Amy B said:
How dare you come on here and attack posters the way you have. That is not what SDN is all about. We are here to help people. You have absolutely NO right to pass judgement on anyone who may or may not have a lower than average MCAT. Thank God you aren't on any medical school admissions commitee. The MCAT is just a piece of the overall puzzle. It is ONLY a PIECE.
Again, someone with a reading comprehension problem. Look back at my posts and actually READ them. I never attacked anyone for having low MCAT scores UNTIL I started receiving negative comments and being called names. Of course, none of these people left their username behind the comments, which is typical immature behavior. Therefore, my rants in posts #41 and #45 were vaguely directed towards those individuals. PACtoDOC wants me to "address specific people", but I have no names to list, since no one had the balls to leave a name.
To all those angry namecallers, please review my earlier comments in this thread about the MCAT and stop reading things into them. I actually stated that "MCAT scores are only part of a host of factors that are evaluated in the application process." Obviously MOST of you missed that.
I also said that there should be a cutoff for MCAT scores but I had no idea what that cutoff should be. Not one time did I offer a specific number. My whole point was to agree with earlier posters that there does infact need to be a cutoff and that MCAT scores should remain an integral part of the selection process, albeit just a part.
I then said if anyone did not agree that the MCAT should be used in the admissions process, then they should come up with better alternatives. Some people did, including PACtoDOC, and I agreed with some of those suggestions.
So if people would actually READ the posts prior to my justified rant in posts #41 and #45, they would realize that I never put down people with "lower" MCAT scores; I simply discussed the merits of the test itself, the fact that it should be a PART of the selection process, and that some arbitrary cutoff should be used by schools (which already occurs at many schools anyway).
None of the points that I brought up are new. Many, not all, medical schools are using the principles I have brought up. So if you disagree, fight the medical schools, not me.
And post civil, thoughtful arguments against my view, don't personally attack me in private. I'm not here to belittle people for low MCATs and say they can't be good docs. I'm simply arguing that it's the best objective measure adcoms have in the selection process and that "some" cutoff should be used. If that is wrong, then the entire medical school selection processs in this country is f***ed up, which may be the case.
I can't believe I had to basically repost all my earlier comments because some people didn't take the time to read them or couldn't comprehend what I was saying.
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If anyone has evidence that I bashed people with low MCATs and said they're going to be bad docs (with the exception of posts #41 and #45, which were personal attack rants), then please use the quote function and prove it. Then I will own up to it and apologize.
And to Amy B, who said "we (SDN) are here to help people", I have helped a ton of people on this board with honest advice. The latest example being in this same forum 7 hours after I logged back in after my rant in post #45. The title of the thread is "Could use some help on a bioethics assignment!"
And to PACtoDOC, who said "people like you with your Daddy-paid Kaplan MCAT review who happened to pull a good score out your a#s still look up the a&s end at people like me in class rank. And guess what, class rank has been shown to correlate with boards greater than any other predictor to date. Your argument holds no water, only hot air."
Please post the studies that support this. This is EXACTLY what I have been doing in this thread - asking for people to argue the addressed issues. And also, don't personally attack my father and my MCAT study methods, when you have no idea what the real situation is. You are FAR off base!