Desparately Need help!!!!

[ShrimpTaco]

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Hello, I'm new to SDN. I've been researching around SDN for hours and hours, but I couldn't find the most suitable advice for my situations.
Here is my status: Took MCAT three times and the highest is 20. Undergrad cGPA is 3.89 and sGPA is 3.78. Decent amount of EC. I decided to take MCAT for 4th time as I believe it is my best and only option. For some reasons, I need to move out and attend "a school" somewhere so that I CAN take MCAT and do well on the test.
After I did study on SDN regarding SMP, i found out that they are targeted for GPA enhancement. So, I need help with finding a SMP school that would fit my situation-a great help for MCAT, Not a very intense course load so that I have time for MCAT studying, and Having linkage would be great. Can anyone suggest any school that would be helpful for my situation? Thanks!!

 

[DrMidlife]

An SMP will not help you with the MCAT.

For your college to give you such a high GPA without preparing you for the most important test in your life means you got ripped off by your college.

You should not take the MCAT again. Probably ever. For all that's holy don't retake the MCAT until/unless you have reason to believe you'll get a competitive score.

Find the SDN MCAT forum to get some insights into what it takes to get from a 20 to a 30+ score. You won't get any useful help on the MCAT in the postbac forum.

You might have some luck with 2 year masters programs at DO schools. Some of these programs will ignore the MCAT. The problem, of course, is that to get licensed to practice you have to pass lots of board exams that are much harder than the MCAT.

Sorry the news isn't better. Best of luck to you.

 

[johnnyscans]

Agreed with DrMidlife, not sure how a school awarded you a 3.8 sGPA yet left you so unprepared for the MCAT.

Please, do not take the MCAT until you're scoring 30-32 on the AAMC full-length practice exams. What preparation materials have you used in the past and how have you studied? An SMP will not help you with the MCAT.

 

[ShrimpTaco]

I really appreciate for the replies. The main problem for my terrible mcats are related to dealing with my personal problems and some emotional issues. I am confident that I will do well if I live away from these distractions. However, in my case, getting into "a" school is my one and only solution. The reason I did well in college is that I lived on-campus, away from those distractions. And I know I am not dumb yet. English is my third language and I finished college here in the states on my own. I still believe that I can be whatever I've wished for. This is part of my personal story behind those horrible numbers. No harsh comments please. Is there anyone could answer my original question?

 

[DrMidlife]

Nobody is saying anything about your intelligence or your commitment. We're telling you factual useful things that you should take seriously. Johnnyscans and I both got into med school against impossible odds.

The main problem for my terrible mcats are related to dealing with my personal problems and some emotional issues. I am confident that I will do well if I live away from these distractions.

That excuse would work for one MCAT score. For 3 MCAT scores it looks simply irresponsible. And now you you have to accomplish 2 things about the MCAT, instead of one:
1. Get a good score
2. Overcome the stigma of being a 4-time examinee

You don't get free retakes on board exams in med school, and they won't even let you take board exams if it looks like you won't pass. So requiring multiple tries on the MCAT makes you a risky applicant. 45% of med school applicants are rejected every year, so there's no need whatsoever for med schools to take risks.

If you wanted this question answered:

Can anyone suggest any school that would be helpful for my situation?

The answer is no school will help you with the only problem you have, which is the MCAT. You have to be good at hours-long standardized multiple choice exams requiring comprehension of complex English. There's no getting out of it.

Some things you could do to improve your English, off the top of my head:
1. Live and work 24/7/365 in an English-only environment. Get to where your rent/happiness are secured by your ability to survive on subtleties.
2. Get a full time job where you have to communicate in English with people who aren't nice to you. Such as phone support or waiting tables or working at Starbucks.
3. Go back and get a bachelors in communications or theatre or something similar where you are evaluated on your grasp of language subtleties.
4. Study classic literature in a MOOC and find grumpy retired English professors to review your compositions and drill you on the subtleties.
Again, that's just off the top of my head. My mom has been teaching English to refugees for about 30 years. There's no easy way to true fluency, just lengthy difficult painful ways. Plenty of brilliant geniuses give up on it.

Best of luck to you.

 

[deleted248403]

Is there anyone could answer my original question?

No - there is no school

+1 to what Midlife said

A set of sh*tty circumstances makes sense for one bad MCAT, hell two if you did them like back to back.... but 3..... thats a more global issue. A 20 is a trainwreck. That's less than most people's diagnostic scores.

 

[Hailstorm]

No harsh comments please. Is there anyone could answer my original question?

No, you could look into the possibility of auditing the pre-requisite classes for some sort of educational support. Why must you be involved with a school while you review the material? You should look into how this might be perceived before you proceed though.

Where did you do your undergrad?