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Hah we did 🙂 But he didn't actually go to college till he was 17. His parents decided they wanted him to have a childhood or something crazy like that.
it gets lonely on the interwebz
No, I was actually back from the bar and he said something in a thread that made me laugh so I felt compelled to let him know 😳
it gets lonely on the interwebz
No, I was actually back from the bar and he said something in a thread that made me laugh so I felt compelled to let him know 😳
Dude. I am not gonna even lie. I know that feel, bro. 🙁
Dude totally - if that was my kid, I'd be like "You'd best be graduating by 12y/o or else!"
He was captain of the rugby team, really good-looking, involved in his community.
If I knew how much better he was at life compared to me, I'd have just hated him from the start. But ofcourse, he was really modest too.
Perfect people make me sick. Anecdotally, he was Asian. So whatever you do, an Asian is out there doing it better.
it gets lonely on the interwebz
No, I was actually back from the bar and he said something in a thread that made me laugh so I felt compelled to let him know 😳
I knew you were drunk. Made me feel all good about myself and then didn't call me the next day. Typical.
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I agree, sounds like an attitude I wouldn't want to be around in med school.
LoL! And this coming from the dude who assumed I was an URM when I got two interviews and WL with a 23O last year. 😛
Still <3 ya bro!
This was back in a summer class:
Me: what are you planning on doing after undergrad?
Her: I want to go to medical school
Me: Oh cool, have any in mind?
Her: I'm thinking about the Caribbean, I dont have the grades for schools here
Me: have you thought about DO schools?
Her: No, I want to go into surgery.
🙄 less competition when I apply. Thing is, she is a URM, so she will prolly get into an MD school. Thats just how the dice rolls sometimes.
Me: what are you planning on doing after undergrad?
Her: I want to go to medical school
Me: Oh cool, have any in mind?
Her: I'm thinking about the Caribbean, I dont have the grades for schools here
Me: have you thought about DO schools?
Her: No, I want to go into surgery.
🙄 less competition when I apply. Thing is, she is a URM, so she will prolly get into an MD school. Thats just how the dice rolls sometimes.
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The dean of academic affairs at one of my interviews said that a student this year showed up to a clinical MMI scenario wearing a stethoscope...
This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
The same scenario was reported earlier in the thread: As they say in the South, bless their sweet hearts! 🙁
This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
I don't know how you resisted not clarifying that that score is way too low for acceptance to virtually any med school without some unbelievably extenuating circumstances.
How does someone take the MCAT and get a 9 on it and also think that it wasn't as hard as he thought? I guess he thinks his "eeny meenie miney moe" method worked.
Right, like they hand acceptance letters out outside of your dorm....this comment reminds me of the african-american dude from the book "the house of god"
That may explain why one of my older friends didn't get any MD acceptances. His father is a surgeon, yet his stats were 30 MCAT and a 3.5 GPA. His only acceptance was to a DO school. I guess the MD Adcoms may have expected that the child of an MD should have better stats?
As an aside...Do you think Adcoms notice/care if you retake AP Bio and AP Chem credit classes in college? And if they notice, do you think that they are harsher on those who got less than an A in those classes (the assumption being that you should have known the material well-enough to get As in those classes? I realize that at some undergrads, you may not have a choice as AP credits may not be accepted at all.
It seems that it'd be damn hard to score that low even with effort toward the goal. 9!? Without ever covering the material in a classroom, I scored a 21 on aamc practice test 3. Mostly guesswork, but still..
I would hazard to guess that it's probably likely that the surgeon father didn't have greater than a 3.5 30 given the era that he would have gone to medschool.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think the assumption is that the father would have had high stats and therefore the chld should as well. I think the assumption is that the child would likely have lived a privileged lifestyle, would have been exposed to more "intellectually stimulating conversations and experiences," and would have attended the better K-12 and undergrad schools.
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This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
Tell him to apply to only Top 20s. He'll definitely get in.
Agreed 😉
Haha I've been lurking around on this forum long enough not to post in this thread.
Setting: I had just finished the MCAT for the first time (4/5). The PS section was a killer and everything else seemed like a blur. I was taking the stairs with another fellow test taker.
Me: Omg, what the **** was that?
Girl: Oh that was hard.
