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Hey y'all, Rad BootCamp is putting on a session this Saturday, 5/8/21, @ 2 PM focusing on Life Skills that would benefit any medical student or new resident. We'll have some experts talking about Managing Finances, Managing your time, Having Difficult Conversations with Colleagues, and...

Schools are looking for applicants who can show that they have strong leadership qualities and experiences and can demonstrate that they will actively contribute to their student/alumni communities, not to mention to the greater community and society. Yet grandiose, declarative statements and...

We all know the whole schpiel, don't practice in a metro area. Competition is tough and getting tougher by the millisecond! Is a way to get the best of both worlds to simply take an hour long commute to your dental practice? Suppose you really want to live in LA, or any other big desirable...

Hi Everyone! My name is A and I am a second year medical student at an accredited school in the US. I recall a time when I was applying to medical school and really relied on some of the things that I saw posted here on SDN. One recurring theme that I saw however, was that the majority of the...

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I spent a long time trying to decide if MD PhD programs were right for me, and I spent quite a bit of that time lingering around forums like this one. I ended up choosing to apply to grad school without applying to MD PhD programs, and wanted to share my experiences thus far. The first 12...

New here, sorry if I'm not doing this correctly. I took the MCAT last year and got a 499 (Phys/Chem 123, CARS 125, Bio 126, Psych 125). Finding time to study proved to be a challenge with a full time job, as I work M-F 8-5. On top of that I needed my daily gym time, time for dinner, time to...

So we have all heard that High School GPA is the true predictor of college success. However, in my situation, I have a really good ACT at 34, but a really average(probably bad) GPA at 3.7. I did take a ton of AP and honors classes but in High School I never had direction until senior year and I...

Hey all, So I've read a lot of threads and posts on here about students worried about their performance on an upcoming MCAT. I know many students take a fairly ubiquitous route of cramming for a summer before taking the MCAT end of summer or beginning of fall. Since I took a less-traveled route...

Course Description: Are you a prospective college student? Do you have a desire for success? Learn how to avoid the clunky freshman transition and put yourself on a common sense path to success in college. You will learn all about common mistakes college students often make in their classes...

Hi everyone, So I've been fortunate enough to have been accepted into a good DO school and start later this year. After graduating and having a bit of time before school starts, I've had more time to worry about school haha. I'm very excited and am ready to start, but I'm also worried about...

Hey everyone, So I took the July 2015 MCAT and did not do as well as I wanted to. The goal was to score 500+ but i scored a mere 492. This basically crushed me and I have yet to pick up any type of MCAT books since. My breakdown: CP- 125 VR- 120 :/ BB- 124 PS- 123 So here I am halfway through...

I'm now a Junior in high school, and the last two years (Freshman and Sophomore) have been complete trash (Bs and Cs all around) and now my Junior is already slipping down to hell(I have two Cs, a D-, and all rest Bs and As). I am extremely worried because I know even if I get straight A's my...

As interview season gets underway, many med school hopefuls will be religiously checking this forum, searching for hope. I know, because I was there 4 years ago. Going even further back, for as long as I could remember, med school wasn't a viable option for me. I was on the pre-med track as an...