There’s the rub. So could I but it was miserable and would not have gotten better for ANYONE. Thank goodness for pathology. And you, of feigned empathy, would choose super-dire, direct patient care specialty of ID?!?
Sure, it's in the same standard deviation, as would be the GPA of a school's Salutatorian and Valedictorian. But usually what distinguishes the two is the percentile rank of the individuals. Your analysis only makes sense if you are grouping masses of applicants distinguished by stdevs only. That's not how I categorize myself. Maybe admissions does, but given an identical applicant, those seven points may be what gives me favor. Keep in mind that I now only have time to solidify my application, so while it may not make sense for a typical 21 year old student to take it again for a few points and still remain in the same distributive block, I am twice their age with a poor application as is.
Smack of whatever it does, I see PT contact as a necessary evil, but not something to avoid. I never said I wanted to avoid it, but that it wouldn't be my favorite part nor my most skilled area.
What I am saying to you, which doesn’t seem to get across, is that no one will give you any extra point because you have a 528 instead of a 521. I scored in the 100% too in my first try.
That's not what you said. You're arguing the significance of the stdevs of the score distribution curve, not the weight which they're given in admissions decisions. And congratulations on your score, it is by no means a cakewalk.
You start your claim with "physician shortage", and then say that it's a bad idea to allocate resources to a potential physician, who could, given fair genetics and health practice for an additional 30 to 35 years? In other words, there's a seat at the table for everyone who enters, it's just that not everyone can enter the room.
You wanna live your life with a “necessary evil”?
Everyone lives their lives with many necessary evils.
What on Earth are you talking about?
See my earlier reply here: "Medicine offers a front row seat to the best and most diverse puzzles that mother nature has to offer. I can't think of something more stimulating that I haven't tried yet. Sudoku only goes so far, know what I mean? As for the volunteering and clinical experience, there has been nary enough time. I did some stroke research with a neurosurgeon back in my chemistry undergraduate days, but that's it. Now however, I have access to enough independence and educational freedom that I could make shadowing and clinical volunteering my full time job. I could uppercut admissions with thousands of hours in a matter of months, that's not an issue."
Don’t project. I missed that bit of Shakespearean tragedy for 71 years.
Go troll somewhere else 🙄
lol, the same troll.
