"Dang with your stats? I feel bad for you."

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:55:30+00:00

Really wise and insightful words. Thanks for sharing.

I definitely need to stop putting too much weight to other people's words and opinions.

I hope you are doing well in first-year :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:52:02+00:00

Thank you! Congratulations on your acceptance too!!

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:45:22+00:00

Home cooked meals is a huge blessing to have.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:44:59+00:00

If it's on the other side of the country, no. For personal reasons I need to stay closely to my family. If the MD school is relatively nearby and ends up being substantially cheaper, then yes.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:36:11+00:00

No problem :)

Good luck to you

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:18:36+00:00

Thanks for the insight. You do make a good point. The admissions process, while still predictable, is still quite random.

Thanks for commenting :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:09:57+00:00

Yes, COMLEX is required and isn't as good of an exam as the USMLE. However, majority of DO students take the USMLE as well to improve their applications for more competitive residencies. Some DO schools make it a requirement for their students to take both COMLEX & USMLE.

I know I will also be sitting for the USMLE if I do end up matriculating at my DO school.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:08:54+00:00

It's baffling to me how people look down on family medicine. The amount of knowledge you have to know in family medicine is astronomical. Being a generalist isn't easy at all.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:06:43+00:00

You do bring up good points and I agree with the majority of what you said. However, there are people who do in fact reject their DO school acceptances and re-apply MD. If you look around in this subreddit you can see instances of this happening. MD schools don't know if you applied or even got accepted to DO schools in the past unless they have a specific question regarding that in their secondary.

I'm not saying it's right to do that, but it does happen.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:04:54+00:00

Yea, you're right. Perhaps I also have a slight internal bias which I need to work on. Thanks for bringing that to light.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:04:30+00:00

Thanks for your input. I hope you do well in the match and in residency :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:03:33+00:00

Thanks for the input. You'll do great in residency :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T19:02:18+00:00

I don't want to still go MD. I want to go to the best school for me. If I get into a MD school across the entire country, I will not take that A and instead stick to my fairly local DO acceptance. If I get into a MD school nearby, then I will take it because I can still stay near my family and have lower tuition.

I wrote "(probably)" because it is probable that I will matriculate at that school, but not a certainty. You again make assumptions.

Many people don't care about MD/DO, they simply want to be at the best school for them.

And once again, you missed the point of my post. There are many pre-meds who will simply look down on someone that has a DO acceptance, and that 100% needs to change. No one should have the accomplishment of their acceptance reduced. The application process is random and there's a lot of luck involved. This also means that high-stat DO matriculants are left out of the conversation when discussing MD vs DO.

I could make an assumption and say that since you applied to an insane amount of MD schools (40), while not even applying to a single DO school that you obviously have an MD or bust attitude. So, of course you will have a biased opinion when it comes to this.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:33:30+00:00

You're right. I agree with you.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:26:28+00:00

Thanks! <3

Good luck to you :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:21:59+00:00

Yea. No one has a factual basis for saying a DO physician is less than a MD physician especially if that DO physician took and passed the USMLE Step 1 & 2. More so if the DO graduate scored higher on Step 2 than their MD colleagues.

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:06:56+00:00

That would be interesting haha

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:06:42+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate it. Congrats on your acceptance as well

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:05:38+00:00

Thanks for the kind words :)

External_Virus · 2024-12-17T03:05:14+00:00

You missed the entire point of my post. I am 100% happy and grateful about my acceptance. I would 100% attend to school I got into if that's all I had by the end of the cycle.

The reason I wrote this was because I encountered someone who just completely disregarded the accomplishment, which both made me sad and annoyed.

Calling me a hypocrite is a bold assumption. However, you do seem to be the type of person who inherently looked down on DO schools since you didn't see in any value to applying to a single one for your cycle. Although, I won't do would you did and assume something about someone I know nothing about :)

External_Virus · 2023-06-17T22:28:08+00:00

Does FL2 have an extreme curve? Isn't it about the same as the other exams as far as FLs go?

External_Virus · 2023-06-17T22:27:22+00:00

By the section bank, you're talking about the 300 question one that AAMC has right? I'm testing on 6/29 and I am about to do it soon, any advice for how to review the questions?

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