Has anyone seen this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0OuCpkiYw&lc=UgxP0KDwB36tk0C7dHZ4AaABAg
I am applying this year and was wondering what others think. It was pretty eye opening personally.
He’s right. Unless your career goal is to become a tool for corporate America, it doesn’t matter from where you receive your college degree.
Also, eight suicides in one year? That’s eye-opening and really sad.
FWIW, here’s what I think:
Sure he can burn his undergrad diploma. Because he has a medial school diploma. Which his undergraduate work -at Cornell- helped make possible. FWIW, there are very few occasions where one’s physical diploma is actually needed, anyway. As a doctor he may have relatively fewer occasions than most of us, but whenever he is called on to provide his undergrad credentials you can bet he will suddenly remember the school name.
He is making this grand gesture now that he no longer needs it because he has a medical diploma. He didn’t do this when he was applying to medical school.
He suggests the reputation of his undergrad school played no role in med school admissions, and the work ethic he developed in order to do that well at Cornell played no role in his subsequent success. These are unprovable assertions. Just because he feels that way doesn’t mean they are true. IMO.
Hopefully he won’t be showing up to some of the number of interesting alumni events I attend, that would be pretty hypocritical, no ?
As for last paragraph #1. Cornell’s long-term rate of these unfortunate events is not above average.
Prior to the year where there were a spate of these incidents, there were none at all for the preceding four years.
For a different opinion, read posts of Cornell grad, physician and former CC poster @norcalguy
eg,
" Anything is always “possible.” There’s state school students at every med school. From my experience interviewing and from what I saw on SDN during my application cycle, I’m inclined to believe that undergraduate name matters some, but obviously not as much as GPA/MCAT. If you look at the class rosters of most private Top 20 med schools, you will see that approximately 70% of the students come from a Top 20 college. Now, it’s possible that the top 20 colleges put out twice as many excellent applicants as the thousands and thousands of other colleges combined…or maybe medical schools just prefer (all things being equal or almost equal) applicants with brand name colleges. "
Not sure why it was so eye opening. He was silly or “stupid” enough to think by going to a school like Cornell would some how give him certain status, but really it was about his own work ethic that mattered, and then he was enlightened. Not sure why it had anything to do with Cornell, other than his own immaturity.
It is a privilege to go to a world class school like Cornell, but it does not define who you are as a person. If you are lucky enough to go to a school like that, make the most of it.
The video was silly.