When you got accepted into med school, did it have anything to do with what school you went to for pre-med?
For example, if you went to University of Washington for undergrad, then you applied to their medical school, would you have a higher chance of getting in since you have been going there for the past 4 years?
Or would you have a higher chance of getting in if you went somewhere more prestigious, like Duke, Cornell, or Dartmouth, rather than a state university?

You always have a better chance of getting into the medical school at your undergraduate university, because you have 4 years to make connections with doctors and researchers affiliated with the medical school. Prestige has nothing to do with your medical school interviews. I intervied at every school you mentioned (except Uwash because they don't take people outside of their region), as well as other top schools. I go to a public school. If you are good enough, you are good enough. Where you go might alter who you become and what opportunities are available to you, but your accomplishments are your own. The prestige of your university has nothing to do with. However, prestigous universities might be harder. Because of this a 3.5 at Harvard might be as impressive as a 3.7 at another school.

Peter Agre live in A morning with farah.
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins.Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane.

Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He currently serves as the Vice Chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, where he guides the development of Duke’s biomedical research. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He is also a founding member of Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA), and serves on its Board of Advisors.

Agre is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (DESA).Both of his brothers are also physicians and Eagle Scouts. His son is an Eagle Scout too.

He also enjoys cross-country skiing and has participated in the Vasaloppet ski race.

Dr. Agre is known among science students for his humanity and humility.Perhaps this originates from the grade of “D” Agre received in his first chemistry class, despite having a father who was a chemistry professor Or maybe from the fact his prize-winning research was originally an investigation of the molecular identity of the human blood Rh factor, and his initial discovery of aquaporins was purely serendipitous.

He appeared on The Colbert Report, discussing SEA, sound science in politics, and the decline of American knowledge of science, among other topics.

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When you got accepted into med school, did it have anything to do with what school you went to for pre-med?
For example, if you went to University of Washington for undergrad, then you applied to their medical school, would you have a higher chance of getting in since you have been going there for the past 4 years?
Or would you have a higher chance of getting in if you went somewhere more prestigious, like Duke, Cornell, or Dartmouth, rather than a state university?

You would have a higher chance at UW med school definitely if you went somewhere like Duke, Cornell, or Dartmouth and had the same GPA you had at UW. But UW should be a good enough undergrad program to get into any medical school in the nation. But you really have to do well.

Carolina In My Mind – James Taylor cover

James Taylor is a singer/songwriter who has earned 40 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards for his songs and albums. He’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and has received Billboard magazine’s Century Award for distinguished creative achievement.

In 1971, Time magazine featured him on its cover and called him the harbinger of the singer/songwriter era.

Some of his most well-known songs include “Fire and Rain,” “Country Road,” “Something In The Way She Moves,” “Mexico,” “Shower the People,” “Walking Man,” “Sweet Baby James,” “Never Die Young,” “Copperline,” and of course, “Carolina In My Mind.”
Life in Chapel Hill

Born in Boston in 1948, James Taylor came to Chapel Hill with his family when he was three years old. He began writing music in the mid 1960’s while a student at a New England boarding school, far removed from his family and friends in Chapel Hill. He eventually graduated from Chapel Hill High School. Isaac Taylor, James’ late father, was for a time Dean of the UNC-Chapel Hill medical school.
The James Taylor Bridge over Morgan Creek

The recently-dedicated James Taylor Bridge spans Morgan Creek, down a steep slope from the house on Morgan Creek Road in Chapel Hill where James grew up. The museum lobbied the state to name the bridge in Mr. Taylor’s honor.

(Text below is excerpted from an article by David Perlmutt of the Charlotte Observer and life-long friend of James and the Taylor family. Thanks to Mr. Perlmutt for allowing us to reprint portions of his article here)

Morgan Creek, down a steep slope from the former 11-room Taylor home on Morgan Creek Road, was mostly wooded and overgrown when Taylor was a boy. It crawled with snakes and lizards and poison ivy, with few houses in sight atop the slopes above.

Years later, “the creek” – as it was simply known – inspired the hit song “Copperline,” which Taylor wrote with Duke University professor and author Reynolds Price.

The refrain goes: “Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, Leaning heavy on the end of the week, Hercules (the family dog) and a hog-nosed snake, Down on Copperline, We were down on Copperline.”

Before co-writing the song, Taylor visited his old home and found “spec houses” lining the hills that overlook the creek.

As the song continues: “I tried to go back, as if I could, All spec houses and plywood, Tore up and tore up good, Down on Copperline.”
Chapel Hill Influences

Many of Taylor’s confessional songs provide glimpses of his abundant boyhood surroundings. In a 2000 interview with The Charlotte Observer, he attributed much of his creative energy to those surroundings.

“What I remember most about Chapel Hill is the landscape,” he said shortly before his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “I tell my kids that we were pre-TV and there was a lot of empty time there, slow weekends when you just walked into the woods and found whatever you could to kill time.

“There was this long, uninterrupted time to let your imagination grow. I believe that was an important part of whatever creative life I’ve had.”

