*ponders*

[xp_wallflower]

So...do you think making note of how excellent someone's toupee is in an interview would be grounds for them to refuse you admittance to their college? I've just been trying to figure out why I didn't get into NYU, and it's the only thing I can think of.

I mean, I have excellent grades, a couple of really good extra curricular activities. I just maybe, sorta got really nervous at the interview and I babbled. Like lots and lots of babbling. Stream of consciousness babbling even.

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You're assuming, though, that they only wanted excellent grades. They might have actually wanted the students in the top 1/2 percent of New York and and then the ones in the top 1% across the country and the ones with *perfect* SAT scores, not just bloody good ones.

You're also assuming that you did the right extra-curriculars. You might have ones they don't think are good enough, or ones that they think are actually too much of a time commitment for a pre-med - as far as I understand it, they don't even like you lot to work part-time since it takes up too much study time.

Finally, you've forgotten that basically, lots of people want to move to NYC. It means that they're going to be more competatative than some university out in the middle of complete-fucking-nowhere, Wyoming.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

I suppose you're right. It's just annoying. I mean, it's not that Westchester is a _bad_ college. It's excellent. It's just that I wanted to get into NYU. If you do pre-med there then you've got a more then better chance of getting into their actual course later on for a full on medical degree.

It's just going to make it harder for me later on. Still, wanting to be a doctor, I'm going to have to get used to hard.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but, honestly, I don't think it's you fucking up the interview that made them not pick you. If NYU is the place to do premed, then everyone and their dog applies there, and it means that no matter how awesome you might be, when that's 500 people looking at 50 places... You probably have to be married to interviewer's daughter to get in.

Well, can you transfer in second year? Or failing that, do the actual medical degree someplace else later on? (Srsly, I will never get Americans. Why can't you just *start* in Medicine and just do the one degree, huh?)

I think you might have to. You'll be having fun in the world of 24 hour intern shifts soon.