taking Aug 25th MCAt

[Yoyomama88]

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if i have everything in before and complete...how bad will this hurt me?

 

[casillas]

Is your AMCAS already in and verified and only waiting on MCAT?

It may hurt you or not. I think it will depend on how strong the rest of your application is.

you should have all your secondary prompts ready to be sent, so that once you get them you can send them off, same day if possible.

 

[Yoyomama88]

amcas is going to be submitted in the next few days...everything else is fine. I'm going to finish the secondaries before the scores come back...So I shouldn't be too worried then?

 

[GoSpursGo]

Honestly, I'd be pretty worried; even if you got all of your secondaries in before the MCAT, they're not even going to look at your app until you get the MCAT. Being complete in late September is really getting on the late side of things.

I mean, there's not much you can do about it now, so definitely get those secondaries in so you can at least be done asap... just do your best to play the application game as well as possible from here on out!

 

[njbmd]

if i have everything in before and complete...how bad will this hurt me?

You are going to be quite late as your application won't be complete until sometime around October. If you haven't submitted your AMCAS by now, you have really put yourself behind schedule.

If you are not an outstanding candidate (meaning not well above the mean for matriculants [3.7 uGPA/31MCAT], the late submission may mean that you wind up either on a waitlist or as a reapplicant next year.

It also means that you need to make sure that you don't screw the MCAT. You don't have the luxury of not reporting your MCAT score. If you have a previous low score and you score low on the Aug exam, you have likely tanked your chances of getting in anywhere. If you have any mistakes on your AMCAS, your application will be very late for this year. Keep in mind that most people have already submitted by this point and that many schools have set their interview schedule for the most part.

To recap: Submitting late isn't problematic for an outstanding candidate (or a legacy) but tends to work against an average candidate. If you are hanging around the average for a school (or below) you NEED an early submission which you will miss if you submit at this point.

 

[Jolt21]

schools that screen for secondaries will not send you one till your scores come in. so you would have to just look at the prompts in the school-specific forums and use those.