177: When to Take the MCAT and More Premed Q&A
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Ryan answers your questions! We talk about MCAT timing, GPA, picking an undergrad and much more! Take a listen and don't forget to subscribe!
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| 0:45.7 | MAPCon presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:50.0 | If you're looking for more great content like you get here at the pre-mede years, go to med ed media.com. |
| 0:57.0 | That's meedededmeda.com. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the pre-med year session number 177. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the pre-med years. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello and welcome to the pre-med years where we believe that collaboration |
| 1:15.4 | not competition is key to your success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this |
| 1:20.6 | podcast we share with you stories encouragement and information that you |
| 1:24.8 | need to know to help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. Now if you're |
| 1:31.8 | not part of our Medical School Headquarters Hangout Group, which is a mouthful to say, |
| 1:38.0 | go to Medical School HQ.net slash group. That's a private Facebook group just for listeners of the |
| 1:46.3 | pre-med years and old pre-meds and maybe anybody else that finds us because there are |
| 1:51.8 | some people in there believe it or not |
| 1:53.9 | that haven't listened to the podcast I recently put out a a poll in that group and |
| 2:00.0 | they were about 10% of the people that didn't listen to the podcast. |
| 2:04.6 | So we're working on getting those 10% to be the cool people like you listening to this show right now. |
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