<p>The only person I might have attacked is you UCBenz becuase your posts are ignorant. If anything is “childish” it is your posts.</p>
<p>Godot, let me put it to you this way. If a Nobel Prize winner in Physics says that, say, electrons don’t exist, are you going to believe him? If a Nobel Prize winner in economics states that there is no such thing as suppy and demand, are you going to believe him? At the end of the day, bad advice is bad advice, no matter if the person is giving it is the greatest expert in the world. It’s one thing to hear a person’s arguments. It’s an entirely different thing to say that just because a person supposedly has more credibility than another, than anything that that person says must be right. </p>
<p>I have always advocated that you seek out opinions from other people. And if you think that other people are more credible than I am, then so be it. However, I would point out that the entire purpose of a discussion group is to get a diverse range of opinions. You are free to take whatever opinions you deem to be worthy and ignore those that are not. However, you must agree that I am well within my rights to say whatever is on my mind. </p>
<p>However, let me give you a thought exercise. I believe you are presuming that I have no experience or credibility in this field. So what if I were to break my own principles and reveal that I do indeed have a massive amount of personal knowledge as to who gets admitted to top B-schools and who doesn’t. I’m not saying that I do (again, I am not putting up any of my biographical information here), but let’s say that I do, and let’s say that it is fully verifiable. Be honest, would you now change your mind about anything I have said? I would think probably not. Be honest, you probably wouldn’t, right? Again, I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but it looks like you’ve already made up your mind. So if it turns out that I have unbelievable credibility, you still wouldn’t care, because I’m not telling you what you want to hear. And if that is the case, then you can see that it wouldn’t have mattered if I provided my biography, because you wouldn’t have believed what I said anyway. And if that’s true, then you can understand why I don’t have any incentive to provide my biography. If you’re probably not going to agree with me whether I cloak myself or not, then I might as well keep myself cloaked. </p>
<p>And about the whole premed thing. I’m afraid that I just found a serious logical flaw in your argument. You said that I shouldn’t have been telling that one guy who has a serious dedication to med-school that his efforts are probably in vain. But look carefully through the whole thread, and you will notice that psedrishmd, who has published his biography and does have quite a bit of “biographical credibility” has said basically the same thing that I did. Psedrishmd and I are of the same opinion - that guy who we are talking is probably going about things in vain. Now look at the situation that we’re talking about. On the one hand, you talk about how arguments are more credible when somebody reveals his/her biography and shows oneself to have personal expertise in the field. Psedrishmd has done just that, and yet you still don’t believe the opinions stated by either him or I. Read the thread in its entirety again, and read the various related threads if you don’t believe it, and you will see exactly what I’m talking about. Hence, it seems to me that you are now following your own principles - even if somebody does have “biographical credibility”, if you don’t like what that person is saying, you’re still going to reject it. Hence, that only shows that biographical credibility is not all it’s cracked up to be. </p>
<p>Look, I don’t want this conversation to turn unseemly. But it seems to me that you invoke biological credibility only when it is convenient for you to do so. I see that there are quite a few people on this thread who do support you. Yet I don’t see you asking them for their biography. Only when somebody (i.e. me) says something you don’t like, only then do you conveniently invoke credibility. Shouldn’t you be invoking credibility from ALL posters, including those who support you?</p>
<p>Sakky, I have been reading this thread for awhile (just interested in the subjecT), it seems you are making it unnecessarily complicated.</p>
<p>Maybe you could just discreetly personal message him some of your qualifications or something, if you don’t want people bugging you.</p>
<p>And, logic and debate in aside, there is something naturally comforting in advice coming from a qualified source.</p>
<p>Sakky,</p>
<p>It definitely sounds like you enjoy debate merely for the sake of debate, but I think I already answered most of your points. Actually, I am going to question and critically evaluate the advice from anyone, especially if that person does not provide his or her credentials, as in your case. I focused on you because you were particularly adamant in insisting that your advice was sound and you repeatedly posted essentially the same points about 5 or 6 times, despite the fact that you refused to respond to my repeated requests for your credentials. That’s what makes me question your advice the most. When ersajay mentioned that simply having a business is good enough for admission, I also questioned that advice, as it was a little bit too optimistic.</p>
<p>I have not made up my mind, and you can think what you want. I am going to continue seeking advice from different people, especially those who profess their expertise and experience. I actually DON’T know Psedrishmd’s credentials, either, although he does sound like an expert, and that may be why I may question his advice a little as well. I DO know that this expert on another website would probably disagree with your assessments. If you read my post carefully, what I also objected to was the TONE of your messages, which can definitely be more positive.</p>
<p>But I am tired of this thread. Thank you for contributing your comments.</p>
<p>Hi Godot, you mentioned another site that offered you advices for B-school application, do you mind posting that here? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>So, Godot, you just don’t like my tone? It has nothing to do with the actual content of my message, just the way I’m saying it?</p>
<p>Look, at the risk of repeating myself, I will summarize my thoughts. B-school adcoms have certain thoughts about the appropriateness of certain industries, and like it or not, your particular industry might be under the gun. Hence, I would advise you to be careful about what you tell them. </p>
<p>Now, you asked for advice. I gave it. You are free to heed that advice, or not. It’s up to you. But if it turns out that you find out that what I said was right, then don’t say that nobody warned you.</p>
<p>“Look, at the risk of repeating myself, I will summarize my thoughts. B-school adcoms have certain thoughts about the appropriateness of certain industries, and like it or not, your particular industry might be under the gun. Hence, I would advise you to be careful about what you tell them.” </p>
<p>why didn’t you just post that to begin with & end it there?</p>
<p>I did. Look at my very first post in this entire thread. What exactly would you call that?</p>
<p>The problem is that, as always happens, it didn’t end there. Godot asked me to elaborate on the answer. So I did. </p>
<p>Look, patientlywaiting, I’m not the one who wanted this to be a long, drawn-out thread. However, if people want to continue talking about an issue, and add more and more nuances and layers to the discussion, I am happy to oblige.</p>
<p>no that’s ok sakky lets not add more to what has been said. i am also very content that you have given up the art of writing papers. definately an improvement. =)</p>
<p>I said it before, I’ll say it again, if you don’t like my posts, then the answer is simple. Do us both a favor, and don’t read them. Nobody has a gun to your head. Let the people who want to read my posts read them. Since you’re not one of those people, then you should ignore them. That way, we both come out ahead.</p>