Schools asking you to apply based on your MCAT score?

[Taranis]

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Hey so I've heard a few times that friends of friends of mine that get asked to come to medical schools based on their MCAT scores. Has this ever happened to anyone? What score would you need for schools to do this? I scored moderately high (39S), but I didn't get any invitations to come to any schools. Is this true or are these just rumors?

 

[aSagacious]

Don't pay those emails any attention, whether you received them or not. That said, your MCAT is competitive at every school in the nation.

 

[sector9]

Hey so I've heard a few times that friends of friends of mine that get asked to come to medical schools based on their MCAT scores. Has this ever happened to anyone? What score would you need for schools to do this? I scored moderately high (39S), but I didn't get any invitations to come to any schools. Is this true or are these just rumors?

What do you mean by this? The spam that they send you?

ETA: Listen to Saggy

 

[FrkyBgStok]

Yeah that is spam.

 

[YH5]

I remember the only one I got was from Temple's podiatry program.

 

[jayzwasinledzep]

"moderately high," lol.

 

[doctorshateher]

Hey so I've heard a few times that friends of friends of mine that get asked to come to medical schools based on their MCAT scores. Has this ever happened to anyone? What score would you need for schools to do this? I scored moderately high (39S), but I didn't get any invitations to come to any schools. Is this true or are these just rumors?

ummmmm....

Well those emails are spam, don't put any stake into them. That being said, good work 👍

Brings up a question I've been wondering though. Do schools that send these emails actually have access to your MCAT score? Is it kind of like the ACT, where they pay the company for the chance to send stuff to everyone who scored over XX? Or do they just send them out when they find out that you took the MCAT, regardless of score?

 

[MedMan25]

ummmmm....

Well those emails are spam, don't put any stake into them. That being said, good work 👍

Brings up a question I've been wondering though. Do schools that send these emails actually have access to your MCAT score? Is it kind of like the ACT, where they pay the company for the chance to send stuff to everyone who scored over XX? Or do they just send them out when they find out that you took the MCAT, regardless of score?

Your MCAT score is protected, personal information. Just like your health record. The only way a school can access your score is if you release your score to them through AMCAS.

 

[sector9]

Brings up a question I've been wondering though. Do schools that send these emails actually have access to your MCAT score? Is it kind of like the ACT, where they pay the company for the chance to send stuff to everyone who scored over XX? Or do they just send them out when they find out that you took the MCAT, regardless of score?

Your MCAT score is protected, personal information. Just like your health record. The only way a school can access your score is if you release your score to them through AMCAS.

Which a lot of people do when they register for the MCAT...

If you are applying for medical school, you and the American Medical College Application Service* will receive your scores automatically. Beyond that, though, there are three different score release options, described below, which you will be asked to consider and decide on at the time of registration.
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MCAT Recruiting Service

This release gives the AAMC permission to include your contact and MCAT exam score information in reports produced by the MCAT Recruiting Service. Accredited U.S. and Canadian schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, and veterinary medicine, along with scholarship programs of the U.S. government (including those of the U.S. military), may request information about examinees and use that information to send you material as part of their
recruiting efforts. The AAMC will release your information only to MD, DO, DPM, and DVM programs and their related joint degree programs so long as they are accredited by nationally recognized accrediting bodies, e.g., LCME.

 

[moose stuff]

"moderately high," lol.

Lol yeah, jesus. Especially when you go on to say it's 39S.

 

[turkeybean]

This has me confused as well. I've received some of these "spam" invitations and ignored most of them. But one school has sent me 4 or 5. Honestly I had not thought of applying to this program before, but I'm not sure what to make of these repeated invites. I'm not urm and don't think I have anything too spectacular going on...