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We knew almost all of that, looking for school insights Posted by MI-Roger [Email]  (#882) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MI-Roger) on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:01:52
In Reply to: Unless his grades R off the charts, apply all across US, Used to be Chaz, Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:21:55 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
How can blanketing the entire country with applications in the hopes of being accepted "somewhere", be worse than honestly indicating a sub-set of your applications have a geographic advantage? To me the ideal is that applicants would concentrate on schools with a well documented strength in their intended area of future specialty.
I've sat in College Recruitment meetings where an applicant will recite the list of schools to which they have applied, and other than international brand name recognition, the schools have no common struength. The Recruiters are obviously baffled, whereas the students and their parents are clueless they have just stepped in a big pile of doo-doo without realizing it.
Based on your comments I will strongly caution him that he needs to NOT mention anything during interviews that could be interpretted as "I am only applying here becuase it is close to my girlfriend."
They are both 29 years old. Their relationship has been a long-distance one for 7 years since comnpleting their undergrad studies. Grades and test scores are off the charts. Medical school is a career change from his undergrad, and why he has been at Harvard for Pre-Med for the past two years while she has been at Stanford for her Masters and San Jose State for additional resuearch culminating in a paper being published. He will be credited on a soon to be published medical research paper for which he provided the bio-infometric data analysis. He spent the first five years after undergrad working for iBM at the RTP facility doing software performance testing. He has been volunteering at Mass General while in Boston and interned last summer in California on neuro-biology research.
So yes, he wants this.
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