These extracurriculars solid for getting into Harvard level schools?

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Take a disease, AIDS is a good example, and develop a treatment that physically removes all CD4+ T-lymphocytes from the patients circulation. Manually remove all HIV virus particles, get some (or make some) new CD4+ T-lymphocytes, put them back in the patient.

This will get you into Harvard. Full ride if you can do it with one hand. If you do it without gloves you will be appointed Dean.

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

ARE YOU STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Get off this forum and don't come back till youre at least a freshman. You should be more worried about how to blow of your summer in style.

I haven't started college yet, but I'm predicting to have a 3.7ish GPA from Princeton, 38ish MCAT score. I'm aiming for Columbia med.

This is just effing ridiculous.

 

[sunny1]

ARE YOU STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Get off this forum and don't come back till youre at least a freshman. You should be more worried about how to blow of your summer in style.

This is just effing ridiculous.

Well, yes, it is sad/naive. Hopefully all the flames the OP is getting will just encourage him/her to work harder. Right, OP?......OP?......?

 

[sux2bu09]

lol this thread cracks me up..how do you predict publications when you havent even stepped into a lab

 

[bcat85]

I didn't realize you weren't even in college yet. Right, a 3.8 is a tall order to just say you're "going to get" as a senior in high school. The #2 and #3 students in my h.s. had this same sort of attitude and graduated college with <3.0's. College isn't that hard, but it is by no means a walk in the park like h.s. And getting a 38 on the MCAT is a HUGE longshot. you can't just "decide" that you're going to get those things. If that was the case, I would have decided to get a 41 and gone to harvard myself. I really do wish you the best of luck, but please don't get caught up in the rankings cluster***. You can be a fantastic physician going to any medical school OP, really. But aim high.

 

[paranoid_eyes]

I took AP Bio, Physics, Chem so I got a 12 P, 11 V, 7 B. Yeah I'm pretty sure I can go up a lot after actually taking Orgo Chem instead of relying on the chapter I studied in AP Chem haha. The physical sciences section was pretty easy for me though.

😱 you got a fcking 30 without even taking the prereqs.....SOO NOT FAIR

anyways, you'll be fine. stop stressing...for the love of god don't work yourself up so much. this should the best summer of your life and thinking about the future is such a buzzkill

 

[DrSuicideBarbie]

This thread is really funny to me...

LOL... i think it is really funny too!

 

[s1lver]

Hey, while you're in the mood for predicting the future, what's next week's lotto numbers?

 

[NY Musicologist]

OP, your head is about 3 years ahead of your life right now. Reel it in a bit, and focus more on the life aspect. Focus on that GPA, but just as importanty, focus on making great friends you will keep the rest of your life. Focus on finding activities that excite your passions and creativity.

In hindsight, I was much like you coming out of high school. 4 years of college later, I ended up with a 3.6 GPA, not a 3.9. A 35 on the MCAT, not a 40. ECs very unrelated to medicine, instead of EMT/Pre-med club/etc. Coming into medical school, I was set on pediatric surgery. Now I have no idea what I want to do, but at least 6 or 7 fields I can see myself practicing in. And you know what, I'm a better medical student for it.

It's not all about jumping through the hoops. It IS all about becoming your own person, a person who will make a great physician. The hoops are there for a reason, but so is the other 90% of your college experience.

AMEN. Best advice in the thread. Make yourself a slave to the numbers/hoops game and I can almost guarantee that, one way or another, you'll regret it in the end. Best wishes.

 

[shundotp]

"After medical school I'm going to marry a 5'8ish blonde nurse that is VERY attractive. We are going to move into a brick house right out side of Boston and have 4 children (3 boys and 1 girl). Each child will be separated by 2 years. They will all go to Harvard and then proceed to become doctors.

Guys I know this will happen..."

You need to get laid.

You got it man. I'll be reading Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine to my children for bedtime stories. They will be surgeons whether they want to or not. The order of specialization will follow this: plastics, orthopedic, vascular, trauma, cardiothoracic, general, pediatric, neurological.

