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type12 said:
I googled search "place for whiney, neurotic premeds to talk out of their ###." Every result on the first page was SDN.

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Exhibit A? :smuggrin:

But honestly, googling anything premed related brings up SDN.
 
Googling MD/PhD advice a year ago, somehow made it to a post by @Neuronix obsessed over his/her blog then came back here tee hee
 
I was googling up some questions about physician assistant scope of practice like 8 years ago when I wanted to be a PA and stumbled across SDN in the process. Little did I know that the things I read on here would make me one day decide to go down the physician path, as I never would have even considered med school without SDN.
 
Google. Only other mention I heard of it outside teh internetz was when my pre-med advisor was giving a presentation and somehow fit an emphatic God Warrior-esq "WHATEVER YOU DO, STAY AWAY FROM SDN!!!!" in there.
 
I've been a long time lurker. There came a time I was reading content everyday, so I decided to sign up. I'm a huge fan. 😀

Now...if you guys could get some real merchandise, let me know about it.
 
I googled "pre med community" because none of my friends (or anyone I knew in school) was seriously interested in medicine. I had no one to bounce ideas off of or ask questions to. I appreciate SDN so much 🙂 from avid reader to now member!
 
WillburCobb said:
Google. Only other mention I heard of it outside teh internetz was when my pre-med advisor was giving a presentation and somehow fit an emphatic God Warrior-esq "WHATEVER YOU DO, STAY AWAY FROM SDN!!!!" in there.
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What's funny is that SDN can be better than a lot of premed advisors who give their students bad advice.
 
DermViser said:
What's funny is that SDN can be better than a lot of premed advisors who give their students bad advice.
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Oh if only you could've met her. Nothing says I can help you get into med school like a BS in creative writing and an MS in Botany that you haven't done anything with for almost 30 years. She told me I'd be lucky to even receive an II at a newer DO schools when I graduated. 2 years later after I received my acceptances I went to her office to tell her about them and where I had been accepted just to see the look on her face. It was priceless, but I'm pretty sure she thought I was lying to her. The cognitive dissonance is strong with that one.
 
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WillburCobb said:
Oh if only you could've met her. Nothing says I can help you get into med school like a BS in creative writing and an MS in Botany that you haven't done anything with for almost 30 years. She told me I'd be lucky to even receive an II at a newer DO school when I graduated. 2 years later after I received my acceptance I went to her office to tell her of my acceptances and where I had been accepted just to see the look on her face. It was priceless, but I'm pretty sure she thought I was lying to her. The cognitive dissonance is strong with that one.
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Part of the problem is they are not paid enough to care to actually research this stuff. They either go to one extreme that you have to be perfect 4.0/45 or they're too lax. Not to mention, they have no idea about different tiers of med schoools, good idea for extracurriculars and buffing your CV, etc.
 
googling something when studying for the mcat
 
I was freaking out in Starbucks after I found out I got a D in Orgo and I guess googled something to do with it and SDN came up.
 
Started googling random things about how to become a doctor during the fall of my senior year of highschool. Without SDN I doubt I would have even known what classes to take :laugh:
 
Ah, now I remember. It was junior year of HS and I searched "how long is medical school" to show my parents who thought it was something like 12 years long. SDN was one of the top results c. 2010.
 
googled about applying to med school, this popped up.
 
I tried to launch a website that pretty much mimicked SDN. Ended up here. Fun times!
 
I googled something quite a few years back regarding: "How little will I actually be paid as a wildlife veterinarian?" SDN came up then I decided to visit it a year later when I was more interested in it from the pre-med stand point.
 
I was Googling medical school information very surreptitiously, as I hadn't yet decided to go for the MD, and it kept coming up. Honestly, it gave me a large enough information source to solidify my decision and eventually tell my family.
 
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I KNEW IT. I found some of the most ridiculous interview questions I got right here. I figured applicants posted them after they got them and other interviewers would see these weirdo questions and be like oh this would be great for my students.
 
I googled "Is it fair for URM nurse practitioner to eat poop hotdog for Affordable Care Act? What are my chances?"

Gold. Mine.
 
Bingo. I hate the "Where do you see yourself in ten years?" type questions.

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I KNEW IT. I found some of the most ridiculous interview questions I got right here. I figured applicants posted them after they got them and other interviewers would see these weirdo questions and be like oh this would be great for my students.
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A friend's premed son told me he'd found SDN to be a good source of application advice. When I mentioned it to another friend, an adcomm at a different school, she told me her school took a dim view of the site. Naturally, I was forced to check it out to reconcile these two points of view. I swam into these whirlpool 8 application cycles ago and have yet to break free. 🙂

Edit: Maybe that means I'm swimming with the sharks?
 
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Catalystik said:
A friend's premed son told me he'd found SDN to be a good source of application advice. When I mentioned it to another friend, an adcomm at a different school, she told me her school took a dim view of the site. Naturally, I was forced to check it out to reconcile this two points of view. I swam into this whirlpool 8 application cycles ago and have yet to break free. 🙂
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Of course an adcom hates SDN, it opens the door of secrecy for them. Poor babies.
 
My pre-med advisor didn't give me a whole heck of a lot of guidance, so whenever I had questions about stuff and Googled them, SDN threads were always the top results. After I while I figured I should stop just coming on here when I had questions and actually sign-up. :heckyeah:
 
I was procrastinating on an essay for this summer-school program I was in and started googling stuff on how to become a doctor. SDN came up and I was fascinated.
 
Long time lurker on SDN. Medical students at my school talk about having used advisers and mentors during undergrad and I don't get it--- nearly any question that isn't specific to your personal application (in which case, you can make a new thread) can be found on SDN. SDN provides a large pool of opinions to sort through and evaluate, and then you can decide for yourself what is the most sensible advice. I don't think I would trust some random adviser from my undergrad school without corroborating their advice first, so I just never used one.

My buddy and I didn't know any older students who could mentor us, so we just used SDN to figure how to play The Game.
 
It was while I was doing the waiting game, couple months before acceptance; I just found it on Google asking some application question. Now that I know how SDN is, I am VERY glad I did not find it earlier. During premed, while studying for MCAT, etc. It would have caused a lot more unneeded stress. Post application cycle, and post acceptance, SDN is actually a really fun website. Helps keep you up with the most recent med school news, and it is pretty frickin hilarious most of the time!
 
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It was while I was doing the waiting game, couple months before acceptance; I just found it on Google asking some application question. Now that I know how SDN is, I am VERY glad I did not find it earlier. During premed, while studying for MCAT, etc. It would have caused a lot more unneeded stress. Post application cycle, and post acceptance, SDN is actually a really fun website. Helps keep you up with the most recent med school news, and it is pretty frickin hilarious most of the time!
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While the neuroticism is strong, I think the advice I found here is what got me accepted.
 
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