Seeking med school advice on yahoo answers, anyone else have bad experience?

[LateBlomer]

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before I heard of this site I decided to seek some advice on yahoo answers for medical school

now granted you will have idiots trolling, a lot of the higher level (50 percent and higher best answer with 10k points and more) answerers on that site are so direct and condescending and outright tell you if you do not have above a 3.7 GPA, do not bother applying to medical school

I come on here and read threads like these and my eyes open wide

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=675835

what do you say?

 

[coughsyrup]

the average gpa of matriculants is less than 3.7

 

[mmmcdowe]

before I heard of this site I decided to seek some advice on yahoo answers for medical school

now granted you will have idiots trolling, a lot of the higher level (50 percent and higher best answer with 10k points and more) answerers on that site are so direct and condescending and outright tell you if you do not have above a 3.7 GPA, do not bother applying to medical school

I come on here and read threads like these and my eyes open wide

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=675835

what do you say?

I feel like I've seen this thread before.....

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

That's because they don't want to have to compete with a 3.7. They probably have lousy 3.0 GPAs.

 

[Astarael]

the average gpa of matriculants is less than 3.7

This 👍

Thread over. Acceptance decisions are multifactorial and having less than a 3.7 gpa is not something that will automatically keep you out.

 

[gettheleadout]

What do I say? I say there's no reason to take anything said on Yahoo Answers over the verified advice we get in heaps here on SDN. Seriously, who cares what people say there? Just don't read it.

 

[StoicJosher]

Take any advice you get on the internet with a grain of salt.

 

[Member200000]

I don't think the people on Yahoo Answers know what they're talking about. I've had a couple of people there tell me that I should not wait even one year longer to apply because increasing age counts against you when applying to med school - and these were "Top Contributors" who were saying this too!

I was 25 at the time, and I had made that clear in the question, and they still said that.

Harvard, which I've heard is the pickiest school of all, has 30 year olds in their entering classes. So clearly being a little older is not a dealbreaker (though it may have been 20 years ago). An admissions officer at Yale told me that HALF their entering class this year were non-trads. Not to mention that age discrimination is totally and completely ILLEGAL.

And having less than a 3.7 absolutely will not disqualify anyone from getting accepted to med school. From what I've heard, as long as you have a 3.5, you're fine, and you can even get in with less than a 3.5 if you have other things going for you like a high MCAT score, research, volunteering, leadership positions, etc.

Med schools look at the WHOLE picture. Law schools on the other hand are very much about the numbers - mostly GPA and LSAT scores. For Harvard Law School, a 3.78 GPA was in the 25th percentile - that just seems crazy to me!

 

[kpcrew]

yahoo answers isn't exactly a bastion of knowledge and wisdom.

 

[MIAYO]

This 👍

Thread over. Acceptance decisions are multifactorial and having less than a 3.7 gpa is not something that will automatically keep you out.

Plus this. Is your answer.

 

[NickNaylor]

yahoo answers isn't exactly a bastion of knowledge and wisdom.

Yahoo Answers is roughly equivalent to 4chan in terms of value from my perspective.

 

[DavetheMD]

I think SDN would say," do not bother applying with less than a 3.0 GPA." Most Allopathic schools I've seen auto-reject apps with less than a 3.0.

Of course, a 3.0 isn't competitive, but there are other ways to be outstanding.

 

[tantacles]

Yahoo Answers is roughly equivalent to 4chan in terms of value from my perspective.

And that what makes it fun. Though admittedly, it is not as reliable a source for erotic manga.

 

[LateBlomer]

well, learned something new today!

 

[Slowpoke]

I can't say I agree with all of the yahoo answers hate. It was certainly a godsend for some of my physics problems...

 

[Cinclus]

You have to weed out a lot of BS on Yahoo Answers.