What should I do? Ahhh

[Stlblues17]

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I just got my May mcat scores back 26: (BS 10, VR 10, PS 6🙁). I definitely dropped the ball on PS.

cGPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.4
MCAT: 26

3.5 years of hospital/emergency room work
2+ years as a firefighter/EMT
AHA BLS Instructor
Volunteer hours at food drives and helping build a home for wounded veteran.
Shadowing experience.
Strong LORs from upper level science profs, 1 MD and 1 DO, and from Advisor/predict committee.

Work full time, wife's a full time student and have a 16 month old daughter.

Should I apply now and retake my mcat to rid of the ugly 6? Or do I wait until I have an improved score to apply?

I appreciate the advice.

 

[verynice]

I'd say apply now depending on your ECs. You are looking better than you think with that 6.

 

[WhyDoWeFall]

Watch out cause certain places require at least a 7 in all spots. I don't remember who but remember to do your research.

 

[ortnakas]

Watch out cause certain places require at least a 7 in all spots. I don't remember who but remember to do your research.

KCUMB requires a 7 for each subscore.

 

[el_duderino]

Apply, but do your research and don't apply anywhere that has a specific section cutoff.

Only retake if you're completely confident you can improve your PS score by at least 2 points without losing any in the other sections. I'd think about retaking in August after spending the time between now and then studying intensely.

 

[verynice]

I think CUSOM also requires all 7s at least.

 

[csx]

retake. that 6 is gonna cost you!

 

[Stlblues17]

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I want to apply to KCUMB, if I retake the MCAT at the end of July, will they send me a secondary with a planned retake (even though my PS 6 is below their >=7 min for each section)?

 

[Indianarn]

I just got my May mcat scores back 26🙁BS 10, VR 10, PS 6). I definitely dropped the ball on PS.

cGPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.4
MCAT: 26

Should I apply now and retake my mcat to rid of the ugly 6? Or do I wait until I have an improved score to apply?

I appreciate the advice.

I would say apply and hoping you have good ECs, but as Jonny said be very careful of where to apply. Saying you this because of personal experience. I have a score of 6 in VR and still got. Will be starting this fall. Good luck.

 

[darklordzzz]

I would say apply and hoping you have good ECs, but as Jonny said be very careful of where to apply. Saying you this because of personal experience. I have a score of 6 in VR and still got. Will be starting this fall. Good luck.

is your science score strongs? is ur ECs great? are you an ESL?

btw, do you get into multiple schools with that 6?

 

[Indianarn]

is your science score strongs? is ur ECs great? are you an ESL?

btw, do you get into multiple schools with that 6?

GPA is 3.30 with sGPA 3.38. RN for 3 years, Volunteer for a pregnancy center for a year more than 450 hours, volunteer for my Mosque for more than 500, shadowed 4 docs including a DO, 1 strong letters from my science professors, 1 not so strong letters from science professor, 1 strong letter from my nursing (OB/GYN) professor, 4 strong letters from the docs including a DO. And yes I got multiple interviews and got accepted by two school. I chose LMU-DCOM.

 

[Goro]

Apply broadly and you should be fine.

I just got my May mcat scores back 26: (BS 10, VR 10, PS 6🙁). I definitely dropped the ball on PS.

cGPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.4
MCAT: 26

3.5 years of hospital/emergency room work
2+ years as a firefighter/EMT
AHA BLS Instructor
Volunteer hours at food drives and helping build a home for wounded veteran.
Shadowing experience.
Strong LORs from upper level science profs, 1 MD and 1 DO, and from Advisor/predict committee.

Work full time, wife's a full time student and have a 16 month old daughter.

Should I apply now and retake my mcat to rid of the ugly 6? Or do I wait until I have an improved score to apply?

I appreciate the advice.