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If I sign up online, how do I redeem this $200 discount?
how so?
It's the biggest waste of your time. You can study much more effectively if you just do it on your own (which you'll have to do anyway, but too many people use Kaplan as a crutch and forget that part) with books, and save yourself at least $1500.
Class room sessions: waste. this is time you could have used more efficiently, or utilized for an EC or your current semester classes.
Subject tests: low yield and over the top
Verbal: the worst verbal prep of any MCAT prep company
Practice tests: check out the MCAT forum, usually don't correlate as well with what people got on the real thing. Since the science sections are "more difficult" the scale is far too forgiving, and it's material you wouldn't see on the MCAT anyway. Kaplan tends to be a lot of detail and memorization, and little critical thinking and reasoning which the actual MCAT is. AAMC practice tests are far more accurate. And are you really going to do 20 practice tests (Kaplan + AAMC??)? Doubt it. Stick with the 8 AAMC tests.
Books: lame questions that aren't written in MCAT style. Lack of training for passages.
Qbank and flash cards: littered with typos and incorrect information
i agree with the above post. Classroom was waste.
But, i found their online resources very helpful, especially the full length tests.
Kaplan has its merits. I took the course and went from a 28 on their diagnostic to a 36T on the real thing. The most important thing I learned from them was how to do the written essay.