How do you know if you are smart enough?

[TXMED_1695]

How do you know if you're smart enough?! You take an IQ test and compare it to your parents scores.

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[Mednight]

I come from HUMBLE beginnings academically.

Middle school was easy, I received mostly A's, which placed me into some upper level classes during my freshman year of high school.

In High School I failed freshman year but miraculously become a senior when I was supposed to be a junior. I caught up with my other classmates and graduated on time. Now I have a 3.8GPA because I told myself that I would never "fail" again.

 

[akuko2]

Yeah, I too was faced with a teacher who doubted me, she told me I would never amount to anything. But once I started medical school I returned to my old nursery school to tell that teacher she could suck it! Who 'struggles with macaroni art' now Mrs. Dorris!?!

 

[Turkishking]

What makes them *****ic? I'm a pre-med advisor. I'd love to get honest feedback as to how the advisors you've interacted with are inadequate.

Notoriously misinformed. I have a few telling me I need to take useless courses. I had a few telling me C's in pre-reqs are fine.

 

[Gryffindor20]

When you were pre-med, did you ever have a feeling of, "I totally can do this," or "This is what I was meant to do"? I currently have a 3.923 GPA as a college sophomore, but I don't consider myself "smart" I consider myself a freaking hard worker. As odd as this may sound, when I was younger (talking elementary to middle school) I had a lot of learning disabilities that hindered my academic performance. You name it - I was in IEP, tutors, absolutely everything - no matter how hard I tried I was always at the bottom. Then for whatever reason 7th grade came and I started "getting it", and performing 1000% a lot better academically and somehow grew out of those disabilities. I was able to graduate High School in the top 10 of my class, and now soon to finish this semester off in several weeks with a 4.0 semester GPA. But the thing is, I don't know why I was able to suddenly do better. So when people say that I am "smart", I don't always resonate with that. When I see others give it there all and fail, I always think of what it was like for me when I was younger.
I guess I am trying to figure out: how did you know you were intellectually able to succeed in Med School?

Thanks.

If you get a decent enough GPA to make the cut, if your MCAT score is competitive, if you have the life experience necessary to begin to understand the art of medicine, if ADCOMs examine your ACMAS and secondaries and decide to invite you for an interview, if you connect with the interviewer and can manage to conceal your social awkwardness for 45 minutes, if you get into a US LCME-accredited medical school, if you pass your pre-clinical classes, if you do well in rotations, if you apply to residency programs of your choice during fourth year, if you match somewhere in the United States, if you graduate with everyone else in your class, then, even if at the end of everything you pass at the very bottom of your class, you are probably smart enough.

 

[AnonPanda1]

If you have enough introspection to ask yourself, am I smart enough? I think you make the cutoff.

 

[cactusman]

If you have enough introspection to ask yourself, am I smart enough? I think you make the cutoff.

Yay, looks like I already have a ticket to med school!!

 

[LivMoore]

So many people have stories of comments like this from teachers, and I'm always horrified. I have to wonder if some of them are doing it so that students can have someone they want to prove wrong by succeeding.

Reminds me of Mindy Lahiri

 

[Slow&Steady]

Believe me, you're smart enough.