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What am i ever going to do? This is totally freaking me out. i fear i will never be ready. is it still possible?
Psycho Doctor said:What am i ever going to do? This is totally freaking me out. i fear i will never be ready. is it still possible?
Psycho Doctor said:yea unless your orgo summer course final is 4 days before the MCAT and you have a bunch of other crap to deal with also.
if it was only the MCAT, i'd be fine
MoosePilot said:Well, just get through this. Once you get into med school you only have to do one thing at a time for the rest of your life. [/sarcasm]
Assembler said:The hardest part is getting in....everything after that is BS. The average graduation/pass rate for medical schools is on the order of 97%.
MoosePilot said:I definitely agree, although the pass rate is based on the pre-selected sample of people who were able to get in. Maybe that hurdle is just so high that once you jump it, everything else is doable.
However, time becomes more valuable the further you go. Time is more scarce in med school, from everything I hear. So if he's freaked out by doing Orgo and MCAT studying at the same time, he should consider his future.
silkworm said:I have to disagree. Taking organic chem summer classes while studying MCAT at the same time is very difficult no matter how you look at it. Orgo in the summer is two semesters of already difficult material crammed into two months. I took orgo classes last summer and it seemed my entire existence revolved around the classes. In my experience at least, there was little time to do anything else substantial, let alone studying for MCAT.
MoosePilot said:2 semesters? My orgo class was two semesters, but I wouldn't have dreamed of taking them both the same summer. If I'd decided to do something like that, I don't think the school would have let me. Is that what you were saying?
silkworm said:I think the 2 semesters squeezed into 2 months is pretty standard for all schools. At my school that was the only option available if you want to take it in the summer. Basically, you have a midterm or final every week for that 2 months.
Psycho Doctor said:So if i don't do as well as i'd like to in August and retake it in April and do much better will the August test really hurt me in admissions?
I could probably cut soem of the volunteering..i gues si hate to ever admit i can't do something i set out to do...
MoosePilot said:Really? So a lot of schools allow you to combine Organic Chem I and II into one big summer session worth something like 6 hours? I'm assuming the lab is still separate or is that rolled in there too?
silkworm said:Yep, the lab is in there too, 3 times a week. It was as tough as hell, and by the last final, I actually developed a ulcer. But it was good experience in that it forces you to concentrate, and there are no distractions since you can't afford to have any. I don't think I could have learned orgo as well if I took the classes during fall and spring.
same here but my final is may 11th...ochem part 2Psycho Doctor said:yea unless your orgo summer course final is 4 days before the MCAT and you have a bunch of other crap to deal with also.
if it was only the MCAT, i'd be fine
Psycho, I totally sympathize with you, although I don't know the exact details. I'm going through something right now, and sometimes I wonder how I even manage to get out of bed everyday... I had to force myself to realize that(for me, anyway) the problems are temporary, and if I let them keep me from applying this year, I'll regret it next year, when all you guys are starting med school and I'll be posting sob stories on SDN I guess I can't offer any specifi advice, except what I already posted earlier, but some things to consider:Psycho Doctor said:wow, you two are amazing..i can't imagine those schedules! awesome how you were able to do it with all that going on....just a war and kids??? ..... It's just there was a lot of issues going on in my life all at once that caused me to fall behind now...so it's more than just the MCAT stressing me now.
MoosePilot said:Psychodoctor, do you know how to use the quote feature? If you use it and trim whatever you don't need out of the quote to keep it short, it will be easier to follow who you're replying to. Thanks!
Psycho Doctor said:no, i don't know how to use the quote feature...the last time i tried to use it, i lost my entire message never again until someone tells me how.
Geez, I'm excited for the August MCAT, because I'm feeling upbeat about how I'll do and how nice it'll be to have it behind me.
medicalstudent9 said:there is a girl in my med class that didnt study at all for the mcat
just took it - and did well
wow!
it kinda stinks going to school with a bunch of geniuses - which i am not