Russian/Ukrainian/Soviet Premeds/Applicants

[lisichka]

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I love that movie.
Gentelmeni udachi. I also have it.
Lisichka, did you get into any school?
How about you Doublecortin?
I like that spark of romance on this forum.
Love

я везде на листах ожидания пока. 😎

 

[russiandoc]

ya nenavizy listi ozidaniye!!! ya vtakmoze meste. 🙂

 

[da8s0859q]

Russian speakers: any words of wisdom, general advice, anything as far as learning the language?

I've always enjoyed it but know next to nothing about it.

I speak English and some French only.

 

[Doublecortin]

I love that movie.
Gentelmeni udachi. I also have it.
Lisichka, did you get into any school?
How about you Doublecortin?
I like that spark of romance on this forum.
Love

I think we could all use a little more 😍 🙂

I am going to my state school in Cali 😍. How 'bout you, bratan!??

 

[Doublecortin]

я везде на листах ожидания пока. 😎

it sounds so funny. i don't think people in russian-speaking countries use that combination of words

how are you, my dear comrades?

 

[lisichka]

it sounds so funny. i don't think people in russian-speaking countries use that combination of words

wow, doublecortin, you've managed to romance and offend me all in one thread

ну если ты такой руссофил и гуманитарий, подскажи, пожалуйста, как правильно перевести WL?😕

 

[Doublecortin]

wow, doublecortin, you've managed to romance and offend me all in one thread

ну если ты такой руссофил и гуманитарий, подскажи, пожалуйста, как правильно перевести WL?😕

i meant no offense, i wasn't judging anyone, just commenting that's all😳

and i can't provide a better translation for wl, sorry foxy fox😉

 

[dc5484]

zdrasti vse!

check out this story...this is what we russians are made of!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7353025.stm

 

[tourniquet1963]

you guys speak russian quite well.. and you can write..very impressive.. it takes forever for me to read why you guys write in russian.. How many grades did you finish in russia?

 

[tourniquet1963]

zdrasti vse!

check out this story...this is what we russians are made of!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7353025.stm

thats pretty funny

 

[lisichka]

i meant no offense, i wasn't judging anyone, just commenting that's all😳

and i can't provide a better translation for wl, sorry foxy fox😉

no problem😀

 

[Doublecortin]

you guys speak russian quite well.. and you can write..very impressive.. it takes forever for me to read why you guys write in russian.. How many grades did you finish in russia?

high school baby!

 

[EpiPEN]

This thread somehow reminded me of that one thread a while back about writing your own rejection letters to medical school where someone said somethign like,

"In Mother Russia, YOU reject the medical school!"

off topic

 

[da8s0859q]

This thread somehow reminded me of that one thread a while back about writing your own rejection letters to medical school where someone said somethign like,

"In Mother Russia, YOU reject the medical school!"

off topic

I remember reading that.

I wish I could speak the language. Someone teach me everything I need to know on SDN - go!

 

[jult24er]

wow, doublecortin, you've managed to romance and offend me all in one thread

ну если ты такой руссофил и гуманитарий, подскажи, пожалуйста, как правильно перевести WL?😕

список мучившихся?

 

[lisichka]

список мучившихся?

да да точно : список рабов божьих-мученников

 

[Doublecortin]

This thread somehow reminded me of that one thread a while back about writing your own rejection letters to medical school where someone said somethign like,

"In Mother Russia, YOU reject the medical school!"

off topic

 

[Doublecortin]

список мучившихся?

список мученников

 

[tourniquet1963]

i almost finished 2nd grade there... explains why im not a super genius in physics

 

[vasyaiya]

Hey, bringing this thread back to life.
Actually quite a few of us made it to med school.
If anyone needs any advise on how to get it, let us know.

 

[Tin Man]

Ya ne rucci, no ya mogu ponyats, shto bui govoritz.

I have no idea what the proper way to transliterate Russian is.

 

[Raryn]

Ya ne rucci, no ya mogu ponyats, shto bui govoritz.

I have no idea what the proper way to transliterate Russian is.

You could write it in proper Cyrillic, but that leaves those of us who immigrated at the age of 2 and barely having any practice reading Russian going through your post *very* slowly 😉

 

[OldSchooler]

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[Raryn]

Привет всем Русскоговорящим. У меня только один вопрос, кто за шахтёр и кто за динамо?

Шахтёр чемпион!

Took me a second to figure out it was a soccer question.

Note to self: Brush up on Russian soccer.

 

[OldSchooler]

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[Raryn]

Украинский футбол, раз он гораздо лучше русского.

Oh Snap!

Well, given that I was born in Moscow, I have to support the Dynamo.

 

[OldSchooler]

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[Raryn]

Sorry, I was talking about Dynamo Kiev. They play shakhtar tomorrow in the UEFA cup semis and I was seeing if I could drum up some smack talk.

Ah, I have no opinion then.

 

[ponybreeder4]

privetik comrades!
ya skoro budy etot yobaniy mcat zdavat, i volnuyus shto verbal menya zadu****. dlya nas ne nativespeakers pa angliski trudno ochen verbal. tak rebyata, kak vi na verbal padgatovilis i shto pamaglo?

 

[Raryn]

privetik comrades!
ya skoro budy etot yobaniy mcat zdavat, i volnuyus shto verbal menya zadu****. dlya nas ne nativespeakers pa angliski trudno ochen verbal. tak rebyata, kak vi na verbal padgatovilis i shto pamaglo?

