that was awesome, i think you nailed the #1 reason there

To be honest, i wanted to go to ross, but all my friends there were like NOOOOO, you should go to sgu if they let you in without the MPH

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Envivany
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#3 is hardly correct. as someone who interviews people I'm well aware of who they turn away before and after interview.

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top 3 reasons why i went to SGU:

3. I got a 26 on my mcats
2. I didnt want to go to ross..heard it looks like it came out of the movie Jurassic Park
1. My mom and dad told me i had to become an MD or else!!!

oh dear. good luck with that one.

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I actually got the sense that there were more than a few of my classmates who really didn't care that much about medicine but seemed to be doing it more because they were expected to...just a feeling I had...no hard evidence. Most of them were Indian (I'm Indian too) and I know the pressures Indian parents put on their kids.

That's the worst reason ever! Those are the kids who'll have a hard time focusing. Med school is not a joke.

BTW, I'm Indian too and I know a ton of people who've had to do that including a cousin.

Yeah, it's true that those people I had that feeling about were generally struggling more than the rest of us. Not because they weren't intelligent but because they weren't interested. Like, always looking for ways to get out of going to class or labs or whatever. Everyone wants to have free time but at a certain point, if you find that you don't want to attend ANYTHING, perhaps it's cuz you just don't find any of it interesting.

Is this really true, because I heard that it was as competitive as some US schools?

SGU IS competive. There are 6 applicants for every seat. (from their web site)

to answer madeame's and cavallettis point:
no and not quite. that is:
its not a walk in. it is somewhat competitive and they definitely reject people even with high grades if there are concerns. But no its not as competitive as any us school by and large. Cavalletti is correct they do have an applciant to seat ratio (used to be 9:1- maybe that's changed) BUT..what does that mean? does that mean out of every 6, 5 are rejected? (or out of every 9, 8 are by the old stats)? No. Why? Because many of those accepted will go elsewhere; either a diff't offshore school or a US school. This happens in the US too. Once cornell accepted "too many" people (ie not enough turned them down) and they offered something like free housing to people who agreed to wait a year. this was in the 1990's. Anyway there is a percfentage who fail to get interviews and a percentage who are turned away after. i used to know the numbers but forget and it may have changed anyway so i wont run the risk of misleading anyone but posting something that may be incorrect on this topic.

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