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Anyone else out there still on the waitlist??? What are your plans if you don't get in?
Loma Linda Interview?
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I don't know homes . . . maybe if you actually were such a super-star you wouldn't be in the Loma Linda thread all sour-grapes because no body loves you. Ever think that maybe, just maybe, you aren't cut out to be a physician and Loma Linda being a Christian institution has nothing to do with it? Probably not. I know, I know, it's so much easier to be the victim.
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lol, the name Loma Linda actually means "Beautiful Hills". I think that you would find LLU more inviting than you think. But then again, if you aren't a Christian you probably won't get an interview anyway so you would be wasting your money. But trust me, the people here are pretty cool.
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Well, it's official. No go for me at LLU this year 🙁. Thanks to all for the encouragement - there's always next year.
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i got a letter from the admissoins office saying, "sorry charlie..."
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Well, best of luck to you NO2N. I'm a little confused as to why they would send letters out to anyone on the waitlist with only a week to go? It seems like they would just wait that final week and send everyone a letter saying they didn't get in. In any case, I'm sorry to hear it, I know how frustrating this whole process is . . . but on the flip side, I'm sure that God has something great in store for you this year! Keep the faith.
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Excelsius said: This is very disappointing. Given the competition in CA, we have only one medschool that can help non-traditional students and this school is completely entrenched in religion. I thought that accepting applicants based on age, sex, race, and religion is discrimination.
If you are a church-funded organization and you want to give preference to members of your church, it is not discrimination under federal laws. And why do you hate Christianity so much, friend? You have NO qualms about a STATE school offering preferential admission to in-state residents. Not only that, the in-staters get reduced tuition. On the surface, that looks like "separate but equal" to me. So are state schools Jim Crowe-pushers? No. Why? Because they are giving that preferential treatment based on the fact that in-staters have been paying into the taxes of that state, which means they have helped fund that university in part, ergo they get first pick at going. So fast-forward to Loma Linda: I have been paying my tithe for some time now, as have many Adventists. Not 100% of Adventists pay tithe, just like not 100% of Californians pay their taxes, but the assumption is that you are, which means you have helped, in part, to fund Loma Linda by contributing to the international conference of Seventh Day Adventists. As such, you get preferential treatment. So cut it out with your false allegations of discrimination and illegality, you're just blowing hot air.
Excelsius said: How can this school be above the law? I bet if you don't disclose your religion they will automatically assume you are not Christian. This is upsetting and this school is probably off my future list, although I will try to read a bit more about it. Probably having classmates most of whom don't believe in evolution won't be the most rewarding experience for many of us who don't believe in the bible. This is very disappointing and upsetting, but at least it will save money and time by not applying to LLU. It's funny how I never liked the name of the school and today I find out what it actually represents.
As far as the evolution thing goes, creationist Christians think you are just as unobjective and absurd for believing a theory that was rejected by its own author and that has no evidence supporting it. For example, for evolution to hold true, earth, and the universe at large, has to be billions of years old to allow incremental changes over millions of generations leading to progressive changes in the genetic makeup of populations of organisms.
It is VERY easy to disprove the Big Bang "old universe" theory, which means directly and pointedly that evolution as atheists quote it today CANNOT be true. The universe cannot be more than 6000 years old because if it were, Mercury would not have an electromagnetic field, the moon would have at one point been touching the earth, and we would have hundreds of thousands if not millions of super novae throughout the visible universe rather than just a few hundred. Instead, we see all the evidence that the universe is very young, that the earth is very young, and then we get laughed at for viewing this objective data and making a rational conclusion by people who just hear their professors say things like "There is a MASS of evidence proving evolution" and accept it blindly (read: dogma, the same thing Christians are accused of blindly accepting, mind you).
I think the Bible says something about looking for the planks in one's own eyes before picking at the specks in the eyes of others. I think it also says "Judge not, lest ye yourselves be judged." I think evolutionists have a LOT more in common with their "whacky" Christian pals than they think. Specifically, you are espousing a faith-based religion with no objective evidence supporting it. You may try to TWIST objective data to make it fit into the meshwork of your atheology, but this is precisely what you accuse Christians of doing, so it makes yours a hypocritical faith.
So in the final analysis, the people who are being real biggots are the folks pushing evolution down the throats of American school children and claiming they are doing it in the name of science. How is it legal to teach ONE faith-based religion to children to the exclusion of all others and to prop it up as a scientific fact that is irrefutable? God help us, sir. God help us.
If you are a church-funded organization and you want to give preference to members of your church, it is not discrimination under federal laws. And why do you hate Christianity so much, friend? You have NO qualms about a STATE school offering preferential admission to in-state residents. Not only that, the in-staters get reduced tuition. On the surface, that looks like "separate but equal" to me. So are state schools Jim Crowe-pushers? No. Why? Because they are giving that preferential treatment based on the fact that in-staters have been paying into the taxes of that state, which means they have helped fund that university in part, ergo they get first pick at going. So fast-forward to Loma Linda: I have been paying my tithe for some time now, as have many Adventists. Not 100% of Adventists pay tithe, just like not 100% of Californians pay their taxes, but the assumption is that you are, which means you have helped, in part, to fund Loma Linda by contributing to the international conference of Seventh Day Adventists. As such, you get preferential treatment. So cut it out with your false allegations of discrimination and illegality, you're just blowing hot air.
Excelsius said: How can this school be above the law? I bet if you don't disclose your religion they will automatically assume you are not Christian. This is upsetting and this school is probably off my future list, although I will try to read a bit more about it. Probably having classmates most of whom don't believe in evolution won't be the most rewarding experience for many of us who don't believe in the bible. This is very disappointing and upsetting, but at least it will save money and time by not applying to LLU. It's funny how I never liked the name of the school and today I find out what it actually represents.
As far as the evolution thing goes, creationist Christians think you are just as unobjective and absurd for believing a theory that was rejected by its own author and that has no evidence supporting it. For example, for evolution to hold true, earth, and the universe at large, has to be billions of years old to allow incremental changes over millions of generations leading to progressive changes in the genetic makeup of populations of organisms.
It is VERY easy to disprove the Big Bang "old universe" theory, which means directly and pointedly that evolution as atheists quote it today CANNOT be true. The universe cannot be more than 6000 years old because if it were, Mercury would not have an electromagnetic field, the moon would have at one point been touching the earth, and we would have hundreds of thousands if not millions of super novae throughout the visible universe rather than just a few hundred. Instead, we see all the evidence that the universe is very young, that the earth is very young, and then we get laughed at for viewing this objective data and making a rational conclusion by people who just hear their professors say things like "There is a MASS of evidence proving evolution" and accept it blindly (read: dogma, the same thing Christians are accused of blindly accepting, mind you).
I think the Bible says something about looking for the planks in one's own eyes before picking at the specks in the eyes of others. I think it also says "Judge not, lest ye yourselves be judged." I think evolutionists have a LOT more in common with their "whacky" Christian pals than they think. Specifically, you are espousing a faith-based religion with no objective evidence supporting it. You may try to TWIST objective data to make it fit into the meshwork of your atheology, but this is precisely what you accuse Christians of doing, so it makes yours a hypocritical faith.
So in the final analysis, the people who are being real biggots are the folks pushing evolution down the throats of American school children and claiming they are doing it in the name of science. How is it legal to teach ONE faith-based religion to children to the exclusion of all others and to prop it up as a scientific fact that is irrefutable? God help us, sir. God help us.
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I got my interview on Dec. 3 and I just completed my application.
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