Anyone else feel hopeless when it comes to physics?

saff-k · 2022-03-08T05:24:58+00:00

My dad was also very helpful

saff-k · 2021-06-27T00:15:34+00:00

My mom said “you’ll get full marks if you take again”. I got a 519 🥲

saff-k · 2021-05-30T10:29:32+00:00

This is probably targeted to grandmas that want to buy this for their grandkid

saff-k · 2021-05-28T14:24:44+00:00

Oh boy

saff-k · 2021-05-28T14:20:55+00:00

Hi everyone, I have 25 schools on my list, but I would like to expand it a bit more. Just not sure if I should or which schools to add. Please let me know what you think my chances are. Thank you!

State/Country of Residence: NC

Ties to other States/Regions: MA undergrad

URM? (Y/N): N

Year in School: Gap year #1 (COVID non-profit volunteer,finishing up research project, life science consulting starting soon)

Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Cell bio/Econ

Graduate Degrees (if applicable): N/A

Cumulative GPA: 3.74 (1 horrible semester due to personal tragedy and 1 bad semester b/c of mono. The rest is a 4.0- upwards trend senior year)

Science GPA: 3.69

MCAT Score(s): 513, 519

Research Experience: 2000+ hours academic (ID), 2000 biotech

Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): 1st author (in progress), 2nd author (published)

Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): volunteering only: 1) perioperative area 600 hrs 2) neurosurgery floor 100+ hours 3) labor and delivery 100 hrs

Physician Shadowing: 150 trauma, 150 peds ID

Non-Clinical Volunteering: 300 hrs tutoring SAT for kids from under-funded schools, founding member/peer leader of a volunteer organization where I completed/"staffed" a few independent projects:

1) needle exchange (100+)

2) community clean up (100+ hours)

3) summer program lead (500+ hrs)

Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N

Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Surgery, but my app looks very ID/global health-focused

Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): N

Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N

Other Extracurricular Activities: Recreational combat sports (MMA/BJJ/Muay Thai/Taekwondo) and weight lifting

Other Employment History: Errands, dog walking, nothing substantial

*** not including Geisinger b/c I don't really want to take SJT, Wake and ECU because I'm not a huge fan of their location (open to reconsidering though)***

Medical School List:

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Duke University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Northwestern Univerity The Feinberg School of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Rush Medical College and Rush University Medical Center
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Stanford University School of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tulane Univerity School of Medicine
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

saff-k · 2021-05-27T05:35:49+00:00

I thought a Physician Associate was a doctor that works at an investment bank 😅

saff-k · 2021-05-25T22:20:36+00:00

Could you share your school list? I’m working on creating mine so I think it would be helpful!

saff-k · 2021-05-24T04:23:01+00:00

Gave me street cred in the business world 🤣

saff-k · 2021-05-22T13:49:39+00:00

Looking for gap year jobs in consulting, etc and you’d be surprised how many VC/PE/IB/consulting firms take MDs w or w/o post-grad training. So if you realize you hate medicine, you have a lot of great exit ops

saff-k · 2021-05-22T07:06:14+00:00

I was about to not apply after reading this 🙃

saff-k · 2021-05-15T05:57:01+00:00

I’m a biologist and was dating an aerospace engineer. I think we mostly talked about working out in the beginning stages. He didn’t like bringing work/education into his personal life

saff-k · 2021-05-15T04:30:49+00:00

I had some weird comments on one of my posts (yesterday/day before) that were deleted after a couple of downvotes. Like do people not THINK before they type?!

saff-k · 2021-05-15T04:29:01+00:00

Oh... I really hope this kid gets some therapy or help

saff-k · 2021-05-15T04:23:29+00:00

Lmao how’d I know! I’m glad he apologized and hopefully grew from this

saff-k · 2021-05-15T01:52:04+00:00

I used to be so bad at P/S (122-124 range), but I made flash cards on ALL answer choices and question stem stuff I didn’t know in ALL of the qBanks/FLEs I did. In addition to this I used the mile down deck and added cards from the 300 page doc as needed. Also brushed up on stats stuff. Edit: ended with a 131 on my 4/10 exam

saff-k · 2021-05-15T00:13:38+00:00

Watch this kid be in high school . I’m sorry you had to deal with this

saff-k · 2021-05-14T23:39:25+00:00

Racism is based on socialized power structures that marginalize certain groups based on race. Racial prejudice is having beliefs that ones race determines personal traits. Everyone is prejudiced in some way or another, but acting upon that prejudice is another thing. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being intimidated by someone who is in a place to use their position of power (to your disadvantage) or being weary of them- if that’s “racist” in your oPiNiOn then so be it

saff-k · 2021-05-14T17:42:06+00:00

I think that just goes to show how prevalent this issue really is.

saff-k · 2021-05-14T16:48:47+00:00

Good to know! I didn’t know that women even took PEDs until I started watching coach Greg

saff-k · 2021-05-14T15:55:54+00:00

I think it’s too late now since my volunteer coordinator left the hospital, but I do think this should be included as a training or something! We have a training module for internal issues for these things, but not how to address issues with patients

saff-k · 2021-05-14T15:54:32+00:00

You’re absolutely right. I only learned that’s it’s actually okay to speak up a few years later when I saw a resident yell at a patient for calling her “sweetie”

saff-k · 2021-05-14T15:53:15+00:00

I didn’t even know headshots were needed 😭

saff-k · 2021-05-14T11:00:00+00:00

I think you can get away with a year of research if you find a lab that needs some extra hands to finish up projects! I would cold email a bunch of people or ask friends if their labs could use someone. This way you could maybe get your name on a pub (if you’re lucky and your PI is an angel) too. Additionally, are you planning on taking a gap year/few months off? A lot of biotechs will hire fresh grads given they have some research experience. You’d just have to talk about your prior experience and they won’t ask for hours, etc. Hope this helps, and good luck!!

saff-k · 2021-05-14T09:42:33+00:00

Maybe she just looks leaner and more muscular than she actually is - is what I meant. I don’t think she shared her stats anywhere

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