yogiberra said:
No it doesn't, but it really doesn't matter. The point is that my friend screwed the system. Going to an orientation for how to give a good interview the other week, I found it humorous how they tell you how to act and how not to act and most importantly to "be yourself". If my friend was himself and told his story, which he even acknowledges was boring he would be with the sad lot of rejects asking why, but he's going to medical school. Can't believe someone did something so crazy as to lie about being gay and getting beat up and how he struggles with his homosexuality to get into to medical school, too bad, because I'm pretty sure that there has been worst lies told to get in.
Your imaginary friend didn't "screw the system," the system itself is screwed up if it places more value on a sob story than on GPA, MCAT scores, and letters of recommendation.
For God's sake, be yourself for your interviews but if you are going into medicine, like most of us, for the money, the prestige, and other selfish reasons you might want to tone down your bad self, at least for medical school admission interviews where generally, the youngest, most self-centered people on the planet try to convince jaded adults of their fitness for beatification.
Dude, I've been there. I'm not proud.
One of the things I liked about residency program interviews is that by fourth year you have moved way beyond the cringe-inducing altrusistic clap-trap and things like salary, moonlighting opportunities, benefits, and work hours are legitimate topics of conversation. Whether you got beaten up by homophobes, your lesbian roomate, your transgendered sister, or your cross-dressing uncle is so irrelevant to those interviews that if you brought it up they'd probably put you at the bottom of their rank list.
These things, as well as your desire to "hep" people just have nothing to do with your professional abilities. Everybody has personal problems and everybody, except for the occaisional sociopath, wants to help other people. Get over it.
