<p>This character posted on HSL too. He got the right advice there as well.</p>
<p>@starbright So you want to criticize my reaction? Go ahead. Deep down both you and I know that your comments were very inappropriate. “the spoiled child doted on by parents with more than enough money to burn to ensure their darling baby gets what they want.” Was that by any means necessary. It’s one thing to be blunt, after knowing someone for many years, but was the response necessary? If everyone else posted like this, the quality of the posts here on the forum, would truly go down a few notches. </p>
<p>I wanted to know whether the pursuit of money, would kill any passion I had toward the field of healthcare. A very simple question, that has obtained quite a few interesting responses. Instead you reply calling me a spoiled child, and a darling baby? I’m supposed to believe that you made no personal judgement. The information that I provided was to answer my question, it was limited for that reason only. </p>
<p>How dare you speak about my maturity and character, even after posting something as offensive as you have? How can maturity be perceived through casual posts on a public forum? If you believe they truly can, then I believe you are very weak-minded. Instead of focusing and contemplating on the EC, you diverted to personal attacks. You seem to be a Populist, who cannot control their emotions. By the way this “is by no means a personal judgement about you” and is merely “going on the limited information that you provided.”</p>
<p>It is incredibly hard for me to believe you are a matured admissions officer, based on the quality of your posts. Before you say that I need to grow up, you need to learn to control your emotions, and express your self in a respectful and clear manner.</p>
<p>It is a sign of arrogance If you believe that you can post anything you want, and justify it using the tag of “admissions officer.” You are nothing more than a spammer in my eyes.
By the way this is “only based on the limited information you provided,” and is by no means “a personal judgement about you.” </p>
<p>My character is down to earth. My character knows what seniority, and what humility is. My character refrains from hiding behind tags such as “millionaire” in my case, and “admissions officer” in your case. My character understands that at the end of the day, the one fundamental quality you can be judged on , beyond your status and position, is respect!</p>
<p>That respect is what you lack. Their is a difference between honesty, and attacks based on personal emotions, that you can put off as honesty.</p>
<p>Understand YOUR OBVIOUS FAULTS BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE OTHERS.</p>
<p>*On a side note, excuse my grammar and spelling. I am using a cellphone to type this.</p>
<p>@noimagination I am not a character, but very much a human like you. It is true that I posted both threads at the same time on HSL and one here. I got a few responses in HSL about how the business works, instead of actually answering my question. By the next time I logged on, the thread on HSl life had disappeared. I can only assume it was moved or deleted. This thread has lasted alot longer.</p>
<p>Please post something useful. Do not post offensive comments that ruin this thread. </p>
<p>Thank you for your cooperation.</p>
<p>From your simple original post, you got free advice. AND recommendations from posters, whom otherwise wouldn’t have given you the time of day. AND you also received free suggestions on how else you could pursue business related extracurricular activities, also from said posters. The only thing you did not get was the through-and-through oh-gee-golly encouragement to go right ahead do whatever the hell you want, since you, like many other high school students, quite frankly don’t know what the hell they are talking about. I learned that the hard way here. </p>
<p>I don’t know who lit the fuse on your tampon, but relax. The people here who post every now and again do so because they are on YOUR side – and by “your,” I mean similarly aspiring high school kids in general – until said high school kids start acting immaturely to people trying to give them realistic answers to their questions.</p>
<p>@XeldMS Dude please don’t ruin this thread. You have no idea who i was responding to or what reason I had for doing so. My anger is vented to that single person, who made an incredibly ridiculous comment that had nothing to do with this EC, the business or anything else. It was nothing more than spam. </p>
<p>Lets please not ruin this thread. Is a realistic answer calling someone “spoiled?” What the hell does that have to do with anything.</p>
<p>I’m not going to read your post because quite frankly its pointless. Your an outsider who came to vent his or her thoughts. I respect that.</p>
<p>I earnestly beg you, lets stay on topic.</p>
<p>Question: Does the pursuit of money, block any perceivable passion in an EC.</p>
<p>YOUR ANSWER?</p>
