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How to Troll on Student Doctor Network to Make Pre-Meds Feel Insignificant

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Ryan Fan
6 min readApr 29, 2020

Only the fittest can ascend to the medical profession.

College students aspiring to be doctors often check the famed Student Doctor Network (SDN), an Internet forum that gives often gives advice to aspiring medical students (pre-meds) on how to succeed. Fortunately, SDN gives a message that students need to meet a plethora of elite criteria to be good enough to be doctors, or else they’re failures who shouldn’t even try.

As a guilty pleasure for pre-meds insecure about their chances of getting into medical school, SDN is the perfect place to troll and discourage the competition so you have a better chance of getting into medical school. Make sure other people feel inadequate. Make them feel like failures. Some people may call SDN toxic, but why not capitalize on the toxicity? Here are nine ways you can troll on SDN to make other pre-meds feel insignificant.

1. Lie about your perfect MCAT score and GPA.

Disregard that you wish your MCAT score could be better or if you’re anxiously awaiting taking your MCAT. Lie about your MCAT score. Pretend that you got the perfect 528, that you…

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Ryan Fan
Ryan Fan

Written by Ryan Fan

Believer, Baltimore City IEP Chair, and 2:35 marathon runner. Diehard fan of “The Wire.”

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