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Originally Posted by ezkcdude
But not unexpected from an engineer, right? I don't know whether they put any stock in the actual breakdown. A 35 is probably a 35, pretty much any way you slice it.
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I don't even know if mcat scores matter beyond putting you into a certain tier of school, however, if you got a 14 on verbal (15 being impossible with lower than peer group averages on the other two sections) and 10s on the sciences sections, you might encounter a bit more hassle than otherwise...
All I can say though is that 35 is a solid score allowing you to apply to the full range of schools with some confidence. The end game is all about selling yourself and begging to get in like the rest of the 90% that are deferred for the upper tier schools.
It's amazing how archaic medical school education is when it comes to basic sciences; the importance of the kreb's cycle not withstanding, the fact that new physicians leave without an actual appreciation of the depth of modern biochemistry, for instance, is certainly a drag on the leaps of improvements primary discoveries could be making with physicians being trained to make connections and propose directions for research. that being said, we are neither training physicians to be good patient tenders or good physician-scientists. In both cases, the failure to expand the skill sets of medical students and interns/residents in integrating multiple points of information is one of the biggest blights on medicine today -- we have overvalued the specialist to the detriment of health care and, ironically, putting highly specific information concerning obtuse biochemical pathways into actual use when trying to improve the outlook for patients.
(goddamn, why couldn't i get over myself and beg my way into md/phd land at penn? -- I would have been here as long, ah well I think medical school would bore me to tears now, and my friends who are going back to clinics soon are dreading the, soon to be wasted, years just behind or just ahead)...