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Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

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(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

True

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(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

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(12-15-2020, 10:26 PM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

amin-hanjani?

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(12-16-2020, 06:10 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 10:26 PM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

amin-hanjani?

as an applicant reviewer it really defeats the purpose of a recommendation letter when every other medical student gets placed in the top 1% or 2-5% category. i think a lot of you guys are mistaking a "garbage" letter for an actually honest and useful letter and it once again reinforces the unreasonable "everyone gets a prize" expectation that a lot of current generation applicants have which will set them up for brutal disappointment in residency.

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(12-16-2020, 07:37 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-16-2020, 06:10 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 10:26 PM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

amin-hanjani?

as an applicant reviewer it really defeats the purpose of a recommendation letter when every other medical student gets placed in the top 1% or 2-5% category. i think a lot of you guys are mistaking a "garbage" letter for an actually honest and useful letter and it once again reinforces the unreasonable "everyone gets a prize" expectation that a lot of current generation applicants have which will set them up for brutal disappointment in residency.

Yeah, the percentile rankings on the standardized letters seem kind of useless. A small fraction of those getting 1-5% are likely actually in that range. This many people being in the top 5% of medical students a LOR writer has ever seen in their whole career is kind of a ridiculous assertion and in reality would be very rare.

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(12-16-2020, 07:37 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-16-2020, 06:10 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 10:26 PM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

amin-hanjani?

as an applicant reviewer it really defeats the purpose of a recommendation letter when every other medical student gets placed in the top 1% or 2-5% category. i think a lot of you guys are mistaking a "garbage" letter for an actually honest and useful letter and it once again reinforces the unreasonable "everyone gets a prize" expectation that a lot of current generation applicants have which will set them up for brutal disappointment in residency.

It’s ruining it for us true 1%ers

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(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

You don't have to ask chair for a letter. Usually the residents will suggest who is a good letter writer if they like you.

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Heimberger to Northwestern. Great for research... but hasn't she like not operated for years at MD Anderson and just ran a lab?

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(12-16-2020, 06:10 AM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 10:26 PM)Guest Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 07:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Heard that Lesniak gives garbage letters to applicants. True/false? I wanted to do an away there next year but not sure if I should shoot myself in the foot..

All the letters i've read from him are boilerplate, non-specific, not positive or negative. Unlike a different departmental leader in the Chicago area who has something negative to say in nearly every letter i've read from them.

amin-hanjani?

why does she do this?  why does she want to ruin people careers by finding fault in even the best students???