u/IronicMagician

Should I upload my CV if it’s not required? There’s a documents upload section, but there’s nothing in the secondary that says upload a cv or resume.

Is there a difference in competitiveness between submitting secondaries one week after receiving the invitation vs two weeks?

For the gap year essays at some schools which have extremely large word counts, is it recommended to use as much space as possible like the other secondaries? I just started my gap year and am only continuing research in my current lab and planning to reapply to be a volunteer. I can't feasibly see a way to draw it out past maybe a 150 words.

Are letter writers supposed to resubmit their LoRs after I submit my WashU secondary? There's a section to add letter writers from the significant research essay, but they all already submitted letters through AMCAS. Additionally, should I only be including those involved in my research, or also my academic professors that only taught me classes for the WashU secondary?

I made the mistake of retaking a 514 score, but only had a 1 pt improvement. How much does this negatively impact my application if the rest of my application is pretty good for MSTPs (3.88, couple of first and co-author pubs, hospital volunteering)? Will it lock me out of T10 schools?

My paper unfortunately got rejected, but a pre-print is available and I was wondering how I should report this. Should I say in-prep but have a citation to the pre-print?

I unfortunately scored a 514 on my MCAT and I was wondering if good research (4500 hrs, 4 papers published or preprinted and 3 in prep) and a 3.88 GPA can make up for it, especially at T15 programs where the MCAT average is 518+?

Recently took the mcat and I’ve been trying to calculate what score I’ll get based on how many I know I got wrong and flagged, but my score looks much worse than what I was averaging and I’m not sure if it was because the test was harder or not

I retook my 514 MCAT and I haven't gotten my score back yet but I think it's projected to be 512 and I'm a little worried about how the drop will impact my chances to MSTPs. I was generally scoring in 518-520 FL range so I'm not really excited about this.