Sorry I missed all this... The poll was an idea that came from another thread because nobody wanted to predict their own acceptances, so we figured we could make polls for people to predict it for us. I thought the obvious downside to this would be that we would all have to make our own thread and that people might get annoyed, but I figured if they weren't interested they just wouldn't look at it. Anyway, nobody else had made one yet, so I felt like being entertained and made one for me. It crossed my mind that someone might say, "We don't care, go **** yourself." But I didn't think the discussion would continue like it did.
Also, I'm sorry if I come across as arrogant or something. I have been posting on SDN since January of my Sophomore year, way before I ever even took the MCAT or did anything else worth mentioning. I found this place while searching for the age old nerdy pre-med question, "Which is better: Kaplan or Princeton Review?" And I met a lot of people on here while getting ready for the MCAT and then waiting for scores. And there were people on SDN who have helped me with various questions and tips along the way, and I consider them friends. Back when I was preparing for the MCAT, we would all talk about practice test scores and different questions, and it was all good. But then I did well on the MCAT and all of a sudden I can't mention it anymore because it's bragging? I thought about it, but I figured if I was telling the truth before it happened, there was no point in trying to hide the truth after it happened. Same thing with MDapps profiles, I always liked looking at other people's, so I wanted to have one of my own so people could see what I was up to. After I got my score, it became, "Well, should I really put it on there? Maybe people won't like me because of it..." If I would have made a 30, nobody would even blink.
As for the threads in question, it is really just a matter of entertainment value. I'm basically a nerd. I post on a pre-med message board in my spare time. I've come to terms with this fact. So if I look through a bunch of threads and don't see anything that interests me, I try to entertain myself. I make up threads about sending in shirtless pics because it is just believable enough that someone might think I'm serious. I thought it would be a short lived joke and that someone would call BS and I would come clean, but instead of calling BS they called for the picture and I posted the picture. I made up this thread because I have some amount of utility for seeing random people predict my acceptance chances. It gives me something to do. I guess the fact that I'm not "average" makes it so that I'm not supposed to do stuff like this, but the next guy with a 3.4/29 who asks what EC's he should do for next year with his 15 credit hours of classes will get a page of sincere answers with limited flak. And I'll help that guy too, because I really hope it works out for him, but I don't see how his post is so much more worthy than mine. I just wanted to play a game, if you didn't want to play you could have just not looked.
And the other thing is that if I really wanted to brag, why would I list all these schools now when I know that some of them are going to reject me? Now people will know all the places I get rejected. I would just wait until the process was over and say, "I got accepted at schools X, Y, and Z and never talked about it until now because I don't brag." I'm just trying to have some fun amongst friends. So that's that for tonight. Sorry for getting all serious, but I just wanted to clear the air. Maybe I will make a poll tomorrow: "Should I shut up from now on?" It would give me another chance to draw attention to myself.
P.S. I really don't mind people wishing me bad luck or saying I'm an ass or anything. My personal favorite this time was the response: "Hopefully nowhere." Simple, scathing, bitter, straight to the point. It reminds me of something I would say. It's funny. I hope he didn't really mean it, but even if he did, it's still funny.
