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Hi friends, so I got in the 15th percentile on Preview, which is a three. Funny enough on my Casper I scored in Q4, but unfortunately that’s only being sent to seven out of my 23 schools whereas preview is gonna be sent to all 23. I really don’t wanna retake it but 15% is kind of wild. I really would love to hear some opinions. Thank you!

I’m not sure if this is helpful to get a full picture, but I’ll give you my stats

- 3.71 cGPA, B.S. Biology and 2 minors
- 511 MCAT (126/127/128/130) (after third try)
- ~3 years full-time research + undergraduate research; multiple publications
- 230+ hours clinical volunteering
- Leadership/DEI involvement throughout college
- Significant caregiving experience during college/gap years
- CASPer: 4th quartile
- PREview: 3 (15th percentile)

I know the rest of my application matters more than stats alone, but I’m mainly trying to figure out whether a PREview score this low is significant enough to justify retaking, especially given that my CASPer result was Q4.

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My friend just found out her (now ex) friend is homophobic. She keeps spewing nonsense and now deserves retribution. We want to do it in a lowkey but bothersome way that won’t get back to us or put her in danger.

My thought was **campaign spam**! You know how if you sign up for one political thing 15 years ago now everybody has your phone number or email address home address and you keep getting blast and ask for donations, and you can never unsubscribe. Thats would be great.

So my questions to you good people are:

1. Is there a “common app” sign up for LGBTQ resources? Something we can put in the info once maybe twice and not have to do too much about

2. Do you have any other ideas?

So I posted this on r/CASPertest and it got removed by Reddit filters and I don’t know why. So I hope this community can help me answer my question.

I took my Casper exam almost 4 weeks ago. I see that my score was sent to my schools. From what I understood we the test takers don’t get the official score but we get to know what quartile we scored in. How do I see what my quartile is? I’ve never had a notification. I can’t see it on the website. Then when I looked it up, I saw this (posted below) and it mentioned nothing about a quartile. Do I have outdated info? Do I not see my score at all?

“Why applicants do not receive their score
Currently, applicants do not receive their Casper score. This decision is based on the nature of the test and on how the results are intended to be used. While we are actively exploring ways to potentially share this information in the future, no changes have been made yet.” - Casper

Hi guys, I got a three on my Preview exam. I know this exam doesn’t >!really!< matter but a 3 isn’t great.

Honestly, I’m pretty shocked. I took the practice exam and did practice problems and I wasn’t ever too far from the correct answer.

Anyway, I have the score that I have. How does this look/affect my app?

Good morning premeds,

My secondary has started coming in and I didn’t pre-write for the entire month of June. It took all the motivation I had to submit my primary application in May. My mom died earlier that month so I just really needed to take June off. Well June is coming to an end July is beginning, and I got my first secondaries last Friday. I don’t really know how to tackle secondaries and I’m looking for any advice or YouTube videos that were really helpful to you guys. I don’t have a premed community and I’ve been surprised throughout this application process. So I would really appreciate any advice and resources! Thank you!

I applied to 23 schools.

Also, do I really have to submit my secondaries after two weeks of getting them? I’m not a 4.0 student and I know I need the time advantage but I’m really starting to dip on energy.

Hi,

I'm looking for senior-friendly activities in Greenville/Winterville for my 82-year-old black grandmother who lives alone there.

She's sharp, opinionated, loves politics, books, and the theater — but she's had a really hard year and has become pretty isolated. I'm trying to find her a community.

Specifically looking for:

- Book clubs or reading groups that skew older (60+)

- Theater groups or regular performance attendance where she'd find her people

- Anything civic or discussion-based — she's a lifelong Democrat so something that leans that way or is at least not a Republican stronghold (politics, current events, etc.)

- Honestly anything

I know about the Pitt County Council on Aging already. Looking for things people have actually been to or heard good things about. Any recs appreciated.

Hi everyone, looking for some advice because I’m pretty unfamiliar with this part of the process. I know this is the MCAT sub but maybe you guys have advice about the other tests?