I dont wanna burst your bubble, but not everything might turn out the way you want them to. And umm MCAT isn't that hard straight after HS, I had a 27 on kaplan diag during fall freshman year. Then I took kaplan again during junior year and got a 19, because I forgot all the physics from HS, and all the chem/ochem from freshman year.

Also, if u are really far ahead, look into taking physics freshman year, ochem/bio sophmore year, so that you can take MCAT Spring of soph year, that should help because you won't have to spend as much time reviewing

This is just depressing. If you're going to troll, at least summon the vigor to do it with creativity.

Just curious, any ideas on what specialty you want to go into? What will you get on Step 1?

OP, I recommend that you save a link to this thread. Read it again three years from now. It will change the way you reply to some incoming freshman at that time.

You do not think the same way now as you did three years ago. You will not think the same way a year and a half from now. You will not be thinking the same way 7 years from now when you are finishing up your M3 year.

Each step of the way, you are going to find yourself surrounded by more people who are equal to you in both ability and determination, and more who are better prepared and better equipped than you.

Life has a way of changing people's plans and trashing assumptions. That's not a bad thing.

To the OP. You may be "above average" now, but please be aware that "average" gets continually redefined as you move up.

Succeeding in a competitive high school is good, and you clearly did so if you got into a competitive university. Now you'll be surrounded by thousands of people like you that were just as competitive all throughout high school. You're going to have to out-perform them if you want to have a high GPA.

Then there's medical school. Take those hyper-competitive people from colleges all over the country and then shave off the very top and stick them in a room with each other. Again, there are no stupid people surrounding you to pull the average down. These are the same people that make up your class-rank when it comes down to residency matching and these are the same people that will be taking the USMLE.

It's one thing to be confident that you will succeed, but to not realize the level of competition at higher levels of education is arrogant.

Why not pick something competitive? I mean, it seems like a shame to squander your amazing talents on anything less than plastic surgery.

The end result will be much better (and much more disheartening) if he just realizes this on his own.

Also don't assume that you will get a 3.8. There are several valedictorians at my schools that end up doing rather poorly since they can't find motivation or aren't used to the challenge or something else entirely.

I was lucky to actually do better in college than in high school. This is mostly because I found classes that really interested me, not just science courses but my rather random business major, etc... and did not find the time I spent working in my classes to be a pain.

You haven't yet started college. You don't know whether you will be the top in your classes. All you can do it approach college with an open mind and work hard to succeed.

"After medical school I'm going to marry a 5'8ish blonde nurse that is VERY attractive. We are going to move into a brick house right out side of Boston and have 4 children (3 boys and 1 girl). Each child will be separated by 2 years. They will all go to Harvard and then proceed to become doctors.

Guys I know this will happen..."

You need to get laid.

You got it man. I'll be reading Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine to my children for bedtime stories. They will be surgeons whether they want to or not. The order of specialization will follow this: plastics, orthopedic, vascular, trauma, cardiothoracic, general, pediatric, neurological.

I dont wanna burst your bubble, but not everything might turn out the way you want them to. And umm MCAT isn't that hard straight after HS, I had a 27 on kaplan diag during fall freshman year. Then I took kaplan again during junior year and got a 19, because I forgot all the physics from HS, and all the chem/ochem from freshman year.

Also, if u are really far ahead, look into taking physics freshman year, ochem/bio sophmore year, so that you can take MCAT Spring of soph year, that should help because you won't have to spend as much time reviewing

This is just depressing. If you're going to troll, at least summon the vigor to do it with creativity.

Just curious, any ideas on what specialty you want to go into? What will you get on Step 1?

OP, I recommend that you save a link to this thread. Read it again three years from now. It will change the way you reply to some incoming freshman at that time.

You do not think the same way now as you did three years ago. You will not think the same way a year and a half from now. You will not be thinking the same way 7 years from now when you are finishing up your M3 year.

