Hard school- any disadvantage?

Watson_amp_Crick
Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:01:23 +0000

Here’s another point I want to address. BDM and BRM said themselves that the medical admission process is very random. pmyen, you might disagree with this as an admission officer, but I take it from the standpoint of a premed. This randomness is what promotes stress in the premed population. I have never heard about people applying to more than 20 schools until I went to the US. Not only is the premed process time consuming in the US, it is also expensive. Each application cost around $100 dollars. The time spent on those applications (which is quite substantial) could be spent on other things more useful. On mdapplicants, there was a PhD graduate who had to suffer the ordeal of postbac program, and who had to send 50+ applications to get accepted only at 1 school (he also had very few interviews or secondary applications). This is just because his undergraduate GPA (not even his graduate GPA) was below standard. THis kind of system is a hindrance to those who return to school, since academic achievements 10 yrs before may affect you at the moment of application. He luckily was admitted to only 1 school, but what if he was rejected at all of them?