Me: Ridiculously hard.
Girl: Like, I mean there wasn't even any Physics on the test!
Me: 😕 What test did you take again?
Girl: The MCAT.
Setting: I had just finished the MCAT for the first time (4/5). The PS section was a killer and everything else seemed like a blur. I was taking the stairs with another fellow test taker.
Me: Omg, what the **** was that?
Girl: Oh that was hard.
Me: Ridiculously hard.
Girl: Like, I mean there wasn't even any Physics on the test!
Me: 😕 What test did you take again?
Girl: The MCAT.
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You two could have had different test forms...
Or maybe she was just REALLY struggling with the tutorial.
This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
I'm thinking that you get a 3 per section for just showing up.
And, she found that not be very hard at all.
actually, you get a 1
actually, you get a 1
Yeah, but only if you do not guess at all on the test.
This might make some people mad, but I just randomly guessed on AAMC #8 to see what my score would be using just guesses. I got a 12 (4, 2, 6).
Yup, and I don't care what anyone says, 30 and 3.5 are scores to be damn proud of. I don't care that everyone on SDN gets a 38 on their MCAT. Especially if you're someone like me, who went from a 25 to a 31 over the summer, you feel really good about breaking 30. And even if my dad were a surgeon, I'd still be damn proud of myself. I certainly won't be comparing myself to others in my "demographic pool." Let the adcoms be the statisticians.
About AP credits, I really don't know. I figure, if you've taken what is basically college level chemistry multiple times, that's an extra opportunity to do well, so maybe more is expected of you. But when I think about all the paperwork admissions people have to sift through, I sort of doubt that they want to delve so deeply into one candidate's transcript and nit-pick about AP credits.
You can imagine how awesome I felt when, on the second Kaplan exam, I scored a 5 on the biology section. You literally could have outscored me blind folded.
Some people would say I'm gifted.
You can imagine how awesome I felt when, on the second Kaplan exam, I scored a 5 on the biology section. You literally could have outscored me blind folded.
Some people would say I'm gifted.
Don't be mad. That random guessing got a 2 in verbal.
This is a conversation I had today with a premed student that I tutor.
Me: So how did the MCAT practice test go?
Student: "It went really well actually. I was surprised. It was not as hard as I thought it would be."
Me: That is good. How did you do?
Student: Yeah, I am not quite as worried anymore... I got a 9.
Me: That is not too bad for your first time, what section did you get a 9 in?
Student: I got a 9 total...
Me: Oh...
Pretty amusing
I hope you made that up because that's quite sad.
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Premed- "i'm not applying DO because I look at my stats and abilities and frankly, I'm better than that"
Me "props to you on your confidence, I don't have the guts to risk my first year of application getting rejected because I didn't went MD only"
Premed "this is my third year applying"
Me "um...I ...um"
Me "props to you on your confidence, I don't have the guts to risk my first year of application getting rejected because I didn't went MD only"
Premed "this is my third year applying"
Me "um...I ...um"
What a c_ _ _! 😱 Well, let him let his foolishness keep the way paved for serious applicants. Fine by me! 😀
Yeah..lol.
When we were introducing ourselves and our declared majors, I overheard a girl said she was a "premed major."
LOL I'd think that too, I feel like you'd have to be TRYING to do bad to score that low. I haven't taken it yet but I thought answering C for every question would at least get you a 12 total
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I get why it may sound dumb to people, but I can understand where some people are coming from when they say that.
Like for example, I'm not a science major, I majored in something in college that has very little to do with medicine at first glance.
So when people ask me what I'm studying, if I just tell them my major then they would ask, what I want to do with that degree. And when I say I want to go into medicine, then their completely thrown off. Then I have to explain that you don't have to be a science major and it just gets annoying, especially when it's small talk with someone you'll likely never see again.
So their were times I just said, "I'm pre-med." It just made my life easier lol
Saying "I'm pre-med" is different than saying "My major is pre-med" though. Lol
Some schools have a pre-med major. I cannot believe someone would be so ignorant as to not know that.
*creeps slowly out from under bridge, careful to avoid direct sunlight*
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This is my absolute favorite and my respect for that person drops so much after that statement lol.
Arguable, but they are usually designated as biology majors with pre-professional "options."
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