Well, I thought physical/chemical would be my weak point but it went surprisingly okay. I'm naturally strong in CARS and it was fine as expected. I went into the midday break feeling pretty good about life. Then came bio/biochem and it slapped me down. Way harder than I expected. Last was psych/soc which I thought I would do well at since I'm a psych major (and some things I could directly attribute knowing from my classes), but it was surprisingly difficult. I had to debate between 2 answer choices on a lot of that section. Anyway, I didn't feel bad enough to void lol.....it was awful, but you kinda expect that going in. The morning just went so well that the afternoon seemed terrible in comparison.
after my first section i had a similar feeling as well. I knew I had bombed the first section and spoke about it with another person taking a break during that time. I wanted to void at that point. Once you are done with the mental anguish of taking the exam everything else just flows naturally. I ended up scoring on the higher end of my mean, so take that with a grain of salt. However, keep applying with the idea that you scored the highest you could imagine, otherwise the steam runs out until the results come back.
Bureaucratic nightmares are real, keep on trucking and brush it off. There is much frustration and rejection to be found in this entire process. Keep your spirits high.
Okay, you convinced me lol. I'll wait and take care of it Monday so the forms can be included.
I'm dead inside from yesterday....I'm just kinda laying here, can't sleep but also can't think or be productive at all.
Okay, thank you.
Oh, that's actually great advice, thank you!
Don't delete schools for financial reasons if you have a well-thought out list. Unfortunately, the expense of the app process gets worse before it gets better. I spent way more on secondaries than I did on AMCAS, and then it can be very expensive again for interview travel, especially if you are applying cross-country....though I reduced travel expenses significantly by grouping my interviews and staying with students/fellow SDNers.
If you're interested in those schools, and they're reasonable matches for your app/career goals, and they take residents of your state, then heck yeah, you should apply. Look at the bigger picture here. Are you seriously saying you're ok with taking on a quarter million dollars worth of debt or more to get a medical education, but you're agonizing over a few hundred dollars more in app fees?
Do you have ties to FL or are you a former resident? Most of our state schools heavily prefer in-state residents. Double check the MSAR to see if the OOS proportions are reasonable (which I defined as below 75% in-state when I applied) before you apply to any of the FL schools besides Miami, which is private and does take a lot of OOS students.
But if they were stationed in FL and you weren't, you really can't compare yourself to them, especially if they became state residents. We have a big military presence in this state, including McDill in Tampa (where USF is), Navy in Jax, etc. So it isn't surprising that we have large numbers of vets staying on and attending medical school here after they complete their military service.
That is the greatest advance in med school applications ever. They could have charged me almost anything they wanted to do my transcripts and I would have thought it was well worth the price. Lol.That's great, Q!
I'm having a difficult time motivating myself to play with my MD app. DO has been submitted though. Paid them to enter my courses for me, so I'm just waiting on that.
Yeah, if you have a lot of transcripts (I had five), it's a huge PITA. Add that to the fact that my primary UG transcript had no grades, no credit hours, and no semester designations (hippie college), and it was even more painful. I ultimately wound up arbitrarily designating various classes to various school years since they were just listed randomly on my transcript in nothing like the order in which I took them. AMCAS took a few weeks to verify me, but they didn't give me too much of a hard time. I guess whomever looked at that mess probably had the same reaction I did, which was, ok, let's just assign one quarter of the classes to each year in an order that more or less makes sense, and call it a day.
Agreed! Last year at this time I was still studying for the MCAT. However much I dislike re-writing everything (was it bad last year? who knows...), I'm thankful to not be doing the MCAT again! And for submitting up to a month earlier. And that I didn't apply to about half of my target schools, so I'll only be a re-applicant at half of my schools.
