I started a side hustle while at BYU. It turned into a legit business towards the end of my undergrad. I was at a fork in the road and had to decide to pursue medicine or my business. I ended up choosing my business. I had my applications in already when I decided to go all in with my business. But I decided to quickly fill out the UofU secondary application to get an interview to know what it was like. I didn't want to spend all the money to fly all over and interview with other schools. But interviewing with the UofU would have been just an afternoon. So my experiences is pretty narrow - since I didn't see anything else.

Also, I had lot of people read my personal statement or main essay (can't remember what they call it). I worked on that thing for 6 months and rewrote it to perfection. I had one individual who was on the UofU med admissions board for 20 years read it. He was no longer there anymore so felt it was okay to give me feedback. He said it was top 5% of all essays he had read but my problem was is that I was too "BYU" in it. He said that he spent most of his time on UofU admissions arguing with others why they kept rejecting BYU students. "too white" "too mormon" "too good" were the responses he got again and again.

On day of interview I was with probably 20 other applicants. We got to know each other. Many of whom were BYU undergrads. There was one girl from California who's parents immigrated from the middle east. I got to know her a bit. She told me how she couldn't believe she got an interview. She told me about her 3.0 GPA and low MCAT scores. But you would have thought the U faculty had just met the Queen of England. It was comical how all the attention was put on her. When we toured the campus and every room/place we went into - the faculty member there immediately asked the girl a simple question. No fault of her own, she was nice. But come on, could you be a little more obvious?

This was shortly after they joined the PAC12 and I couldn't believe how many times they mentioned they were in the PAC12. I didn't have the balls to raise my hand and ask some snarky question about the PAC12. I digress...

In one of my interviews, the faculty member straight up told me how terrible my personal statement was (the one that screamed 'byu'). I told him he was the first to give me that feedback. He didn't like that. In one of my other essays I talked about my business and how it would be more economical to choose that path but because of my love for medicine I chose medicine (I had wrote the essay before I had decided so it was true at the time but I guess a lie during the interview ha). He tried calling me out that I didn't actually have a business with questions like "so is this your dad's business you talked about?" or "where in Utah County do you do this?" or "I've never heard of something like this before" He hated me. I so desperately wanted to end the interview and say, I actually just came to this interview to waste your time and see how bias the U is, and I accomplished both of those goals. Unfortunately I didn't.

I always say I hate in this order... The University, the fans, Kyle, the football team, the players.