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I can't believe I missed out on this thread! My GC time has steadily decreased over the past couple years (mainly due to med school)...
Second year here as well. Test on friday over pulmonology and a joke of a section on ENT...it's funny to see all my other friends freaking out over finals - it's the one week where they get a glimpse of what nearly every week is like in medical school.
I really just don't care anymore, I really just want to be out on the wards and actually talking with people rather than holed up with my lecture notes and my ipod.
As for the admissions - overall way tougher than law school. When 55% of applicants don't get accepted anywhere, it's tough and a lot of things will keep you out. I'd actually say that grades are the least likely thing to keep someone out. I've had friends not get in for not having enough "doctor experience" (she apparently had plenty of patient encounters, but the adcom didn't think she really understood what it meant to be a doctor - bizarre), another bomb his interview and was thus rejected (as an in-state resident no less). Another friend was passed over at my school for being out of state b/c they assumed he would get into his home state school. His home state school kept him out b/c he went to undergrad out of state. Luckily he reapplied to my school, and they treated him as an in-state resident the second time around. There are plenty of crazy stories out there...
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