Utterly self-aggrandising braggery (MCAT score)

[Erku]

Don't read this if you don't want to hear someone doing nothing but bragging...


...but I scored a 38/T on my MCAT! After hundreds of hours of studying and even more stressing about the result, I think I am justified in a little victorious crowing. With that score, I have maxed out my local medical school's criteria for MCAT admissions, ie. I will get the highest possible weight on the MCAT section of the application process. I think I am just about guaranteed an interview now, even though my undergrad marks are not particularly noteworthy (not bad, but not at all enough to get me in on their own).

I really hope my friends who wrote theirs on Friday do as well. Both of them would make far better doctors than I would, but they don't have the chill easy-testing attitude I do. /worry

Disclaimer: I am not smarter than you are. I studied incredibly hard, I test well, and I was very lucky in that several test sections included things I happen to know a bit about - including one section on dive physics, right after I'd finished reading my PADI book. I was lucky and I worked hard, I don't consider myself special. That, in fact, is why I am so proud.

Okay, done tooting my own horn now.

 

[vshearer]

Congrats!!

 

[DCBC]

...but I scored a 38/T on my MCAT! After hundreds of hours of studying and even more stressing about the result, I think I am justified in a little victorious crowing. With that score, I have maxed out my local medical school's criteria for MCAT admissions, ie. I will get the highest possible weight on the MCAT section of the application process. I think I am just about guaranteed an interview now, even though my undergrad marks are not particularly noteworthy (not bad, but not at all enough to get me in on their own).

I really hope my friends who wrote his on Friday does as well. Both of them would make far better doctors than I would, but they doesn't have the chill easy-testing attitude I do. /worry

Disclaimer: I am not smarter than you are. I studied incredibly hard, I test well, and I was very lucky in that several test sections included things I happen to know a bit about - including one section on dive physics, right after I'd finished reading my PADI book. I was lucky and I worked hard, I don't consider myself special. That, in fact, is why I am so proud.

Okay, done tooting my own horn now.

Congratulations. If you haven't done so already, I'd recommend a book by Dr. Rod Elford of Calgary (Associate Professor of Medicine at UofC) on "How to get into a Canadian Medical School". If you can find a copy, give him a call; he's in the book.

 

[Erku]

Thanks DCBC, that looks like a pretty interesting book, and I'd imagine it's sold at the bookstore here since I work in the same building as Calgary's medical school. I will probably get it

 

[DCBC]

Sorry, the book's called "Opening the Doors to Canadian Medical Schools"
Rod Elford M.D.
978-1-55059-084-5, (1-55059-084-7), 1994, 112 pg., 5½x8½, pb., $14.95

Its distributed by Temeron Books in Calgary:

Opening the Doors to Canadian Medical Schools

 

[skankpile]

You had to study for that?

good for you... now the real pain comes, you will not be diving for a while it seems.

 

[Erku]

Sorry, the book's called "Opening the Doors to Canadian Medical Schools"
Rod Elford M.D.
978-1-55059-084-5, (1-55059-084-7), 1994, 112 pg., 5½x8½, pb., $14.95

Its distributed by Temeron Books in Calgary:

Opening the Doors to Canadian Medical Schools

Yep, thanks again... I found it by searching the author

You had to study for that?

Well, yes. I've been out of undergrad for four years; even my basic biology was pretty rusty. Actually I probably way overstudied... my off-brand practice mcats were much, much more difficult than the real thing, which I only learned two days before the real test when I finally switched over to the 'official' practice exams. I'd say the overstudying paid off, though. My application needed the extra 'oomph'.

 

[Hawkwood]

Congrats Erku, now celebrate by going for a dive in Minnie!

 

[Jersey]

BIG Congratulations! I am back in school myself after a 29 year hiatus and cracking the books has been both challenging and rewarding. Wishing you well in med school!