Waitlists due to permanent residency?

[BarcaBest23]

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I read on a recent thread that PR = US Citizen however today at an interview, my interviewer clearly made it known that this is not the case with the major logic of most adcom committees essentially saying "if US citizens are forced to go abroad to seek medical education, why should we take those who are not our own". I disagree that there is no difference b/w the two simply because I have been W/L at two schools in which the interviewer told me "to call her to join her lab if I decided to attend that school" and another where "I was going to be a great doctor". My stats, ECs, and interviews are there... it just seems that I am being placed aside with preference given to US citizens first and then given whatever is left over (none of the schools are rejecting me either which makes me believe I am not doing that poor of a job). Please provide me with any information that you all may know regarding any known disadvantage of being a permanent resident applying to U.S. medical schools. Thank you.

 

[Avoidthetiger]

edit: bleargh made me feel like an idiot. thanks. thanks alot.

If you are planning on staying in the US for the rest of your life, than I think your interviewer is an idiot and a d-bag. Regardless, nothing you can do about your residency status, so don't worry too much and do the best you can in your interviews.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

i think PR is meant to be a shorthand for permanent resident.

 

[BarcaBest23]

Yeah sorry for being vague, by PR I meant Permanent Resident (could also be mistaken for Puerto Rican).

 

[Catalystik]

my interviewer clearly made it known that this is not the case with the major logic of most adcom committees

I think that adcomm member wandered over from a mirror universe that varies from our true reality.

Or perhaps he was trying to incite a debate on the subject.

 

[gravitywave]

ya, it sounds to me like the interviewer noted your status in your file and then deliberately attempted to provoke you, in order to gauge your response.

common interview tactic. it's dirty, and shouldn't be done. but they do it.