I'm getting really nervous, do you think ADCOM has a sense of humor?

[LordHelmet]

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Back in high school, me and my friends made up this organization as a joke called S.O.O.C. . It stands for SECRET ORDER OF THE CATERPILLAR. It's not a real organization, we made it up to put on all of our applications for stuff. When we applied to colleges, we put S.O.O.C. as an extra curricular activity. We always put 5.816 hours per week, since 5.816 is the perfect number. I got accepted to all the colleges, but I only really applied to tier 2 undergrads. I put S.O.O.C. down when I applied for national honors society, part-time jobs; its even listed in the activities section next to our pictures in the high school yearbook. I also put S.O.O.C. on my med school application....for my Title i put "cracking chrysalis", since i'm second in command. For contact, i put one of my friends and his title is "head monarch". of course, i put 5.816 hours per week. For description I put something like "due to the secret nature of the secret order of the caterpillar, i am barred from ever revealing the secrets that lie within our secret organization. If I or one of my fellow Lepidopteras were to ever reveal said secrets, we would thus have to change our name to the "Not So Secret Order of the Caterpillar".

Was my med-school application not the place for this kind of sillyness? i'm nervous they'll immediately garbage my applications when they see this nonsense. Everything else on my application was truthful and serious. (GPA=3.7, sci=3.6, mcat=31P)

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Yep, it's over.

 

[sistahnik]

well if everyone at all those institutions believed that it was a real organization, then why would adcoms think any different? are they some type of new breed or something!! 😀 but on a serious note, I think you may have went a little tooooo far with the joke, I mean this may not have been the better judgement to use in a life altering event such as med school application. hopefully you won't see any backfire!!!

 

[Mr. Rosewater]

what if they're members themselves? then you're in...

 

[sistahnik]

Mr. Rosewater

 

[docmemi]

what if they're members themselves? then you're in...

good point.

 

[antoniodlc]

if i were an adcom member, i would seriously question your maturity. there is a time and place for being silly and funny, but posting something in your application as a joke is inappropriate.

 

[medic170]

if i were an adcom member, i would seriously question your maturity. there is a time and place for being silly and funny, but posting something in your application as a joke is inappropriate.

Exactly. You need to grow up. I seriously doubt any ADCOM would take you seriously, if your post is even serious.

 

[dhoonlee]

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[stinkycheese]

I am 99.9999% sure this poster is kidding, but if not, then really--you need to grow up! Not only is your joke immature, it's also a misrepresentation of your commitments during undergrad. Saying that you spent 20 hours/month on any activity when, uh, you didn't do anything is the same as lying on your application. You coud, and should, get in a lot of trouble for this.

But you won't, cause it's all a joke, right?

 

[kels]

I was hoping you were telling the truth. That would be the funniest thing ever. I don't know why people are telling you to grow up. It shows you have a sense of humor and you will relate well to kids - not just little people, but to the kid in all of us. I think it's sad that you have to let go of childhood things to become an adult? Becoming an adult involves other things.

But I think you're joking cause 5.816 doesn't appear to be a perfect number.

 

[stinkycheese]

I was hoping you were telling the truth. That would be the funniest thing ever. I don't know why people are telling you to grow up. It shows you have a sense of humor and you will relate well to kids - not just little people, but to the kid in all of us. I think it's sad that you have to let go of childhood things to become an adult? Becoming an adult involves other things.

But I think you're joking cause 5.816 doesn't appear to be a perfect number.

There is a way to maintain child-like joy and love for life without showing disrespect for professionalism. Schools are going to be picking the next generation of physicians based on these apps. They want to know that people have a good sense of when it is appropriate to be goofy, and when it is not. Does that mean that people shouldn't be funloving? No. But it does mean that, like any trait, you need to know when to reign in the goofiness. After all, you don't want a doctor at the bedside of a terminal patient being all goofy and thinking that it will cheer them up, when in actuality it'll just make them think you're a turd.

 

[KNightInBlue]

what if they're members themselves? then you're in...

Well, he said him and his friends made it up, so I'd doubt it.

On a more serious note, LordHelmet (funny name btw), I think you'll be fine. ONE humorous reference in your application won't ban you from med schools. It may work for some, may not for others, but bottome line - will it automatically get you rejected?
I highly doubt it.

This is not to say that I condone behaviour of this sort! But I think you'll be fine.........some adcoms might even get a chuckle out of it.

 

[kels]

There is a way to maintain child-like joy and love for life without showing disrespect for professionalism. Schools are going to be picking the next generation of physicians based on these apps. They want to know that people have a good sense of when it is appropriate to be goofy, and when it is not. Does that mean that people shouldn't be funloving? No. But it does mean that, like any trait, you need to know when to reign in the goofiness. After all, you don't want a doctor at the bedside of a terminal patient being all goofy and thinking that it will cheer them up, when in actuality it'll just make them think you're a turd.

