<p>hey Desichick, I have taken the SAT once and got a 2000, I really want to break 2200, so I am wondering what exactly did you do to get such a large increase?</p>
<p>hi guys, thank you for all of the enthusiam. libertyzain2007 congratulations on getting a 2000. I believe that there is a forum already addressing how to better improve your scores. As much as people say that you can't prepare for the SATs they are wrong. Practice makes perfect and I have learned from that. If you truly want to improve your scores make sure you do a lot of preactice tests in the blue book as well as boston test prep and number 2 .com try these sites and keep practicing. Best of luck!!!</p>
<p>thank you very much for the suggestions!!! what about the college board online?</p>
<p>My D used the collegeboard online 4 month course, I think it was, last year and increased from 1350 on the old to 1520 on the math and verbal on the new and 2250 total. It focused her especially on the easier math questions that she consistently got wrong, and she improved her math score from 660 to 790.</p>
<p>Try it!</p>
<p>If I don't have clinical experience but have great SAt and EC will I have good chance to make PLME?? How important is clinical experience in PLME aplication</p>
<p>hi taekwondo39232 , I am not an expert on plme admissions but I know that you need to have some sort of exposure to the medical field and great desire to actually practice medicine. If you are in it just for the high esteemed program and that kind of stuff, then I don't think you understand the purpose of the 8 yr program. The majority of students who get accepted into the program have excellent stats, like yourself, and have volunteered at the hospital, shadowed a doctor, interned at a hospital, or have some clinical research experience. I believe that the 8 year track is great for anyone who is very sure that their career choice in life is to be a doctor or do some sort of medical research.</p>
<p>I must commend you on your extradordinary stats and ecs and frankly, I think you should apply because I believe that you will be a very strong candidate ( alot stronger then me). PLME is basically for those students who are determined to go into medicine without faltering and therefore, rather than taking all science courses to explore their interest in medicine, which they already have established, they get to explore the other academic areas to braoden their intellectual horizons. All I can say is that sometimes standardized test scores don't define who the person is and what goals a person may have. To have high SAT scores definitely makes a candidate strong, however, if a person who doesn't have the high score still has the passion and the drive for medicine then they will surely get accepted, if not in plme then in some other accelerated program. best of luck in admissions! :)</p>
<p>I think if you can demonstrate a dedication to and passion for medicine, that's what they really want. Whether you show that through your essays, your classes or your EC's i think is less important. I realized very recently that i wanted to be a doctor and so didnt have the 1000 hours of hospital work and research to back me up. Nonetheless, as soon as i heard about PLME it just sounded like it fit my goals and my mindset. I'd done a little medically-related volunteer work and a short public policy internship, but i think the passion and sense of connection that i felt to the PLME came across in my essays. i think that spoke way more for my interest than my limited experience did. but then again, im not an admissions officer so who knows? maybe it was a miracle :-).</p>
<p>congratulations on getting in, like I said, what I said was what I believed the plme was all about. I am just about to be a senior in hs so I would have no idea on such topics, just guesses and hypotheses. I can tell you really had the passion. And truly the things that count the most are the essays. Congratulations once again and best of luck in the program !!! :)</p>
<p>Clinical experience and shadowing a doctor aren´t all that important to PLME. But they are to other combined med programs such as HPME and BU, but that stuff doesn´t really come into play until the interview. What´s more important is that you are doing stuff for others, whether that be through a tutoring program for struggling immigrants or pushing patients around in wheelchairs at a hospital. After all, not all clinical volunteers are directly involved with patients. Some of them work in the mail room, stock in the gift shop, or direct people to different places at the hospital. So clinical volunteer experience, in my opinion, is a rather elusive term (though i am not implying that others have had absolutely no patient experience for their 1000 clinical hours). Though I know nothing for sure, in my opinion, desire to want to help others is probably going to be more important to admission officers than countless hours at a hospital or clinic. After all, not all medical school graduates go into clinical practice. Some of them prefer to be more academic. The want to help others can´t really be faked in an application. Recommendation letters, activities, essays, and the like will help build the entire picture. But, you have to feel and fall in love with helping others in order for this trait to shine through in your application.</p>
<p>Besides, if you really don´t love helping others, why the hell are you even considering being a doctor?</p>