care extenders

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<p>My dear dawritingmachine, it would be so much easier if you just emailed the people you were involved with. What makes you think that the regulars (whose names I'm sure acquainted with so far and have at least established some sort of boundaries with what they know - example: namaste never posts anything on engineering since well, he doesn't study it) on this board and the lurking outliers would have that sort of specific information? </p>

<p>It is quicker to get straight to the source, to be quite honest. </p>

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<li>Questions on housing, for example, can be quickly answered through UCLA</a> Housing and using the forum. They respond within 48 hours or so. </li>
<li>Questions related to specific organizations - they usually have websites, contact information, etc. through Facebook or at least through The</a> UCLA Student Groups Web Page</li>
<li>Anything related to your account or nuances can be answered through a phone call to Murphy Hall rather than say, asking for someone's highly individualistic situation within BAR, anything Financial Aid related, and most importantly, anything as bureaucratically cumbersome as Murphy.</li>
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<p>...at least, this is what I have garnered from being a dependent or n00b until finally I knew enough to answer posts. I think some are the most effective threads are questions involving things that can't be easily googled - examples: professors (outside of BruinWalk), nature of core requirements, lower-division courses versus upper-divisions in general, career issues, getting help on the Hill, through Murphy, or other resources, etc.</p>

<p>^I hope that does not sound condescending.</p>

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<p>I got an interview! Woooo.</p>

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<p>As did I. Are you gonna get your health clearance done before next Sunday, when we find out if we're actually in? Because I don't want to have it done "ASAP", as they say, only to not be accepted. </p>

<p>And what are the odds of getting into Care Extenders once you've scored an interview?</p>

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<p>i heard that of the total applicant pool, about half gets interviews. from there, one third of the interviewees are accepted into the program.</p>

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<p>I'm gonna wait on it..</p>

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<p>Gulp.</p>

<p>:'( :'( :'(</p>

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<p>the following question will neither be answered online nor through care extender admin:</p>

<p>what were the interview questions?
any general advice on the interview?</p>

<p>pm me if u want about this.</p>

<p>i did not get in. :( it's my 2nd time applying. i will apply every time until i get in. i'll eventually get in, right?</p>

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<p>The interview q's were pretty personalized, laid back, and chill. Nothing really about resume or experience stuff, just personality type q's. </p>

<p>Same for everyone else? Did anyone else have theirs today by any chance?</p>

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<p>Mmmm, did they have the "what kind of superpower would you like?" question?</p>

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<p>heh. :X I didn't look for a bus sched until it was too late. So I'm gonna apply next rotation u_u''</p>

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<p>Yeah, was that for everyone or were you in my group jinobi? Because it didn't look like they had written down any q's..</p>

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<p>Nah, I have a better job in the OR that I'm sticking with. That was from a friend already in CE.</p>

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<p>I got in!!!!</p>

<p>shoop da woop!</p>

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<p>I didn't make the cut...</p>

<p>I heard care extenders is really boring. should I apply next time?</p>

<p>also, what is with the 5 dollars application fee????</p>

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<p>it is boring..but its kind of a right of passage if ur premed</p>

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<p>Boring or not if you're pre-med or related experience is experience. I'd apply again..</p>

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<p>but you people talk like its the only experience which it is not. there are plenty of other opportunities out there, especially different than this now hackneyed (yay for high school vocabulary lessons!) program.</p>

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<p>Uhhh, point out where we claim it's the only experience out there? Do you think maybe because this is a thread about care extenders we've been focusing on......care extenders?</p>

<p>And how is the program hackneyed?</p>

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<p>i didnt say you were saying it was the only experience out there, i said you guys were talking like it was the only experience. its not a right of passage and there are other better experiences out there</p>

<p>its hackneyed because they heavily advertise and a lot of people are in it now, but its not like it was in how they are advertising it- only a select few get to do anything worthwhile, the rest are just in some glorified hospital volunteer program that you actually paid to have the honor of donating your free time towards. </p>

<p>how people get in is by either knowing someone who has an administrative position, or for the rest, but sheer dumb random luck (their "interview" is literally a joke). my friends still discharge (wheel patients out) and do office work in that program and some have quit and are now working at the mattel hospital which they say are more interesting</p>

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<p>Thanks for actually explaining rather than acting like a prissy person spewing random bs.</p>

<p>As for the claims, I'll be sure to post my thoughts after a couple months. I've volunteered at a bunch of hospitals and been involved in a few programs so I'm interested in seeing how this compares(my first program of the type at UCLA)..</p>