supportivehubby
Application cycles: 06/28/2011
Demographics: Female, 44, Caucasian
Home state: California
Last Active: 01/04/2013

Brief Profile: On my way to college my journalism teacher wrote in my graduation card: \"Be a doctor . . . or don\'t\" -- it made me stop and ask why do I want to do this? and is this the right path for me?

Well, I hated the pre-med scene at my undergrad and also the competitive behaviors so I leaned towards the advice to not be a doctor. I sucked at Gen Chem but aced Ochem so that was confusing. My roommates were poli sci majors who only studied occasionally and I liked that lifestyle vs 24/7 problem sets and reviewing. I felt like every class I was in was intended to weed out potential doctors vs educate and inspire. I was in the UC machine, the degree generator. I did not seek mentors or research opportunities and immersed myself in sport, work, friends and academics when I connected with the professor. Problem was that as 1/300 per class with instructors who were usually there out of obligation not interest, I didn\'t connect with many professors. Feeling generally confused over what I was supposed to do and convinced \"research\" and medicine were not right I graduated with no plan. . . So I traveled to New Zealand to study rafting, ropes courses, scuba in a leadership facilitators course.

After several years in NZ getting married and gaining permanent residency, I started feeling the tug to look at that medicine thing again. . . .

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supportivehubby took the old MCAT and scored a 38 which is in the 99^th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 522 on the updated scale which is in the 99^th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted supportivehubby’s section scores as follows:
supportivehubby scored a 14 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 131 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
supportivehubby scored a 12 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
supportivehubby scored a 12 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 130 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.

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