Reality TV show idea!

Saturday, Oct. 08, 2005 @ 12:44 p.m.

In this day and age of crazy reality shows on TV, you know what would be a really good one? Putting a medical school reject into the medical school that rejected him/her, and watch as he/she kicks ass over all the other people that got passed over him/her. Doesn't have to be medical school, it could be any other professional school... graduate school, law school, dental school, pharmacy school, all of 'em.

This will show once and for all that just because a student was playful during his undergraduate years and got a C in organic chemistry (*shock*horror*gasp*), it doesn't mean that he's STUPID. It doesn't mean that he can't get his act together later on during his junior and senior years. It definitely doesn't mean that he can't do well in medical school and go on to be a respectable physician. Those admissions people keep saying that being a medical student is "so much more than just grades". So why the hell do they still put such a huge emphasis on them??? You could have achieved tons of accomplishments, but if they don't like your GPA or MCAT score, you're dropped even before they see those accomplishments. You call that "so much more than just grades"??!?

Just because a person volunteered a billion hours in some hospital doesn't necessarily mean that he genuinely cares for patients. Those schools are so insanely competitive these days that clocking volunteer hours is nothing more than a race. What happened to quality over quantity? If a prospective medical student is very interested in research, why should he/she still be required to clock 600 hours in clinical volunteer work, rather than showing his/her passion and potential by spending all that time in research work instead?

No, I haven't been rejected by anyone... yet. I just found out that the MCAT scores will be released next week, and I guess the stress is getting to me. I don't think I did well in that exam, and it's not pessimism speaking. It's realism. You know that you can't expect anything spectacular when you ran out of time and guessed on so many questions.

Anyway, back to my reality TV show concept. I'm thinking that it'd be an awesome idea. Put the human spirit and the power of determination against all odds to the test. If the student succeeds, the ratings will soar, hearts will be touched, society will gain one more promising physician, and you have all that heartwarming drama that the networks will crave for. If the student fails, then you have drama drama drama and someone to laugh at (William Hung is getting old) - which is what reality TV is ultimately all about.

So, if any TV producer out there is reading this... PICK ME!!!!!! I look pretty good on camera!!! :-)

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