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Honestly, and this is just my advice, you are going to be hard pressed to teach yourself all of that in 6 months let alone do it effectively enough to do well on the MCAT. You will still need to brush up on other areas (including bio and psych) if you're truly going to do well. There is very, very little time to waste on teaching yourself material. It should be focused on reviewing material , taking practice tests, etc. I studied a full 3 months over the summer even after having taken all of those. My life that summer consisted of studying 9-3 or 4 and working out. In your case, you'll be taking other classes and working full-time? I really just don't see that all working out. Take the pre-reqs, you won't regret it. I'm not even going to touch on what it looks like for your application as I have zero experience in that area but I can't imagine they could take it seriously with half of your pre-reqs missing from your sGPA. I think you're really trying to jump into this way too quickly and not thinking about what teaching yourself four difficult classes in a span of 6 months would entail. This is all a marathon, not a sprint.
