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Please respect the srs tag, this actually happened over the weekend.
I have a pretty close college friend who is applying to med school this cycle. He's a really smart and chill guy....got a 35 on his MCAT and his GPA is easily higher than mine (3.6) and might even be as high as 3.9+. He's got significant research and has presented at different conferences around the country and has spent the last 2 years doing clinical research and random volunteering. The only "issue" with him is that he's obese. If I were to guess I'd say he's around 5'9-5'10'' and pushing 300 lbs if not higher. What's worse is that he has really narrow shoulders and skinny legs and stores a lot of his fat in his gut, hips, and moobs (like Jonah Hill before he lost weight....aka does NOT look good in a suit).
Now I've known this guy for almost 5 years and have never seen him exercise (I used to invite him to play basketball with us but he always refused). Also, whenever we eat out he shows unhealthy tendencies and always orders more food/bigger portions and even has dessert when the rest of us don't. So his weight issue is most definitely caused by lifestyle and not some weird metabolism or anything.
Well we were hanging out this weekend and he was asking me for some advice about the upcoming application cycle. I gave him the usual spiel about applying early, prewriting secondaries, researching schools, etc. but then also told him that he should try and lose a lot of weight this summer because it might be held against him at interviews. I mentioned that in all the interviews I attended I probably saw one obese individual total and that most everybody was lean and fit. Well he got pretty defensive and offended by it and has now stopped responding to my texts and facebook messages. I think he'll get over it eventually but was I wrong for bringing it up and telling him to lose weight considering his lifestyle and future professional goals?
I have a pretty close college friend who is applying to med school this cycle. He's a really smart and chill guy....got a 35 on his MCAT and his GPA is easily higher than mine (3.6) and might even be as high as 3.9+. He's got significant research and has presented at different conferences around the country and has spent the last 2 years doing clinical research and random volunteering. The only "issue" with him is that he's obese. If I were to guess I'd say he's around 5'9-5'10'' and pushing 300 lbs if not higher. What's worse is that he has really narrow shoulders and skinny legs and stores a lot of his fat in his gut, hips, and moobs (like Jonah Hill before he lost weight....aka does NOT look good in a suit).
Now I've known this guy for almost 5 years and have never seen him exercise (I used to invite him to play basketball with us but he always refused). Also, whenever we eat out he shows unhealthy tendencies and always orders more food/bigger portions and even has dessert when the rest of us don't. So his weight issue is most definitely caused by lifestyle and not some weird metabolism or anything.
Well we were hanging out this weekend and he was asking me for some advice about the upcoming application cycle. I gave him the usual spiel about applying early, prewriting secondaries, researching schools, etc. but then also told him that he should try and lose a lot of weight this summer because it might be held against him at interviews. I mentioned that in all the interviews I attended I probably saw one obese individual total and that most everybody was lean and fit. Well he got pretty defensive and offended by it and has now stopped responding to my texts and facebook messages. I think he'll get over it eventually but was I wrong for bringing it up and telling him to lose weight considering his lifestyle and future professional goals?