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Registration opens up sometime today so I thought I'd go ahead and make this thread. Anyone else taking it in August?
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This has been the worst month of my life and if I don't get the score I'm shooting for I'm not sure what's going to happen to me...

Ok that was dramatic, but man this month has been brutal on a psychological level. So much on the line. I'm a non traditional applicant and time isn't on my side. I really hope I can pull off a 508. So far this process has been all work + anxiety + depression and no reward.

Will the 8.21 / 8.22 scores be released together? Or are 8.21 scores released early in the day and 8.22 scores later on?
 
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struggling said:
This has been the worst month of my life and if I don't get the score I'm shooting for I'm not sure what's going to happen to me...

Ok that was dramatic, but man this month has been brutal on a psychological level. So much on the line. I'm a non traditional applicant and time isn't on my side. I really hope I can pull off a 508. So far this process has been all work + anxiety + depression and no reward.

Will the 8.21 / 8.22 scores be released together? Or are 8.21 scores released early in the day and 8.22 scores later on?
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Feel for you dude. What's your age/current employment?
 
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I feel like even if I don't get the score I'm shooting for eventually I'll feel better than how I've been feeling this past month. Sometimes you just need closure. Uncertainty is more anxiety inducing.
 
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I must be one of those rarities on here in the working world. I work a late shift on Tuesday so I'm debating whether I should look at the scores before work or after work. I think I'm going with after work so I can have one more full day of rainbows and gumdrops.
 
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^SAME
I have too much stuff to do that day and don't feel like dealing with a potentially bad MCAT score on top of it lol
 
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billeboi31 said:
Definitely the ramblings of one disgruntled person. I've heard the opposite of each of those points from plenty of physicians. Also, please define "underpaid slave." Haha.
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According to that blog, we're all doomed for divorce and misery and woe. :(
 
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billeboi31 said:
Definitely the ramblings of one disgruntled person. I've heard the opposite of each of those points from plenty of physicians. Also, please define "underpaid slave." Haha.
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I've been a nurse for seven years now. It has allowed me to finish the premed courses and travel the world, working only 1-2 days a week most of the time. I'm now at a crossroad - stay where I am and improve my skills, OR go to medical school and not have much life outside of medicine for at least 7-45 years. I genuinely want to expand my scope of practice and have more impact here and abroad, but now that my goal to be a doctor is closer, the doubts that I've been ignoring (and other things that I may have been burying) all these years are surfacing. When I was in college, I think I had unrealistic dreams. After years of working alongside attendings, residents, and interns, I have been exposed to both extremes of what medicine can do to students and doctors alike. I'm not claiming to have experienced even a small percentage of what they experience, but I find the article to be mostly true. I have friends who are now specialists but are so busy that their relationships with friends and/or significant others fell apart. An experienced attending said to me the other day, "The truth, kid, is that your family and friends would not be your priority. You'd miss reunions, weddings, birthdays." I know that that comes with the territory. The chief of cardiology who I've been following since 2009 is always sleep-deprived and his marriage fell apart many years ago. He's happy that none his children are following his footsteps. Of course, other specialists don't get calls at 33o in the morning, and other doctors are perfectly happy with the paths they've taken. This article just shows another perspective that many pre-meds may have ignored. These are other biased thoughts: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1JKFB...D=133140011&store=digital-text#wasThisHelpful

More than likely, I'll apply. I just want to acknowledge and address my doubts and work on them before I do.
 
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The biggest reason I don't want to retake is because of my health. I've gained weight over summer from sitting around all day slaving over these books and while I am by no means overweight or unhealthy, it was surprising seeing that I had.

And this is with me working out consistently and being a vegetarian. I've gained muscle but also some fat.

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I just REALLY don't want to find out that I blew 3 months and almost $1,000 on the test and prep materials to have to do it all over again.
I've been able to stay positive for the most part, but every now and then I have a flash that I'm looking at my score and it's terrible. *sigh*
This wait has been utterly cruel...
 
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If I have to retake, I'm doing nothing but practice tests and analyzing my weaknesses: AAMC FL #1, AAMC FL #2, and EK 1-4.
 
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blahblahpremeds said:
I've been having nightmares the whole weekend due to anxiety. Anyone else?
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It's weird, many people have said they thought they did horrible (guessed on Qs, ran out of time and chose random answers, knew they got several Qs wrong, etc) and ended up getting a pretty good score. While others have said they thought they crushed it and didn't do as well as they thought. So I've been wishfully thinking I did horrible so I end up doing good. Yes I know this is ridiculous, but this test will make you superstitious.
 
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Rishikish said:
It's weird, many people have said they thought they did horrible (guessed on Qs, ran out of time and chose random answers, knew they got several Qs wrong, etc) and ended up getting a pretty good score. While others have said they thought they crushed it and didn't do as well as they thought. So I've been wishfully thinking I did horrible so I end up doing good. Yes I know this is ridiculous, but this test will make you superstitious.
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I don't feel great about the P/C section, but I also never felt good about that section on my practice exams and got consistent 125+, so I'm hoping for something around there.
 
