applied early and effects

[ramifications]

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So I know about people saying apply early for applicants but I have the following question:

Say that an applicant has really average scores (3.5-3.6 type) and an mcat that is yet to come out. Once that applicant applies early to schools, how much more likely is it that they will get accepted somewhere allopathic? I would like to hear from someone who did everything they were told but still got nowhere. Perhaps what I am trying to find out is what do you think those ppl's problems might be if they didn't grab any spots. I know medical admissions is no gaurantee but it would help me out.

Also something about my PS: So I talk a lot about my formative years in college and about my hardships. I find that with word limit, I talk a lot about my hardships and then finally transition to clinical experience but it is brief. I try to assuage as much as I could about the type of human being a doctor should be rather than my clinical work. This is worrying me because although this is the story I want to write, I don't know if this is what medical school wants to hear.

 

[ramifications]

Not having an MCAT score by this point would also make already behind the curve. There are over 50,000 people competing for 20,000 spots. So 30,000 people are going to get in. Sometime it has nothing to do but the enormity of the competition

I recently took the mcat so it will get released in a month. Would this still be a problem as I submit on time?

 

[LizzyM]

Not having an MCAT score by this point would also make already behind the curve. There are over 50,000 people competing for 20,000 spots. So 30,000 people are not going to get in. Sometime it has nothing to do but the enormity of the competition

fixed that for you.

 

[makennacompton]

Not having an MCAT score by this point would also make already behind the curve. There are over 50,000 people competing for 20,000 spots. So 30,000 people are going to get in. Sometime it has nothing to do but the enormity of the competition



Sincerity is one thing I like to see when reading a PS. Write the story of "Why Medicine" for you. The rest of your application tells us about your clinical experience

"There are over 50,000 people competing for 20,000 spots. So 30,000 people are going to get in"

The math should be reversed, "There are over 50,000 people competing for 20,000 spots. So 30,000 people are NOT NOT NOT going to get in"

Opps. LizzyM fixed it already for you.

 

[ramifications]

do not submit with out knowing your MCAT score except to one "high reach" school for verification

ok I will do that then. After verification, would the applications I send to additional schools after obtaining my mcat mean that I am submitting my application really late? Since June-late June, verification occur, wouldn't most applications only get there by July?