A month ago (sorry it's taken so long! -- med school), I posted a blog about all the things that I wish I had known when I applied to medical school. In that blog, I promised to go into a little more detail about the things that I did to improve my MCAT by over 35 percentile (like 11 points). So, I'm going to give y'all a short little spiel on the 5 gems that I used to jump my MCAT score. 1. Kaplan Course I said this in my last blog, and I'll say this again: just take it. Just fork over the money. It's expensive, yes. But it is worth it. One of the biggest struggles that I had with this exam (besides just simply reviewing content) was that I didn't know how to really take the exam i n the first place. The small c lass size of my undergraduate university facilitate higher order thinking and allowed for essay and open-ended question based exams. So, I became very good at explaining my thinking process and ideas behind my answers but not so good at t...
Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places that people never thought you would.