Hi!
I’m taking the MCAT 6/26 and am wondering if it’ll negatively impact my application cycle. I have all my essays almost finished and my LORs so i’m planning to submit to a throwaway school so i can get verified while i wait for my score to get back. Is this a horrible plan?
Anyone who took a later MCAT and had success please lmk how it went for you.
Thanks!
I've been grinding practice questions like crazy but I'm still stuck around a 500. Im hoping to score around a 506-508 and am currently scheduled for the 5/30 exam.
My current Plan: grind out section banks and question packs and take another FL exam before the 10 day deadline. if I am +/- 3 pts I will continue with my scheduled date. If not, I'll push back for 2 weeks 6/13.
If anyone has some tips for tips on how to quickly increase my score, I would appreciate it!!
23 URM female.
over 2000hrs of paid clinical work as a phlebotomist
over 4000hrs of research hours (3 summer internships- one of which at a T20) 1yr full time and 3 year part time in undergrad (will have another year of full time research by the time I matriculate)
have 12+ poster presentations and 2 poster awards (one from a national conference)
I won the undergraduate research award at my university (one of 2 people from my entire college)
I will have 4 letters of recommendation (at least 3 are very strong and speak towards my character) - 2 PI's, one mdphd I shadowed and one science professor
have 2 papers- one second author in a high impact journal in review and another lower author paper published. I am currently writing a review (will be first author when that is finished about late June)
showed about total 80 hrs (half is an mdphd)
stats: 3.7 GPA and estimated 508-510 MCAT (planning to take it in a couple of weeks)
I know my stats are a bit on the lower end but I worked my way through college (at one point I even worked three jobs in one semester). I'm working on my mcat to get it a bit higher but im not really shooting for a T20 so...
School list: (interested: Immunology, Cancer Biology)
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Washington St. Louis
University of Pittsburg School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Penn State University College of Medicine
Howard University College of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz
Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Northwestern Feinburg School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine
SUNY at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center
Dartmouth College
Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth/MD Anderson Cancer Center/University of Puerto Rico Tri-Institutional Program
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University