Actually, I followed this thread from the beginning until a recent acceptance at one of my top choices. I have since withdrawn my application to UNECOM.
Actually, I followed this thread from the beginning until a recent acceptance at one of my top choices. I have since withdrawn my application to UNECOM.
Yes, it is very troubling to assume that someone is reading SDN school-specific threads because they are recent medical school applicants.
I assume you might be interested in medicine, and perhaps you are considering attending UNECOM. What a troubling assumption to make.
True. But it was a ridiculous attempt to parallel this to the medical school testing policies mentioned by the UNECOM student. You tried, but it didn't work.
Overall my point is this, I’m going to use an analogy, I know you don’t like those and it’s hard for you to make connections in your mind but it’s like this, here it goes.
A restaurant critic (someone on yelp, let’s say) critiques a restaurant and says “I hate this restaurant”.
Well okay, what don’t you like about this restaurant?
Imagine if they replied “I hate this restaurant, it’s terrible”
I have got nothing out of that conversation, is it the service that’s bad? Is the food bad? Did they forget your reservation? There is a million reason’s not to like something, but without a reason it doesn’t help the reader. It helps to know if the writer has actual substance to what they are saying by making a statement and following up on it.
Maybe they can even make a suggestion so the reader knows there is something that could make it better. If the food is bad then okay so what's bad about the food? Do they need to season it better to reflect what they are advertising?
As a reader I have to figure out if you hated the restaurant because you went to a seafood restaurant but are allergic to seafood.
Can you now expand that in your mind to this topic? If you don't like the school, okay why is that? Expand that further to if you don't like the testing policy, okay why is it a bad one? I as the reader have to figure if it's a bad policy or if they are just a bad student/ bad at studying.
If you don’t understand basic argument/opinions with an appeal to logic instead of emotion, then it is very difficult to sway your opinion one way or the other unless everyone starts lowering their standards. I stayed away from the doctoring analogies for you since you don't like those, but I could use one of those if you wanted.
And finally to address you concern making assumptions about people. I should have been more specific. Yeah it's fine to make assumptions and assume I'm a pre-med student looking at a school but my point is you shouldn't claim that with 100% certainty because in reality you have no idea. Is there
any chance you could be wrong or do you just like making claims about people you don't know?
You can feel free to send a personal message to address any concerns.