Each step of the way, you are going to find yourself surrounded by more people who are equal to you in both ability and determination, and more who are better prepared and better equipped than you.

Life has a way of changing people's plans and trashing assumptions. That's not a bad thing.

To the OP. You may be "above average" now, but please be aware that "average" gets continually redefined as you move up.

Succeeding in a competitive high school is good, and you clearly did so if you got into a competitive university. Now you'll be surrounded by thousands of people like you that were just as competitive all throughout high school. You're going to have to out-perform them if you want to have a high GPA.

Then there's medical school. Take those hyper-competitive people from colleges all over the country and then shave off the very top and stick them in a room with each other. Again, there are no stupid people surrounding you to pull the average down. These are the same people that make up your class-rank when it comes down to residency matching and these are the same people that will be taking the USMLE.

It's one thing to be confident that you will succeed, but to not realize the level of competition at higher levels of education is arrogant.

Why not pick something competitive? I mean, it seems like a shame to squander your amazing talents on anything less than plastic surgery.

The end result will be much better (and much more disheartening) if he just realizes this on his own.

ARE YOU STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Get off this forum and don't come back till youre at least a freshman. You should be more worried about how to blow of your summer in style.


This is just effing ridiculous.

Bingo. I am already calling I will have perfects on every STEP in medical school, so do not even bother with accepting me medical school.

I didn't realize you weren't even in college yet. Right, a 3.8 is a tall order to just say you're "going to get" as a senior in high school. The #2 and #3 students in my h.s. had this same sort of attitude and graduated college with <3.0's. College isn't that hard, but it is by no means a walk in the park like h.s. And getting a 38 on the MCAT is a HUGE longshot. you can't just "decide" that you're going to get those things. If that was the case, I would have decided to get a 41 and gone to harvard myself. I really do wish you the best of luck, but please don't get caught up in the rankings cluster***. You can be a fantastic physician going to any medical school OP, really. But aim high.

Hey, while you're in the mood for predicting the future, what's next week's lotto numbers?

Hi all.

I'm the OP (I forget why I got banned, but yeah this is my new account).

In case you are wondering, I did get a 38 on the MCAT. I plan on applying in the spring, and my GPA is much higher than the 3.7 I predicted before starting college.

Anyway, to those who did nothing but mock me for predicting my future MCAT score, I guess you should learn from this that there are people who have reasonably accurate understandings of their abilities.

Here's a pic with the scores I received and their percentiles. I removed the writing section score to retain some anonymity.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg

 

[TallScrubs]

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg


Look, I got a 38 too! I also removed my writing school to retain anonymity.

I am so pumped

 

[orthomyxo]

Hi all.

I'm the OP (I forget why I got banned, but yeah this is my new account).

In case you are wondering, I did get a 38 on the MCAT. I plan on applying in the spring, and my GPA is much higher than the 3.7 I predicted before starting college.

Anyway, to those who did nothing but mock me for predicting my future MCAT score, I guess you should learn from this that there are people who have reasonably accurate understandings of their abilities.

Here's a pic with the scores I received and their percentiles. I removed the writing section score to retain some anonymity.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg

If you actually are the OP, you need to get a life. Do you care that much about what people on an anonymous internet forum think of you?

inb4 cool story bro

 

[rhesuspieces]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There are two possibilities here:

1) You are indeed the OP, you have indeed gotten a 38, and you spent the past 2 years so angry at the comments from strangers on an online forum that you got the exact MCAT you predicted, did amazing at school, dug this thread back up, and created a new account just to make a point to a bunch of people who don't remember you and don't care anyway.

2) You are a troll of the best sort. Thanks for the LOLz

 

[Narmerguy]

Hi all.

I'm the OP (I forget why I got banned, but yeah this is my new account).

In case you are wondering, I did get a 38 on the MCAT. I plan on applying in the spring, and my GPA is much higher than the 3.7 I predicted before starting college.

Anyway, to those who did nothing but mock me for predicting my future MCAT score, I guess you should learn from this that there are people who have reasonably accurate understandings of their abilities.

