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[Dr panda]

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[Catalystik]

Hello guys. I started my education in January unlike most people who did it in September. But I actively take summer classes and plan to do it in a future, I don't study biology or pre med, but I did the math and it seems that I can still complete my degree in 4 years (technically in 3 years and 7 months) with completing required 40+ hours prerequisites for med school, but I will graduate in August exactly prior to beginning of med school (of course only in case if I will be accepted). Is it allowed, or they want people to graduate in spring? I know it may be smart to stretch college for one more year better prepare for mcat, do some more extracurriculars, and so on. But I started college at 20 and don't want to waste time anymore.
Thank you.

OK, so you'll avoid applying to med schools that start in June, July, or early August, but you still may run up against the problem of being able to prove you earned your bachelors degree when it may take several weeks for graduation status to be posted to your final transcript, which you are obliged to send in before you matriculate. That may leave you only with schools that start in September, which seems like a bad plan.

 

[ciestar]

OK, so you'll avoid applying to med schools that start in June, July, or early August, but you still may run up against the problem of being able to prove you earned your bachelors degree when it may take several weeks for graduation status to be posted to your final transcript, which you are obliged to send in before you matriculate. That may leave you only with schools that start in September, which seems like a bad plan.

So avoiding basically all of them.
OP, you might have to wait.

 

[Dr panda]

Thank you guys for your responses! Well, alas, I will wait, sky is not falling.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Thank you guys for your responses! Well, alas, I will wait, sky is not falling.

Holy crap. A reasonable reaction and plan? First r/MCAT is banned and now this? What is happening? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

 

[MyOdyssey]

Holy crap. A reasonable reaction and plan? First r/MCAT is banned and now this? What is happening? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Why is the banning of r/MCAT a good thing?

 

[PreMedMissteps]

Some/most med schools specifically say that you must graduate by June in order for them to get your transcript in time, essentially eliminating summer graduations for fall matriculation.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Why is the banning of r/MCAT a good thing?

I didn’t say it was good. It’s just another seemingly impossible thing that I never thought would happen.

 

[Unlimited Apps]

I didn’t say it was good. It’s just another seemingly impossible thing that I never thought would happen.

I saw it coming to be honest. I was on it a lot during my "MCAT era" earlier this year. When I first discovered it, I was wondering why it hadn't been banned already considering some of the "confidential" or "copyrighted" stuff that was posted on there routinely (there were even entire threads that one could argue match the definition of either).

That being said, It certainly sucks that it happened. r/MCAT was VERY helpful in preparing for the MCAT.