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I just joined the group! I really want to go to Oriental/Acupuncture Medical School. I am currently attending college At East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and I am a double major of Biology and History with a Minor in Mandarin Chinese. I just graduated High school last May in the top 10 of my class and now a "sophomore" at ETSU with really good grades and in several honors programs. I really want to help people and after all I have been through with the Medical World (It's a long story. I went over a year w/o a diagnosis, saw over 17+ doctors in my area, and went to the Pediatric Rheumatology Dept. at Duke Medical Hospital in Durham, NC. And was diagnosed with severe Raynaud's Phenomenon and something that is a really rare and misunderstood amplified pain illness called Reflex Nero-Vascular Dystrophy (also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). I still have issues walk and in a lot of pain but at one point, I could hardly walk and almost bedridden. I have been going to Acupuncture and have much progress. I want to go to Western Medical school since I was a little girl and after I went to Duke and seen an Acupuncturist, I have concluded that I want to go to Oriental Medical school. Do any of you all have advice or "Words of Wisdom"? I have been looking up several colleges and thought about the American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) in Huston, TX. As one of my options. I have not completely narrowed it down but I really need some direction.

Thank you everyone for your support on this matter. I hope to hear from you all soon!!
Skep Doc 20,

I litterally saw over 17 doctors in variuos fieds of medicine not just Rheumatology. and they knew ablsolutely nothing. I had Raynaud's that affects my entire body @ times and I lose the abilirty to walk. I fell and sprained an anckle wasn't a problem, then 1yr later when on a school fieldtrip and had a 15hr Raynaud's attack and could not walk! QUIT BEIG NARROW MINDED!! HARVARD IS EVEN COMMIING OUT AND SAYING ACUPUNCTURE WORKS! NOT JUST PLACEBO!!!!! Thank you for your opion for you are intitled.
I want to go into Acupuncture/Herbology. Also some massage therapy.
When in Acupuncture treatments, needels get inserted and they relase endorphins. They releive pain, even Western Med says the SAME THING. As well as for CANCER PATIENTS. WESTERN MED DOESN"T KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! YOU NEED to realize that.
Skep doc,

It was a western Doc who diagnosed me, yes, but they FAILED TO TREAT ME! I was almost bedridden and Acupuncture gave me my life back. Acupuncture TREATED me. Acupuncture has worked the best by far to TREAT any of my symptoms. No, I'm not going to take you by the hand and show you the enternet. I do a profusion of reading and the Mayo has even came out and said Acupuncture helps EVEN with Cancer. PLZ lets not make a fuss, for that is childish. NO YOU ARE NOT GERGORY HOUSE FROM House M.D.!
Also I would like to add that Acupuncture and TCM focuses on treating the body as a "whole" rather than in parts. Western Med doesn't do that. They only treat for instance, a headache rather than the whole person And with the meds they give you, it forces other bodly functions out of balance. Meds Western docs give change body Chemisrty, not body Energy. Oriental Med focus on altering the body "qi" so that whatever is out of balance, (ie Homostasis, Equaliberium whatever trem you want to use, )is balanced not altering body chemicals in the process which is why there are "side effects" with some of the Meds Docs give us.

Go for it mate. Altmed needs intelligent people to run with its banner. it sounds like you fit this remit well. There are already plenty of intelligent people in conventional medicine.
Who knows with enough good people and research conventional and altmed may actually get together and see what they have in common rather than try and drive each other out of business. I think you should find out as much about conventional medicine as you can as well and also read all these books and websites. If you still want to pursue Acupuncture afterwards (which you probably will) you will do so properly informed form the opposing side.

Interesting that SkepDoc Describes Raynauds and Complex Regional pain syndrome as not being life threatening although both syndromes can lead to amputation being necessary. If a body part that needs amputating stays on the body will either Auto-amputate or the patient will become gravely ill and die. This is potentially life threatening Skepdoc.

Its also interesting that although you report an improvement he insists there is more to your story than you are letting on and that effectively something else is making you well whether you know it or not, yet he has failed to identify it.

So placebo is about endorphin release and sticking needles in people seems to be real good at that….
So we should stop it right?
Why?

It never ceases to amaze me that when someone gets well when altmed is used it is because of placebo. These people have usually tried to conventional system first and no joy. if belief was all that was needed why didn't they get better under the conventional protocol?

I'm a junior right now, thinking of applying to basically 5 different colleges. I live in NC, so I'm going to pick NC State as my safety, and I'm going to apply to UNC Chapel Hill (Even though I would much rather go elsewhere).

My dream schools are both Yale University and Brown University, Ivy League, tough to get into etc. If I get in though, I'll be extremely happy.

I'm also going to apply to both Duke University (for its medical program) and NYU(I love New York.) I love big cities, open-minded people, and I want to go somewhere that I can walk to various places around town.

I'm thinking of becoming an english professor, and that would be set in stone if I go to Brown or Yale, but I would want to be something medical if I go to Duke. I've got a 4.4 GPA, taking 4 AP's this year, All A's and B's (many more A's).

Which would you recommend I go to, if I do get into all of them (unlikely).

I recommend that you visit the Universities and if you can't then ask if they have students who are willing to talk to you about their experiences there. I also suggest checking out their web pages and looking through their curriculum page, their school clubs, activities, demographics and so on and so forth. I really can't be of great help in choosing a place to study because in the end, the one who will be affected by the decision is you. I would love to go to Yale but you need to choose where it is you want to go.