I have a bad feeling....

[ocean11]

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Hi guys, o.k first and foremost I'm stupid because I just finished my secondaries and handed them in a week ago! yeah yeah I know.... secondly my MCAT score is as follows: 7,10,10,Q that 7 is going to kill me (its in verbal).

So I've come to the conclusion that I just want one interview so I can see what its like and apply again for next year in JUNE!!!!! but I am going to redo my MCAT in April, **** I hate verbal! I studied so loooong for it! what happened?!?!?!?!

Anyone in the same situation....


(oh my GPA is 3.50)

 

[Jumpu]

Hello fellow Torontonian! (I was born and raised in Toronto and now residing in the US).

My heart kinda goes out to you because I know how tough those Canadian med schools (or even the US schools as an international applicant) can be to get into. I also had a lot of trouble with the verbal while studying for it last year for the April 2002 MCAT. I was scoring 7-9 in the practice tests and so naturally I was really nervous about how I would do on the real deal. Some advice that people give is to go out and read a lot of difficult material and try to understand it. That's find and good if you've been doing that anyway for many years, but I found that I could not use that strategy for the time given to study. What I used to do was read the passages as deeply and carefully as possible, making mental notes of things (also underlining with a pencil) that seemed to carry the flow of the article. Then I would read the question and go back and reread the relevant information. This is a very time consuming process and so for me the trick was to balance deep reading with speed. I never for a moment trusted my memory, I would always go back to check. Everytime I thought I knew the answer without looking again, it was usually my mind inferring something incorrectly.

I don't know, this is what worked for me. I got a 10 which alright I guess by SDN standards, but amazing for me!

 

[Chieka]

Ocean11: rewriting's not a bad idea, although I wouldn't totally write off this application cycle. LOTS of students struggle with Verbal, and since American schools don't have a cut-off per se (as do those Ontario schools), you still have a chance. The key is getting the interview and showing them how great you are. 🙂 Best wishes.

C.

 

[Medical123]

You may still have a chance. There was a person on SDN last year who did not even turn in her AMCAS application until the last possible day and she received something like 6 interviews in early March. Her Verbal was a little higher than yours, but her science scores were lower. My applications were not complete until the middle of October and early November so I am kind of in the same boat that you are. So, maybe there is hope for us yet!

I may be wrong, but I think that a lot of late interview slots will start to open up once people start getting accepted to their top choice schools. A lot of people just are not going to spend the money to go to interviews when they are no longer really interested in the school. At least, I hope so anyway.