When did you join SDN?

[armybound]

It amazes me when high schoolers or freshmen join because at that point in my life I wasn't organized enough to think about joining a pre-med forum.

Curious when everyone else joined

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[Divine Furor]

I joined about, oh, one week before submitting my AMCAS last year. Honestly, my mother told me about these forums, I had very little active advising or directing from any kind of committee, so I came to lurk and have all my questions answered.

Kind of. Then to share anxiety about MCAT scores. lol.

 

[Fermata]

Pretty much right when I started college.

 

[baylormed]

I joined about December of my sophomore year, when I was starting to collect my letters of recommendation.

 

[psipsina]

It wasn't even on my radar that such things existed when I was in college. I bet if we were high school kids now who were using these types of forums for college admissions it would seem natural to seek out a premed forum too. I found this site by accident while searching for admissions information the year before I applied to medschool.

 

[DrVanNostran]

I wish I knew about this forum when I started college, I have a feeling that I would have been much more organized and gunnerish. Also, even though I don't like the term gunner, I wish I was one during undergrad....

 

[PepperMD]

I joined AFTER submitting a late AMCAS with lackluster grades and an average MCAT. Luckily my ECs and essays saved my butt and I got in. I sure could've used the advice BEFOREHAND however.

 

[63768]

i joined because i applied my senior year of college, got screwed because i had no other help and on a random google search, i found this.

since then, this place has been an awesome resource for not only med school stuff but beyond as well. <3 SDN

 

[baylormed]

I wish I knew about this forum when I started college, I have a feeling that I would have been much more organized and gunnerish. Also, even though I don't like the term gunner, I wish I was one during undergrad....

Yeah, I have a feeling that if I hadn't found this site I would have been a lot less gunnerish and maybe, just maybe, I would have been less lucky in the admissions process.

 

[DrVanNostran]

Yeah, I have a feeling that if I hadn't found this site I would have been a lot less gunnerish and maybe, just maybe, I would have been less lucky in the admissions process.

Hence the high acceptance rate and stellar schools on SDN

 

[aggiesarah2007]

I joined after interviewing for med school stuff senior year. I had looked around, mostly at interview response stuff, and then I decided to join after looking around for a bit. YAY SDN

 

[jochi1543]

11 months after receiving my bachelor's and 3 days before my MCAT. I needed a place to freak out. I had visited this forum like 2-3 times before, but it wasn't until then that I started checking it regularly and also posting.

 

[Anastasis]

Well after the college. Actually, the day I finally decided to apply to med school I did a google search and found SDN.

 

[jochi1543]

It wasn't even on my radar that such things existed when I was in college. I bet if we were high school kids now who were using these types of forums for college admissions it would seem natural to seek out a premed forum too.

Yeah, a few times I have stumbled upon forums where nervous high schoolers are freaking out about what they have to do to get into my alma mater for undergrad. I find it absolutely hilarious. I remember being "Uh, WHAT was that name, again?" when my college counselor in HS suggested that I apply there. So I was like "Oh, ok" and just added it to my list cuz he told me to.

 

[baylormed]

Yeah, a few times I have stumbled upon forums where nervous high schoolers are freaking out about what they have to do to get into my alma mater for undergrad. I find it absolutely hilarious. I remember being "Uh, WHAT was that name, again?" when my college counselor in HS suggested that I apply there. So I was like "Oh, ok" and just added it to my list cuz he told me to.

Hahaha, that's pretty much how I got into my university. The application was free so I thought "why not?"...I got in and I just graduated. It's actually weird for me to see hs kids freaking out over college admissions, because it never stressed me out.

 

[drlisa0318]

It wasn't even on my radar that such things existed when I was in college.

LOL.....I got you beat! PC's hadn't even been INVENTED when I was in college the first time! Computers were room-sized. Anyone remember IBM punch-cards? Even music hadn't been digitalized then. We had audio cassette tapes, 8-track tapes, and vinyl albums...you know, the kind that play on a record player at 33 1/3 rpm's.