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Enjoy your break! Please come back May 1st when I get my MCAT back so I can tag you in my WAMC post......
 
I hope you have a nice break. 🙂 I take SDN/Internet breaks every so often too and find it really good for me. I wasn't here at all in 2016.

We look forward to your return whenever you are ready.
 
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Mike Bagwell said:
If you think a REAL 3.7 / 515 applicant is perusing SDN for anything other than humor, then you or anybody else for that matter don't understand the application cycle.
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My PI had a 100th percentile MCAT and was perusing SDN for info. I have a friend who is a current MS3 at a top med school who had a 519 and a 4.0 who was on SDN for advice. I also know someone at my school with a 4.0 and a 515 who got exactly zero invites this cycle.

Entrance is about more than stats and sadly most pre-health professions committee's don't equip their students with 100% of the tools they need to be the best applicant they can be. Even if all of the pre-health committees did everything right, the best they can do is guess at what adcom members are actually looking for, whereas many of our posters currently or previously served on them. That insight alone is worth the price of admission 😀
 
esob said:
My PI had a 100th percentile MCAT and was perusing SDN for info. I have a friend who is a current MS3 at a top med school who had a 519 and a 4.0 who was on SDN for advice. I also know someone at my school with a 4.0 and a 515 who got exactly zero invites this cycle.

Entrance is about more than stats and sadly most pre-health professions committee's don't equip their students with 100% of the tools they need to be the best applicant they can be. Even if all of the pre-health committees did everything right, the best they can do is guess at what adcom members are actually looking for, whereas many of our posters currently or previously served on them. That insight alone is worth the price of admission 😀
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If this person you knew with a 4.0 and a 515 did not get even one invite then that means 1. There is something hiding in their app that you are unaware about that is keeping them out of medical school or 2. This person does not know how to apply to medical school and needs to shell out some serious money for a consulting service that will hold their hand through the process and show them how it's done.

@Goro does give sound advice but some people here do not and will not listen to that advice or lack the maturity to understand the reasoning for the advice in the first place. As a medical student, it is very easy to read some of these threads and figure out who is serious about getting in and who is wasting their time. There are A LOT of people on this site that are kidding themselves if they think they are becoming doctors via the stateside route.

I had significantly lower stats than a 4.0 and a 515 and I easily got in in one cycle. My message has always been that the process is about numbers and then secondly a genuine desire to become a doctor. SDN cannot help you with either of those criteria. What I hope this site can do, is crack some sense into some otherwise naive candidates who do have the potential but are lacking in their thought process.
 
Mike Bagwell said:
If this person you knew with a 4.0 and a 515 did not get even one invite then that means 1. There is something hiding in their app that you are unaware about that is keeping them out of medical school or 2. This person does not know how to apply to medical school and needs to shell out some serious money for a consulting service that will hold their hand through the process and show them how it's done.

@Goro does give sound advice but some people here do not and will not listen to that advice or lack the maturity to understand the reasoning for the advice in the first place. As a medical student, it is very easy to read some of these threads and figure out who is serious about getting in and who is wasting their time. There are A LOT of people on this site that are kidding themselves if they think they are becoming doctors via the stateside route.

I had significantly lower stats than a 4.0 and a 515 and I easily got in in one cycle. My message has always been that the process is about numbers and then secondly a genuine desire to become a doctor. SDN cannot help you with either of those criteria. What I hope this site can do, is crack some sense into some otherwise naive candidates who do have the potential but are lacking in their thought process.
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To the first bold portion: This is exactly why it is imperative for Pre-Med students to get as many opinions and as much feedback on their application as they can . A student cannot know what is wrong with their application if they do not reach out for help with the process. Thus, even for the high stats students, people come to SDN for advise on their application, essays and just questions in general. If a student has a red flag in their application they are unaware of, having others review their application can bring to light these red flags. If a student does not know how to apply to medical school, well SDN acts as a community of literally thousands of people who have gone through the process and can provide guidance; no need to spend money on something that SDN can serve the purpose of.

To the second bold portion: As a medical student you can easily see which students need help. Hence, why they come here....because they don't necessarily know what help they need and the medical students and staff do know. Since medicine is inherently a profession of both learning and teaching, if you have the time to peruse the pre-med forums as a medical student then you can also help the poor lost souls.
 
ThrowawayShmoaway said:
What if Goro is really just leaving to go cheat on us with r/premed? :eyebrow:
(Or does it not count as cheating because we’re “on a break” :laugh:)
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This is like the 6th friends reference in 2 days I have seen on this Forum. I feel like we are finally at a point where >90% of Premeds were born after Friends started and thus grew up with it.
 
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@Mike Bagwell Mind sharing your stats? Significantly lower than a 4.0 and a 515? How significant? Please tell me you're not one of those that say a 3.8 is significantly lower -_-
 
chemdoctor said:
@Mike Bagwell Mind sharing your stats? Significantly lower than a 4.0 and a 515? How significant? Please tell me you're not one of those that say a 3.8 is significantly lower -_-
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As I've stated before, I have a 512. I don't have anywhere near a 4.0 but I am above a 3.5. From what I observed during my app cycle, I don't believe people will have much success with allopathic programs if they are bringing mediocre stats to the table and think that other aspects of their application will get them in. I even advocate to limit EC's and spend more time on MCAT prep. It is my belief that I got in because of my MCAT and the consistency of my GPA. If the MCAT was lower, my GPA would not have saved me by itself though even though it did demonstrate academic excellence over my four years of undergrad work.

I don't believe greater than 90% of the pre-meds that post on this forum are who they say they are or have the stats that they say they do. If I could get a message across to those few people that peruse the boards who do have the stats to get in but don't believe they will get in, then I think my effort was for a good cause.

Even I was told with my stats that getting in would be "hard" but when you go through the process yourself you'll see who knows what they are talking about and who has been spending too much time on SDN.

I don't believe getting into medical school is "hard." I do believe that it is a process with checkpoints. If you can't clear those checkpoints, then you just won't get in no matter how much you think you will make a great doctor.

@Goro has good advice. I suggest you guys take notes and then put together an application with that advice as your foundation.

The rest of the pre-med forum is for humor.
 
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