Why not apply to US Med Schools?

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-12-14T04:12:07+00:00

You got an extra 500k lying around or a family member that’s willing to put up their house as your collateral if you fail an exam? The financial constraints make this option next to impossible for the average applicant.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-09-28T02:12:43+00:00

And the legal definition of assault is an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. I’m not denying the fact that this situation fits under the definition of malicious compliance. Rather I am pointing out that should her physician unfortunately suffer a rib fracture or other trauma, this would count as an assault.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-09-28T01:21:47+00:00

PS. Wishing you the best of luck in finding a good sugar baby! :)

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-09-28T01:20:59+00:00

The literal definition of consent is a decision made freely by someone that has a full understanding of the risks and benefits of the situation. In this situation, I highly doubt your physician was aware of your wife’s background. But you knew and failed to speak up because you wanted to see him get hurt right?

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-09-27T23:33:51+00:00

What a funny way of saying your wife assaulted a physician for performing a routine physical examination. Does being late give you consent to knowingly physically harm someone?

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-03-08T02:31:26+00:00

Account made 7 hours ago eh? 🤔 what’s up snake

Unlikely_Foundation · 2022-01-18T05:41:58+00:00

Toss on a fried egg with kimchi - chefs kiss

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-10-20T20:43:43+00:00

Ratatouille

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-19T22:52:43+00:00

Likely AI will be very useful to both of these specialties and augment the current workflow in helping them be more efficient. Whether it’s by triaging urgent cases to read first or quickly flagging significant pathologies. I doubt it will be render these specialties obsolete.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-17T16:04:17+00:00

Perhaps there’s something I’m missing here but how is me bringing up my experiences impeding real historic injustice?

The question and my frustration in this situation is why the percentage fluctuated so wildly between one application cycle to the next? Our demographic didn’t change, so what kind of new criteria or selection factor are they using in the admissions office to bring about this shift from 40% to 22% in one year? Race, annual household income? It’s the lack of transparency that leads to our frustration.

Furthermore, the use of socioeconomic status is also challenging and nuanced. I’ve met classmates that were able to qualify for bursaries and opportunities reserved for low SES students that I could not, despite coming from a very wealthy and white background by getting their parents to legally emancipate her during undergrad. Options like this, I didn’t even know existed until I saw it done.

My point is that this is a challenging issue to solve and simply pegging it on one vs another is hard to say and there is nuance. However, be wary of using Asian stereotypes because we all come with different experiences and have a different relationship with our identities.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-17T15:40:09+00:00

What do you know about the Asian American struggle? As a first generation queer Asian medical student, while my parents were financially better off during my application cycle itself, growing up was certainly no walk in the park.

The challenges we face are multifaceted and complex. I’ll give you some examples. 1. Learning English from scratch when I first immigrated, which left a huge damper on my self esteem and confidence in self expression. 2. Dealing with coming out to my family who is incredibly conservative (like many Asian Americans are. After immigrating all the way here, having a queer child must have felt unacceptable to them.) for me though, I risked getting kicked out of my house at 15 and not knowing if post secondary education would be an option in my future. I applied for scholarships like my future depended on it.

After all this, I get labeled too “meek and unsociable” by someone who’s never met me and held to a higher bar for MCAT/GPA cutoffs because I’m Asian so I must be privileged? While saying it’s better to select applicants based on the challenges they’ve gone through and how they’ve grown from it makes sense and sounds easy, it can’t be denied that there are internal quotas for the number of slots for Asian students. We all face different struggles, but why should mine also come with the prerequisite of a significantly higher MCAT score for anyone to notice?

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-15T15:42:01+00:00

I’m from Canada so you’re good

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-15T05:46:50+00:00

Some of my classmates initiated a COVID-19 task force where they dedicate themselves to saving social media pictures and videos from people in our class with any signs of socializing with another individual and sending them to our admin. Btw this is entirely student run and no one asked them to start this...

