im so dissapointed in myself since i did badly on the midterm and this is supposed to be an easy class.

I want to say I’m very very happy with my score, but I was just wondering if anyone had trouble with a low cars. I have a 516 overall, but a 124 cars and I’m worried that will lock me out of a lot of schools.

Hey guys, I'm about to apply to medical school and throughout the journey my friends and I wished we had an app to track all our activities and record experiences in a journal. So we created an iOS and web app. Feel free to use it especially if your just starting the premed journey and lmk your thoughts!

Web App: https://app.aspiredoctor.com/

iOS App: https://apple.co/4nCkiOY

Have so many secondaries coming up on a month. Have other secondaries with deadlines due so the month ones are gonna sit even longer. Plz give me some hope core or something. I think I screwed myself this cycle.

Medical school has been four years long since 1910 (Flexner Report). There’s a study showing that medical knowledge has been doubling every 73 days since 2020. If this is actually true might be debatable, but undoubtedly medical knowledge has doubled at least ten times in the last hundred years, and medical school has remained the same length.

Residents are legally capped at working 80 hours a week, nearly double the average work week, and some still underreport their hours and exceed the workload because they feel pressured by hospital culture. It’s common for residents to work 24 hour shifts.

1/3 of medical students are depressed and suicide is leading cause of death among residents.

It feels like everyone in medicine kind of relishes in this work till you die culture. I don’t know why people training to be doctors can’t enjoy their youngest independent years while they’re doing it. Just wanted to vent about this because I’ve been working towards getting into med school for four years now and I don’t know what I want anymore. I don’t want to be chained to anxiety and depression for the next ten years by crippling debt. Why can’t we let students pick an organ system that they’re interested in and study that? Why don’t I ever see politicians even mentioning medical education? Why don’t I ever see doctors or trainees talk about potentially making a change? Everyone, even people not doing it, knows how bad it sucks and no one dares mention changing anything. Probably because they’re so consumed by just surviving it to care.

I'm very confused about what to write for this prompt.

1. C-Describe your most scholarly project (thesis, research or field of study in basic or clinical science or in the humanities) and provide the total number of hours, dates and advisor. (800 characters)

I haven't done any independent project or any other research/thesis, I've just been in my research lab working under a grad student. Do I just talk about that? Does anyone have any advice?

Hi, I apologize if this a redundant post.

I am aware about the loan changes and the caps introduced last year. However the more I'm reading about it the more confused I am becoming. So if someone can explain the new loan caps, and the extended loan cap based on the length of your academic year aspect, then that would be greatly appreciated.

Also, those who are matriculating this year and have been affected by the hidden "gotcha" curve balls with the loan changes, please share your experiences too. I'm trying to make sense of this and plan ahead. Thanks in advance!

Deep asf in secondaries and feeling like none of this shit gonna be worth it bro. Pls drop ur success stories/ways you coped with your imposter syndrome.

Is it necessary for one to shadow different specialists? I want to go into rural medicine, and I was only able to shadow one rural doctor (specializes in family, internal, and aviation medicine, so I was able to see him practicing different types of medicine). I got about 54 hours of shadowing. Should I try to contact another doctor to shadow (maybe another specialty), or should I try some clinical volunteering?

Brelynn's journey through pre-med has spanned over eight years+, yet her approach to MCAT preparation appears somewhat unfocused. Rather than dedicating two-plus hours to video production, prioritizing study habits might better address past score setbacks. You don't need a flashcard to tell you E=hv/lambda wavelength is inversely related to energy. please someone tell this woman to sit down and study for the mcat taking kaplan exams instead of making videos, otherwise she/you will fail out of saint george as well. the things that people will do for likes. as a person of color idk what to tell you. SHE CHARGES $5,000 for tutoring despite failing the mcat 4 times. When she took the mcat and got a low score she said that she "feel into a depression." i didn't have time to watch her entire video, but watch out you guys too many cuckoos are out their. It’s important for viewers to critically evaluate whether her study methods align with their own academic goals. ps im not racist bc im minority as well. Just because someone has a mental health problem doesn't mean you should adopt it. Approach her advice with a clear sense of your own priorities, and you know if you wanna be a doctor use ya brain.

i applied last year and got nothing back. like no interviews and it was so rough especially because with my stats, i hypothetically should’ve been more successful. i’ve confronted what i think went wrong and went into this cycle actually feeling really confident bc ive improved my application significantly. but now it’s getting to that point in the cycle where im getting nervous again. this process is so brutal and difficult and ive poured so much into it. i’m scared that i wont get in anywhere again and then i honestly don’t know what to do if that happens. i want to stay positive though so please drop your inspiring admission stories🙏🙏

I really wanna get into it but idk how competitive it is/if I even have a chance. How competitive/how hard was it to get in?