I’ve always had extra-time accommodations on standardized exams, including the MCAT. I just submitted my primary application early and finally have the mental bandwidth to think about CASPer and PREview.

As I’m learning more about them, it seems like there’s a lot of very quick reflection and fast responses, which is usually where extra time helps me organize my thoughts. In an ideal world, I’d apply for accommodations, wait the ~month for a response, schedule the exam, and take it with accommodations.

My concern is timing and how this affects my application.

I don’t fully understand how CASPer/PREview are viewed by adcoms or when schools actually need the scores. I only have 2 schools that require CASPer, but a decent handful strongly recommend PREview.

I submitted my primary early because I wanted to be reviewed as early as possible, especially since I’m not a 4.0/528 applicant and wanted to avoid unnecessary delays. But now I’m wondering if waiting for accommodations could actually slow my app down more than it helps.

My questions are:

• Will delaying CASPer or PREview delay my application being reviewed (primary or secondary)?
• Do schools usually wait for these scores before reviewing, or only before making decisions/interview invites?
• If you were in my position, would you apply for accommodations even if it takes about a month?
• Or should I just schedule these exams ASAP?

Would really appreciate any insight, especially from people who got accommodations or applied with later CASPer/PREview dates.

Hi everyone, looking for some advice because I’m pretty unfamiliar with this part of the process.

I’ve always had extra-time accommodations on standardized exams, including the MCAT. I just submitted my primary application early and finally have the mental bandwidth to think about CASPer and PREview.

As I’m learning more about them, it seems like there’s a lot of very quick reflection and fast responses, which is usually where extra time helps me organize my thoughts. In an ideal world, I’d apply for accommodations, wait the ~month for a response, schedule the exam, and take it with accommodations.

My concern is timing and how this affects my application.

I don’t fully understand how CASPer/PREview are viewed by adcoms or when schools actually need the scores. I only have 2 schools that require CASPer, but a decent handful strongly recommend PREview.

I submitted my primary early because I wanted to be reviewed as early as possible, especially since I’m not a 4.0/528 applicant and wanted to avoid unnecessary delays. But now I’m wondering if waiting for accommodations could actually slow my app down more than it helps.

My questions are:

• Will delaying CASPer or PREview delay my application being reviewed (primary or secondary)?
• Do schools usually wait for these scores before reviewing, or only before making decisions/interview invites?
• If you were in my position, would you apply for accommodations even if it takes about a month?
• Or should I just schedule these exams ASAP?

Would really appreciate any insight, especially from people who got accommodations or applied with later CASPer/PREview dates.

Hi! I’m applying this cycle and looking for insight because I’m not really plugged into a pre-med community and feel a little lost on the AMCAS Work/Activities section, especially the “Most Meaningful” entries.

I know this is my chance to show things outside my personal statement, but a lot of my most meaningful experiences are already discussed there. Is overlap okay if I’m talking about them from a different angle, or should I focus on entirely different experiences? I have some good experience in college, but I’m 3 years out and have had a lot of life since then, and don’t find those experiences as significant as I once did. But my new experiences aren’t med school applicable (ie first relationship).

More broadly, what is the strategy of this section? Can someone stress the importance of it to me and explain what adcoms are actually looking for here? What goals should I be aiming for as I write it? What makes a strong Work/Activities section (is this a section that can’t even be described as strong? It seems kind of like a résumé description), and how should I think about choosing/structuring “Most Meaningful” entries?

And one genuinely honest question, please don’t roast me 😭: if the ideas/reflections are fully mine, is it okay to use AI for wording, organization, or character-count help for the 700-character descriptions, or is that frowned upon?

I’ve read a little online, but weirdly this section has never come up during my prima journey, so I’m feeling kind of floss. Thank you for your help!

