<p>I took a practice MCAT since I’m a medical nerd. I scored a 25…but then again I haven’t taken o. chem or physics…just finished a semester of bio and chem (even though I already have AP credit for bio).</p>
<p>And yes, I agree with a lot of what you are saying. Not everything I learn will be related to Emergency Medicine, but I still don’t see how finding the entropy of chemical reactions (even though easy) will help me succeed in medical school. Or “knowing how to find the location of an electron in an atom.” </p>
<p>I think about how pointless some aspects of the pre-medical curriculum are all the time. If a patient come in with STEMI, and I really going to have to know, “So, the oxygen atoms in her body have an atomic mass of 15.9999 and using the gas laws, if I can determine the volume of the gas, I can use simple algebra to find the moles of oxygen in the patients lungs.”</p>
<p>Even though all of this may be interesting, I won’t need to know it as a physician. Also, evolution? Really. Interesting, but totally unnecessary as a physician.</p>