Recent content by 6-8 Weeks

Petros, could you tell us what school that was that would not open the envelope? My school sends packets of letters as well and I want to check up on that.

Just how important are our personal statement and secondary essays? I feel that after doing so many secondaries, I really have a better understanding of myself and now write secondaries that are stronger than my personal statement. I'm just a little worried now that I look at my personal...

I wonder if I can get an MD at the local Sav-On pharmacy with that Rx.... and make my HMO pick up the tab!

I also went to a UC school. I know that the top three schools are top-notch academically and thus have an environment where there are a lot of "gunners." That is inevitable. However, you don't have to be around these gunners if you don't want to. Let me tell you this, most of my friends were...

i got an email from them saying, "sends us your letters of rec earlier because we'll be sending out they secondaries soon." This was around 8/13.

Wow, do we have to be that formal? I just got very stylish and comfortable slacks from banana republic and some nice shirts from there as well. $200 for 1 slacks 2 shirts. I already have a blazer, tie and shoes at home and hopefully this should suffice. In any event, I will most likely be...

racergirl, sorry to be crude, but we should chat sometime! ;) On a side note, most schools have unique requirements like either a DOB or AMCAS ID or SSN at the top of the letter. If you have waived your rights to the letter, the schools will respect that and accept it even if it doesn't have...

lab, i imported my TIFF (the scanning program makes it a TIFF file) into photoshop and croped it a little using the CROP tool. Then I saved it as a JPG, smaller and easier to print! I imported the JPGS into microsoft word and can size it in there. Then I just copy and paste it a whole bunch of...

I went to my school's computer lab and scan in a picture. Used photoshop to crop it down to size and printed it out at .40 a page. Now, I fit about 10 pictures per page and printed out 5 pages so a cool 50 pictures printed out via color laser printer (looks great!) for $2.00. Ain't technology great?

Hmmm, I submitted 7/7.

Way ahead of ya...

check out orbitz.com and expedia.com, just booked my flight to new orleans yesterday on expedia and it was the cheapest price i could find and could configure good flight times!

Hey, I didn't even get a secondary from stanford! At least I didn't have to waste more money on it! Yay!

I thought that at the interview stage, everyone was somewhat on the same level competitively. They may not have the same numbers, but other aspect balance out the students.

What would you answer to this question? If you were an orthopedic surgeon, what would you do if you realized too late that you had made an incision on the wrong knee?