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I can't believe that probably at this time tomorrow I will know information that will literally affect the rest of my life :eek:
 
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idk it just doesn't really feel like it's actually coming out tmrw... like it's just been so long waiting that now idk it just doesn't feel real
 
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July tester here. Good luck with tmrw's score release. Just out of curiosity has that excel predictor that had you enter your aamc scores to predict your real score been updated with july's test results? Is it floating around anywhere here? It was very top heavy with the 20 or so data points in it when I used it back in july so idk how accurate it was when I used it as a predictor but maybe its gotten better with more data and hopefully a better range.
 
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mcat_taker said:
July tester here. Good luck with tmrw's score release. Just out of curiosity has that excel predictor that had you enter your aamc scores to predict your real score been updated with july's test results? Is it floating around anywhere here? It was very top heavy with the 20 or so data points in it when I used it back in july so idk how accurate it was when I used it as a predictor but maybe its gotten better with more data.
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billeboi31 said:
I updated the MCAT Score Predictor spreadsheet to include reported July exams. The sample size from May/June was only 46, but now n=118 with the new July scores. I went back and tested the ranges on these exams - ~90% of the actual scores fell within the "Narrow" range from the predictor, and most of the outliers out-performed the predicted range. Not too shabby. But just as a reminder to trust your conscience/prep over some spreadsheet, one person who scored 77% on CARS from the AAMC FL got a 130 on CARS on the MCAT, whereas another who scored 98% got a 126. Likewise, someone who scored a 73% on P/S got a 132 and another with an 81% got a 122.

That being said, it seems like the predictor is actually pretty dang reliable for AAMC FL scores in the 70-90% range. Oh, and it got a face-lift :thumbup:
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yes!
 
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winter25 said:
page 90 by billeboi31 (it's an attachment)
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Ah Thanks. Found it. I don't think mine changed at all actually. The only thing it predicted perfectly was 127 CARS for me. My broad was still 501-512 and narrow 505-508 and I got an actual 500 (not too many scores inputed that low). By individual sections for P/C and B/B hit the low end of my range 123 and 125 respectively (pretty much exactly my TPR scores on those sections also) but P/S was off by a lot. I was predicted 127-131 and scored 125 on that. I think that was the only true outlier. Scanning the data its mostly top heavy so idk how accurate it is for lower scores.
 
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Ah Thanks. Found it. I don't think mine changed at all actually. The only thing it predicted perfectly was 127 CARS for me. My broad was still 501-512 and narrow 505-508 and I got an actual 500 (not too many scores inputed that low). By individual sections for P/C and B/B hit the low end of my range 123 and 125 respectively (pretty much exactly my TPR scores on those sections also) but P/S was off by a lot. I was predicted 127-131 and scored 125 on that. I think that was the only true outlier. Scanning the data its mostly top heavy so idk how accurate it is for lower scores.
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Correct, very few scores <510 really.
 
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Ah Thanks. Found it. I don't think mine changed at all actually. The only thing it predicted perfectly was 127 CARS for me. My broad was still 501-512 and narrow 505-508 and I got an actual 500 (not too many scores inputed that low). By individual sections for P/C and B/B hit the low end of my range 123 and 125 respectively (pretty much exactly my TPR scores on those sections also) but P/S was off by a lot. I was predicted 127-131 and scored 125 on that. I think that was the only true outlier. Scanning the data its mostly top heavy so idk how accurate it is for lower scores.
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Do you mind if I ask what your AAMC FL score was?
 
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I had no reason to think the mcat would be such a boner. I was wrong, or was I? Some of my section scores were at 128. I scored up to a 503 using 10 different practice tests. I will admit that i did not use Khan Academy and I should have. I used the excel spreadsheet predictor and its equation produces 509-510. I'm hoping for a 510 but I have a feeling that it will be 503, :wideyed::bigtears::hungover::nurse::whoa::beat:
 
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Ah Thanks. Found it. I don't think mine changed at all actually. The only thing it predicted perfectly was 127 CARS for me. My broad was still 501-512 and narrow 505-508 and I got an actual 500 (not too many scores inputed that low). By individual sections for P/C and B/B hit the low end of my range 123 and 125 respectively (pretty much exactly my TPR scores on those sections also) but P/S was off by a lot. I was predicted 127-131 and scored 125 on that. I think that was the only true outlier. Scanning the data its mostly top heavy so idk how accurate it is for lower scores.
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Totally agree that the excel sheet is not very accurate for lower score. My friend was predicted in the low 500s and made a 490. I'm taking my 507-511 predicted score with a grain of salt.
 
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so can someone who's taken the MCAT tell me if you see the score on the homepage when you log in? Or do you have to click something else to actually see it?
 
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TheAnonymous said:
Do you mind if I ask what your AAMC FL score was?
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Sure. No problem. On AAMC I scored 49% correct on C/P. 83% CARS. 61% on Bio. 80% on P/S. Really the only outlier on my real test then was psych because I usually scored the same on psych and cars (127 or 128) and scored 127 on cars on the real thing but 125 on psych. A bit shocking because my floor on my first psych section TPR was like 126 and I kept gaining each time pretty much until I hit 128 on it so to get a 125 on the real test is nonsense. Especially because it was the only section I finished w time to spare.
 
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Pusheen said:
so can someone who's taken the MCAT tell me if you see the score on the homepage when you log in? Or do you have to click something else to actually see it? @UNMedGa
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I took it last year. They've updated it since, but the current format is that you log in, then a link with your test date is shown. You have to click that link before seeing any score.
 
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