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Impressive goal numbers primarily coming from bundesliga where there is 1. Less competition and 2. No pressure to win the game because you know Bayern is going to win the title.

Also I don’t ever hear anyone talking about the fact that Kane has one of the top 2 creators in the world playing on the right. We’ve seen olise play with mbappe and it puts into context how much he opens up for the striker he’s playing with. I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say mbappe looked a lot better than Kane does with olise

Kane is neither the best player on his club(olise) nor country(Bellingham)

could you share your stats or Indiana connections if so?

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title. I’ve been in the same lab for 1.5-2 years now. I spent my freshman year exploring labs and finally found a good one sophomore year. My PI is now moving and shuttering the lab and I’m honestly a little devastated. She said that some of my mini projects will be published but my main one is ways away and the lab is shutting down by march.

Lcukily, I’m applying now but who knows I’ll probably need another cycle and now I’m not gonna have any research experience for my second semester of senior year because realistically no lab wants a second semester senior.

Maybe I’m tweaking about this and it’s not that big a deal but it feels like a big blow. Hopefully I get in this cycle I guess

1. They’re playing god by thinking they can evaluate the moral and personal worth of 20-something year olds. Although it is absolutely important to be caring in a patient care setting, being a physician is just another career, not some divine calling, and more than 99% of people have the morals to do it just fine.
2. the physician shortage has been very devastating in my communities and I blame med schools. Harvard might say that they have to keep their class small for elite personalized training but then they shouldn’t claim to be champions of social justice. in my view, Most med school admissions policies champion ivory towers more than community healing.
3. Charging application fees, expecting unpaid experiences, and talking about equity and inclusion?? Are we serious. Does any other career charge application fees to apply to a job? This is easily the most immoral part of what they do and frankly is akin to stealing from students. Students, regardless of their parents financial status, typically fund their own lives except for maybe tuition and they think it’s okay to take $5,000 from people who you’re probably not going to even give a more than 20 minute look at and who every dime matters for.
4. Community service should absolutely be celebrated. However, The culture that med schools have created to constantly write about and connect it to some great moral calling is what leads to applicants doing polished and superficial community service.

does volunteering a food bank mean you didn’t care about the community as much as someone who started a non profit? Or could it be that that’s what’s important to you and the other person was more interested in their resume. Not all cases but still

6. IAs. Don’t have one personally but they seriously think that smoking some pot or clauding a bs assignment means you’re not moral enough to be a doctor. Cmon

524/3.8 but alc/weed related IA. did everyone else already get? Verified 7/14

feels like all the secondaries I write for the schools I don’t give a shit about are fire and all my top choice secondaries are trash lmaooo. real talk, these secondaries r just a larp and mental fatigue competition. whoever larps the hardest gets in and I wholeheartedly believe that

I remember reading over and over on here that ucsd ucla and ucsf do not send secondaries to people who have IAs and almost didn’t apply. Low and behold all three sent them.

pretty stupid how we have to pay application fees for the OPPORTUNITY to shell out another 300 grand to go to med school. also adcoms are evaluating 20 something year olds personals and moral worth when we all know that getting in for th was a million times easier. A friend of mine who is a faculty and alumni at a top school (only 45 years old) was shocked to hear that you need clinical work beyond shadowing BEFORE med school

really want to be an oncologist physician scientist and really want to work with kids. bad idea to mention this interest in my secondaries?

T10 uni chem and math major. 3.8 gpa 3.85 sgpa. 524. No gap year

Research: 1 first author clinical pub(meta analysis so not really that good), 1 mid author clinical pub, 1 mid author clinical book chapter, 2 basic science pubs (mid journals to below mid journals)

2800 hours. NIH SIP internship as I’m applying and rec letter will be sent in from this mentor in August.

4 labs: 1 from my hs local state institution that I continued doing remote work freshman year and I’d a paid internship there the summer after freshman year(800 hrs), 1 clinical research lab(600 hrs), NIH lab obviously (450 hours but I listed them as projects but they will technically be mostly completed when I turn in secondaries ), and then 1 basic science and my main lab with 2 years thus far (1400 hours). $5,000 dollar research award from uni for brain sciences original research. currently waiting to hear back about $30,000 grant application I co wrote with my PI for a project I wrote from beginning to end(this is my main lab that I talk about but don’t have any productivity besides that institutional grant yet). 700 hours projected for next year in this lab

clinical: 600 hours with a peds focus (def the focus of my clinical essays)

Volunteering: 250 generic with 200 more projected

club: managing editor of successful college newspaper with many awards and published op Eds in national outlets (not NYT but Pulitzer Prize winning) lots of op Ed’s about federal science cuts. I’m pretty proud of this but I don’t think Md PhD programs will care.

Shadowing if it matters: 100 hours

Red flag: formal warning IA for marijuana use but no legal action. hearing pretty conflicting reports on how bad this is ranging from some schools could filter you out to it will mostly be a footnote. Pre med office said it’s pretty minor but idk. technically legal in my state def not allowed in dorms. Technically lowest level university sanction

Rec letters: 3 will be extremely strong and main PI could be mid even thought the mentor likes me but I have no ide what they put in it. Could also be great hard to say for that one

I guess sometimes reading this sub I convince myself that I most likely will not get in to an MSTP and that I should’ve taken a gap year. feels like others have just developed better scientific skills than I have to be getting all these first author publications and stuff even though I really try to push independence in my lab and push the envelope with new proposals and experiment ideas. trying my best in the world and hoping to become a physician scientist and do some good in the future

Applying mostly mstp and Md. 3.8 physics chem major and 524 from t10. 600 clinical, 3500 research, 200 non clinical volunteering, no gap year. was planning on trying my shot on most top programs (with an equivalent amount of targets and safeties as well for a total of about 35 programs 13 T25 6 t40 and 16 t80) but don’t want to just donate them money if the IA cooks me so bad that my chances are close to none. maybe the ranking of the school isn’t relevant either tbh idrk

It’s my only ever conduct violation but it did happen about 6 months ago and I’m applying now. I live in a state where it is legal but obviously goes against university policy. university told me it was a “slap on wrist” and the official sanction is a formal warning which in their words “will not be released unless requested and consented to by the applicable student.We have the below record on file. This record is not considered reportable to third parties:”

obviously, amcas dgaf about this and they want it reported so that’s what I’m gonna do and just be honest and say basically that I fucked up, i recognize that it was bad and regret it, I will adhere to all guidelines from any institution going forward. Have like a short 4-5 sentence explanation.

Very neurotic as you can see but I kind of just wanna get it straight: should I shift my school list based on this?

Thanks for the help. if I could take this back haha but live and learn