Which summer program would be more impressive to an ad-com?

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<p>Which Summer Program at Case Western Reserve University would be more impressive to a Med School ad-com:</p>

<pre><code>NIH-sponsored 2011 Heart Lung Blood Short Term Research Opportunity
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<p>A program, ranging from two to three months, for undergraduate and medical students in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematological or sleep disorders research offered through the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Stipend $1,730 per month.
The Heart, Lung and Blood Summer Research Program is designed to engage 12 diverse undergraduates and 8 medical students in state-of-the art biomedical research in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematological and sleep disorders research. Participants will be matched with a faculty member whose research is of interest to the student.
Participants will enjoy weekly seminars that highlight research in these disciplines</p>

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<pre><code>School of Medicine Summer Medical Dental Education Program
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<p>A rigorous six-week program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for pre-medical and pre-dental students with classes in the basic sciences and direct observations with a physician in a healthcare setting. Open to freshmen or sophomores who are U.S. citizens or hold permanent resident visas, belong to a group that is racially/ethnically underrepresented in medicine or dentistry, or comes from a disadvantaged background, and demonstrates an interest in issues affecting underserved populations. Stipend $700 (upon program completion) plus housing and meals.</p>

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<p>More money in NIH, I would go for that if you are interested in academic medicine.</p>

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<p>You should probably get into these programs before you start worrying about this question.</p>

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<p>^^^I already did get into one of them, and I haven’t been notified about the other one, but I think I have a good chance.</p>

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<p>I’d go with NIH if I were in that situation.</p>

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<p>Would you please elaborate as to why? Assuming the money is not really that important to me?</p>

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<p>It is not appropriate to use the private message system to repeat a thread. If somebody feels like commenting on your post, they will do so.</p>

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<p>I sent you the message because I specifically wanted your opinion on this, and I didn’t know if you had noticed my thread or if you were reading this forum.
Why wouldn’t it be appropriate to p.m. you a question? Do you mean you only bother with subjects you find interesting, and don’t care about trying to help?
Or do you find it pleasurable to chastise new guys?
In any case, forget it, jerk.</p>

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<p>The second one sounds like a glorified shadowing program. I wouldn’t advise wasting a summer doing nothing but showing and classes. Even if you take the first program, there should be opportunities at the NIH to shadow clinicians.</p>

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<p>Wow, it must be that time of month for the OP</p>

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<p>^^^ Yes, a poster has a CHOICE to decide on what thread he/she wants to post on. BDM is under no obligation to help you. </p>

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<p>^^^ If you want help from other people, you can’t be a ****** about it.</p>

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<p>The point was not that you couldn’t have pmd bdm, the point is that you copied and pasted your thread and sent it to him.</p>

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<p>LOL…people do that to me all the time. Nearly everyday I get PMs from kids who ask me to comment on their threads…they’ll either post a link to the thread…or include the post. I don’t mind…should I? lol</p>

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<p>It implies that for some reason their posts are SO URGENT that the forum’s usual functions simply won’t suffice – that is, that for some reason they’re more important than everybody else on here.</p>

<p>It’s particularly obnoxious when they continue to copy-paste their now-belligerent posts after being asked not to do so, which is why I have disabled the function entirely.</p>

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<p>I guess people sometimes use PMs because they do not want some of the information posted on a public forum. When people reply to your PM, it is because they are nice. If they do not reply, they have every right to do so because they do not owe you anything. (You have never done any favor for him and you have not paid him.)</p>

<p>No matter what happens, the use of the word “j**k” is not appropriate in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Yes, well, of course he was under no obligation to do so, and if he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have insisted (or minded,) but he didn’t have to answer it by saying that sending him a question I posted was not “appropriate.” What was not “appropriate”, in my opinion, was responding to a PM in the public forum.
The question was indeed urgent, because I have to make up my mind soon, but that’s not why I sent “BDM” a private message. I sent it because I read in one of his previous posts that people could PM him at any time. Perhaps I should have requested an audience from his majesty first.
I called him a jerk because he acted like one.
Finally, it’s you, “BDM”, who acts like you are sooo important in the forums that you can respond to private messages publicly. You are not the person who dictates decorum in this site. Moderators are.</p>

<p>Oh, and thank you, norcalguy. Yours is the answer I was looking for.</p>

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<p>Oh, and mcat2, according to dictionary.com, a jerk is “Slang . a contemptibly naive, fatuous, foolish, or inconsequential person.” You don’t have to substitute letters with asterisks in it; it’s no big deal.</p>