Originally posted by walrus
This is just to quell any rumors or misconceptions that anyone (the Navy, med schools) has your August MCAT scores right now. At this point, I'm probably not even sure that they've scored half of the scantron sheets. Put it this way, it takes 3-4 days for them to get your score sheets to wherever they need to go. Then, it takes many days for them to unload these sheets and start putting them into the scanners. They've got thousands of these sheets to scan and as you know, they are not the most efficient people in the world.
Do you really think that they've had time to score everyone's test, perform all the statistical manipulations they need to do in order to give you a number score, and had time to forward your scores to the Navy and all the med schools?
Here's another thing to put your mind at ease. Of several friends of mine you took and rocked the april MCAT (>35), AND elected to release their info to whoever wanted it, not one of them received anything from the Navy.
The point is: Don't read anything into anyone receving anything from anyone!
All the scores go to one center in Iowa. Since it is computer generated, I don't see how it would take so long to scan the sheets, and use the computers to automatically give the Navy or whatever the information they want. The only part that would take long to score would be the writing section which isn't all that important.
As for the Aprili MCAT and not recieving anything. Perhaps they didn't check to release form? Because my friends who scored above 35 are getting navy/army , pod e-mails, and of course, the almight Pittsburg packet (no they are not URM and did not apply to Pitt) though they did check to send scores out). Yes, they were april mcaters, in fact they just started getting this info 2 days ago. There was another thread about UMich stating that they had recieved august mcat scores already but cannot process it b/c they didnt have the writing sample or something.
This would make sense that they are JUST recieving info now because if i was a recruiter, I would want to make sure i had enough people entering the prior year before attempting to recruit ppl for the upcoming year so it would be logical to send mail around this time instead of immediantly after the april mcats where i'd be busy filling the class with students for the prior year.
I don't know. I do recall sdners (do a search) who took the august mcat in 2001 and scored high also receiving navy phone calls ..all of whom recieved above or at least a 30 (morninglight, choker, mpp?).... And it seemed as though the students in certain areas recieved info first...perhaps their sheets got scanned first...if that is the case, the problem of score manipulation isn't such a big deal if they did it in batches and sent it in batches. They might be doing it by test form or location of test center.
For those who didn't get any info yet, perhaps your answer sheets are still in line for scanning.
shrug...either way it is a POSSIBILITY so I wouldnt' rule it out nor would I make assumptions...assumptions do tend to bring disappointments but ruling things out as a rumor takes the fun out of speculation and hope, even if it might be fake hope
