At least she overestimated the timeline?
Similarly, I had a college-acquaintance who told me to call him to set up tutoring sessions if I wanted to score over a 30. He had never even taken a pre-req. He is currently in nursing school.
A conversation full of cringes that I had with a fellow pre-med as I was tutoring him on Orgo material.
Him: I don't get why I have to understand mechanisms. I just want to memorize the reactions and move on to other classes.
Me: Well, maybe understanding some of these mechanisms will lay the foundation for you to understand a medication that you prescribe someday, and you will be able to provide the best possible care because of it.
Him: No, I will just move through symptom checklists and prescribe whichever medicine is at the end.
Me: Um, but what if your failure to understand what you are prescribing harms someone?
Him: Well, I will have malpractice insurance.
Me: ...why not go in to a field where apathy for your job doesn't have the potential to kill people?
Him: (defensive now) how else am I supposed to make money?
This went on for a bit before I told him that I was no longer comfortable helping him reach his academic goals for that day, and that I needed space. He went to another tutor in the room and never came back to me. Timing-wise he is probably gearing up to apply this coming cycle, but I have faith in the adcoms that they will see through that mentality.
I think you were taking him too literally. I've said similar things when I was peeved and I didn't want to work anymore. I was never serious, but it was nice being an dingus.A conversation full of cringes that I had with a fellow pre-med as I was tutoring him on Orgo material.
Him: I don't get why I have to understand mechanisms. I just want to memorize the reactions and move on to other classes.
Me: Well, maybe understanding some of these mechanisms will lay the foundation for you to understand a medication that you prescribe someday, and you will be able to provide the best possible care because of it.
Him: No, I will just move through symptom checklists and prescribe whichever medicine is at the end.
Me: Um, but what if your failure to understand what you are prescribing harms someone?
Him: Well, I will have malpractice insurance.
Me: ...why not go in to a field where apathy for your job doesn't have the potential to kill people?
Him: (defensive now) how else am I supposed to make money?
This went on for a bit before I told him that I was no longer comfortable helping him reach his academic goals for that day, and that I needed space. He went to another tutor in the room and never came back to me. Timing-wise he is probably gearing up to apply this coming cycle, but I have faith in the adcoms that they will see through that mentality.
My family is pretty belligerent, so they've been asking me to tell the doctor how to treat their cancer....
You never know when some kid's GI innervations are gonna explode from cancer.
Lol. She sounds obnoxious. To be fair though, I work in a NSG department as a research coordinator and so get to spend a lot of time in the OR. It really is pretty independent operating for the residents. Depends on where you are though. This is an academic institution so I suspect that's why the residents have so much independence.
I was more put off by her disdain for anything that wasn't glamourous "greys anatomy" TV surgery BS.
I'm just hoping nobody finds my old Myspace...
Some people do apply with terrible MCAT scores and get in...especially at DO schools? I don't think that's that weird.
Bottom 25th percentile would trigger a lot of auto rejects by screening out I would imagine.
I don't think so, screening out is more of an SDN myth. Adcoms on here have said that if you're at the 10th percentile it's reasonable to apply. I think @Goro can back me up on this?
If he dropped he should have just taken again, retaking and doing some clinical experience can make him a good candidate for DO.
What? 10th percentile? That would like getting a 3 on a section. So your score looks like 10/10/3. That's insanely low. Or are you talking about bottom 10% compared to what a school accepts? I am talking about the raw MCAT percentile.
I think she had an acquired deficit.
I mean 10th percentile of what the school accepts
I feel bad for the guy...
I don't think they meant at the 10th/25th percentile for matriculants, which is what the 10th percentile refers to when quoted by adcoms on here. They meant the 25th percentile of ALL test takers - which ends up being something ridiculously low. The average matriculant MCAT is at like the 82nd percentile, so 10th percentile matriculant is below that but still WELL above the 25th percentile for all test takers.
I think you're misunderstanding. 10th percentile in terms of msar accepted range. Not the 25th percentile of the MCAT. The latter means the person scored less than 75% of those who took the MCAT while the former means 10%of acceptees to any given medical school had a lower score than a given MCAT score.
OOoohhh , you meant scores 25th/100 against everyone who TOOK the MCAT. I see.
I was going to go be a Navy Seal or a Green Beret. I had Tommy Johns surgery on both my knees though and didn't enlist. Went and got my bachelors in general studies at the University of Phoenix instead.
That's not so bad....the SAT is pronounced that way
