How long does it take to get MCAT scores?

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If someone takes the MCAT in January, how long does it take (in days or weeks) to get the scores reported?
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LizzyM said:
If someone takes the MCAT in January, how long does it take (in days or weeks) to get the scores reported?
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30-35 days. Took mine Jan. 19 and am supposed to get my score the week of Feb. 20.
 
I bet those are four anxiety-loaded weeks. Shows the importance of practicing a lot with AAMC material too - if you know you were doing satisfactorily well on the AAMC practice tests it prob helps to assuage anxiety.
 
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I took it the 19... I haven't thought about it much. But every time I do, I'm like, yup blew that test haha


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redsox93 said:
I couldn't sleep the night before either! I probably got about 2-3 hours also. I felt like I was falling asleep during CARS haha
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I've always felt like the second half of the exam was "easier" than the first half. CARS is the worst haha
 
Healer@1994 said:
Maybe a little bit. I cried after I took my MCAT, haha
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freak7 said:
I don't know how your brain spared the energy to cry. Mine was just a big puddle of mush afterwards.
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I got into my car and cried for a solid hour (like still parked at the test center). Then I met some friends for dinner. Then I went back to my hotel (took MCAT out of town, booked hotel for 1 night before and 2 nights after). There, I existed in a catatonic state (never really awake nor asleep) until checkout. Then I drove home, went to my favorite place on earth (my university's football stadium) and laid on the bleachers in the sun for 3 hours. I left there feeling restored and normal.
 
sunshinefl said:
I got into my car and cried for a solid hour (like still parked at the test center). Then I met some friends for dinner. Then I went back to my hotel (took MCAT out of town, booked hotel for 1 night before and 2 nights after). There, I existed in a catatonic state (never really awake nor asleep) until checkout. Then I drove home, went to my favorite place on earth (my university's football stadium) and laid on the bleachers in the sun for 3 hours. I left there feeling restored and normal.
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This story, for some reason, reminded me of shawshank redemption....

I called one of my best friends after and babbled like an idiot hahaha
 
sunshinefl said:
I got into my car and cried for a solid hour (like still parked at the test center). Then I met some friends for dinner. Then I went back to my hotel (took MCAT out of town, booked hotel for 1 night before and 2 nights after). There, I existed in a catatonic state (never really awake nor asleep) until checkout. Then I drove home, went to my favorite place on earth (my university's football stadium) and laid on the bleachers in the sun for 3 hours. I left there feeling restored and normal.
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At first I lamented my chances at happiness and ruminated amidst the emptiness and dread I felt afterwards. Then I cured it all with a random food combination: Mac and Cheese Sauce with Ramen. I felt better, drank a mojito, and watched some GoT.
 
URMfemaleMPH said:
I also cried after my MCAT in the parking lot outside the testing center. Then, once I accepted my fate of utter doom, I drove straight from the testing center to a liquor store, invested in quite a bit of booze, and then hit up McDonalds (a place I hadn't eaten at in YEARS). Bought a nice fat Big Mac meal, washed it down with a LOT of wine. And the rest of the night was a pleasant blur.
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I did something similar, but with burritos and vodka.
 
Kids these days have it easy.

I took the very last paper administration of the MCAT (August 2006), and the standard wait was 60 days.
 
jb94mg said:
I bet those are four anxiety-loaded weeks. Shows the importance of practicing a lot with AAMC material too - if you know you were doing satisfactorily well on the AAMC practice tests it prob helps to assuage anxiety.
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Wait until you get to wait 3 months for your Step 2 CS score that you paid $1300 for and had to travel and stay overnight in a city 6 hours away from home. 😉 It's hard to fail that test, only about 5% of test takers fail, but it's so subjective and so expensive that the thought of having to retake it made me nuts with anxiety.
 
Luckily - everyone told me the score is actually worthless. Unless you need it to make up for a sub-par step 1.

