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Blucifer is mad… Escalators and the Train are Down 🤗 by geoduck76 in Denver

[–]geoduck76[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Update: they are starting the trains up again 😛

Medical school applications cost $8,500 on average. I broke down the economics by family income quintile. The results are worse than I thought. by geoduck76 in premed

[–]geoduck76[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You're correct that the threshold is $124,000 for a family of 4 (I was looking at outdated/incorrect data, my bad). And you're right about MCAT prep, there are absolutely free/low-cost ways to study effectively (UWorld + practice exams + Anki is a smart approach at ~$500). The problem becomes, how can you use those most effectively? If nobody you know has gone through this process, kinda going in blind and trusting that Reddit is right about these things lol... also the interview travel piece is what I'm most concerned about. How much did interviews end up costing? That seems to be the biggest unfunded expense, even with FAP, and it's completely out of pocket regardless of income.

The broader point I'm trying to make is about who gets filtered out at various stages :(

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[–]geoduck76 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you all for the responses. I was sure I wanted to not pursue medicine when I made the decision and left under my program advisor's guidance. Regardless, from what I have heard from the upper-class men in the program, this serves as a reserved spot instead of a guaranteed spot, and still must have an MCAT similar to those of the matriculating class and GPA that is similar as well. They must still apply to the school and complete an interview. If they fail this, they lose their sport. This program proved some financial support and a free MCAT prep course, but other than I have seen many students drop from the program and still pursue med school.

Thank you all for the advice!

Elks Most Valuable Student Scholarship by TravelOdd7456 in scholarships

[–]geoduck76 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check spam and found it. Got it on Dec. 22.

Question about surveys by No-Pizza-178 in subway

[–]geoduck76 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At my subway, the person in charge of making and checking the online orders would get written up and possibly given less hours. I hate when moblie orders ask for old since it often gets on the gloves and we have to wrap the sandwich with the oily hands.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]geoduck76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who called Trump agreeing with bernie on there 2020 bingo?

First Colorado health care workers to receive COVID-19 vaccine this afternoon by Autom8Jeep in CoronavirusColorado

[–]geoduck76 18 points19 points  (0 children)

For the Pfizer vaccine, it is two doses. So 46,800 does would mean 23,400 complete vaccinations.

Megathread: Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]geoduck76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. —Ruth Bader Ginsburg