What contest would you choose to determine who is accepted at your first choice?

[snowbear]

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Forgive me, but I am bored at work and I just got really excited at this idea.

Forget gpa, mcats, ec.s, LORs. If you could choose one contest, and the 130 contestants (class size) with the highest score would get you into your first choice school, what contest would you choose. Which skill of yours do you think would guarantee you a spot at your first choice med school? In your opinion, what do you do better than other pre-meds?

I'll start and may be the only one (ha ha). If a snowboarding contest determined who would get into UCSF, I would definately be there! I would kick all of your guys' as*es at snowboarding, or atleast I would definately be in the top 130. Luckily for me, pre-meds are mostly dorks and don't do cool things like snowboarding (I am so kidding!)

What about you?

 

[priscy921]

i suggest kegstands 🙂 i'd say that for a girl i'm pretty good at those and am nearly positive i'd be in the top 130 for who can do them the longest...

 

[robotdancing]

skydiving 😀

 

[evenstar]

How about Chinese calligraphy? That seems pretty esoteric...

 

[Samus Aran]

I think I could win in a Mario Kart contest!

 

[Chrisobean]

how about keg stands BEFORE snowboarding? that could be fun... but as individual contests i would fare well in either one, freshman year was quite productive.. 🙂

 

[Kashue]

Originally posted by Misty504
I think I could win in a Mario Kart contest!

No way! I beat Mario Kart w/ Bowser and Donkey Kong on Mirror Mode!

 

[musiclink213]

I would pick ice skating, or oboe contest. i wouldn't be picky as far as the school, but McGill would be nice, as would Columbia or NYU or Sinai.

 

[drlexygoat]

Anyone for Twister?

 

[Gleevec]

Wet T-Shirt Contest 😉

Just kidding of course. 😉 Or am I? 😀

 

[Chrisobean]

how about drunken twister?

notice the theme of all my suggestions...

 

[rgporter]

Halo on the X-crate. I have no idea if I'd be in the top 130, but I'd give ya'll a run for your money.

 

[snowbear]

Yeah, people participating 🙂

I think I could also get into UCSF if the contest was knowledge of 2pac and Outkast lyrics.

 

[Kashue]

Originally posted by rgporter
Halo on the X-crate. I have no idea if I'd be in the top 130, but I'd give ya'll a run for your money.

<--beat it on legendary. Bring it!

 

[Chrisobean]

Originally posted by snowbear
Yeah, people participating 🙂

I think I could also get into UCSF if the contest was knowledge of 2pac and Outkast lyrics.

you sound like my west coast twin!

 

[darkcity998]

Cooking and baking contest

 

[smartreader]

Lovemaking contest. I would beat all of you!!

 

[MedAppGurl]

the "do the running-man to vanilla ice" contest. helllll yeah

 

[snowbear]

Originally posted by Chrisobean
you sound like my west coast twin!

you must be pretty cool 🙂

 

[Chrisobean]

Originally posted by snowbear
you must be pretty cool 🙂

of course i am... COOL Beans!

 

[BananaSplit]

I think I do a few random things better than most med students.

Playing Oregon Trail (I used to be obsessed with this game in junior high) or Jeopardy.

Fly a plane.

Eat more food/pound. I'm a pretty small person, but I can scarf it down. I can eat an entire Ore Cart at Claimjumpers, no problem!

 

[Xega]

Either some kind of video game contest or who can put together a radio, computer or some other electronic device the fastest.

 

[CoverMe]

Hummm... felony car stops, interview and interrogation, combat shooting courses, sporting clays, trap or skeet, and i'm not a bad polo player either??

How about just being a really REALLY "black cloud"...

1. Place student in trauma center.
2. Begin stop watch.
3. See how many patients who meet trauma activation requirements flow thru the doors within the next 30 minutes.

It's not a TALENT, it's not something you can LEARN, it completely ANNOYS most of the staff, and yet... yet... it's SO MUCH FUN!!

 

[Wardens]

Perhaps Beirut (or beer pong to be p.c.). I'm gonna guess this is a sport at which many pre-meds may lack talent. Could you imagine walking into admissions at Wash U. and seeing a dozen kegs of natty and a score of 4'X8' pieces of plywood spread over sawhorses? Awesome.

 

[Halcyon440]

Acrophobia.

Or maybe Cranium!

Wait, how about a martial arts tournament?

MUD WRESTLING?@!

Columbia or Cornell here I come!

 

[R_C_Hutchinson]

beach volleyball. yeah.

 

[ZekeMD]

Hardest Slapshot 😀

 

[Sean2tall]

One word: Yahtzee.

 

[rgporter]

Originally posted by Sean2tall
One word: Yahtzee.

Little do you realize that right now in a back room, adcoms actually are deciding your fate on the toss of a die.😉

 

[ATPase]

I propose that a school like Harvard choose its entering class in the same manner as the lucky guy is chosen on "Average Joe." The adcom has to set aside the really attractive applicants and look at a pool of us average folks and pick among us. Wouldn't that be fun?

 

[Tas]

Full contact sparring. That's gotta be the contest. Only the strong survive! Heck I might not win, but it would sure be something to see.


😀

 

[snapdad]

I'll do full contact sparring. Or maybe a Quake 3 tournament.

 

[TTURedRaider]

Anything that requires going really fast in a car or on a motorcycle.

 

[TheFlash]

If any of these contests require Super Smash Bros., Goldeneye, or Mario Kart, I will be valedictorian of my graduating class. Yes, I'm cocky when it comes to the above-listed games. 😉

tf

 

[ixitixl]

Divide the applicants into groups of 8-10, put them in a small swimming pool and continue to heat the pool until all but one have jumped out. The last one remaining, if he's not dead already moves onto the next round, involving 8-10 others who survived the first round.

 

[allmightylong]

how about the loudest fart? oh wait a minute, was it the smelliest fart that I was good at??......j/k😀

Personally i think i can beat you all with the longest distance swimming under water without taking a breath nor a oxygen tank.
I think i can do it for ~3 mins for a distance of ~football field...can't really remembers..too long ago!

yeah!

 

[i77ac]

STARCRAFT BROODWAR TOURNAMENT

I would rock all of you, for sure!

 

[jlee9531]

mario kart double dash...with my friend as driver and me as the assassin...

or who owns the crappiest car contest!

 

[umass rower]

Erg competition or crew race
Running
Counter-strike (the older version, when you could still bunny-hop)
Swim competition- 100 free or back or something (not fly, although most people can't even do the stroke)
Or, for something that might actually be applicable in med school, just see who can stay awake the longest before they pass out

 

[Selisa]

moonwalking 😀

 

[evines]

Originally posted by drlexygoat
Anyone for Twister?

OOH!! Me!! I'll start . . .right hand on pink😀

 

[emanresu]

I'd like to play lawn darts with you guys!

 

[Auricae]

I would own you all in foosball....

 

[Chrisobean]

with all these great talents, it's a wonder why we aren't all accepted already!! who wouldn't want to go to a doctor proficient in beer pong??? 😀