She Has a 498 MCAT Score With No Retakes Left | Application Renovation (S2 E14)

What can you do when you've already registered for the MCAT seven times-you've reached the limit-but you're stuck with a 498? Today I talk with an immigrant premed who is trying to overcome this hurdle and find her way to a med school acceptance!
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Today on Application Renovation, we talk to a premed who applied to medical school late in the cycle two years ago. She knew her MCAT score wasn't great. But she didn't get any other feedback or advice from the medical schools that rejected her.
Looking through her app, these are some things we discuss:
• How a late MCAT test date holds up your application (specifically).
• Why her disadvantaged essay was really done well.
• How she succeeded in the MCAT CARS section as an ESL student.
• What she did to improve her MCAT score by 10 points, from 488 to 498.
• How to label extracurriculars that you are planning to continue beyond the time of applying.
• Why you NEED to read the AMCAS instruction manual.
• How to tell impactful stories in your work and activities section.
• The kind of generic statements that take up space in your app without adding impact.
• How to show impact in the descriptions of your leadership positions.
• The risk in focusing on healthcare inequities in your personal statement.
• The difference between "what I want to do as a doctor" vs "why I want to be a doctor."
• Why did she apply to so few medical schools?
• Why the MCAT frustrates me so much.
• Why her Master's program was actually a waste of money in my opinion.
• How to advocate for yourself even when your MCAT score can't be fixed anymore.
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