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what are my chances
Started by dnarwhat
Yes, you are good.
Are you sure u wanna work on feet for the rest of your life?
no i didnt get into any
a shadowed a podiatrist i honestly dont mind working with feet, i think most peoples feet are cleaner the then some peoples mouths.
I would have to guess it would be the MCAT score. There have been people getting in with a 23, but they are definitely considered underdogs.
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Hmm, you don't mind?
Did the doc you shadowed show you the less glamorous side? Like stinky, pus filled pockets of ooze that require surgical debridement at all hours, like Sunday mornings (breakfast anyone?) and 8PM Saturday nights?
Sure feet CAN be cleaner than mouths, but you will not ONLY be working on those. Trust me when I tell you, if you think the way you are writing, Podiatry is NOT what you think.
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See, now things like that make me feel like a weirdo.
That's the stuff I'm looking forward to, the dirty nasty surgery side.
I spend many many hours doing the worst of the worst jobs for construction, from cleaning out 2ft pipes with black widows from the inside to cleaning out manhole entrances that backed up with garbage after rainstorms.
Did a lot of fast food work in my first jobs, cleaning up people's leftover messes.
I don't mind the dirty. That's the good stuff. At least now I'll get paid better than 10 bucks an hour to do it.
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Hey guys, I posted earlier about the good temple interview I had, but the fear of getting wait listed. Does anyone know if they wait list in February or is that more common later in the academic cycle?
lol go back to ur own thread
Is that a joke? He's got a 23. The Average for Osteopathic schools is pretty narrow at 27-28. Very few people above that and very few people below that. They also heavily base their acceptance on things like research and hospital work, and give people with post-bacs/second careers preference.
There is a list of super low average MCAT scores (lower 20's) for DO schools I found floating about online, but it's reflective of the matriculates 2005 and the schools that have low scores are generally the lower tier ones...
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Too lazy to use the forum search tool? There are tons of threads about this already.
The best school is the school of hard knocks.