OK, I agree it's going too far if it interferes with professionalism. And if he is telling the truth, he probably went a little too far and should've reigned in this lie earlier. But I appreciate that he has the sense of humor to make up his post.

 

[bkmonkey]

wow, people need to lay off the crack...this application goes to the gatekeepers of your future. it is seriously NOT the time to be messing around. i gotta salute you if you made this up though, it's pretty damn funny.

 

[stinkycheese]

Well, he said him and his friends made it up, so I'd doubt it.

On a more serious note, LordHelmet (funny name btw), I think you'll be fine. ONE humorous reference in your application won't ban you from med schools. It may work for some, may not for others, but bottome line - will it automatically get you rejected?
I highly doubt it.

I think this is a serious honesty issue, though. AMCAS is so strict with regards to its regulations that I can see where a made-up organization with made-up service commitments (5 hours a week), even in an obvious joke, would be construed as dishonesty in the application. It may provoke an investigation. Or it may just make adcoms think that you are sorely lacking in judgment.

 

[tautomer]

Dear God I hope you're kidding cause that may be the silliest thing I've ever heard someone of your intelligence do. If you ARE telling the truth and this is for real, I only have one question: what was that LAST, split second decision of agreement that went on in your head which allowed you to go ahead and write something like that on a proffessional application to a proffessional school like medical school? I mean, honestly, you had to have consciously made the decision to put something like that on there before you did it.

I apologize if I sound harsh. I didn't want to. I guess I just have to say that I hope the admissions committees can see your joke and regard it as humorous, not because I think they'll regard it as the "pure reflection of the kind of doctor you will make," but because it's just NOT that funny. And the fact that you've been doing it for so long!!!....

 

[ZOT! ZOT!]

I'm thinking of a word that starts with L and ends with oser. Can you guess which one it is?

 

[Luck]

I'm thinking of a word that starts with L and ends with oser. Can you guess which one it is?

You must be thinking of the word "looser."

From the dictionary:
looser - 1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.

I don't get it. 😕

 

[bkmonkey]

You must be thinking of the word "looser."

From the dictionary:
looser - 1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.

I don't get it. 😕

LOL

 

[Sage880]

I'm really sorry, but I think that's the type of thing that might put a big black mark on your application.

So no, I don't think they have any sense of humor at all!

 

[MEG@COOL]

Back in high school, me and my friends made up this organization as a joke called S.O.O.C. . It stands for SECRET ORDER OF THE CATERPILLAR. It's not a real organization, we made it up to put on all of our applications for stuff. When we applied to colleges, we put S.O.O.C. as an extra curricular activity. We always put 5.816 hours per week, since 5.816 is the perfect number. I got accepted to all the colleges, but I only really applied to tier 2 undergrads. I put S.O.O.C. down when I applied for national honors society, part-time jobs; its even listed in the activities section next to our pictures in the high school yearbook. I also put S.O.O.C. on my med school application....for my Title i put "cracking chrysalis", since i'm second in command. For contact, i put one of my friends and his title is "head monarch". of course, i put 5.816 hours per week. For description I put something like "due to the secret nature of the secret order of the caterpillar, i am barred from ever revealing the secrets that lie within our secret organization. If I or one of my fellow Lepidopteras were to ever reveal said secrets, we would thus have to change our name to the "Not So Secret Order of the Caterpillar".

Was my med-school application not the place for this kind of sillyness? i'm nervous they'll immediately garbage my applications when they see this nonsense. Everything else on my application was truthful and serious. (GPA=3.7, sci=3.6, mcat=31P)

You are fvcking awesome dude. LOL.

 

[MEG@COOL]

If this is real Id give you an acceptance for having the balls to put that on your app.

 

[Pooh Chong]

oh, if this is true, I'm sure this will get you denied at all schools. Worst case scenario...one school finds out...they will alert the amcas people...then all schools will be alerted (including your undergrad) and your primary application will probably go under review - at that point all of your ECs will be investigated (and then you better hope you didn't fudge any of those numbers).

I've heard people say...that often med school students are all so qualified that sometimes instead of looking for how great you are - they look for weakness/question marks to differentiate between who gets in or doesn't. You just gave them a question mark.

Well, if it's all a joke...this thread is a better joke thread than all of those irrating "I have a 42T, and 4.0 gpa, 100 publications, 1 nobel prize...do i have a chance for medical school?" threads.

 

[bewitched1081]

oh, if this is true, I'm sure this will get you denied at all schools. Worst case scenario...one school finds out...they will alert the amcas people...then all schools will be alerted (including your undergrad) and your primary application will probably go under review - at that point all of your ECs will be investigated (and then you better hope you didn't fudge any of those numbers).

