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You are not competitive for MD schools with MCAT scores of 501. You could receive interviews at some DO schools and it is not late to apply to DO schools.
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I tend to ignore any activities with fewer than 50 documented hours (except shadowing), so your meals on wheels activity won't carry weight with me. Your homeless shelter food drives would be your only service orientation hours, well below the 150 hours threshold to move your application forward in the process (for me). You cannot take the MCAT in January to help you for AMCAS.
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Not for MD schools. You would be better off retaking the MCAT and actually completing those EMT hours to prepare for the next cycle.
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From the applicant perspective, consider the opportunity cost of attempting to take the MCAT a third time and the kind of pressure you would be putting yourself under to achieve a +14 point bump on your previous scores.
I don't doubt your academic potential, I'm just saying your FL ceiling was still more than a standard deviation from your goal score...and even then, some MD schools will average all your scores, so all of that work getting to a hypothetical 515 may only get you credit for a 506—and that's being generous and assuming you are successful in getting that 515.
To add insult to injury, you get to go through this brutal application cycle all over again. Not fun, to say the least.
Ask for a DO list and go be a doctor. I can pretty much guarantee this won't be the last test you feel you didn't do your best on... let it just be a test on your journey instead of the test that defines whether or not you keep pursuing your goals.
I don't doubt your academic potential, I'm just saying your FL ceiling was still more than a standard deviation from your goal score...and even then, some MD schools will average all your scores, so all of that work getting to a hypothetical 515 may only get you credit for a 506—and that's being generous and assuming you are successful in getting that 515.
To add insult to injury, you get to go through this brutal application cycle all over again. Not fun, to say the least.
Ask for a DO list and go be a doctor. I can pretty much guarantee this won't be the last test you feel you didn't do your best on... let it just be a test on your journey instead of the test that defines whether or not you keep pursuing your goals.