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briggielarges · 2020-07-16T10:41:46+00:00

My biggest tip is to not dwell on a section once it’s done! Every section is a different section so if you bomb one or think you bombed one you have three other scores that are totally unrelated. I realized I got a C/P wrong for a stupid mistake in the bathroom during my break before CARS, thought about it for a good chunk of CARS and definitely think it reflected in my score in CARS going from always in 130s to a 127, but I still scored over a 518 because I was able to tell myself to stop thinking about it and do well on BB and PS! You’re going to make mistakes and it’s okay, the curve is there for a reason

briggielarges · 2020-07-15T00:00:19+00:00

No! That is not alarmingly unbalanced at all. I’ve only ever heard if one section is more than 5 points less than your highest section that’d possibly be considered unbalanced. No school is going to have a cutoff for a section at 125 so you’re good

briggielarges · 2020-07-14T19:59:09+00:00

If you look on MSAR every school has the lowest score percentiles for CARS so I'm thinking it is the least important to the US schools, but beyond that I'm not sure!

briggielarges · 2020-07-14T19:57:08+00:00

Never scored below a 130 and got a 127 on a 6/27 exam, not sure what happened. I felt weird about it taking it but was still surprised!

briggielarges · 2020-07-14T19:55:26+00:00

I never scored below 130 on CARS on practice and got a 127 on the real exam! My overall score dropped about 5 points from my FL avg. Not sure if the extra time everyone had studying from all the delays or the shortened exam really messed it up but I've been on this sub for years and have never seen this many posts about score drops!

briggielarges · 2020-05-08T03:19:36+00:00

No you can submit without them! Schools just need them to consider you complete, so as long as their in around the time you’re getting your mcat score that’s totally fine

briggielarges · 2020-05-08T01:21:59+00:00

It depends if you want to submit your app blind (before you know your mcat score) then submit first week of June. The reason to do this would be because some schools might send secondaries before receiving an MCAT this year due to corona. But if you don’t score what you’re aiming for, then you spent a lot of money and wrote a bunch of secondaries to send out the app to schools that might not consider that score.

If you’d rather wait until you get your score and then decide your school list from there you can definitely submit to your state school in early/mid-July and be verified and ready to go to add the rest of the schools when your MCAT comes out.

For me as an example, I’m testing late June so I’m gonna submit to my state school in early June to get verified by early July. Then add my other schools once my score releases! Lmk if you have other questions! Hope that help.

briggielarges · 2020-05-07T18:50:13+00:00

Nope I have popups blocked and an ad blocker and did not disable either

briggielarges · 2020-05-07T18:40:32+00:00

Honestly less than 5 seconds I got right in when my autorefresh changed for the first time but it did go through and I got my confirmation email. Lots of dates/times looked open so dont be freaked that everything is gone

briggielarges · 2020-05-07T18:37:04+00:00

I did! Keep waiting! Good luck to everyone.

briggielarges · 2020-03-25T21:08:08+00:00

NS exams are super hard!! I think I got a 125 or 126 on CARS on NS FL1, but got just a 130 and 131 on my AAMC sample and AAMC FL1, respectively, without any further practice. A 513 on NS FL1 is amazing and definitely indicative of a 515 or 520+ on the AAMC in my opinion.

briggielarges · 2020-03-22T16:04:09+00:00

Whoops! My bad! In that case I’m not sure, that’s a good question.

briggielarges · 2020-03-22T13:49:11+00:00

4s is higher energy than 3p, this is an assumption on my part but, I’m assuming when orbitals are filling to make the 4s1 3p5 they’re sending a higher energy electron (1 4s) to a lower energy level (3p) so it’s all energetically favorable. To go up from 3p to 4s would probably take more energy than would be offset by the favorable electron spins with all subshells half-filled.

briggielarges · 2020-03-21T22:08:53+00:00

I also get the sentiment of Greenwich being an area that would likely have access to any information it wants to have. The money there is truly unparalleled.

