SDN representative of everyone?

[Pablo94]

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I was just wondering how representative sdn is of the vast majority of people applying. What do you guys think?I feel like a lot of folks on here go above and beyond, which is not a bad thing by any means, but is just sort of intimidating.

 

[username456789]

No.

 

[theonlytycrane]

most people are like redditers... only a select few are SDN.

(jokes)

 

[freak7]

No.

You mean my giant spreadsheet with color coded conditional formatting based on response type from each of the 30+ schools I applied to isn't the norm?

 

[Lucca]

To give you an idea, there was an SDN poll once and it looked like most people came from either highly ranked schools or just private schools in general so by definition no

 

[WedgeDawg]

I suspect that SDN consists of a more prepared cohort than the general premed population.

 

[Gurkhali]

Probably more representative of the matriculants than the applicants, if that's any help.

 

[Goro]

Only the most neurotic.

I was just wondering how representative sdn is of the vast majority of people applying. What do you guys think?I feel like a lot of folks on here go above and beyond, which is not a bad thing by any means, but is just sort of intimidating.

 

[st2205]

Not at all. It's not representative of premed, medical students or residents. I've very much felt a minority among all cohorts I've been in with regard to regularly viewing or posting on SDN. That or nobody fesses up. However, based on the lack of hearing SDN truisms or SDN cultural phenomena expressed in real life, I'm inclined to believe it's the former.

 

[Strider_91]

Sdn is absolutely not representative of everyone. absolutely not.

 

[Pablo94]

Sdn is absolutely not representative of everyone. absolutely not.

Haha good

 

[Strider_91]

Haha good

Just go look at a score release thread...seems like almost everyone scores 510 + which is obviously not representative since that's like 80th percentile.

 

[Donald Juan]

SDN is definitely not representative. It gives great advice, and the SDN neuroticism is definitely what many of the people who have issues getting in need when trying to fine tune their app...but it might make some people angry when they get into med school and realize how many people got in on their own without coming here and freaking out over how many hours of shadowing/volunteering they had or playing the percentages game with their LizzyM scores.

 

[absolutelynot]

Sdn is absolutely not representative of everyone. absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Just go look at a score release thread...seems like almost everyone scores 515+ which is obviously not representative since that's like 94th percentile.

FTFY

OP definitely not. However, SDN tends to have a makeup of the best applicants and so it can be an invaluable resource. Honestly I attribute almost everything I know about medical school applications to what I've learned here on SDN, without it I would have been screwed.

 

[ifnotnowwren]

I used SDN a lot while applying and was completely expecting most people in my class to be people in their early 20s who went straight through and had all of the standard "pre-med" experiences (research, clinical volunteering, non clinical volunteering, shadowing, clinical work, etc). This was not at all the case, I was so surprised at how diverse my class was. I think that maybe about 15-20% of my class is made up of people who fit that definition or fit that definition + one gap year.

 

[Summerlax2016]

The three people I know applying to med school all took August Mcat's and one submitted his primary in September. Much different than SDN.

 

[WildWing]

SDN is not representative of the general applicant pool.

When SDN originally built the Application Assistant (http://schools.studentdoctor.net/lizzym_score), we used historic data from MD Applicants (which has a similar user profile to SDN) to generate the LizzyM curve. The median LizzyM score was about 70. With the AAMC FACTS data, you can see that the median matriculant LizzyM is about 69 and the applicant LizzyM is about 66.

 

[alpha-GTP]

You mean my giant spreadsheet with color coded conditional formatting based on response type from each of the 30+ schools I applied to isn't the norm?

Wait! You don't happen to be me by any chance, do you? LOL