Double Check Your MCAT Scores, AAMC Isn't Flawless

[Colonel Sanders]

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Just throwing this out to show that everyone, including AAMC makes mistakes. A friend of mine canceled her test a week before she was scheduled to take it. Obviously it was too late to get her money back but she called AAMC to tell them she would not be taking the test. Upon checking her score on an MCAT she took at a later date she found AAMC has marked down that she received a 24 on the test that she never even took. A small error like this can kill an application. Hopefully this doesn't happen very often.

 

[brandonh4]

Just throwing this out to show that everyone, including AAMC makes mistakes. A friend of mine canceled her test a week before she was scheduled to take it. Obviously it was too late to get her money back but she called AAMC to tell them she would not be taking the test. Upon checking her score on an MCAT she took at a later date she found AAMC has marked down that she received a 24 on the test that she never even took. A small error like this can kill an application. Hopefully this doesn't happen very often.

Do the mistakes ever go the other way?

My 33 turns into a 42? Mistakes ftw

 

[angldrps]

Just throwing this out to show that everyone, including AAMC makes mistakes. A friend of mine canceled her test a week before she was scheduled to take it. Obviously it was too late to get her money back but she called AAMC to tell them she would not be taking the test. Upon checking her score on an MCAT she took at a later date she found AAMC has marked down that she received a 24 on the test that she never even took. A small error like this can kill an application. Hopefully this doesn't happen very often.

😱😱😱

 

[TheWeeIceMan]

The post that launched a thousand calls to AAMC.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

She found out when she checked her scores online. It was just an extra score that didn't belong. We were thinking maybe they just assigned the score of the person that took her place to her but no one really knows.

 

[dominicandoctor]

Yeah would she have called if it was a 38 instead of a 24? lolo

 

[AestheticGod]

Lemme get this straight...

She didn't take the MCAT...and she got a 24 on it? That makes no sense...


Are you sure she wasn't just looking at the score from the recent MCAT she took?

It likely wouldn't come up at interview either. One could conceivably start practicing medicine and then have their degree recalled based on a falsified MCAT score. Of course, the applicant could claim no knowledge of the mistake and blame would fall on AMCAS. The student-turned-physician would then be allowed to continue to practice based on a previous (albeit mediocre) score. It's the perfect crime!

Will rely on this to get into med school!

 

[UCFKnight]

The post that launched a thousand calls to AAMC.

My thoughts exactly

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Yeah starting to think maybe Im not getting the full story either. May have just been trying to hide/justify the bad score.

From now on Im def only going off of personal experience b/c its a complete waste of time chasing details of an experience from someone else. Feel like a dog chasing my tail

 

[Narmerguy]

The post that launched a thousand calls to AAMC.

 

[phnerd1105]

The post that launched a thousand calls to AAMC.

I would pay to see how frantic the AAMC offices were. It would also make me feel better about the thousands I paid them for AMCAS.

 

[NickNaylor]

Yeah starting to think maybe Im not getting the full story either. May have just been trying to hide/justify the bad score.

From now on Im def only going off of personal experience b/c its a complete waste of time chasing details of an experience from someone else. Feel like a dog chasing my tail

Yeah, this makes no sense. In the words of Judge Judy, "if it doesn't make sense, it isn't true."

(sent from my phone - please forgive typos)

 

[espagueti]

Yeah, this makes no sense. In the words of Judge Judy, "if it doesn't make sense, it isn't true."

(sent from my phone - please forgive typos)

exactly. she was embarrassed about her scores so said she cancelled. you should slap her (not too hard).

 

[aminator01]

I would pay to see how frantic the AAMC offices were. It would also make me feel better about the thousands I paid them for AMCAS.

I would agree, until they raise fees to compensate themselves for all the extra phone calls!