Haha. Mcindoe, see your quote below. It is kind of interesting that you paint yourself as humble one moment with the need to protect the underdog, but then feel the need to tell everyone (without it being solicited, mind you) that you attended a top 10 school, published 10 times, won a bunch of awards, got all honors, have 10+ interview invites, and then scold me for saying, "I am so excited! I got a Hopkins invite! It made my weekend." Come on now. Isn't that a bit hypocritical? It was interesting to me when someone in a later post astutely recognized that you were a bit high strung. I should have picked up on it too....
"While I'm flattered to have received invitations already, it would bother me if I got rejected from any program before my Dean's letter is released on nov 1st because you would think that a document that contains a summary of my academic performance in med school would matter...at least as much as anything else that's been uploaded to ERAS....but then again it just suggests one thing: board score cutoffs. Oh well. Pisses me off that you can go to a top ten med school, publish over 10 articles, win a bunch of prestigious awards, work your butt off to get all honors grades during third year, and other stuff that i consider accomplishments and your app can be tossed in the trash if you don't score above an arbitrary number on a standardized test. Are places like that looking for good test takers, or people that will make good doctors?
Don't mean to vent, but it's just frustrating knowing that some programs filter out applicants based on board scores alone, cause it downplays everything else we all do in med school that would give programs a sense of who would contribute their talents to a program. My personal gripe is that if I get rejected from some of the academic programs because I don't make a board score cutoff, that's enough of a reason to dump my app, but if I've published more articles than most junior faculty at their institution, no one will ever know cause the secretary won't print it out cause it doesn't make the board score cutoff, which for all i know could be by 1 point. oh well, if that happens then it's just not meant to be.
As far as why I responded in this forum instead of personally pming you.... It is simple. You initiated a public attack on me for no reason. You can try to sugar coat it, but that is what it was. I did not attack you in my response. I instead offered a public explanation to your public accusations. Perhaps, I did lower myself by stooping to your level. I will take that under advisement and will conduct myself differently next time. However, the language of my email was clearly "it could be seen as." Yours was blatently accusatory. More amusing, no one else has stated they feel the same way you do which further lends credence to my argument that perhaps you are just a bit frazzled at the process and that is causing you to demonstrate some behavior that I deem inappropriate.
I still see nothing wrong with my post over my excitement at my Hopkins invite. Scroll up. You will see other posts similar to mine in this thread and last year's. (I see comments of Yay! Someone else wrote, "effectively I am through!" (when they got Brigham)!, etc) You are merely upset that you have not gotten an interview to Hopkins or Brigham and want to use my comments today as an excuse to vent. You proved my point by quoting my Hopkins comment. That is the one that angered you. Not the one today. Be honest. You were just lying in wait until I posted again for any reason to attack me, weren't you? Please don't take your anger out on me. I have no control over interview invites. I am not the enemy.
Not being able to be happy for others speaks volumes about your character. There was no battle to fight, so there was no reason for you to stand up for yourself. What were you standing up for? 😕
I will not respond further to this topic as I have nothing further to say that would edify you or anyone else on this topic. If you wish to argue further, it will be a one-sided argument unless another SDN member wants to debate this with you. I believe I have proven my point and am satisfied with knowing that everyone else besides you understood my intentions.
but also = could be good news 😍 .
