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Hey Guys:

Let me know what you guys think.

MY STATS:
Good BCPM and Overall GPAs

1st Time August 2006 MCAT test taker
MCAT (V/PS/BS): 06/11/12 (29 O)

Graduated with a BS in electrical engineering in 2006. Have decent amount of ECs, great LORs and currently working as an engineer.

My AMCAS is verified and plan on sending out my Secondaries by this weekend. Applying to medical schools through the Review Committee at my school (North Carolina School) and they just sent out the LORs and my Comprehensive Evaluation to all the medical schools I'm applying to.

I'm applying to all the medical schools in my current home state (NC) and schools in my previous home state of New york.

Do you guys think I have a good shot? Please give me suggestions as to what I can do to get any interviews?


PLEASE RESPOND!!!
 
Get that 6 up or hope for a miracle.

IDontKnow said:
Hey Guys:

Let me know what you guys think.

MY STATS:
Good BCPM and Overall GPAs

1st Time August 2006 MCAT test taker
MCAT (V/PS/BS): 06/11/12 (29 O)

Graduated with a BS in electrical engineering in 2006. Have decent amount of ECs, great LORs and currently working as an engineer.

My AMCAS is verified and plan on sending out my Secondaries by this weekend. Applying to medical schools through the Review Committee at my school (North Carolina School) and they just sent out the LORs and my Comprehensive Evaluation to all the medical schools I'm applying to.

I'm applying to all the medical schools in my current home state (NC) and schools in my previous home state of New york.

Do you guys think I have a good shot? Please give me suggestions as to what I can do to get any interviews?


PLEASE RESPOND!!!
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The past few years ad coms have looked at the verbal section more closely than in years past. A 6 is around 20 percentile i think and that is what might stand out in your app. If you have taken a good amt of english courses at your school and done well that will be noticed (maybe a bad test day for verbal). I knew a girl that was accepted to medical school last year if she brought up her verbal score by retaking the MCAT. Everything looks good for you except the verbal. I would recommend taking the Jan MCAT. Good Luck!
 
Yeah I've thought about taking the Jan MCAT, but the most of the schools I'm applying to are not accepting that score. I'm really hoping that a 4.0 on my BCPM GPA, and a 3.9 Overall GPA might help my case out. What do you think? 😕
 
You still have a chance yes, but it's nowhere near as good as the chances you would have if you retake the mcat, raise that verbal, and then apply uber early next cycle.
 
IDontKnow said:
Yeah I've thought about taking the Jan MCAT, but the most of the schools I'm applying to are not accepting that score. I'm really hoping that a 4.0 on my BCPM GPA, and a 3.9 Overall GPA might help my case out. What do you think? 😕
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With stats like that and your ECs (like I said before), I think you can get into an MD school in the US. Apply to your in-state schools because that's where your odds will be best. Have you already sumitted and have your AMCAS verified? Are you already filling out secondaries?
 
WilliamsF1 said:
With stats like that and your ECs (like I said before), I think you can get into an MD school in the US. Apply to your in-state schools because that's where your odds will be best. Have you already sumitted and have your AMCAS verified? Are you already filling out secondaries?
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Yes, my AMCAS is complete and verified and I'm in the process of filling out the secondaries should be done be done by this weekend
 
IDontKnow said:
Yes, my AMCAS is complete and verified and I'm in the process of filling out the secondaries should be done be done by this weekend
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We are in a very similiar situation in that case. I turned in 2 secondaries in the past few days and about to get the rest done by Friday. 👍
 
IDontKnow said:
Yeah I've thought about taking the Jan MCAT, but the most of the schools I'm applying to are not accepting that score. I'm really hoping that a 4.0 on my BCPM GPA, and a 3.9 Overall GPA might help my case out. What do you think? 😕
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How do you pull 4.0/3.9 GPAs and only get a 6 on the verbal? Troll alert!
 
I don't know...don't feel like making any excuses other than that I just sucked it up on VR on test day. Oh well...😳
 
well if thats the case, retake, pwn it, reapply early, pwn that too, and then pwn your interviews
 
aertzin said:
How do you pull 4.0/3.9 GPAs and only get a 6 on the verbal? Troll alert!
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I don't know about your school, but mine taught physics, gen chem, bio, orgo, but not verbal reasoning. I got good grades in the former four subjects, but no grades in VR because I didn't have those types of classes. I know I got nervous as **** during VR compared to practice and I fell a few points because of that.
 
IDontKnow said:
Yeah I've thought about taking the Jan MCAT, but the most of the schools I'm applying to are not accepting that score. I'm really hoping that a 4.0 on my BCPM GPA, and a 3.9 Overall GPA might help my case out. What do you think? 😕
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It seems like a serious case of grade inflation at your school.
 
