BAD Visit, Need to Vent

MiamiDAP
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:49 +0000

Just do not send a child to place that treated him poorly. There is no use in doing anything else.
My D. withdrew from very high ranking Med. School after she did not care too much for her host during interview visit there. D. had to wait in a car for her host after many hours of driving to completely unfamiliar city where she has never been before in a dark all alone and her host (medical student) would not even bother to answer her calls. D. was ready to drive around looking for hotel room. We were so scared, I was on a phone with D. most of the time, letting her to call her host again and again. Yes, she was older, but she was only 20 and did not have many chances to drive to other cities all by herself.

The fact is, you cannot change other people or institutions, you can only adjust your personal decisions based on what you learned about them.