how did a foreigner who cant speak english get accepted to columbia?!?

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Well, the degree wasn't an important detail so I think you're right.
 
Lol the comments on this article are priceless. I love people who think they know everything about a subject but don't know **** XD

Like this one: "That's actually a good question. He probably did very well on some Medical exam but how he was able to pass it without knowing English is interesting. Perhaps since the terms are all latin based it was the same in his native language and he was able to do it that way. But it is a bit of a mystery. Especially when you think of all those deserving English speaking Americans who he got accepted over."

Lmao
 
My money is on him getting accepted to undergrad and listing his major as "pre-med".

Also...hand grenades don't have powder, they have plastic explosive (C-4) >.<
 
My school requires an undergrad degree (sometimes a PhD is substituted) from a US or Canadian school and I'd expect the same from Columbia. I suspect he was admitted as a pre-med and the family interpreted it as "studying to be a doctor".
 
I agree with the pre-med part. The reporter should issue a correction. It is reflecting poorly on Columbia Med
 
He's probably going in as an undergrad student. But still, the article mentioned he's going to columbia med at least twice, and that he was on his way to accepting an "Ivy league medical degree." Poor reporting, I'd imagine.
 
I doubt he could even get accepted to Columbia undergrad without a good TOEFL score. Perhaps he was accepted to graduate school; those programs tend to be more forgiving of people with poor English language skills.
 
His parents worked for the government in Uzbek... Governments are all corrupt, probably some you rub my back and ill rub yours deal going on, or you take our son into your prestigious American medical school and we won't bomb it, or we'll donate $10 million to you.
 
GOMERE said:
His parents worked for the government in Uzbek... Governments are all corrupt, probably some you rub my back and ill rub yours deal going on, or you take our son into your prestigious American medical school and we won't bomb it, or we'll donate $10 million to you.
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Srsly? This guy is from Uzbekistan; they're barely a country.
 
This brings up a larger point -- many medical schools have "non medical" students under them but yet their diploma still says "X University School of Medicine" on it.

Johns Hopkins is one of these places. BME is a department under the medical school, and whenever somebody graduates from their program, the diploma says "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine." This means that if it was a BME student who got arrested for terrorism, the newspaper would say "Mr Terrorist graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2011."

Med schools need to stop this ridiculous nonsense. The ONLY diploma that should read "School of Medicine" on it is for physicians.
 
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