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For any NSer on the pre-med track

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Edward.
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This thread is in regards to a newly made cult for newschoolers on the pre-med track. This cult is meant for any student so that we can all help each other out and seek advice from each other. The average newschooler is around 15 or 16 years of age, so asking for advice in NSG will most likely do nothing but misguide you. If anyone is interested, PM me for an invite!
Jan 29 2013 11:16PM
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MNS
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im in nursing + pre med courses now.

send an invite brooooo.

just cruising through the examkrackers MCAT guide too right now
Jan 29 2013 11:20PM
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Troy.
Posts: 5070 - Karma: 12,549
I'll be on that track next year, so send that shizzle.
Jan 29 2013 11:21PM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
I'm doing pre PA, send me an invite homie
Jan 29 2013 11:25PM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
Welp, why not? I guess you can send an invite my way. I'm done with the "pre-med track," but I suppose I could offer up some advice.
Jan 29 2013 11:27PM
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SkierPT
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I'm in premed type stuff add me bro
Jan 29 2013 11:30PM
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Edward.
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This goes out to anyone in the pre-health track as well, whether its pre-optometry, pre-PT, pre-dental, etc.
Jan 29 2013 11:43PM
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PJS.
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I'm 15-16 and I want to be on the pre-med track :(
Jan 29 2013 11:44PM
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Jeebus.
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I'm a dentist ask me anything about pre med!
Jan 29 2013 11:45PM
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sumbody
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2nd semester Bio-chem on premed track. Can I get an invite?
Jan 30 2013 8:13AM
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Maturin
Posts: 132 - Karma: 78
Just began the journey towards PT. It'd be great if you sent an invite.
Jan 30 2013 8:47AM
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El_Barto.
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If your done you must have taken the MCAT sometime last year. What schools did you apply to/get in to?

and i hate people who call it pre-med. like i get a very small minority of schools actually has some program called pre-med but so many nubs say they are pre-med when in reality they are simply a bio major.

Im studying for dental school. In taking the DAT this summer and then finishing up the requiremets for OHSU next year.

Im currently taking anatomy/ochem/cell bio and neurophysiology
Jan 30 2013 11:48AM
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Bassage.
Posts: 512 - Karma: 822
Invite me my friend, pre PT
Jan 30 2013 11:56AM
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proZach
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I'm in PA school now. send an invite my way if ya dig
Jan 30 2013 12:16PM
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j.saaaarela
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Send me one, Med Lab Science Major/Pre-med at U of U
Jan 30 2013 12:20PM
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Edward.
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Invite sent. Good luck with dental school, I actually have a friend who just got accepted into UMDNJ's 7-year accelerated program. She starts next year.

In response to your hate for the widely used term "pre-med" I myself am usually a lot more hesitant in using the term in person, but it's practically inevitable that anyone will ask me what my intended route is when I tell people that I study human biology in school. But sometime's it's just easiest to say that you're following the pre-health/med track.
Jan 30 2013 12:28PM
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Laurent.
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Pre-med?

Why isn't their some consistency between countries and education?
Jan 30 2013 12:29PM
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El_Barto.
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7 year program sounds neat. So here senior year as an undergrad will coincide with her firet year of dental school?

Shes got a long way to go before shes actually in dental school though. She was just admitted to an undergrad program that gives her a nifty option. Thats cool though, good for her.
Jan 30 2013 12:38PM
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Edward.
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Yea, she's a junior now and she starts her 4 years of dental school next year but won't receive her undergrad degree til next year... so I'm not exactly sure how the credit transferring works out in the end. Kind of makes me wish I did some type of 7 year combined BS/MS program but this girls worked her ass off for this specific program since high school
Jan 30 2013 12:43PM
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reBlocke
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There isn't any consistency between countries because all the licensing and funding differs by country, just like healthcare in general. That said, the US and Canadian education systems are pretty similar (and the Aussies/Kiwis/Brits are quite a bit different from what I gather).

And to the person griping about the term 'pre-med', it's a useful term for people like me who did unrelated majors (Comp Sci) but worked through the requirements and ended up in med school. And there's lots of bio majors who don't particularly want to end up being health professionals (researchers, wildlife biologists, etc.)

If anyone has questions about applying/med school/whatever, I don't mind answering em.
Jan 30 2013 5:41PM
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Ben_Mo-Fat
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Jesus, it's a gathering for the wisest NSers.
Jan 30 2013 6:02PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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I'm thinking about being a general practice family doctor. Not exactly at the cutting edge of the field but thats what I'm most interested in.
Jan 30 2013 6:03PM
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Obi-Wan-Jenobi
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Im in it right now. Invite me!
Jan 30 2013 6:15PM
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Obi-Wan-Jenobi
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The cult is broken
Jan 30 2013 7:30PM
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Edward.
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I'm about to send you an invite. I sent out a bunch of em last night and earlier today but I'm not sure if many people are getting thing or not
Jan 30 2013 8:02PM
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Edward.
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Anyone who has PM'd me or responded here should have received an invite as of now. If there are any problems let me know and I'll send out the invites again
Jan 30 2013 8:04PM
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BlackCupid
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You really don't have to be smart to be premed. Hell, I know kids going to Colorado State claiming to be premed.
Jan 30 2013 8:34PM
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Piste.Off
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Just so you know, CSU is top 75 in the nation in bio, chem, physics, and engineering.
Jan 30 2013 8:43PM
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BlackCupid
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Top 75, so elite. If there was a NCAA tourney for biology, they would be a favorite to win the NIT.
Jan 30 2013 8:45PM
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BrewskiJr
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We need an NS Professionals Cult. For everyone with real life career advice
Jan 30 2013 8:55PM
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Krokodile
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I HIGHLY recommend everyone read as much of this thread as possible.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/careers-medicine/74417-career-medicine-really-worth.html

Med school isn't for everyone.

