Would you invite me to interview?Why in the world would you not apply to his school?
Naughty people get banned. But I like to argue, and have expressed opinions not totally PC in the premed world, such as there being huge disparities in rigor/difficulty between universities.
Of course I would
You definitely have the drive and aptitude. If I were an adcom, I'd like to hear how you'd use your skills to help sick people.
Glad I could help. Just a heads up, there's a "like" button down by reply to save you some time
I had disabled it but did a fresh install of windows and office and forgot to disable it againHow did you fall for the old "forgot-to-wipe-out-metadata" trick?
Very true, supposed to keep the god complexes secret until post-acceptance right
Of course I would
Haha that chem debate cracked me up! Seriously?!
AAMC actually officially discourages comparing by percentiles. Its not clear why though, other than because they believe more of the 50-80th percentile range should be getting into Med schools. They suggest treating everyone past the middle of the bell as capable, since mid 20s on the old test predicted passing steps at a high rate, but there's no reason Med schools should stop preferring 99th percentile to 60th...
Post in WAMC. Do you already have rec letters lined up? A personal statement written? Your app will start to be damagingly late if you don't have everything ready to submit in the next couple weeks.
"Because the MCAT2015 scores are new to admissions committee members, they use the percentile ranks for the new scores to see how individual applicants compare to others who took the new exam."
See bolded, they still refuse to admit that you can compare percentiles across exams - as if the median has changed capabilities because they changed scoring system! I was going with https://www.aamc.org/students/download/378098/data/mcat2015scorescaleguide.pdf where it says:
You will get no argument out of me on this one!
Having reviewed content from all these subsections, I was surprised to find this one formulated questions in a manner much more consistent with the practice of medicine than either of the science sections.
What does this mean? I was under the impression nothing about the MCAT translates past standard test taking ability and critical thinking. Or is the SDN adage that a high MCAT does not a good physician make, no longer apply with psych/socio...?
I am merely reporting that my review of the physics and chemistry questions revealed an in-depth assessment of topics entirely unused in medicine. This is nothing new. The scores are still important even if the content is not.
Ah, but in psych the questions are things a doctor might actually face? Do they teach lots of similar psych in med school curriculums?
Actually, yes. The psycho-social context of health and disease is something we teach and is as important as anything else we learn.
Interesting, soon the only physics covered will be optics for vision and some fluid mechs for circulation, and eventually we will just become the European system where you learn only MD-relevant stuff beginning right after highschool!
As long as you have distinguished yourself in your chosen field of study, competence in the sciences is really all that is required. The non-cognitive competencies are the ones that really seem to make or break one in this field.
And what did a good CARS score correlate with? The likelihood of being an English major?
Assuming it is similar to the old V it should actually have about a 0.4 correlation to step 1 performance!
Edit: ah, nevermind. Good old Wikipedia.
It's significant and contributes to the composite correlation though ! And I'd guess it is what correlates most with IQ, something that may be desirable outside of step performance
Better watch yourself Goro lest you have a very long term probation slapped on you undermining all your posts
I disagree. My LSAT score is within 3% of my IQ percentile, but my CARS is like, 50 percentiles away lol. As much as pre-meds would love for their verbal/CARS scores to qualify them as geniuses, there is really no reason to believe that there's any correlation there.
Disagree again. My score on the LSAT, which is actually called "Reading Comprehension", is in the top 2%. I don't think anyone could wisely argue that the new MCAT CARS tests reading comprehension better than the LSAT.
Oh my god. Am I that cynical? My love of passive aggressive snarkiness has made me see it even when its not there
1) very different populations taking MCAT vs LSAT. LSAT takers are not required to survive a 75% weed out through classes like Ochem with strong grades in order to sit for the test. Would not surprise me if 98th percentile LSAT was far from equivalent to 98th MCAT (again based on the testing populations not on the test itself).
Have you ever taken a practice MCAT? Totally makes sense to me that some people could be science whizzes and speak English but struggle to nail verbal. It isolates reasoning > knowledge/experience and a very different type of reasoning than the symbolic manipulations of physical science!
You're arguing that CARS relies on reasoning? The large majority of the questions rely on identifying the main idea of the passage, which is usually an argument based on very faulty reasoning.
1) It is still visible yes
Won't you now have to explain why you retested and did worse?
Spend an hour taking a Verbal section as if your future career depended on scoring at least 10-11. You'll see why speaking English and being good at physics and chemistry doesn't always translate into high V scores!