Here's a pic with the scores I received and their percentiles. I removed the writing section score to retain some anonymity.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg

So absurd. It's been two years since "you" started the thread. You started the thread as a senior in high school meaning that you would realistically only be a beginning sophomore this year. Even if you were entering college as a freshman (which you weren't) you'd still be a rising junior which means you wouldn't have taken the MCATs yet (unless you conveniently did that as a sophomore). If you had, you don't apply to schools in the spring of your junior year. You do it over the summer/fall. Regardless, that's impossible since you're not a junior, you're a sohpomore meaning you took MCATs after freshman year. And you want us to believe you got a 38? And that you're applying in the spring?

Get out of here.

 

[randomb]

So absurd. It's been two years since "you" started the thread. You started the thread as a senior in high school meaning that you would realistically only be a beginning sophomore this year. Even if you were entering college as a freshman (which you weren't) you'd still be a rising junior which means you wouldn't have taken the MCATs yet (unless you conveniently did that as a sophomore). If you had, you don't apply to schools in the spring of your junior year. You do it over the summer/fall. Regardless, that's impossible since you're not a junior, you're a sohpomore meaning you took MCATs after freshman year. And you want us to believe you got a 38? And that you're applying in the spring?

Get out of here.

Let's see...

June 2008: OP graduated high school
June 2009: OP finishes frosh year
June 2010: OP finishes soph year
Sept 2010: OP takes MCAT fall before junior year
Oct 2010: OP gets score as a junior

June 2010: OP applies to med school as a junior

Looks okay to me.

 

[shundotp]

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg


Look, I got a 38 too! I also removed my writing school to retain anonymity.

I am so pumped

Haha, touche. I will humor you:
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/3204/picture63lx.jpg

So absurd. It's been two years since "you" started the thread. You started the thread as a senior in high school meaning that you would realistically only be a beginning sophomore this year. Even if you were entering college as a freshman (which you weren't) you'd still be a rising junior which means you wouldn't have taken the MCATs yet (unless you conveniently did that as a sophomore). If you had, you don't apply to schools in the spring of your junior year. You do it over the summer/fall. Regardless, that's impossible since you're not a junior, you're a sohpomore meaning you took MCATs after freshman year. And you want us to believe you got a 38? And that you're applying in the spring?

Get out of here.

I'm the OP:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/5365/shindotpbanned.jpg

I'm a junior, genius.

K, I'm done here. GL HF SDN!

 

[Narmerguy]

Let's see...

June 2008: OP graduated high school
June 2009: OP finishes frosh year
June 2010: OP finishes soph year
Sept 2010: OP takes MCAT fall before junior year
Oct 2010: OP gets score as a junior

June 2010: OP applies to med school as a junior

Looks okay to me.

I thought the OP was entering his senior year June 2008. Taking the MCAT the fall before junior year? Yeah, it's possible like I already mentioned, but uncommon . But it is possible since I screwed up when he graduated.

 

[Playa]

3.7+ at Princeton is not exactly easy. People talk about grade inflation, but you have to think about the competition you're facing. The kid sitting next to you in PChem your freshman year probably took DiffEq at UChicago as a junior in high school. I **** you not... this happened to me.

38 is extremely difficult. That is in the 98.4-99.0 percentile of a self-selecting group.

You're a Princeton kid, though, so you're pretty smart. Don't get lazy, work your butt off, and don't forget to have some fun. Of HYP, Princeton probably has the cutest girls.

Well, I can tell you that Dean Frantz seems to like you guys. Maybe not as much as people from two random little schools in New England, but you guys do pretty alright.



Blade, he's not starting college until the fall.

But they become snobby as hell once they find out you don't go to Princeton.

 

[ILikeDrugs]

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg


Look, I got a 38 too! I also removed my writing school to retain anonymity.

