<p>Here's a great Pre-Med guide that I found. I don't know if this has been posted on here before.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks! This is really good!</p>
<p>Lots of good info here. Thanks!</p>
<p>he mentions junior/senior year and college. How are these different? Like after finishing high school when is college, junior year and senior year?</p>
<p>I read the first three chapters. Assume that anything I didn't comment on I either didn't read carefully or didn't disagree with.</p>
<p>1.) His introduction is too cynical, but the rest of his advice is not. Actually I think the process makes a pretty great deal of sense.</p>
<p>2.) His putting things in a rank is unreasonable. To put LORs above Research experience, for example, is ridiculous, and I don't think it's possible to rank things like this anyway.</p>
<p>3.) He reinforces my idea that medical schools are biased against health professions vocations, as well as that majors (including double majors) don't matter.</p>
<p>4.) Analytical Chemistry is helpful for the MCAT? Is it really? (This is not a rhetorical question, this is an actual question.)</p>
<p>5.) Optics and Modern Physics (Quantum?) is clearly unnecessary and probably reflects his own opinion as a materials science graduate-degree holder.</p>
<p>6.) Nature and Science are too advanced to be reflective of MCAT passage reading ability.</p>
<p>7.) I'm not sure schools have a volunteering "requirement". Certainly I would not have met it. (I would have, but I didn't tell medical schools about the things that I did.)</p>
<p>8.) Notice that he, too, uses what I refer to as an "index". He calls it a composite, but the math is the same. I've since come to think that we should use BCPM rather than Overall GPA, but the point is the same.</p>
<p>9.) His section 2.2 is quite valuable.</p>
<p>10.) His deadline is not as strict as mine, but it's probably okay.</p>
<p>11.) Evidently he applied to Duke and Vanderbilt, among others.</p>
<p>12.) The author probably underestimates the variance in the importance of interviews. Some schools clearly place a great deal of emphasis on the interview (UCSF) while others clearly do not (Penn).</p>
<p>Yes, analytical is helpful. The optic and modern physics is not quantum physics, my best explanation is that it is like physics 3 if there was one.</p>
<p>About Science and Nature, I think it trains you to retain, organize, and analyze complex information so you can apply that to science passages on the mcat. I have been doing research for 2.5 years now and having read numerous research journals, I think it has helped me with verbal and biological sciences (average v=13 and b=12)</p>
<p>I just opened the pdf file. Ryan went to my school. He got an undergrad degree in physics and religion and masters in material sciences and engineering. Then he went on to medical school at UMiami.</p>