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which was worst for you?
HAHAHA only on SDN will you find 60%+ of people thinking that taking the MCAT is more enjoyable than waiting on school's decisions.
The essay and having to shell out the cash to AMCAS.
Can't speak to the waiting part. I had my app in 10/15 and was interviewed in November, admitted at my state school within a week. Since my numbers were too low for oos or private, it was open and shut within a couple of months. It sure beat my grad school experience.
The worst part was the expense. THEN the MCAT
for all the waiting voters... how much would you pay to know a month early? two months? at your interview? exiting the MCAT?
The worst is easily the wait.
Second guessing your interview answers....
Thinking of how great it would be to get into your dream school.....
Thinking of how much it would suck to not get into your dream school....
That said, waitlisted at everywhere I really really wanted to go. Its GrRrrRrrRrrRrrEAT!
The correct answer is: whatever stage you're currently in. I feel like we always have a tendency to complain about how hard the stage we currently are in is.
I think this poll is biased on the account that we're all waiting/recently finished waiting. How many of you remember how miserable you were as a freshman taking chem/bio 4 years ago?
I vote for the classes, because you put in a TON of work without even knowing if you had a chance to be a doctor.
toss in a little sdn and you're a wreck by spring.
Maybe? Try "definitely." I have less busy work now in med school than ever before, but I never before felt like if I shook my head too hard, I'd forget half the information I learned for a neuro exam. I have siblings in high school, and they can easily see that I'm working much harder than they are. My brother got his MBA with minimal effort, and he knew it. It snowballs - you pick up speed the farther you go.Granted, maybe it really does get harder, but it seems like for us on the pursuit of medicine, everyone immediately above you is gonna tell you how great you have it where you currently are .
I usually hear the reverse, along the lines of "DAAAMN, I'm so glad I'm not a 1st or 2nd year anymore."3rd year: "DAAAMN, I'd much rather be back in 1st and 2nd year than this!"