 Hello, how are you doing today? My name is Adelike Adishina. I'm an emergency medicine resident at St. Luke's Hospital Well today, I would like to share with you the secrets of how to get into medical school That's what brings us into. How do we get into medical school? Huh? Wow? You know if you're probably watching this video right now You're probably wondering ah man I really want to go into medical school But it's all of this information floating around and I don't know what to do It's gonna boil down to a few things you need to know All right, so I'm gonna share a little bit of my experience with you and also Encourage and inspire you that you can do it. So before we begin this video tell yourself right now. I See your name. I'm gonna be a doctor. You have to confess it You have to be motivated to have the desire that you can do this and then I'm gonna show you a secret So How do you really get into medical school? Well in the United States? We have a lot of medical schools We have allopathic medical schools and we have osteopathic medical schools Allopathic and we have osteopathic Medical school and Allopathic medical schools give out the degree known as doctor of medicine called that MD in osteopathic medical schools Give the degree doctor of osteopathic medicine known as DO Well to get into either medical school whether MD or DO you need to take one simple exam You need the MCAT and You need your GPA from college Now I'm not gonna lie to you. I Want you to understand that these two Numbers at the biggest and the most important by far the most important that's gonna get into medical school Let me tell you what If you're in college right now and you're contemplating of becoming a doctor in the United States Focus on your GPA your grid point average keep your grid point average between a 3.4 to a 4.0 The higher the better However, I don't want you to cry if your GPA is less than 3.4 3.3 Even if you're in that 3.0 to 3.3 range. I Don't want you to be discouraged. You can still get into medical school And we're gonna talk about that in part two focus of getting a's in every single class a's or b's Preferably you want to be getting a's because the more a's you have the higher your GPA because once you get a C It's gonna drop down your GPA and it's very hard to bring it up. It's very hard So I was this is how I think of something always prevent something from happening Then try to fix it when it's broken, but you know what don't be discouraged. It's okay Most people always say oh my god. I got a scene organic chemistry. Well, I ever get into medical school Yes, you will get into medical school. It might just be a little bit. You might need a curveball Another pathway to help you boost your application But remember keep your GPA 3.4 to 4.0. I just call it. This is called the safety net safety net GPA MCAT let's talk about the MCAT What scores do I need to get on the medical college aptitude test to get into medical school? You hear numbers people saying all you need a 30 you know what here's my bet if you get a score above a 29 Between 29 and 44 45, which is the highest score You know, you're gonna be able to get into medical school. So Why am I so particular about this course? Here's the reason There's Thousands and thousands of applicants applying to medical school If you think you're the only one now, there's a lot of people applying. So let me put out some numbers Let's pick medical school a med school a Right and medical school a gets about 5,000 application 5,000 that is a lot of people So let's see in California and medical school is getting 5,000 application for example any part of the country and They only have a hundred seats They only have 100 seats in the class Well, think about it What are your chances of getting a spot if you're one out of 5,000 people applying to this medical school? Still do the math, right 100 of a 5,000 times a hundred two percent That means your chances of getting to medical school when you apply to just this medical school a is only two to three percent Well, that is a small number, but believe it or not. That is the truth so why is this MCAT score important because The higher your MCAT score the higher your chances of getting in so here's my advice for you when you're studying for the MCAT You're gonna hear people say oh, you know my friend studied for two weeks and he banged it out I got a 35 you are not your friend number one know yourself All right So here's my rules know your Self Both your strengths and your weaknesses Now why did I say that it's because don't follow other people's footsteps let's say you're a junior in college right now and You have you said I'm gonna spend my summer of my junior year to prepare for the MCAT I'm gonna spend three months of hardcore studying and prefer the exam and do really well. That is your goal So you set your goals Now most people want to they're being told or take the exam in your junior year of college So you can apply your senior year and get into medical school right away. That is true. You should do that But only on one condition Remember that two percent number you want to be in that two percent and the only way you're gonna be in that two percent is by doing really well one time one time only so my best advice listen to this very Important announcement. I'm about to tell you. This is the best advice. I can never give you to get into medical school When you are studying for your MCAT if you're not scoring between 29 and 45 Please do not take the exam. Let me repeat that again When you take your assessment tests so em cat calm Right em cat calm is the website where you go and access Questions sample questions. Now, let me tell you what the sample questions are for Let's say you've been studying for the last three months And you've been preparing verbal chemistry organic chemistry studied and then you have I think about seven or two nine assessment tests The point of this assessment test is to test you of how much do you know now? So John has been starting for the study for the last three months