Tomorrow morning is my mom’s funeral and it’s really hard ofc. I’m not good with emotions. identifying them, feeling them, processing them, nahhhh id rather not. It’s very uncomfortable and I can’t do it well. Tomorrow I could either try to feel and process my feelings during my moms funeral or I can try to tuck that away for the most part, bc i genuinely couldn’t even imagine having so many feelings around so many ppl. I’m just wondering if that latter option is a bad idea. I prefer not feeling it, bc I feel like regardless I’m gonna break when I do her eulogy, and since I’m being forced to do it, I’d rather have to feel/cry only once, then. Hope this made sense. Her funeral is early tomorrow morning. Thank you for any advice!

Hi everyone. I’m 25, and my mom passed away recently after being sick for a long time. Her funeral is Saturday morning, and I’ve been struggling to write her eulogy.

I ended up using ChatGPT to help organize my thoughts because every time I tried writing it alone, I would just cry. I actually think the eulogy turned out really beautiful and true to my mom, but I think it may be a little too long to comfortably read out loud at the service.

I was hoping some people here might be willing to help me gently trim it down while keeping the tone, flow, and personality intact.

Thank you so much!

Mom’s eulogy

When people talk about my mother, they often talk about how hard she worked. And it’s true. My mother worked two jobs, six days a week, for much of my life. She worked as a home health aide and as a social worker focused on children and their home lives. She spent her life caring for people and trying to provide stability and support to those around her.

But when I think about my mother, I think about the little things that made her who she was.

I think about football nights when I couldn’t sleep because she was yelling at the Eagles from the couch.

I think about the way she called me “Monkey.”

I think about her pork chops, rice, and pink beans cooked with mustard that I ate over and over growing up.

I think about her sitting on the beach eating while refusing to actually get in the water.

I think about Beenie Man and dancehall music playing in the background, and her love for Caribbean food, hoagies, Papa John’s, and one specific Chinese food place in Chestnut Hill.

I think about the way we used to smile at each other across a room. One of us would smile first, and the other would smile back. It was our thing. I do it unconsciously now with other people because it became such a part of me.

I also remember one day at an amusement park when my mother, who hated roller coasters, somehow ended up screaming with me on a tiny toddler roller coaster. We were way too old to be reacting like that, but we laughed through the entire ride.

One of my favorite memories of my mom happened when I was in pre-K. It was Parents’ Night, and she came to my classroom and sat with me while we played games and did activities together. Later, we had to perform a little play about the colors of the rainbow, and I was supposed to be purple. But I got nervous and couldn’t do it. So instead, I sat on my mother’s lap while our principal, Ed, took my purple sign and filled in for me while we watched together.

That memory has stayed with me all these years because it was one of those rare, perfect moments where I just got to feel safe and happy playing with my mom.

Like all of us, my mother was human, and she had her flaws. She could be aloof at times, and she could definitely be stubborn. During her illness, she pushed back against just about every caretaker she had. Even toward the end, when she was weak and struggling physically, she still had attitude and still made her opinions known. I’m grateful for that because it reminded me that even illness could not erase who she was, and honestly that same headstrong spirit runs through the women in my family all the way from my great-grandmother, Bertha Lee Shepherd, to my grandmother, to my mother, and now to me.

People often say that my mother really grew up after she had me. Before becoming a parent, she was still trying to figure out who she wanted to be and where she wanted to go in life. But once she became my mother, she committed herself fully to building a life for me.

One of the greatest gifts she gave me was family.

Even though we lived in Philadelphia, she made sure I spent summers in North Carolina with my grandmother and extended family. She built and maintained connections that still support me today. My grandmothers, my aunt, my family — they are some of the greatest blessings in my life, and my mother made sure I had them.

She gave me roots.

She gave me people.

She gave me values.

She gave me a foundation.

And even now, after her passing, I realize I am still living off of everything she built for me. The way I move through the world, the way I love people, the way I stay committed, the way I keep going — so much of that came from her.

There’s something from Proverbs that reminds me of my mother:
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come… Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.”

My mother’s works speak for her.

They speak through the people she cared for.

They speak through the family she held together.

They speak through the life she built for me.

And they will continue speaking long after today.

I love you, Mom.