MCAT 45 for real?

[buggy]

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Hi everybody!

Is there anybody who got a 45 on MCAT?? Are they all accepted into top schools?

I just want to get seriously motivated, now with only about a month till MCAT!!😱

 

[Fenrezz]

Actually, if you get a 45 on the MCAT, no schools will accept you.

You'll be too busy defending yourself against the investigation that will be launched trying to figure out how you cheated on the exam. After lawyer's fees and court costs, you won't have enough left to pay for secondaries.

Course, if you're really that shifty, law schools will probably be fighting themselves for the opportunity to give you a full scholarship. 😉

 

[buggy]

lol.

 

[mcataz]

I could be wrong. Please correct me if I am, but I was under the impressin that the highest MCAT score last year was a 42 or 43?

I think you would get accepted to most schools. Howevever, Harvard and some other schools will be more than happy to reject you. Why? They would love to advertise on their brochures how they rejected someone with a perfect score and how they are truly "democratic" in their application process. See, they still want the thousands of applications which translates to $$$$. Therefore, they still need to convince the person with the 28 MCAT that he or she has a chance at Harvard because they "look at the entire person when making their decision."

 

[buggy]

Good point, MCATAZ. That explains when we see some people with stellar #'s are turned down by a top school, our first reaction often is "wow, this school really doesn't look into #'s that much", and then "that poor guy must have bad EC, LOR, etc" - kind of Victim Blame.

 

[lattimer13]

Originally posted by buggy
Good point, MCATAZ. That explains when we see some people with stellar #'s are turned down by a top school, our first reaction often is "wow, this school really doesn't look into #'s that much", and then "that poor guy must have bad EC, LOR, etc" - kind of Victim Blame.

uh...maybe it's just that these overahcievers are pricks and the admissions committees see this. isn't that what the interview is for?

 

[samenewme]

Having worked in the academic world for about a decade, I can't imagine the med schools actually make a profit on application fees. I've seen the number of meetings, memos, evaluation grids, Personnel training sessions, etcetera, we go through for ONE academic recruitment. And there's just a resume and some reference phone calls to make.

Given the documentation that comes with a med school app, the number of people who have to look at each one, the number of applicants who have to be logged, updated, interviewed, notified, shown around campus, evaluated, rated, fought over, rated some more, not to mention the HUGE influx of phone calls, e-mails, update letters, strong letters of interest, etcetera, accept, send deposits, withdraw, get accepted at the last minute because of withdrawals, etc., I would be very surprised if the big fat application fee even covers close to the full cost. These decisions take a lot of time on the part of a lot of people.

Sure, it's hard for us, but it's not any big party for them, either.

I think schools really DO want a diverse class (for whatever reason, cynical or no), and there's always some guy with a 45 who turns out to be an dingus so they can reject him or her. Face it, if I got a 45, I'd be likely to get just a bit of an attitude.

Denise