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Found out the pre health advisor at my school actually brags about the amount of complaints she gets from students. Essentially she only writes recommendations for students who work for her (she used to have a full time assistant but fired her and has been using student peer mentors to do everything). She enlisted students to petition for more funding for her office, but failed to convince the dean of science, the only person she is beholden to. She wanted to increase her own compensation, but there is a fixed budget for her office. Therefore: fire everyone else so she can make more. Many schools don't even have pre health advisors, but she has used her gatekeeper role for nefarious purposes. She has discouraged many qualified students from applying to a broad array of programs. People often complain about her as they had to apply without recommendations. She also encourages all students (regardless of their academic background) to take at least 5 years to complete their studies. This places a significant burden on the school which is trying to increase 4-year grad rates, (especially the biology department which is impacted and doesn't have enough classes for everyone).
Ex. She let one of her student workers apply to over 35+ dental schools (bad advising and waste of money when he had to turn down excess interviews) and encouraged another student who had completed six years of undergrad to pursue a post-bac program. He did, completed it with bad grades (same as in undergrad) and came back to our undergrad institution to take even more classes. She didn't prevent him from making basic mistakes like signing up for too many classes at once (don't take 7 classes with labs because the labs will make it like 10 classes).
I highly suggest you seek advice from the actual professional schools that you want to attend. Their criteria should be your primary source of information. Advisors, other students, and other sdn people, sometimes give bad advice whether they intend to or not. You want direct info from the source, not second hand, or tertiary info.
Ex. She let one of her student workers apply to over 35+ dental schools (bad advising and waste of money when he had to turn down excess interviews) and encouraged another student who had completed six years of undergrad to pursue a post-bac program. He did, completed it with bad grades (same as in undergrad) and came back to our undergrad institution to take even more classes. She didn't prevent him from making basic mistakes like signing up for too many classes at once (don't take 7 classes with labs because the labs will make it like 10 classes).
I highly suggest you seek advice from the actual professional schools that you want to attend. Their criteria should be your primary source of information. Advisors, other students, and other sdn people, sometimes give bad advice whether they intend to or not. You want direct info from the source, not second hand, or tertiary info.
