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MCAT Basics
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MCAT BIOLOGY REVIEW
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SO YOU WANT TO BE A DOCTOR
So…you want to be a doctor. If you’re like most premeds, you’ve wanted to be a doctor
since you were pretty young. When people asked you what you wanted to be when you
grew up, you always answered “a doctor.” You had toy medical kits, bandaged up your
dog or cat, and played “hospital.” You probably read your parents’ home medical guides
for fun.
When you got to high school you took the honors and AP classes. You studied hard, got
straight A’s (or at least really good grades!), and participated in extracurricular activi-
ties so you could get into a good college. And you succeeded!
At college you knew exactly what to do. You took your classes seriously, studied hard,
and got a great GPA. You talked to your professors and hung out at office hours to get
good letters of recommendation. You were a member of the premed society on campus,
volunteered at hospitals, and shadowed doctors. All that’s left to do now is get a good
MCAT score.
Just the MCAT.
Just the most confidence-shattering, most demoralizing, longest, most brutal entrance
exam for any graduate program. At about 7.5 hours (including breaks), the MCAT tops
the list…even the closest runners up, the LSAT and GMAT, are only about 4 hours long.