I've heard people say...that often med school students are all so qualified that sometimes instead of looking for how great you are - they look for weakness/question marks to differentiate between who gets in or doesn't. You just gave them a question mark.

Well, if it's all a joke...this thread is a better joke thread than all of those irrating "I have a 42T, and 4.0 gpa, 100 publications, 1 nobel prize...do i have a chance for medical school?" threads.

even if you did get a nobel prize, the adcoms would still look for reasons to reject you. just dont give them any reasons! but dont stress about something you cant change either.

 

[SarahGM]

Just be prepared to talk about it in your interviews.

And by talk about it, I mean answer a lot of questions.

 

[Lil'Bunny]

I hope that this isn't true. There is a time and place for humor.

I'm assuming that this post is predicated on a joke, a joke on us.

If not, this guy is an idiot. I'm feeling so good about my application these days. The more I read, the more I know that there are so many idiots applying to medical school. Post, after post, of stupidity. It scares me to think that some of these people will get in.

 

[bkmonkey]

I hope that this isn't true. There is a time and place for humor.

I'm assuming that this post is predicated on a joke, a joke on us.

If not, this guy is an idiot. I'm feeling so good about my application these days. The more I read, the more I know that there are so many idiots applying to medical school. Post, after post, of stupidity. It scares me to think that some of these people will get in.

Wow, you sure sit on a high horse...

 

[Lil'Bunny]

Not really, it just scares me to think that some of these people, some of the people that I've known personally, will become doctors.

These people will be treating people, potentially us, and they'll be dealing with issues of life and death. Someday, I hope that I'm sitting on a committee, I know that I'll rejecting lots of people.

 

[bkmonkey]

Not really, it just scares me to think that some of these people, some of the people that I've known personally, will become doctors.

These people will be treating people, potentially us, and they'll be dealing with issues of life and death. Someday, I hope that I'm sitting on a committee, I know that I'll rejecting lots of people.

So you're saying none of these people will grow and learn while they are in medical school. I have many faults that I know I have to deal with before I become a doctor. It must be nice to know who will be a good doctor or not...the adcoms would probably appreciate your consultation.

 

[stinkycheese]

These people will be treating people, potentially us, and they'll be dealing with issues of life and death. Someday, I hope that I'm sitting on a committee, I know that I'll rejecting lots of people.

I agree that what the OP did was stupid, but beware, man- karma's a bitch. I wouldn't spend too much time reveling in all the rejections you are going to dole out when you'e on an Ad Com, lest the Ad Coms revel in rejecting you!

 

[LordHelmet]

ok the jig is up, the guilt has finally got to me. As many of you guessed, I lied. I'm just an MS-III really tired from rotations trying to blow off some steam 😀 . S.O.O.C. did exist in high school, but it has been dead for awhile. We did put it in the yearbook and a couple job applications, but that's it. I didn't put it on my med school application, i didn't even put it on my undergrad application. I come from a line of pediatricians (my father and grandfather) with wacky senses of humor (which is where i got mine) and their kid patients love them, but they are really really strict when it comes to business matters like my future. They both put a lot of pressure on me to become a pediatrician like them and carry on the practice we own (they aren't forcing me to do something I don't want to do, I really do want to be a ped dr., but all the pressure is annoying and unnecessary). Anyways, my father checked my college and med school applications atleast 10 times and he would've NEVER let me put something like SOOC in my application 😉

 

[Lil'Bunny]

So, I was right. It was a joke. And if was real, I was justified and saying that it was stupid.

 

[calcrew14]

ok the jig is up, the guilt has finally got to me. As many of you guessed, I lied.

Dude 😀 , it isn't too nice to stall the engine on the fly. 🙄

Now I know why you are LordHelmet. It's an invitation for people to whack you some in the head, right? You are probably aware of the customary assumption here that everyone else is stupendously stupid. It doesn't matter if one is straightforward or perverted; s/he still needs to protect himself at all time.

To answer you question; adcoms definitely have (too much of) a sense of humor. 😀 That?s how they let half of you guys in without any assistance by navigating darts, dices, wheels of fortune or a coin flipping ceremony.
*duck, duck a lot more and then keep ducking* 😱 🙄

Now would you lend me one of your helmet, please? 😀

 

[SarahGM]

So you're saying none of these people will grow and learn while they are in medical school. I have many faults that I know I have to deal with before I become a doctor. It must be nice to know who will be a good doctor or not...the adcoms would probably appreciate your consultation.

AdComs ARE basically gatekeepers to the profession, and they know it. Once you're in medical school, it's not terribly difficult to graduate. The hard part is getting in.

 

[mooklyster]

So, I was right. It was a joke. And if was real, I was justified and saying that it was stupid.

