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HumidBeing said:
Most people who post have nothing to worry about if someone with clout figures out who they are.

There are always a few on any site, who stand out in a negative way.

For most of us, our biggest embarrassment would probably come from stumbling over our old posts four or five years down the line, and realizing how immature and naive we were when we wrote them.
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4 or 5 years!?!
 
LossForWords said:
Not everyone went to a huge school where just saying the name won't give much away.

My college was ~1,100 students, so just saying my gender, age and major makes me one of about 6 people.
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My age and major make me one of 4 people. Feel you there...
 
Yeah but I really hadn't posted more than once or twice prior to like 2-3 weeks ago. Nice catch though. Totally forgot I joined a long time ago. You got me you got me.

Welp, can you shoot me now then?

HumidBeing said:
Says the guy who has been a member for 2 and half years already.
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EpiPEN said:
I might still have them in my temporary internet files folder since I don't flush that folder often enough.

It will become good blackmail material one day.
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Just promise me you won't print it off, sneak into the admissions office, and slide it into my UCSD application file.
 
Raryn said:
If you're posting things that would lead to an automatic rejection, I'd say you have bigger problems than an adcom finding out.

I personally am not too paranoid. Anyone could figure out who I was from my MDapps, much less my posts. How many 18 year old honors scholars who got a 39S on the MCAT do you think there are from Fresno State?
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Big up to the Bulldogs.
 
Back when I was applying to undergrad (and most of you too, probably) there was a site called prstats, the college equivalent of mdapps. The admins prstats traced some browsing IP's to admissions offices at different colleges. With all the stupid **** I'm bound to say under the anonymity of the internet, I wouldn't want adcoms linking a forum account with an mdapps profile.

Just sayin'
 
Um, no. I agree with a lot of people here; there's no way I'd make my profile easier to identify than it already is from a few glances at my posting history. It's a forum. On the internet. If you make hundreds of posts without once slipping in some not readily identifiable as sarcastic remarks you're missing out. 🙂

Of course there's always the Would You Want To Go Somewhere Where Adcoms Obsessively Stalk Premed Forums argument, but in my case the answer would probably still be YES OMG YES I JUST WANT TO GO TO MED SCHOOL I DON'T CARE HOW CREEPY THEY ARE. *Ahem*

Nevermind me...
 
stixx said:
...Of course there's always the Would You Want To Go Somewhere Where Adcoms Obsessively Stalk Premed Forums argument, but in my case the answer would probably still be YES OMG YES I JUST WANT TO GO TO MED SCHOOL I DON'T CARE HOW CREEPY THEY ARE. *Ahem*

Nevermind me...
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:laugh:👍
 
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