I was out at a bar/club in Tel Aviv. It was located in the namal, which means port. Basically Tel Aviv used to use this port, but then another - bigger - one was built and this one was turned into restaurants, shops and nightlife. Everything faces the water and I was with some friends at an outdoor bar. The place was crawling with Americans which was really annoying. Anyway, Tel Aviv University runs an English-language medical school which draws on the Jewish I-want-to-go-to-med-school-and-still-have-a-social-life crowd. I base this on the now-many sleezy guys I met from this program. I haven't actually met or heard of any girls in the program. So, at the bar some guys were talking to us. One was actually chatting with my friend Lindsay. His friend came up to us and asked us where we were from, what we were doing in TA, etc. He was from Boston - Brookline. I said I knew the area because I went to school up there. He asked me where. When I told him I had gone to Tufts, he stopped and stared. "Wow. Tufts. Wow. So you're really smart then," was all he could manage. Then he told me how his sister was trying to get in, but it was really hard.
He walked away, went and got a friend, brought him back and told him how I went to Tufts. The friend stared at me for a bit before they started talking to my friend Stacey. They never asked what school she went to, nor did they share where they did their undergrad.
Please, everyone out there: check where your doctors went to school. If it was TAU, find a new guy. No one should be that shocked about a person going to Tufts. Yes, it's a good school, but in med-school, shouldn't you have people who come from places like Tufts?
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My mom's friend's son goes to TAU for medical school. I believe he went to the University of Wisconsin, and is apparently very bright. It's actually pretty hard to get into Israeli English-speaking medical school. I believe Ben-Gurion has one too that's linked with Columbia's post-bac program. You're pretty much guaranteed an American residency afterward, which is really all you need anyway.
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