u/CriticismMediocre161

Hello, I hope everyone is doing great! I'm about to enter my 2nd year of university and I survived the first one due to the mandatory meal plan required to live on residence. Now, I'm moving into my student house with my roommates and honestly the only thing I'm worried about is food. I really want to branch off and start consuming a nordic / mediterranean diet, so I was wondering if an air fryer and simple recipes could allow me to achieve this dieting goal?

Hey, I'm going into my first year of ibiomed and I came from a rich high school where a lot of people labeled themselves as "pre-med", and it appears that a lot of people from other high schools in my city also are pre-med. A lot of my friends who are pre-med sought after the health sciences program at McMaster and I've been hearing about the program for years for how reputable it is, and I didn't hear as much about the life sciences program. I never did any research into these programs as I never considered med school since I wanted to go straight into an engineering job straight after undergrad however biology also interested me lol. But I started to take more interest into these programs as some of my friends did get into health sci, but some of my other friends didn't get into health sci and chose to go into life sci. I was happy for them for their acceptances as we were all going to Mac, but the ones who were pre-med that got into life sci weren't as happy. I asked them why they weren't happy and one of them said that life sci students aren't as well regarded and seen as "health sci rejects". While it's true, some do life sci after not getting accepted into health sci, but life sci is a gateway program where many people do it to specialize into different things like physics and biochemistry right? The thing that caught my attention was that they said "weren't as well regarded". Some of my smartest friends that I know didn't get into health sci, some of my smartest friends I know also did. These friends of mine are all really comparable in regards to academics and their drive to overachieve, so I did some research on this years stats. The life sciences cutoff was over 95% this year, so it means that a lot of life sci students that wanted health sci could have got into health sci if their supp app was just different. And then I looked into the supp app and it's really just two paragraphs to two questions where you can take many different approaches to answering it. There's no published rubric or anything so I was confused, it seems like luck could be a major factor in where you end up writing something that would appeal more to the admissions officers. I don't know, it feels like there's some sort of toxic culture in regards to this health sci reject stereotype and I would think that's harmful for incoming classes of these students to might be seen as lesser than because of a program title. This is from an outside high schooler point of view, I haven't stepped into McMaster yet but it appears from searching online people have this point of view where health sci students are extremely smart and they aren't giving credit to the life sci students. Am I missing something? Are the stereotypes given from outside of McMaster different from how the culture truly is at the school?