anyone accepted with MCAT below 20?

[medical22]

Is there any chance of a student getting accepted with an MCAT score around 20 with a decent GPA, good recommendations, extracurricular activities?

If anyone has been accepted, I'd like to know where and please give your exact score if you don't mind. Thanks!

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[Street Philosopher]

Jeebus! If you have a 20 just take the test again!

 

[Elysium]

Personally speaking, I would NOT apply with a 20. It's just too embarassing. I think that I would wait until the next MCAT and take it again. I HAVE heard of URM's getting into state schools (specifically the TX schools) with 24's, but that's the lowest I've heard. I'm no expert...just my opinion.

 

[CANES2006]

Hun, don't even bother. With that MCAT score your best bet is a Carribean school.

 

[Papa Smurf]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by medical22:
•Is there any chance of a student getting accepted with an MCAT score around 20 with a decent GPA, good recommendations, extracurricular activities?•••••Not in this country. Sorry, I'm not one who's big on giving false hope.

 

[rxfudd]

I definitely would take it again - no reason to waste all of that expense and effort I'm usually a big proponent of encouraging people with low MCATs to apply, but a 20 is just too low.

 

[otter]

I've heard of someone with a 22 who got into UCSD. But she had connections.

Unless you have major connections, I agree with all of the above posters. Retake the MCAT. Maybe a prep course might help.

 

[A. Caveman]

listen to these guys. you're wasting your time. that's not to say that it definitely can't happen. But unless you're a URM there's a 99.5% chance that it won't. If you are a URM, there's a 95% chance it won't. that's just too low kidd. you can do so much better. get it up to the high 20's range, and you *might* be OK if you apply to bottom of the barrel schools. i'm not BSing you here...ask your premed advisor about it. or just listen to the consensus here.

 

[PMPMD]

Someone with a 20 got into one of the UT schools. I don't know if they were a URM, had connections or what. However, the odds are not in your favor. You can definitely raise that. I suggest taking a prep course.

 

[vinsanity]

Sorry, not even in the Carribean.