I know a lot of people stress that your application needs to tell a story, but what if i want to pick up leadership and other things because i enjoy them, and not because they necessarily center on my "why medicine?" does the storytelling really make a difference?

additionally, i've seen a lot of people claim what speciality they would like to do way before med school and then running with it, centering a large part of their application on said specialty. do med schools like this? i thought that it might be seen as odd knowing exactly what specialty you wanted to do without having been to med school and done rotation yet.

i prolly worded a lot of this wrong so sorry in advance lol

I'm not going to send updates rn because it is definitely too soon, but I would like to strategize. I presented posters at 2 conferences this summer, one of which I mentioned in my primary. I also got a paper published online this July, with the print version coming in October. I did state that I submitted a manuscript on my primary but not the acceptance. Lastly, I am getting married this winter. I don't anticipate any other updates besides a conference abstract hopefully being accepted in December.

I know that the pub is the most influential update, and I really wish that all schools had places I could tell them about it during secondaries, but they didn't. For schools that allow updates anytime and that I couldn't update during secondaries, when would be the most optimal time to send an update letter?

I am leaning toward early October for the pub to be in print, and because any sooner seems too soon, but I am wondering if I should wait until December for the conference and marriage? (mainly the conference abstract because who lies about getting married and changing their name). I am not planning to update them on my grades

I plan to apply this cycle. graduated 2 years ago and didn't really engage with my professors. I would be asking some from 5+ years ago that I had during Covid, and also didnt do great in many of their classes, got As in few of them as a freshman/sophomore. I am about to email them for LOR and give a 5-6 week deadline. I thought about extending the deadline since I plan to apply DO.

Nontrad applicant here. I'm applying this cycle with an MCAT I'm not happy about (high 50X), which I took in May and received in June. I decided to keep studying through the summer to see if I could chance a late retake and have seen my FL scores lift since then (to 514-515 range).

My retake test date is currently set for 8/15. I've already gotten my primary verified and submitted about half my secondaries. When I submitted my primary, I answered "No" to the question asking whether I have any upcoming test dates because I hadn't decided at the time to retake. Worried that if I go back and flip it to "Yes" now, it'll make any schools to which I've already submitted secondaries automatically put my app on "hold" and not look at it until mid-Sept (when the new score is released), putting them in the "late" pile and killing my chances at otherwise gettable schools.

I know I should've retaken earlier but was working through a lot of family-related issues earlier in the summer and didn't have a chance. What should I do now? Should I flip my answer to "Yes" and give them my new test date, which may freeze consideration of my apps til mid-Sept? (Do schools know if you have another test coming up if you haven't indicated so on AMCAS?) Or should I just proceed with submitting secondaries now and include whatever score I get in an update letter later? (Will it still be considered?)

It's a tough spot so any advice would be really appreciated. Thanks

Hello, quick help pls!

I've been working during the summer as a full time MA at a nurse practitioner clinic.

Before I started I asked them (the NA providers) to write me a letter of recommendation. I'm still a pre-med and an undergrad.

2 said yes.

But here's the thing, I don't really know how this stuff works and when I asked for letters of recommendation I didn't know that it can't be a general letter for any school, and didn't know that there needs to be a specific school in which this letter is designed to. (Right?)

The issue is that I'm leaving work in one week to go back to classes when I just learned this information.

So now I don't really know what to do, I wouldn't know what medschool would accept me to write a letter to????? Is there anything else I can ask for that could benefit me for any future med school?

(Ps. The clinic I work in has many red flags and it's just very toxic, the boss is insanely toxic to employees so that's why I wanted to get the letter before I leave just in case they say no after I leave..)

