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[bananacosmicgirl]

In March, I did the Swedish equivalent of the SAT's (here called Högskoleprovet). I checked the results immediately and figured out what my score would probably be, but the raw score is turned into a score on a scale from 0,0 to 2,0. Those scales are pretty much always the same, but who knows - they might change.

They didn't.

Which is why I now have a score of 1,9 on said test.

1,8 is what's been necessary to get into med school.

I'm very happy :)

(Also, it was the first time I did the test - they say that it usually turns out better the second time, because you're more prepared for what it's like... so hopefully I can do a 2,0 this fall when I do it again (the test is twice a year))

Comments

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Well done :o)

\o/

[webbgirl.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Re: \o/

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you *hugs*

[brilliantomega.livejournal.com]

Congrads!

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much :)

[californiaquail.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about the medical schools in Sweden.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything about Swedish med schools in relation to med schools in other countries, but that sounds good to me :)

[californiaquail.livejournal.com]

Well what I wanted to say was that I heard they were better than ours (USA) but I didn't want to offend any American doctors.

You've probably read one of my rants about the failure that is the American Public Healthcare System.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

I think I've missed those rants... but I've heard enough about it elsewhere to know anyway. Then again, I don't know if med school and the public healthcare system are directly related in how good they are.

[californiaquail.livejournal.com]

The focus seems to be less on patient care and more on maximizing their employability.

Healthcare is being viewed as a business and not a service.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Ah, true. As far as I know, there's a lot of focus here on patient care - as it should be (although being a doctor, or a nurse, is a lot of paperwork here too). But at least we don't need stuff like healthcare insurance when we have to go to a hospital...

[4nschk-twink09.livejournal.com]

Congrats girl!!!! Smarty pants:] *I mean that the most awesome way!!!*

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

*g* Thank you very much :) I take that in the most positive, awesome way. *hugs*

[kate-tur.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!!

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much *hugs* And thank you for the Dreamwidth invite *hugs more*

[thesevoices.livejournal.com]

coolios... ska nog göra högskoleprovet nästa år men jag trodde man var tvungen att ha 2,0 för att ta sig in på läkarlinjen

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Nope, 1,8 på alla ställen utom Karolinska och Umeå (Karolinska 1,9, Umeå har intervjuer istället), enligt sista antagningsstatistiken från de senaste åren.

Lycka till :) Vad vill du läsa?

[thesevoices.livejournal.com]

Guh, Umeå ska alltid vara så spec.... jag har funderat på typ psykolog och kanske läkarlinjen men vi får se... helst vill jag plugga i Gbg dock, eller aa var som helst förutom Ume eftersom jag bor där nu xD

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!! So, we're gonna get to call you Dr. Bananacosmic one of these years? :-)

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) *g* Well, it's gonna be in another like seven years or so, but yes, that's the idea.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Wow, *seven* years? That's not all classroom, right? It includes an internship and all? Or do y'all do it very differently there.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

I have one year to supplement some subjects I never read in high school (math, chemistry, physics, biology) before I can start med school. Then med school itself is 5,5 years (not all classroom). After that, we have 18 months AT. So yeah, definitely 7+ years :)

[tejas.livejournal.com]

AH! Your medical school sounds like it incorporates a regular Bachelor's degree. Here, we'd go four years for a pre-med degree at a regular university (usually biology of some kind) and then go on to medical school which is, I think, another four years, but part of that time is spent doing actual patient care in hospitals. I'm wanting to say the last year is spend as an intern and then there a residency in whatever the person's specialty is going to be. Can't remember how long a residency is, but it's multi-year.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

We don't have the pre-med (or pre-anything) when we go to uni - we start out immediately with whatever we want to do. The mentality surrounding uni here is way different from the US (having experienced high schoolers picking their colleges while I lived there, I know somewhat what it's like). Here, many if not most take a year or more off after high school to travel or work, and it's far from everyone who actually goes to uni.

Me, I took six months off after graduation - I got a job at an advertisement firm - and then I started on my law degree (because I didn't have anything better to do...). After a year of law school, I took a year long break to study psychology. Now I'm finishing up my law degree (will be done this summer) and heading towards med school.

It should probably be mentioned that going to uni here is free... Though of course you still have to live while going to school, and that's not free. We're allowed six years of "student loans" that we start paying back as soon as we stop going to school, which means most people have heaps of loans when they finish uni. But at least going to uni is free.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, free would have been nice. :-) I was fortunate in that the school I went to was good, local and *CHEAP*, at least at the time. I was able to pay my way through school, though it took me a very long time. At first, I was able to do it on minimum wage because it only cost about $200/semester, books included. These days? Sheesh.

I've got my fingers crossed that my daughter will be able to get a free ride with grants and scholarships. She's going to a *very* good high school and while she's had some problems this year, she's getting on track. The entire high school is for gifted and talented students and they have a 98% rate of kids going on to college afterward. One of the classes she's taking this year (she's a 9th grader - she's 15) is essentially a university level class. I really want for her to be able to go away to school and do it in four years, rather than the 12 it took me (going part time is killing).

What type of medicine do you want to practice? (Besides *good*. ;-)

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Free uni is definitely one of the best things about the education system here. I would obviously never have been able to switch this way if I had to pay thousands of dollars each year. My friends went to Chapman uni a few years back and paid like $30 000 a year.

I haven't taken any loans (I have rather well off parents), which also simplifies things a lot.

Type of medicine? Right now I'll settle for getting in and getting started *g* But I think emergency medicine sounds very exciting, because it's all different kinds of medicine. But who knows - I might get into it and decide that something completely different is the greatest thing ever.

Your daughter sounds very smart if she's doing uni level classes at 15. I hope she does well :)

*g* 12 years? Once I'm a doctor, I will have been at uni for... 11 years. So yeah. Although I will have done it full time all along...

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I've got my fingers crossed that she does. She's *capable*, but, well, she's a kid. ;-)

HUGE difference there. ;-) I worked full time jobs the whole time I was in school. 40 hours a week, more sometimes. I took semesters off, here and there, both because of money and sometimes because of burnout. But no loans and no money from my family (they're *not* well off).

Emergency medicine *would* be exciting, I'd think. But if you find you're not cut out for it, you'll do fine in another area. From what I hear, it's something that requires a certain talent. But it's so very important. Good for you! :-)

[miss-magdellin.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! You're a freaking superstar! ^_^

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much :) Don't know about superstar, but I'm feeling quite exclusive - out of the 45 700 people who did the test, 535 people got 1,9 or 2,0...

[miss-magdellin.livejournal.com]

You're amazing. I've always thought so, but now we have proof! <3 <3 <3

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

You're such a sweetie *loves*

[murgy31.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is fantastic news

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much *hugs*

[xanthelj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

That's great news - congratulations!

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much :)