A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 1 Found it is very interesting to discuss. Here I copied some physician's
comments:
1. To shine own self be true. Make your life interesting on an application,
but don't fabricate.
2. If we had two smart applicants,
one of whom was interesting,
we ranked "interesting" higher.
Who wants an uninteresting resident around for 5 years?
3. I want a well rounded person. I want someone who has an interesting story
, someone who has risked and learned. I want someone with life experience
and perspective.
4. Someone with many hobbies may be interesting but I might prefer having a
resident who was purely focused on getting to where he or she is today
rather than someone who has a lot of extracurricular interests who possible
might not have their heart completely 100% in their training.
5. My own residency program director was unconventional - the program had
never taken an IMG before, for one thing, and I had other attributes which
might be considered a little different (and mediocre scores), but he told me
at interview "nobody is going to tell me who I can hire". The
administration pushed him out while I was still there.
6.These application essays are pure garbage but make entertaining reading!
The nobility, munificence, charity, empathy of each of the candidates is
always superlative. Their travels on mission trips to remote Indian villages
, African or Amazonian jungles is always an incredible story of poignant
transformation from partying city jocks to humanized ultra-missionaries.
Their life experiences would put David Livingstone, captain Cook or even
Bill and Melinda Gates to shame.
I can imagine those on the selection committees sitting around, chuckling
and improving their own literary skills by reading these masterpiece essays
and remembering their own pleasure trips to Africa with mum and dad or those
brawny, spring breaks in Brazil that lead to flowery Ivy league essays. In
the recent years, Kaavya Viswanathan and Alexi Vayner stand out as
masterpiece candidates.
I am ashamed to admit I have helped spin many an essay for very successful
candidates...based on their travels and stated accomplishments!
7.I remember struggling with the "personal statement" that went with the
application to medical school. By the time I was ready to apply, imagine my
dismay when I learned that I had to do it all over again with the
application for residency!! It's a huge challenge to describe yourself like
Schweizer and Mother Theresa twice in one lifetime!!
The declining incidence of leprosy in common tourist destinations does not
help either..
8.Soulless Machiavellian Automatons is how I describe many of the recent
graduates.....I should also add the sobriquet : financially gifted. A shout
out to recent grads, tell us why this does NOT apply to you ! And no...
expensive "service " trips to Peru or Ghana to build schools and
soccerfields that will collapse/cave in during a minor temblor do not count.
9.I hate this because I would sound phony even to myself... if if I listed
just a few of my true interests and skills like fine carpentry, forest
preservation, ecologically sound cultivation, architecture, designing
buildings around sunlight, designing steel framed buildings, workflow design
, software development, programming, teaching, hiking mountain trails,
photography, chess... etc
10.You could mix them in with some of my boring interests (cooking, baking,
quilting, gardening, chickens, goats - I guess I wouldn't get into med
school now). Or what about the interests that we see in some of our
colleagues and neighbors (shopping, fancy cars, following the latest
clothing fashions, Facebook). Then redistribute among us.
11.any time I see an application where work experience involves a funeral
home and their hobby is taxidermy, I always tend to want some clarification.
.....
12.I said fishing and cosmetology. Got a couple of comments abt that being
an interesting combo. I think it describes most girls from Texas perfectly.
We're down to earth, but there's no reason to look ugly while cleaning fish. | j*c
发帖数: 43 | 2 好文！
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【在 A*******s 的大作中提到】
: Found it is very interesting to discuss. Here I copied some physician's
: comments:
: 1. To shine own self be true. Make your life interesting on an application,
: but don't fabricate.
: 2. If we had two smart applicants,
: one of whom was interesting,
: we ranked "interesting" higher.
: Who wants an uninteresting resident around for 5 years?
: 3. I want a well rounded person. I want someone who has an interesting story
: , someone who has risked and learned. I want someone with life experience
| m******h
发帖数: 297 | 3 朋友加我进了加州一个教育群，立刻被各种大小各种模样的虎爸虎妈吓了个半死。人家
大学申请cv上有某体育分区冠军，战胜了无数赤橙黄绿青蓝紫肤色的种族，最后成为全
国的冠军，咱孩子半枚体育细胞都木。人家CV上有17，8门AP，最少的也是10，咱孩子
学校不允许早修AP课，必须从11年级开始，我百思之后觉得那每年好几位被Harvard录
取，除了哈佛，耶鲁斯坦福油喷都一大把，难道孩子爹妈都是校友？
课程指导语重心长说，要培养孩子的兴趣。十几岁男娃，最大兴趣是打计算机游戏，有
木有？不懂的家长们显然都是后爹后妈！然后课程指导又说，要跟别人不一样。我当然
知道我儿子跟别人不一样，可是当一个人被写成一页纸的时候，白纸黑字，都一样了吧
？除非，我儿子跟马悠悠同台演奏？算吗？
PS，修了17,8门AP的，我觉得根本不用上大学了，直接搞个产品，或写个金融模型操作
股市得了。别跟我说，废了这大劲儿进了哈佛，最后当了医生，跟 州U毕业去当医生的
有啥区别啊？人家州U的还体验人生有hobby呢！ |
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