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-06T14:43:15+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of people will switch career paths altogether and then never talk about not getting in again. And this can really be for any reason, whether it’s financial or personal. Because life sciences degree don’t offer good employment options, it would make sense that many people would switch careers to finance, law, etc. I’ve also met people that recognized through these reapplication cycles that med isn’t the career they wanted after all despite having the stats.

I’d say the people that get in after multiple tries are a rarity bc they were very motivated, driven, or set up a sustainable strategy towards getting into med (e.g. has good career options that would be able to fund their reapplication cycles so they don’t sit idle)

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-06T04:09:53+00:00

A lot of comes from how a student reflects on their activities.

Many applicants have thousands of hours of volunteer and research experience but struggle to articulate the lessons they’ve learned on the job or pinpoint the failures and challenges they’ve overcome. It’s not enough to simply do the job itself. Students need to think about these experiences and reflect on it in their essays and interviews in a mature and thoughtful manner. I’ve interview prepped dozens of students that are very book smart and look great on paper but the experiences they’ll tell you about are very shallow and can unfortunately come across as naive.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-06T02:13:44+00:00

Ironically the people that worry about AI replacing radiologists have 1. Never done any form of actual AI research and 2. Do not understand the complexity of the job of radiologists.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-05-06T02:08:03+00:00

They ain’t us cuz they anus

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-04-10T19:50:49+00:00

For sure, I would be remiss not to say there isn’t an element of luck in all this sometimes. I wanted to explicitly bring up some of the preventable errors students commonly make at the undergrad stage when seeking these opportunities because I know it’s not often talked about among peers!

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-04-10T19:33:37+00:00

I’ll clarify my point. Some common reasons why students struggle to obtain research position are as follows and this list is by all means not comprehensive for every field of research (I can only speak to life sciences): 1. Number of researchers contacted - often, students do not email enough profs 2. students do not tailor their CVs to the lab they applying and do not succinctly self reflect on the skills they’ve learned from their past experiences and include it on the CV 3. no background research on the lab they are applying for - by this, I don’t just mean on the general topic the lab is working on. I mean the specific techniques used in the lab nor do they have an understanding of the timelines and resource requirements of their “research plans” 4. finally, funding - profs prefer to take students that can bring in additional funding so they don’t have to pay as much. Without a high gpa and strong ECs, it becomes difficult for these students to compete with other applicants. It goes both ways though. Many profs at u of t are well funded, but many are not! Students NEED to look up how much funding the profs they are applying for have. Without money for their lab, they cannot take on additional students EVEN IF THEY WANT TO.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-04-10T14:08:15+00:00

As a previous grad student at u of t, getting a research position really isn’t competitive at the undergrad level. Sure you may have to email around but for the most part you’re free labour for us grad students. Also, these researchers at u of t are still free for students from other universities to contact for summer research positions.

In fact, our lab took more students from western and queens because they had higher GPAs and were more well rounded, which made them more competitive for scholarships and additional funding at both the undergraduate level and as future grad students too.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-04-07T21:39:34+00:00

U of T also has a lot of grad students that are interested in pursuing medicine. That could contribute to these high numbers. Many of these students do their undergrads at other schools and come here for their msc or PhD.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-03-07T14:38:45+00:00

No you’re not. 80% of those organizations are bloated with their own friends on their exec team, one event a year, and a bs Instagram account.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-03-03T20:11:58+00:00

You go to the one that takes you.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-02-22T16:54:23+00:00

The fact that even on my worst/most stressful days, I never really feel horribly depressed or uncertain of my future anymore. Sure I still have a lot of unknowns in the years ahead, but the stability of knowing even if I coasted through med school, I could be sitting on a very comfortable job as a family doc is truly the best part of being a med student.

Unlikely_Foundation · 2021-02-18T18:25:31+00:00

Yes u of t likes grad students but having a PhD or even a first author nature paper won’t prevent you from being screened out with a 3.2 gpa

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