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How many friends do you have that took the MCAT?
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How many of them took a prep course?
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How many of them took a prep course?
n00b said:How many friends do you have that took the MCAT?
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How many of them took a prep course?
n00b said:P.S. Regarding classmates teaching the course, I guess that makes sense since who else could teach them? Med-students? Hardly, they're way too busy. Doctors? Riiiiiight...
n00b said:To answer my own question, I went through the 30+ MCAT study habits??? thread and about 20% of people took a course. Seems like a course is something you do if you have trouble finding the discipline to take the time to study on your own and you have a spare $1500 lying around - but not really worth it otherwise.
BrettBatchelor said:I have heard of pre MS1's teaching the summer prep courses. Also in the Allo forum they were discussing jobs and a few have said that they did teach a couple courses during school. The best thing would be find out who will be teaching it before you sign up (I dunno if it it possible, but I think it seems logical).
n00b said:. . .My take is that courses are not going to cover anything that you can't find in books (from the same companies!), so they're only good for ensuring that you study in a disciplined and consistent manner. . .
n00b said:How many friends do you have that took the MCAT?
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How many of them took a prep course?
Ifellinapothole said:PLEASE LISTEN TO ME:
DO NOT TAKE A PREP COURSE. SAVE YOURSELF $1500.
Everything associated with those prep courses is a total wast of time. The instruction is often sub-par, the commute to and from centers wasted time, your classmates stupid questions waste time.... I can't say this more emphatically DO NOT TAKE A PREP COURSE.
BUY THE EXAM KRACKER BOOKS (The set for $300) and study using those. MUCH MUCH BETTER. They have practice full lengths as well.
The ONLY thing you get from those prep courses is MANY full lenghts. However, you don't have time to do all of them anyway. And if you are super psycho and feel the need to do that many full lenghts get one of your friends who is taking one of those courses to burn the full lenghts onto a disk.
DO NOT TAKE A PREP CLASS.
PEACE OUT.
Ifellinapothole said:Everything associated with those prep courses is a total wast of time. The instruction is often sub-par, the commute to and from centers wasted time,