You know, I was in your boat along this post until now. Like a poster said, this was funny, but damn, take the stick out of your a**. The actual problem with med school as I see it is actually people like you getting in. IT WAS A JOKE ON US.

 

[LP1CW]

Mooklyster, you're an idiot too. Lil'bunny is an idiot. I just scanned through this and most of you guys are idiots.

It was clearly a joke. And I don't hope that you guys don't get into medical school. I hope you do. Luckily, this is forum and people post stupid things and write stupid things because it's amusing.

And lets let this dumb thread die. It's dumb. I'm done. Done. No more.

 

[!dr_nick!]

I dunno, i sure got a kick out of this thread. Most premeds definitely need to lighten up a little, though not take things less seriously.
But, there are many people who do really stupid things, like the predental student writing his/her entrance essay in the shape of a tooth, or the student mailing a door with a foot through it to "get his foot in the door". If nothing its funny to read this stuff and to be glad that we have done nothing like that.

 

[Newquagmire]

i thought it was funny. reminds me of stupid stuff from hs.

 

[DieselPetrolGrl]

By telling us about it, you have just broken your sworn oath to the secret order.

HOW TRUE!..so can i join??? * dons fake wings she spent 5.816 hrs making out of tissue, sparklers, and 2 lbs of glitter *

 

[gary5]

That was a stupid thing to do. But, if you're lucky, they won't notice it. Or, if you're a bit less lucky, they'll notice it, but somehow assume that it's legitimate. Well, you've gambled with your own future. If you lose, maybe you'll learn something. They should be thorough enough to deny you completely, but who knows. Frankly, you're not mature enough to be responsible for another person's health. Grow up. If you don't get accepted, you can always apply again next year.

 

[Mr. Rosewater]

That was a stupid thing to do. But, if you're lucky, they won't notice it. Or, if you're a bit less lucky, they'll notice it, but somehow assume that it's legitimate. Well, you've gambled with your own future. If you lose, maybe you'll learn something. They should be thorough enough to deny you completely, but who knows. Frankly, you're not mature enough to be responsible for another person's health. Grow up. If you don't get accepted, you can always apply again next year.

hmmm 👍

 

[HollyJ]

Holy God, some of you are really, really boring people.

In all seriousness, one of my letters of recommendation included the line, "either that, or she's an android, which I seriously doubt."

 

[gschl1234]

Hmm. It's quite an interesting thing that you did! Let us know if it comes up in interviews because I've always suspected that the Adcoms don't read the 15 activities all that carefully. I assume they look at your numbers, skim through the essay and transcript and less than skim through your activities, but I may be wrong. But, honestly, if I saw something like that on an application, it would make the decision to send out a rejection very easy. Sorry 🙁

 

[NubianPrincess]

I dunno, i sure got a kick out of this thread. Most premeds definitely need to lighten up a little, though not take things less seriously.
But, there are many people who do really stupid things, like the predental student writing his/her entrance essay in the shape of a tooth, or the student mailing a door with a foot through it to "get his foot in the door". If nothing its funny to read this stuff and to be glad that we have done nothing like that.

Did you read that Barron's personal statement book too dude? 👍

 

[medic170]

That was a stupid thing to do. But, if you're lucky, they won't notice it. Or, if you're a bit less lucky, they'll notice it, but somehow assume that it's legitimate. Well, you've gambled with your own future. If you lose, maybe you'll learn something. They should be thorough enough to deny you completely, but who knows. Frankly, you're not mature enough to be responsible for another person's health. Grow up. If you don't get accepted, you can always apply again next year.

Ok, he admitted he was lying, so why are people still taking this seriously? Honestly, I am more concerned about you than i am for Helmet 🙄

 

[sacrament]

This thread is further proof of both the First and Second Theory of SDN.

The Theories, with Examples Preceding.

(More evidence is contained in this thread)

 

[medic170]

This thread is further proof of both the First and Second Theory of SDN.

The Theories, with Examples Preceding.

(More evidence is contained in this thread)

So true..LOL

 

[Peter Griffin]

This thread brings up a very good question. What about those of us who have become entwined in organizations that require sworn secrecy! I know that I was once a member of a clandestine little club, I'll call it the "skulls". It's like a frat, but secret. It's a very exclusive club, and only a few, affluent, dignified individuals-like myself-are able to join. This is something that should be on my app, but who am I to taint the code of the skulls and reveal my true identity and membership. Quite the condundrum.

 

[medic170]

This thread brings up a very good question. What about those of us who have become entwined in organizations that require sworn secrecy! I know that I was once a member of a clandestine little club, I'll call it the "skulls". It's like a frat, but secret. It's a very exclusive club, and only a few, affluent, dignified individuals-like myself-are able to join. This is something that should be on my app, but who am I to taint the code of the skulls and reveal my true identity and membership. Quite the condundrum.

Yeah, I saw that movie too