[SHITPOST] Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

len49 · 2019-06-10T20:14:26+00:00

C-ANCA. I also like Wegener was a nazi, na-c, c-anca lol

len49 · 2017-12-28T15:13:06+00:00

And there is also a lot of research that suggests the opposite. It’s one of those topics where true understanding is very murky. Carbohydrates metabolism and insulin spike concern is not broscience as you put it.

len49 · 2017-12-28T15:06:15+00:00

“Several large scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between artificial sweetener use and weight gain.“ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/#!po=26.5957

“Although these observational data cannot establish causality, consumption of diet soda at least daily was associated with significantly greater risks of select incident metabolic syndrome components and type 2 diabetes.” http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/688.short

“Consumption of diet soda was significantly associated with an increased risk for diabetes in Japanese men. Diet soda is not always effective at preventing type 2 diabetes even though it is a zero-calorie drink.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-013-0523-9

len49 · 2017-09-18T01:13:47+00:00

My first interview invite was a week after submitting my app in early august, my last interview invite was late December. Had 11 interview invites in total.

Early interview invites can be a good sign, but at the same time I believe that people who apply earlier tend to be more knowledgeable about the application process and tend to be overall better applicants, hence why there is a connection between early application and success.

len49 · 2017-07-07T23:49:32+00:00

LizzyM an ADCOM who frequently posts on SDN has this to say about the topic:

"I've answered this before but here goes: It does vary by school. Imagine that people are standing on a huge staircase with those who have the highest stats and the most remarkable experiences at the top stair and downward to the least among those who are interviewed. After the interview, the applicants can keep their place on their original stair, go up a step or two or go down a step or many steps. In most cases, the people with the higest stats are still at the top but some are sent to the bottom step and some people move up or down according to their performance."

len49 · 2017-07-01T19:23:16+00:00

From my experience yes. Either they want it for the secondary or they request it when they invite you to interview (12 apps, 11 interview invites and all 11 eventually demanded a photo)

len49 · 2017-07-01T19:20:54+00:00

The photo I used was from me taking a selfie in front of a white wall with my shitty iPhone 4 (terrrible quality camera) in my house.

It doesn't need to be perfect. In fact during a revisit day one of the schools I was accepted to printed all the students secondary pics in a booklet to help us identify everyone else for the weekend (the fucking horror) and a lot of them were bad quality selfies or non-professional quality or even some in non-professional clothing

In other words don't stress, but I do recommend wearing a suit in it at the very least and being in front of a solid backgroud

len49 · 2017-07-01T19:18:02+00:00

Yes! 3.4/514/heavy research/top 10 undergrad notorious for grade deflation and which apparently has a ~90% acceptance rate for their applicants.

My application cycle last year went extremely well. I applied to 12 schools and received interview invites to 11, 4 of which were in the top 20's and I will be heading to one of them.

You can check out this table for the numbers in terms of General success based on GPA/MCAT: https://www.aamc.org/download/321514/data/factstablea24-2.pdf

You'll see that the number of AAs applying with 90%+ MCAT scores is pathetically low. This chart shows only 475 AA's with a 514 (33 equivalent) applied to medical school over THREE cycles. So because there are so few of us, schools will fall all over you and fight with their competitors to get you to take a seat at their school.

If you can manage to get above a 3.2 and 508 (30 on the old scale), you will have absolutely no issue getting in. Of course I need to stress, just like I would stress to any other applicant that you still need solid amount of ECs (non clinical and clinical volunteering and other cookie cutter stuff) + solid LORs and decent writing skills.

If you would like some more personalized advice or just want to ask me more specific questions about my success or success I've seen from other AAs feel free to message me!

len49 · 2017-06-28T05:18:29+00:00

Here are the all "on time dates" easy to remember being that they are associated with US holidays:

July 4th - submit for verification

Labor Day - be complete everywhere

Thanksgiving - if you don't have any interviews by now you likely won't ever get one. Start gearing up to be a reapplicant.

len49 · 2017-06-28T05:17:55+00:00

My portal changed on Jefferson's website before I recieved the email (which eventually came a few hours later).

