Anyways I was out of college but had taken orgo and my brother was taking the mcat for cerial, so I decided to take it for fun to see how id do, even tho I hadn’t taken biochem yet, which is on the mcat, and even tho I hadn’t studied at all for the test. I got a 28k, k because I skipped the essay section, 10 on the 2 math and science parts and 8 on the verbal section. Why they would even have a verbal section on an mcat who knows… i assume most people applying to med school are literate.
So anyways it wasn’t a bad score so I figured why not apply to some and see if I got any bites. I applied to all the schools on manhattan island, cause I thought it would be fun to hang out in south manhattan in my free time.
I hadn’t done any like emt training or any research or teaching,,, the usual stuff you have to have on your resume to go to med school. Nevertheless I got one reply, from tourocom do (doctor of osteopathy) school in harlem. I didn’t want to go to school in harlem but my mom said to go to the interview you might like it. So I went figuring it would be a fun weekend on the 50th floor of some hotel in south manhatten. The day of the interview when I got there I was like “are you serious” I decided right then there was no way I would spend 4 years of my life commuting to this dump in northwest harlem http://www.nysun.com/pics/3492_large.jpg but I was there and dressed up in a button shirt and khakis, so I went to the interview. When I got there there were a couple other interviewees, and they all had suits and shit on so I was like underdressed I guess. I went into my interview with 2 guys, on the left this big bald guy who was head of their teaching department and on the right their head teaching who had gray and white hair all over his beard and head. They started off with super cocky smirks on their faces introducing themselves, pompous as hell, asking me what I had done recently as prepwork for their school and I was like “uh i took a lot of anatomy and orgo classes last year.” The guy on the left asked me again really pompously “ So you haven’t done any work in any hospital or any research in the last few years” and I simply looked at him and said “no.” At this point the bald guy on the left got really irate and because they knew the college I went to ( it was a good one, I promise, wiki john stossel). So he really condescendingly said “ did you get in there because of athletics scholarship or something?” and I was like “yeah”. That kind of pissed me off cause I was proud of getting into a sick school for athletics so I said, “ yeah but isn’t embarrassing for you to be sitting here interviewing someone who never gave a fuck about academics or grades in his life, sleeping through every math and science course in high school still getting 5s on all their math and science APs, and without studying for a single second scoring 4 points higher on the mcat than the CLASS AVERAGE of your joke osteopathy medical school, and also doing this without having taken biochem, which was 4 pages of questions on the mcat? I think you’ve mistaken your ego for your intelligence.” At this point the guy on the right tries to act all professional and not bothered so with a smirk on his face he says “well I think we’ve covered all the bases here, I appreciate your coming and I hope we see you here in the fall.” But then after we shake hands and Im walking out the hairy slams the door behind me, almost catching my hand. So yeah, real professional haha. They were so bothered and pissed, but they deserved it.
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