I am rather terrified of the new MCAT 2015. I have a seat reserved on January 13th, but the test center is 5 hours away (by car).
I will be spending the next N days refreshing the MCAT registration website all the damn time, looking for a closer seat to open up. A seat on January 23rd would also be really amazingly awesome. More time to study.
If I could get a seat on January 23rd in my home town, I would do unholy things for that.
I did take the test on December 6th (4 days ago), but I really want a backup plan.
Pro tip: If you register for a seat in a terrible place (e.g. Guam), then you can more easily check the availability of seats in better places. This is because initial registration takes like 20 minutes - you need to fill in your undergraduate institution, the classes you took, and all sorts of crap. The seat will likely vanish while you do that. However, once you hold a seat, you can very easily check for other seats. Rescheduling is fundamentally much faster than registering for the first time. Sadly, rescheduling costs an extra $65.
Note that an initial registration takes 20 minutes even if you already took the test earlier this year (like me). The servers have apparently forgotten where you went to college, and they need to ask you again. You cannot skip the questions, they are all required.
I am somewhat bitter, because when I started to register, there was a seat about 1.5 hours drive away. By the time I had finished entering my college and classes, that center was still in the drop-down menu but it said "no seats available" when I clicked "find seat". That 20 minutes of answering stupid questions that I answered back in August quite possibly made the difference between a 5-hour drive and a 1.5-hour drive.
I will be spending the next N days refreshing the MCAT registration website all the damn time, looking for a closer seat to open up. A seat on January 23rd would also be really amazingly awesome. More time to study.
If I could get a seat on January 23rd in my home town, I would do unholy things for that.
I did take the test on December 6th (4 days ago), but I really want a backup plan.
Pro tip: If you register for a seat in a terrible place (e.g. Guam), then you can more easily check the availability of seats in better places. This is because initial registration takes like 20 minutes - you need to fill in your undergraduate institution, the classes you took, and all sorts of crap. The seat will likely vanish while you do that. However, once you hold a seat, you can very easily check for other seats. Rescheduling is fundamentally much faster than registering for the first time. Sadly, rescheduling costs an extra $65.
Note that an initial registration takes 20 minutes even if you already took the test earlier this year (like me). The servers have apparently forgotten where you went to college, and they need to ask you again. You cannot skip the questions, they are all required.
I am somewhat bitter, because when I started to register, there was a seat about 1.5 hours drive away. By the time I had finished entering my college and classes, that center was still in the drop-down menu but it said "no seats available" when I clicked "find seat". That 20 minutes of answering stupid questions that I answered back in August quite possibly made the difference between a 5-hour drive and a 1.5-hour drive.