Ismet said:
Wait until you get to wait 3 months for your Step 2 CS score that you paid $1300 for and had to travel and stay overnight in a city 6 hours away from home. 😉
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URMfemaleMPH said:
I also cried after my MCAT in the parking lot outside the testing center. Then, once I accepted my fate of utter doom, I drove straight from the testing center to a liquor store, invested in quite a bit of booze, and then hit up McDonalds (a place I hadn't eaten at in YEARS). Bought a nice fat Big Mac meal, washed it down with a LOT of wine. And the rest of the night was a pleasant blur.
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freak7 said:
I did something similar, but with burritos and vodka.
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Beer and burgers
 
Man, I can't wait to take the MCAT! Sounds like a blast.

I just pushed back my date to this summer (bless) and asked my mom (who is so very kind) if she would drive me because I already know I'm going to be a mess before and after the exam. The best part about pushing it back though, is that I'll actually be of age (I'm a youngin) so I can actually properly celebrate afterwards, hahaha.
 
tessellations said:
Man, I can't wait to take the MCAT! Sounds like a blast.

I just pushed back my date to this summer (bless) and asked my mom (who is so very kind) if she would drive me because I already know I'm going to be a mess before and after the exam. The best part about pushing it back though, is that I'll actually be of age (I'm a youngin) so I can actually properly celebrate afterwards, hahaha.
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Woooo!!!! 😎
 
jb94mg said:
I bet those are four anxiety-loaded weeks. Shows the importance of practicing a lot with AAMC material too - if you know you were doing satisfactorily well on the AAMC practice tests it prob helps to assuage anxiety.
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I took it back in the summer of 2015 so I unfortunately didn't have AAMC sample scores, just the percent grades. That being said, I actually thought I did really well on test day and walked out with a smile on my face. Am I really that much in the minority regarding a lack of emotional devastation after the exam?
 
URMfemaleMPH said:
I also cried after my MCAT in the parking lot outside the testing center. Then, once I accepted my fate of utter doom, I drove straight from the testing center to a liquor store, invested in quite a bit of booze, and then hit up McDonalds (a place I hadn't eaten at in YEARS). Bought a nice fat Big Mac meal, washed it down with a LOT of wine. And the rest of the night was a pleasant blur.
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I saw your post; you got 520. HOLYMOLYHOWYOUDOTHATOMGBBQTHATISIMPRESSIVE😀
 
Go4Doc said:
I took it back in the summer of 2015 so I unfortunately didn't have AAMC sample scores, just the percent grades. That being said, I actually thought I did really well on test day and walked out with a smile on my face. Am I really that much in the minority regarding a lack of emotional devastation after the exam?
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I walked out thinking I did pretty well except for one section.

Everyday I felt like my score got worse and worse. By the end of the 4 weeks I was convinced I wouldn't even break 510 and would have to retake.

I ended up doing pretty well and didn't have to retake.

Then I started a liquid chemical regiment to aggressively forget everything I had learned for the mcat and unwind my anxiety 😉.
 
Lucca said:
I walked out thinking I did pretty well except for one section.

Everyday I felt like my score got worse and worse. By the end of the 4 weeks I was convinced I wouldn't even break 510 and would have to retake.

I ended up doing pretty well and didn't have to retake.

Then I started a liquid chemical regiment to aggressively forget everything I had learned for the mcat and unwind my anxiety 😉.
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Haha I guess I can understand that. We are our own worst critics after all. My biggest moment of anxiety was actually the moment before I actually clicked the button to show me my scores. I was worried that it was about to become "real." Fortunately my anxiety was short lived!
 
A friend and I both took the test at the same time, so we carpooled to and from the testing site. He showed up at my house at like 6:45 (the testing site is a 10 minute drive from my house--he told me he was coming at 7:15) and was jittery the whole time we were signing in. We didn't get emotional or anything after the test, but we were both tired enough that he took ~10 wrong turns on the way back home and I didn't do anything to stop him. I passed a few hours on the couch in a vegetative state, tried to play a game of FIFA with my friends that I was too out of it to finish, and then went to IKEA and bought a whole bunch of furniture for my new apartment while my fiancée was across the country on an internship.
 
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