I am so pumped

What a coincidence, we took the test on the same date. I, on the other hand, completely out-did you. Seriously, only a 38? That's pretty amateur compared to mine. I too removed my writing score for anonymity purposes. There's always gonna be someone better than you. And on that test day, it was me. 😉

 

[StephBee]

I'm not sure what to even say besides LOL.

What I want to know is how someone with a 38 (13 on VR) gets a P....I got a 30, 9 VR and got a P.

If your'e gunna make up scores, at least give yourself like an R....


And taking a picture of your screen doesn't "prove" anything besides you know how to use le google and le paint.

 

[Frazier]

Hi all.

I'm the OP (I forget why I got banned, but yeah this is my new account).

In case you are wondering, I did get a 38 on the MCAT. I plan on applying in the spring, and my GPA is much higher than the 3.7 I predicted before starting college.

Anyway, to those who did nothing but mock me for predicting my future MCAT score, I guess you should learn from this that there are people who have reasonably accurate understandings of their abilities.

Here's a pic with the scores I received and their percentiles. I removed the writing section score to retain some anonymity.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg

 

[XeReX]

If you actually are the OP, you need to get a life. Do you care that much about what people on an anonymous internet forum think of you?

inb4 cool story bro

agreed, this dude needs to calm down. No one cares if you got a 38 or a 42 in MCATs and have a 4.0 GPA, or if u deduced a cure of cancer and all the terminal diseases on earth. Good for you and have a great life.

 

[rhesuspieces]

I'm not sure what to even say besides LOL.

What I want to know is how someone with a 38 (13 on VR) gets a P....I got a 30, 9 VR and got a P.

If your'e gunna make up scores, at least give yourself like an R....


And taking a picture of your screen doesn't "prove" anything besides you know how to use le google and le paint.

Ouch buddy. 14 VR here, P on writing. It happens; not all of us can be Shakespeare under a time crunch.

That being said, OP is still so full of it his eyes are brown.

 

[TallScrubs]

What a coincidence, we took the test on the same date. I, on the other hand, completely out-did you. Seriously, only a 38? That's pretty amateur compared to mine. I too removed my writing score for anonymity purposes. There's always gonna be someone better than you. And on that test day, it was me. 😉

Tomato, tomaaaato. Same percentile range. Wait till i get my retake scores back...should be back whenever i have free time to copy a screen shot...wait, ****...i mean till my scores get released next tuesday

 

[StephBee]

Ouch buddy. 14 VR here, P on writing. It happens; not all of us can be Shakespeare under a time crunch.

That being said, OP is still so full of it his eyes are brown.

😛 I kid, I kid. I got a P after all and I'm a creative writing minor.

Those essays suck.... I ended up rambling about how man power is a "resource" that needs to be regulated and talked ad nausium (sp?) about the oil spill in the gulf. 😛

 

[marble30]

What a coincidence, we took the test on the same date. I, on the other hand, completely out-did you. Seriously, only a 38? That's pretty amateur compared to mine. I too removed my writing score for anonymity purposes. There's always gonna be someone better than you. And on that test day, it was me. 😉

👍👍

I think there's also screenshot of a 44S score report floating somewhere around SDN...

 

[45408]

Hi all.

I'm the OP (I forget why I got banned, but yeah this is my new account).

In case you are wondering, I did get a 38 on the MCAT. I plan on applying in the spring, and my GPA is much higher than the 3.7 I predicted before starting college.

Anyway, to those who did nothing but mock me for predicting my future MCAT score, I guess you should learn from this that there are people who have reasonably accurate understandings of their abilities.

Here's a pic with the scores I received and their percentiles. I removed the writing section score to retain some anonymity.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6295/mcatpic.jpg

Really? You forgot why you were banned, but you didn't forget being so butthurt that you had to come back and show us all up?

 

[randomb]

What a coincidence, we took the test on the same date. I, on the other hand, completely out-did you. Seriously, only a 38? That's pretty amateur compared to mine. I too removed my writing score for anonymity purposes. There's always gonna be someone better than you. And on that test day, it was me. 😉

Haha wow that's a godawful photoshop job.