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I can't apply :(
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Ok, ya know......I was giving the benefit of the doubt and thinking "people are over-reacting with their comments." But, JKD, this thread escalated in no small part due to the fact that you were snotty in response to comments that were meant to be helpful.
Ok, so you don't have money. So you aren't close to campus. So you are out of financial aid. Do something about it or shut up. You don't have to spend $400 to apply to medical school and you sure as heck don't have to do it in the next 2 weeks. If you think nobody here understands you, then you need a reality check cause we've all been there. I've got a family of four, been out of undergrad for 10 years. I don't have the money to waste on useless applications and I don't have the time to go chasing down a LOR. But I spent what I had to in terms of time & money. I made the long-distance calls to the dean of students month after month to get his letter and I called the profs as many times as I had to in order to make sure they had not forgotten me.
If the gov't aid is out and you can't find more money somewhere else, then find a way to save the money you have. Someone else suggested a class at a community college--it was a valid suggestion, given that not a darn one of us knows your actual bank acct balance. You didnt' have to fly off the handle complaining that *we're* making assumptions.
Nope, none of us know you personally so we can't "judge" your personality by anything more than your posts. And from those, I think you sound an awful lot like my 10-yr-old--you have an idea in your that you're right and unless we agree with you, we're wrong. That's the attitude that had my daughter freezing her butt off this morning because she wouldn't listen to reason when I told her 65 was too cold for shorts.
Put your big girl panties on and deal with it. It's not going to get any easier.
Ok, so you don't have money. So you aren't close to campus. So you are out of financial aid. Do something about it or shut up. You don't have to spend $400 to apply to medical school and you sure as heck don't have to do it in the next 2 weeks. If you think nobody here understands you, then you need a reality check cause we've all been there. I've got a family of four, been out of undergrad for 10 years. I don't have the money to waste on useless applications and I don't have the time to go chasing down a LOR. But I spent what I had to in terms of time & money. I made the long-distance calls to the dean of students month after month to get his letter and I called the profs as many times as I had to in order to make sure they had not forgotten me.
If the gov't aid is out and you can't find more money somewhere else, then find a way to save the money you have. Someone else suggested a class at a community college--it was a valid suggestion, given that not a darn one of us knows your actual bank acct balance. You didnt' have to fly off the handle complaining that *we're* making assumptions.
Nope, none of us know you personally so we can't "judge" your personality by anything more than your posts. And from those, I think you sound an awful lot like my 10-yr-old--you have an idea in your that you're right and unless we agree with you, we're wrong. That's the attitude that had my daughter freezing her butt off this morning because she wouldn't listen to reason when I told her 65 was too cold for shorts.
Put your big girl panties on and deal with it. It's not going to get any easier.
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This thread is terrible, sorry I even looked at it
I know what you mean, bobo. My left eye is twitching and no good can ever come of that!
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Just because you guys have applied to medical school doesn't mean the situations are the same.
My biggest irritation are people getting pissed off because I don't find their irrelevent information useful. A few people have given some useful advice and I appreciate it. Most others have made suggestions based on completely irrelevant or incorrect information, then expect a thanks for it? I stated in the first or second post of mine that my letters were from science faculty, yet following there are several posts regarding my missing DO letter.
Hell, I said as early as post #18 that I didn't have the money to take any more classes just for a LOR, yet it was suggested how many times after that?
How many people give the same exact "advice" as someone before them did? What's the point of this?
The thread was about my letters of recommendation. Not taking more classes (which I said I couldn't do), not getting more financial aid (which I said I can't get), and not about my personality (which is completely irrelevent).
So what am I supposed to do? Smile and thank everyone who supplies me with bull**** advice or "enlightens" everyone with pointless personal attacks or, God forbid, unqualified "personality" evaluations?
If you're tired of me acting like your, "10-year old daughter", then stop posting inflammatory personal attacks. Such as calling me immature/stupid/Passive-aggressive/suggesting I fix my panties, etc. Not surprisingly, I have seen many young teenagers post the similar comments towards others on message boards. Guess you're not much better than I am then, huh? 🙄
My biggest irritation are people getting pissed off because I don't find their irrelevent information useful. A few people have given some useful advice and I appreciate it. Most others have made suggestions based on completely irrelevant or incorrect information, then expect a thanks for it? I stated in the first or second post of mine that my letters were from science faculty, yet following there are several posts regarding my missing DO letter.
Hell, I said as early as post #18 that I didn't have the money to take any more classes just for a LOR, yet it was suggested how many times after that?
How many people give the same exact "advice" as someone before them did? What's the point of this?
The thread was about my letters of recommendation. Not taking more classes (which I said I couldn't do), not getting more financial aid (which I said I can't get), and not about my personality (which is completely irrelevent).
So what am I supposed to do? Smile and thank everyone who supplies me with bull**** advice or "enlightens" everyone with pointless personal attacks or, God forbid, unqualified "personality" evaluations?
If you're tired of me acting like your, "10-year old daughter", then stop posting inflammatory personal attacks. Such as calling me immature/stupid/Passive-aggressive/suggesting I fix my panties, etc. Not surprisingly, I have seen many young teenagers post the similar comments towards others on message boards. Guess you're not much better than I am then, huh? 🙄
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Okay, is there any more reason to keep this thread open?
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tkim6599 said:
No. I wish it was closed before the bull**** began.
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JKDMed said:
Better late than never.
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