The countdown...

[crazy_cavalier]

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4 weeks and counting!! I feel like it'll fly by pretty fast, since May is coming to a close soon. So how are you guys going to occupy your summer, just curious.

🙂

 

[ChuckRock]

I could use about a case of Sam Adams Summer Ale right now. Hey! Come to think of it, the last time I did some heavy drinking about 12 hours passed without me even knowing it! Let's all just "Time Travel" and we wont have to suffer through all this waiting!

 

[rain1_rain1]

what do you think? should i stay here and compulsively check amcas or go out??

I would say - Go Out!!! for me that's not a possibility, so I am partying with my laptop, cooler full of beer, and some girls right here, right now, until then 😉

 

[SpeedRacer]

i feel like i'm gonna puke...can i wait until they send me the envelope? 🙁 i'm gonna be crying all week 🙁 🙁 🙁

 

[EFuller]

i'm supposed to go out with some friends tonight, but i don't know if i can drag myself away from this ****ing computer!!

what do you think? should i stay here and compulsively check amcas or go out?? if i go out i won't be back until 12 or 1 AM, and by that time the scores might have been out for a couple of hours!!!

Unless you plan on submitting your AMCAS app the second the scores come out, I say go out. It will make the waiting time go by much quicker if you are doing something. I wish I had something better to do, but I have to go home and study for a test tomorrow.

 

[medicomel]

i'm going out tonight to kill some time. when i come back they'll probably already have been posted, so i'll check sdn to see reactions first. how's that for being squeamish?

 

[gujuDoc]

Bud Light? Coors Light? Miller Light? Natural Light? Busch Light? Michelob Light? Keystone Light? Millwaukee's Best Light? Miller Genuine Light? Budweiser? Bud Ice? Amber Rock? Bacardi? Corona?

ANYONE ????????????

I'll take some Schmirnoff please.

 

[shoal]

Have you heard the story about my 3 brothers?
and the big BIG BAD...

 

[gujuDoc]

Have you heard the story about my 3 brothers?
and the big BIG BAD...

Do tell!!!!!!!!!

 

[doctorjoy]

Try to have a peaceful sleep tonight

 

[rain1_rain1]

I'll take some Schmirnoff please.

top smirnoff with bacardi vodka, you'll get the best kick! last time i took it before checking my scores from organic exam, i misstook 41 for 91, euphoric, i drank the bottle of vodka straight and passed out 😀 now don't ask me how I felt next day

Nish

 

[shoal]

Do tell!!!!!!!!!

TURKEY!

 

[shoal]

What type of house do you think the turkey couldn't get into?

 

[Mixtli]

I already told my parents about my bad score.

 

[gujuDoc]

Try to have a peaceful sleep tonight

I like your signature.

As per sleep, that's not happening until I get my scores. And I don't know if it will happen even after I get scores (even if the score is good) because I've been feeling sick whole day.

My head huts like a biatch, and I think I'm getting a cold of some sorts.

I swear! WHY???????? I felt kind of dizzy just now as I was walking toward the restroom, so hopefully it will go away within a day or two (preferably sooner).

 

[gujuDoc]

I already told my parents about my bad score.

WHAT???????????? What if its good????? What are you gonna tell them?? That you were bluffing in case you didn't get a good score????

Be confident and try to hang in there.

I know its hard. I've been a nervous wreck since we had the message come up saying the 16th was the day of reckoning.

 

[ChuckRock]

Does anyone else get some sick pleasure repeatedly checking for scores, knowing that along with your fellow pre-meds, you are taxing AMCAS resources and costing them money? I feel like its payback for all the money I'll get screwed out of in this process. Yea, I know its pretty passive agressive.

 

[gujuDoc]

top smirnoff with bacardi vodka, you'll get the best kick! last time i took it before checking my scores from organic exam, i misstook 41 for 91, euphoric, i drank the bottle of vodka straight and passed out 😀 now don't ask me how I felt next day

Nish

Hmmm sounds good. Actually, you know what other vodka drink I like???

I LOVE LOVE LOVE APPLE MARTINIs

THEY ARE THE BEST!!!!!!! Straight Vodka, no thank you. But mixed with something fruity like in apple tini's, I'm all for it.

 

[Hoberto]

I can't get anything done. I'm trying to study and just keep zoning out...this is crazy. Man, I hope the scores come out early. Like now.

 

[gujuDoc]

Does anyone else get some sick pleasure repeatedly checking for scores, knowing that along with your fellow pre-meds, you are taxing AMCAS resources and costing them money? I feel like its payback for all the money I'll get screwed out of in this process. Yea, I know its pretty passive agressive.

