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Surprised no one has made a thread about this yet. Who's ready for some fun?

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how's the reliability of the cavalry brand? haven't heard of it before

woot! graduation!

good....god i want

damn i agreed, then kinda disagreed with you there. my bad deepak. should have been two different points.

straight to the point

yeah i hear you. like i said though, if you really want to do it, i say go for it for sure. i have a friend, graduated from a top liberal arts college with a 3.2 gpa. took 1 year off to teach english in korea. then did post-bac at columbia. got a 30 mcat. got into 6 medical schools. she got in, and she acknowledges this, more from the fact that she was able to convince medical schools that this is what she really wanted to do, rather than from her credentials. i think that's the most important thing you have to show to medical schools.

this place is stealing my soul man. it's a ton of work, but i love every minute of it. i think part of it is because i know for a fact that this is what i want to do. some of my buddies here aren't so happy, since they didn't technically get into it because of their desire, but more for the monetary reasons. to each his own though. the thing about kaplan is that it's heavily dependent on the teacher that you have. i had an absolutely shitty teacher, who happened to be doing the M.D., Ph. D. program at Feinberg, so I knew he was smart, but hell, an awful teacher. i basically paid all that money and never really attended class. so i didn't find it all that worthwhile, but again, YMMV. i agree with deepak. my regular gpa wasn't all that great, since i chose a major that i enjoyed, but wasn't good at (economics). i was going to switch majors during my junior year, but decided against it, since i was already chest-deep in the major and decided that the extra work wasn't worth it. my science gpa, however, was high, and was what was actually keeping my gpa where it was, since econ was dragging it down. i also did a lot of research, mostly in the field of nephrology, and got a ton of good recommendations from the doctors that i worked under. gpa isn't everything for med school. to be honest, they make a bigger deal out of it than it really is. i know people who get into med school with 3.0 gpas, but they have other things to supplement it. the doctor that i worked under was a D.O., but world renowned for his research. he basically said that getting into med school is almost luck, because one thing doesn't really factor more than the other. it's everything put together that gets you in. gpa and mcat score isn't everything.

that's a great sign, although i found that concrete knowledge wasn't everything that you need on the MCAT. that test is a tricky bitch just waiting to pounce on you. my suggestion is to take as many practice tests as you can take, that helped me way more than any of those books did.

also, if you want to go right out of college, you better sign up for the MCATs now, but I suggest having ample time to study for it.

that's great to hear Nate, I'm glad everything worked out

i guess the first order of business is to figure out if you really, really want to go to medical school or not. it's definitely a long haul, and i don't want you to jump head first into something unless you're sure that you want to do it. i had a friend who went through med school and was on his last year of residency before dropping out because he realized he didn't want to do it. it's an awful waste of time if you aren't committed to it.

UNC vs Clemson

got to love the el. seen so many weird people on there

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always a good thing

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haha. not for another 7 years or so

it's a bit of a sore subject with the huge argument that took place over at the other place after idiots started to complain about having to wait a few more months than expected for their picos and saying that justin should change his business practices

if that's true, then i would not recommend the sa5000, simply because the dt880 is awful