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Hey everyone,
So I am finally D O N E!! Feel so relieved to be done and hopefully never have to go through this again.
AA21 TS 21
OC 24 GC21 BIO19 RC23 QR20 PAT22
First of all, I want to give a big thanks to Dr.Romano and Nancy for their amazing books and also the feedback they give here on sdn, it's really helpful
Also Ari from DAT Bootcamp, definitely one of my best resources, and he's also really helpful in replying to messages on the website! And Chad, oh Chad, You taught me well my friend.i couldn't have done it without them.
So I spent around 10 weeks studying 4-5 hrs a day. I felt bad when reading other people's breakdowns and seeing 8+ hrs a day. I tried but I don't know why I can't pull off those kind of hours
I started off using Ari's study schedule and stayed pretty consistent with it until I started slacking off with the destroyer questions. But I buckled down and completed 100 questions in each section a day to get through it with enough time to go over it all again. All in all, I went over destroyer ochem twice and bio like once, with some revision of the solutions. I was glad to just get done with the genchem questions, they tore me apart x_x But listen to me when I tell you this book is gold! It's honestly priceless. Ari knew what he was talking about when he told us what we needed to study. I bought everything he told us to ( chads, math and dat destroyer, cliffs Ap bio) ferralis's notes were a life saver too! They were like made for the DAT
I also was stupid and bought the ace package thing to Crack DAT. I used all of them and it really only helped me in PAT, and math
The video explanations for the answers are really really good
It was also pretty good for RC, because I didnt do much other practivce for RC on bootcamp, nor did I read a science article every day :/
Sciences though... Waste of money
i started off taking full length practice tests for Crack DAT, so at least I used it
The I redid all the BC tests, because I had taken them all before like Ari tells you to, and it had been a while so they looked new
RC and QR on boot camp were harder than the actual thing, especially QR
Hmmm what else. Oh I bought math destroyer, did around the first 6 tests and did horrible lol
I basically just reviewed equations and trig before the test
I actually only had like two stats questions, and the trig was SUPER easy. Like the answer was in your face.
Last night I really started to freak out and was a crying mess, but thank goodness for my husband to keep me somewhat sane. I got maybe four hours of sleep.
During the test today I was pretty anxious. Like I was confident in my answers but at the same time, my head was all over the place. Time really did go fast. But it wasn't as bad as I thought. I had to deal with a smudged contact due to my eyeliner this morning throughout the whole exam. That was probably the worst part of it all. Some questions were super easy and some were like what the heck (bio). but I definitely did recognize some similar stuff to Bootcamp and destroyer. There was one question where I knew I had done it before but I didn't go over the solution good enough and couldn't get the right answer to pop up in my head. That made me soooo mad But hopefully I got there through logic.
What I wanted to ask, especially from experienced members, was how do I compare to other applicants? I'm applying next year, have a 3.4 sGPA, >200 hours shadowing, ~200 hrs volunteering
I'm gonna be a TA for my A&P professor next semester, and also have some leadership roles ( not president or vp though)
I really want to get into Baylor over anything else, but overall what do you guys think? Do I need to retake it? I'm scared that my bio is low
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Feel free to ask any questions!
So I am finally D O N E!! Feel so relieved to be done and hopefully never have to go through this again.
AA21 TS 21
OC 24 GC21 BIO19 RC23 QR20 PAT22
First of all, I want to give a big thanks to Dr.Romano and Nancy for their amazing books and also the feedback they give here on sdn, it's really helpful
Also Ari from DAT Bootcamp, definitely one of my best resources, and he's also really helpful in replying to messages on the website! And Chad, oh Chad, You taught me well my friend.i couldn't have done it without them.
So I spent around 10 weeks studying 4-5 hrs a day. I felt bad when reading other people's breakdowns and seeing 8+ hrs a day. I tried but I don't know why I can't pull off those kind of hours
I started off using Ari's study schedule and stayed pretty consistent with it until I started slacking off with the destroyer questions. But I buckled down and completed 100 questions in each section a day to get through it with enough time to go over it all again. All in all, I went over destroyer ochem twice and bio like once, with some revision of the solutions. I was glad to just get done with the genchem questions, they tore me apart x_x But listen to me when I tell you this book is gold! It's honestly priceless. Ari knew what he was talking about when he told us what we needed to study. I bought everything he told us to ( chads, math and dat destroyer, cliffs Ap bio) ferralis's notes were a life saver too! They were like made for the DAT
I also was stupid and bought the ace package thing to Crack DAT. I used all of them and it really only helped me in PAT, and math
The video explanations for the answers are really really good
It was also pretty good for RC, because I didnt do much other practivce for RC on bootcamp, nor did I read a science article every day :/
Sciences though... Waste of money
i started off taking full length practice tests for Crack DAT, so at least I used it
The I redid all the BC tests, because I had taken them all before like Ari tells you to, and it had been a while so they looked new
RC and QR on boot camp were harder than the actual thing, especially QR
Hmmm what else. Oh I bought math destroyer, did around the first 6 tests and did horrible lol
I basically just reviewed equations and trig before the test
I actually only had like two stats questions, and the trig was SUPER easy. Like the answer was in your face.
Last night I really started to freak out and was a crying mess, but thank goodness for my husband to keep me somewhat sane. I got maybe four hours of sleep.
During the test today I was pretty anxious. Like I was confident in my answers but at the same time, my head was all over the place. Time really did go fast. But it wasn't as bad as I thought. I had to deal with a smudged contact due to my eyeliner this morning throughout the whole exam. That was probably the worst part of it all. Some questions were super easy and some were like what the heck (bio). but I definitely did recognize some similar stuff to Bootcamp and destroyer. There was one question where I knew I had done it before but I didn't go over the solution good enough and couldn't get the right answer to pop up in my head. That made me soooo mad But hopefully I got there through logic.
What I wanted to ask, especially from experienced members, was how do I compare to other applicants? I'm applying next year, have a 3.4 sGPA, >200 hours shadowing, ~200 hrs volunteering
I'm gonna be a TA for my A&P professor next semester, and also have some leadership roles ( not president or vp though)
I really want to get into Baylor over anything else, but overall what do you guys think? Do I need to retake it? I'm scared that my bio is low
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Feel free to ask any questions!
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