How does checking scores cost money to them?????? I never realized this. I'm sure its not even half as much as the process screws us over by taking. Oh well, if there's even ONE and only ONE acceptance to a US MD or DO school that I could be happy at, I wouldn't care if I had to waste 1000's of dollars to get to that point. It would have been worth it cuz it only takes that one acceptance to be a doctor.

 

[Mixtli]

WHAT???????????? What if its good????? What are you gonna tell them?? That you were bluffing in case you didn't get a good score????

Be confident and try to hang in there.

I know its hard. I've been a nervous wreck since we had the message come up saying the 16th was the day of reckoning.

Yeah, I think I will be too excited to tell my parents

 

[Hoberto]

Yeah, I keep checking and every once in a while the page loads REAAALLLLLYY slow and I think, "Oh, this is it! They must be up everyone is checking!!!" Only I get let down with that darn scores will be out Thursday June 16th message.

 

[ChuckRock]

I was refering to the bandwidth costs and the additional support costs associated with preventing the servers going down when they suddenly get 10,000 pre-meds checking their scores every minute for a couple hours.

 

[Hoberto]

Did anyone notice that the examinee data for the April 2005 test is up?!!

http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/table0405.pdf

Proof that they have these suckers done. Does it take this long to load 28,764 sets of scores??

And 0.0% got a 15 on verbal.

 

[gujuDoc]

I was refering to the bandwidth costs and the additional support costs associated with preventing the servers going down when they suddenly get 10,000 pre-meds checking their scores every minute for a couple hours.

Oh ok. I think those costs are probably like nothing to them with all the money they have.

I think this process really needs to become cheaper somehow. I can understand interviews being expensive, because flights and hotel stays. But application fees, pointless secondaries that are expansions or reiterations of what they already know from primaries, etc. could really be reduced. That would be awesome. Unfortunately, such will probably never be the case. So I guess we move on and accept it as the fact that we'll be making money that makes the price of the process seem like it was nothing for the end result and great journey learned along the way.

 

[ChuckRock]

Oh yea, I'd be surprised if just my actions costs them even a few pennies. I'm just glad someone over at AMCAS will be stressed over the next couple hours for a change.

 

[gujuDoc]

Did anyone notice that the examinee data for the April 2005 test is up?!!

http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/table0405.pdf

Proof that they have these suckers done. Does it take this long to load 28,764 sets of scores??

And 0.0% got a 15 on verbal.

0.0 by AAMC standards doesn't necessarily mean that no one got that score, just that very very very very few people got that score.

For instance, one of the posters here got a 43 in 2004 and that appears as 0.0 on the overall table. In 2004 august, 2 people got 43 and 8 got 42. None of their scores show up on the table as having been possible, cuz it says 0.0 percent got that. That would be like .000069 percent. So this will show up as 0.0. However, it doesn't mean 0 literally.

 

[Alfa Diallo]

I disagree. I think there are solutions to overcoming costs. It's a barrier to medical education which needs to be overcome. It really got under my skin when I was a pre-med and then it dawned on me in medical school how instrumental it is to be creative, organized, altruistically minded and methodological. Over the past several years this has been my driving motivation and I wrote a comprehensive high-yield study guide that is available for free at mcatpearls.com and covers 98% of the AAMC science topics. Some systemic changes will take time but we CAN start small. Grassroots, open-source learning/efforts can work. As for the bigger picture costs (esp. administrative such as secondaries, standardized exams - just wait til boards - its ridiculous) we have to get into the system to change. Best of luck on score releases, Alfa Diallo, MD, MPH.

Oh ok. I think those costs are probably like nothing to them with all the money they have.

I think this process really needs to become cheaper somehow. I can understand interviews being expensive, because flights and hotel stays. But application fees, pointless secondaries that are expansions or reiterations of what they already know from primaries, etc. could really be reduced. That would be awesome. Unfortunately, such will probably never be the case. So I guess we move on and accept it as the fact that we'll be making money that makes the price of the process seem like it was nothing for the end result and great journey learned along the way.

 

[Hoberto]

I realize that. It's more interesting that they have all the data available but no scores for us. We are more important than the examinee tables, darn it! 🙂

 

[Mixtli]

Did anyone notice the PS was graded brutally this year a 10 was 70 percentile, meaning only 30% of test takers got 10 or higher.

 

[ChuckRock]

Did anyone notice that the examinee data for the April 2005 test is up?!!

http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/table0405.pdf

Proof that they have these suckers done. Does it take this long to load 28,764 sets of scores??

And 0.0% got a 15 on verbal.

Good lord that was strange to see. I guess we can put those difficulty of scale discussions to rest.

 

[gujuDoc]

I realize that. It's more interesting that they have all the data available but no scores for us. We are more important than the examinee tables, darn it! 🙂

I just realized that that was 2005's table. DAMN, I thought that was the old 2004 table. Man I'm soooo OUT OF IT!!!!!