I really considered it; I was gonna do Chemical Engineering (or possibly Biochem depending on how scholarships worked out) and then med school but after reading through that I realized I'd be more content just being an engineer.
Jan 30 2013 8:59PM
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deleted5
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i know a few people way smarter then you studying to be a doctor at csu. if you don't like it why don't you cry about it on my feedback again.
Jan 30 2013 9:01PM
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Chunter
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I would enjoy an invite as well
Jan 30 2013 9:02PM
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BlakeG
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Invite me and my pre dent
Jan 30 2013 9:09PM
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BlackCupid
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Choosing to go to CSU means you're not smart enough to go to CU. CSU is worse than CU is pretty much every academic category, it's less generous with scholarships, it's farther from the mountains, and it's in a shittier town. I don't know a single person from my high school class who chose to go to CSU when they got into CU.

Also, CSU doesn't have a medical school, so your friends probably lied to you about studying to be doctors there.
Jan 30 2013 9:12PM
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Edward.
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Just so anyone following this thread knows, undergrad school when applying to med school makes no difference unless if you had a near-perfect GPA from schools like harvard, yale, princeton, etc. A CU undergrad applicant with a 3.8 gpa will not be chosen over a CSU undergrad applicant with the same gpa and there are many reasons why
Jan 30 2013 9:22PM
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icon1234
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Yup true story. Where you go for your undergrad is meaningless.
Jan 30 2013 9:28PM
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Krokodile
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From what I've gathered, undergrad school really only plays a major role if you're trying to get into investment banking and similar fields.

My school isn't even in the top 50 engineering schools and I worked with engineers from MIT and Stanford and made the same amount of money and did the same job.
Jan 30 2013 9:34PM
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DeweyDecimal
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I'm a junior in high school and am planning on going pre-med. Hook it up with an invite please.
Jan 30 2013 9:35PM
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Piste.Off
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First off, I go to CSU and got into CU and DU. Secondly, CU's acceptance rate is about 12% higher than CSU's. Also, CSU's business, natural resources, agricultural, biology, chemistry, and veterinary programs are all ranked much higher than CU's. Ya its 30 minutes farther away from the mountains but it is not a shitter town in any way. Lastly, just because CSU doesn't have a med school doesn't mean you can't take pre med classes there. This is the norm with every college in the country.

You sound like the typical out of state bro that thinks CU is so sick because you can smoke weed and party so hard there, who every person that is actually from Colorado hates.
Jan 30 2013 11:42PM
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MilaKunis
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Pre pt send it.
Jan 31 2013 12:39AM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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Any good schools on the WUE?
Jan 31 2013 12:54AM
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BlackCupid
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You're blatantly lying. CSU is nowhere close to CU in any of the categories you mentioned that I can actually find data on.

http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectChemistry2012.html
http://www.shanghairanking.com/FieldSCI2012.html
http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectEcoBus2012.html

Also, acceptance rate doesn't mean shit. Illinois has a much higher acceptance rate than USC, UCLA, Notre Dame and plenty of other schools, but they still have a much better engineering school.
Jan 31 2013 11:47AM
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Wompuscat
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Human physiology major/chemistry minor and on pre-med track. Applying to schools this summer. Send me an invite! My desk is stacked with 4 MCAT keep books, molecular biology of the cell, principles of neural science and organic lab currently.......Fuuuuuu
Jan 31 2013 11:58AM
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.AR6rider.
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First, your name is HashBlazer420. Any argument you ever present is 100% invalid because of this. Second, you are from a suburb of Detroit. Why are you trying to argue about which school in Colorado is better? Third, you're clearly a massive fucking idiot, so kindly remove yourself from any sort of discussion regarding medical school, dental school, or any other sort of professional school, because you will never make it that far in your life. Just sit back, relax, light a blunt, and accidentally set your house on fire when you pass out.
Jan 31 2013 12:08PM
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BlackCupid
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Ad Hominem. You ever heard of it? Also, I don't know what makes you think I'm from a suburb of Detroit, but you're wrong (not surprising).

I hear you go to Michigan State. Good school. /s
Jan 31 2013 12:13PM
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.AR6rider.
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Region
UNITED STATES, Michigan, Detroit


I'm willing to bet quite a bit of money you're not actually from downtown.
Jan 31 2013 12:16PM
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cct_222
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ill take an invite!

im in nursing school now and gonna do grad school after
Jan 31 2013 12:57PM
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BlackCupid
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Well, I'm from downtown, so it's a good thing you didn't actually make any bets.
Jan 31 2013 1:43PM
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Piste.Off
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http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/6124
You can skew stats and rankings based on criteria to make anything in your favor.

If acceptance rate doesn't mean shit why did you mention it in your first post?

Please tell me HashBlazer420, where do you go to college?
Jan 31 2013 1:44PM
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BlackCupid
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I never mentioned acceptance rate. Learn to read.

I have no bias in the CU vs CSU debate. I have no reason to skew data. You, however, do attend CSU, so you would have a reason to skew data.

I'll tell you I don't go to CU or CSU, but beyond that where I go to school is completely irrelevant to my argument that CSU is comprised almost entirely of students unfit to go to med school.
Jan 31 2013 2:25PM
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