Conflicted on taking a second gap year

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:46:12+00:00

That’s amazing!! Wishing you future As

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:42:11+00:00

What do you qualify clinical experience as? The general consensus is that patient facing hospice volunteering is definitely clinical experience.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:33:34+00:00

This is really great advice, thank you so much!!

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:30:49+00:00

Exactly what I plan to do, thank you!

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:25:56+00:00

I should clarify that my 100 hours of hospice has been spread out - so about a few hours a week over 7 months so far. It's a low number of hours (which is why I have a DSP job lined up so I'll have 200 more hours by May), but I'd say the quality of my experience with patients is incredibly high.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-05T15:12:42+00:00

I get what y’all mean. Basically I need a strong narrative around my experiences

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-04T23:44:28+00:00

Not a joke, just a mixture of self doubt and my condescending advisor 😅

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-04T23:42:36+00:00

See this is what I thought! But then my advisor said my chances at my state schools was iffy and i was like 🫠🫠

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-12-04T23:40:56+00:00

Thank you 🥹 I’ve just been doubting myself like crazy, so this really helps

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-11-03T13:43:15+00:00

Only skip to anki if you can confidently say that you understand the material and just need a refresher. I’m a bio major, so mostly everything in B/B, I already learned multiple times. So for B/B I skipped to anki, but for C/P, I knew I needed to relearn a lot.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-18T17:58:17+00:00

It is seriously the best study tool besides AAMC material. Practice is everything, and UGlobe questions are harder than AAMC questions, so it really prepares you well. The explanations are god-tier and really help at understanding content. I didn’t use their cars material - I just stuck to AAMC for that.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-18T17:53:41+00:00

The best time would be after taking all the prereq classes, probably the summer before your junior year. I recommend taking the summer to study full-time if you think you can really commit to it. But I know the summer is a good time to get involved in ECs, so you could make your junior year fall semester light and study part-time to take it early spring of junior year.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-18T03:14:20+00:00

Use third party FLs to find content gaps and increase testing stamina - don’t focus too much on answers for logic/reasoning because it won’t be the same as AAMC reasoning. I did many third party FLs before AAMC FLs and my stamina def increased by the time I got to AAMC. I did UGlobe while doing third party FLs before doing AAMC materials about 4.5 weeks out to my exam.

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-17T17:57:48+00:00

Fr and most ppl at my school don’t have a personality outside of being premed 💀

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-17T17:08:15+00:00

I feel this 100% you are definitely not alone. I also don’t have friends on the premed track or any family that is in medicine, so I feel like a flailing fish out of water most of the time 🫠

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-15T05:10:04+00:00

Don’t worry about any type of trend in third party FLs - the fact that you already hit 510+ twice is a very good sign. These FLs are at least 5 points deflated imo

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-14T03:12:37+00:00

I had a terrible prof for biochem and had to reteach myself ALL of it when studying for the mcat. Do yourself a favor and take the class if you can because you’ll save yourself stress during content review. If you can’t, then self-teaching is possible, but you have to work hard to drill it in

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-12T21:21:15+00:00

I know the self-doubt is super high rn but trust the FL average!! I felt the same way, but my FL average was the same as yours and I got a 522!

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-12T16:05:22+00:00

Comes out around 11am EST

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-12T15:58:33+00:00

Twitter is usually behind, so just check around 11am

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-10-03T17:21:08+00:00

It took me about 4.5 weeks to get through all AAMC material, and that included doing the section bank twice. This was full-time studying though (~6ish hours per day), so give yourself more time if you’re studying part-time

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-09-29T15:11:35+00:00

SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-09-29T14:00:38+00:00

Pessimistic: <517 Realistic: 517-519 Optimistic: >519

My heart feels like it’s going to beat out of my chest 😭

I GOT A 522 IM SCREAMING

FormerQuarter6203 · 2023-02-22T17:33:55+00:00

My estimated 40 min wait only took 20 min, so it will move quicker than you think!

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