And then he decides to go in em cat calm registers by a quick cuban question and does the question and his course Here's his course. He's got a verbal His scores are 10 physical sciences scores in 11 on Biological sciences It's cause of 12 now. Let's do the aggregate Every time you take each assessment test is scoring between 9 9 and 10 on his verbal a 10 and 11 and between a nine and 12 on each test so let's add up that's 18. That's to 28 20 is a good score But I said 29 or 30 because the higher your number the better you are When you take your assessment test test and let's even make this a 10 So we kind of stay if you come between 29 and 33 I can guarantee you That is what you're going to get on the real exam. They're called Assessment tests for a reason they assess how much knowledge you've accumulated over the period of time you've been studying for the exam And when you take the test because this test are very valid and extremely Reliable which means they have tested this exam over thousands of people So when you take it and you score between 29 33 I can guarantee you you're not gonna score 40 on the test That will never happen. I guarantee you that you will never score. So people would do you know, you know, right? I'm scoring between you know 28 you know on the real exam something's just making it happen. I'm gonna score 40 No, that's not gonna happen More or less your scores must likely gonna be plus or minus two It's gonna go to my score between 27 and a 31 or 33 and a 35 Okay, it might go about one or two points But you're not gonna have a huge jump because people always think that and people make this mistake People start toss you start starting for the exam, right? And you're scoring between 21 and 24 or 25 on your practice test Don't take the test. Do not take the exam. You are not ready. You're not ready yet And don't let the pressure of people around you telling you oh, you know, I took the MCAT and I got a 31 Don't let them bother you because this is your life. You're paying thousands of dollars for this exam It's not worth it. You want to do it one time think of it like a wedding day You got to do all the preparation make sure the camera minus, right? The food is proper the location and there you want to make it one-shot deal. So I'm begging you, please If you score is between the low 20s Stop Don't say oh, I already registered for what July 29. I have to go take it and if I don't do well I'll just take it again. Why go through the pain twice. I don't want you to do that I only want you to take this exam one time So what do you do? Let's say you're scoring between 21 and 24 Every time and I notice a lot of people's problems are verbal Some people could be biology. It depends on your strands and weaknesses So if you're scoring four and five on your verbal and your constant just going to 10 or 11 or 12 or biological sciences, this is not good Because this verbal is going to bring down your MCAT scores So what do you do? You do tons and thousands and thousands and thousands of practice question Even if you have to take your time even if that three months is not enough Extend it to six months on to you're getting your dream score So whatever score you want to get between that 29 or 45 you want to get a 42 Yeah, if you're scoring between the 40s and 39 now you're ready to take the test All right, so how do you do well on the MCAT? questions do thousands of questions Now you might say this is a crazy idea Well, I wish somebody told me this when I was taking the test, but I'm glad I became a doctor but for you You've been preconditioned to always read right Study take the exam the teacher in class you read you prepare and you get an A That is always true as long as you're in college or high school or middle school But for the MCAT, I want you to focus on doing a lot of questions when you study You do hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of questions and the question is going to guide you in the direction of How they want you to think about the exam? Something as simple as this Let's speak physics One of the most dreadful. Oh my god, right? F equals to MA Very simple right force is directly proportional to mass times acceleration However, when you're studying they just don't want you to memorize a formula a monkey can do that They want you to see the relationship between F is directed proportional to the mass and Force is also directed proportional to acceleration. However, if you look at just MA Mass is inversely proportional to acceleration Which means if I increase my acceleration, I'm gonna decrease my mass Or if I increase my mass, I'm gonna decrease in acceleration. Let me make it in English Let's think of somebody that is 20 pounds in weight. Have you ever seen that? Yeah, that'd be like a squirrel, right exactly 20 pounds and You take somebody that's 300 pounds in weight and you take them to run accelerate. Let's see which one is gonna run faster The one has the bigger mass bigger muscle smaller mass We just gonna think it's gonna run faster Of course the squirrel is gonna outbeat this 300 pound guy Which means the lower the mass the higher the acceleration that is how they want you to think and If somebody is really really big 300 pounds obese fat and he can't really get up the ground It's gonna be slow See how that is completely different from saying F equals to MA exactly Exactly and also as you can see the force is gonna be directed proportional to the mass if my mass is very high If I'm very heavy if I try to punch you will you think it's gonna be a lot of force? Yeah, cuz it's directly proportional the same thing if I'm running really really fast and my acceleration is so fast What's gonna happen to my force? Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of force now That's just an example out of tons of ways how they want you to study But if you're like the regular student who's just memorizing F equals to MA you won't get it That's why I want you to prepare and put in the time We're gonna talk about studying for the MCAT in part two