I am in a very strange situation. I am also an unusual applicant, although from what I can tell, I'm not unusual an unusual person...
Citizenship: Canadian, and US
Current Resident: US
Undergrad GPA: 3.5's
Masters GPA: 3.8-3.9's
MCAT scores from 10+ years ago: 29R, 30Q, 28R
Most recent MCAT score: 43T
I was wondering how my application, and in particular, my MCAT's will be perceived. In the past, I had only applied to Canadian schools.
I did quite well in my first two years of university and then became heavily involved with student government in order to boost my extracurricular activities - in retrospect, perhaps a big mistake! My marks went down quite a bit as the full time position was more than I bargained for - I was the vice president at a large university. I received interviews even before completing my degree, which was not unusual at that time, however, I did not get accepted after interviews.
I then got a masters as my interest in medicine was still there, but I wanted to improve my profile for subsequent applications in the meantime. I applied, and again was interviewed, but no acceptances.
I then worked for 2 years in research, publishing as first author in several high impact journals in my field. As I was smothered in debt at this point from student loans and was only managing to scrape by on the research salary, I decided to go to law school so that I could start making more money to pay off my debts.
Fast forward about 10 years. I am now a practicing lawyer in New York at a well-known firm. I have a family, but still have a burning desire to be a doctor. I enjoyed the scientific aspect of medicine when I was a researcher, and have saved up enough money to comfortably put myself through school without taking on any loans. Over the past several years, I have continued with some research on the side, medicolegal issues, in collaboration with a local hospital. To date, I have 15+ first author papers in various scientific journals, and numerous second or third author papers. My wife is also very supportive of the idea to pursue a dream I have put on hold since my 20's.
I recently retook the MCAT and got 43T. To be honest, when I was studying for my previous tests (10+ years ago), I also scored quite high, but did much worse on the real test. 10 years later... finally! Any opinion on how taking the MCAT multiple times will affect my application? I know it's frowned upon and they may consider the most recent score simply a fluke.
Citizenship: Canadian, and US
Current Resident: US
Undergrad GPA: 3.5's
Masters GPA: 3.8-3.9's
MCAT scores from 10+ years ago: 29R, 30Q, 28R
Most recent MCAT score: 43T
I was wondering how my application, and in particular, my MCAT's will be perceived. In the past, I had only applied to Canadian schools.
I did quite well in my first two years of university and then became heavily involved with student government in order to boost my extracurricular activities - in retrospect, perhaps a big mistake! My marks went down quite a bit as the full time position was more than I bargained for - I was the vice president at a large university. I received interviews even before completing my degree, which was not unusual at that time, however, I did not get accepted after interviews.
I then got a masters as my interest in medicine was still there, but I wanted to improve my profile for subsequent applications in the meantime. I applied, and again was interviewed, but no acceptances.
I then worked for 2 years in research, publishing as first author in several high impact journals in my field. As I was smothered in debt at this point from student loans and was only managing to scrape by on the research salary, I decided to go to law school so that I could start making more money to pay off my debts.
Fast forward about 10 years. I am now a practicing lawyer in New York at a well-known firm. I have a family, but still have a burning desire to be a doctor. I enjoyed the scientific aspect of medicine when I was a researcher, and have saved up enough money to comfortably put myself through school without taking on any loans. Over the past several years, I have continued with some research on the side, medicolegal issues, in collaboration with a local hospital. To date, I have 15+ first author papers in various scientific journals, and numerous second or third author papers. My wife is also very supportive of the idea to pursue a dream I have put on hold since my 20's.
I recently retook the MCAT and got 43T. To be honest, when I was studying for my previous tests (10+ years ago), I also scored quite high, but did much worse on the real test. 10 years later... finally! Any opinion on how taking the MCAT multiple times will affect my application? I know it's frowned upon and they may consider the most recent score simply a fluke.
