In all honesty, the bar is set so low in terms of MCAT for Podiatry school, that if it was your number one choice, I'd say spending more than 3 months studying for most people is a waste of time. If you majored in biology/Chem/science then you already took classes that give you the knowledge you need, assuming you actually studied and worked hard in your classes. The only thing you need to do is get used to the long passages and type of questions. The best thing albeit the most boring thing you can do, is practice the verbal reasoning or critical analysis or whatever it's called now and do a lot of passages. The MCAT is all about inference and critical thinking. Yes you do need a lot of information in your brain but it's all basic information from basic science classes. The passages tell you everything else. If you can learn to read the passages and think critically, the MCAT becomes much easier. Just from that you can probably score in the 490's easily with a month of good studying, and with a bit more effort into studying the parts that give you the most trouble will net you a solid score setting you up for scholarships.
This was the advice a friend who scored a 35 on the MCAT told me. The CARS section is the most important one to study and is the one most overlooked by everyone. I don't want to brag or toot my own horn because I feel like my MCAT was ****, but I did what he said, and studied for literally a few weeks doing just practice problems to get used to it but still got scholarships at every school I interviewed at. And got II's at all schools I applied...(except Barry, they straight rejected me for some reason like 3 months after my application was in and I had interviewed everywhere else) Im not saying try to get by by doing the minimum, but Podiatry does have a low bar, and whether you get a 500 or 520 you most likely are getting the same scholarship and getting into all of the schools. Study hard, but more importantly study smart.