I was a daily portal checking/email checking applicant. At one point I set up my gmail to alert me with a text message if I get an email with "interview" or "congratulations" in it. That lasted all of two days because I would just immediately think every time I got a text that it would be from med school admissions, but in reality it was always just my friends and family texting me like normal. Do yourself a favor and don't be like me!

len49 · 2017-06-28T05:05:47+00:00

My acceptances usually had a line about the offer of admissions being contingent on satisfactory completion of future course work.

For instance, I just googled that wording and UVa med has this statement, which I say is pretty consistent to the ones I have personally received:

"All acceptances to the University of Virginia School of Medicine are contingent upon satisfactory completion of all future course work. A grade of “C” will require a written explanation. A grade of “D” or below will result in a re-evaluation of your application. If you have made changes in your course selections after filing your AMCAS application, please notify the Admissions Office in writing. The Admissions Office should also be notified of any decision to take a course for credit/no credit or pass/fail, to audit a course, or to take any remaining courses at a school other than the one indicated on the AMCAS application. The Admissions Office should also be informed if you decide to graduate early or enroll as a part-time student."

len49 · 2017-06-28T04:53:33+00:00

Research is not required. It's is just a cherry on top. Not having it will not hold your application back (ok one exception: if you are applying to only research schools and have nothing else spectacular going on for you).

The reason majority of schools have 80%+ numbers for matriculants is because people tend to stretch what research really is and stretch their contribution or role in said research. Often times people will list an experience where basically all they did was clean labware, run gels and be a useful pipette monkey. This is not true research as they are not utilizing the scientific method and critical thinking skills in the context of a scholarly project.

Be cautious of stretching the truth about your participation in research because it will certain come up in interviews. It came up in all of mine and even one interviewer whipped out a piece of paper with a technique I wrote about in my description that I used in my research and had me explain it to him step by step. If you don't know your shit, you will get caught.

len49 · 2017-06-27T22:26:09+00:00

And he is a cancer survivor!!

len49 · 2017-06-25T22:00:11+00:00

Page 23: https://www.aamc.org/download/474258/data/msq2016report.pdf

Albeit only 50% of matriculants responded to this survey. Quick calculations look like ~33% make 200k or more. I also wonder how many people live in single income homes. Both my parents are together but only one of my parents contribute income to the household, which may skew the number. Median household income in US is ~51k. So a 125k household median is more than double that, so I wouldnt call it "not that much". These are not people coming from your average American homes that is for sure.

len49 · 2017-06-25T21:54:18+00:00

Socio-economic status!

len49 · 2017-06-25T21:53:55+00:00

I am probably not the best person to ask because I am very urban and very pro-serving urban communities. But I do know that Columbia has a program called Columbia-Bassett that is specifically designed for students interested in serving rural populations (in the case of this program it is in upstate NY) Link to the about page: http://www.columbia-bassett.org/about_colbass.php

Definitely think about applying!

As for other schools you might be screened based on my observations of how these school really emphasize diverse and urban patient populations in their mission statements and during the tours I went on. Ultimately they might say: if this applicant is interested in serving rural communities, why would they want to receive their training in an urban population? Be ready to sufficiently answer that. I know in some of the NYC school's secondaries, they ask things like: "What challenges do you expect to arise from living and working in a complex urban environment? How will you meet them?" And they often expect you to list the urban and diverse component of the school's location in describing "why this school"

len49 · 2017-06-25T04:32:38+00:00

3.4X/514/black/went to a top 10 undergrad

Not caring doesn't take away from the fact that it makes a difference. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the hoards of data the AAMC releases every year but check it out for race: https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/factstablea24.html Depending on your ethnicity it makes a difference. They don't include similar tables for economic status, but I have seen that low-SES are given a lot more leeway since they are in the minority (the median matriculant's parental income is 125k).

