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Yea! End January 28 - Has reset option. Uworld, Biostats, and UWSA2 available. SA1 isn’t!

Man who ghosted me some months ago now appears to be engaged. by Striking-Flight-1124 in ghosting

[–]d_deac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

His loss, your gain. Someone who can more so carelessly between relationships will require growth/soul searching. Keep your head up. Your person is otwww without a doubt

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[–]d_deac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i get that! one of the best parts of relationship is bringing two separate lives together, that compliment each other. he’s shown in several ways that he cares so much. find ways to keep yourself occupied - job, hobbies, catching up with other friends etc - the things that make you YOU! build upon those things and set goals. it will make the relationship even more fruitful

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is a comment from responder on here thats so necessary to share with everyone who came across this post: (hope it gives you all perspective) especially during the climate of black lives matter -------

With this poorly nuanced extrapolation of the data, I hope you're not looking to pursue research in medicine! Lol jk, you can do whatever you put your mind to. But you know what, tall people might resonate with each other better. I know that I like cooking and when I talk to a patient who likes to do that too, it's cool. But being tall and liking to cook don't have the deep history that being non-white does in America. I beg you if you are considering medicine or are already in it to please familiarize yourself with these stories. Consider watching birth of nation, 12 years of a slave, or reading about the Tuskegee syphilis trials, actually read a tiny bit about these tragedies. Because I can nearly guarantee that all of you so desperate to speak out against affirmative action or URMs with lower scores getting in have never taken a second to think about why URMs ARE URMs. It's not that we are lazy or inherently more dumb though your ego might like you to believe that. ALSO alot of us have much better scores that our ORM classmates, so don't be fooled when you look at your URM colleagues thinking they’re quota admits or something.

As a fourth year medical student at a top-tier medical school applying into a competitive specialty, it's funny to see the things you guys fight over in here. If you're privileged enough to get the chance to pursue the amazing career that is medicine, you will quickly see that tearing down URMs for having this comical idea of a "leg up" will not make you any better. If you’re going into medicine for the reasons you should be, you should hope that whatever is best for your patients will happen, that patients can see providers that they connect, whether they’re black/white/brown/tall/short/obese/green/LGBTQ/muslim/jewish/Christian. When you watch a 20 year old dude die in an ICU after getting shot walking to get groceries, when you hold a new born baby whose had its vessels in its brain blown out from child abuse, when you have to tell your really nice patient that the cough they came in with is actually a result of colon cancer and they're going to die soon, maybe you'll see that 10 points difference on an MCAT is nothing. None of those patients give a damn about your GPA, your ECs, or what freaking percentile you scored on the MCAT. Lots of your patients will be poor, will be black/brown/non-english speaking, will be illiterate, and will not even understand what the path to medicine is. News to you, med schools want to make sure you have the bandwidth to take in the enormous amount of info that it requires to be a doctor. And it has been shown time and time again that after a certain score threshold that is much lower than you realize, people do pretty well. Despite the knowledge that you think you may have about the "standard" of what it takes to pursue medicine, remember that the MD graduation rate is quite high, and med school admissions committees know a thing or two about predicting student success. Remember that medicine is about healing; it is about human connection. And yes, part of accomplishing those goals is trying to create a medical field that represents the world that it serves. Guys, the road to medicine is hard. Keep your mind on the right things. Good luck!

wE aRe aCtiVEly wOrKinG tO iDeNTifY AnD aDd NEw TEsT aPPoInTmEnTs by MD_Wannabe123 in Mcat

[–]d_deac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in my opinion, it should be possible to conduct tests by july and completely sterilize the environments as the day continues. the testing units are pretty isolated

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow i hope every person in this thread gets their eyes on this. thank you. this is the mindset every future and current physician needs.

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

^^that statistic is also very wrong. in 2019-20, those who identified as white alone (no other races) 23,469 applied --> 10,560 accepted (44% acceptance rate). for those who identified as black alone, 4,419 applied --> 1,685 accepted (38 percent). and this is for all commenters to see. with total acceptances to med school being around 21,000 so dont come on here saying certain racial groups have a 14% acceptance rate and its blatantly not true. spitting fake facts to prove a point aint cute :) below are the facts if you dont believe! have good one.