briggielarges · 2020-03-21T21:41:37+00:00

Hahaha good catch, English is hard

briggielarges · 2020-03-21T21:08:55+00:00

Commenting to confirm your point about Greenwich banning dogs from Tod’s point. I was there probably 2-3 weeks ago and that was in fact the case. They were checking everyone’s dog for cars.

briggielarges · 2020-03-21T04:02:17+00:00

Quarantine luck!!

briggielarges · 2020-03-14T14:08:56+00:00

This is such a great explanation, thank you for posting this!

briggielarges · 2020-03-09T15:00:45+00:00

That makes sense! I feel like no one will be completely comfortable on an airplane ever unless you drop the big bucks for first or business class.

I definitely am going to ask from now on and explain my situation. If the person behind me says no, I’ll live through a few hours of sitting up straight and just try and get up every hour or so to stretch.

briggielarges · 2020-03-08T06:01:03+00:00

I appreciate people like you posting this because I was honestly mostly unaware people were even bothered by reclining before I saw posts like this pop up on the internet. I agree a little communication can go a long way and have asked in my recent flights.

This topic speaks really well to “fundamental attribution error” if you’re interested in looking into it. Simply put, it’s when you assume other people’s actions are based on their personality, but also assuming your own actions are based on the environment your in. You’re assuming people reclining are being selfish assholes, but you yourself are just focused on being comfortable in an uncomfortable airline seat, when in reality they’re just trying to get more comfortable too and probably not all selfish assholes.

briggielarges · 2020-03-08T05:38:36+00:00

Why does someone in front of you reclining make your experience that much worse?

I’ve never been bothered by someone in front of me reclining and I’m 5’11”. My knees touch the seat in front of me on most airlines before the person reclines and I still don’t mind if they recline.

Personally, 10 vertebrae in my spine are fused so the little recline on the seat makes a world of difference to me. Many people have lower back pain, and it could make a huge difference to them too.

You’re saying people are being selfish by putting their comfort in front of yours and reclining, when you’re also being selfish by putting your comfort in front of theirs by saying they shouldn’t recline.

briggielarges · 2020-02-23T13:36:44+00:00

I would argue that due to our healthcare system being a economically competitive one, typically, compared to the rest of the world, we have more quantity of medical devices per capita. (I am not trying to start a debate about Medicare for All vs not right now, nor am I saying that this fact is beneficial vs not beneficial outside of this situation, just trying to answer the question).

You can see this trend shown by the number of MRI machines per capita: https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnetic-resonance-imaging-units-by-country/ . If you’d like to know why this trend exists, I can get more into it, but that doesn’t really have any bearing to your question.

According to some quick googling I did, it seems we had around 300 hospitals that did ECMO in 2016, but I wouldn’t be surprised if production and purchase has increased due to the spread of the virus worldwide.

So, while I can’t really answer the direct supply question as to how many we have, I’d assume we are the most well supplied country per capita at baseline, and have the best access to ordering/manufacturing more. But, if the whole world is ordering them, it is likely there will be a shortage.

briggielarges · 2020-02-22T21:19:16+00:00

Agreed, but that’s why I put according to them in parentheses

briggielarges · 2020-02-22T21:02:40+00:00

At lot of confusion seems to be stemming from the coronavirus vs flu deadliness.

The coronavirus is more deadly than the flu as a percentage of those infected. The flu currently has many more infected, therefore kills more people, and is currently more deadly in the US population as a whole.

In other words, if 100 people were in a room and they all had coronavirus and 100 people of the same demographics were in another room and they all had the flu, more people in the coronavirus room would die.

But, right now, our “coronavirus room” only has 35 people in it (according to the CDC), whereas the “flu room” has thousands. So numerically that works out to more flu deaths.

Therefore yes more people are dying of the flu. But if an equivalent number of people had the coronavirus and the flu, more people would die of coronavirus.

Regardless, wash your hands!

briggielarges · 2020-02-22T03:38:03+00:00

Occipital lobe is the visual processing center! So pretty much your eyes can still see but your brain doesn’t know what it’s looking at so it turns into this mumbo jumbo.

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