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I need some advice regarding re-application. I am currently on 3 wait lists, I am in the top 20 at one of these schools but obviously there are no guarantees. Last cycle I didn't submit my MD secondaries until mid to late November and submitted my DO secondaries in mid January. So, I submitted my applications way too late. I had at least 2 schools tell me that I would have benefited from submitting earlier. Out of the 16 schools I applied to, I was put on pre-interview hold for half of them and then later rejected, and all 3 schools I interviewed at put me on waitlists because my interviews weren't until Feb/March.
My stats: 25R MCAT (6PS, 11VR, 8BS) 3.4 cum GPA, 3.2 science GPA. Biology major, minor in Spanish. I have a few hundred hours of hospital volunteering, 50 hours of shadowing, did undergrad research, and other volunteer work and a few other undergrad organizations. I felt very confident in my PS and I'm not how I would alter it. And I felt that I had good LORs as well.
A few questions:
Obviously I realize that my MCAT is low and I would benefit from re-taking it. However, there isn't any time to study and re-take now. I feel like the most important is to apply early. I am going to wait a little longer before I submit and see how the wait list pans out. So, is it really that terrible to re-apply with virtually the same application? I've been out of college for a few years and I work full-time and my application hasn't really changed but I've continued to volunteer and I have a non-medicine job (teacher) that I was asked about a lot during interviews. Would it be awful to re-apply without changing my application? I would be applying to a few of the same schools (especially the ones I'm waitlisted at). I took the MCAT again at one point but I cancelled my score because I didn't finish 2 of the sections. When I get asked about why I didn't take the MCAT, is this bad to bring up? I don't have the time to really change anything ... I don't even really have the money to apply again right now.
My stats: 25R MCAT (6PS, 11VR, 8BS) 3.4 cum GPA, 3.2 science GPA. Biology major, minor in Spanish. I have a few hundred hours of hospital volunteering, 50 hours of shadowing, did undergrad research, and other volunteer work and a few other undergrad organizations. I felt very confident in my PS and I'm not how I would alter it. And I felt that I had good LORs as well.
A few questions:
Obviously I realize that my MCAT is low and I would benefit from re-taking it. However, there isn't any time to study and re-take now. I feel like the most important is to apply early. I am going to wait a little longer before I submit and see how the wait list pans out. So, is it really that terrible to re-apply with virtually the same application? I've been out of college for a few years and I work full-time and my application hasn't really changed but I've continued to volunteer and I have a non-medicine job (teacher) that I was asked about a lot during interviews. Would it be awful to re-apply without changing my application? I would be applying to a few of the same schools (especially the ones I'm waitlisted at). I took the MCAT again at one point but I cancelled my score because I didn't finish 2 of the sections. When I get asked about why I didn't take the MCAT, is this bad to bring up? I don't have the time to really change anything ... I don't even really have the money to apply again right now.