Questions for class interview

[mcattaker4739]

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Hello,
I'm a pre-med undergraduate student in my sophomore year. I currently have an assignment in English asking me to interview someone from my academic community about an issue in it. The first thing that came to my mind was the MCAT, but I don't know anyone who took it or with enough knowledge about it. I need someone who can talk about his experience with the exam even if he did not make it to a medical school.

Those are the main questions:

-Did you take the MCAT and got a average or OK score? does this affect your chances in a bad way?

-Did you, or did you not do a lot of internships and volunteer works? how important do you think it is compared to the MCAT score or the GPA?

-Do you think the MCAT, a multiple choice exam, can really decide who is and who is not a good enough to be a doctor?

Thank you very much for your time.

 

[Janieve]

We're not here to help you with your homework. If this was related to admissions, we might help. But this is just you being lazy.

Go to your pre-health office and ask for someone to contact. You have no way of knowing if we're being honest, or even if we're really who we say we are. And your professor will not be impressed with you getting your interview results from the internet.

Seriously. Go away and do your assignment the right way.

 

[Wermz]

"In conclusion, I found that a bad MCAT score does indeed negatively affect chances of admission"

oooooooooh

aaaaaahhhhh

 

[kevster2001]

Shouldn't you interview someone with more authority about something a little more controversial? Or at least find something more interesting than the MCAT. There are a kajillion healthcare related issues worth talking about.

 

[mcattaker4739]

This is not me being lazy, I just don't know anyone who I can interview, I asked around in the family and I even asked friends if they know any senior students or something but could work it out. I'm also writing an article from the interview so I still have work to do.

Also, my college does not have anything like a pre-health office. My major is Biology and I'm taking care of taking pre-med classes myself.

 

[Avoidthetiger]

I wonder why you aren't asking current medical students -- one's who took the MCAT and got in. Why does interviewing pre-meds matter? They might say ECs are important, but there might be someone in medical school with no ECs. And wouldn't currently medical students have a better understand if the MCAT will say if they will be a good physician (they have actually started the course work and clinical interaction)... premeds have not.

And why is the MCAT an issue for your academic community? It's just an exam. Might as well ask seniors their thoughts about the GRE.

Also -- considering the assignment is for you to interview someone in your academic community, why are you on SDN? I assume this means you should be interviewing an undergrad at your school. Stop being lazy. Put up some posters asking for people to interview, get on your school's forum... OR just change your topic to one that you can actually interview students about (like, isn't the food at the school cafeteria horrible?)

 

[mcattaker4739]

I can't change the topic because half of the assignment has been already submitted (It was about an article in the news regarding the transition from pre-med to med in the US compared to the rest of the world)
Also, posters won't do as my school is small I'm sure I won't get anyone in time. I really thought about it frequently before resorting to this place. I even took the professor's permission but now wtv I'll have to think of anything.

 

[Astarael]

Go to your department's advising office and ask them to get you in touch with an older student who is pre-med or in medical school and conduct a phone interview with them. Your chances of being the first pre-med biology major at your school are 0%, so they should be able to find someone for you to chat with.

 

[LizzyM]

Hello,
I'm a pre-med undergraduate student in my sophomore year. I currently have an assignment in English asking me to interview someone from my academic community about an issue in it. The first thing that came to my mind was the MCAT, but I don't know anyone who took it or with enough knowledge about it. I need someone who can talk about his experience with the exam even if he did not make it to a medical school.

Those are the main questions:

-Did you take the MCAT and got a average or OK score? does this affect your chances in a bad way?

-Did you, or did you not do a lot of internships and volunteer works? how important do you think it is compared to the MCAT score or the GPA?

-Do you think the MCAT, a multiple choice exam, can really decide who is and who is not a good enough to be a doctor?

Thank you very much for your time.

You have chosen a topic about which there is no controversy in your academic community.... what gets people's blood boiling? Should there be a manadatory philosophy requirement (or foreign language or humanities etc)... should there be a mandatory physical fitness requirement (with accommodations for the disabled)? Should the grading system be changed from +/- to straight grades (or straight grades to +/-). Should grades be on a curve or using a pre-set points system? There have got to be issues on your campus that people would love to talk about (including faculty). Given the make-up of your school, it sounds like there aren't many MCAT-takers out there.