Americans like you are completely nuts to me. First, you probably wrote that comment using technology (phone/computer) that was produced by ACTUAL slave labor--you're completely out of touch and unchecked. This is like when Beyonce made "empowering" T-shirts using sweatshop labor 50 cents/hour. "Big changes"--if you're an American making 35k/year you are in the ELITE 1% of the world. Let's be real, this is about making privileged people feel better--your ideology is narcism. Sure, it may be important or correct, but keep it in perspective. I'm guessing that is tying into some far-left ideology that "feels good" but is in fact ahistorical and baseless. Slave comes from the white people of Eastern Europe (Slavic people) who were enslaved by Western Europeans and Muslim warlords so much, that their civilization's identity has literally become the word for slave. If you think words make a big change--why don't you start there? Even if you dispute the etymology I suggested, let's dig into "people who were enslaved". Enslaved by who, exactly? Africans dominated the slave trade, enslaving weaker and unfortunate Africans. The market was started by the Muslim empires who were brutal Slavers with as much human trafficking as the trans-Atlantic, spread over a longer time. The European powers also created demand for the market, but again it was predominately "people who were enslaved...by other Africans". When the British abolished slavery for the first time in history, the African rulers bitterly refused to, as the built vast empires on slavery. Yes, there were extreme knock-on effects in American post-Emancipation, but if we're talking about slavery and the words around it, you've opened this dialogue. What's crazy is that I actually agree with you, it's a more accurate term (both linguistically and sociologically). I'm even more extreme in that think we should use more dysphemistic terms for "slavers". That said, this American worldview is completely out of touch. Someone needed to check you--perhaps for the first time in your life
Hi Dr. Gray, Just wondering, how come you generally don't consider the ranking/difficulty of the college that the student went to (doesn't it make a difference if the student went to Duke vs like Alabama State University)? Thanks!
My understanding was that medical schools weren’t allowed to discriminate between how prestigious your undergrad was. lots of people can’t afford private institutions so they may opt for a local community college. Their chance of admission shouldn’t be influenced by socioeconomic status, but I think the difficulty of coursework is taken into consideration.
Because Ivy leagues also tend to have grade inflation. Just because you went to Duke does not mean your classes were harder than someone at Alabama State
She's an extremely intelligent person, but completely possessed by ideology to the point she identifies with it so much it devoured her personality. Hers is not an med school app problem - it runs much deeper. I wish her the best.
@@kansasmypie6466 she was very woke or hard left identitarian politics. For example she had a professor who had a different political view than hers and she literally made it her identity to prove him wrong. That’s extremely combative and personally I’d hate to have classmates like that. Imagine if someone was that outwardly political but was right wing-it would be obnoxious. She made her whole application about activism (again imagine if a right winger did this!) instead of about why medicine. She also leans a lot on “accessibility” to explain her mediocrity, as if she wasn’t aware most college students don’t have a lot of money or transportation. Sounds like a nightmare of a classmate
Love love love that Dr. G used "people who were enslaved" instead of "slaves". It's the little things that make the big changes.
Americans like you are completely nuts to me. First, you probably wrote that comment using technology (phone/computer) that was produced by ACTUAL slave labor--you're completely out of touch and unchecked. This is like when Beyonce made "empowering" T-shirts using sweatshop labor 50 cents/hour.
"Big changes"--if you're an American making 35k/year you are in the ELITE 1% of the world. Let's be real, this is about making privileged people feel better--your ideology is narcism. Sure, it may be important or correct, but keep it in perspective.
I'm guessing that is tying into some far-left ideology that "feels good" but is in fact ahistorical and baseless. Slave comes from the white people of Eastern Europe (Slavic people) who were enslaved by Western Europeans and Muslim warlords so much, that their civilization's identity has literally become the word for slave. If you think words make a big change--why don't you start there?
Even if you dispute the etymology I suggested, let's dig into "people who were enslaved". Enslaved by who, exactly? Africans dominated the slave trade, enslaving weaker and unfortunate Africans. The market was started by the Muslim empires who were brutal Slavers with as much human trafficking as the trans-Atlantic, spread over a longer time. The European powers also created demand for the market, but again it was predominately "people who were enslaved...by other Africans". When the British abolished slavery for the first time in history, the African rulers bitterly refused to, as the built vast empires on slavery. Yes, there were extreme knock-on effects in American post-Emancipation, but if we're talking about slavery and the words around it, you've opened this dialogue.
What's crazy is that I actually agree with you, it's a more accurate term (both linguistically and sociologically). I'm even more extreme in that think we should use more dysphemistic terms for "slavers". That said, this American worldview is completely out of touch. Someone needed to check you--perhaps for the first time in your life
Great to hear that you can get her into application academy! That's awesome
Hi Dr. Gray,
Just wondering, how come you generally don't consider the ranking/difficulty of the college that the student went to (doesn't it make a difference if the student went to Duke vs like Alabama State University)? Thanks!
Agreed! Friends say that most candidates at interviews they attended were from highly selective colleges.
My understanding was that medical schools weren’t allowed to discriminate between how prestigious your undergrad was. lots of people can’t afford private institutions so they may opt for a local community college. Their chance of admission shouldn’t be influenced by socioeconomic status, but I think the difficulty of coursework is taken into consideration.
Because Ivy leagues also tend to have grade inflation. Just because you went to Duke does not mean your classes were harder than someone at Alabama State
She's an extremely intelligent person, but completely possessed by ideology to the point she identifies with it so much it devoured her personality. Hers is not an med school app problem - it runs much deeper. I wish her the best.
@@kansasmypie6466 The LGBT stuff
@@kansasmypie6466 she was very woke or hard left identitarian politics. For example she had a professor who had a different political view than hers and she literally made it her identity to prove him wrong. That’s extremely combative and personally I’d hate to have classmates like that. Imagine if someone was that outwardly political but was right wing-it would be obnoxious. She made her whole application about activism (again imagine if a right winger did this!) instead of about why medicine. She also leans a lot on “accessibility” to explain her mediocrity, as if she wasn’t aware most college students don’t have a lot of money or transportation. Sounds like a nightmare of a classmate
@@AlphaNumeric123right wingers are science denying nazis 😂 it definitely is not the same you dolt
Did she get off the wait-list?
The research activity was not a palce where you “show who you are”, it is where you explain your research. This grey guy is a dimwit