The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Applying to Med School
Tamara Livshiz, a history and biological anthropology major at the University of Michigan, wrote a student essay that appeared in The New York Times this week.
In it, Livshiz compares the process of preparing to apply to medical school as akin to getting ready for battle. She writes, "For the past four years, students have been arduously training for the anticipated battle. Like drones, we have flocked to soup kitchens, joined clubs, risen in the ranks of organizations, shadowed doctors and lurked in laboratories to satisfy all the unwritten requirements to becoming a med-school matriculant. We look for ways to quantify the level of our interests and the magnitude of our values so as to make it easier for our future evaluators to identify our worth."