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We don't even know how you're doing on practice tests. If you bomb out on your real test date, then your plan "for T20 schools" goes out the window. We also don't know the rest of your application; what makes you believe you are T20 material? It's not just about your metrics. Further only shooting for T20s is such an undergrad admissions mindset... it doesn't work that way for medical school admissions.
We don't even know how you're doing on practice tests. If you bomb out on your real test date, then your plan "for T20 schools" goes out the window. We also don't know the rest of your application; what makes you believe you are T20 material? It's not just about your metrics. Further only shooting for T20s is such an undergrad admissions mindset... it doesn't work that way for medical school admissions.
That seems like a lot of work to apply later than you'd like for a score that is still a big question mark. It's also a huge conflict to say you're going to throw all of your effort into producing a quality primary and studying intensely for the MCAT, which you already admit you are not prepared to take next month. Those final few days go by unbelievably slowly and at the blink of an eye at the very same time—don't assume you'll have the mental bandwidth to work at 110% for 10 hours straight for weeks on end. We're human.
Take it from me, my FL average was 515 and I got so nervous prior to sitting for the real thing that I was holding back puke the entire test and scored 506. By the end of C/P, I thought it was going to come out of my eye sockets. Surprise! Literally a nightmare-fuel scenario.
All of this to say... management is just as important as performance. I thought all I had to worry about was studying... I was wrong. A huge part of this game is meaningfully reducing your own anxiety by being as prepared as possible. Assume things will go wrong at every junction, and prepare Plan B, C, and D.
You may not need the plans, but you'll feel a lot less rattled by kinks in the system when they occur. It sounds like you have to decide whether or not you're really ready.
Take it from me, my FL average was 515 and I got so nervous prior to sitting for the real thing that I was holding back puke the entire test and scored 506. By the end of C/P, I thought it was going to come out of my eye sockets. Surprise! Literally a nightmare-fuel scenario.
All of this to say... management is just as important as performance. I thought all I had to worry about was studying... I was wrong. A huge part of this game is meaningfully reducing your own anxiety by being as prepared as possible. Assume things will go wrong at every junction, and prepare Plan B, C, and D.
You may not need the plans, but you'll feel a lot less rattled by kinks in the system when they occur. It sounds like you have to decide whether or not you're really ready.
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Take it from me, my FL average was 515 and I got so nervous prior to sitting for the real thing that I was holding back puke the entire test and scored 506.
A lesson for everyone: it's easy to hit .300 in batting practice, but it's very different when facing a 95 MPH fastball from the likes of Hunter Brown.
A lesson for everyone: it's easy to hit .300 in batting practice, but it's very different when facing a 95 MPH fastball from the likes of Hunter Brown.
Also, maybe propranolol and ondansetron an hour prior to the exam.
I wish I had access to one of them doctors.
Anyway, let me pivot to my 200 page LATEX-typset dissertation on how even standardized testing is subject to biological factors influenced by the social determinants of health...
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