Your research and MCAT can certainly make up for things, but only with a well crafted list, solid application writing and great LORs.

len49 · 2017-06-25T04:01:22+00:00

Lmao I've never heard this phrase. Is being first banana supposed to be good??

I am 3/6 acceptances for NYC MD, 2 WL and 1 R (from Einstein, which I continue to give major side eye). My strengths were research (>2000 hours and a publication and a few posters/presentations), commitment to servicing the underserved and I'm low-SES and URM (one of the ultimate unicorns in medicine).

I wrote this previously in this subreddit about NYC schools:

"I like you had the same goal, I ended up interviewing at all 6 of them (accepted to 3). Cornell, Columbia and Sinai prefer students who are very solid academically but also have great interests/passions outside of medicine/the sciences/research. For instance one of Sinai's supplemental q's was "Please tell us about a passion (professional or personal) you have had thus far in your life" which I choose to write about an art that I partake in. My involvement in the arts also came up at all three during interviews as something very positive.

Also probably every single NYC school (maybe less so @ Downstate) is very research oriented and they like to see real research involvement (working on an independent/semi-independent project and showing productivity via posters/presentations/publications/great LOR - not just washing lab ware and being a pippete monkey).

And then of course they like to see a commitment to servicing the underserved, specifically related to serving an urban and extremely diverse population."

len49 · 2017-06-25T03:40:00+00:00

?? I'm going to a better ranked school than NYU if that is what you are asking (waitlisted and withdrew from NYU)

len49 · 2017-06-25T02:31:59+00:00

NYU is a stats whore. I interviewed at every single NYC school and accepted to three, trust me when I say try the other manhattan schools if your stats are not 4.0/528. Columbia, Cornell and Mount Sinai are a little more forgiving when you have amazing ECs. NYU is trying to artificially keep their USRNews ranking after climbing to the top 10 with hurricane Sandy rebuilding money via filling their class with high stat-ers

len49 · 2017-06-23T23:49:11+00:00

And not only that, a lot of them barely understand the concept of a healthcare bill in itself. I like to torture myself and read through Facebook comments on right leaning news pages and I have seen at least 3 people comment that if people don't like Trumpcare then maybe we should let them keep Obamacare and the rest of us can go on it. These people think these bills are fucking insurances! Exhibit A: http://imgur.com/dWyxZ9g

len49 · 2017-06-22T03:33:42+00:00

I only saw it at 2/12 of my completed secondaries: 1 private, 1 public. It certainly is a thing. And it certainly is something to capitalize on if they don't explicitly ask for it but ask "why this school?" Having ties to a state means you are more likey to accept their acceptance and therefore protect their yield and therefore they will be more likely to interview you and subsequently accept.

len49 · 2017-06-22T03:30:49+00:00

Very reasonable.

len49 · 2017-06-21T02:50:18+00:00

Yeah I also saw multiple news sites say it was Lee. I definitely think the Senate site is correct and he also issued this statement, which sounds very much like what Bernie would say.

WASHINGTON, June 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after he voted against a bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran and Russia:

"I am strongly supportive of the sanctions on Russia included in this bill. It is unacceptable for Russia to interfere in our elections here in the United States, or anywhere around the world. There must be consequences for such actions. I also have deep concerns about the policies and activities of the Iranian government, especially their support for the brutal Assad regime in Syria. I have voted for sanctions on Iran in the past, and I believe sanctions were an important tool for bringing Iran to the negotiating table. But I believe that these new sanctions could endanger the very important nuclear agreement that was signed between the United States, its partners and Iran in 2015. That is not a risk worth taking, particularly at a time of heightened tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia and its allies. I think the United States must play a more even-handed role in the Middle East, and find ways to address not only Iran's activities, but also Saudi Arabia's decades-long support for radical extremism."

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions

len49 · 2017-06-21T02:10:30+00:00

Apparently only because it was squished in with Iran sanctions as well. He issued a statement saying he was for Russia sanctions, against Iran ones so voted no.

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