Well almost all of us could have benefited from competent coaching. Ultimately you are responsible for your running. Those who flourished from brilliantly crafted training plans were the lucky ones.
I'm in the UK, where CAT and aptitude testing, backed up by relevant volunteer and work experience and personal statements are vital for med school admission.
I'm just wondering what relevant experience Mary Cain has got recently while she's been busy with triathlon, Ireland and suing various individuals involved in her former running career?
Does anybody know?
I would be concerned with her going into medicine as a career, not just because she has a tendency to drop out, deliberately court attention from deliberately portraying herself as a victim and a pattern of exclusionary behaviour attracted to ultra elite levels of whatever she is doing, in advance of results. She would be interesting if assessed from a Cluster B pd perspective. I don't think she's the greatest candidate for a career in medicine, that said there are many others in the profession who are ego-driven. I would bet that one or both of her parents share the same traits, after all her parents had no objections when fame, money and Nike beckoned.
What I'm saying is that in a robust, non-biased applications procedure, those character traits would be flagged up and form a genuine concern affecting her application.
This post makes the problem abundantly clear. Stanford Medicine with its obviously shoddy vetting practices, poor candidate evaluation, and unprofessional standards has let in an obviously unqualified applicant. Why wouldn’t Stanford hire an anonymous internet rando to judge who should attends its medical school, since he clearly knows so much better than they do? Probably had a bunch of Stanford doctors, teaching faculty, alums, and professors evaluating the people who want to attend Stanford Medicine. What the heck do they know?!
I don't understand. Colleges admit students based on legacy or race or finances. They acknowledge this. Why would they hire a random unbiased guy to do it when they want it based on those factors?
I'm in the UK, where CAT and aptitude testing, backed up by relevant volunteer and work experience and personal statements are vital for med school admission.
I'm just wondering what relevant experience Mary Cain has got recently while she's been busy with triathlon, Ireland and suing various individuals involved in her former running career?
Does anybody know?
I would be concerned with her going into medicine as a career, not just because she has a tendency to drop out, deliberately court attention from deliberately portraying herself as a victim and a pattern of exclusionary behaviour attracted to ultra elite levels of whatever she is doing, in advance of results. She would be interesting if assessed from a Cluster B pd perspective. I don't think she's the greatest candidate for a career in medicine, that said there are many others in the profession who are ego-driven. I would bet that one or both of her parents share the same traits, after all her parents had no objections when fame, money and Nike beckoned.
What I'm saying is that in a robust, non-biased applications procedure, those character traits would be flagged up and form a genuine concern affecting her application.
No. I don't know what relevant experience she got because I am not her, but you are assuming she was too busy to take classes and pre-reqs based on nothing. Have you instead considered she was probably doing just that?
Not sure she has a tendency to "drop out" based on being horribly treated and then spending years trying to get back to being healthy before throwing in the towel and moving on with her life.
Mary is incredibly privileged. No one grows up in a community like Bronxville NY and comes out of it without being a little spoiled and entitled. I question and have always questioned Mary's decision to be coached by Salazar and I question what happened with her high school team. But one decision made as a teen doesn't define someone's entire adult life. Mary was a good student, and it's silly to say she shouldn't have a career in medicine based on nothing.
Some of the comments against her are over the top and wrong about her--she's obviously a talented athlete--but I think people just sometimes don't like the fact she's super-privileged and doesn't struggle like 99% of America. Being born on 3rd base rubs people the wrong way sometimes.
Fact: Mary Cain's professional triathlon career lasted only 1 sprint race and she has never done any more in the years since because she wasn't the best and didn't put any effort into learning how to bike. Same for her attempted comeback at running when she only did 1 track meet and then quit again because she didn't even put effort into training like others.
I mean, this is demonstrably true. I also have seen very little eviden e she did much with Atalanta after the first few months or that she is putting in the effort required to compete professionally for Ireland. She really likes to start and not finish things. It shows a pattern and patterns are more likely to be repeated than broken.
The behavioural pattern is not finishing things but also repeatedly publicly seeking attention, usually now before they begin.Then blaming others for the failure and onto the next high profile thing.
Medicine, in fact any problems sessional career, isn't like that. It's routine, repetitive and low status for many years. I just can't see what she would do as a doctor. She needs to change her whole mindset and approach, and her recent behaviour suggests she can't do it. It's also stressful, both as a student and once qualified. Mary Cain copes really bad with stress.
She and her parents see her as special, as somebody whom the normal rules don't apply to,v who should be top of the pile in anything she attempts. That's the opposite from the routine and responsibility required in a medical career.
I don't think she will make a good doctor. Does anybody really believe she's going to stop seeking media attention and blaming others, and simply going to disappear from public view and work hard for the rest of her life?
Thread now at 8 pages with a lot of insecure beta males bagging on Cain 🤡
Male fragility at its finest and about what is to be expected on this forum. Once you wankers finish here you can head over to the Krissy Gear thread and bag on her and her tattoos.
This post makes the problem abundantly clear. Stanford Medicine with its obviously shoddy vetting practices, poor candidate evaluation, and unprofessional standards has let in an obviously unqualified applicant. Why wouldn’t Stanford hire an anonymous internet rando to judge who should attends its medical school, since he clearly knows so much better than they do? Probably had a bunch of Stanford doctors, teaching faculty, alums, and professors evaluating the people who want to attend Stanford Medicine. What the heck do they know?!
So she's pre-med, or accepted into their medical school (MD program)? I'm not up to speed on whether she already got an undergrad degree.
Never mind. I committed my own pet peeve of knee jerk reaction before taking a minute to look at the existing info. If she got the grades at Fordham and an excellent MCAT score, I see no reason why she shouldn't be accepted at Stanford Med School.
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