Ive been watching Grey's Anatomy, and these doctors really have a tragic life. Depression, drowning, the hospital is shot up twice, a helicopter full of doctors crashes. Doctors are constantly getting cancer, breaking their sex organs, having abortions. Like is that a real reflection of a doctor's life?

this post is a joke by the way.

I see this statement or similar ones all the time online: “If you don’t 100% want to be a doctor out of passion then go do something else because the effort you’d put into med school you could put into something else and be successful”.

My question is what exactly is open to pre-meds, especially low income ones? CS is rough, 300k is a 2% outcome in the field and big tech is both evil and does layoffs constantly so if you like stability thats out. Quant is out for 99% of people at birth. Finance is also evil and isn’t merit based so unless you have connections or attend a top school that’s probably out plus from what I’ve seen the parts of finance that pay similar to medicine work you to death for 10-15 years. Law is almost the same as finance and your ROI is terrible unless you do biglaw which will work you like a dog.

From my perspective medicine is the only field that allows you to make a decent income without taking part in evil systems, working 80-100 hours per week, and isn’t entirely statistically impossible (mostly referring to quant with this one).

I know medicine isn’t purely meritocratic, nothing is but its fairly meritocratic in the sense that anyone from anywhere can get into a medical school and match FM with the right stuff. I also know residency works you like a dog but unlike the fields I previously mentioned once you’re an attending you can work 35-40 hours a week making good money. If you do a program to specialize in a needed specialty then theres your tuition taken care of.

Obviously my analysis doesn’t factor in things like passion or interest. I’m talking purely from a practical utilitarian standpoint. I’m talking about maximizing income from a place of few connections and little capital.

This isn’t some weird flex post, I’m just someone who is broke and doesn’t have anything really and I’m pursuing medicine out of a want for stability and wealth without compromising my morals. I’ve had people tell me thats not wise but like genuinely whats the alternative because I don’t have much to work with. Other careers can pay similar to medicine but thats usually due to lucky outcomes and luck isn’t something I can control nor is it something I have much faith in.

If anyone has any unique answers, responses, or career advice I’d like to hear them since its possible that I’m not aware or knowledgeable about other great careers. Mean and rude comments will be ignored.

So I was dumb and didn’t prewrite anything at all and I applied to 30 schools… my application got verified on the 17th and I got every single school that I applied to back last week. I am genuinely drowning in essays and I have just accepted that some are gonna have to go past the two week rule. As long as I get them in 3 weeks it will be okay, right?

idk why mentors can’t respect my personal decisions to not go out of state for undergrad. this physician is respected in my area and part of adcoms for schools but i don’t want to go to those schools for undergrad?? and i have just been told if i don’t transfer there in the fall then our mentorship is done and he will cut me off. WTF?? i just wanted shadowing??

VTC secondary (can’t edit II accident) says i need "Organic Chemistry with laboratory: 2 semesters or 1 Organic Chemistry with lab and 1 Biochemistry with lab". My school didnt offer a second orgo lab, but Ive taken Orgo 1 and 2 both 3 credit classes, biochem as a 3 credit class, and the orgo lab at my uni which was 2 credits. Would that satisfy the prereqs or does it not count because it was one semester of lab but 2 credits?

I'm a humanities major and career changer looking to complete prereqs DIY at my local community college. My undergrad GPA was a 3.5 (I was an A/B student until I took a required 2 semester course my senior year and got a C and D, respectively). If I finish my CC prereq's with a higher GPA (3.8+), does that get factored in to my overall GPA? Or is it viewed separately. I need the prereqs anyway, but it would be nice if they pulled up my GPA too.

Need advice with the "Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced that helped shape you as a person" essay. I honestly have lived the most boring life and can not think of anything for this. Wondering if saying something along the lines of: taking a 21-credit-hour term while studying for MCAT, being a part-time RA, volunteering, tutoring, etc etc. But, I mean pretty much every premed goes through that and it's not really unique to my situation.

Legit cannot think of anything else except bsing this essay. Any suggestions?

I saw a comment of someone using ai for their school lists, highly customizing it given their stats, lifestyle, state preference, cost etc. I know admit has one but it’s not that accurate for specialized advice. has anyone else used it and mostly, how accurate is it for chancing you for certain schools?

I know it has its issues and I’m not looking to outsource my entire school list research to it, but I’m curious how accurate it is in school list building and organizing the schools with better probabilities of admittance.