Taking standardized tests for fun...

[Palantir]

MSTP is probably the most difficult program to get into out of any graduate school…more than MBA/JD etc…all the people I know who have gotten in were stars. Those are fantastic programs though.

 

[Ramos4rm]

hpracing007 wrote:

higgmond wrote:

hpracing007 wrote:
Next time I talk to my bro-in-law, I’m going to ask him if he knows anyone who has hit 40+. He’s at arguably the top school in the world doing his residency in one of the toughest specialities and if I remember right, he hit 38. I could only muster a hacksaw score of 25, twice.
I think what’s really difficult about the MCAT is the depth and breadth of the material. A pre-med student takes:
bio 1, bio 2, genetics, chem 1, chem 2, o-chem 1, ochem 2, physics 1, physics 2, and perhaps a few more that I am forgetting. Along with those, there is a lab class associated with it.
Before we started, they said, 100 will start, by the end of freshman year, 50 will remain. By the end of sophemore year, 25, by the end of junior year 12. Out of those 12, 6 will get in med school.
The MCAT tests the final 12 out of 100. The competition is extremely fierce.

Only 6 get into a reputable med school, or any med school?

Any U.S. med school. I don’t know if they considered Carribean med schools or not but I don’t think they did.

Doubtful…pretty much any student that cant get into any US med school will go to a Caribbean school. Equivalent would be not getting into Harvard MBA down to Florida State MBA so instead going for that University of Phoenix online MBA.

 

[hpracing007]

Ramos4rm wrote:

hpracing007 wrote:

higgmond wrote:

hpracing007 wrote:
Next time I talk to my bro-in-law, I’m going to ask him if he knows anyone who has hit 40+. He’s at arguably the top school in the world doing his residency in one of the toughest specialities and if I remember right, he hit 38. I could only muster a hacksaw score of 25, twice.
I think what’s really difficult about the MCAT is the depth and breadth of the material. A pre-med student takes:
bio 1, bio 2, genetics, chem 1, chem 2, o-chem 1, ochem 2, physics 1, physics 2, and perhaps a few more that I am forgetting. Along with those, there is a lab class associated with it.
Before we started, they said, 100 will start, by the end of freshman year, 50 will remain. By the end of sophemore year, 25, by the end of junior year 12. Out of those 12, 6 will get in med school.
The MCAT tests the final 12 out of 100. The competition is extremely fierce.

Only 6 get into a reputable med school, or any med school?

Any U.S. med school. I don’t know if they considered Carribean med schools or not but I don’t think they did.

Doubtful…pretty much any student that cant get into any US med school will go to a Caribbean school. Equivalent would be not getting into Harvard MBA down to Florida State MBA so instead going for that University of Phoenix online MBA.

I wonder what percentage of doctors graduated from a Caribbean school program. The only guy I ever met in my life who did worked in pharm sales. I had a fair number of mailers come from them but brushed them off and wanted to get a job right away. I know some go into podiatry (much lower mcat/gpa standards than med school).

 

[comp_sci_kid]

I thought about taking MCAT/LSAT test, but again, as with any competition you have to prep and reach peak at certain time to ace it… Felt like i would be wasting my time