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I scored 129/123/128/128 (508) last week and today I scored 129/124/127/126 (506). 1 question off to bump to a 130 in C/P and P/S but just made the mark for 124 in CARS instead of 123... I studied my butt off for CARS this whole summer using 3rd parties bu
If i do well on FL 3. should that give me a reason to take it or just void it?Do not take the MCAT until you are confident of a score consistent with success.
A weak MCAT never goes away and is not erased by a subsequent score.
I see nothing here which indicates a need to be hopeless.
Master's degrees have no effect on an MD application (excluding SMP's which you have no need for!).
I never recommend taking the test with the intention of voiding in your situation. It's just too much to expect that you will be able to judge in the moment.If i do well on FL 3. should that give me a reason to take it or just void it?
Should I take a MPH or 2 year thesis based masters program?
Dave, you're an adult now. You're old enough to vote, drink, drive, smoke, work, pay taxes, run for office and fight and die for your country. Thus, you're old enough to grow a spine and deal with your parents. Tell them that you're the one going to med school, not them.I am a 21 year old about to graduate next year. My parents want me to get in as soon as possible or they will deem me a failure and compare me to their family friends children if I don't get in after a gap year. Yes I am a ORM. They won't support me right after I graduate so I don't know what to do as well.
I am taking the MCAT 8/31 but have done terrible on my FLs 1 and 2. My 3rd parties were consistently around 128/124/128/128. I scored 129/123/128/128 (508) last week and today I scored 129/124/127/126 (506). 1 question off to bump to a 130 in C/P and P/S but just made the mark for 124 in CARS instead of 123... I studied my butt off for CARS this whole summer using 3rd parties but nothing seems to work. I was quite confident in cars when I took today's FL but guess i was wrong... My raw score on 3rd parties was always around ~65% My goal is a 512 since that's the average for ORMs to matriculate.
My current GPA is 3.93 and my dream is my state school. I need to apply this next cycle. Should I go take this exam and then see what I get and do a retake next year if I don't hit the scores or void if I feel terrible?? How bad would retakes look? I would say I have average to above average E.C. When would be the last day to take the MCAT next summer if I want to apply next cycle? Should I take a MPH or 2 year thesis based masters program? I feel hopeless and don't know if I can even become a doctor at this point if I can't understand how to read a cars passage
I am a 21 year old about to graduate next year. My parents want me to get in as soon as possible or they will deem me a failure and compare me to their family friends children if I don't get in after a gap year. Yes I am a ORM. They won't support me right after I graduate so I don't know what to do as well.
I am taking the MCAT 8/31 but have done terrible on my FLs 1 and 2. My 3rd parties were consistently around 128/124/128/128. I scored 129/123/128/128 (508) last week and today I scored 129/124/127/126 (506). 1 question off to bump to a 130 in C/P and P/S but just made the mark for 124 in CARS instead of 123... I studied my butt off for CARS this whole summer using 3rd parties but nothing seems to work. I was quite confident in cars when I took today's FL but guess i was wrong... My raw score on 3rd parties was always around ~65% My goal is a 512 since that's the average for ORMs to matriculate.
My current GPA is 3.93 and my dream is my state school. I need to apply this next cycle. Should I go take this exam and then see what I get and do a retake next year if I don't hit the scores or void if I feel terrible?? How bad would retakes look? I would say I have average to above average E.C. When would be the last day to take the MCAT next summer if I want to apply next cycle? Should I take a MPH or 2 year thesis based masters program? I feel hopeless and don't know if I can even become a doctor at this point if I can't understand how to read a cars passage
Do you read a lot outside science textbooks? If not, you should and in the meantime take an additional gap year to prepare for the MCAT.
Yo, just confirming you'd classify a 32-credit hour MS in Medical Sciences as an SMP, right? Cool. And OP, coming from someone that had to get their **** together and took the MCAT 3x... you do NOT want to do that. Just take it when you're ready. You need to improve CARS. Look up strategies, read every day, practice ever day. Good luck ~Do not take the MCAT until you are confident of a score consistent with success.
A weak MCAT never goes away and is not erased by a subsequent score.
I see nothing here which indicates a need to be hopeless.
Master's degrees have no effect on an MD application (excluding SMP's which you have no need for!).
I think if the OP is not good at the CARs section, then textbooks aren't going to help much within a years time. He should have been doing that for several years before taking the MCAT for that to have any affect.
Now the OP should just try to get better at that portion of the test by looking at the MCAT section of this site for tricks, tips, and helpful hints to get through that section. It is by far the hardest section, but can still be dissected.
