Editor:
The allegation that the University of Utah School of Medicine is passing over the qualified for the mediocre is utterly ridiculous and an insult to the students and the admissions committee.
Jess Jones (letter, April 24) has obviously not spent any time with the medical student body, and is not very well acquainted with the admissions process. I challenge him to accept the invitation to meet with Dr. Victoria Judd, the dean of admissions at the medical school, to find out why he wasn?t accepted. I should know?I was rejected twice. After each rejection I met with Judd and was able to improve my application enough to get accepted.
It is a hard thing to be told by a school that you aren?t one of the top 100 candidates.
That doesn?t meant your MCAT scores weren?t great, or your GPA wasn?t in the top 1 percent?it means the admissions committee thinks there are 100 people who are better prepared to become a doctor than you are.
Unfortunately, not everyone is qualified to deal with patients and peers, and the fact that Mr. Jones considers himself one of the elite while those who were accepted are mediocre is evidence enough that he doesn?t play well with others. No matter how you try to spin it, you are just ?another premed, crying about getting rejected.?
Dan Snell
Graduate Student, Medicine