after reading the post below, i have some

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thoughts regarding medical school application I would like to share.

Again I learned this from my close friend, who is in the admission committe of a 20-30 medical school. He told me that a ABC girl applicant claimed that her parents were so poor in China and they did not have chance to be a doctor. She felt so lucky to be here and got really motivated to go to medical school. The suggestion is that, at least based on my friend, do not play this kind of games anymore. It worked very well 10-20 years ago, not only in medical school application, almost in every area; one could complain about that China did not give them chance to do something and they can now do it here in the US. It is OK to play games, regardless whether the statement is true or not. In many cases, those claims were simply fake, but at least the applicant might got some sympathy point. Nowdays, it is not the right time to use this trick anymore. If the interviewer is from China, he may not like this kind of statement against China, like my friend. If the interviewer is an American, it will be difficult for him to get the "sympathy" feeling any more considering the increased ecnomic/political impacts of China.

We all know interviwing, to certain degree, is just a game. Cheap complaining China is not a good strategy, unless one can really say something deep to move the interviewer; i highly doubt an ABC can really say something that deep.

Complaining has never been a good strategy any way. My 2 cents.

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Good point. Thanks for sharing. -newarm- 给 newarm 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:04:04

knowing some ABC applicant did not -Smart- 给 Smart 发送悄悄话 (328 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:13:26

说的好,我很不喜欢靠踩来提升自己的。。 -Midwestrural- 给 Midwestrural 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:18:43

实事求是为什么不写?为啥一定是为了升学而编? -Tepper- 给 Tepper 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:34:26

i want to share my knowledge learned -Smart- 给 Smart 发送悄悄话 (831 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:42:56

那女娃没说她父母上不了学,只是说穷吧?难得鸡蛋肉和新衣服 -Tepper- 给 Tepper 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:56:04

你这么年轻小时也没新衣服穿啊? -Tepper- 给 Tepper 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:59:52

my point is: it might be safer to -Smart- 给 Smart 发送悄悄话 (78 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:59:49

反正得跟着形式改变策略。 -greenoasis- 给 greenoasis 发送悄悄话 (155 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 09:32:44

that is y my friend did not believe at all. Also, -Smart- 给 Smart 发送悄悄话 (267 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 07:56:38

挺好的点评:)从小不吃肉蛋奶的七零后除了骨骼不好其他也没差啥。 -julie116- 给 julie116 发送悄悄话 julie116 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 08:13:23

这个要赞,难得的反馈 -dummvogel- 给 dummvogel 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 09:07:46

Very well said。这种托词太假了 -中坛太抖- 给 中坛太抖 发送悄悄话 中坛太抖 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 12/09/2017 postreply 09:07:51

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