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True but it is the only way we have of roughly approximating research accomplishments. Schools won't exactly release their acceptees' appspublication doesn't equal research experience..
True but it is the only way we have of roughly approximating research accomplishments. Schools won't exactly release their acceptees' appspublication doesn't equal research experience..
yeah but another way is to look at msar. Pretty much always 90%+ matriculants (or accepted students idk which) have research experience at the top schoolsTrue but it is the only way we have of roughly approximating research accomplishments. Schools won't exactly release their acceptees' apps
Um...what? They published via MSAR that 98% of their class has research experience.True but it is the only way we have of roughly approximating research accomplishments. Schools won't exactly release their acceptees' apps
Um...what? They published via MSAR that 98% of their class has research experience.
Probably should have looked at that more closely! I kinda just breezed thru the stats only.yeah but another way is to look at msar. Pretty much always 90%+ matriculants (or accepted students idk which) have research experience at the top schools
maybe they also thought first year was difficult until they got to 2nd and 3rdAlso wedgie I think you're overdoing it. The med students from tough undergrads I've spoken to said their MS1 was way more chill than their last couple years in college, and that it wasn't until steps and MS3 that they found it tougher
I dunno man I wasn't freaking out about lack of research until coming on here and seeing it mentioned as an unofficial requirement for Top 20s
I think SDN creates neuroticism via informing overachievers of their app flaws
...well duh, if you know that students were neurotic to begin with, then there can be no conclusions as to which system is "better," since "better" here would mean decreasing neuroticism, so obviously the P/F warriors win. That tells us nothing about how the systems compare to each other. Since performance is largely the same, we can only responsibly conclude that they're pretty much the same damn thing. Stop this nonsense with surmising that graded schools will suddenly make everyone a gunner. It doesn't. Neurotic, close-minded people think that and will thus believe that. Stupid premeds will obsess over grading systems and rank and ignore more important school characteristics when making a decision. Sad ****
Also wedgie I think you're overdoing it. The med students from tough undergrads I've spoken to said their MS1 was way more chill than their last couple years in college, and that it wasn't until steps and MS3 that they found it tougher
Wish me luck!But dude if 10 hours a day is at the low end of daily MS1 studying you're going to burn out HARD
This is like, literally, a perfect example of what I described one post above yours.
I'm sure you enjoy life now... you're in the "slide" phase. Will you be happy during clinical year when your entire GPA / class rank / AOA depends on a largely subjective grading system? I would also call that "memorizing every detail" striving for a higher level of competence. Would you prefer if a doctor taking care of your loved one gave less than 100% to increasing their fund of knowledge in medical school? There is definitely a place for volunteering, early clinical experience, and work-life balance - but preclinical students will never have another opportunity to absorb so much book knowledge in their careers, and many students at graded schools still do ECs.
Edit: to clarify since i think that may have come off as overly harsh and one-sided, my stance on P/F is that it's not an important issue either way when choosing a school - i merely want to provide reassurance to prospective students that going to a graded preclinical school is not as terrible as SDN usually makes it out to be, and even has its own advantages.
I'm at a graded school we have been collaborative and I've done things like volunteering and clinic. Not sure what you're trying to brag about here