WilliamsF1 said:
I don't know about your school, but mine taught physics, gen chem, bio, orgo, but not verbal reasoning. I got good grades in the former four subjects, but no grades in VR because I didn't have those types of classes. I know I got nervous as **** during VR compared to practice and I fell a few points because of that.
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Yeah I can definitely relate to getting nervous. Everybody at the test center kept on mentioning how much they had worked on verbal, and that made me nervous.
 
eikenhein said:
It seems like a serious case of grade inflation at your school.
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An 11 in PS and 12 in BS along with near 4.0 grades does NOT hint at grade inflation. Those are very good scores, especially for a NON-science major. Like I said a few posts up, how many of your courses in college could be described like the VR section? Pretty much ZERO. I always expect double digit BS and PS scores with high GPAs. I don't expect jack with VR.
 
WilliamsF1 said:
I don't know about your school, but mine taught physics, gen chem, bio, orgo, but not verbal reasoning. I got good grades in the former four subjects, but no grades in VR because I didn't have those types of classes. I know I got nervous as **** during VR compared to practice and I fell a few points because of that.
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Agreed. My school didn't prepare me for verbal reasoning either. But Kaplan and a lot of hard work studying for the MCAT did. I can see nerves/test anxiety affecting your performance - "falling a few points" as you put it. But someone with a near perfect GPA pulling only a 6 is surprising (not to bust on the OP).
 
You have a few things working against you. Mainly applying late, and a 6 on verbal. You could retake later this year, and apply super early and almost certainly get in next year. That is, if you can raise your VR to the 8-10 range without losing any points on BS/PS.

If you are having problems with verbal, study for it passage by passage. Read one passage, take as much time as you need. Make sure you have the right answers, or you can get no closer to having them with more time. Then check your answers and see why you missed what you missed. Do this over and over and you'll eventually get better and faster at it. Once you're getting a good percentage of the questions right using this method, start taking timed verbal tests and see if it translates.
 
WilliamsF1 said:
I don't know about your school, but mine taught physics, gen chem, bio, orgo, but not verbal reasoning. I got good grades in the former four subjects, but no grades in VR because I didn't have those types of classes. I know I got nervous as **** during VR compared to practice and I fell a few points because of that.
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Did your English classes not cover verbal reasoning at all? I had to take four English classes (2 compositions and 2 literatures). In all four we spent a huge amount of time on arguments, reasoning, who the audience is, author's opinions etc.
 
DoctorPardi said:
Did your English classes not cover verbal reasoning at all? I had to take four English classes (2 compositions and 2 literatures). In all four we spent a huge amount of time on arguments, reasoning, who the audience is, author's opinions etc.
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We only have to take 2 composition courses. Schedule was filled with pre-med, gen-ed, and non-science major courses. I wouldn't call my comp classes anything like VR. We would write about the passage, not what the author's tone would be given an outside fact.
 
WilliamsF1 said:
We only have to take 2 composition courses. Schedule was filled with pre-med, gen-ed, and non-science major courses. I wouldn't call my comp classes anything like VR. We would write about the passage, not what the author's tone would be given an outside fact.
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For one of my classes we had a book titled, "Everything's An Argument." Basically that was what our English classes were about. What does the author want you to believe, who is his audience, what kind of things would the author agree/disagree with.
 
DoctorPardi said:
You have a few things working against you. Mainly applying late, and a 6 on verbal. You could retake later this year, and apply super early and almost certainly get in next year. That is, if you can raise your VR to the 8-10 range without losing any points on BS/PS.

If you are having problems with verbal, study for it passage by passage. Read one passage, take as much time as you need. Make sure you have the right answers, or you can get no closer to having them with more time. Then check your answers and see why you missed what you missed. Do this over and over and you'll eventually get better and faster at it. Once you're getting a good percentage of the questions right using this method, start taking timed verbal tests and see if it translates.
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I've already gotten my AMCAS verified and I'm in the process of sending my secondaries...I'm hoping i'm not that late
 
If you don't mind me asking, where'd you get into? I'm somewhat in the same situation...EE major with low verbal score = 7.
 
aertzin said:
How do you pull 4.0/3.9 GPAs and only get a 6 on the verbal? Troll alert!
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He's an engineering student. His /3.9 could have been from a C on the one english class required in his major (my friend is like that too).
 
I have a 6 on verbal with a 29 overall....R on the essay...and a lower GPA (3.8)
I also applied late (early October verified) and took August MCAT

Yes it's hurt me...but I still have 2 interviews and am waiting on more.
 
that 6 really is gonna hurt
 
Then you should be fine...

I'm from CA and it's considered to be the worst state to be in
 
:laugh:

If you can learn one thing from this thread, it's that half of the people on SDN who offer their authoritative opinions don't bother to read the thread first

Congrats OP :clap:
 
Ihateverbal said:
Then you should be fine...

I'm from CA and it's considered to be the worst state to be in
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Yeah, I've heard CA is a very competitive state, but the funny thing is that I got into a private school in North Carolina
 
Ihateverbal said:
I have a 6 on verbal with a 29 overall....R on the essay...and a lower GPA (3.8)
I also applied late (early October verified) and took August MCAT

Yes it's hurt me...but I still have 2 interviews and am waiting on more.
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since when is a 3.8 considered low 😕


Anyway congrats on your interviews.
 
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