Difficulty of getting into medical school exaggerated?

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I would generally have to agree with the other posters. I think the only thing that makes the process of getting into med school so difficult is the neuroticism of SDN. OTOH that is not to say that the OP is right in thinking that it is easy.

It's entirely subjective. For most, it's a grueling process. I don't believe SDN has anything to do with it. I assume you have been accepted?

 

[Dr McSexy]

do sdn posters exaggerate the difficulty of getting into a medical school? Aamc data suggests that 44% of all applicants get into some md program. Then there are do programs, which definitely have a better acceptance rate. There are also foreign md programs, which probably have an even better acceptance rate.

Which means almost everyone who applies to medical school gets accepted.

At my lame university, 33 students with average 25 mcat applied. Of those 32 have been accepted.

So do sdn posters exaggerate the difficulty of getting into medical schools? Strategically perhaps? To discourage other applicants?

suu?

 

[Wolfman89]

It's entirely subjective. For most, it's a grueling process. I don't believe SDN has anything to do with it. I assume you have been accepted?

No I have not. But I am going to say that SDN has a tendency to be neurotic and that influences the posts.

Of course that is not to say that the OP isn't a troll, because he/she is. And whatever UG he/she goes too probably uses some weird method to make their statistics better, which we have seen on here before.

 

[Mithril]

Pretty hard to get into med school in Canada. Sometimes I wish I were an American citizen. Then I smack myself.

 

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Pretty hard to get into med school in Canada. Sometimes I wish I were an American citizen. Then I smack myself.

Lol!

Post of the night.

 

[Wolfman89]

Pretty hard to get into med school in Canada. Sometimes I wish I were an American citizen. Then I smack myself.

WIN!

Lol!

Post of the night.

👍

 

[murfettie]

it's not THAT hard, but it's certainly not a piece of cake either.
It's doable.

 

[ILikeDrugs]

I honestly wouldn't say that's worth much lol...reflects a whole lot more on the person than the school.

This is why people should ignore those who constantly pipe up about the drop-out rates and USMLE Step 1 fail rates as the main reason why people shouldn't go to the carib. Getting an MD and matching somewhere is doable if someone has enough drive. Of course their chances of matching into competitive specialities are low.

 

[Mithril]

Whoops, posted in the wrong thread.

 

[chiapet874]

If you don't believe me, you're passing an opportunity to learn some truths. The discussion is all over the program's Facebook page this morning and they are crowing how only one student didn't get accepted.

Because FB is a legit source of information, AM I RIGHT??

 

[IlDestriero]

Because FB is a legit source of information, AM I RIGHT??

Perhaps the "truths" he's referring to is the power of prayer? Either that, or God is creating an army of mediocre physicians for Maobama's health care scheme? Or just FOS?

 

[Perrotfish]

This is why people should ignore those who constantly pipe up about the drop-out rates and USMLE Step 1 fail rates as the main reason why people shouldn't go to the carib. Getting an MD and matching somewhere is doable if someone has enough drive. Of course their chances of matching into competitive specialities are low.

If you have enough talent and drive to match into something from a Caribbean school then you probably have enough talent and drive to fix your application, go to a US school, and match into ortho at a US school. The reason tht I would advise everyone to choose another career before going to the islands is that:

1) There's a good chance you're fooling yourself. If you don't have a good enough GPA/MCAT to get into any US MD or DO school chances are you're not going to kill med school classes or the USMLE either.

2) If you are the rare fluke that really is brilliant and hard working then there's no reason to hamstring your career to save a year or two. Applications aren't that hard to fix, and there's no reason to limit yourself to a lifetime of family practice when you might have loved something else much more.

 

[Pons Asinorum]

Great post in a bad thread...

If you have enough talent and drive to match into something from a Caribbean school then you probably have enough talent and drive to fix your application, go to a US school, and match into ortho at a US school. The reason tht I would advise everyone to choose another career before going to the islands is that:

1) There's a good chance you're fooling yourself. If you don't have a good enough GPA/MCAT to get into any US MD or DO school chances are you're not going to kill med school classes or the USMLE either.

2) If you are the rare fluke that really is brilliant and hard working then there's no reason to hamstring your career to save a year or two. Applications aren't that hard to fix, and there's no reason to limit yourself to a lifetime of family practice when you might have loved something else much more.