The first time I took the DAT, I got 20 PA/16 QR/20 RC/21 BIO/18 GC/18 OC/19 TS/19 AA. It wasn't too shocking, since I had spent way more time studying and stressing over the other subjects. Today I retook the DAT, mostly to improve my QR score. And I had worked hard on it. Leaving Prometric, I cried as soon as I got the car door closed... my new scores are are 19 PA/15 QR/20 RC/20 BIO/20 GC/20 OC/20 TS/19 AA. I didn't just fail to improve, I made it worse.
I guess my question is, should I apply, or would that just be setting more money on fire? Would my previous QR scores be looked at more, or the new ones? Does anyone know of any okay schools that wouldn't trash my application?
Sorry if there are too many posts like this already. I'm still very emotional and don't know what to do with myself. I'm not sure how it will work in my situation, where I don't have extremely high scores in some other area to offset this. Everything about my application is just average, except for my abysmal auto-reject QR scores (I had a 3.5 gpa, probably a pretty average college extracurricular resume, and did AmeriCorps after college).
I guess my question is, should I apply, or would that just be setting more money on fire? Would my previous QR scores be looked at more, or the new ones? Does anyone know of any okay schools that wouldn't trash my application?
Sorry if there are too many posts like this already. I'm still very emotional and don't know what to do with myself. I'm not sure how it will work in my situation, where I don't have extremely high scores in some other area to offset this. Everything about my application is just average, except for my abysmal auto-reject QR scores (I had a 3.5 gpa, probably a pretty average college extracurricular resume, and did AmeriCorps after college).