born into this country. You really have to live somewhere else to see the benefits of being American.
This is what i suggest you do before you get angry at "another rejection", go live in India or china , I assure you , you will come whimpering back to America in a fetal position.
 
Haha, yea. If you don't score in the 99th percentile in your board scores in high school, you won't be a doctor. Unless you take the Premedical Examination. Which is the mother of all examinations and it will own your face. Completely.

Oh, and you can't take it if you're older than 25.
 
I was talking to one of the indian doctor about the american medical school application process.

He told me that the way indian medical schools works is very simple. If they have 100 spots to fill, they take the top 100 with the highest standardized test score. NO EC, NO GPA, NO RECS, NO INTERVIEWS. Its very simple.
 
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Yeh~
I did this to myself, I know~
Thanks for all the constructive and destructive comments, folks.
out of all the comments, firefly girl nailed it closest.
I'm grateful that I have an acceptance.
I'm grateful that it is PCOM.
However, it still hurts to get those thin white envelops.
And, gasapple is right about DO not recognize in Korea. I wanted to spend the later years there while practicing med(they are making progress towards reunification, meaning needed resources in future). But, that is just a hope.
And, thanks Tex for those advise.
LauraDO, yeh, I felt that I maybe presenting myself as a drama king or something but I thought, is this really wrong to post this? is it?
Thanks to those who took time to look at my mdapps.
Anyhow,
Good luck to everyone.
 
Porco Rosso said:
I was talking to one of the indian doctor about the american medical school application process.

He told me that the way indian medical schools works is very simple. If they have 100 spots to fill, they take the top 100 with the highest standardized test score. NO EC, NO GPA, NO RECS, NO INTERVIEWS. Its very simple.
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This is true. Most of it is MBBS straight after high schools. There are just so many people, and the simplest way is to just take the highest scores. However, it is very very very hard to score that high. Literally hundreds of thousands of students try to score high for very few seats. It is almost impossible to get those seats. There are also inane restrictions, such as maximum age being 25. Or that you can't take a year between 12th grade and you apply. My dad actually took a year off and they subtracted 3% from his standardized Test score. That was quite funny to me.
 
Porco Rosso said:
I was talking to one of the indian doctor about the american medical school application process.

He told me that the way indian medical schools works is very simple. If they have 100 spots to fill, they take the top 100 with the highest standardized test score. NO EC, NO GPA, NO RECS, NO INTERVIEWS. Its very simple.
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Buddy, you don't know what you are talking about.

My cousin locked herself in a room and studied her ass off for an year , all she could score was 12,000.

There are atleast > 50,000 applicants. 12,000 was a good score, but not good enough, she had a very slim shot at low ranking dental and homeopathic schools in India, but only if she paid them 800,000 rupees ($20,000) for a chance to consider her for admission.

For her to get an admission, she has to be under 500 Rank and like I said before, there are atleast >50,000 applicants.
Oh yea, and they don't accept anyone over a certain age range. So no "I am 50, I want to be a doctor" deal.

Hence, the saying God bless America!.
 
Its easier to get into Medical school or engineering school in INDIA because:

1) There are like 10-20 per state (or province).
2) Money counts more in your admission then your grades. I think most of you are thinking about the government run ones, which only take the top of the top students in the country. But these are very few in India. Most of the other medical schools are private which are for profit organizations. They like taking foreign students or rich kids because they know only they can afford such outrageous tuitions.

I know one school in Hyderabad, India requires a down-payment of around 20-30 Lakhs (very rough estimate, 80,000-90,000 dollars), then a yearly tuition.