I WANT MY SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hoberto]

Did anyone notice the PS was graded brutally this year a 10 was 70 percentile, meaning only 30% of test takers got 10 or higher.

What is it usually? I thought that all sections were scaled to ~8 as the average with an attempt to make a nice Gaussian dist. out of the rest of the scores. Do you think med schools consider variances from test to test? I mean, if one administration 40% get 10 or higher and the next 30% get 10 or higher that seems a little significant.

 

[gujuDoc]

I realize that. It's more interesting that they have all the data available but no scores for us. We are more important than the examinee tables, darn it! 🙂

I agree we are more important then the data. Man I didn't even realize at first that that was April's data. I'm soooooo losing my mind over here. And the stomach knots started just forming again. I think I'm going to be completely sick before the night is over.

 

[ChuckRock]

Did anyone notice the PS was graded brutally this year a 10 was 70 percentile, meaning only 30% of test takers got 10 or higher.

That doesn't seem very different from the 2004 administrations 😕

 

[tigress]

Did anyone notice the PS was graded brutally this year a 10 was 70 percentile, meaning only 30% of test takers got 10 or higher.

Isn't that how it usually is? I mean I haven't gone back and compared these tables to the older ones, but they look about the same to me.

 

[tank you]

i guess verbal wasnt too difficult since 17.4% received 10+, while 17.9% received 10+ in BS.

 

[SailCrazy]

I realize that. It's more interesting that they have all the data available but no scores for us. We are more important than the examinee tables, darn it! 🙂

That sucks - why don't they give us our scores!!!!! 😡

 

[gujuDoc]

Isn't that how it usually is? I mean I haven't gone back and compared these tables to the older ones, but they look about the same to me.

It looked pretty similar to August 2004. (I just looked at them side by side.)

The only difference in August was that there wree almost 6 thousand more people taking it. Sample size was 34 thousand and some few hundred people taking it. On the other hand, there were 28,764 in our sample size.

Either way, this is getting crazy. I hope they get the damn scores up by midnight. I'm already feeling the knots in my stomach and nervous beyond nervous.

 

[Taty]

it all probably means that we going to get our scores in a couple of hours....
i feel sick....

 

[junebuguf]

Bio is different. The histogram is noticeably flattened and the curve is more lenient in this administration. The other two sections have the same percentiles from last year, so the curve is no different.

 

[rain1_rain1]

it all probably means that we going to get our scores in a couple of hours....
i feel sick....

could be couple of minutes... ready get set go ...mcat is running towards all of us ... from some f****ng place/planet called AAMC!

 

[juniper456]

could be couple of minutes... ready get set go ...mcat is running towards all of us ... from some f****ng place/planet called AAMC!

is this true?? could they really be coming out any minute now??

 

[tigress]

Bio is different. The histogram is noticeably flattened and the curve is more lenient in this administration. The other two sections have the same percentiles from last year, so the curve is no different.

A more lenient curve on bio would be my dream come true. I've said it so many times that people here are probably sick of it, but my BS was a killer with 5 hard orgo passages, so the possibility of a nice curve gives me some hope

 

[juniper456]

Did anyone notice that the examinee data for the April 2005 test is up?!!

http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/table0405.pdf

Proof that they have these suckers done. Does it take this long to load 28,764 sets of scores??

And 0.0% got a 15 on verbal.

when did this go up?? was it only a few minutes ago?

 

[gujuDoc]

could be couple of minutes... ready get set go ...mcat is running towards all of us ... from some f****ng place/planet called AAMC!

hahahahahahaha

Thanks for the much needed laugh. I've been needing one whole day.

 

[rain1_rain1]

is this true?? could they really be coming out any minute now??

hope so, am going nuts over this waiting time! am about to snatch every hair from mah beloved beard!!!

 

[juniper456]

A more lenient curve on bio would be my dream come true. I've said it so many times that people here are probably sick of it, but my BS was a killer with 5 hard orgo passages, so the possibility of a nice curve gives me some hope

me too me too!!!!

 

[gujuDoc]

when did this go up?? was it only a few minutes ago?

who knows. But apparently, hoberto is paying attention and found it up. On the main page, it still says for the 2004 results and graphs, click here. But if you click that link for 2004, the 2005 stuff is up. So scores will be up by 12am, I am guessing.

 

[ChuckRock]

What if the report was released last week and we are only just finding out about it now on SDN? I don't think the availability of this report says anything about the timeliness of the individual score release.

 

[juniper456]

who knows. But apparently, hoberto is paying attention and found it up. On the main page, it still says for the 2004 results and graphs, click here. But if you click that link for 2004, the 2005 stuff is up. So scores will be up by 12am, I am guessing.