Anyone find it funny it censored zadu**** but any Russian vulgarity gets through just fine?

As for your actual question, I'm practically a native speaker of English myself, but the only way to really study for the verbal section is to just practice as much as possible. Look at ExamKrackers books, they have a *lot* of passages to practice on.

 

[MedYEP]

Hey everyone!

I was born in Estonia but speak Russian (father is Estonian, mother is Russian). I lived in both Estonia and St Petersburg, Russia during my childhood and have been in the US for 12 years.

Regarding the verbal section on the MCAT - it was my least favorite by far and I struggled with it a lot even though there is nothing wrong with my English. I took a Kaplan course before taking the MCAT but I don't think it really helped me with verbal even thought I practiced it a lot. I ended up getting an 11, which is good, but on all my practice tests I was getting 8-9 so the 11 was a surprise.

 

[ChairmanMao]

This thread somehow reminded me of that one thread a while back about writing your own rejection letters to medical school where someone said somethign like,

"In Mother Russia, YOU reject the medical school!"

off topic

In American, medical school reject premeds

In Soviet Union, premeds reject medical school

(Not a bad idea considering the quality of the post-USSR education and the fact that most soviet academics have left for the decadent west since the fall of communism)


В американских, медицинских premeds брака школы
В советском союзе, premeds излучают медицинскую школу

Моя Россия плох!

 

[RuSkaya]

hah nice just came across this thread... just saying hi 🙂

(and yes I know.. not too creative with my username 😛 )

 

[Raryn]

In American, medical school reject premeds

In Soviet Union, premeds reject medical school

(Not a bad idea considering the quality of the post-USSR education and the fact that most soviet academics have left for the decadent west since the fall of communism)


В американских, медицинских premeds брака школы
В советском союзе, premeds излучают медицинскую школу

Моя Россия плох!

It looks like you just typed it in English and put it through like, Google translator.

 

[Kickback]

I gave up trying to type on my Russian keyboard, but I studied in St. Petersburg for a month after my junior year of highschool, and took Russian for four years. Too bad my undergrad doesn't have it... I've forgotten so much 🙁

Oh yeah... GO FC ZENIT!!!!

Anyone else see the four goals Andrei Arshavin scored for Arsenal?!?!?

 

[OldSchooler]

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[sardines]

vsem privet!

 

[DragonRdr]

ill most likely start applying next year. originally from lithuania (so technically i was born in the USSR)

 

[FSAP]

Все русские темы появились! Я тоже из Союза, но из Киргизии. Моя мама русская. Сейчас на трех списках мученников, но готов подавать снова. Удачи всем. За успех нашего безнадежного дела!

 

[Ari1584]

I was the first to be born here..the rest of my fam is from kiev. But i am fluent in Russian! privet vsem! 😳

 

[LolaMD]

Born in the former USSR (Kiev). It's nice to have other Russian's on SDN here.

Question: Does anyone's undergrad consider them a UMR?

Mine does....weird??

 

[bkz]

Born in the former USSR (Kiev). It's nice to have other Russian's on SDN here.

Question: Does anyone's undergrad consider them a UMR?

Mine does....weird??

Nope 😛
They consider the former soviet union URM?????

 

[LolaMD]

Apparently so. But hey if they insist that I am an URM then I am not going to argue with them....

😛

 

[malalaurka]

i m Ukrainian, born and raised in Lviv. i attended high school here therefore i did not think verbal was as excruciating as previously stated, but it was hard 😱😱😱. i have been accepted into med school this year and will be attending one near cleveland, ohio. if anyone has any questions regarding the application process or mcat, etc feel free to send me a message, ill be so happy to help a fellow foreigner..

P.S yeah, none of my interviewers were foreign😕

 

[lkorovin]

Всем привет! Я родился в Ижевске, в США с шести лет. Поступаю в этом году. Удачи всем! Кстати, кто-нибудь из вас есть "В Контакте"?

 

[Arsenophilia]

Lviv representing. It helps to forget your native language when acing the MCAT verbal. Doesn't help with grandparents though!

 

[Reggieray2k]

Я из москвы но эмигрировал когда мне не было трех лет. Падаю в этом году, может меня тоже будут читать URM?

Anyone get Russian speaking interviewers, maybe to check that you can really speak Russian and aren't just lying about it (like they seem to do with Spanish in the interview thread).

 

[lkorovin]

Reggieray2k:

Да хрен его знает, если зачтут, то спасибо, но самому таковым называться вероятно было бы непредусмотрительно. А если уж русскоговорящих преподов достаточно для всех собеседований, то уже можно твёрдо считать, что мы перевалили за критическую отметку.

Arsenophilia:

I'm not sure I'd agree with you here. I find that the more foreign languages you know well, the better you speak your own. 🙂))

 

[gabeva]

Hi, I am also from Ukraine. 🙂
I actualy went to med school there and completed two years of it prior moving to US. Does anyone know about someone getting into american med school with 6 in verbal, and 11 in other sections?

 

[Tatastrophy]

Hi,

I am not sure if I qualify as a "true blue(...or maybe red?)" Russian applicant....I have been here for 10 years and most people wouldn't ever guess that I am Russian unless I mentioned my name. But I am applying and am of the Russian persuasion lol.
I never had anyone take me being Russian as a bad thing-mostly people are just impressed that I speak so well after only 10 years...Having an English teacher mother helps.
So yea...currently playing the waiting/make up conspiracy theories game as I wait for invitations to interview and decisions.....awesome.

Tot, who is indeed Russian