<p>BTW UPTIL POST #19 (Alec’s post) THIS THREAD STAYED ON TOPIC. LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY.</p>
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No. But that isn’t what you originally asked. You asked whether partial ownership in a pharmacy will confer advantages in the admissions process. The answer you have overwhelmingly received is NO. </p>
<p>You asked how this would be perceived. Starbright told you how it will be perceived, not how it actually is.</p>
<p>Working in a pharmacy is an EC, owning one is a financial transaction.</p>
<p>Wait you want to own a pharmacy and be a doctor? Unless the world underwent a major change or gone off it’s orbit, last time i checked, Doctors (you know those people who have a M.D.) work in hospitals (this article might help you understand it better [Physician</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician]Physician”>Physician - Wikipedia)). Pharmacists (people who hold a PharmD. rather than a M.D.) work in pharmacy. If you so badly want to start a pharmacy, why the heck do you want to be a doctor? Doctors care about patients, not about delivering drugs. The admissions officers would question your intention on wanting to be a doctor and simply as the question: if you went through the time and trouble of start and working at a pharmacy, why not just go into pharmacy. Why not go to a pharmacy school?</p>
<p>What in hell are you talking about? Given your username, I assume I should not take you seriously.</p>
<p>This thread is getting ridiculous. OP, develop some thicker skin and stop with the drama, starbright wasn’t criticizing you but bringing up a possible way your app might be interpreted. And apparently, with gunit’s comment, this is creating a snowball effect of idiocy.</p>
<p>Haha ok guys, are you kidding me? Do your realize that EVERY person who owns a pharmacy is a pharmacist? That’s like saying you want to run a doctor’s office or own one, and be a high schoool student. meaningoflife, you’re crazy. sorry for the burtally honest truth, but in order to own a pharmacy, you have to go through YEARS of training in, get this - Pharmacy School!!!</p>
<p>Seriously, guys. This has to be the craziest thread I think I’ve ever seen, especially some of the responses, like:</p>
<p>“Go for it. In the end, owning a pharmacy will teach you much more than impressing an adcom. Just make sure that once you get it up and running to let the media know about it, so you get some articles written about you.”</p>
<p>meaningoflife, this is neither a hook nor a liability. Why? Because it’s ILLEGAL for an untrained high schooler to own a pharmacy.</p>
<p>By law a pharmacy requires a pharmacist to present when the store is open. The owner(s) do not have to be pharmacists themselves.</p>
<p>To simplify this for you: CVS is “owned” by investors, and its board is made up of businessmen. The people that work there are pharmacists.</p>
<p>-On a side note CVS has nothing to do with the Independent Pharmacy Business. It was only used as an example of structure/organization. </p>
<p><strong><em>My question is, will the pursuit of money defer any passion towards health care?
Is it better to state that I am a worker (I hold down a job), or an owner? A combination of both?</em></strong>*</p>
<p>By no means is it illegal for me to own a pharmacy. Every month my share is sent to my checking account. I pay income taxes. etc.</p>
<p>So you’re basically telling colleges that you have enough money that you can invest in a pharmacy. WOW. What a great extracurricular.</p>
<p>chemwz, </p>
<p>your post was almost (if not just) as dumb as gunit5’s. </p>
<p>Secondly, based on OP, he worked for this money. Read carefully.</p>
<p>^ Actually, chemwz’s post is very valuable. It doesn’t matter how the OP made his money. What matters to the OP is the visceral reaction people will have when they see partial pharmacy ownership on an app, and that’s what chemwz offered.</p>
<p>No, my point that chemwz’s post was dumb is entirely based on his initial post, not on the money issue. His initial post was just as dumb as gunit5’s - speaking out of his behind as if he had the authority to do so.</p>
<p>On another note, it does matter very much how you obtained, not made, the money - it matters whether it was earned/made vs. given. However, if what you say is what the OP’s goal was, then the OP is wrong in that given respect as well.</p>
<p>^ I refer you to the OP…
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<p>I asked a (almost) similar question regarding ROTC programs, however I know I would never do ROTC for academic prospects, which is why I approached that comment of his without skepticism - I did notice it, though, so I understand your view.</p>
<p>It’s not like he asked about doing it before he did it, rather quite the opposite.</p>
<p>I feel like this would be so legal in so many ways. I smell a ■■■■■? Are you legally allowed to being doing any of this without being licensed?</p>
<p>^ I don’t exactly smell a ■■■■■… however I do see outrageous stupidity. Just plain dumb-ness.</p>