Yo, just confirming you'd classify a 32-credit hour MS in Medical Sciences as an SMP, right? Cool. And OP, coming from someone that had to get their **** together and took the MCAT 3x... you do NOT want to do that. Just take it when you're ready. You need to improve CARS. Look up strategies, read every day, practice ever day. Good luck ~
My first step was to become "clean"--yes, exactly what you're thinking. Had to mature. Then, my master's program helped me out a lot for the bio/biochem section. But I watched all of the Khan Academy videos with a mix of Princeton Review and Kaplan books. Used Next Step exams (great) and did all the AAMC material. Studied about 5-6 months during the program (yes, it was hell). Mostly, I attribute my boost to a much needed change of mindset.What did you ultimately do to get your MCAT score up to a 515?
I feel hopeless and don't know if I can even become a doctor at this point if I can't understand how to read a cars passage
I'm saying the OP should do more than just read science textbooks.
For every CARS passage you need to know only two things: 1. Main idea of the passage 2. The author's tone towards the main idea. Get your hands on as many CARS practice passages that you can and practice practice practice drawing those two things out of passages and writing them down, then as you do the questions you only need to refer to those unless it's one of those random questions that asks about the meaning of a word or sentence in paragraph 3 or something like that.
If you know those two things you can answer most of the questions without even reading the passage. Source: 99th percentile CARS.
I am a 21 year old about to graduate next year. My parents want me to get in as soon as possible or they will deem me a failure and compare me to their family friends children if I don't get in after a gap year. Yes I am a ORM. They won't support me right after I graduate so I don't know what to do as well.
I am a terrible reader. My SAT ACT english section was terrible. I've been wanting to be a doc since high school internship but my parents just love to compare their children with others and get angry if I don't meet their expectations.
So last summer I started doing JW CARS, and did EKs CARs. Read Aeon Magazine for fun. I began to use anki to memorize every vocab word I didn't understand. School started and stopped reading.
This summer I did all the KA passages -> EK 101 Old Verbal -> NS 108 Passages -> Kaplan FLs 1-3 -> uWorld -> NS FL 1-6 -> AAMC. I still have FL 3 and qpack 2 of cars.
I started at 50% but I improved to 60%-70% and I took them in groups of 9 passages. Now it loosk like I peaked... I don't know why its still not clicking for me and i feel like Ill never able to improve cars and I peaked for good... super sick in my stomach how i messed up in highschool and now these things are coming to haunt me.
What section did you have the toughest time with?
My parents want me to get in as soon as possible or they will deem me a failure and compare me to their family friends children if I don't get in after a gap year
OP
Do you actually want to attend medical school?
Would you want to apart from parental pressure?
110%. I have sacrificed so much for my gpa, been shadowing drs since high school. I was never gifted in high school, and never understood what hardwork meant until I went to University and realized what humility means after first semester.
My parents are just super bitter that Im most likely taking a gap year or maybe two and blame me for being lazy & incompetent. I studied this summer really hard and feel terrible that I still cant understand how to read a passage correctly. I feel hopeless because this is the section score that is dragging my mcat down and my dreams. I am just defeated that my hardwork doesnt show with this section compred to the others and worst I wasted my parents $ buying 3rd party exams.
I am a 21 year old about to graduate next year. My parents want me to get in as soon as possible or they will deem me a failure and compare me to their family friends children if I don't get in after a gap year. Yes I am a ORM. They won't support me right after I graduate so I don't know what to do as well.
I am taking the MCAT 8/31 but have done terrible on my FLs 1 and 2. My 3rd parties were consistently around 128/124/128/128. I scored 129/123/128/128 (508) last week and today I scored 129/124/127/126 (506). 1 question off to bump to a 130 in C/P and P/S but just made the mark for 124 in CARS instead of 123... I studied my butt off for CARS this whole summer using 3rd parties but nothing seems to work. I was quite confident in cars when I took today's FL but guess i was wrong... My raw score on 3rd parties was always around ~65% My goal is a 512 since that's the average for ORMs to matriculate.
My current GPA is 3.93 and my dream is my state school. I need to apply this next cycle. Should I go take this exam and then see what I get and do a retake next year if I don't hit the scores or void if I feel terrible?? How bad would retakes look? I would say I have average to above average E.C. When would be the last day to take the MCAT next summer if I want to apply next cycle? Should I take a MPH or 2 year thesis based masters program? I feel hopeless and don't know if I can even become a doctor at this point if I can't understand how to read a cars passage
110%. I have sacrificed so much for my gpa, been shadowing drs since high school. I was never gifted in high school, and never understood what hardwork meant until I went to University and realized what humility means after first semester.
My parents are just super bitter that Im most likely taking a gap year or maybe two and blame me for being lazy & incompetent. I studied this summer really hard and feel terrible that I still cant understand how to read a passage correctly. I feel hopeless because this is the section score that is dragging my mcat down and my dreams. I am just defeated that my hardwork doesnt show with this section compred to the others and worst I wasted my parents $ buying 3rd party exams.