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[skbill]

My gpa is around 3.4. I am thinking to take my MCAT this May.
With this gpa and my MCAT score around 26-29. Can I get into Medical School?

Please give me advice. I am debating whether to continue with my MCAt or not.

My main problem is I couldn't concentrate for more than 2hrs on MCAT. I get really worried if I didn't do well on the passages. And I stop studying. It takes a long time for me to come back and study.

Please give me advice. I appreciate good advice.

Please be a friend and motivate me.

I feel grateful to all those who give me a good advice.

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[Fiddlergirl]

With a 29, probably. A 26 would be pushing it but you could still try. You could try taking a prep course in the fall and doing the January MCAT, since it sounds like making yourself study was the biggest problem.

 

[bluesTank]

Study hard and do better then that. Don't sell yourself short. You can do it with hard work and energy if you really want to get into medical school

 

[Krisss17]

My gpa is around 3.4. I am thinking to take my MCAT this May.
With this gpa and my MCAT score around 26-29. Can I get into Medical School?

Please give me advice. I am debating whether to continue with my MCAt or not.

My main problem is I couldn't concentrate for more than 2hrs on MCAT. I get really worried if I didn't do well on the passages. And I stop studying. It takes a long time for me to come back and study.

Please give me advice. I appreciate good advice.

Please be a friend and motivate me.


I feel grateful to all those who give me a good advice.

While your GPA is good, it is not stellar. You want to really knock the MCAT out of the park with a 30+.

I think that it would be in your best interest if you put of the test until perhaps August. Use these next four months to build up your concentration level. Have you done any full-length tests yet? I would suggest that you do at least two, more if possible. The MCAT seems to be at test of endurance as well as knowledge. You don't want to hit the wall at Verbal when you still have another two sections to get through.

 

[AnEyeLikeMars]

My gpa is around 3.4. I am thinking to take my MCAT this May.
With this gpa and my MCAT score around 26-29. Can I get into Medical School?

Please give me advice. I am debating whether to continue with my MCAt or not.

My main problem is I couldn't concentrate for more than 2hrs on MCAT. I get really worried if I didn't do well on the passages. And I stop studying. It takes a long time for me to come back and study.

Please give me advice. I appreciate good advice.

Please be a friend and motivate me.

I feel grateful to all those who give me a good advice.

I don't think those numbers would preclude you from getting accepted, but I think it'll mean that the other parts of your app will have to be that much stronger. Good luck

 

[Vanguard23]

Yeah, definetly compensate with excracurriculars, leadership,volunteer work, shadowing and research. Great GPA's and MCAT scores don't make good doctors and the medical schools know this.

 

[NervousNed]

My gpa is around 3.4. I am thinking to take my MCAT this May.
With this gpa and my MCAT score around 26-29. Can I get into Medical School?

Please give me advice. I am debating whether to continue with my MCAt or not.

My main problem is I couldn't concentrate for more than 2hrs on MCAT. I get really worried if I didn't do well on the passages. And I stop studying. It takes a long time for me to come back and study.

Please give me advice. I appreciate good advice.

Please be a friend and motivate me.

I feel grateful to all those who give me a good advice.

I want to be very honest here and friendly....26-29 and 3.4 will get you into a DO school as it stands

A 29 MCAT and a 3.4 is going to be a very tough journey to get into an MD program, has it been done? yes, but it is extremely hard to get interviews with those stats. If you need someone by your side making you study then do it. If you need to pay a tutor to sit with you for 4 hours straight making sure your reading, studying, and comprehending then do it. You can do this, but you really need to get serious, im sure you want this badly.

Heres what i suggest:

Get the EK, KAPLAN, and maybe even the princeton review book. If there is a concept that you are not truly understanding, then read a different prep companies book to see how they explained it and it may become more obvious to you. Sometimes hearing about a concept in a different way can clear things up, fill in missing details. Glazing over the material and memorizing formulas is just not going to get the points, make sure you get the concept fully.

Read the explanations to all your problems fully, dont quickly gloss over it, really get why you got the problem. This is all going to take a lot of time, I know.

When the average of your last 3 tests is over 30, then take the MCAT. Maybe delay your taking the MCAT one more month if your score isnt where it needs to be. During your break after this semester is done, when you have got all the material in you, take two tests per week, to the point where you can sit through these tests.

You can do this. You really can. Find someone who is equally motivated and have both of you push each other. Don't let your schedule slip for anything. Your friends may ot understand hwo important this is, but you know this is a very important thing. We're not talking about raising your MCAT to get into a better MD school, we're talking about raising your MCAT to even get the chance to get into a school. Remeber , study like crazy, do tons of problems, read concepts critically, no simple memorization, and if your practice mcat is not achieving a 30, delay your test date past may.

 

[skbill]

I want to be very honest here and friendly....26-29 and 3.4 will get you into a DO school as it stands

A 29 MCAT and a 3.4 is going to be a very tough journey to get into an MD program, has it been done? yes, but it is extremely hard to get interviews with those stats. If you need someone by your side making you study then do it. If you need to pay a tutor to sit with you for 4 hours straight making sure your reading, studying, and comprehending then do it. You can do this, but you really need to get serious, im sure you want this badly.

Heres what i suggest:

Get the EK, KAPLAN, and maybe even the princeton review book. If there is a concept that you are not truly understanding, then read a different prep companies book to see how they explained it and it may become more obvious to you. Sometimes hearing about a concept in a different way can clear things up, fill in missing details. Glazing over the material and memorizing formulas is just not going to get the points, make sure you get the concept fully.

Read the explanations to all your problems fully, dont quickly gloss over it, really get why you got the problem. This is all going to take a lot of time, I know.

When the average of your last 3 tests is over 30, then take the MCAT. Maybe delay your taking the MCAT one more month if your score isnt where it needs to be. During your break after this semester is done, when you have got all the material in you, take two tests per week, to the point where you can sit through these tests.

You can do this. You really can. Find someone who is equally motivated and have both of you push each other. Don't let your schedule slip for anything. Your friends may ot understand hwo important this is, but you know this is a very important thing. We're not talking about raising your MCAT to get into a better MD school, we're talking about raising your MCAT to even get the chance to get into a school. Remeber , study like crazy, do tons of problems, read concepts critically, no simple memorization, and if your practice mcat is not achieving a 30, delay your test date past may.

I will try the way you said. Now I am using Princeton Review books and EK books.

I liked your advice. Thank you