EDIT: Jae I always thought you were a woman, LOL. Sorry dude I saw your MD apps many times before but I swear it said female, just did I notice it says male. Anyways I understand your pain, just use your rejection letters as a motivation tool to drive you to become a great physician and do crazy awesome in medical school. Good LUCK
 
desijigga said:
EDIT: Jae I always thought you were a woman, LOL. Sorry dude I saw your MD apps many times before but I swear it said female, just did I notice it says male. Anyways I understand your pain, just use your rejection letters as a motivation tool to drive you to become a great physician and do crazy awesome in medical school. Good LUCK
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DUDE~ 😱 !

anyhow, Thanks, man~
 
gasapple said:
I think the OP is bummed because apparently the DO isn't fully recognized in his homeland; where is that by the way? All I have to say is give it a little time - the global DO push is underway and China, arguably the only Asian country that matters - at the very least the Asian country by which other Asian countries model, is currently recruiting DOs and is heavily promoting the creation of osteopathic schools on their soil. Rest easy with the DO, friend. The global DO push is underway and has been for some time.
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No... and no. Typical American's view of the world.
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hopefulmed said:
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I don't know if you are an immigrant or not, but it's incredibly annoying when people from other countries talk about the "typical" american. As if they know all the americans and can find an "average". 🙄

I've had that picture forwarded half a dozen times by my Indian friends and it gets older every time.

I've never had a non-American acknowledge the good the US does - all I hear is b!tching and moaning. Of course, I don't know every non-American out there, but like I said, it gets really old.
 
megboo said:
Interesting. I always thought America was one of the top countries in lending aid to other countries. I suppose we could stop...
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Haha, what does that have to do with the ignorance of the general public regarding world issues?
 
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megboo said:
I don't know if you are an immigrant or not, but it's incredibly annoying when people from other countries talk about the "typical" american. As if they know all the americans and can find an "average". 🙄

I've had that picture forwarded half a dozen times by my Indian friends and it gets older every time.

I've never had a non-American acknowledge the good the US does - all I hear is b!tching and moaning. Of course, I don't know every non-American out there, but like I said, it gets really old.
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I appologize, I hope that no loans will be withdrawn anytime soon due to my opinion. You made a great point with the whole loan connection to what I was pointing out. Thank you! 👍

BTW, I'm an American. Not the blond hair blue eyes kind.. you know.. the other kind.
 
hopefulmed said:
I appologize, I hope that no loans will be withdrawn anytime soon due to my opinion. You made a great point with the whole loan connection to what I was pointing out. Thank you! 👍
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No problem. I'll see to it that they stay in place. 😱

As if I was referring to me actually having the power to do anything with that much money. Do you think I'd be wasting time on SDN if I did? Ha ha!
 
hopefulmed said:
I appologize, I hope that no loans will be withdrawn anytime soon due to my opinion. You made a great point with the whole loan connection to what I was pointing out. Thank you! 👍

BTW, I'm an American. Not the blond hair blue eyes kind.. you know.. the other kind.
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Funny how you bring up blond hair/blue eyes. When I think American, I think of one of about a gazillion different types of people. This place is more than your stereotypes, you know.
 
megboo said:
No problem. I'll see to it that they stay in place. 😱

As if I was referring to me actually having the power to do anything with that much money. Do you think I'd be wasting time on SDN if I did? Ha ha!
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gee... you think? HA... HA... HA! (and HA!)

ok i'm done.
 
megboo said:
Ha ha. Nothing right now - I was just responding to the picture prior to my post.
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I know - the picture is saying how the American public has no idea about the world.
 
Hmm, so do we just not know about Africa?
 
megboo said:
I don't know if you are an immigrant or not, but it's incredibly annoying when people from other countries talk about the "typical" american. As if they know all the americans and can find an "average". 🙄

I've had that picture forwarded half a dozen times by my Indian friends and it gets older every time.

I've never had a non-American acknowledge the good the US does - all I hear is b!tching and moaning. Of course, I don't know every non-American out there, but like I said, it gets really old.
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Our education system sucks
 
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megboo said:
oops, I went to private school. A religious one at that. And lived overseas. I think I fare better than your "typical American".
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Errr, I never implied that you fared badly.
 
megboo said:
oops, I went to private school. A religious one at that. And lived overseas. I think I fare better than your "typical American".
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ditto... were you a military brat?
 
From my personal experience, I have to say this country was the best thing that has ever happened to my family.

And there is no exaggeration in the above statement.
 
Saregamapadanis said:
From my personal experience, I have to say this country was the best thing that has ever happened to my family.

And there is no exaggeration in the above statement.
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My family is the same. It is a pity that many do not experience the hardship of other countries to appreciate how good most Americans have it.
 
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