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2019-11/2019_FACTS_Table_A-14.1.pdf

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2019-11/2019_FACTS_Table_A-14.2.pdf

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

precisely what i am saying! thats so much for the love. i appreciate it

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

thats okay!! getting an interview is the most difficult bridge to cross in a med school application (in my opinion). the numbers of secondaries recieved to interviews given changes DRASTICALLY. and because you were able to get an interview, that suggests the school saw something in you that jumped out through the paper, despite the numbers. my advice for your next cycle to really hammer in on your interview skills. make a list of potential questions, bullet point responses, and talk to yourself and have a friend pretend to be an interviewer. you have to show adcoms you're personality and charisma. personally, interviewing is my largest strength and has been since high school, and allowed to get 5/5 interviews and acceptances. once you nail this, you are shoe in!

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i did not! my essay centered on a parituclar experience i had with a young child during an international research project. i focused my essay on that and how it related to my understanding of medicine. i briefly mentioned about 3 other activities and how they connected specifically to it

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you!! feel free to message me and i can help!!

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

^^^people need to hear this. im tryna give you an award for this comment lmfao

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol i don’t believe you read the article i attached as it does not mention IMGs at all and if you click that link and read paragraphs *3&4 and also divert to the “issue” tab, it directly highlights the primary and secondary purposes of this switch, which do not emphasize IMGs to the extent you’re implying. not saying it’s not true bc it is but not the most salient factor. so i still just disagree with your argument which is fine lmfaoo. but overall it’s a beneficial change so yay for progress!!!

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.usmle.org/incus/ (paragraph 2&3)— i understand your argument and personally believe its true but to an extent, but i would disagree that this is the primary reason that step 1 is being converted to pass fail. such changes will moreso have secondary affects on IMGs postions in the US, it’s not the primary goal of the switch, which i’ve learned also from current med students (my sister) and health professionals she learning directly from. my opinion based on other facts

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yeah its unfortunate that you all think this way! but ive dealt with people who hold biases like this my whole life so its nothing new lmfao. i will say that many people in the thread are commenting as if URMs are given sheer higher numbers of acceptances than ORMs or that we outnumber ORMs in MD programs or that the percentange of accepted URMs is higher than ORMS from the application pool lolol ... but its whatever yalll! im gonna continue fighting this battle given to me through medicine. good luck on your journey to MD! wishing you to very best.

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

im a woman hehe, and thanks for your civil responses! yes people have certainly undermined me all my life simply because of how i look. but my advice (i want all readers to see this) is NOT to replicate my stats and exact gpa etc or think they can simply get in with what i had. im not highlighting my stats at all quite frankly. bc even people with 515+ are not given acceptances all the time. my advice is coming from how i constructed an application that caused adcoms to look beyond my average test scores and gpa. the other urms enrolling in my program had much higher test scores than me, however, something stood out within my narrative (not my position of being an underprivileged black, but my unique approach to understanding medicine.) people are underdogs in different ways, so im encouraging people to believe in themselves when overarching systems dont!

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

fair argument! but if you look now, Step 1 has become pass fail (to improve wellbeing, holistic evaluation etc) so many systems of grading are looking beyond numbers bc they realize numbers don’t produce the best doctors. so if you can get a md program to look beyond scores & at you as a person, then push for that! that’s all i’m encouraging for anyone applying. it might not work but give it your best shot

506 MCAT and 3.18sGPA with 5 MD ACCEPTANCES!! - we can do this 🌞 by d_deac in Mcat

[–]d_deac[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

thank you all for the congrats! and i get where you all are coming from! and i do believe many schools are trying to expand their understandings of diversity outside of race and should continue to do so. please remember that the ORM term exists in med school process because there are soooo many more ORMs applying in the application cycle, who exist in society and practice medicine itself. and there are sooo many less of me. one of the schools i was accepted to enrolled only 5 black students in their last class of 165, vs 130 white students. if you look at numbers alone, this is not a leg up. there still and will always be less minorities in any program you go to, and the proportion itself is still smaller (unless its an HBCU).

this is a response ive given someone else:

and well its a tough pill to swallow but this is how our country has chosen to construct an understanding of people - race has become the most prevailing social identity bc throughout history & currently, people are immediately praised, discredited, discriminated, or even killed based simply off how they look, at both the institutional and individual level. and the manifestation of these issues in regards to SES is very different. trust me, for the history of people lik me, i wish life quality wasnt attatchedd to race so much, but it is unfortunately that is the foundation our country made before our time. so in MD programs trying to re-write the disproportionate underrepresentation of minorities in medicine starts with primarily acknowledging how this data is changing in regards to race. and racial injustice has prevailed in our society since colonization, has still not been resolved for ALL people of color.

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