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As this application cycle is coming closer to an end, I can’t help but reflect on what went wrong for me this cycle. There’s something that happened during this cycle that made me want to consult the SDN community on whether you guys think it could have possibly affected my chances a lot or not...

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Hi all, I'm an undergraduate pre-med student. I'm considering pushing my MCAT date to July 20 (scores release August 20). I will have my AMCAS application completed (except MCAT score) by early June and will submit it for the verification process since it takes 6-8 weeks. I will choose one...

Hello! I am in the process of writing a letter of intent to a school that I got WL at (WL came about a month ago). I have significant updates I am planning on including in my LOI and know for a fact I want to go to this school in particular. What I am confused about is whether or not to list...

Having read a lot of pessimism in the last few weeks, I thought I would throw some statistics as a confidence boost to anyone who needs them: Something a lot of SDNers need to hear is that the average for those who are actually competitive (>506 MCAT and >3.6 GPA) the average acceptance...

*Please don’t quote, post will eventually be redacted* Sooo, I'm in a bit of a pickle regarding my AMCAS course list and the transcripts I submitted, and I need some help regarding what I need to do. Long story short: I applied this current cycle and have been lucky enough to be accepted to...

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Simply reporting a real-world experience, as I have seen it debated on here whether AMCAS can/will find out. Not salty about it or anything. - This was a year of Dual Enrollment. - He said he made decent grades there, so it probably wouldn't effect anything. - Not sure if his University...

Hi everyone. Right now I'm projected to end my 1st semester of freshman year with a 3.5 gpa. I was struggling to find good study habits and it impacted my grades (any tips?). I know I still have 2nd semester to improve my overrall freshman gpa (striving to maintain all A's to bounce back) but...

I'm applying next cycle, but writing a personal statement now to submit as an assignment in a course I am currently taking in undergrad. My intro focuses on one moment that initiated my interest in medicine, and then I was going to choose three most memorable experiences (pretty much two...

Hello all, I have a question about LORs. My only question is, on average how many LORs are sufficient? I looked at many of the schools that I am interested in, and I am leaning towards 3-4 LORs from science professors, and 2 nonscience. There are two professors (Gen Chem I and Gen Chem II)...

For those who have been through AMCAS verification, has your biology research for credit course been treated as BCPM? What about your biology independent reading for credit course? Has that been treated as BCPM?

I recently have been invited for a few interviews and am super excited. However, after reviewing my AMCA application, I noticed that I had 100 future research hours unfulfilled and did not realize until now. I was scheduled to work 16 hour weeks for 10 weeks during the summer, so I low-balled...

My school offers a seminar style course in which different patients or family members of patients with different ailments appear each week to discuss their experience as patients and to be interviewed by students from the course. There is also a discussion period for the students who then have...

Since we all applied to pretty much the same schools, I figured I'd start a thread compiling our invites and whatnot! Einstein--------- Columbia------- Dartmouth------ Harvard--------- Sinai-------------- Stanford--------- GWU------------- hold Mayo(MN)------ Wayne----------- Boston-----------...

When do people who've submitted in mid to late august start to hear back from schools?

Do I add the science and math classes that I have withdrawn from into my BPCM? How do medical school committees look at withdrawn math and science courses? I have withdrawn from a Gen Bio 1 with Lab and a Gen Chem 1 with Lab in my freshman year. I am retaking them now and I've got a solic A in both.

Hi, everyone. I'm currently a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh. So far, my classes are going well, and I think I have a solid plan for extracurricular activities, but I would like an outsider's opinion. Here are the 15 activities I have, or plan to have, by the end of my college...

Hi All, I am becoming increasingly concerned as my transcripts have still not been marked as received by AMCAS. They were mailed out on Aug 29 from Alberta, Canada. I contacted AAMC support and they mentioned that it can take up to 7 business days to receive them. It has been 9 business days...

I’m a recent graduate (URM/disadvantaged/3.64 GPA) and just got my second MCAT score back. 494. Pretty discouraged because I spent months studying. I used Khan Academy, Kaplan, and the AAMC materials. I decided to study on my own since I didn’t have the money to pay for a professional...

I want to update a few schools on my improved MCAT score (came in on 8/23). It updated on my TMDSAS and AMCAS, but I am not sure that they will consider it when selecting people for interviews especially since they probably already looked at my app since it transmitted late July. Should I just...

Hello I submitted my AMCAS application and then noticed 2 errors I did on my work/activity section. For 2 activities I indicated the experience type as "medical/clinical" when it should be "not medical/clinical" I contacted AMCAS and as I expected I cannot edit it, Im worried this mistake...

I made a major mistake on my AMCAS. For my most recent employment, I meant to write 1600 hours but instead wrote 6600 hours. I did not realize the mistake until I was going through my primary while working on secondaries. Obviously, this isn't something that will be missed by many medical...

Hey Everyone. Just noticed an error on my AMCAS primary for one of the activities I listed. It was an activity I did during college, and I mistakenly put the wrong year in the date range. I'm sweating it a bit because I specified that I did it in college, and the year I added put it after I...

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I am in the process of writing secondaries, and was wondering to what extent we should be re-introducing or explaining the topics we discussed in our AMCAS app. Is it fair to assume that any admissions committee would have the entirety of our application to review (i.e. activities list +...

For those of you who've been through the AMCAS application process recently, please share your experiences with classifying the following 1. working in my university's biology/medical research lab for school credit (course is given a BIO designation and is offered through biology); and 2...

Hi, I submitted my primary for verification a week ago, so its still in the works. I was speeding in vermont during a road trip and got a criminal citstion to go to court for excessive speeding. Ive tried to explain my case to the state attorney on how i regret my actions, understand why they...

Mech. Eng. degree, tons of coursework with titles MECH and ENGR representing things like Statics, Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, etc. Looks like a lot more of these get categorized into the AACOMAS classification of sciences gpa vs. the AMCAS app. Plus the AACOMAS sciences gpa doesn't...

So I submitted my AMCAS to be verified yesterday and I may have made a mistake inputting my courses. On my transcript, it says "Subject" (which BIOL, CHEM, etc is listed), and then "Course Number" (101, 102, etc). I did not include the BIOL part on my application, because it was technically...

Hispanic Texas Resident cGPA: 3.49 sGPA: 3.44 (C+ in both Ochem 1&2 but A's in Systems Phys/Genetics/BioChem) MCAT 5/5/18: 519 (129/129/129/132) (old MCAT from 2015 was a 31) - 160 hours of physician shadowing (orthopedics and interventional cardiology) -Worked as Community Assistant at...

Hello, I submitted my application mid June so it should be about to get verified. I took the MCAT June 29 but I didn't feel like I did good so I voided the exam and I plan to take it again late August or early September. I wouldn't like to take another year but I am wondering if I should just...

Hi guys, I submitted my tulane secondary yesterday around 20 hours ago. Even though my committee letter has been uploaded for 2 weeks now they apparently don't have it. Does it take some time for amcas to provide the committee letter?

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Just took my MCAT feeling kind of meh about how I did. Got killed by C/P took too long trying to figure out an answer on some questions tht I should’ve skipped and went back to later. I've been reading threads and it seems that I am not the only one who thought c/p was difficult. I didnt void...